From Apartheid to Zaamheid:
Breaking down walls and building bridges in South African society

After a decade of democracy, the widening of the wealth-poverty divide, primarily along racial lines, threatens the stability and sustainability of our young democracy. However, in this book, Advocate Neville Melville proposes that if even a million South Africans join together to work towards improving the lot of their fellow citizens, there is every likelihood of the occurrence of a second miracle of a greater magnitude than South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy. We just have to make sure we don't leave it too late to break down walls, and build bridges between our communities!

From Apartheid to Zaamheid includes:

• a personal perspective on why many South Africans continue to build walls, both physical and metaphorical, to protect but also separate their communities;
• insights into how walls simply can't protect the interests of these 'fortified' communities in the long-term;
• inspiring accounts of the efforts and successes of a number of ordinary people striving to remove walls, and build bridges; and,
• guidance for other South Africans to begin, in any small way, to do the same.

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Contents

Foreword by Taddy Blecher, co-founder of CIDA
Introduction
Preface
The crack in the wall
State of the nation
The full picture
The great wall
Behind high walls
A peek over the wall
Up against a brick wall
Bringing down the walls
Bridge over troubled waters
A good starting point
Making a difference
What can I do?
A tale of two families
R100 goes a long way
Food for Africa
Unto the breach
The way ahead
A salute to some bridgebuilders
Appendix A Legalities
Appendix B Word key
Appendix C Useful resources
Appendix D Sources and further reading