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Leendert van Oostrum
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Die lys word al langer.....
Breyten Breytenbach (toe hy die NSA kritiseer, word hy die skyf van
verdagmakery, ook uit Gloudina se oord)
Anna ("Ek het nie meer 'n vaderland nie") M. Louw
Andre P Brink (kyk maar uit .... die lang messe wag sekerlik vir hom ook)
John Dugard
Die Black Sash
Die Mail & Guardian
Albie Sachs...... ALBIE SACHS!!!!!
Goeie opsomming van die NSA: "....it cannot achieve the achievable...."
Maar dis goed dat die John Dugards die NSA beleef het, en nie meer kans sien
daarvoor nie.
Dis goed dat hulle sal sit in plekke soos Holland. Dalk sal die tolerante
Hollanders hulle vra waarom hulle dan nie meer in die NSA is nie.
En dalk sal hulle eerlik vertel....
Frikkie Potgieter wrote in message ...
> NO ROOM IN THE RAINBOW FOR LIBERALS?
> Liberal whites discover that they're less welcome in the new South
> Africa than the old. By DAVID BERESFORD
> SOUTH AFRICA can achieve miracles, ruefully observed one of the
> country's constitutional court judges, Albie Sachs, recently. "But it
> cannot achieve the achievable."
> Mr Sachs, who lost an arm when his car was bombed by the South African
> security forces during the anti-apartheid struggle, was speaking at a
> farewell function for Professor John Dugard, one of the country's most
> prominent legal academics.
> The cynical note was all the more striking because it came from a
> judge whose colleagues regard him as an unrehabilitated romantic. But
> then it was not just any academic Mr Sachs was saying farewell to. The
> "new" South Africa, it seems, does not have room for Professor Dugard,
> who has left to take up a post at Leiden University in the
> Netherlands. Dugard is a world authority on international law, admired
> in liberal circles for his opposition to apartheid.
> One of the architects of the progressive new constitution, his
> decision to leave South Africa was taken after he was passed over for
> an expected appointment to a judicial post, seemingly because of his
> skin colour.
> South Africa's predominantly white elite are going through another of
> their periodic bouts of pessimism about the future of the country and
> their role - or lack of one - in it. A poll, published at the weekend,
> showed that 74 percent of people with skilled jobs are longing to
> emigrate.
> "In the old South Africa a significant number of people of darker hues
> accepted and welcomed me because of my anti-apartheid views," one
> white liberal wrote in a Johannesburg newspaper. "In the new South
> Africa I am treated with contempt and hatred, for no other reason than
> that I have a white skin."
> The author was Mandi Smallhorne, a member of the Black Sash - that
> gallant band of white women who engaged in a famous crusade against
> National Party rule during the dark days of apartheid.
> Recalling her excitement when she acted as a monitor during the 1994
> majority-rule elections, she said: "I believed that the fight against
> apartheid had been won, and that, finally, I would be able to live in
> a country where it did not matter so much what colour my skin was, a
> country where I belonged. But I don't."
> Referring to the characterisation of South Africa by Bishop Desmond
> Tutu as a "rainbow nation", she said: "What kind of rainbow is it
> where every colour is acceptable, as long as it is black?"
> Support for her scepticism was to be found in the same edition of the
> newspaper, in a lengthy article by Nkosinathi Biko, the son of Steve
> Biko. Writing on the 21st anniversary of his father's murder in police
> detention, Mr Biko Jnr observed of the term "miracle": "No miracle is
> preceded by such pain and suffering."
> The term "rainbow nation" was similarly misused, he said. "The colours
> of the rainbow are harmoniously juxtaposed and such harmony can hardly
> be found between the peoples of South Africa."
> The hostility of black South Africans towards their former "comrades"
> in the liberal community has also manifested itself in a succession of
> attacks on the Mail & Guardian itself, seemingly as a result of
> articles exposing corruption in the government.
> Early this year, after it disclosed the alleged shady past of the
> African National Congress premier of Gauteng, the richest province,
> which incorporates the Witwatersrand industrial triangle, the
> newspaper was subjected to a broadside of racial invective.
> In an editorial, it protested: "It is completely irrelevant to us that
> the premier of Gauteng is a black man. But it matters to us very much
> that he seems to be a crook."
> The distinction went unrecognised in some quarters, however. The
> "Black Lawyers' Association" and the "Association of Black Accountants
> of South Africa" lodged a formal complaint against the newspaper with
> the country's human rights committee, charging it with "subliminal
> racism".
> They claimed that the majority of the newspaper's exposes were of
> corruption among blacks, and declared this often left "very little
> room for these individuals to have any sense of dignity" and was
> "violating the rights of black people to equality". -- The Guardian
> News Service, September 17, 1998.
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