Censorship in South Africa, No Negative News About The President.

I can't believe how blatant many of these politicians are in many countries. I thought after Mandela we wouldn't hear much from South Africa for decades other than a mention on a shark documentary.
 

Why? With their history, one might hope for peace, there, but with their history one might not expect it ...
 
That's why I expected problems like this much sooner in the post apartheid era. I didn't think a lot of changes would take early on. Other than some mining issues including strikes.protests, safety etc over the years not much else has popped up. Maybe since the world took their eyes off the country the politicians know it and exploit it.
 
I lived in Rhodesia in the mid-late 70's. I used to go down to South Africa now and then for various reasons. It's a beautiful country but the apartheid government back then was just too much. I hated it. Hillbrow was a modern part of Jo'Burg centre and it had modern shops and was a nice place to go. My daughter's boyfriend is down there right now, doing voluntary work at the hospital .... in Hillbrow. He won't go out in the evening for fear of being robbed and murdered. He was robbed there last week. I am a idealist. I believe that peace will solve the problems of the world. I am also a humanitarian. I hate racism. I hated Apartheid. What really upsets me more than anything at all is that the African government (as with African governments in just about all ex-white dominant countries) is proving the racists were right about what would happen if the whites would relinquish power.
 
I lived in South Africa at the beginning of the eighties, we had burglar bars at every window and the door was kept locked all the time, very very rarely we ventured out in the evenings but even in the daylight hours there were places we wouldn't go...........and I don't think it has changed much if at all.
 
What has "changed" is in the fact that the cities themselves were safe during apartheid, while the townships might not have been. Today, the cities seemed to have turned into neighbourhood war zones.
 

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