, I don't want to even talk to them," an angry Raiters told Reuters from the single room in Johannesburg she shares with her sons and grandson. " Mandela's dream is not their dream."
"It's an enormous mark of failure, and it is not sustainable ... We're on a very risky path," said Ann Bernstein, director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise, a Johannesburg-based think-tank.Social security and economic prosperity were bedrock tenets of ANC policy when it won power under anti-apartheid hero Mandela in 1994.
Dalene Raiters lost her job at a local primary school 16 years ago. Her adult son is also jobless. Like many South Africans, their entire family of four lives off the grants of those who qualify. It wants to relax labour laws and do away with affirmative action aimed at redressing apartheid-era discrimination.
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