Apartheid is only a bad memory, thank heaven, but now we see that South Africa has become pretty much like every other African country: a basket case, only not quite as bad as most.
South Africa fades
Thursday April 23, 2009
Categories: International
Filed Under: South Africa
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Everyone knew this was going to happen. Some cultures are skilled and productive and some aren't and we all know which is which. I was in college in the 1970's during the anti-apartheid obsession. The obsessives never thought clearly about what was going to happen when their favorite ex-terrorists took over. I wonder what the 70s-era protestors are doing now.
South African expat Ilana Mercer:
http://barelyablog.com/?p=7427
The consistently moronic mainstream media’s angle on the forthcoming elections in the One-Party state that is South Africa: The ANC “is finally starting to slip.”
Let’s correct this bit of remedial revisionism. That my homeland is only now collapsing irretrievably into a black hole is a testament to the strength of the institutions and infrastructure—economic and civil society—planted there by the founders of South Africa, Boer and British.
Zimbabwe also took time to crumble; and that was not because Mugabe “started to slip,” although the same morons who castigate him now, cheered him on initially, and looked surprised when another African Big Man shifted into savage mode.
A strong economy and institutions take time to collapse. Zimbabwe was once an oasis in the desert that is Africa because of the phantom Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, RIP.
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Just one small comment from an actual South African: OUR banks didn't need to be rescued by the government, YOURS did. Who is the basketcase here?
Oh Come on now. If u live in South Africa, u know how bad the country is because of ANC's policies. Hope they don't hold many seats in parliament this election cos Zuma is definitely going to abuse the free market like he did with the arms b4.
Young South African journalist dies in a car crash. Her loss is a real loss to SA.
watch the video in this story ... listen to how she explains covering the atrocities in her country ... this young woman died last week in a car crash... even without the knowledge, her story helps me think American journalists got nothing to whine about .... http://tinyurl.com/cwauf8
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