Half life: Jenny Govender reflects on SA under apartheid & democracy

CAPE TOWN - A Cape Town woman who's lived half her life during apartheid and the other half in a democracy, says that some people in South Africa are still being oppressed today.

Govender, who grew up on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal before moving to Johannesburg, and eventually settling in Cape Town, said that she lived a sheltered life and only really felt the effects of apartheid when going into the Durban city centre. "Our kids cannot play in the park. I was little and we used to run into the fields for hours in a day and nobody bothered to look for us. That was freedom. We are not in a country that enjoys freedom."

But she still feels that with issues like an ailing rail service, corruption, and rampant crime, the situation hasn't vastly improved for some people.

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