Cape Town - President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday South Africa would never bury its legacy of racism without a frank acknowledgement that discrimination still exists seven years after the end of white minority rule.
Mr Mbeki, who succeeded Mr Nelson Mandela in June 1999, said many whites remained "trapped in the entrenched consciousness of the past".
He repeated his allegation of May last year that white critics of his so-called quiet diplomacy on Zimbabwe were not reflecting concern about farm seizures and attacks on land-owners in the former Rhodesia.
Mr Mbeki gave assurances on Thursday that there would always be a place in South Africa for the 11-per cent white minority that dominated the country until 1994.