Harder still, he has to deal with the angst of the apartheid years that will not go away.

In apartheid years, it was an exclusively white affair: white students in white tie.

In the apartheid years a core, hideous scar was not just economic and social injustice, but the emotional distance between black and white: the endemic lack of empathy.

The country had come out of the awful apartheid years.

Had he lived, the country might perhaps have been spared the long agony of the apartheid years.