| Die knusheid van die exile-verlede [boodskap #11400] |
Ma, 17 November 1997 00:00 |
Leendert van Oostrum
Boodskappe: 1880
Geregistreer: Julie 2000
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Is dit hoekom sommige susters van die revolusie so vaskoek in die vermeende
verlede? Omdat selfs "die verlede" 'n fabrikasie was, en hulle dit nou nie
kan erken nie?
Uit "Red Socks in the Sunset" - RW Johnson.:
"Although many such exiles maintained strong sympathetic links to the
movement, you can still hear tales of the golden age of South Africa s Left
in many houses in Golders Green or Highgate only a minority remained so
seriously involved that they were willing (and it was a crucial test) to
uproot themselves again after 1990 and return to South Africa. For the
remnants of the old elite who did return, and Slovo was their symbolic
leader, it was a return in triumph but also in tragedy, for the fact was
that the great change had come a little too late. Some had died in exile;
many were simply too old to change countries again; others found the new
South Africa a bewildering and difficult place.
Having spent decades proclaiming that the reform of apartheid was a sham,
that nothing had changed, it was a shock to find that a lot had indeed
changed. "
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