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Even though they were bullied into it by China, and not (I think - let me know if I'm wrong) because they dislike the guy personally?

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Lots of people find cowardice to be one of the more disgusting of human characteristics.

There's a difference between bravery and stupidity. South Africa can't stand up to China. There is enough hardship in the country without getting on China's bad side.

With apartheid in the back of their minds they should get their priorities straight.

They're not doing the right thing because they fear economic reprisal. That is cowardice.

Stupidity is allowing an economic bully to win over and over again by threatening individual countries one by one.

Yeah, it'd be much better to plunge the economy back into the apartheid-era embargo days* and let AIDS ravage the country even more.

*It was "cowardice" in the face of economic reprisal that was responsible for the end of apartheid, I might add.

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