POINTS TO PONDER

7/...		.../Life in "Liberated" SA
THE outrageous arrogance of so many of our new Socialist Sultans is well portrayed by two recent incidents. The one, reported by Star writer Jon Qwelane (whose own columns are customarily an anti-White tour de force) concerns a certain Sonwabile Mancotywa, MEC for Sport, Arts & Culture in the Eastern Cape. Passengers were queued up at baggage control at the SAA terminal in New York. Suddenly our bumptious Black friend barges in with his luggage, forcing his way to the top of the queues. A SA woman passenger quietly suggested that he stand in line like everybody else. Qwelane reports: "Mancotywa’s rage was sudden and violent. His words, spoken with a fury that matched the look on his face, were heard by several of us: ‘Voetsak! It (SAA) does not belong to you (Whites) any more. Voetsak!" As they say, manners maketh man. * * * THE second incident involved Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Nelson’s ex. She hit the London headlines when, returning from a conference in the Caribbean, she had to await a connecting flight to Johannesburg from Heathrow. British Airways insisted on charging her for 100 kg of excess baggage. Trigger-happy as always, she fumed that because she was flying first class "and on a diplomatic passport," the airline should waive the charge for "somebody of my status." Presumably to her discomfiture, the publicity disclosed that the passport she was using should have been surrendered in 1995, when she was booted out as Deputy Arts Minister. Nothing daunted she still persisted that BA should return the Ł1 000 "paid erroneously for so-called excess baggage." * * *		IDEALLY, one would think, universities at least should be run as citadels of pure meritocracy. The Americans (who else?) long ago scuttled that idea by setting racial quotas as the prime admission criteria. With affirmative action, based on the US pattern, now playing havoc in the SA universities, it is interesting to see how this affects admission levels. IT’S a crazy world. Not so long ago South Africa, then still ruled by White fiends, was the most admired and envied country in Africa. Today its new governors, the ANC/SACP, have become the object of ridicule among immigrants from many African states. Many of those who come to SA from other parts of the continent believe they are visiting a degenerate and dangerous society. And they are right. I have a Ghanian friend who has visited me several times over the part 18 months. Recently he called again, this time to say "goodbye." "It is more civilised where I come from," said this man. * * * "MAN needs a moral sense of right and wrong. There is such a thing called evil, and it is not the result of being a victim of society. You are just an evil man, prone to do evil things, and you have to be stopped from doing them." - Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore. * * * "ALL durable societies have had sexual codes. The variations are less important than what they have in common: a sense of responsibility about reproduction, the assurance that fathers will take care of their children. The Greeks and Romans worshipped fornicating gods, the Jews worshipped a God who forbade fornication. Who survived longer?" - US syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran.
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