Oh Dear, that makes twice I agree with you wholeheartedly Colwyn, we must stop this people will talk.
Well the definition depends which side you are on, but the reality in RSA is that it was a cruel and
racist state, and it would never have changed without force from within, and, in the end armed struggle.
It was not new, it began like that under Dutch colonists, very racists and used slavery, after the Boer War the British were much more relaxed but with the Boer's really regaining most of the power it became Government policy in 1948! I am my wife were invited there many times, but, she would have been regarded as "coloured" because her father was half Irish, Half Indian and we could not have stayed in the same Hotel, nor eaten together in many of the Restaurants so we never went. It was wrong, it was vicious, so maybe I can regard Madiba (Nelson was just the name he was forced to use at School), as perhaps justified.
Owamya bin Keepin
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