Survey measures public support for restitution, indicating generational shifts in attitudes towards history in South Africa.
Ten years after the HSRC’s South African Social Attitudes Survey first measured public support for restitution, the 2025 round shows significant shifts across every generation. There is a striking turn among Gen Z adults, almost a quarter of whom have moved away from wanting to ‘forget the past’. The findings complicate current calls to ‘sunset’ racial terminology in South Africa.
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