South Africa – the Testing Ground of the Western Countries

Read the full interview at firstalliance.info/life-in-south-africa

This is an interview with Author and Journalist, Mel Ve, who was born in South Africa, and lived there for 23 years before fleeing as an economic refugee.

The following conversation deals with the days of Apartheid, when South Africa was at it’s economic peak, due to the ingenious policy of separate development, which saw the preservation of cultures due to the allocation of Bantustans. The Bantustan system saw the allocation of large tracts of tribal land to the native Africans, which were governed and run by various tribal heads, complete with their own systems of law, education and infrastructure. At this time, the various nationhood states within Southern Africa lived according to their traditions, whilst preserving their own specific cultural heritage.