SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Free us from our liberators
In their brazen grab for resources, the erstwhile liberators are exceeding the low expectations of their former enemies. In the past 20 years they have stolen far more than the most corrupt of apartheid’s enforcers and Bantustan stooges — but the loot stashed at home and offshore is fast becoming worthless. The markets may yet again be the saviour.As young black children growing up in the townships of apartheid SA, we swallowed hook, line and sinker the great tales of freedom that came in from the capitals and camps of liberated Africa.Understandably, these stories of the heroism of fellow South Africans — engaged in an epic struggle to rid SA of the racist regime — were short on detail. In the late 1980s they acquired a romantic dimension: these were sons and daughters of Africa, fearlessly confronting the might of the continent’s strongest and best-armed force with little more than pistols.In the little schoolboy tales we shared in hushed tones, our heroes always won the battles a...
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