Wk 6:Post Apartheid, Race, and Gender of South Africa Research

        Generating independent research, I focused mainly on the topics of the effects of Post-Apartheid South Africa and the mindset on gender, race and class. I had a deep interest on how people are coping with change and how they are living in a different era that changed roughly about 2 decades ago once Mandela became President of South Africa.
        The first article focuses on unemployment and the economic aspect and the effects it has on the  different groups post-apartheid. The women in the article describes her life and shows that most black people in Africa still do domestic work for white people and that many are still separated in terms of race, class, income, education and privilege. The article depicts a graph that shows that the most affected are black women living in South Africa, since they are the only group that has showed a increase in unemployment. Progress for black women is moving at a slow pace and shows that conditions are not so different from times in apartheid South Africa, however it is a stepping stone.
   http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-16/south-africas-tradition-domestic-work-continues-post-apartheid
       The second article focuses on the modern generation of students from Cape Town University and their opinions on race and gender. A graduate female student,Carolyn Le Tang, discusses the issue of being a black female and how in the constitution women are considered equal, yet in reality that is not the case. Similarly, she states cases where white females will dress like black, female domestic workers with black makeup and think it's is fine, such as cases in the United States.Another student named Robin Molteno states that women and men are not seen equally, however women are more equal now then before.Another student gives insight that there is a whole system of power where white men will oppress black men and then, in turn, will oppress their wives. If you continue reading, many of the students account that women and men are not equal, many focus on the topic of race more than gender, the act of white privilege and more.    
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-16/heres-how-south-african-students-talk-about-race-and-gender
        The third article delves into the continued struggles South Africa still faces, despite being freed from apartheid, such as the lack of trust in the country’s leadership, limited opportunity for the people of the black community and political corruption.A quote that I found in the article can summarize what most people feel about how the government works “We have democracy in South Africa but [government] leaders are like: They eat first and then they leave what is left for the people,” by Moreki, a local that lives in a shantytown.Another concern is the disproportionate wealth and lack of opportunity among the black community. The white community still holds a majority of the money, land, and power despite being in post-apartheid and this negatively affects the black community that are still in the same place where they were when apartheid was in effect. Reading the article brings up interesting points of how people are living in post-apartheid. 
  http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/02/south_africa_s_born_frees_demand_more.html