SOUTH Africa’s mainstream does not debate ideas — it debates people. Which is why the argument about the Mandela legacy is really about where the country is now, from whence it has come, and what our past teaches about the present.
Sometimes there is just no gentle way of responding to ridiculousness. Many South Africans, including the ANC, but also South Africans who are not members of the ANC or any other party, have come up with bad reasons why it was a good thing for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to be allowed to run away to his country before we could arrest him here in South Africa.Let’s examine the defenses that popped up: