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By Lucky Gold, CNN
Editor's Note: F.W. de Klerk, the last leader of white South Africa, who joined with Nelson Mandela to bring an end to apartheid and shared a Nobel Peace Prize for their achievement, was recently interviewed at a summit of Nobel Laureates in Chicago and appeared on Thursday's Amanpour.
So I'm a Convert
It was noted that Mandela had once called de Klerk "a man of integrity" but had taken it back, regretting that de Klerk had never renounced the principle of apartheid.
De Klerk responded: "Well, let me first say I'm not aware that Mr. Mandela says I've never renounced apartheid." He then said, "I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid."
But then he added: "What I haven't apologized for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states (essentially creating two separate states, one black and one white)."
"But in South Africa it failed," he said. "And by the end of the '70's, we had to realize, and accept and admit to ourselves that it had failed. And that is when fundamental reform started."
He was then asked if apartheid failed because it was unworkable, or because it was simply morally repugnant.
"There are three reasons it (apartheid) failed," he said. "It failed because the whites wanted to keep too much land for themselves. It failed because we (whites and blacks) became economically integrated, and it failed because the majority of blacks said that is not how we want our rights."
Still, De Klerk would not back off his belief in the validity of the original concept of "separate but equal" nation states.
"There is this picture that apartheid was…used to be compared to Nazism," said de Klerk. "It's wrong, and on that, I don't apologize for saying that what drove me as a young man, before I decided we need to embrace a new vision, was a quest to bring justice for black South Africans in a way which would not – that's what I believed then – destroyed the justice to which my people were entitled."
"That's how I was brought up," said de Klerk. "And it was in an era when also in America and elsewhere, and across the continent of Africa, there was still not this realization that we are trampling upon the human rights of people. So I'm a convert."
Eleven official languages
Again, he was asked if he wanted to take the opportunity to say that apartheid was, in retrospect, morally repugnant.
"I can only say in a qualified way," said de Klerk. "Inasmuch as it trampled human right, it was – and remains – and that I've said also publicly, morally reprehensible." He added, "But the concept of giving as the Czechs have it and the Slovaks have it, of saying that ethnic unities with one culture, with one language, can be happy and can fulfill their democratic aspirations in an own state, that is not repugnant."
"With the advantage of hindsight," said de Klerk, "we should have started the reform much earlier…But the intention was to end at a point which would ensure justice for all. And the tipping point in my mind was when I realized… we need to abandon the concept of separateness. And we need to build a new nation with its eleven official languages, accommodating its diversity, but taking hands and moving forward together."
We call each other on birthdays
Mandela, will turn ninety four in July and de Klerk was asked if they were friends.
"Actually, we're close friends," said de Klerk. "Not the closest in the sense that we see each other once a week. Also, we live apart. But he's been in my home as a guest; I've been in his home as a guest. When I go to Johannesburg, my wife and I have had tea with him and Graca, his wife."
"We call each other on birthdays," he said. "There is no animosity left between us." But then he added: "Historically, there was."
CNN's Ken Olshansky produced this piece for television.
Stange that this interview with De Klerk has caused such a stir immediately after it was aired but also that few people noticed and that the media did its best to ignore president Jacob Zuma's singing of 'Kill the Boer (white people)... see how they run' with relish such and impunity earlier this year. For some dark reason the media continue to ignore growing official and black racism in South Africa.
Yes Willem and why they do not mention what is going in Nigeria being thankful to Shell company? Its much worse than any apartheid. And the reason for ignoring the fact of racial conflict still existing in SA is plain and simple. If that start highlighting the problem it means they admit the fall of apartheid actually wasn't such a great idea. But who likes to admit their own mistakes and on such a global scale?
Willem do you stay in SA? Have you ever heard Jacob Zuma singing that song. Do yourself a favour and stop being stupid
Dougie you are correct – but at the same time JZ has never told anybody NOT to sing the song and in fact has defended the singing of it
Yes, indeed! Recorded on Media24's website in January 2012 in Bloemfontein.
Actually, Zuma's has his own hit song. It is called "Umshini wami" which translates as "Bring me my machine gun." The sentiments expressed in the song are the same as that in "Kill the Boer."
Dougie, he actually did sing it in Manguang in February whilst on the stage, part of his usual dance and song routine!!!! Google some videos of that centenary and have a look see.
Ok Im a bit of with the date, it was on 11 January 2012, below some links, so it appears even your Pressy wants you dead boet!!!!
"The first charge was for Zuma's singing "the forbidden song", "dubul' ibhunu" (shoot the boer) at the ANC's centenary celebrations in Bloemfontein on January 11."
Once a terrorist, always a terrorist.
Was it not Julius Malema that sang "Shoot the boer"? and has he not been kicked out of the ANC? For all the controversies he has caused.
The very same and that is one of the reasons why I have reacted in the way I did.
Willem you have no idea what you are talking about, there is not way you live in ZA
Mankwana – what do you call Employment Equity and BEE other than RACISM? Or are you also of the opinion that seeing it is Black on White it is not racism?
I live in Pretoria but you live in cuckoo-land if you also live here and did not see that outrage in Bloemfontein.
Johan, you clearly know nothing about the policies you're talking about. And I'm pretty sure you haven't read them either. EE seeks to affirm those who were previously systematically excluded from job opportunities. These include white women. In fact the reality is that the biggest beneficiaries of EE are white women, followed by Indians, followed by Africans and finally Coloureds. The people who are really getting a raw deal are Coloureds, yet the media wants us to believe that it's white people. In 2010 more than 60% of people employed into management positions in SA where white. I challenge you to check these facts and then argue from a position of strength not ignorance.
I think you mean Malema, Willem.
No Tim, Jacob Zuma in person... and here for all of the idiots who have already denied that it happened... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fzRSE_p1Ys ... Yes, we do not need Zuma's mindset here because it is simply dangerous.
Ohhh...please Willem thought we dont' need that type of mindset no more man.
Let's pray for his repentence.he must not go to his grave with such mentality.
This man is making a mockery of himself, what a shame!
Shame bitter old man! Some people can't believe that Apartheid actually ended and wish they still had the sick power of being the boss. Too bad times are changing...
What is the problem with his state of mind? Should the whites have shot the black people like the americans did to the native americans and killed most of them?
No they tried to create 2 seperate and equal states! These states would have be apart from each other the same as Canada is seperate from USA...
The plan didn't work off course and as he said the whites should have realised this earlier, but that is the problem with hindsight it comes to late. The blacks (as were their right) fought for their freedom and they whites seeking to protect themselves fought back...
This fight delayed the process even further. People do not want to be reason or share their country with terrorist (as Mandela himself admits he was). Thats wat makes South Africa great! instead of killing each other we reached a compromise and are trying to work and live together.
Sure you dont want to go there. Because if you do Ms Amanpour, the world can will indict Netanyahus for crimes worse than those in Aparthied S. Africa. When the zionists have liberals like Christiane they dont need hawks. Sadly the right wing Israeilis will never stop behaving like abused children. So what if they cant get back on the Nazis, there are always the Arabs..
please read mr. de klerks statements much more clearly before calling him names. he is not bitter.
I always appreciate honest politicians, regardless of their points of view.
As much as we like to elevate people such as Mandela, Guevara, Churchill, we forget all too easily the other side of their lives. Churchill was a renound racist, Mandela plotted to blow up innocent civilians. Can we justify his motives? Is if there a difference between him and Timothy McVeigh other than that McVeigh succeeded and Mandela went to prison?
What few seem to understand is that control of South Africa was literally handed over to the ANC overnight, and peacefully. Despite his significant role in doing so, De Klerk did so and was not seen as the ultimate victor here, Mandela was. Mandela's wife, a woman guilty of murder, burning a boy alive, marching in victory, while De Klerks wife got murdered a few years later.
I've grown to respect Mandela, but I'm a realist at the same time.
I couldn't agree more.
F W De Klerk and Mandela TOGETHER put the apartheid into the past and averted a potential civil war outbreak. I found the pressing questions towards De Klerk distasteful and unwarranted.
Imagine if Amanpour invited Mandela into the interview and asked him an array of questions around his planned bombing of women and children along with all the other plots his freedom fighters (commonly seen as terrorists by the opposing side) were involved in?
Sergio, you should read the book called "In a different time" only then, you will understand the violation of human rights back then.
Then, the reason for the uproar is purely because De Cheek spewed propaganda, especially when saying that blacks had a right to vote when we all know they didn't 🙂
Jon – he GAVE our country away -without us saying that it was OK – we were never told what he had in mind when we voted YES – Flat Wheel de Klerk sent his juniors to the negotiating table and then there was the famous incident when he realised what his juniors did he said to them – My God do you realise that you have just given the country away?
Johan, when whites voted yes in the 1992 referendum (overwhelmingly) they gave him a mandate to give away "your" country. Although the referendum was to show the weakness of the right-wing, it also serves as a strong refutation of revisionist "stab in the back" theories.
Hi Jon, you're truly the only one speaking sense here. Madiba today is recognised as a hero though he was a killer? He deserved to go to jail and they should never have let him out. SA Government should hang all murderers, rapists and child molesters. They should bring back the death penalty.
What happened back then was a virtual war caused by the animosity between blacks and whits hence murders that indeed took place as well as those that were planned should not be confused with intended emotional desires by individuals, but rather a duty that was required of the person involved. If madiba is said to be a murderer, what then makes those that deliberated on the decisions made to kill the exhorbitant number of blacks over the years, let alone the school kids massacred in 1976?
You are correct Job, but at the Ricinus trial, Mandela did not de those things. He served 27 years in jail. De Klerk apologised in front of a truth commission and received a noble peace prize.
It's outweighing gold and silver. Hmmmny
Zuma sang the song: "Bring me my machine Gun"....That is the correct fact. Peter Mokaba sang the song "Kill the Boer...." Let us first get the facts right before we get involved discussing the morailty of a previous system.
We are long past the apartheid days and have moved on, rebuilding the country and leaving behind all the racial hatred. I felt that this interview and the questions asked to one of South Africa's former presidents was not only badly timed (20 years too late perhaps), but I question its purpose.
F W De Klerk said that he did not condone the injustices that occurred during the apartheid era, but did in its original concept.
Similarly, we could look at the core concept of communism and how it was designed to ensure everyone is equal and receives a fair share for their labors, but look how that has gone wrong every time when put into practice.
Bringing the relationship and past-differences of two great presidents into question seems only a shot at increasing viewer ratings. Have a little more respect.
The best thing for South Africa is to split into two states, one for whites and other minority groups since the new black government hates us so much and one for the black majority.
Why don't they hand-over the Western and Northern Cape provinces to us and then we see which of the two will prosper.
Pete, you backward minded and that will not solve anything! We South Africans (Both black and white) need to leave this in the past and start focusing on the future.
Thato then tell the current ANC goverment to stop all this EE and BEE nonsense as this is STILL RACISM
Hoor, hoor! (Hear, hear...)
Pete – The ANC goverment will never allow this as it will then be living proof that their policies have failed and that they cannot govern. We will also have to then set up a new SADF to protect our borders against the hordes who would want to live in a prosperous and safe country
Why do you want to separate, couldn't get a visa to OZ? Don't like the climate in Oranija? Try Canada or New Zeland.
Isn't it obvious? Can you point to one sucessful black state, and please don't name Anglo-America's Botswana. Or for that matter, one clean public toilet run, or frequented, by blacks?
Poor F.W is leaving in denial .You 're not the only one, many right wing Afrikaners are still leaving in denial. F.W. is talking nonsense when he says homelands were "historical there". Thats pure rubbish, homelands were forced to blacks by the policy of the apartheid govt of "divide and rule." F.W. has a horrible memory .Its typical of a dead snake. He is seeking media attention. F.W. is being disingenious and its really unfortunate at his age he will go down to the grave in denial.
@CNN should not only focussing on portraying S.A. as a crime haven and corrupt country. A lot of good has happened in S.A since 1994 and you have failed to report that . Stop being bias in your reporting, you need to balance your story. In the past few weeks you have been reporting negative things about S.A. This tendency also happened during the preparations for the Soccer World Cup 2010. CNN and other Afro-pessimists were busy trying to discredit S.A's preparedness for the event, and "whether a country with millions of people leaving below the poverty is it advisable to spend billions of U.S. dollars on this event of this maginitude".
Mbulelo, yes, a lot of 'good' – what good? Look at the government now, and look at it BEFORE the 90's. You are living in DENIAL of what the President does, together with Nathi M; Juju; does hate speech all the time and gets away with it! oh please ... I think the whites are a lot of bang-gatte because we cannot stand together and be as violent and brutal as you are. Sorry, I have to differ with you. I'll glady take the name snake, instead of MURDERERS AND RAPISTS.
Nonsense and don't the miserable ANC or flatter yourself! I have seen very little of that 'a lot of good' and the rot is continuing at an alarming pace – any objective observer will confirm that.
Poor Mbulelo and FW, both living in denial. Allot of good has happened since 1994 ?huh?, just like allot of good happened during Apartheid , but guess what, only for a few in both era's. Clearly you are one of the few benefiting from 1994.
Please, put your fat mouth to better use and do something for the unity of our SA, or live with your chip somewhere else, because you're no asset to us in SA. POWER TO THE PEOPLE – UNITE!!
Please tell King Goodwill Zwelithini and the assortment of Xhosa Paramount chiefs and Kings that they have no fiefdoms so that they can get out of the public purse. Then learn to read so that you can master the basic history of South Africa.
yes they have those fiefdoms, the kingdoms still exist and recognized by law – just that they aren't statutory.
See unlike the Afrikaners & Boers (who claim and are still squatting on millions of hectares of land they stole), the land is theirs.
There's no need to study history that was falsified by the broederbond to justify theft, oppression and apartheid – it's all pure nonsense.
Please tell King Goodwill Zwelithini and the assortment of Xhosa Paramount chiefs and Kings that they have no fiefdoms so that they can get out of the public purse. Then learn to read so that you can master the basic history of South Africa.
I am no fan of Mr. de Klerk. He sold out his people and his party lied to their supporters. That said, I am happy to see that he actually mentions why Mandela was put in jail in the first place. Mandela tried to overthrow the government through violent means. His organization, the ANC bombed a restaurant in my town killing children. He has blood on his hands! He is not the saint CNN and the likes make him out to be. If you think that he was justified because he was fighting against a repressive government then I guess you think nothing of killing children.
Willem van den Berg, you should not be surprised, when it comes to South Africa only us whites are racist. Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema can sing "kill the settler kill the boer" and that is fine by the world and media. Whites are murdered every day in SA and nothing is reported. Several years ago a family was murdered at their home. The 3 year old daughter was taken outside and shot execution style in the head. Only the local newspapers reported about the murders.Yet at the same time all we saw on cable TV news was the death of a British woman after her dog attacked her in her flat in London. Imagine if this happened in California...
SA is a mess and it is falling apart with bankrupt municipalities, corrupt police, rampant rape and violence and a government who sings song about killing minorities. But hey, TIA and blame the whites. Business as usual.
He was the weakest leader ever to rule SA. Now that he see what is happening in SA he wants to change his mind. Apartheid according to any dictionary is to keep ANYTHING apart, how can it be wrong. How can it be wrong when there is apartheid all over the world, it is just not written into the law books?
Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.
WHY DID YOU GIVE SOUTH AFRICA AWAY?? Do you see what is happening nowdays and what you have done to our beloved country. Have you no shame left, what do I tell my children and my grandchildren. However I do tell my children to leave SNAKES alone.
Instead of bickering amongst ourselves, we as the people of South Attics should work towards reconciliation and racial cohesion.
This interview tells me, inclusive of the comments, we have a long way to go
Jenny, take your head out of the sand (deep black hole)
South Africa like the rest of this dark continent is going down the drain because the mamparas is in charge. What did blacks ever invented? They ride on the backs of the whites. They are stupid and lazy. They belong in the middle ages. We as whites want our place under the sun where we can prosper.
for your stupidity william,, we'll invent a rape tool that will bring out your racist intestines ..
I do not see compromise in South Africa, I see genocide and targeted racism.
Deon-Genocide is all that we can call the systematic killing of white farmers
Mr De Klerk, could you please comment on the mass GENOCIDE taking place in South Africa. The thuggery and large scale theft taking place etc etc etc. I suppose you can't cause there is no more South African Defence Force and Police to do the job anymore.
A young "white" lady (I hate using colour) sent this on twitter this morning: "We have to reform older South Africans or they will continue to raise poisoned young ones." @MarkSoldOutByFrikkie
Jenny the issues in today's South Africa is not about colour. Please dont bring colour into it. Its not a debate anymore. It is the large scale theft and "trying to legalise theft(E-Toll) and the mass killing of people. The destruction of the security forces, the non performance of normal services etc etc. If you want to engage me in meaniful debate, then lets engage on these matters. The De Klerk issue is such a deep deep rooted issue with OLD WHITE MALE SOUTH AFRICANS, I can go on foever. I say once a snake always a snake..
It so sad that so many racist South Africans agree with de Klerk statements in this interview. The realities of this situation are these: yes, Mandela and the ANC resported to violent revolution after decades of peacful protest and attempts at negotiating with the Aprartheid goverment not only failed but caused the government to become increasingly brutal and unjust towards non-white South Africans. Yes, the Rivonia trialists were given a fair trial in accordance with the laws of the day, BUT those laws were indended to be biased against non-whites and freedom fighters/ terrorists so how fair can we really say it was? Yes, the slogan of the Apartheid regime was 'seperate but equal' but the reality is that the system was never intended to afford non-whites equality on any socio-economic plane, not even in the homelands which de Klerk seems to remember so fondly. 'Seperate but equal' was the spin used to explain the regimes injustice and human rights abuses. Have a look at the laws passed under Apartheid (both pertaining to the Homelands and 'the rest of South Africa') and try to find a case to support the idea that the intention of the Apartheid governments' was every true equality for blacks in a separate society from whites.
The reality is that Aparthied was an immoral concept in theory and practice. My opinion is that those who want to trivialize it or justify it are attempting to passify their own guilt or the guilt they know belongs to their older relatives, etc. My opinion also is that de Klerk got far more credit than he was due for the ending of Apartheid and that Mandela was paid hansomely for his forgiveness, something the rest of the non-white South African population did not get to share in.
Mandela's no saint, he never was. He was a convinient and apt focus of a marketing campaign that was very effective: he gave a human, articulate, good looking face to all oppressed South Africans that garnered support and sympathy around the world for the anti-Apartheid movement.
It's also my opinion that many of the Apartheid era Ministers of Defense, Justice, Native Affairs, Police, Intelligence and the Prime Ministers still living in '94 should have been tried by the ICC for crimes against humanity. Perhaps then there wouldn't be this widely acceptance of trivializing what Apartheid was (evil, immoral, unjust, cruel, corrupt).
Well said Puleng, and a great thoughtout approach too 🙂
Puleng and what about all those current ministers who were involved in muredr, rape and butality against the persons in camps in Angola lile Quattro – or is that forgiven because it was done in the name of Freedom. What about a certain woman who we all know was guilty of toturing and murdering one of her followers because he was SUSPECTED of being a spy?
And these words do not describe ANC rule: evil, immoral, unjust, cruel, corrupt?
Farm Murders in South Africa
This is a tribute to the 4000 + Farmers who were murdered in South Africa since 1991.
As for Jenny: we will raise children that will survive in an openly hostile environment! Come live in ZA for one year then sprout your Liberal drivel again.
Interesting. Mr Mandela will be turning ninety-four, not ninety as stated in the article. Please check for factual accuracy.
How do you even dare defend apartheid?
Can you defend holocaust?
Can you point to one black African state that out preformed South Africa under white rule using the UN human development index? The same UN that declared apartheid a crime against humanity. Moreover can you explain why SA has droped in that index under black rule. If you can't find an black African country that was beter of than apartheid SA it is obvious that black rule is a crime against humanity.
You are delusional. Not every culture wants white rule or wants their countries to be like Europe or the US. Africans were quite happy living their own lives before you evil whites invaded it. Don't like it, go back to Europe. I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms. Bye bye. Now get the hell out. NOTE: Whites have stolen more from Africa and now they're complaining that AFrica is not being well run. If we steal your people and your wealth, you won't be well run either. Get out of here.
Mzukisi – can you defend the racism that is happening currently in South Africa> Can you defend the on going genocide in South Africa?
How do you defend the ANC? Do you defend holocaust?
I will continue to pray for change, and to have all wounds caused by the apartheid system and the corrupt behavior of the ANC to be healed, South Africa is a beautiful country, I hope to see one day black and white working together to try a solve all problems facing us, instead of focusing our energies on our petty differences
Moeng – I pray for that – unfortunately I believe it will never happen as long as we have racism by black on white and the murder of our farmers stop
Moeng, I do not pray anymore but I cannot agree more with your more rational sentiments.
Here, for the international audience: Government under ANC rule.
Download the PDF with full report. Remember, that 18,000 murders per annum is low for ZA. It used to be higher but we are so lucky that that is being turned around. Attempted murder is roughly double that amount. Also consider, what is considered a low intensity conflict. Take the example of Darfur. Some 300,000 dead in a decade. Take ZA: 190,000 dead in a decade?!
Poor Mbulelo and FW, both living in denial. Allot of good has happened since 1994 ?huh?, just like allot of good happened during Apartheid , but guess what, only for a few in both era's. Clearly you are one of the few benefiting from 1994.
Please, put your fat mouth to better use and do something for the unity of our SA, or live with your chip somewhere else, because you're no asset to us in SA.
We will continue to pray for all this troubled souls that still want live in hell (Apartheid). Who keep calling black people evil names. God has a plan for all of us and all be well Soon. May god bless you in abundance . He greater than all the hate and APARTHEID !!
Every time questions are raised about the ZA government, the race card gets played. In fact, that is the only card that gets played all over South Africa. It is cheap and ignorant.
Deon, wild denial or not recognizing the blind, hell-bent, unilateral and devastating official racism in South Africa and the ANC's own terrible damaging effect on all aspects of south African life is not only foolish, stupid, short-sighted and dishonest, it is also oiling the slippery slope to perdition and helping to change us into another Zimbabwe. It is not who our enemy is in this case but what...
Well said Mofaya. Please include in those prayers, our Farmers, that produce the food for our country, that are being killed.
Please also include, stop the thieving. Thanks
As talented and funny as he is, I think the sole racial focus and making fun of an OLD culture people, with wars getting more and more violent, he should focus on making fun of both sides, west, east, north, south !!
shoot the booer and bring my machine gun is aimed the sick whites like william and johan and his aides. Go back to where your white @ss came from
and who is the racist now?
Junior -in my office I have appointed two ladies of colour – not because of their colour or some stupid goverment quota system – but because they were the best for the position. Our organisation also pays in excess of the minimum as legislated as we believe you pay peanuts -you get monkeys. This is how I wish our country to be run
dude, you will not get applause for hiring a coloured graduate in economics and paying them 2k because its over the minimum wage. i am sure you are smarter than that so get over yourself.
Junior -actually they are matriculants- that was the job spec – and No I do noot need applause – but unfortunately it would appear that you are incapable of being able to communicate at a meaningfil level – so ag shame
I see lot of hatred over here,how can someone say blacks are fools and lazy,what have we done blacks that we are hated so much.One thing that amaze me when you look @ history of South Africa there was no white man before bloody racist jan van riebeck came.We were @ peace and you lot came and u talk nonsense oppressed us in our own country and we u want to justify that crap before you all start talking rubbish check yourselves .We did not ask you to come and also being uncivilised was not problem.If you all whaite racist have a problem go back where you belong.Africa and South Africa is for blacks. White is south africa are all racist and thiefs who came to South Africa and rob us.
Hassan -who is the racist now?
Hassan ... you have a nerve speaking as you do. Muslims are NOT native to South Africa. The Xhosa, Bantu, Zulu and Hottentot were. So don't include yourselve as indiginous just because your skin is not white. Besides, get your head out the bucket. We live NOW and not in past of 300 years ago. To move forward one needs to deal with the present and not the past. The past can only be refered to when one wants to avoid making the same mistakes. Based on your feelings, it appears you would be quite happy living the life of all those who flee to South Africa from other parts of Africa, like Zimbabwe, Mozamique, Kenya,Nigeria and many more other Countries that are in civil war and in ruins, starving and captive slaves to their African Warlords. Is that what you want? If so why not just leave? Why stay in a country that whites improved, prospered created wealth in and turned over to Black Rule? Go live in a country where the law is the machine gun, punga, mecheti and the smell of death fills the air. What about some of the muslim practices on the African continent where woman and girls are hung in public because the are raped. Or set on fire by their husbands, brothers etc because they don't fit in with their all male plans? Why not use your limited intelligence to do some good where you live rather than harbour thoughts of what you were never a part of or wanting to live back in days of prehistoric times?
The bushmen are the indigenous people of SA. SA was then colonised by whites and blacks.
Tell em Hassan...the notion of some white people that they are the reason for evolution sickens me
ROFL – someone with the name Hassan claims to be have been in southern Africa before the arrival of the White settlers in 1652. Was it your slave trading Near Eastern grand daddy that was there? Your ignorance and hypocrisy are equally inspiring. No wonder ZA is in the state it is in – you must be part of the governing elite since you have access to computers.
It is quite evident that many who criticize Pres de Klerk and Apartheid have no idea of its positive factors. It seems as if they have been brought up by the propaganda that exists about Apartheid. When Apartheid was established I was alresady well into adulthood. I was present at Independence celebrations of both the Transkei in 1976 and Bophuthutsana in 1977. I'll never forget the joy and jubilations of the massive crowd when at midnight they received their independence and freedom that they had requested. nKosi Sikele in its original and correct form was sung with great gusto by the masses in the Transkei as well as the white people present. Millions of rands were punmped into the homelands; white farms were bought up by the Government and handed to the Black farmers. Thousands of schools were established. Money for black education increased every year until in the late 80's more money was being spent on Black educqtion than on white education. Top grade Universities were built for each black nation who became self-supporting with the continued support of the Apartheid Goverrnment. Goodwill existe in those early days until the Communists intervened and stirred up hatred. They had worked their way through Africa destroying one country after the other.
Pres de Klerk had every right to be proud of those achiement as they were meant to be. Why don't we hear about the 600 innocent blacks who wer burnt alive with their neclacing?
It is time for the young people of today to stand together and concentrate on re-establishing the goodwill that existed then.
Jonathan- well said
Gentle men, its time uo accept the status core–Africa has changed. either we stay we these blacks in their country or leave. l have accepted them, and work with them, can speak their languages, and l have no problems with them, what distrubs me, is the level of pretending among us the white communiies; we have to change, we lostthe country to its people. we are plastic african let be real here
I am a Nigerian, and I believe it it high time South Africans of all races moved on. Build a model nation like the US.
Pray do tell how does FW live with himself white people are being starved robbed murders raped totured in the wost way the jews were put to death in gas chambers but the white people of SA are being put to death in such a cruel way it is unspeacable in there own home from babys to old people
Racism only existed in politic never in the normal households of SA my best friend Kelleboni whose parents worked on our family farm was black and I was white we are still friends I ate at her house and she ate at my house she was never treated bad nor was I so please even today on our farm our workers stay with us for generations they are our family
For those who want to know a little bit more about President Mandela watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKO7MmJ60zY
Apartheid – the highs and the lows, the now and the then – for all the people of South Africa. An oldish, but still very relevant video.
More than 60 persent of the people that sits in the parliament in South Africa have criminal records. The current president is a thief and is morally corrupt. The demise of this country is a forgone conclusion. Just look to the rest of Africa. There are only 3 kinds of "democracy" in Africa. They are one party states, dictatorships or military juntas.
Please see http://www.neo-genocide.co.za; censorbugbear-reports and boergenocide there you will see the reality and de Klerks legacy left of apartheid
Funny how the world kept nagging about apartheid. Most of them wasn't in South Africa that time and doen't have a clue what was going on. All the media distribute is how the white man did wrong but they do not show the beginning of the problem why they did that. Have they ever seen how schools been burned down, shops been demolished during strikes, women and specially children raped, farmers been killed and then you still have the president and his youth league commie sing kill the farmer? No, I don't think so and I guess specially the USA should be quiet because they did worse to the Indians, steal the oil and minerals in Africa. Hey, they could not do that in South Africa because the white government stopped them of doing so and when the world put sanctions against SA, that was the time that the SA economy were at it's strongest and we were self sufficient. The SA schools and Universities were of the highest standard in the world and now we were 43 on the standard list. Wake-up people, don't just look through one eye, God gave you two!!!!!
If one look at all the atrocities commited in Africa then apartheid is like a sunday school picnic.
Reading the above comments, it's very clear that not everyone understands what Mr. De Klerk has actually said:
He stated:
– He is totally against the human right abuses that took place at the time of Apartheid.
– He seeked to bring justice to All South Africans.
– He believes that Separate but Equal states can work well and be advantages to both parties, but it was not the reality during the period of Apartheid (1948-1994).
Apartheid failed because
– the different nations in SA became to economically dependent upon each other; and
. the "whites" (Afrikaner and English South Africans) was too greedy: They wanted to be in control of too large area of the country.
There is really no racism in his statement, nor evil!
Separate states
: Separate states is still (& will continue to be) the option that will be advantages to all of us in Southern African over the long run IF it is implemented in the correct way!
: It should not be based primarily on race, but rather on our separate nationhoods (Afrikaner, English, Zulu, Xhosa,etc.) as our cultures are so much different.
The current ANC government have clearly shown that they do not regard us (Afrikaners or English for that matter) as Africans, and that they actually want us to emigrate to another continent (due to our race and different cultures), although we (Afrikaners) have been in African for almost 400 years now.
As Afrikaners, we should be allowed to have a country of our own (where we are not an oppressed minority) . We are just as much Africans as Australians are Australian.
With this I totally agree!
de klerk is wrong in comparing the dissolution of czechoslovakia with the homelands in apartheid za (and obviously his comparison was with reference to them). czechs and slovaks separated consensually, after the separation the one state had no co-determination in the affairs of the other, there was no mutual dependency or supremacy after the dissolution, the territory (and the resources) which the two now independent states would dispose, was not controversial. in one sentence: czechs and slovaks were ate eye level, before and after the separation... de klerk has proven his splendour and i hope he will keep his course of the last years
I see a reporter that is more interested in causing controversy and response to her article with questions that have already been asked and answered than the truth. I am sure at this stage of both Former Presidents FW De Klerk and Nelson Mandela's lives they would want us to move on from these kind of questions. I am also sure that the majority of South Africans just want to move forward together in peace (that is what I hope). I am a South African born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's. Can we just move on
What sounds to me like a real mockery is attempts of la-la-land citizens who never ever in their lives smelt south-african life and still try to add their 5 cent to the whole thing Actually their talk is not even 5 cent worthy.
@Hassan you better go back to school and pay more attention to your history.
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Manny Pacquiao's stand on same-sex marriage: 'Mas masahol pa sa hayop ang tao'
Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who is running for a Senate seat in the 2016 Philippine elections, expressed his disapproval on the issue of same-sex marriage when he was asked about his stand.
In an interview with Bilang Pilipino, the data-driven elections coverage by News5, InterAksyon.com, Bloomberg Philippines, Philippine Star, and BusinessWorld, the Sarangani representative said that, coming from a religious background, he could not give it his support.
"As Christian, bawal naman 'yung same-sex marriage. Ginawa ang babae para sa lalaki, ginawa ang lalaki para sa babae (As a Christian, same-sex marriage is not allowed. Woman was made for man, man was made for woman)," he said.
"Kasi para sa akin ito lang, common sense lang. Makakita ka ba ng any animals na lalaki sa lalaki o babae sa babae? Mas mabuti pa 'yung hayop. Marunong kumikilala, kung lalaki o lalaki, babae, babae. (For me, it's common sense. Will you see any animals where male is to male and female is to female? The animals are better. They know how to distinguish, male or female)."
"Ngayon kung lalaki sa lalaki, babae sa babae, mas masahol pa sa hayop ang tao (If we approve male on male, female on female, then man is worse than animal)."
"O 'di ba? Hayop lang… hindi talaga pwedeng magsama ang lalaki sa lalaki, pero I'm not condemning them. 'Yung marriage lang, 'yung committing sin against God (Right? Even among animals… those of the same sex are not allowed to lie together. But I'm not condemning them. Just the marriage, the committing of sin against God)."
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Brandon Smith's play on the court has gradually boosted his confidence.
He got an unexpected lift recently when one of his teammates found a scouting report that an opposing team left in the arena after a game.
"I was curious: I wonder what they said about me," Smith recalled. "It said, `Looks to be aggressive, let's keep him out of the lane, stop penetration.' I thought, `OK, at least they know I'm a threat.' "
Increasingly, the sophomore point guard from De La Salle High is providing a complement to an offense featuring four other players who routinely score in double figures.
In nine games as a starter, Smith is averaging 6.9 points, 4.1 assists and just 2.4 turnovers while shooting 40 percent from the 3-point line.
Smith will have his hands full this afternoon against an Oregon team expected to throw a 1-2-2 zone press at the Bears. The Ducks squeezed 18 turnovers out of Stanford in a 67-59 win on Thursday.
Coach Mike Montgomery generally has been pleased by Smith's play.
"He certainly has his moments. I think he does stabilize us," Montgomery said. "He does the handling, which allows the others to do what they do. He didn't play much last year, so you're really not talking about a guy with a lot of experience at this level. But he's done a pretty good job."
Smith had a career-high nine assists in Cal's win over Washington State and scored 12 points in the victory last weekend at USC. He had seven assists and five points in the Bears' 85-57 rout of Oregon State on Thursday.
Montgomery sets the bar high, and Smith had a bad 20 seconds during last Saturday's win at USC, turning the ball over, then missing two free throws inside the final minute.
"If he finishes it up at SC, he has a real good game. He just made a couple mistakes at the end," Montgomery said. "He's been pretty solid out there."
Montgomery still isn't entirely happy with Smith's decision-making.
"Sometimes he looks to shoot when I think he should be looking to pass, but again, he doesn't have a lot of experience in what he can and can't get," Montgomery said. "He'll get better at that."
Smith knows his place and he understands who's the boss. Still, he's willing to defend himself.
"What opponents say about me or not, I know my game, what I can do, what I can't do. And I'm going to play that," Smith said. "I know sometimes coach will get mad at me for putting up a shot or other decisions I make.
"I'm ultimately under his authority, but sometimes I'm able to see stuff on the court that he can't really (see) on the sideline. Sometimes you've just got to make a play and play instinctual basketball.
"It's something I've had success with and I'm going to continue to do within the framework of the offense."
OREGON SCOUT: Under first-year coach Dana Altman, formerly of Creighton, the Ducks are playing a wide-open style featuring pressure defense. Cal can expect to see another zone defense . . . Oregon doesn't have great size, but senior PF Joevan Catron has been effective and is the team's most consistent player, despite recently battling a strained left calf . . . Freshman PG Johnathan Loyd has a nagging ankle injury that could limit his play against the Bears. If he cannot go, junior Malcolm Armstead would get the call . . . The Ducks dropped non-conference games at home to San Jose State and Idaho, and had lost six in a row after being swept on a trip to Washington. But they have won three of their past four, most recently beating rival Oregon State and Stanford on the road. The win at Maples Pavilion was their first after 24 consecutive road losses to the Cardinal.
MONTY ON THE DUCKS: "They're playing really hard. They're really running around. They play a lot of small guys — they don't have a lot of big guys. They'll open the court up and drive and kick. They're pressuring on made (baskets). They're 1-2-2, three-quarter court (press), back to zone. But they're consistent with it. They really hustle in the zone. They've kind of got some hybrid stuff going on with a little bit of matchup principles. He's got 'em really playing hard."
THE SERIES: Cal leads 76-65. The Bears won all three meetings last year, averaging 83.0 ppg vs. the Ducks, and have taken the past five games in the series. Montgomery is 32-9 all-time vs. the Ducks.
ETCETERA: Jorge Gutierrez's career-high 11 assists vs. Oregon State were the most by a Cal player since Ayinde Ubaka had 12 vs. the Beavers four seasons ago . . . Among those expected to watch today at Haas Pavilion: Oakland HS senior guard and Oregon signee Jabari Brown . . . Oregon has not completed a sweep in the Bay Area since the 1975-76 season.
TIPOFF: 3 p.m. Saturday at Haas Pavilion. TV: CSNCA. Radio: 910-AM.
Cal (11-9, 4-4)
Starters | Ht | Yr | Pts | Rebs |
PF Harper Kamp | 6-8 | Jr. | 14.6 | 5.4 |
C Markhuri Sanders-Frison | 6-7 | Sr. | 10.5 | 8.0 |
SF Allen Crabbe | 6-6 | Fr. | 11.5 | 5.5 |
SG Jorge Gutierrez | 6-3 | Jr. | 12.2 | 4.4* |
PG Brandon Smith | 5-11 | So. | 5.2 | 3.4* |
Key reserves | ||||
F Richard Solomon | 6-9 | Fr. | 5.7 | 4.2 |
F Bak Bak | 6-9 | So. | 2.7 | 2.5 |
G Emerson Murray | 6-3 | Fr. | 0.6 | 0.4 |
Oregon (9-10, 4-4)
Starters | Ht | Yr | Pts | Rebs |
PF Joevan Catron | 6-6 | Sr. | 15.4 | 6.3 |
PF Tyrone Nared | 6-8 | Jr. | 4.7 | 3.5 |
SF E.J. Singler | 6-6 | So. | 11.5 | 5.9 |
SG Garrett Sim | 6-1 | Jr. | 8.2 | 2.4 |
PG Johnathan Loyd | 5-8 | Fr. | 5.4 | 2.4* |
Key reserves | ||||
G Jay-R Strowbridge | 5-10 | Sr. | 8.4 | 2.5 |
G Malcolm Armstead | 6-0 | Jr. | 6.6 | 3.5* |
F Jeremy Jacob | 6-8 | Jr. | 7.1 | 3.9 |


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GOP holds tight to U.S. House
By ALAN FRAM
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WASHINGTON — Republicans drove toward renewed control of the House on Tuesday as Democrats failed to make any significant inroads into the GOP's delegations from the East, South and Midwest.
With more than half of the 435 House races called by The Associated Press, Republicans had won 151 seats and were leading in 53 more. Democrats had taken 89 districts and led in 56 others.
There were another 20 seats in Western states where Republican incumbents were not facing serious challenges, but those polls remained open. A party needs 218 seats to control the House.
Democrats grabbed their first GOP seat of the night, defeating 10-term GOP veteran Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland in a race that was preordained after Democrats controlling the state legislature added more Democratic suburbs near Washington to his western Maryland district.
But in an Election Day that was producing little net change in the parties' numbers overall, Republicans responded by ousting one Democrat from Kentucky and another from North Carolina. They also picked up an open Democratic seat in both North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Even before renewed GOP control was clinched, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio — re-elected to his seat without opposition — claimed victory and laid down a marker for upcoming battles in Congress.
"The American people want solutions, and tonight they responded by renewing our House Republican majority," he said at a gathering of Republicans in Washington. "The American people also made clear there's no mandate for raising tax rates."
One of the top fights when Congress returns for a postelection session this month will be over the looming expiration of income tax cuts first enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush. Republicans want to renew them all, while President Barack Obama wants the cuts to expire for the highest-earning Americans.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to concede. She told Democrats rallying a few blocks away from the GOP rally where Boehner spoke that by evening's end, Democrats would end up "exceeding everyone's expectations and perhaps achieving 25," the number of added seats Democrats would need to gain House control.
A glimmer of hope remained for some Democratic gains as 11 members of the tea-party backed House GOP freshman class of 2010 were trailing in incomplete returns.
GOP attorney Andy Barr defeated Democrat Ben Chandler after losing to him by just 647 votes in 2010. Chandler was among a dwindling number of moderate Blue Dog Democrats.
, has represented the district in Kentucky horse country surrounding Lexington, since 2004 but faced voters who heavily favored Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who easily carried the state over Obama.
Republicans also ousted Rep. Larry Kissell of North Carolina, a two-term veteran who was among several Democrats in the state who faced far tougher districts due to GOP-controlled redistricting. By mid-evening, Republicans had also picked up two open seats in the state, including one abandoned by Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler, who announced his retirement after it became clear that his district would have been harder for him to win.
Others re-elected easily included House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.; No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland; and Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, another top Democrat.
Also winning was Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., the Chicago lawmaker who took medical leave from Congress in June and has been at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for treatment of bipolar disorder. His only campaigning has been by automated phone calls to voters.
Democrats had been hoping to add the 25 seats on Election Day that they would need to take control of the chamber from Republicans, or at least gain a healthy number of districts. But after both sides' House candidates and their allies spent a record $1.1 billion campaigning, it appeared Democrats might pick up just a handful of seats.
Though all 435 House seats were in play, only around 60 featured truly competitive races.
Democrats targeted many of the 87 members of the GOP's tea party-backed freshman class of 2010 that swept the party to House control. Only about two dozen faced threatening challenges.
As Obama's lead over GOP challenger Mitt Romney shriveled to a near draw as Election Day approached, Democrats' expectations for coattails that would boost their House candidates shrunk as well. Republicans, building off their enhanced control of statehouses, also did a robust job of protecting their incumbents and weakening Democrats when congressional district lines were redrawn after the 2010 census, especially in states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
The economy and jobs dominated the presidential campaign, but there was little evidence either party had harnessed those issues in a decisive way at the House level. Both sides agreed that this year's election lacked a nationwide wave that would give either side sweeping strength — as occurred when Democrats seized control in 2006 and expanded their majority in 2008, and Republicans snatched the chamber back in 2010.
Democrats had predicted that waning public support for the tea party movement and disgust with gridlock between Congress and Obama would cost Republicans seats. They also said the House GOP budget and its reshaping of the popular Medicare health care program would wound House Republican candidates — especially after the fiscal blueprint's author, GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, became his party's vice presidential nominee.
From coast to coast, Democrats flooded the airwaves with TV spots linking GOP candidates to the tea party and to crusades to abolish Medicare and slash taxes for the rich. Republicans responded by tying Democratic candidates to Obama and his economic stimulus and health care overhaul laws, especially in areas where he is less popular.
Going into Tuesday's voting, Republicans controlled the House 242-193, including vacancies in two formerly GOP-held and three Democratic seats.
Turnover was inevitable, and a large number of newcomers will be sworn into the House in January no matter what.
There were 62 districts where no incumbents were running at all, either because they had retired or lost earlier party primaries or because the seats were newly created to reflect the census.
When combined with likely losses by incumbents, the number of new House members in the next Congress could match the 91 freshmen who started serving in 2011 — a number unmatched since 1993.
Polls underscored the public sentiment that Democrats had hoped they could use to their advantage.
A CBS News-New York Times poll late last month showed just 15 percent of Americans approved of how Congress was handling its job, near its historic lows. And an Associated Press-GfK poll in August showed that 39 percent approved of congressional Democrats while just 31 percent were satisfied with congressional Republicans.
Republicans, however, enjoyed a significant financial edge.
Republican House candidates, the GOP and allies like Karl Rove's American Crossroads political committee and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent a combined $664 million on House races through October, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Democrats and their backers like labor and environmental groups spent a total of $506 million.
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Paris mayor slams Russian Orthodox church to be built near the Eiffel Tower
Paris Mayor Bernard Delanoe has described a Russian Orthodox church to be built along the River Seine as an example of "hodgepodge architecture" not worthy to be on display near the Eiffel Tower. Delanoe said the project – a gleaming white church with five traditional golden domes topped by an wavy glass roof linking it to a nearby Russian spiritual and cultural centre – was "mediocre architecture conceived in haste."
The project, whose design was chosen in an international architectural competition, was agreed in 2010 by Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia. Moscow has already purchased a plot of land for it on the left bank of the Seine, just across the river from the tunnel where Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in 1997.
"I want to express my very firm opposition to this project conceived by the French and Russian states without the agreement of the city of Paris," Delanoe said in a statement this week. "I would like UNESCO, the guardian of the banks of the Seine, to get involved so no permission can be given without the endorsement of international experts," he said.
Paris-based UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has granted world heritage status to the banks of the Seine and the various styles of French architecture adorning them.
Delanoe's statement on Monday said the project's "hodgepodge architecture displays an ostentatiousness unsuited to a UNESCO world heritage site, or one within view of the Eiffel Tower."
A Russian presidential spokesman in Moscow said the Paris mayor could not block the decision made by the French president. "This is his personal opinion … and it has no legal significance," Viktor Khrekov told RIA-Novosti news agency on Tuesday.
With its 165 million members, the Russian Orthodox Church is the second-largest in Christianity after the 1.3-billion strong Roman Catholic Church. It has been playing an increasingly active role at home and abroad since the end of Soviet communism in 1991.
For images of the planned church and information on the project, click here.
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For Islanders, it is Derby time
The annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby begins Sunday. Time is now measured in tides.
Martha's Vineyard schools welcome the 2012-2013 school year
School administrators anticipate a successful year ahead as Island students head back to their classrooms.
Martha's Vineyard school superintendent highlights changes
Administrative changes, new teachers and support staff, and a state-mandated professional educator evaluation system are in store.
Martha's Vineyard Regional High School adds two new programs
Another of the new initiatives the school put in place for the upcoming year is an Educator Evaluation system.
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Several teachers will change grade levels and take on new assignments to enhance consistency and unity of direction in classroom instruction.
Edgartown School invites more parent involvement
The Edgartown School opens its doors for the 2012-2013 school year on September 6 to 355 students.
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The Best American Infographics 2013 by Gareth Cook, David Byrne The newest volume—fresh and visually arresting—in the acclaimed Best American series, showcasing the finest examples of data visualization from the past year Format: Paperback ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780547973371 ISBN-10: 0547973373 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 10/08/2013 Carton Quantity: 24
About the Book About the Authors Excerpts Reviews About the Book The rise of infographics across virtually all print and electronic media—from a striking breakdown of classic cocktails to a graphic tracking 200 influential moments that changed the world to visually arresting depictions of Twitter traffic—reveals patterns in our lives and our world in fresh and surprising ways. In the era of big data, where information moves faster than ever, infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge—on the environment, politics, social issues, health, sports, arts and culture, and more—to digest, to tweet, to share, to go viral.The Best American Infographics captures the finest examples from the past year, including the ten best interactive infographics, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world. Subjects Popular Culture Conceptual Popular Culture Media Studies Related Subjects Popular Culture Popular Arts Cultural Studies Modern Holiday Gift Guide 2013 About the Author Gareth Cook Series editor GARETH COOK is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and the editor of Mind Matters, Scientific American's neuroscience blog. He helped invent the Boston Globe's Sunday Ideas section and served as its editor from 2007 to 2011. His work has also appeared on NewYorker.com and in Wired, Scientific American, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. David Byrne DAVID BYRNE is a renowned artist, the force behind the Talking Heads and creator of the highly regarded record label Luaka Bop. He is a photographer, film director, and author. Excerpts Introduction by David ByrneWhat a thrill and pleasure it was to be asked to write this introduction. I love these infographic things, and welcomed the excuse to think about them some more. I was not a judge in this selection, but I spent a good few days examining many infographics that did and didn't make it into the final selected group — some of the best of which are interactive and some of the others designed for broadsheet newspapers with their giant pages or four-page foldouts in glossy magazines. Despite the change in context, you'll be able to make sense of most of the wonderful work going on in this odd corner of the workplace, where assignments to include a lot of information battle it out with a publication's available space, printing specs, web technology, and deadlines.The very best of these, in my opinion, engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece — when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there's an instant "Aha!" — we can see how income affects or at least correlates with, for example, folks' levels of education. Or, less expectedly, we might, for example, see how rainfall seems to have a profound effect on consumption of hard liquor (I made that part up). What we can get in this medium is the instant revelation of a pattern that wasn't noticeable before. Many infographics here spark insights, and they do so super quickly. The interactive "Road to Victory," for example, allows one to see Obama's odds against Romney — how Romney had many more options to lose, given the decision tree of possible wins and losses in various states. Surprising us with before-unseen clarity is the kind of thing this medium can sometimes do far better than any other.Sometimes a picture or graphic is indeed worth 1,000 words. Sometimes a graphic is merely a replacement for those words, and sometimes it's an oversized dingbat, merely visually breaking up the blocks of text on the printed or web page. When infographics work, and many of these in Best American Infographics 2013 do, they take you somewhere no other medium can go; they allow and facilitate intuitive insights; and they reveal the hidden patterns buried in mountains of data.The graphic nature of these pieces helps them function as metaphors. Democrats become blue shapes and Republicans red ones. Pop songs are an aqua wedge-shaped snake. I get that. We have an inbuilt ability to manipulate visual metaphors in ways we cannot do with the things and concepts they stand for — to use them as malleable, conceptual Tetris blocks or modeling clay that we can more easily squeeze, stack, and reorder. And then — whammo! — a pattern emerges, and we've arrived someplace we would never have gotten to by any other means. Reviews "Not only is it a thing of beauty it's also a good read, with thoughtful explanations of each winning graphic and an entertaining forward by David Byrne."—Nature


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Ra was the primary Egyptian sun god and sometimes creator god. Ra was the king of the deities. During Egypt's brief flirtation with monotheism, Aten (Aton) was raised as the only deity during the Amarna period, to the woe of the Amon-Ra clergy. The pharaoh Akhenaton sought to enhance his own power and depower the clergy. After his death, worship of Ra was made central again. As the most important deity for thousands of years, Ra was often combined with other deities, including the most famous Atum-Ra and Amon-Ra. He had many other names, with each part of the sun or time of day of the sun often having its own name. One of the most common myths about him was that he sailed across the sky in a solar barge during the day and through the underworld at night. He would bring warmth to the day, but faced the dangers of the Eldritch Abomination, Apep (Apophis), in the form of a giant serpent. Due to his important duties, Ra rarely involved himself in the squabbles of his children gods. Overall, Ra was seen as a benevolent deity who embodied the positive traits of the sun, though he was rather aloof, preferring to withdraw from the squabbles of the other gods, except when it came to Apophis.- Animal Motifs: He was usually depicted in artwork as a man with the head of a hawk, a scarab (In his form as Khepra), or a ram. He was also pictured as a full-bodied ram, beetle, phoenix, heron, serpent, bull, cat, or lion, among others.
- Archenemy: Of Apophis
- Big Good: Reality could not exist if he died.
- King of the Gods: An ancient example.
- Light 'em Up
- Light is Good: He is the God of the Sun, and the protector of reality.
- The Power of the Sun: He was thought to embody its positive, life-giving qualities and traveled on a solar barge.
- Shapeshifter: During dawn and the morning hours he is depicted as a Scarab who pushes the sun upwards, at noon he becomes the iconic eagle-man, and finally at dusk he becomes the more human Atum, the God of the setting sun.
- You Can't Fight Fate: He tried to avert a prophecy that a child of the sky goddess, Nut, would be evil, by forbidding her from having children on any day of the year. Thoth gambled with the moon and won moonlight to create five extra days so Nut could give birth anyway (hence why the Egyptian calendar had twelve months of 30 days even, and an extra thirteenth month of just five days).
Hathor was the goddess of love, music, drunkeness, motherhood, beauty, and joy. She was an important goddess to women and one of Egypt's most important sky deities. Cows were sacred to her. In different stories she is stated to be a wife or daughter of Ra and sometimes the wife or mother of Horus. She had a dark side embodied by the goddess of war, Sekhmet.- Animal Motifs: Often pictured in the form of a cow, or a human with cow ears.
- Action Girl
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Fun Personified
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl
- Hot Goddess
- Jekyll & Hyde: Her alternate form is the savage lioness goddess Sekmet.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: An In-Universe example. She's been paired off with almost every major god in the Egyptian pantheon in different versions of the mythology.
- Love Goddess
Set was a god associated with chaos, storms and the desert. Originally, he served as a powerful protector deity of Upper Egypt. He guarded Ra on his nightly trips to the underworld and was the only god who could defeat the serpent Apophis and resist his hypnotic gaze. When Egypt was unified and the worship of Horus became dominant, Set was increasingly villainized, particularly after Egypt was invaded by a people who identified him with their own chief god. The most famous story about him is his killing of his brother Osiris for the throne of Egypt and his contests with Horus over it.- Animal Motifs: We're not sure what animal, though. Possibly a Fennec fox, otherwise it's just called the 'Set animal'
- Adaptational Villainy: Originally a protective deity, he was demonized into a God of Evil when Egypt split into Upper and Lower sections, and lost further ground as the Horus cult gained in popularity.
- The Beastmaster: He's associated with many animals, including jackals, hippos, snakes, wild boars, crocodiles, asses, and antelopes.
- Berserk Button: He killed his brother in order to get the throne, but possibly because Osiris slept with(or, in some versions, raped) his wife, Nephthys.
- Big Bad: In the Horus myths.
- Brother-Sister Incest: With Nephthys.
- Cain and Abel: The most famous story about him involves him arranging the death of his brother, Osiris.
- Cartoon Creature: No one really knows which animal his head was supposed to represent. Either it was completely made up, or the depiction was stylized until it became unrecognizable.
- Some believe it might be an animal that's now extinct.
- Dark is Not Evil: pre-demonization, he was still a destructive deity of desert and storms.
- Depraved Bisexual: Had tried to humiliate Horus by raping him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He hated the vile Apep as much the other gods. So much so, he help Ra defeat him every night.
- Evil Redhead: Was often depicted as one in Egyptian art as his followers were red-haired.
- Evil Uncle
- FaceHeel Turn: Demonized after the Hyksos invasion. (He was also the god of foreigners.)
- God of Evil: While Set started out as the noble protecter of Ra, his murder of his brother Osiris and... intense rivalry with his nephew Horus, along with his association with foreign invaders, chaos, and the desert, led to him being demonized.
- Groin Attack: He is on the receiving end of one in some myths - Horus castrates him.
- HeelFace Turn: After Horus got the throne back.
- Might Makes Right: some versions have him represent this in opposition to Horus's Right Makes Might, the conflict between rule by force and rule by birthright.
- Murderers Are Rapists: He murdered his brother and raped (or tried to, depending on the version) his nephew.
- Order Versus Chaos: Set is a god of chaos.
- Really Gets Around: Despite his sterility he was best-known for sexual prowess, to the point it was invoked in sex-related spells.
- Real Men Eat Meat: Averted; despite being a tough warrior god, his favorite food was lettuce. It was considered an aphrodisiac, and he had fertility problems.
- Trickster: The Alternative Character Interpretation of Adaptational Villainy and I Did What I Had to Do lends to this as a Lighter and Softer interpretation, with a comparison to Loki of Norse Mythology.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: An Alternative Character Interpretation of Cartoon Creature above, which also ties in with Trickster: the nonsensical creature head symbolizing transformation at will.
Bast was a cat goddess associated with the sun, fertility, music, and lionesses. She was very popular with children and the common folk because she protected them and kept their fields safe from crop-destroying pests (which cats do by eating rats and mice). Bast had a whole city (Bubastis) devoted to her cult. Later re-appropriated by Robert Bloch into H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. She also appears in Neil Gaiman's Sandman.- Animal Motifs: She appears as a small cat or a lioness.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Was originally a savage lion goddess akin to Sekhmet.
- Cat Girl: The original cat girl.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Ye gods was she popular — like if Betty White and The Fonz starred in a spin-off of Harry Potter.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover
- Petting Zoo People: Often depicted with the head of a cat and as the goddess of cats.
- The Power of the Sun: Sometimes worshipped as a sun goddess.
Sekhmet, Bastet and Hathor's darker counterpart, was a lioness goddess who specialized in war, poisons, and plagues. She was an Omnicidal Maniac and literal Blood Knight, until she was tricked into getting drunk with blood-colored beer. She may or may not be an alternate form of Hathor. Sekhmet was often a protector of the pharaohs and a personification of the darker side of the sun (drought, all-consuming fire etc...).- Ax-Crazy
- Blood Knight: Her rampage ended only when Ra got her drunk on something she thought was blood.
- Dark Action Girl
- I'm a Humanitarian
- Jekyll & Hyde: Her alternate form is the benevolent goddess Hathor.
- Light is Not Good: She was also associated with the sun.
- Petting Zoo People: Often depicted with the head of a lioness.
- Playing with Fire
- The Power of the Sun
Nephthys was a funerary goddess, mother of Anubis (in some stories), and wife of Set. She feared her husband deeply, and as such, abandoned Anubis when Set discovered Anubis' real father was Osiris. She eventually became associated with death and the afterlife after Osiris' cult took prominence, but her original nature is unknown. She was one of several goddesses who welcomed the dead into the afterlife.- Beware the Nice Ones
- Brother-Sister Incest: With Set.
- Darker and Edgier: When associated with the afterlife.
- Dark is Not Evil: Despite being associated with death, her role was rather to protect and guide the souls of the dead.
- Psychopomp
- Twin Switch: Disguised herself as Isis once and slept with Osiris, which was how Anubis was conceived.
Anubis, the jackal god of mummification, judge of souls, and lesser god of the dead, is the most recognizable of all Egyptian gods. His parentage is disputed depending on the source, but he is usually considered the son of Osiris and Nephthys through an affair, and raised to believe he was Set's son. However unlike Set, Anubis had great compassion for humanity and their differences went so far as to lead to Set abandoning him. Isis took pity on him and revealed that her husband was his true father. He later became one of Horus's chief allies against Set. He weighs every dead person's heart against the feather of Ma'et (Justice); if it's too heavy from wicked deeds, the heart gets eaten by a nearby monster, Ammut the Devourer of the Dead. Otherwise, the righteous dead person may proceed to the Afterlife.- Ascended Extra: Depicted as the Egyptian god of death in popular media instead of Osiris. Originally he was one of the most important gods of the dead, but Osiris eventually surpassed him. One interpretation is that he stepped down from the position when Osiris entered the afterlife. What likely happened was some areas of Egypt worshiped Anubis as God of Death while others worshiped Osiris, and when the kingdom united rather than get rid of one or the other they made a compromise.
- Child by Rape: outside of the osirian cycle, Osiris got drunk and raped his mother.
- Dark is Not Evil: Despite being a god of the dead, he is a just god and a pretty cool guy.
- Everybody Hates Hades: Often depicted as a villain when he was far from it.
- Furry Fandom: Particularly popular, with plenty of Rule 34. Malaysian furry artist Lim Guo Liang lampooned this by showing Anubis lamenting his modern sex symbol status◊.Anubis: I was once a great God of Death... Now, I'm a bloody symbol of sodomy and lust. WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?!
- Parental Abandonment: By Set
Osiris is the god of the afterlife, of the fertile vegetation of the Nile valley, and of resurrection and rebirth. He is the son of the primordial earth god Geb and sky goddess Nut, along with his siblings Isis, Nephthys, and Set. Along with his Isis and Anubis, he oversees the weighing of the heart and lets souls enter the afterlife if they pass the test. He is a very prominent example of a Life-Death-Rebirth god. He was the king of Egypt after his father Geb (or in other versions Ra) stepped down. Set tricked him into entering a coffin and killed him by throwing him into the Nile. When his wife Isis managed to find the body, Set tore it apart, scattering his pieces across Egypt. His pieces were found and he was eventually resurrected thanks to the efforts of Isis and Anubis. Yet, because he had died, he stayed in the land of the dead, becoming its ruler.- Adaptational Heroism: in earlier myth he's not as benevolent as in the osirian cycle.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Has greenish skin in most artwork, representing his dominion over life and fertility.
- Back from the Dead
- Brother-Sister Incest: His wife Isis is most commonly also his sister.
- Came Back Wrong: Osiris seems to be a cross between Destination Host Unreachable and Inhuman Human.
- Destination Host Unreachable: After being murdered by Set, Osiris was resurrected twice but couldn't stay in our world either time. The first time, he died almost immediately after having sex with Isis and impregnating her with Horus. The second time, he was shuffled off to the the underworld to rule over the dead. This wasn't such a bad deal for him, though, as in Egyptian mythology the underworld is a pretty nice place, more akin to heaven than to other mythological underworlds. And Osiris stayed a powerful god and was venerated by the people of Egypt as one of their chief deities.
- Groin Attack: For sleeping with/raping Nephthys, Seth not only cut him in 14 pieces but also fed his penis to a catfish. Isis crafted him a prosthetic one from solid gold.
- Inhuman Human: Maybe, as he's usually portrayed as a blue- or green-skinned mummy after his resurrection. He was still able to impregnate Isis, though.
- Cain and Abel: With Set.
- Dark is Not Evil: For the same reasons as Anubis above.
- Distressed Dude: The Ur-Example. A central point of Egyptian mythology is the story of Isis having to rescue him (and resurrect him with the help of Anubis) after he had been killed by Set.
- The Good King: His reign as King of Egypt was considered a Golden Age.
- Too Dumb to Live: He trusted his brother Set, after cheating with his wife. Set, up till then, had been more popular than him for protecting Ra.
- Even worse in earlier versions of the myth, where he RAPED Nephthys while drunk.
Isis was the goddess of magic, healing, and motherhood. Her struggles against her brother Set to rescue her murdered husband-brother Osiris and secure the throne of Egypt for her son Horus formed a hugely popular saga in ancient times. An annual festival of Osiris was held to commemorate the event, always including a re-enactment of the myth. One of Isis's titles was She Who Knows All Names (a fairly menacing moniker, as name-based cursing was considered lethal by the Egyptians), and indeed, she was said to be the only being who knew Ra's true name.- Action Girl
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Even though she still is a benevolent goddess, Isis convinced Ra to tell her his secret name by poisoning him. She's also well known to be clever and deceptive.
- Brother-Sister Incest: With Osiris.
- The Coup: After forcing Ra to tell her his secret name, she fired him to step down so Horus could assume the throne.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: With the Greeks and Romans, most foreign gods were usually identified as one of the Olympian gods, but Isis became so popular during the Hellenistic Period that many goddesses from around the Mediterranean were being identified as her.
- Hot Witch: She is the goddess of magic.
- I Love the Dead: With Osiris' corpse, though she also brought him back to life.
- I Will Find You: She had to search for Osiris's body twice (once when he was killed by Set by way of being thrown into the Nile in a coffin, and again when Set tore his body into pieces and scattered them across Egypt).
- Lady of Black Magic: The only god who could compete with her based on sheer breadth and power of spells was Thoth.
- Losing Your Head: after accidentally disrupting a fight between Horus and Seth, Horus beheads her and escapes with her head. She gets better later.
- Mama Bear: She went to great lengths to make Horus king and protect him from Set.
- Not What it Looks Like: In one myth, after one of Osiris' deaths, his coffin was sealed inside a pillar in a noblewoman's house. Isis posed as a nurse to the woman's child to get close to her husband, and grew fond of the boy. One day the mother found Isis had set her son on fire and snatched him away... but those flames would have made the kid immortal, and now he was just like any other child.
- Scary Scorpions: Averted. Isis was associated with scorpions, but she was one of the more benevolent deities, and the association is likely to have originated from female scorpions' carrying their young on their backs to defend them, corresponding to Isis' role as a mother figure and her own protection over baby Horus.
- Necromantic
The name Horus can apply to any of a half a dozen gods in different roles and relationships. In some stories, he is a brother of Set, Isis, and Osiris. Most commonly, he is thought of as the child of Osiris and Isis. He contested with Set over the throne of Egypt, a struggle lasting decades, before winning. He became a god associated with the sun, moon, sky, war, righteous vengeance, and kingship. The Egyptians considered their pharaoh to be the avatar/personification of Horus on Earth.- All-Loving Hero
- Animal Motifs: The falcon.
- Bi the Way/Foe Yay: Had what amounts to "hate sex" with Set.
- Blow You Away: The god of the sky.
- God-Emperor: The Pharaohs were held to be his earthly incarnation.
- Eye Scream: Had one of his eyes gouged out by Set.
- Hijacked by Jesus: Often shoehorned into the Jesus role, especially by people who watched Zeitgeist. Let's make a couple of things clear: Horus was not born on December 25th (...maybe, though his birthdate was not relevant in cultus), and was most assuredly not born of a virgin. He did resemble Jesus in that he was a deity associated with healing and with resurrection - though he only "resurrected" if you go by greek notions that he was his father, Osiris, reborn.
- Lunacy: Although he was associated with the Sun, he was also associated with the Moon, and it was thought that both were his eyes, the moon being the less bright eye because he was blinded by Set in their battles.
- Petting Zoo People: Had the head of a falcon.
- The Power of the Sun: Another sun god.
- You Killed My Father: The source of his feud with Set.
Bes, a capering dwarfish god who may have been imported from Nubia. He protected children from harm and, as an opponent of evil, symbolized the enjoyment of life. Unlike the other Egyptian gods, he was represented facing forward instead of in profile.- Canon Immigrant: His unusual design was often attributed to being an import to Egypt, but recent archaeological evidence suggests he's actually one of the oldest Egyptian gods.
- Hijacked by Jesus: Was likely Hijacked By Jesus to become Saint Bessus, venerated in northern Italy (they both wear ostrich plumes).
- Non-Standard Character Design
Thoth is the god of the moon, wisdom, medicine, astronomy, magic, and writing. He can appear as an ibis, ibis-headed man, or baboon. In one myth he was the one responsible for tricking Sekhmet into drinking blood-colored wine and ending her rampage.- Bookworm: Thought to have invented writing and most if not all areas of knowledge.
- Lunacy
- Mediator: Mediated the struggles between Horus and Set to ensure neither became too powerful, and to bring their violent conflict to an end.
- The Smart Guy
Sobek, a crocodile-god of the Nile, water and fertility, and occasionally patron god of the army. Seen occasionally as a creator deity, and often associated with Ra.- Making a Splash
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sometimes revered, sometimes reviled, he was rather ambiguous in terms of worship. He brought fertility, but his sacred animal is extremely dangerous, and he was said to take women from their husbands whenever he felt like it.
Ma'et, a personification of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice, the complete opposite of Apep/Apophis. The feather which symbolized her was used by Anubis to weigh and test the hearts of the dead. She was married to Thoth in some traditions. The order of the cosmos, which Ma'et embodied, was established by Ra at the dawn of time and had to be continually defended from the forces of chaos to prevent the universe from collapsing.- Barrier Maiden
- Distaff Counterpart: To Thoth.
- Lawful Good
- Order Versus Chaos: Balanced against Apophis.
He is the embodiment of chaos and god of darkness, storms, earthquakes, and basically anything harmful. He attacked Ra and his entourage every night as they traveled through the underworld, and had a hypnotic gaze he'd use before trying to swallow them (if he succeed, it was one explanation for a solar eclipse). After the Hyksos invaded Egypt and identified Set with their chief god, his characteristics were combined with Set, who then became known as the god of evil.- 0% Approval Rating: Is hated by pretty much every god out there. He is so terrible that even other chaos gods detest him.
- Archenemy: Of Ra, whom he tries to murder every night. Arguably of Set as well, who has to fight him every night.
- Big Bad: Of the whole mythos in general.
- Cessation of Existence: Inflicts this on those souls he devours.
- Complete Immortality: Is stated to be eternal and that Ra is destined to repel him for all eternity. Apophis is the only god in the mythos known to have this.
- Dark is Evil: God of darkness actually, which is a major component of his portfolio.
- The Dreaded:So much so that he was the only deity actively prayed AGAINST, and there were whole books dedicated to attacking and repelling him.
- Eldritch Abomination
- God of Evil: Actually a god who was unquestionably pure evil, and not worshiped at all.
- Greater Scope Villain: To Set.
- Hypnotic Eyes: Used this to lure the gods in before eating them. Only Set could resist it.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Sought to reduce the entire universe to a void.
- Order Versus Chaos: Firmly on the chaos side.
- The Scottish Trope: You weren't supposed to say his name.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Ra has to face him each night, kill him, and then face him again the next night for all eternity.
- The Undead: Lives in the land of the dead and therefore cannot be slain.
- Ascended Extra: Double-subversion; she is not among the chief deities, but she was a well-known household goddess.
- Dark is Not Evil: Although married to the above-mentioned Set, she is generally a benevolent goddess. She protects women (pregnant women in particular), and she restrains her husband from doing evil.
- Expansion Pack Past: Started off as evil, then regarded as benevolent. She may also be another aspect of the above-mentioned Hathor.
- Expy: Has one in the form of the soul-eating demoness Ammit. Where Tawaret gives life, Ammit takes it away.
- Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: No one seems to have a problem with her cheating on her husband, probably because he is the Big Bad.
- Good Is Not Nice: Sometimes has to lasso her husband to keep him in line and protect humanity.
- I Have Many Names: Tawaret, Tuaret, Reret, just to name a few
- Interspecies Romance: A very ironic one; she's a hippo, and her lover Sobek is a crocodile. In Real Life, these particular animals do not get along.
- Kavorka Woman: Takes the form of a hippo with pendulous breasts, but she has multiple lovers and is pretty much always pregnant, so she must be doing something right!
- Longest Pregnancy Ever: Seems to always be pregnant.
- Really Gets Around: Is married to Set, and has Bes and Sobek (and several other gods) as lovers. Sobek seems to be her favorite, though.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: Has characteristics of a hippo, a lion, and a human, and sometimes a crocodile.
- Mother of a Thousand Young