The Race for Equality

In the mid-1990s, as South Africa prepares to transition from an apartheid regime to a democracy, it looked to Malaysia for a solution to close the economic gap between its wealthy White minority and poorer Black majority, which constitutes more than 90 percent of South Africa's population at the time. Dr. Lee Hwok Aun, now a senior lecturer of development studies at Universiti Malaya, spent the better part of the last decade studying, understanding and examining the trajectory and outcome of majority-favouring affirmative action in both countries. Dr. Lee joins us on the show to explain what he discovered.