African-American activists seek to honor his legacy by calling for race-based remedies to combat stubborn racial inequality.
But when a farmhand was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for murdering Mr. Terre'Blanche, his death seemed a symbol of a problem that may be more intractable than racial disharmony: the stubborn economic inequality of post-apartheid South Africa and the violent rage that it engenders.
The trend is best exemplified in America and Scandinavia, but fertility rates elsewhere in Europe, including Britain and France, are also moving upward and approaching the replacement rate.There are notable exceptions, however, including Japan, which is explained away with reference to "stubborn gender inequalities", which seems plausible.
With all its remarkable success, consider the daunting political, social, and economic challenges in the United States 69 or even 169 years after independence, or, for that matter, the challenges it faces today, including stubborn social inequalities and stark political divisions.
Even on the most casual, anecdotal evidence of a bus ride across town, London offers a patchwork of inequality between stubborn pockets of deprivation and the totems of the affluent few.
It's a reflection of how the Occupy movement has forced some institutional liberal groups to radicalize -- or at least appear to -- to meet the new fervent climate, as stubborn unemployment and yawning inequality push activism outside the confines of traditional electoral politics.
More equitable countries reduce poverty faster, and stubborn asset, gender or identity inequality (ie caste systems) might begin to explain persistent poverty amid wealth in the new MICs.
"But for all this, pay inequality remains a stubborn obstacle to real fairness in the work-place.
Minister for Women and Equalities Jo Swinson said: "Pay inequality remains a stubborn obstacle to real fairness in the workplace.
