Eddie doesn't represent the white population in this country by a long shot. He's an aberration, a mugwump, a nig...err...you get the picture.
We have our colourful characters, and I'd be lying if I said we all get along like the Rainbow Nation Madiba punted - but it's mostly just like anywhere else here. Average joes trying to make a living, rich sods trying to hold onto their wealth, and of course we have a huge mass of poor citizens who've only got poorer under the ANC led government.
Not that I would welcome a return to apartheid - that was cold-blooded insanity.
And yes, the wingnut Right exist, but they do so alongside the batty far Left, as well as the usual scrummage of corrupt and greedy politicians, one or two of whom have recently caused an uproar by:
1) suggesting that singing a song about killing the Boers is perfectly OK and
2)flat-out lying on Human Rights Day, when they said that the PAC did not, in fact, lead the Sharpville demonstrations -it was the ANC didn't you know?
For myself, I sometimes look on in despair at the actual developmental level of this country, which is dominated by Tribal-level macho bullshit, while the best we have to offer are '80s style radical capitalists.
But it's the country of my birth, despite the fact that I was brought up and schooled between Europe and the States, and I love it.
Waves flag briefly, scurries off stage left....
