Beneath the inexcusable carnage in South Africa
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Tue Jul 20 2021
After days of wanton carnage spurred by greed and entitlement, the world has made excuses for the wanton damage to the reputation of South Africa by the army of Zulu sycophants supposedly protesting a judicial ruling against their tribal overlord. Have we concluded that years of apartheid have robbed the average South African of decency, decorum and the understanding that modern society runs on the concept of equality before the law? Are we satisfied with the excuse that apartheid has eroded a people’s sense of right or wrong?
New age historicists regale us with rants of an Africa on the march to greatness before the trek was rudely interrupted by 400 years of slavery. They tell us lofty stories of our opulence – the gold, the diamonds the glorious resplendence of our kings and queens ere the advent of the white man. They romanticise these facts and cleverly ignore or deny the fact that, like every other race,
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