A black democracy is thriving in South Africa

The San Diego Union Tribune ^ | February 8, 2004 | Neil Morgan

[SBprone]

I nominate Morgan for this year's Walter Duranty Award for Accuracy in Foreign Reporting. The year is still young but I think he's built a big lead with this piece.

[martin_fierro]

Ping.

[FormerACLUmember]

Democracy is very, very tenuous in SA. This is a nauseating, poorly written piece.

"It is a worry, we journalists agreed, that is not unknown back home in the world's largest democracy." Oh, the author is from India?

[hoosierboy]

What about the crime? The artcle doesn't address all the crime going on in south africa and if it is still as bad as it was a few years ago. Sure tourism is up in chicago too, but so it the murder rate.

[xJones]

I nominate Morgan for this year's Walter Duranty Award for Accuracy in Foreign Reporting. The year is still young but I think he's built a big lead with this piece.

Yes, Morgan's definitely a contender in a crowded race.

These bright days, South Africans simply smile over their neighbor's plight. What they dread, especially in overcrowded Johannesburg, is the influx of sick and hungry millions from Zimbabwe and central Africa.

How nice, Clive, the South Africans are smiling. Take your tourist dollars and visit heaven in Africa. < /sarcasm>

[Truthsayer20]

I remember the naysayers predicting that South Africa would collapse within a few years after majority rule was established.

[jocon307]

Yes, I think you have a winner.

"These bright days, South Africans simply smile over their neighbor's plight. "

I certainly hope they don't do that. Who simply smiles over their neighbor's plight? Ever? What kind of a person would do such a thing? He just insulted all the people he spent the article praising.

[Kenny Bunk]

Hard to believe ain't it?

This is the same country where the "Rocker Panel Flame Thrower Anti-Car-Jacking device was invented and is a best seller?!?! Amazing that such sweetness and light took over in such a short time.

Still, BHTZ (Better Here than Zimbabwe)

OBTW, where can I buy a pair of this guy's rose-colored glasses?

[cyborg]

Once South African's greatest PR machine dies (Nelson Mandela) look for things to get 'interesting'

[SBprone]

There's so much wrong in such a short piece that it is kind of staggering. How about the title? How can a democracy be a "Black Democracy" without being fundamentally and organically racist? Otherwise it would just be a democracy. Would Neil Morgan understand that? Or does he have just enough brain cells left to fill out his T&E report for the paper.

[cyborg]

I agree that statement is pretty creepy

[paltz]

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[The Duke]

Yeah, and Haiti is a real paradise on earth too!

[nmh]

Oh ... thriving on killing, white people and running them out of the country ... ah, forgot raping white women ... indeed black democracy is thriving.

[cyborg]

mixed race rape is rare, it's the rape of young girls/babies that's on the rise

[razorback-bert]

My coffee suddenly got so sweet, I can't drink it.

[xJones]

OBTW, where can I buy a pair of this guy's rose-colored glasses?

Dunno, but you could try borrowing his. Just bring a proctologist with you to extract them.

[Truthsayer20]

"Once South African's greatest PR machine dies (Nelson Mandela) look for things to get 'interesting'"

Are you originally from South Africa? I looked at your profile page and you seem to have a lot of links related to SA. How would you say society has developed there after 1994?