主题：【插播二】非洲风云 血钻 上 -- 橡树村

Actually, Dennis Brutus's conversation started with his criticism with 姆贝基's neoliberal policies. Then he said that it was Mandela who started the compromises—so he told the above story. I did not ask him about 祖马, as I knew nearly nothing about the political situation in SA at the time. Now that South Africans have elected 祖马, so the country will again swing back and forth between so-called left and right?

看来小国确实不容易. 想来当年中国能够摆脱半殖民地地位,也是极其不容易的.

但另一方面,南非的资源确实丰富.有一个大约叫做”free electricity for everyone”的运动, 要求政府免费提供给每人每月200度电—俺记得80年代初俺家四口人一个月才用30来度电.所以我刚听到的时候觉得简直是匪夷所思,狮子大张口. 被南非的activists 摆出数字来教育了一通: 比起南非的总发电量,这个要求只是小意思. 我也专门去看了Cape Town附近的黑人聚集地(好像是叫Tonga?), 贫富分化触目惊心: 同一个社区里, 一方面, 有先富起来的黑人买了进口轿车; 一方面,还有不少人家三家人挤一间房.

南非这么好的人均资源条件,我觉着应该有可能做得更好的.