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There’s something deeply troubling about South Africa’s tendency to sympathise with criminals and corrupt politicians, while often showing less concern for the people who suffer because of their actions.
The ANC is walking into next week’s service-delivery elections with taps running dry and rubbish piling up in Johannesburg.
You couldn’t script worse timing.
Voters are angry and the ballot box could turn this into an electoral bloodbath for the ANC.
Imagine if the entire world had thought like this during apartheid. Where would South Africa be today? Of course, Michael can't seem to imagine that. 🙄
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🧵 There is much more to this photograph than meets the eye. Here are 10 fascinating facts behind the picture 👇🏿
🧵 This photograph from 1960 is far more important than it looks.
Two men. One railway station. A simple farewell.
But the men smiling at each other would become major figures in the international struggle against apartheid.
One is Oliver Tambo.
The other is Father Trevor Huddleston.
Here’s the remarkable story behind the picture. 👇🏿
Father Trevor Huddleston bids farewell to his friend, political activist Oliver Tambo as he leaves Liverpool Street Station in London, bound for Africa, where he was to take up his new post as Bishop of Masasi in Tanganyika (later Tanzania), September 1960. Credit: Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty
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Perhaps that's what makes this photograph so extraordinary.
It captures a quiet goodbye at a London railway station…
…but also a moment when the struggle against apartheid was becoming international.
Tambo would eventually return to South Africa after roughly 30 years in exile.
Huddleston would live long enough to witness something that must once have seemed almost impossible:
🇿🇦 Nelson Mandela becoming President of South Africa in 1994.
Sometimes history doesn't announce itself.
Sometimes it simply looks like two friends smiling at a railway station.
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Happy birthday OR Tambo.
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