Presumably what was meant was the common enemy was not the "darkies" but the rest of the world coming together and imposing sanctions.
> Yet the ideology of full democracy (i.e. tyranny of the majority) is also spectacularly failing. Yet no one would acknowledge the latter failings.
Naomi Klein does in The Shock Doctrine and a heck of a lot of people have read that book.
Maybe. It is just ironic that they are standing in line to do business with countries such as Equatorial Guinea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro_Obiang_Nguema_Mbasogo) and Saudi Arabia.
> Naomi Klein does in The Shock Doctrine and a heck of a lot of people have read that book.
I am not a big fan of Naomi Klein. She probably attacked the governments macro economic policy?
That is unfortunately the only thing that the ANC government did right in the past 16 years (this is now probably going to change with Zuma).
The reason for SA's macroeconomic policy was probably because previous prez. Mbeki did a masters degree in economics at a British university.