Right-wing prophesies that Nelson Mandela's death will be followed by a racial apocalypse refuse to be quashed by events in South Africa. Ever since the mostly peaceful transition to majority rule in 1994, right-wing South Africans have claimed the moment would spell an end to reconciliation and unleash untold bloodshed. So engrained was the idea of a "Night of the Long Knives" that it even seeped into mainstream thinking. Some plotted elaborate ...Thursday, 26 December 2013
South Africa's Right-Wing Still Fears Post-Mandela Apocalypse
Right-wing prophesies that Nelson Mandela's death will be followed by a racial apocalypse refuse to be quashed by events in South Africa. Ever since the mostly peaceful transition to majority rule in 1994, right-wing South Africans have claimed the moment would spell an end to reconciliation and unleash untold bloodshed. So engrained was the idea of a "Night of the Long Knives" that it even seeped into mainstream thinking. Some plotted elaborate ...
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