主题：【插播二】非洲风云 血钻 上 -- 橡树村

俺对南非没什么研究，正好在这里把这事向村长印证一下，看看是否和你所知道的事情相符合。 Here is what Dennis Brutus told me: as soon as Mandela got elected, IMF came to him, saying that they could give South Africa 6 billion $ low-interest loan, with the condition that he would not change the South Africa central bank president: the same guy with the apartheid government would continue to be in charge of financial and monetary issues. Dennis and Mandela had a big dispute there: he thinks that without removing this guy and having a real reform of the financial/monetary system, the poor blacks will not get real equal economic rights, then all the “equal political rights” would be window dressing and lip services; but Mandela decided to compromise, because injection of 6 billion $ low-interest loan would look good for him in the short term. What happened afterward seemed to confirm Dennis's concerns: yes, there are a few blacks who are getting rich; but structurally, the gap between the rich and the poor is as large as before, or even larger.

这个Dennis Brutus也八十多一把年纪了, 做为白人,当初反对种族隔离到了和曼德拉一起坐牢的程度,坐牢之后又被白人政府长期流放不能回国. 我想不出他有诋毁曼德拉的原因, 他现在的不满,个人认为是比较纯粹的政见不同. 他所说的故事,简直就是”The confessions of an economic hit man” 一书中故事的翻版. 我怀疑: 正是因为曼德拉对国际大资本作了这样那样的妥协, 西方媒体才如此卖力的把他打扮成圣人.