DESOLATION ON THE VELD - FORCED REMOVALS IN SOUTH-AFRICA
DESOLATION ON THE VELD - FORCED REMOVALS IN SOUTH-AFRICA
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DOI：
10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097621
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
HALLETT, R
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作者：
HALLETT, R
种族隔离令人憎恶已经成为政治评论的陈词滥调之一，即使是西方右翼政客也能接受这种说法。因此，英国保守党主席约翰·塞尔温·古默先生在PW·博塔先生1984年6月访问英国时告诉我们，种族隔离不能与上帝之父、人类之兄弟、理性或道德等同起来。尽管这种自命不凡的说法具有明显的深刻性，但却有一些明显的模糊之处。但这并不奇怪。甚至对那些生活在南非的人来说，要理解这一制度的真正之大也是极其困难的。将种族隔离与其更明显或戏剧性的表现等同起来是远远不够的火车或海滩上的标志，工作保留，根据《不道德法》的起诉制度总是比这复杂得多；复杂的系统本质上是难以理解且耗时的。此外，这一制度从来都不是一成不变的：种族隔离的根源可以深入到过去，但随着“土著保留地”转变为“家园”，然后转变为“独立的民族国家”，它已经发展出明显的新特征。这些变化现在是通过一种宣传方式呈现给外界的，这种宣传方式对自由主义措辞的温和操纵远非纯朴。西方国家的政治领导人对南非强加给他们至少部分选民的良心负担感到厌倦和尴尬，他们渴望得到南非的情况有所改善的保证。当然，南非正在改变：哪个社会会静止不动呢？,人们很容易看到一些变化的表现更多的钱在一些黑人手中,更多的就业机会(甚至一些酒店)开放,混合团队在一些体育竞赛,一些以前白人黑人孩子允许入口的私立学校,新宪法的条款为印度和'coloured 'parliaments无可辩驳的证据,那些占据权力的席位在比勒陀利亚终于开始了一个重大的政策改革。但是PW Botha先生经常被引用的格言“适应”了吗
THAT APARTHEID IS abhorrent has become one of the cliches of political commentary, an assertion acceptable even to right-wing politicians in the West. Thus we have the chairman of the British Conservative Party, Mr John Selwyn Gummer, telling us at the time of Mr PW Botha's visit to Britain in June 1984, that apartheid cannot be equated with the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, with reason or with morality. For all its apparent profundity there is something distinctly fuzzy about such a pontification. But that is hardly surprising. It is immensely difficult even for those who live in South Africa to grasp the true enormity of the system. It has never been enough to equate apartheid with its more obviously visible or dramatic manifestationssigns on trains or beaches, job reservation, prosecutions under the Immorality Act the system has always been much more complex than that; and complex systems are of their very nature difficult and time-consuming to understand. Moreover the system has never been static: the roots of apartheid reach deep into the past but it has come to develop distinctly novel features with the transformation of'native reserves' into'homelands' and then into'independent national states'. And these changes are now presented to the outside world by means of a propaganda far from unsophisticated in its bland manipulation of liberal phraseology.Political leaders in the West, weary and embarrassed at the burden that South Africa imposes on the conscience of at least some members of their electorate, long to be assured that things in South Africa are somehow improving. Of course South Africa is changing: what society ever stays motionless? And it is tempting to see in some of the manifestations of change more money in the hands of some black people, more jobs (and even a few hotels) open to them, mixed teams in some sporting contests, black children allowed entrance to some formerly all-white private schools, the new constitution with its provision for Indian and'coloured'parliaments irrefutable evidence that those who occupy the seats of power in Pretoria have at last embarked on a significant policy of reform. But does Mr PW Botha's oft-quoted dictum'adapt