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South Africa: “The whites are pretending it didn’t happen. The blacks are pretending to forgive”
September 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
One of the most clearheaded assessments of the new South Africa that I’ve read in a while. It’s a line from an article by The Guardian’s South Africa correspondent, David Smith. It’s what a cynic told him about Apartheid and its legacy. Read Smith’s take on recent events in South Africa, including the white refugee crises here. It’s […]
TWO MEN, TWO COUNTRIES
September 3, 2009 By 5 Comments
I co-wrote (along with my friend Herman Wasserman) this op-ed, copied below, for Canada’s leading daily, “The Globe & Mail,” commenting on the case of the young white South African, Brandon Huntley, who was granted refugee status by an immigration tribunal there after he claimed black South Africans were formenting a race war against whites: […]
CANADIAN IMMIGRATION
September 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
South African cartoonist Jeremy Nell comments on the case of Brandon Huntley, the young white South African, who applied to, and was granted refugee status from the Canadian government because should he return to South Africa, he would be “persecuted” by blacks. The comments on his site makes for interesting reading, to put it mildly. […]
