What happened in South Africa was not a miracle. The transition of power happened relatively smoothly because the ANC government had to make huge concessions in their private meetings with the Apartheid government in order for them to cede control.

There may not have been a violent revolution but apartheid is alive and well in South Africa with the disparity between the rich and the poor being greater than ever before. The rise of a small black elite does not constitute the transition to a free and egalitarian society.

This lingering poverty and inequality has lead to South Africa becoming one of the most violent nations in the world with rape and murder statistics that are obscene. This latent rise in violence is something that is totally ignored by the media and world in general, and the previously oppressed black population still has to bear the brunt of it.

No miracle happened here, and as a South African I find it disturbing to see how uninformed the foreign media still are, inebriated with this idea of the 'peaceful revolution' and totally oblivious to the precarious state of South Africa as it exists today.

John Pilger and Willam Mervin Gumede have written extensively on this subject if anyone is interested.

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