Nelson looks even better

Papers in southern Africa have few kind words to say about former South African President PW Botha, who died on Tuesday.
"The bully-boy face of apartheid and the enforcer behind successive states of emergency aimed at keeping the lid on the boiling pot of black resistance... The image of a finger-wagging, self-righteous, smirking Groot Krokodil who defiantly refused to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to account for the excesses of his administration is still too vivid in our collective memory."

“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones …” I don’t know if Groot Krododil ever did do anything good. While there is good reason for intolerance, there is no valid reason for the kind of segregation that apartheid would maintain. Reason? Yes! Valid reason? No. What was Groot Krokodil’s reason for his “finger-wagging hawkish” ways? I am sure that it is complex and further that he himself may not have been aware of it and that he can not be held solely responsible for it.

“If tears must be shed at his passing, they can at most be crocodile tears.”

“The Groot Krokodil (great crocodile) will bite no more.”

The last quote comes from the Sowetan. I have no idea at all who is responsible for this great quote; to bad this person is so delusional. While we can not put all the blame on Charles Darwin either, he must take his share. If we are slime what is wrong with treating each other like slime? There is some other contributor though. Farley Mowat tells of Eskimos. The guys at a Dew Line station were sending food to a group that was starving because of a bad winter. They sent the food by way of one Eskimo whom they had come to know only to find out later that he never passed any of it on to those who needed it. Laura Wilder tells of her father going to the merchant in town with others in the community. They were likewise starving. One of their number had taken the merchants money and gone, at great personal peril, to get food but when he got back the merchant greatly inflated the price of the food. Laura’s father set him straight.

The Groot Krokodil came from a long line and he has many grandchildren.

"From whence come wars - and segregations and superiority and apartheid and all the evil that man perpetrates on his fellow man ... - do they not come from within, your own lust ..."