Freedom day - What the post apartheid reconciliation learns us for the new normal in post-covid period
What the post apartheid reconciliation in South Africa learns us for the new normal in post-covid period. Happy Freedom day! On the 27th of April 1994 the first general democratic elections in South Africa paved way for a definitive closing of the Apartheid period. The transition from an Apartheid regime to a democracy with general elections lasted 5 years ( from the liberation of Nelson Mandela in February 1989 till the elections on 27th of April) Systemic design analysis I have learned the systemic design toolkit ( https://www.systemicdesigntoolkit.org/ ) invented by Belgian company Namahn, as a holistic structure to trace back these 5 years, and the decisive elements that have paved the way to a democracy. This route was full of personal 1-1 leader talks, personalities , alignments, internal battling, mournings, forgiveness, reconciliations, violence and individual sorrow. It was an interesting exercise to try to map these five years...