Gill Grose: A Volunteer Librarian Changing Lives in South Africa
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South Africa's History and the Current Situation?
Jill's parents were born in south africa, but both her grandfathers were born a over seas. Jill grew up middle class, white, english speaking with family my parents are descended from. She was politicized m at university, and got to meet am a whites who were actively involved in trying to undermine the apartet government. And so things went pretty well under mandela. I mean, mandela was absolutely the most amazing a hero as far as i am concerned. But of course, as so often happens, liberation movements don't necessarily always make the best governments,. Particularly in a case where a party can't be voted out, and there's even more danger of corruption.
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