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TWENTY-ONE years into South Africa's democracy, a bronze plaque honouring Hendrik Verwoerd, the mastermind of racial apartheid, still hung by the entrance of the Accounting and Statistics building at Stellenbosch University. Only in May was the plaque finally taken down, after a wave of protests.
Unhappiness over symbols such as these--earlier in the year a revolt at the University of Cape Town led to the removal of a hulking statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British colonialist--underline deeper concerns among South Africa's educated youngsters. The first is that a limping economy is...