It will be a dark day for African democracy if Julius Malema is allowed to legitimize his violent racism with a coating of populism and the previous generation's struggle against apartheid. It will be only made worse if it comes about through handing the judicial proceedings over to the most buffoonish white people the country could find.
"Justifying these wrongs in the name of apartheid gives carte blanche to yesterday’s liberators to become tomorrow’s oppressors,"
From the New York Times
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/world/africa/01southafrica.html]
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