In South Africa, ‘we the people’ is only for a chosen few
AS AN INDIAN South African, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we hear about our country – all this talk about South Africa being Africa’s leader. Some have added a gratuitous subtitle saying: “South Africa: A world power.”
And I just don’t think that’s what South Africa is all about or should be all about.
Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of African nationalism seems to be terribly archaic. It’s redolent of James Bond movies or Kipling ballads – recall the author-poet saying “the empire on which the sun never sets”. We have our own variation to that
