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Heaven on Earth or hell in South Africa?

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

Comrades rave about the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) with the same glittering-eyed zeal that Christian missionaries to Darkest Africa, a few centuries back, enthused about the Resurrection.

But the Resurrection is conceptually simple. The dead will rise, ascend to Heaven and live forever in glory.

The NDR is considerably more complex. According to the dogma, South Africa is characterised by a “colonialism of a special type” where whites are the illegitimate oppressors and black people the exploited victims. In accordance with

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