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Origins of the Name “Rainbow Nation”

South Africa is often referred to as “The Rainbow Nation”, a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later adopted by then-President Nelson Mandela as a metaphor to describe the country’s newly-developing multicultural diversity in the wake of segregationist apartheid ideology.

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  1. [...] South Africa is often referred to as “The Rainbow Nation”, a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later adopted by then-President Nelson Mandela as a metaphor to describe the country’s newly-developing multicultural diversity in the wake of segregationist apartheid ideology. [...]

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