holdfast
2008-05-21 18:39:19
At the national level, South Africa is a one-party state. Sure the zulus and whites can win some local elections in KwaZulu-Natal and maybe some municipal races elsewhere, but one party states are not really democracy. The ANC was created as a communist front organization, and it remains one to this day. Mandela, for all his faults, worked hard to prevent violence among the various tribes of his country (in this I include British, Afrikaans, Asians and Coloureds as “tribes”), but his sucessors don’t have the charm, the standing or the intelligence to follow-up. The Zimbabwe crisis is just accelerating South Africa’s own problems, but those problems were already there. I’m glad my family got out.
