Thursday, December 12, 2013

Mandela leaves behind a troubling legacy

By John Pilger
Asia Times

"Nelson Mandela's place in history, thanks to his role in helping to end apartheid, looks assured, and his passing is genuinely mourned by millions of South Africans. His legacy, however, is another matter, with economic apartheid still a harsh reality, disparities between black and black widening even as those between white and black have narrowed......

Mandela, too, fostered crony relationships with wealthy whites from the corporate world, including those who had profited from apartheid. He saw this as part of "reconciliation". Perhaps he and his beloved ANC had been in struggle and exile for so long they were willing to accept and collude with the forces that had been the people's enemy......." 

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