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I love this photograph

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of Nelson Mandela and Helen Suzman, a tireless anti-apartheid campaigner. How could you not love this photograph?

When history was rewritten in South Africa, the huge number of white South Africans who fought for the fall of apartheid seems to largely have been forgotten. They were incarcerated, tortured, sometimes killed and were always hated by both sides.

Today we have people like this:

Refuses to give a tip to a white waitress in a restaurant in Cape Town (who was working two jobs to support her sick mother) unless she returns the land she stole from the black man. He then laughed at her ‘white tears’ He is also on a Rhodes scholarship but wants all statues of Rhodes pulled down at Oxford.

Mandela was our hope. He preached reconciliation.

Maybe today we have a new hope, in Mmusi Maimane, of the DA.

 

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