Thursday, May 22, 2008

In the interim

An interesting blog from South Africa, discussing the violence happening in Johannesburg at the moment:

it is, as you can expect from the title, by a British ex-pat. But despite the title, it seems pretty balanced:

6000 miles from civilization

[update]Another blog that I haven't gotten to read enough of yet. It's written by a Zimbabwaen student in South Africa:

Sherp

2 comments:

6000 said...

Oh, it's ever so balanced.
Trouble is, I'm not really sure what it's balanced between...

De.Corday said...

I must say I'm quite engrossed in your blog, despite the work I'm supposed to be doing right now.

It's horrifying and terribly sobering, what's been going on. I did a fair amount of undergraduate research on the reconciliation process in South Africa... To see that the army's been called out again feels, from this side of the ocean, at once hopeful that there'll be some order, and surprising that the situation reached such a level.

I don't trust the media over here worth a damn... has this been brewing for a while or is it genuinely somewhat of a new tension? Hell of a question, I know.