It’s the poster that all of South Africa is buzzing about. In a single image, it exposes the most sensitive issues in this fragile post-apartheid society: politics, race and sex.
The poster was distributed on university campuses by the student wing of the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party. It shows a young inter-racial couple – a white man and a black woman – both apparently nude, locked in a loving embrace.
Within days of its appearance on campuses this week, the image was dominating the South African media, sparking heated debate among politicians and hundreds of other commentators on websites and social media across the country.
Much of the reaction was supportive. Some was racist. Some was prudish. Some was fiercely partisan or bizarrely over-the-top. But the controversy showed that the taboos of the apartheid era have not entirely disappeared in this “rainbow nation” today, even though 18 years have passed since apartheid’s collapse. Full story...
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