Saturday, October 7

Was life better under aparthied? 

"Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has admonished South Africans for not respecting one another, citing senseless crime, deaths at the hands of hijackers, rapes of children, violence by strikers, and students who damage their campuses."

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"Tutu said South Africans lacked pride in their environment. 'Of course many of us still live in poverty and squalor,' he said. 'But you know how, although we were poor long ago, we used to be proud of our surroundings, sweeping even the street?' Things had changed, he said, because 'we don't respect one another, because we don't respect ourselves.'"

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