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We’re a nation at crossroads as tribal animosity holds sway

A group of protestesrs during the clamour of multiparty democracy in the 1990s. [File, Standard]

After decades entrenched in mistrust and ethnic hatred, two key events in recent history were expected to foster unity and cohesion. And they did. For a while.

The advent of multi-party democracy and the promulgation of a new Constitution, though 20 years apart, did promote unity, cohesion and economic development.

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