What they don't tell you about Stellenbosch in the brochure

From Africa is a Country Mon Mar 31 2014, 13:00:47

Stellenbosch strikes me as one of those places that got put on the table by the National Partyduring the negotiated settlement pre-1994, something the ANC conceded in exchange for democracy. In fact, there's a joke with more than a single grain of truth that the design of apartheid was conceived in one of the student residences of Stellenbosch University, where the young "architects" lived together. The divided socioeconomic structure of Stellenbosch is a living testimony to the long-term objective of apartheid.

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