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South Africa's new race controversy: What place do mixed race South Africans have in the new non-racial society? (Erin Conway-Smith, March 13, 2011, Global Post)

Racial issues in South Africa are usually portrayed in black and white, a legacy of apartheid in which blacks were disenfranchised.

But South Africa is now rocked by a fierce new debate about racism and the spotlight is on the tense relationship between two racial groups that were both oppressed under apartheid: blacks and “coloreds.” [...]

The new debate was sparked by government spokesman Jimmy Manyi, who said there is an “oversupply” of colored people in the Western Cape. The controversy has exposed the complex fracture lines created by apartheid that continue to exist today.