The swim team of Michaelhouse at a match in Hilton. Michaelhouse used to be an all whites school, which changed to non-racial in 1994.
The year 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the democracy of South Africa. In 1994 South Africa held its first inclusive elections. These brought an end to decades of white minority rule. The segregation system of apartheid ended, but the aftermath of the system endures twenty-five years later.
As the nation’s first black president, Nelson Mandela focused on reconciliation and hope for the future. The children born in the years around apartheids' ending are now young adults: the born-free generation for whom racial segregation is a thing of the past. It falls to these young South Africans to make the rainbow nation come true.
Twelve years ago, in 2007, I started working on this personal project.
The project takes a look into how free the born-frees really are and how the racist history influences their daily lives.
The born free stories are about social change, freedom, humanity, (in)equality and diversity.
The long term project portrays born free youth from all walks of the generation.
