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South Africa’s post-apartheid reckoning
The country that heroically freed itself of the colonial legacy of white minority rule in 1994 is now facing its own post-apartheid political reckoning following last Wednesday’s national election.
The anti-colonialism that was radically chic in the swinging 1960s has had a resurgence, as Western protesters have blamed the war in Gaza on decades of “Israeli colonialism” in Palestine.
That’s been encouraged by South Africa – a self-styled leader of the “Global South” of developing nation former colonies – having referred Israel to The Hague for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
This editorial originally said that the Democratic Alliance has made joining a coalition conditional upon the removal of ANC leader and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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