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MYTH OR FACT? 
Beer adverts like this one have long sold the idea of togetherness amid diversity, but is this an accurate reflection of SA society?
MYTH OR FACT? Beer adverts like this one have long sold the idea of togetherness amid diversity, but is this an accurate reflection of SA society?

We’ve all seen them – TV beer advertisements starring three young men, one white and two black, bonding over their favourite team in a pub and clinking bottles in a racial utopian idyll.

Along with the beer, the image we are being sold is one of what we’d like to become, not of what we really are.

Figures from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation’s 2014 reconciliation barometer showed that, although more South Africans socialised across race groups in 2013 than in the previous decade, young adults were growing further apart.

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