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Article: When it's over. (apartheid) (A Survey of South Africa)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 20, 1993
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A FILM popular in Johannesburg this summer has been "The Angel, the Bicycle and the Chinaman's Finger", a parable about a Japanese (sic) businessman willing to invest a fortune in South Africa's Post Office once racial discrimination has ended. To see that it has, he points his finger at a small town in the Orange Free State. Its black, brown and white postal workers receive frantic orders from Pretoria to put on a display of racial harmony. Miraculously, they overcome their racial fears and perform a heart-warming nativity play for the Japanese inspectors.
Apartheid has disfigured too much since 1948--not just laws and structures but people's hearts as well--to end ...