Seems that color of skin doesn't matter; it's all in the structure of the institutions no matter what government you live under:
"Protests underscore S. Africa divisions" Associated Press / August 31, 2011
JOHANNESBURG - Violent protests yesterday by supporters of South Africa’s firebrand youth leader are the latest political salvo in a power struggle that could determine the future of South Africa’s president and the man who helped catapult him to power, youth league chief Julius Malema.
Another Luthuli/Mandela situation?
"Americans tend to only know about Nelson Mandela, he said, but the film documents how Chief Luthuli led the ANC and received a Nobel Peace Prize for his unwavering support of nonviolence resistance."
Yes, the more militant Mandela makes my war paper!
Also see: Around Africa: South African Hate Speech
Singing a Song in South Africa
Demonstrators burned flags of the ruling African National Congress and ran through the streets of downtown Johannesburg holding up flaming T-shirts bearing the image of President Jacob Zuma. “Zuma must go!’’ they chanted.
So what are their complaints?
When the protesters began lobbing stones and bottles, police detonated stun grenades and turned water cannons on the crowd. Later, they fired rubber bullets to get protesters off the roof of an armored car.
Typical government reaction; I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the world condemnation (or support, as the case may be)."
The focus for yesterday’s demonstration was the start of a disciplinary hearing for Malema and five other youth league officers accused of bringing the ANC into disrepute with their calls for the ouster of the government of neighboring Botswana. They face expulsion or suspension from the party.
Okay, that is South Africa's own internal matter.
Analysts say the hearing is a pretext to confront the growing power of Malema, who has mobilized disillusioned and unemployed youth with demands that the government nationalize the mining sector and appropriate white-owned farm land for black peasants.
It seems to be the SAME IN EVERY SOCIETY these days, doesn't it?
Malema, 30, says that is the only way to address growing inequality and poverty in Africa’s richest nation and better distribute wealth that remains firmly entrenched in the minority white community and among a few thousand blacks who have grown wealthy mainly off government contracts.
So SKIN COLOR REALLY DOESN'T MATTER after all, huh?
It's the CLA$$ or CLUB to which you belong!
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Wasn't that all supposed to change after the end of apartheid?
"S. Africa land reforms lag behind goals" September 01, 2011|Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG - A document released yesterday shows that South Africa’s government is far behind land reform efforts, a setback that could prove explosive in a country with staggering inequality almost a generation after white rule ended.
“The government bought land and handed it over to aspirant farmers who then sold it again, in many instances back to the original owner,’’ Gugile Nkwinti, the minister of land reform, said.
Black farmers have failed for lack of support. In many cases, groups of farmers have been settled on a commercial farm and told to work it collectively with no subdivisions to ensure the farm’s productivity. But most groups disintegrated and a much smaller number remain, trying to operate as individuals.
Whites make up less than 10 percent of South Africa’s population of 50 million. Today, some 40,000 white commercial farmers own about 90 percent of the country’s 224 million acres of agricultural land.
There are about 200,000 small farmers, nearly all black, 2 million to 2.5 million subsistence farmers, and more than half a million farm workers.
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And you wonder why they are angry and in the street?
