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Monday, October 09, 2006

South Africa: the future hope for gay marriage

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Nobody could have ever believed that the country that still in 1989, when F.W. De Klerk, became President, was fighting with the apartheid, could become one of the most brilliant examples of pluralism, democracy and tolerance (http://crf-usa.org/bria/bria12_2.html).



When Nelson Mandela went out of jail and became the first Black president in South Africa only 12 years ago (1994), South Africa made gigantic steps towards the future. Today’s South African constitution is one of most, if not the most, advanced constitution in the world.

A country with two official languages (Afrikaner and English) and 11 languages in total including Zulu and Swahili.

The arrival of Reverend Desmond Tutu opened up the doors to a new tolerance in religion as well, an example many Christians, Jewish and Muslim should seriously take into consideration.

I have a special personal relationship with South Africa. I went there two times almost 7 years ago, just 5 years after the victory of Nelson Mandela.

I don’t want to talk about the beauty of Cape Town, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but I prefer to talk about my personal experience in Johannesburg, Joburg as they call it, and even more importantly in Soweto.

The center of Joburg was extremely rich for few Afrikaners (the ex Boers/ Dutch). During the apartheid South Africa was a pyramid of races and languages literally one on top of the other. The Afrikaners were the most racists, then the English and then the Chingalese and other Asian groups up to the Zulus and other tribes. Still today young Afrikaners who have black friends cannot invite them at their parent’s houses but the situation is quickly changing.
The center of Joburg was only accessible to white people and to those black people who showed a special employment card which demonstrated they could work in that area.
Today, most of the population lives in the suburbs in special residential areas while the center of the city, immediately abandoned by the white population after 1994, became the center of violence, criminality and prostitution with one of the highest level of AIDS in the world. Hotels which once cost $400/night now they cost $4/night.

During the last years a lot of work has been done to reduce corruption and prostitution thank to the great campaign of Mandela and Bono to fight against the pharma companies to provide free “pills cocktails” for the HIV positive and AIDS infected.

After having literary being in hell downtown Joburg (I could get out of my car only in certain areas) I moved to Soweto, probably the most spiritual and human experience in my life, when you understand the meaning of being homesick of Africa. Soweto is a huge area with a population of about 5,000,000 people.

They are extremely poor and their houses had been built with the roofs of the bus stops, mud and other material found in the garbage.
These people have been humiliated, arrested, raped, hit and violated so many times by the white South African police they should hate white people just smelling them. Well Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu taught them tolerance and respect for the human being and even if I was the only white person there to visit the town with a black guide they offered me food and they invited me in their homes. I went to visit Mandela’s and Tutu’s houses and I finally stopped in a school. Tens of children with their South African flags and singing the national anthem surrounded me and started kissing and hugging me and their teacher brought me in to see their drawings. I still believe I’ve been touched by God and blessed for that unique experience.

Well, in the last 12 years South Africa demonstrate to the World the meaning of the words freedom, democracy, pluralism, love and tolerance.

South Africa not only will host the next Soccer World Cup in 2010, but just today gave an important lesson to all those country which took centuries to get rid of their prejudice and intolerance of any kind.

Thank you South Africa …. You really have a big special place in my heart.





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4487756.stm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120100583.html

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