by Arlene Eisen Consider these facts: - South Africa is the
world’s largest producer of platinum, gold and chromium, while
South Africa is also home to the world’s largest slum. - The ANC
government made a deal to pay the debt incurred by the minority
white regime — some $11 billion dedicated to paying for its own
past oppression. - Sixty-five percent of young adults are
unemployed, two thirds of adults have no high school diploma and
only 8.4 percent have some higher education. - Increasingly,
South African police confront hungry demonstrators who are
demanding jobs, houses, running water and electricity with tear
gas, rubber bullets and baton charges. Yet Mandela and the ANC
are still celebrated for liberating the masses of Black South
Africans. In Johannesburg, the country’s only “Apartheid Museum”
perpetuates the myth that Mandela’s release from prison ushered
in South Africa’s era of “peace, equality, reconciliation and
diversity.” Despite protests and legal battles by veterans of
the Black Consciousness