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Article: Against global apartheid.(Brief Article)
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- New Internationalist
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- September 1, 2001
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'WHO are the protesters?' asked South African president Thabo Mbeki at the Davos World Economic Forum. 'No-one could tell me.'
Suggest, however, that the new South African elite are losing their connection to the masses and African National Congress leaders - responsible in 1994 for bringing a heroic 72-year liberation struggle to fruition - turn defensive.
'Why protest us?' enquires Mamphela Ramphele - once radical black-consciousness leader Steven Biko's closest comrade and lover, now managing director of the World Bank responsible for human development. 'We are now the Establishment, and that is how it should be!'
But the tragic reality is ...