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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:28:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-10-22 8:02 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> (They used to do that--declaring somebody “illegal”--in Apartheid South   
   >> Africa.)   
   >   
   > And they were right to do so. South Africa used to be a country of laws   
   > and social order.   
      
   The whites were nutcases, let's face it. They had “whites-only”   
   hospitals, so somebody who needed care but wasn’t “white” had to be   
   taken elsewhere -- if they were lucky.   
      
       As a 20-something singer touring with the Manhattan Brothers, the   
       biggest Black band in South Africa, [Miriam Makeba] was involved   
       in a crash with a white family’s car that left the white father   
       and one of his children dead. The whites were bundled into an   
       ambulance and the Blacks were left to die on the side of a   
       provincial road. The local “white” hospital refused to treat them   
       and one of Makeba’s companions ended up dying an entirely   
       preventable death when he finally reached Johannesburg two days   
       later.   
      
      
      
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