Racial integration through social engineering?


	Racial integration through social engineering?

hayesstw

3-16-2008 11:51 AM

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housing, apartheid, integration, segregation

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Fifteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's urban residential areas remain almost as segregated as before. Now the eThekwini Municipality plans to change that -- by allocating housing on racial lines.

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