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Johannesburg International Airport name change
"Marc Lurie" schreef in bericht ... On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:34:50 +0200, "Wildpicture.com" wrote: You afrikaners have made this country to what it is, END QUOTE Who exactly are you referring to as "you afrikaners"?. The fact of the matter is that there are around 48 million people in SA, and only about 2 million are Afrikaaners. To applaud the apartheid regime for achieving what you percieve to be a "great country" (my italics), is tantamount to supporting them. The apartheid system was disgusting, exploitative, morally indefensible, and corrupt. Any positive benefits that South Africa saw from apartheid are dwarfed by the human misery and suffering the system infliceted on the majority. Yes, the current South Africa is built on the "positive" (again, my italics) things that apartheid produced: roads, telecommunications, banking systems, industry, mining, commerce. But EVERY advancement made in South Africa was made at someone else's expense. What's happening now is that the pie is now being shared more equally among all South Africans. There is still inequality, there are still problems, and there will be problems for a long while to come. I'm concerned that you appear to support a group of people who ruled by terror, opressed anyone who was not part of their select group, made themselves pariahs in the eyes of the rest of the world, systematically murdered and imprisoned detractors, censored the media, waged war on neighbouring states, committed acts of savage assasination in other countries, and destabilised the entire region by war and economics. You must remember that EVERYTHING that this country was in 1994 was a result of the apartheid regime, not just the "good" stuff. The regime is GUILTY of creating a whole nation of non-educated people, GUILTY of creating a labour force in the western Cape that is enslaved by alcohol, GUILTY of ensuring and encouraging tribal friction because of the "divide and conquer" theory, GUILTY of putting a viable workforce so far away from a place of work that they spend the majority of their wages simply getting to work thus ensuring that they are ensnared in a debt trap, GUILTY of fomenting racial differences, GUILTY of destabilising the entire region and ensuring that countries like Mozabique and Angola were kept ungovernable, etc. etc. etc. Marc. Hear hear!! Corné. www.amukela.com |
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