The Children of Paradise: A deadly mixture

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 6:05 p.m.

Three decades after the momentous transition from Apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to see what happened to the hopes and promises of a better nation.\nIn a famous speech thirty years ago, as he collected the Nobel Peace Prize, Nelson Mandela spoke of a \u201ccommon humanity\u201d in which all South Africans would live \u201clike the children of paradise.\u201d \nIn this second episode, in which Fergal Keane and Milton Nkosi, re-visit some of the places and people they encountered 30 years ago, they return to KwaZulu-Natal. In the early 1990s, leading up to the country's first democratic elections, the area was a hotbed of political violence. What about today?