The sense of injustice has persisted to the point that several community members lament the fall of apartheid under which "Coloured" people had neither the freedom to move around nor vote.You read that right. These people miss Apartheid.
"The blacks have all the opportunities," complained pastor's wife Janice Jacobs, 49.
"We were much more comfortable during the apartheid. They would provide us a school pack with all the stationery. We had nurses in the schools. There was order and discipline. If you set a place alight, you would end up in jail.
"The apartheid government used to look after education, health, housing. (This) government does not look after us. I prefer apartheid."
Back in our professorial days we'd get students from some far flung corner of the old British Empire like Ceylon or Ghana. They missed the British.
So these people miss PW Botha.
Well obviously.
The ANC is about blacks loyal to the ANC and exists primarily to enrich the leadership of the ANC.
This makes Thebo Mbeki or Jacob Zuma indistinguishable from the long succession of kleptocrats and psychotics that have made the continent a byword for misery and despair.
As we once heard a Boer farmer say, 'Look what they have done with the rest of Africa.'
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