| Citizen Join Date: May 2007 Location: Mpumalanga, Zuid Afrika
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Originally Posted by Antithesis  You obviously don't get it. The purpose of apartheid from the beginning wasn't to allow sovereignty. It was to exclude the black majority from the nation and give the white Afrikaans much more access to politics and a greater hold on the country's resources. | Yes but it was not to "RULE" over the blacks. You are equating Apartheid to slavery in the US where blacks were disenfranchised but had to work for the US economy. Blacks here were free to go elsewhere and work and live. They simply did not have access as citizens to the infrastructures of the white government without proper doccumentation etc. "The biggest failure of Democracy in Africa is that unsophisticated, illiterate, uninformed and easily influenced citizens can replace those that fully sustain them with others that fully impoverish them." -- Unknown |