fabric of African society together.V
Social historians will also record the experiences of African children
under apartheid. In a report for the United Nations Children's Fund, Fran-
cis Wilson, an economic historian, and Mamphela Ramphele, a doctor,
drew attention to the fact that "children may be socialized into vandalism
or find themselves having to adopt violent measures as a matter of survival
and, in.the process, losing any sense of right and wrong. The impact on
children's minds and values of the physical violence that they witness and
experience, not least at the hands of the police, is a matter of grave con-
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