Sunday 26 August 2012

Cry, The Beloved Country

Sharpeville 2012, indeed. I do not know why anyone is remotely surprised. I am not even convinced that anyone really is.

While Nelson Mandela was locked up, the ANC's uncompromising support for its Soviet paymaster, right up to the bitter end, considerably extended the apartheid era by prolonging American support for that regime until the Cold War was safely over.

Whereas the truly effective opposition to apartheid came from the non-violent, non-Marxist, non-racial, pro-Commonwealth tradition of Alan Paton and Helen Suzman, figures who suffered far more than those who were no doubt painfully, but nevertheless comfortably, exiled in London, or Moscow, or wherever.

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