We need to talk more about economic legacy of apartheid – Ben Turok
African National Congress stalwart and former member of parliament Ben Turok says South Africans need to have more discussions on the legacy of apartheid.
He was speaking on Saturday at the Kgalema Motlanthe foundation’s inaugural inclusive growth forum, which is taking place in the Drakensberg, KwaZulu Natal over three days.
Turok said the real legacy of apartheid needs to be emphasised if South Africa is to truly move forward from its past.
“We don’t sufficiently emphasise the legacy of apartheid we like to talk about human rights, the political dispensation and so on but there’s an economic legacy which is terribly important and for this meeting we have to face as the president did, the economic legacy of apartheid,” he told guests at the conference.
The struggle veteran said there were five instances that he had observed that continued to exacerbate some of the challenges South Africa was battling.