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The problems in South Africa, as with those of a number of countries from which the refugees are fleeing (because of the UK's colonial ties with Zimabwe we hear about those a lot) are becoming so great that whenever I read about them I honestly wonder where to even begin. Half of me makes links between their post-colonial situation and countries like the former Yugoslavia, in so far as a virtual dictatorship clearly served one purpose, if nothing else, of supressing those underlying internal social tensions which, once given free reign with the breaking up of the Soviet Bloc and the various other empires, left the ordinary citizens of those countries in a situation that is surely no better than that from which they were originally liberated.
I really have no clue what the answer to all of this is.
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