The South African writer, Rian Malan, put it well a few years ago, when he tried to explain to a foreign audience why he could not imagine living anywhere else. It's boring where you are," he wrote. Yet, when you peer behind some of the headlines, things can seem less dramatic. Yes, he shot his girlfriend dead. Perhaps he was afraid of burglars. You could see it all as another sign that a violent country is going to the dogs or you could marvel at the huge new Pretoria estate the athlete lived in, surrounded by other huge new middle class suburbs, where race is no longer such a big deal, and younger South Africans worry more about their mobile phones than about what life will be like after Mr Mandela.
The drive from Mr Pistorius' home to Johannesburg is an eye-opener. In the space of a few years the two cities have essentially merged. For the whole minute drive new business parks and suburbs line the motorway. It was perhaps fitting that a senior government minister chose this week - with Mr Mandela still in hospital - to declare a decisive break with the past.
We must stop "looking over our shoulder, we are responsible ourselves", said the Planning Minister Trevor Manuel. He urged a gathering of civil servants to stop blaming apartheid for everything that was still going wrong in South Africa.
The scars of apartheid are still real here. They will not be easily shrugged off. Inequality endures and the economy is not growing anywhere near as fast as it needs to, unlike so many other corners of this continent. But as South Africa waits to hear news, good or bad, about Nelson Mandela it is slowly coming to terms with the fact that its heroic years are over. How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent:. Second minute programme on Thursdays, BST some weeks only.
The funeral and burial cap took place over 10 days of national mourning. On December 15, tribal leaders clad in animal skins stood alongside officials in dark suits as Mandela's coffin, which was draped with the South African flag, was buried in his childhood village of Qunu.
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Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York, for his heroic action earlier in the year. On December 5, , the legendary television producer and executive Roone Arledge dies in New York City, at the age of The movie marked the first major starring role for Murphy, who went on to become one of the top-grossing actors in Hollywood.
Murphy was Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. A fire at the Brooklyn Theater in New York kills nearly people and injures hundreds more on December 5, The Mandela Effect tells the story of a father who suffers intense grief after the sudden death of his daughter. Register Sign In. South Africa. Many people from different parts of the world 'remember' struggle icon Nelson Mandela 'dying' in the s, long before he became president of South Africa.
Many people from around the world, including paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, remembered SA's former president Nelson Mandela "dying" in the s on Robben Island, long before he became SA's first black president.
Upon interviewing hundreds of people, Broome discovered that many had a different recollection of details, including when Mother Teresa was sanctified, the death of Neil Armstrong and how many states make up America. Robert Crowder said he learnt of Mandela's death in the mids in his geography class. This brain machinery, according to Ramirez, is not only responsible for this, but it also reconstructs the past.
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