Abstract
South Africa is a country known for its history of racial discrimination in addition to its increasingly diverse society, values and socio-economic contexts. This diversity and the acceptance thereof were hard won by many South Africans during the struggle against the brutality of the apartheid regime. What is also clear from interactions between many South Africans is that much of the racism which existed in apartheid South Africa is unfortunately not a thing of the past.
Highlights
The South African workplace is a microcosm of the country’s society as it is one of the few places where people from different races and socio-economic backgrounds meet and International Journal of CRITICAL DIVERSITY STUDIES 3.1 June 2020
The nature of the South African workplace was, during apartheid, intrinsically linked to the functioning of that system characterised by significant features of rights and benefits segregation, job reservation, migrant labour and the overall White supremacist power structure
The law and courts have gone to great lengths to eradicate remnants of the past from workplaces, it would be naïve to imagine that society is completely transformed especially with regard to the ordinary South African’s attitudes on race
Summary
Kgomotso Busisiwe Mokoena is a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Law. She has worked as a legal researcher for former Justice Kate O’Regan, current Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson of the Constitutional Court of South Africa She is a fellow of both Brightest Young Minds and the Aspen Institute’s African Leadership Initiative. Kgomotso holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Law, a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Masters in Law degree (Intellectual Property and Media Laws), all from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a member of the Charities Aid South Africa Board of Directors and chairs its Governance Committee. She is a commissioner of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and is reading towards her PhD in Labour Law at the University of the Western Cape
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