Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Kemp Arthur
Title : The lie of Apartheid And other true stories from Southern Africa
Year : 2009

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Essay one. The Lie of Apartheid. It is one of the many bitter ironies about South Africa that the policy of apartheid-to which Afrikaners clung for decades as their only hope and salvation from Third World domination-was in fact an impracticable and unworkable system which led directly to the Afrikaners’ demise as a political force in that country. The politicians-the National Party-who fostered apartheid are the primary criminals in this tragedy, holding out a false illusory hope to the Afrikaners, and then when the inevitable became just that, changed track and gave in, abandoning their followers to African National Congress (ANC) rule as callously as they had earlier lied to them. For apartheid-in reality forced social segregation-was nothing but an illusion, a twisted distortion of the demographic reality of South Africa, not to mention the truth that it was ultimately, morally repugnant as well. The conservative white South African politicians never understood what the driving force of political power is: namely, physical occupation. Political power comes from physical occupation: not historical rights, not title deeds, not moral rights-only occupation. Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region. ...