UltraLeftGerry
2nd May 2006, 02:36
from the Beeb:
Full Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4961418.stm)
Here's some great snippets:
Ex-President FW de Klerk said in turn that black citizens should be grateful to whites for surrendering power.
Ah yes the classic demand by former oppressors that have had to liberalize their system. de Klerk and David Horowitz should get a room.
On Sunday, Mr de Klerk admitted in an article in the Sunday Independent newspaper that white rule had been "morally indefensible", but said whites had made sacrifices.
No the system was dismantled because it was financially unviable and you managed to find a clique of educated bourgeois minded blacks that wouldn't rock the economic boat and even managed implement neo-liberal measures. Had the whites been running the show during the reforms it wouldn't have been pretty. Morals were only a smokescreen for the real reasons it was dismantled. They ANC had become de-radicalized because they were literally handed state power by their rivals.
Desmond Tutu is somewhat on a correct path:
"By and large, the white community does not seem to have shown an appreciation for the incredible magnanimity of those who were the major victims of a system from which they [the whites] benefited so much," Archbishop Tutu told the BBC's Peter Biles.
I will agree that whites in South Africa should be grateful that they weren't run out of the country in 1994.
Full Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4961418.stm)
Here's some great snippets:
Ex-President FW de Klerk said in turn that black citizens should be grateful to whites for surrendering power.
Ah yes the classic demand by former oppressors that have had to liberalize their system. de Klerk and David Horowitz should get a room.
On Sunday, Mr de Klerk admitted in an article in the Sunday Independent newspaper that white rule had been "morally indefensible", but said whites had made sacrifices.
No the system was dismantled because it was financially unviable and you managed to find a clique of educated bourgeois minded blacks that wouldn't rock the economic boat and even managed implement neo-liberal measures. Had the whites been running the show during the reforms it wouldn't have been pretty. Morals were only a smokescreen for the real reasons it was dismantled. They ANC had become de-radicalized because they were literally handed state power by their rivals.
Desmond Tutu is somewhat on a correct path:
"By and large, the white community does not seem to have shown an appreciation for the incredible magnanimity of those who were the major victims of a system from which they [the whites] benefited so much," Archbishop Tutu told the BBC's Peter Biles.
I will agree that whites in South Africa should be grateful that they weren't run out of the country in 1994.