Monument to post-apartheid South Africa's founding charter in ruins

Monument to post-apartheid South Africa's founding charter in ruins

SOWETO, South Africa — In the shade of a tree on a sunny day, Isac Matate set up a rickety bookstand in a ragged square that was once a beacon for the struggle that ended apartheid in South Africa. Some of the books that Matate packed into the shelves held together with rope touched on the themes of the landmark: Political history, black consciousness, the Bible. The site in Kliptown outside Johannesburg commemorates the Freedom Charter of princ…