30 Years after apartheid: Reflecting on South Africa's ongoing fight for democracy
30 Years after apartheid: Reflecting on South Africa's ongoing fight for democracy
This weekend marks the 30th anniversary since the fall of South African apartheid. Since then, the young democracy has struggled to find its footing as it grapples with apartheid’s legacy and the imprint of institutionalized racism. Ali Velshi, a child of South African Indians, vividly recalls the day anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was…
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Mandela sold Africans. When he was released he continued a white status in exchange for Nobel peace prize and secret codesa deal which made white keep retain the control of land, economy and reserve bank.
Black people don’t own land England, USA but Mandela let 3% of white take 80% of land. That’s stupidity not heroism
Give Ali Velshi the morning show. Joe and Mika are awful.
All South Africans attained political equality not equality!!!
An update for you, Ali. The whites have not been in government since 1994. The self inflicted wounds have been the work of the majority elected party that has lost it's way. This party has recognized that it is corrupt but does not know how to find it's way back to the days of Mandela and Mbeki. One can only hope that they can. The people of South Africa deserve better.
Apartide is alive and well in Israel.
The white population in SA are so small they are of no significance. How about comparing the wealthy black population to the poor black population when talking of inequality
The South African dream has become a nightmare
Now Free Palestine
You are just awesome, Mr. Velshi.
After 30yrs of emancipation, black economic empowerment laws and managing Africas richest economy, SA is a basket case of corruption, crime and nepotism. Zimbabwe is even worse. Hindsight is telling us that the world, in imposing its democratic ideals on emerging nations before they were ready has caused more problems than it fixed. The world badly misunderstood the challenges of Africa. The colonial powers did too, but at least they were in the ground managing the transition. Unfortunately the colonial solution was too little too slowly, and the imposed democratic ideal was too much too quickly. Both “solutions” were flawed. What will it take to fix it? Maybe another 50yrs, maybe 100.
did this dude seriously just find an opportunity to plug his book while speaking about mandela? bit narcissistic
interesting how no one ever says why he was sentenced to life in prison (he blew up a school bus and killed multiple children).
And now South Africa has gone from the most developed country in Africa to one of the most corrupt in the world. White Boers are murdered at a disproportionate rate.
do you call the same political party in power for 30 years democracy?
Mandela planted bombs and supported organisations such as hamas. Mandela is a convicted terrorist
The rainbow nation has been lost… fighting a different apartheid. A New power struggle in the democratic Republic and our Mandela dream has diminished. The struggle continues…
Does anyone have pictures of Joe Biden being arrested in South Africa with Nelson Mandela???
A 😮😢😢😮😮😮 bad ＆ nasty😢😮😢😮😢😢 retired director from General Dynamics, previously worked in San Diego, probably more than 85 yrs old now, is abusing US Gov's monitoring satellite to harass normal US civilians, inside USA & all over the world for his own entertainment & amusement.
These remote sensors of the monitoring satellites are capable of interpreting the words you're thinking in your mind, may be, by air vibration or by scanning the brainwaves from your brain.
The Israeli IDF are using similar satellite technologies to spy on the Hamas leadership hiding deep inside the Gaza Tunnels. IDF once released footage of these videos in much degraded resolution.
This could also have been the way how our intelligence services obtained classified information on Xi Jinping's missile deployment within China.
This retired General Dynamics director could have been the mastermind behind the plane crash killing the Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown of the Clinton Administration, in the plane crash in 1996 in Croatia.
The United States as we learned and studied in American high school does not exist anymore; it has been destroyed.
United States have been dead. American citizens don't have human rights.
This retired Director of General Dynamics is indeed a national disgrace of the United States.
If this America disgrace wants to harrass any American civilian, he just puts this American into our Gov. blacklist for monitoring, and he can harass this American civilian.
United States must stop this disgrace retired director from General Dynamics.
Our Congress should carry out an investigation into our Gov satellite misuse, I am willing to testify in Congress.
I can give White House my name and let them check if I have been wrongly put onto the blacklist of terrorists for monitoring, just for some retired director from General Dynamics for his personal amusement and entertainment.
Now there's extreme racism against the boers
Free America from AIPAC.
What this gentleman forgot to mention is most economic activities are given to black South Africans, by the government. Yet they prefer not to work or they would rather steal the money provided.
Yea all they have now is being extremely racist and cruel to minorities and being MASSIVELY corrupt too….looks like they didn’t do so well now did they when THEY got the government huh? Yea ain’t gonna defend ANYTHING to do with current South Africa….😂🤡🤮 they have no right nor a leg ti stand on WAH WAH whining about racism and corruption cuz when they got power they did THE EXACT SAME and ran the country into the ground.
South africa was better ran before.
Free Afrika!!!!
Good commentary about South Africa, it's amazing how unjust and upside down the world was and still is in many places. At the moment a similar apartheid system is trying to be brutally enforced in Palestine.
Thank you for this Velshi. Never let us tire of reminding the world about Mandela and SA.
AKA "Murica! is still struggling to turn SAfrica into a puppet state."
FREE ISRAEL 🇮🇱