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The bench is empty but this young black woman in a Johannesburg railway station would be breaking the law if she sat on it. There has been much talk recently about desegregating racially segregated public facilities. The reality defies the rhetoric. 1/Jan/1982. UN Photo/DB. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/