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What is the matter with this country? If oppression by the West
is to blame, why are things getting worse under indigenous rule?
AIDS, which had a manageable prevalence in the
early Nineties, is now set to kill at least
a quarter of the
population. The new president, Thabo Mbeki, has responded by
questioning whether HIV causes AIDS. Crime has become so routine
that to speak of certain areas as dumps for the bodies of raped
and strangled children is not a hyperbole. Foreign policy is a
long funeral for the country’s hopes, with the regime openly
seeking advice from Libya, Zimbabwe, and Algeria.
Post-apartheid South Africa looks to me very much like another case of African government. Africans can call me a racist if they feel like it. (The sanction has little meaning where it is applied even to black journalists indicting corruption that starves the b ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 19 December 2000, on page 21 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/mandelaruden-2288
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