The Human Bridge: Racial Healing in South Africa

Published by Tracey McDonald Publishers

The greatest gift we can give to our children, and the future South Africa, is our own healing. South Africa may have moved beyond apartheid, but not beyond racial polarisation. Virtually every problem we face in this country is touched by our legacy of systemic racism and the psychological trauma it has caused to people of all races.

Racial healing is not a new, woke, talk shop. It is also not a ‘how-to’ guide for do-gooders. On the contrary, racial healing requires diverse people of all ages to embrace the unique and challenging complexity of racial diversity and to forge a human bridge between multiple opposing truths that can peacefully co-exist.

Only a sober admission of this complexity can help us to heal from the open, festering wound of ongoing racism that has left South Africa with the unenviable distinction of being the most unequal country in the world; a wound not necessarily unique to South Africa, but indeed also the reason behind the violent conflict seen around the world.