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The new South Africa a personal journey

White expatriot playwright Tug Yourgrau returns to South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela to learn about the changes there.

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  • "White expatriot playwright Tug Yourgrau returns to South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela to learn about the changes there."
  • "White expatriot playwright Tug Yourgrau returns to South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela to learn about the changes there."@en
  • "The white expatriate playwright Tug Yourgrau (The Song of Jacob Zulu) returns to South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela to learn about the changes there. He finds a people exhilarated to have been spared a horrifying civil war but still grappling with how to bring about reconciliation. Everywhere he looks he sees that the enormous gulf between white and black still exists, not just in standards of living, but also in their understanding of one another. Yet there are also signs of change. His old school which was totally white, now has a mixed student body and teaches Zulu in addition to Afrikaans. He rejoices in the new diversity in the press, which reflect voices ranging from the hard Right nostalgic for apartheid to the revolutionary Left impatient for change. It is not easy to overcome so many years of inequity. Crime, pollution and shanty towns are still in evidence. But here and there real progress is in evidence. Ndaba Ntsele, who once would have been a manual laborer, now owns a successful construction company and drives a BMW sedan. Here is a fascinating, first hand report on a country undergoing immense social change as the whole world watches."@en
  • "White expatriot playwright Tug Yourgrau returns to South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela to learn about the changes there. He also invites Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo to show him around the country. They find an enormous gulf between white and black still exists, not just in standards of living, but also in their understanding of one another."

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