The following photographs will warm any white liberal’s heart: Liberated South African exercising their right to loot in the town of Sasolburg, south of Johannesburg over the last two days.
Prior to 1994, such pictures were disseminated all over the world by the BBC and American network television, as being ineffable manifestations of a desire for democracy and “freedom”. The freedom to loot, among other things. Interestingly, looting in South Africa at present takes two forms: either it is done violently as in these pictures, or it is done in a more or less legal way through the so-called democratic process by pillaging national, provincial and municipal finances.
One could say that the right to loot is one of the New South Africa’s fundamental “human rights”.
