South Africa’s human rights reputation is in tatters after a series of “sell-out” votes at the UN on issues ranging from rape and gay rights to tyranny.
This week the watchdog UNWatch ranked South Africa last, alongside China, Russia, Pakistan, Algeria and Saudi Arabia, on a human rights list.
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NVDL: There is a picture in the Sunday Times of an attractive white woman dancing with Jacob Zuma. They seem in the middle of a double high-five whilst dancing. What I don't understand is you have this guy who is in and out of court on corruption charges, rape charges, who admits to having unprotected sex with someone with AIDS - and this dude is the frontfrunner for our country's next president? Meanwhile, locals are willingly carvorting with this dude.
The reality is there are 2 South Africa's. There's suburbia, which is sometimes infiltrated by crime and the realities of the other South Africa. The other South Africa is a horrific picture. Children raping one another, parent-less kids orphaned by an AIDS holocaust and plenty of other hollow sounding atrocities that just become cliche. They do not convey reality but a sort of mythical metaphor to the wealthy suburbanites.
I wonder if there was to be a war, where South Africa would stand? With the Middle East, with the East, against America? More to the point, where should we stand? It seems like everyone is corrupt, and we are especially a VROT leg of the human piano. With the storms and floods, perhaps the human species can be washed of its sickly self and born anew. Strong and good.
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