Prospects for the post-apartheid generation have not brightened even though South Africa spends almost a fifth of its national budget on education.
As many of South Africa's public schools have failed a post-apartheid generation of children from poor townships and rural areas, a budding movement of educators, philanthropists and desperate parents is increasingly searching for alternatives.
He points to a young, post-apartheid generation of Afrikaners reclaiming and reinventing their identity, unburdened by their parents' guilt.In his candid speech last month, Mr Mbeki appealed to South Africans to help eradicate "all that is ugly and repulsive in human society".
In 2009, she established the collective Inkanyiso (Zulu for "the one who brings light"), urging younger "born frees" — as the post-apartheid generation is known — to be the historians and archivists of their own lives, from reporting at "corrective rape" murder trials to photographing baptisms.
Her more recent work, such as Get a Life (2005) and No Time Like the Present (2012), although deft and assured, was increasingly impersonal, while continuing to pursue the dilemmas of a post-apartheid generation trying to come to terms with the present.
They're torch-carriers for the first post-apartheid generation kids trying to find out if democracy really does exist in their country.
Twenty-four yeafterfter Nelson Mandela's election, South Africa's first post-apartheid generation is now coming of age; they are able to choose what to study in college, and to express themselves creatively without the strict censorship laws that harried their predecessors.
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, this generation isn't interested in understanding the roots of white vulnerability.
You don't erase the effects of a half-century of apartheid in a generation.
Conditions for many blacks there have not improved much since apartheid ended, a generation ago.
