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Races do not understand each other in S.Africa: survey
Copyright 2001 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) / Mon, 11 Jun 2001
13:30:10 PDT
CAPE TOWN, June 11 (AFP) - A majority of black South Africans surveyed
believe that whites are racist and untrustworthy and find it hard to imagine
ever being friends with them, according to findings of a poll released on
Monday.
The survey, carried out for the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and
Reconciliation (IJR), also found that 81 percent of black respondents had
never eaten a meal with a white person.
The poll was aimed at evaluating people's opinions of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and its effect on South African society.
In their analysis of the findings, researchers James Gibson of Washington
University in Saint Louis, Missouri, and IJR staffer Helen Macdonald said
this "racial isolation" impeded reconciliation.
"Black South Africans do not understand whites, they feel uncomfortable
around them," they said.
"We do not argue that to 'know' one's counterparts is necessarily to 'love'
them ... but it is difficult not to be suspicious of groups with which one
has had little personal contact and experience."
But they also said it was important to put the data into perspective by
imagining what responses might have been a decade ago.
"From the perspective of the vitriolic debates about race that are so
prominent in South Africa today, these data portray substantially more
racial reconciliation than would be expected.
"South Africa is far from being a contented 'rainbow nation', but it is also
a country in which many seem to reject the intense racial animosity of the
past."
The survey, based on 3,727 interviews, found that fewer than a quarter of
blacks said they understood the customs and ways of whites. Roughly half of
the whites, coloured (mixed-race) and Asians asserted they did not
understand blacks.
Fifty-six percent of black South Africans believed whites were
untrustworthy, while a third of whites believed the same of blacks.
Just over half the blacks found it hard to imagine ever being friends with a
white person. For whites, the figure was 19 percent.
But Gibson and Macdonald said the survey showed most South Africans were
hopeful about their future.
"Important issues face the country, and many of these issues divide South
Africa by race. But at the end of the day, most seem committed to a
multi-racial South Africa, and many hold attitudes compatible with a
harmonious future for the country. Few would have predicted such findings a
decade ago," they said.
They found "vast racial differences" in how people evaluated the TRC, which
gave amnesties for political crimes.
While 76 percent of black South Africans approved of the work of the body,
only 37 percent of whites supported it.
Most South Africans of all races agreed that apartheid as practised in South
Africa was a crime against humanity.
However, half of the white respondents, and a "somewhat surprising" 36
percent of blacks, believed that though there had been abuses, the ideas
behind apartheid were "basically good".
"This most likely means that the 'separate development' aspects of apartheid
are endorsed, rather than the idea that a racial hierarchy is acceptable,"
said the authors.
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