The government could more usefully have settled a heavily armed refugee population in the aisles of grocery stores and told managers to relax and get on with their work. Here's something lighter. But, ah, now . . . Still either they don't say it publicly, mollified and a little shamed by stories about special training programs for black children, or their words of discontent go unrecorded. The formula comes from on high with the force and simplicity of a biblical commandment.
Nothing is more interesting than race.
Nothing but racial prejudice or disadvantage can explain evil or failure. If facts and feelings do not jive with this, then suppress them. A veteran anti-apartheid activist, expert on rural economics, and widow of the revered Communist Joe Slovo, she had opened the Land Bank fairly and efficiently to farmers of all colors. Many people will think it silly for me to call political correctness in South Africa totalitarian, but some of its characteristics have analogs in fascist and Communist propaganda. The system, like Communism and fascism, destroys wealth and disperses energy, so that it is forced to expand, to move further and further onto what has been private and productive and loot its fuel from there.