South Africa is not, as Cicero would have it, a natural commonwealth - its people see no common political interests or a shared understanding of the nature of law. It has no common language, no common culture, no common religion. In every way it is fractured. At least in the Cape there is a common language, legal tradition and a gradient of common heritage. At least in KwaZulu, there exists a cohesive nation. But for the country as a whole, it is an unnatural chimera desperately crying for release, yet none of its elites can bring themselves to relinquish a claim on the throne of Pretoria, that sterile promontory from which all perverse edicts flow.
The Eternal Colony
The Eternal Colony
The Eternal Colony
South Africa is not, as Cicero would have it, a natural commonwealth - its people see no common political interests or a shared understanding of the nature of law. It has no common language, no common culture, no common religion. In every way it is fractured. At least in the Cape there is a common language, legal tradition and a gradient of common heritage. At least in KwaZulu, there exists a cohesive nation. But for the country as a whole, it is an unnatural chimera desperately crying for release, yet none of its elites can bring themselves to relinquish a claim on the throne of Pretoria, that sterile promontory from which all perverse edicts flow.