Charlene Smith Expresses Her Sadness Over the Marikana Shootings

Charlene Smith, author of Mandela, writes in the Mail & Guardian of her growing disappointment in South Africa in the wake of the Marikana shooting incident.

Marikana is a name like Soweto, June 16. Like Sharpeville. It is a turning point. History will record it. Future generations will shudder.

There are few South Africans whose hearts are not broken by those eight letters.

Here where I live in the United States, Americans have bought into the South African Dream, the Rainbow Nation, Mandela’s land, a special place, a nation that rose above pettiness, pain, and barbarism to set an example for the world, a peaceful negotiated settlement to five decades of growing conflict.

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• Mandela: In Celebration of a Great Life by Charlene Smith
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