South Africa's hypocrisy

AFP Wire service:

"African leaders have started to join Britain and the United
States in calling for some regional resolution to the economic and
political turmoil in Zimbabwe, where the 83-year-old Mugabe has
ruled since independence in 1980.
But South Africa, the regional powerhouse which itself relied on
foreign pressure to bring an end to the whites-only apartheid
regime, insists its neighbour has to chart its own destiny."

This is a very interesting point. South Africa has got away with a piece of egregious hypocrisy over the disgusting and racist behaviour of Robert Mugabe for the last seven years. The ANC were for many years based in London. They didn't seem to have a problem with interfering with the politics of South Africa from Britain through the whole of the seventies, eighties and half the nineties. Yet what they are now saying is that groups based abroad are illegitimate and interfere with the 'sovereign rights' of nations. I call bullshit. The ANC said it just wanted justice and racial equality? What do the MDC want?

The South African government is using national sovereignty as a fig leaf for defending vicious thuggery, racism, theft and grotesque injustice. Nice. The days when third world dictators could literally slice up their political opponents and be given a freebie by the rest of the world just because they weren't white oppressors is over.