One nation, One continent

Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa not only has to secure South Africa’s social cohesion, but our cohesion with the continent as well. It’s a job like no other, as Janet Smith discovers in a conversation with him. Non-racialism “Our democracy, as an African country, is a project which takes into cognisance that, fundamentally, everything we do is about the transformation of society from colonialism and apartheid. “We’re always moving towards a fully-fledged, democratic, non-racist, prosperous society. This is what we’re striving for. But we cannot say we have achieved that non-racial, non-sexist society yet. We are a nascent democracy….