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Horrific violence now an everyday sight as the Rainbow Nation ends in a pool of blood
From Fred Bridgeland in Johannesburg THE distinguished anti-apartheid novelist André Brink has shocked many of his politically correct countrymen by warning that footballs World Cup, coming to South Africa in 2010, threatens a potential massacre which could make the Munich Olympics of a few decades ago look like a picnic outing. Brink, whose novels were banned by apartheid governments and who has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize and shortlisted several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is no everyday scaremonger. In one of a number of articles he has written about the crises facing South Africa, he said: For 12 years after our first democratic elections [held in 1994, resulting in Nelson Mandela becoming president] I went out of my way to assure people inside and outside the country who had doubts about the new South Africa that we were moving in the direction of democracy, truth and justice, and that the darker by-products of the change were temporary and superficial accidents. I can no longer do that. Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-10-25 |
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