The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) has been engaging in a focused way around the interlinked issues of reckoning with oppressive pasts, reconciliation, inherited societal divides, inequality, xenophobia, race and identity since 2005.
This period has seen continuing dialogues on the imprints of South Africa’s past, an international dialogue series (2013-2014) enabling us to view ourselves through the lens of comparative international experience, community dialogues on xenophobia (2008-2011), and dialogues focused on the question of race in 2009, 2014 and 2015.
Most recently the NMF has partnered with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in convening three focus groups on race and identity in an attempt to fashion a deeper intervention in this fraught terrain.
This position paper draws heavily on these engagements, especially from the inputs provided by participants in the focus groups.
View the responses to the position paper here.
NMF Position Paper: Race and identity in 2015 South Africa