"Our world is one in which the relatively rich and disproportionately white are generally free to travel and live wherever they would like"

Quote from article: Half true, on two counts: Yes, the Rich can travel and live where they want, True. It doesn't matter what coler, you are. Why, because the Rich won't take JOBS from locals!

It doesn't matter what coler you are, unless you have specific skills, ALL countries won't let you move there and take one of their JOBS!

We can't move to Mexico, and work there either! I checked out several other South American countries, and the same was true, you had to be able to Prove you'd be self-supporting! ie, such as living on a Pension, or Social Security!

Americans not only can't move to Canada, and take a job, we can't buy land there either! You can ONLY lease it for life, you buy it, own it, but when you die you can't leave it to your children.

You would think an article approved to be on this site would be researched better!

forextrader, With regards to the link you gave me, it is true that by the forth paragraph of that article, Carter indeed said the the Hamas agree, under certain draconian conditions, to live in peace along side Israel.

What Carter failed to mention, and what you might have noticed if you had bothered to read next (fifth) paragraph, is that the Hamas would only agree these conditions for a limited duration of 10 years. (After these 10 years of "peace" / cease-fire, the Hamas will return to its original long term goal of destroying Israel.)

"Mashaal said Hamas was offering Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 war."

Which is exactly what I said originally on June 6th, 2008 11:06 pm.

Now in your next post, I want you to say, "Thank you Letto, I was wrong about Hamas."

Well Letto, regarding Hamas (accepting a Jewish state as their neighbor); you asked for it, you got it:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D906CDCG0&show_article=1

Exerpt:

"Former President Carter said Monday that Hamas—the Islamic militant group that has called for the destruction of Israel—is prepared to accept the right of the Jewish state to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."

Now in your next post, I want you to say, "Thank you Forextrader, I was wrong about Hamas".

forextrader "Hamas has said time and time again that they would accept "Israel" as a neighbor. More than what I would accept, but I respect Hamas' wishes and the wishes of all Palestinians and Jews of good will."

Is that so? The Hamas doesn't accept Israel's right to exists. The most positive "proposal" I heard from the Hamas is that they are willing for a 10 years cease-fire
if
- Israel will withdraw to the 1967 borders.
- All the Palestinians refugees, and their descendant will be allowed to immigrate to Israel.
- A Palestinian referendum will approve the agreement.
And then
after the 10 years are over - they'll continue with their original long term plan to annihilate Israel.

Show me one statement where a Hamas member said he is willing to accept Israel as a neighbor permanently???

forextrader, "You have justified in other posts about "Israel's" illegal settlements saying that they are legal and all other fantasies. Who's embracing ethnic cleansing here? Given that, is it really unreasonable for me to assume that you want a Zionist state that expands from the Nile to the Euphrates? Be honest now."

I said that some of the settlement in the west bank are legal. (Some are and some aren't)
As an example I gave the Jewish quarter, where Jews were living for hundreds of years till they were ethnically cleansed in 1948, and then returned to their home after 1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Quarter

Are you saying that if someone is being ethnically cleansed from his home during a war, - it is illegal for him to return to his house 19 years later?

As for your claim that I want a Zionist state from the Nile to the Euphrates - it is as absurd as your aspiration to ethnically cleansed all the Jews of Israel to planet Pluto.

Ed Cefalu, forextrader

Under the direct instructions of King Husayn, the government of Jordan in 1973 passed the "Law for Preventing the Sale of Immovable Property to the Enemy."The "enemy" is defined in Article 2 as "any man or judicial body [corporation] of Israeli citizenship living in Israel or acting on its behalf." Under Article 4 of this law any Jordanian citizen who sold land in Jordan or the West Bank to the "enemy" faced the death penalty and forfeiture of all his property to the state:

The sale of Immovable property against the provisions of this law constitutes a crime against state security and well being, punishable by death, and the confiscation of all the culprit's Immovable and moveable possessions.
In addition, Article 3 deemed the sale of land to any alien (i.e., a non-Arab) without permission from the Council of Ministers a security offense punishable by death.
According to PA Attorney General Khalid al-Qidra, Jordan had sentenced 172 people to death under this law. Amnesty International reported that as of 1988 many of the convictions were in absentia and that there had been no executions. However, PA Justice Minister Meddein claimed that Jordan had executed 10 violators.

Back to Nevins' article. I think it's very good. I glanced
through the comments and saw some of the criticism I would use towards
it, as 'apartheid' becomes a streched metaphor in this case. I think
'racism + classism' would do better. But I have nothing strongly against the use of the term here in general. This could perhaps be termed even more accurately as 'neo-apartheid', the structural legacy of apartheid at a new, globalized level of capitalist, perhaps even historical development, but not apartheid per se, which presupposes a relatively strong and sovereign state. Once corporations have become stronger than states – and on some indications this is already the case on a global scale – politics changes appearance and content radically. For instance, democracy and inclusive human rights are increasingly hollowed and replaced by proprietors', investors', and shareholders' exclusive rights and privileges. Under these new conditions, continuity with earlier phenomena should neither be erased nor over-stretched.
Zola's arguments are excellent, but they lack one dimension, as far as I can see: the global one. A global democracy must also be introduced to counter the alienation and disempowerment of people by the current transnational system: Global markets without a democratic global regulator.
Some of the features of 'neo-apartheid', however, are not as new as they may appear to be. For example, the Dutch East India Company was in many ways a typical transnational capitalist enterprise, and it worked so well, in capitalist terms, due to the existence of a globalized capitalist (though not yet industrial or postindustrial) economy, already from the 17th century onwards. Further examples of what remains related to the South African xenophobia would be the uses of wage-slavery by transnational corporations based in the North Atlantic zone. The governments of this area seem almost powerless to do anything against the deeply immoral practices of these companies in developing countries which would have been criminal and would have caused an outcry if they had taken place in the home countries. Other examples would include pollution, sweatshops, or child labor.
At the opening of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002, the second South African post-apartheid president, Thabo Mbeki, called for an end to 'global apartheid', in which a 'rich minority enjoys unprecedented levels of consumption, comfort and prosperity, while a poor majority enjoys daily hardship, suffering, dehumanisation…' Similarly the authors, Salih Booker and William Minter, argue that "…today's international political economy – in which undemocratic institutions systematically generate economic inequality – should be described as 'global apartheid'…" although the authors also wisely caution against drawing the parallels with South Africa too closely.
This idea can be traced back to an impassioned plea against 'global apartheid' by the anthropologist, William A. Haviland, who was the first author to my knowledge to use the expression in pointing out the persistent, extremely unequal distribution of economic, military, and political power between Whites and non-Whites of the world. I believe the importance of this issue can hardly be overemphasized.
Poor countries may have democratic systems, but the great powers in the North Atlantic, who decide more of their populations' destinies than developing countries' governments do, are entirely out of reach for these populations. In this sense there is an exclusive democracy for a privileged minority of the world's population whose elected officials run the world, just like the white minority's exclusive democracy in apartheid South Africa.
In what is probably the most sophisticated theory of 'global apartheid', a somewhat different conception devised specifically to better understand international migration, racial conflict and ethnic nationalism after the Cold War, sociologist Anthony Richmond differentiates two defining social dimensions or 'elementary processes' at work: superordination-subordination and separation-integration. Here, apartheid appears to be the most extremely antisocial way of handling a multi-ethnic population. Thus, genocide is left out of the theoretical picture, as opposed to my approach. The ideological justifications of new legislation in most countries, facing increases in both immigration and internal migration, are very similar to South African apartheid attitudes, as Richmond points out: "As well as explicit racism and claims to 'superiority', they include an obligation to limit intertribal conflict, the need to preserve ethnic identity, expressions of religious fanaticism, the defence of existing cultural and social institutions, state security, the maintenance of law and order, preservation of economic privilege and the need to regulate and manage population movements." Although perhaps implied, there is no explicit continuous spectrum from apartheid to genocide in this model, as far as I can determine. There is separation, segregation, and discrimination in Richmond's account, but not necessarily invasion or downright theft. Racism is a crime against humanity, but apartheid – in the mainstream, anti-NP meaning of the term – is always a severe crime against humanity, with aspects that should not be overlooked.
The cited sources all fail to make a systematic differentiation between racisms of different kinds. There is in their brands of 'global apartheid' neither any kind of independence from the motherlands of the invaders (as in South Africa, or modern Israel), or effective state sovereignty (except in Richmond's theory, which deals with oppressed non-indigenous minorities, as opposed to apartheid, which oppresses the indigenous majorities), nor direct physical violence or military invasion necessarily involved. Furthermore, as apartheid is a crime against humanity, the criminals are identifiable (even if they have yet to be delivered to justice, in almost every single case). But in 'global apartheid', lacking a world state and an effective global rule of law, there are no clear-cut hierarchies of responsibility or (even potential) accountability.
It is therefore better described as 'neo-apartheid', as I argued above, if the Afrikaans word must be used at all. But if the definition of the phenomenon is stretched back five centuries, 'global apartheid' might indeed be a useful approximate term for white subjugation of other people. One could say that this process has genocidal, apartheid, colonialist, neo-colonialist and neo-apartheid features, and that, out of all these labels for different kinds of ethnicist human rights violations, 'global apartheid' perhaps sums up the situation in the best way, since it is 'in the middle' of the spectrum of severity from the perspective of the victims. It is neither as harsh as genocide nor as 'mild' as colonialism. Yet, essential features of apartheid are still missing, as indicated. 'Global white racism', 'global white hegemony', or even 'global white supremacy' would therefore be more accurate labels. The terms 'elitism' and 'plutocracy' also come to mind readily, especially since neither race nor ethnicity are mentioned explicitly by Mbeki or by Booker and Minter, and since there are indeed exceptions to white dominance, though hardly enough of them from an egalitarian point of view. White men invented intercontinental warfare, and, to some extent, they are still practicing it, though the dominant forms of this warfare, especially the neo-colonialist forms, are infinitely subtler today than when it started, several centuries ago.

My name is Anthony Löwstedt. I'm from Sweden and live in Austria. I have written a book on apartheid (in South Africa, Israel and elsewhere), from which the above comments were largely taken. The book is available entirely free of charge at: http://media.manila.at/gesellschaft/gems/Apartheid5.pdf.

Allright Letto since you are being pesky I'll answer your question: No I don't agree with Jordan's law (if indeed it really exists) about not selling land to certain individuals because of religion. People should buy and sell to whomever they want. But don't use that as an excuse to justify "Israel's" policy of state terrorism.

Hamas has said time and time again that they would accept "Israel" as a neighbor. More than what I would accept, but I respect Hamas' wishes and the wishes of all Palestinians and Jews of good will.

You have justified in other posts about "Israel's" illegal settlements saying that they are legal and all other fantasies. Who's embracing ethnic cleansing here? Given that, is it really unreasonable for me to assume that you want a Zionist state that expands from the Nile to the Euphrates? Be honest now.

You get upset when I suggest "Israel" should be relocated. While my Pluto remark was meant to be facetious, it makes a point. You seem not to have any problem dispossessing and ethnically cleansing Palestinians, but you get upset when I recommend the relocation of the Zionist State.

It breaks me heart to see a people that were so brutalized in WWII like so many Jews were, to turn around and do the same thing to others and think that they are entitled to do that.

I put "Israel" in quotes because in my mind it is currently a Zionist fantasy nation.

I'm sure you'll respond with more insults.

Letto,

You are right: (Assuming what you say about Jordan is correct), it is racist and wrong for Jordan to prevent Jews from owning land. That is apartheid-like without a doubt. That does not--as you seem to imply--however somehow exculpate Israel for its racist practices towards the Palestinians. Israel's ongoing dispossession of and violence toward the Palestinian people is most certainly apartheid-like. And like Apartheid in South Africa, it must be opposed and dismantled.

madleb - you offer a very simplistic solution of only fixing your foreign policy. The solution needs a policy package that will address the fundamental causes of xenophia which is basically poverty. A good policy addresses the fundamental issues and problems that prompted the public policy response in the first instance. My fundamental argument is that education to free the mind and assist in human development towards God/truth realisation is the only viable solution. In the case of South Africa, a strong developmental state is the best instrument that can be used to address the poverty issue since capitalism by itself will fail, no country on earth has a purely capitalist free market system but only degrees of capitalism. Your prescription just proves one point, whenever someone or something does not agree with your psychological conditioning that is culturally and socio-economically determined, that someone will always be waffling and not talking substance, how intolarent and imprisoned in intellectual bigorty! very sad.

Zola - much waffle with little substance. Just like our government. Maybe some stabilizing foreign policy (applies to the U.S. and Israel) would minimize the influx of illegal foreign immigrants and reduce xenophobic angst.

forextrader,

1. Why "Israel" is in quotations?
Was it or wasn't it Israel, which had been South Africa major trading partner.
I also fail to see why trading with South Africa turns Israel into apartheid.
USA is trading with china and Saudi. Does that fact turns USA into Communist and Whabist state?

2. You have avoided my comment. Do you or don't you agree that the Jordanian law that sentence anyone who sell land to Jew to death is more apartheid than anything that Israel does, or not.
If you say that it doesn't, please give me one example where Israel is more apartheid than Jordan.

3. You falsely claims that I want a Zionist state from the Nile to the Euphrates. Do you have any proof to support your claim? Or are these some more of your empty words?

4. You want to ethnically cleanse all the middle eastern Jews (6 millions) and force them out of their houses to Pluto. Which makes you into a war criminal wannabe.
Between you and apartheid, I'll take the second one.

Letto when South Africa practiced apartheid, "Israel" was it's major trading partner. And not only does "Israel" practice apartheid, the Zionist mercenary state practices state sponsored terror as it's official policy. I know you want a Zionist state that borders the Nile and the Euphrates, but I'll can I say is over my dead body.

XENOPHOBIA, A PYSCHE TORMENTED

The scourge of xenophobia has scared our national psyche and has been roundly condemned by all sectors of our splintered body politic. However, the analysis of the phenomenon has been inadequate firstly from a purely analytical perspective, and secondly lacks discussion on viable solutions to the problem, which is a favourite South African past time! We need a deeper and multi-faceted level of analysis that will begin to frame the problem properly and determine adequate responses to this peccancy to our constitution and our moral/humanistic sensibilities. A proper analysis of xenophobia should focus on the following; the interior dimensions of being at an individual (psychological make-up) and collective level (cultural values) which motivates such abhorrent behaviour, and also cover the external reality (techno-economic sphere) that leads to xenophobia. This is deemed a proper analysis because as human beings we experience our being at all three levels simultaneously, which shapes our societal relations and externalised behaviour.

Firstly, anecdotal evidence abounds that black South Africans are notoriously xenophobic mainly towards their own African brothers; this manifests a deep seated hatred of self which psychologist Karen Horney attributes to the 'pride system'. The 'pride system' leads to incongruence between the idealised and actual selves that manifests in self hate. The person will be subconsciously driven by uncontrollable urges of anger that will be projected to 'others' and in this case foreigners. This psychological torment is further exasperated by the classification of 'black' South African, which is anachronistic relative to liberation from a dominator racial/fascist Apartheid philosophy and also from being an African. I am firstly a black South African in South Africa (I am a qualified citizen in the country of my ancestors), and secondly South African (another qualification) in Africa; what exactly am I? As I have to experience myself at two levels before I resolve my sense of self and being. As I negotiate this complex existential quandary, I also have to deal with emasculating poverty that results in a deep sense of hopelessness and rage; xenophobic attacks are therefore the venting of rage and an expression of hopelessness and a cry for help. It is an undisputed and well researched fact that neo-colonisation and poverty distorts and subverts African identity, which leads to an uncontrollable orgy of hate of self and others. The second neurosis that afflicts Black South Africans is explained by the Stockholm syndrome, which leads to a manic obsession with Whiteness which is perceived as right in comparison to the distorted African identity and self hate. This result in a sub-conscious emulation of oppressive tendencies of former Apartheid masters in a dependency relationship, Africa is still emotionally and economically dependent on former colonisers exemplified by the uncontrollable anger and rage of Mugabe and his cronies towards Britain and the West in general. The victims of the Stockholm syndrome are found to irrationally remain loyal to their abuser, develop an emotional dependence to the abuser and most importantly use capital from the economic and symbolic spheres for power in their social interactions and will violently prevent others from accessing this capital because of dependence to the abuser. This explains the misguided claim that foreigners are stealing jobs and women, whilst the problem lie at the psychological level just elaborated. Being African is a very complex affair; the above psychological schisms underlie a much more complex cultural milieu that further torments the psyche and leads to a deep sense of uprootedness and apespectival madness. Which moral code will guide my behavior as an African, with such an abundance of Western and Eastern moral codes competing for my tormented soul?

At the values/cultural dimension or collective identity level, the theory of psychologist Dr. Clare W. Graves which has been popularised by Dr John Beck in his Spiral Dynamics discourse, state that human beings and societies develop deep seated but changeable mental models forged by life conditions that determine their worldview. These mental fractals span three distinct and linear developmental worldviews; with subsequent developmental rounds higher than the preceding ones moving from the pre-conventional (subversion to ecclesial or secular authority/ideology), conventional (conform to secular ideology, currently scientism and capitalism) and post-conventional (capacity to frame a worldview that is a truthful realisation of 'true' self which is not different from the creator, 'myself and God are one') developmental rounds. Human beings will progress from the pre-conventional to the post-conventional, with perennial philosophy stating that the telos and raison d'etre of human existence is towards God (inclusive of all ecclesial understandings) realisation.

The renaissance and enlightenment periods ushered humanity to the conventional mode that elevated the use of reason from the medieval tyranny of the church and feudalism dominated by superstition and the belief in the supernatural that is a mythic projection of a precarious self ('the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 1651 reflecting on medieval life) and subordination to the hegemony of ecclesial and secular law. The enlightenment has shown that the self has power over mind and circumstances, and that reality is fluid and is a creation of the mind. Dr Beck consulted with our former Presidents Mr Mandela and De Klerk in our transition from Apartheid and in his research found that the dominant value types or memes for Black South Africans were 10% purple meme (highly traditional and strong allegiance to tribal authority of the Chief, similar to medieval worldview) and 20% red meme (highly impulsive, egocentric and demands immediate satisfaction of desires. It is a transition to the conventional value sphere) and 40% blue meme (subsumes self to authority whether ecclesial or secular authority/ideology and is a further transition to the capitalist value sphere of the orange meme). Common themes like tribalism, chauvinism, fundamental religious beliefs and rebellious and rudderless youth manifest these value memes and are abound in South Africa. This analysis shows that around 70% of the South African population has mental modes and value/belief systems that are alien to the capitalist system orange meme that values individualism and the use of reason and technology to advance human affairs through scientific rational instrumentality. It is not hard to see that the rural, middle aged and adult population will belong to the purple and blue meme value spheres, whilst the youth will belong to the red meme value sphere. The sense of alienation and not advancing under the capitalist system, which is felt by most blacks in South Africa, stems from this values mis-match. This is the hardest problem to solve and lies at the core of structural unemployment, first-second economy debate, criminality and generally high unemployment levels and leads to existential angst and a deep sense of unsatisfactoriness which is a further complicating factor that adds to the felt alienation of Black South Africans. However, since reality is pliable and is the creation of the mind, new information and therefore education is the key to changing worldviews and does not consign Blacks to perpetual alienation as the enlightenment has shown that no worldview is privileged in human development.

The above analysis explains the resurgence of the left and rejection of capitalism in favour of communism/socialism which is a dominator system and ideology that is congruent with the blue and purple meme value systems that allow the self to be subsumed to ecclesial and secular authority/ideology systems. This will however not work because demographically, South Africa is a youthful country dominated by youth who have an egocentric value system (red meme) and will not take kindly to the communal prescriptions of communism/socialism, their value sphere requires immediate gratification of the proverbial three Cs; cash, cell-phone and cars. Socialism/Communism reduces one to the lowest common poverty level due punitive redistributive policies that tax the resourceful in society (look at Mugabe with his extravagant lifestyle, the so-called champagne socialist, and the ruin that he has brought to the once mighty Zimbabwe economy). The problem then with South Africa is the clash of value systems, which manifests in the following;
• capitulation of President Mbeki from power,
• youth unemployment
• generalised poverty that is concentrated in rural areas and poverty traps in urban areas found mainly in squatter camps.

Squatter camps are mostly dominated by internal migrants from rural areas with pre-conventional value systems and is not surprising that they have been the locus of xenophobic conflictions that are manifestations of psychological identity crisis leading to hating the 'self' and by projection 'others', the Stockholm syndrome and values mismatch just discussed. This witches' brew is the main cause of poverty in South Africa. It creates what economists call 'supply side' constraints; the inability of the socio-economic system to supply those skills needed by the economy to reproduce itself. The majority of the population is mis-matched psychologically and culturally to the demands of the orange meme capitalist economy due to poverty that traps them in the misplaced psychological and values spaces. An adequate and apt response will therefore have to address the psychological/individual, values/cultural/collective spheres and the techno-economic spheres of being. This is a tall order and the identification of strategic interventions that can be used as developmental levers is therefore an appropriate response given the limited resources of South Africa. The following are some of the fundamental strategic developmental levers that should be minimal to address the developmental challenges.

Firstly, education and skills development must be intensified to increase the capacity of people to contribute to economic growth and wean them from the dilapidating psychological and value spaces fostered by poverty is therefore paramount. Secondly, developmental policies should be strengthened, development has become a global collective effort that a national one and is a long-term project which should be honestly communicated to people. 14 years is not enough to realise the benefits of growth. Developing national, regional and African economies is therefore needed; most 'illegal' immigrants are economic migrants. President Thabo Mbeki is undeservedly criticised using various and spurious arguments; however, he has been a perfect servant of the capitalist logic of rationality which has been wrongly interpreted as lack of leadership and being out of touch. He is doing what he has to do as dictated by the capitalist logic and use facts (his often intellectual and distant label that is ascribed to him) that objectivises man and not emotions to operate 'efficiently' within the capitalist worldview.

The social malaise of xenophobia, poverty, crime etc in South Africa is a microcosm and reflection of the human condition in the post-capitalist system. At a much deeper level, the problem is that humanity as a whole is destined for further development and growth beyond the capitalist orange meme because of the telos of humanity towards God realisation. The real issue then is how best to accommodate the various developmental levels of South Africans towards utopian God realisation? The heralded capitalist orange meme is but a sojourn towards utopia; it is an alienating system in itself because it privileges dualistic thinking that objectivises man; man has become an object like any other object in the physical world that succumbs to the rational calculus of scientific rationality, what Ken Wilber calls a disqualified universe and a 'flatland' view of reality. Man has ceased to posses an inalienable essence; industrial growth and evolution should be balanced by internal psychological and collective growth as well. Human beings and physical manifestation is essentially collaborationist; could you imagine if there were no weak and strong nuclear forces holding atoms and sub-atomic particles together, there would be no life as we know it. Humanity needs to love itself more and forego the exclusionary, individualistic value system found under capitalism.

In South Africa, the capitalist system by itself cannot reverse the ravages of poverty wreaking the country; a strong developmental state is needed to drive development policies and interventions, with education and skills development being primary. However, the efficiency of the state system needs to be improved exponentially. An honest appraisal of government policies under the Mbeki presidency have addressed these issues, the problem is the lack of Executive effectiveness because of pandering to diverse sectoral interests within the broad ANC church which leads to political paralysis. The following preliminary prescriptions are therefore appropriate:

1. Improve the efficiency of the state system by massive training in hard and soft skills of public servants and implement modern management systems. The xenophobic issue is much more about political and policy failure of the Home Affairs department with its inadequately articulated migration policy and corruption in awarding of national identity documents. Teacher training should also be prioritised because education is the only known weapon that can assist in leapfrogging people from the pre-conventional value memes to the capitalist and post capitalist value memes. The criminal justice administration system also needs to be improved in order to strengthen and guard the state system against criminality and corruption which has become a big problem in South Africa.

2. Change the funding model and governance of SETAs. SETAs should only fund hard and technical skills training and should develop business plans on a yearly basis that they submit to the National Treasury for funding with the same criteria used to judge other developmental funding programmes like infrastructure etc. This will increase competition for funding and will make SETAs justify their existence. SETAs also need closer collaboration with industry (to determine skills needs) and the Department of Trade and Industry (for dovetailing the manufacturing strategy with SETA sectoral plans). However, proper management capacitating will need to occur together with a thorough review of the SETA system. The relationship between SETAs and FET colleges also need to be reviewed and governance issues addressed and policy inertia should be avoided.

3. The ANC should get its house in order because when it sneezes the country catches a cold, exemplified by the post-Polokwane conflagrations. The ANC serves a symbolic purpose; it embodies the dreams of freedom of self from 'self hate' and the defeat of domination (the pull towards God realisation being the telos of human development) and therefore serves a psychological role of idealised self. Since it also has 'power' to enact developmental policies that will satisfy material needs, it has a great responsibility of shaping the outcomes of actual self. It is therefore paramount that the ANC lead and deliver development in order to close the gap between idealised and actual self and therefore heal the self that hates itself. The majority of Black people support the ANC because of conformist tendencies of the purple and blue value memes. The debate should be about strengthening the state system in an ideologically sanitised space and the adoption of practical policy measures. The body politic should embrace and engage the ANC rigorously; its waxing and waning influence will be determined by history as the population moves to conventional and post-conventional value spheres. Massive political education of ANC functionaries towards the dictates of conventional and post-conventional ideals should be attended to; parochial careerism and serving of self and group-interests should be resisted and replaced with teaching and realisation of genuine enlightened altruism that is for the people by the people.

4. NEDLAC will also need to be strengthened in order to increase dialogue and a sense of inclusion, which is a morally superior stance than narrow self and group interest. Perceptions are a powerful shaper of reality, if the country is seen as talking and embracing the various tormented 'selves' it will serve to loosen the alienation stranglehold that is felt by most blacks which is due to the values mis-match.

5. There needs to be a marshal plan directed at youth that addresses technical proficiency and moral regeneration through massive retraining (technically and morally) in trade skills and the financing of youth SMMEs. We need to create positive role models of empowered youth which will assimilate them into conventional and post-conventional value spheres. Umsobomvu needs to have a five year business plan with strictly audited yearly performance targets that will lead to replacing of people for non-performance if targets are not met. It also needs to change its current approach to funding of youth SMMEs as discussed below.

6. Address the issue of structural unemployment creatively through rethinking SMME development strategies and policy inertia should be prevented at all cost. There needs to be an increase in the start-up and success of SMMEs through the overhauling of SMME financing, a major inhibiting issue to widespread SMME growth especially for the Black population. The current system uses very antiquated lending criteria such as collateral requirements and refusing funding when having a bad credit record (listed on ICT). You lend to a person and not a business idea; the people dimension and relationship building and maintenance should carry more weight in making lending decisions. The state should recapitalise SMME finance institutions and create an SMME bank that will bring all SMME public financing agencies together to create critical mass and an asset base that can access national and global capital markets. Working professionals with adequate work management experience should be targeted, there are a lot of professionals with this experience who can successfully open and run their own businesses either fulltime or part-time. They will form a mentorship corps of aspiring young entrepreneurs and serve as positive role models, we need to bring back the graduated middle-class back to the townships and squatter camps to show that the capitalist system is neutral and culture-free and does not only serves Whites. It serves and responds to those who have learned its language and workings and make it serve them.

7. Lastly, SADC should be revitalised and strengthened to drive regional economic regeneration. Requesting help is a sign of maturity and responsibility and should not be rationalised as a sign of failure and self fulfilling prophesy of outdated racist arguments that Africans cannot rule themselves. SADC should reengage the world towards a new era of rejuvenation. This will be difficult because of the global political economy that is mostly driven by self serving ideological proselytising and cultural imperialism. A principled engagement, refinancing and revamping of the governance and management structure of SADC needs to be attended to. The role of the African Development Bank should also be reviewed and it should also be revitalised in the same vain as SADC.

These are but some of interventions that can be adopted. The critical point is that an enlightened and better performing state and politics from the ANC, together with an inclusive society that is in dialogue are prerequisites to foster human development and a changed techno-economic system. The capitalist system in itself is inadequate to solve the massive developmental challenges that have deep psychological and cultural overhangs; the state has legitimate authority through a social contract with its citizens to be the champion and visionary agency of change and development.

My name is Zola Skosana, I am a so called black Souh Africa currently residing in South Africa.

MiMiCcS, Israel is the least apartheid country in the middle east.

Did you know that in Jordan, selling a land to a Jew is a crime punishable by death?

MiMiCcS
Did you read the article? Or did you see the words illegal immigrant and legal resident and decide it could not apply to you and yours.

This is a world wide problem, as prevalent in China as it is in the US and South Africa or Germany or France. Just ask some of the Chinese Muslims who are legal residents, but... Or the Ethiopian Jews who have 2nd Class status because of skin color, while the Russian Jews aren't quite 'equal' to the Ashkenazic Jews in Israel, and that ignores the plight of the Palestinians...

Mankind has spent thousands of years carefully defining the differences between one class, color, accent, or skin tone and another. And, when things go sour, it's always easier to attack those who are different then to look in the mirror.

Mr.Nevins, you are confused. You say:"...[it is wrong to make] the assumption that some should have fewer rights because of where they're from."

I say cowpuckey! I say the assumptions should be made based on whether you've done your paperwork, no matter where you're from. The Africans in the South African situation were legal citizens of South Africa.

You are confusing the practice of enslaving illegal aliens and the rights of legal immigrants. The practice of exploiting illegals must be wiped out - not by punishing illegals but by punishing those who hire them. Illegals can easily be shipped back to their country of origin (cheaper than detention centres)- it does not have to be punitive or cruel. Those businesses and private persons who exploit illegals must be punished, and severely. They are violating human and labour rights and flouting the law. It's a sneaky form of slavery. Hiring illegals is not charity, and certainly not done to help them out. Their low wages drive down the wages of every worker in the country. That is not their doing. Their rotten labour conditions ruin the labour conditions of every other worker. That is not their doing either.

The ridiculous international agreements that make it impossible for illegals to live and work in their own country must be abolished. The illegals have been swarming over the borders ever since NAFTA and other pacts were imposed, and since the WTO and the IMF started meddling in others' affairs. In your case, the situation forces Americans to bid themselves down in order to "compete" with the lowest paid workers on the continent.

But it really doesn't make any sense to have a set of immigration laws that apply to everyone except those who spill over the border illegally, without having done their paperwork...and then provide them with education, health care, and other social supports. They should not be imprisoned; they should be restored to the other side of the border. It doesn't make sense to arrest and abuse them and not punish those business and private persons who exploit them and depress everyone's fortunes.

I have the impression that too many people are actually happy with the situation because it forces wages down and loosens up labour and safety standards. The workplace raids are timed to paydays - perfect. So the authorities that appear to want to "get tough" on illegals are actually complicit in the violations they pretend to decry.

You ahve to rethink this issue or you'll never help those desperate people.

Instead of "moving on", MiMiCcS, you need to come on back. South Africa had "illegals" as well--Black South Africans who weren't allowed by law to work and live in particular areas. "Global apartheid" is a metaphor. So it's not a perfect fit with the situation in South Africa under Apartheid. But there are clearly strong parallels. The author of the article is right. . . . And one more thing: Israel practices apartheid as well. So we agree on this. The author, given his politics, would probably buy this too.

An article on global apartheid that does not mention Israel, and confusing cracking down on illegal immigration with physical and class separation of legal residents by race or religion. Moving on.

"An apartheid society is much more than just a 'settler colony'. It involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges."[1]

Apartheid can be summed up as a structured process of gross human rights violations perpetrated against a conquered ethnic majority by a state and society mainly controlled by an invading ethnic minority and its descendants, mainly immigrants, that have been deemed part of the ethnic elite.

The following nine categories make up the necessary, sufficient, and defining characteristics of apartheid regimes:

1. Violence: Apartheid is a state of war initiated by a de facto invading ethnic minority, which at least in the short term originates from a non-neighboring locality. In all main instances of apartheid most if not all members of the invading group originate from a different continent. The invading ethnic minority and its self-defined descendants then continue to dominate the indigenous majority by means of their military superiority and by their continuous threats and uses of violence.

2. Repopulation: Apartheid is also a continuation of depopulation and population transfer. One example is seen in the obliteration of the indigenous Bedouins that Israel denies free movement to graze their herds and are silently transferring the Bedouins to new locales, such as atop of garbage dumps.

3. Citizenship: The indigenous people are often denied citizenship in their own country by the apartheid state authorities, which are ironically and irrationally, run and staffed by the recent arrivals to the country.

4. Land: Apartheid entails land confiscation, land redistribution and forced removals, almost without exception to the benefit of the invading ethnic minority. Usually, members of the ethnic majority are forced on to barren and unfertile soils, where they must also try to survive under impoverished and overcrowded conditions.

5. Work: Apartheid displays systematic exploitation of the indigenous class in the production process and different pay or taxation for the same work.

6. Access: There is ethnically differentiated access to employment, food, water, health care, emergency services, clean air, and other needs, including the need for leisure activities, in each case ensuring superior access for the favored ethnic community.

7. Education: There are also different kinds of education offered and forced upon the different ethnic groups.

8. Language: A basic apartheid characteristic is the fact that only very few of the invaders and their descendants ever learn the language(s) of the indigenous victims.

9. Thought: Finally, apartheid contains ideologies or 'necessary illusions' in order to convince the privileged minorities that they are inherently superior and the indigenous majorities that they are inherently inferior. Much of apartheid thought is shaped by typical war propaganda. The enemy is dehumanized by both sides' ideologies, words and other symbols are used to incite or provoke people to violence, but mostly so by the invaders and their descendants. [2]

On December 20, 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless work confronting and challenging South Africa's Apartheid regime was quoted in The Guardian:

"I've been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land. I have seen the humiliation at the checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about…Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice…If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land."

ONLY Justice can reap peace and justice requires equal human rights, liberty and self-determination for all people. Justice requires honoring International Law and the Declaration of Human Rights.

1. Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, By Anthony Löwstedt. Page 77.

2. Paraphrased from pages 71-73, Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present.

Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

Damn ! The author mentioned nothing about the real causes, "free" trade and stolen elections supported by the US media and gubbmint !

as the old statement goes
"all property is theft"