south africa: nothing is black and white

“On reading the searing race debate last week between official opposition leader Tony Leon and President Thabo Mbeki, who rebutted so angrily, I wondered what had become of non-racialism,” writes Ferial Haffajee in South Africa's Mail and Guardian newspaper. “And a saying of my gran came to mind: it seemed well and truly ‘in sy moer in’ - buggered, injured, perhaps fatally so.”