Freedom Deferred? The Unfinished Work of Liberation

Nadine Gordimer and the Second Life of Apartheid

Novelist Nadine Gordimer crossed South Africa’s color line to become a staunch opponent of apartheid and supporter of the ANC. Her fiction tackled the savage inequalities of South African society that have continued beyond the end of minority rule. South African writer Nadine Gordimer photographed in 1983. (Sophie Bassouls / Sygma via Getty Images) Beneath the town of Springs, near Johannesburg, where Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923, runs the …

Freedom Deferred? The Unfinished Work of Liberation

By Dr Jane Mufamadi As South Africa marks 31 years of democracy, we find ourselves standing on sacred yet complicated ground. We are a nation that proudly celebrates its liberation while simultaneously navigating the jagged edges of its unfulfilled promises. The dawn of freedom in 1994 was a seismic shift — a powerful moment of political emancipation. Yet today, a sobering question lingers in the hearts and minds of many: Has our freedom been fu…