Apartheid

Obviously, the scars of apartheid are still apparent in South Africa. Here are two small but powerful anecdotes from the past that I've gotten:
First, in cape town I went to to Robben Island where Mandela was held for 30+ years. When you tour the prison former political prisoners give you an overview of prison life. My guide seemed as if he had enough to say to fill up a couple days but gave us a stream of thought for about twenty minutes. In prison they censored all his mail. He said the hardest thing for him was not the complete absence of letters, but the part of the letters that had been physically cut out. He found himself starring at the holes in letters from his family desperate to know what they were trying to tell him.
Second, I went to the district 6 museum which commemorates a district of Cape Town that was demolished to make way for an all white neighborhood. The museum is beautiful and concentrates on the individual stories of those directly affected. One of the plaques told the story of a man who was moved out but did his best to get through it. He said he finally broke down when he drove by his old home and found the pigeons he used to train sitting on the rubble. They starred at him and seemed to say "where is our home?".