What should South Africa do with its monuments to apartheid?

Some people’s pain is another people’s heritage.

In South Africa, monuments to apartheid and colonialism represent oppression, enslavement and stolen land to some — and pioneering founders to others.

We look at the Voortrekker Monument, Freedom Park, and the statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes.

Whether in South Africa, or the United States, racism is its own monument to an awful past, and an all too common reality for so many people of color, whether overtly or structurally.

Freedom of speech is an essential right, but when the people who were oppressed under systems like apartheid and Jim Crow have yet to fully enjoy the freedom of all their rights, flying a flag that represents historical systems of oppression could be seen as an affront to everyone’s freedom.

Quartz News travels to South Africa to explore how one nation confronts its past in order to move forward.

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