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Ken Burch

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16. That's true.

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #13)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 09:46 AM

Dec 2012

The main cause of post-apartheid South Africa's problems is that the "free market" countries have forced it to live under a crippling austerity program from the start, a program that has made the achievement of full racial equality(which requires full economic equality as well) impossible.

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Nelson Mandela 'proven' to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial [View all] alp227 Dec 2012 OP

Even if he was, so what? Ken Burch Dec 2012 #1

Well, we turned our backs on evey nascent oppositions to colonial rule in te world... WCGreen Dec 2012 #2

This is news? Samjm Dec 2012 #3

Well, good for him! burrowowl Dec 2012 #4

Right. People in SA were better off when 75 % of the population applegrove Dec 2012 #5

i recently read that miners in south africa still make the same wage they did in 1947 once you HiPointDem Dec 2012 #7

greed knows no color former-republican Dec 2012 #10

What your observations there show is that the liberation project isn't OVER in S. Africa Ken Burch Dec 2012 #12

ethnic/racial discrimination is part of the toolbox of economic "discrimination". it doesn't exist HiPointDem Dec 2012 #13

That's true. Ken Burch Dec 2012 #16

agreed. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #17

whites still run south africa, and all of africa. decolonialization didn't change that. they just HiPointDem Dec 2012 #6

SO??? newfie11 Dec 2012 #8

"help of the Communist superpowers for the ANC's campaign of armed resistance to white rule. " marmar Dec 2012 #9

South Africa was a victim of the shock doctrine gollygee Dec 2012 #11

as are we all. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #14

Very true! nt gollygee Dec 2012 #15