martybegan
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With his passing, one of the links back to both the Apartheid Era, and the Post Apartheid attempts at reconcilliation is gone.
The main question I have is that even though he has been sick for a while and not an active participant in SA politics, is his death a warning of SA going the path of Zimbabwae?
After his election he was one of the proponents of not punishing the White South Africans for the past, unless they could be attributed with a crime. While there plenty of examples of this occuring, he was a mitigating factor. Even when he left government service he was a proponent of reconcilliation and moving forward.
At this point, he is gone. Do the forces for Vengance, and of course self-aggrandizement and enrichment, which is sadly so prevalent in most African governments now begin to go the path of Zimbabwae, with both government sactioned and government ingorance allowed appropriation of the remaining white land and buisness ownership?
The main question I have is that even though he has been sick for a while and not an active participant in SA politics, is his death a warning of SA going the path of Zimbabwae?
After his election he was one of the proponents of not punishing the White South Africans for the past, unless they could be attributed with a crime. While there plenty of examples of this occuring, he was a mitigating factor. Even when he left government service he was a proponent of reconcilliation and moving forward.
At this point, he is gone. Do the forces for Vengance, and of course self-aggrandizement and enrichment, which is sadly so prevalent in most African governments now begin to go the path of Zimbabwae, with both government sactioned and government ingorance allowed appropriation of the remaining white land and buisness ownership?