Ruban L.S. South Africa: Restitution, equality and justice. RUDN Journal of Sociology, 2020. Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 996-1001. doi: 10.22363 ...

Abstract

The article is a review of the book Another Country. Everyday Social Restitution (Cape Town, 2016). The author tells us that the history of South Africa is complex and contradictory, and the problem of equality, justice and a settlement of race relations relevant in the context of overcoming apartheid - when passions ran high, and black South Africans want to end the shameful past, when flouted their human dignity, their children do not have a decent future, because it could not get an education and a profession, and a lifelong dream of a black baby was to be a white man. Schwartz shows how the lives of the black majority have improved materially and educationally, and all the changes have been legislated, but at the psychological level there is still an awareness of inferiority, which causes not only pain and shame, but also anger and bitterness, especially among young people, and results in calls for violence against the white minority..