A book on the apartheid. My impression was the ANC wasn't as bad as you just said. Granted it's not a neutral book, but I guess that means I'll have to find a Nationalist-slanted book.
Believe me, it's exceptionally hard to find a good book that's neutral on the subject. One of the best that I've found is one called
The Apartheid Handbook, it has a lot of facts and figures dealing with the important domestic issues in South Africa.
The book really puts things into perspective. For instance, wage disparities between whites, blacks in the townships, and blacks in the homelands were declining steadily from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.
One of the most terrible ironies of the post-independence African debacle is that African countries all severed their ties with South Africa. South Africa had lots of capital, a well-educated white workforce, a large black industrial and mining workforce, solid infrastructure... and what did the African "majority-rule" (most of those countries would at one time be led by one dictator or one-party state) countries do? They blockaded South Africa. Who did that hurt? It hurt South Africa, which meant that it hurt the blacks who were 70% of the population.
It also hurt their own countries, so they're piss poor and starving to death to make a statement against whitey. Then, some of those countries latched on to the tits of the Soviet Union (Ethiopia) and look what happened; despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in aid every year, a million people were starving to death. 400,000 Angolans fled to South Africa and South West Africa during the first five or so years of the civil war. 200,000 people from Mozambique also crossed the border. Yet at the same time, how many South Africans moved to Lesotho, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and the rest of Africa combined? Less than 30,000.
He refused out of principal, not because he didn't wish to enter PW's contract.
Yes, but that principle was to keep putting bombs under the counter at the department store, not to fight the South African Army.
Yeah that's what I quoted. No the bit about armies being the same as terrorist reflects poorly on you. Disingenuous? Since you forgot what we were talking about I'll quote it.
