I love South Africa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1uoJqmmHg

A song that illustrates the ambiguous feelings that South Africans have for their beloved country.

It uses images of township violence during the late 80's and early 90's when ANC activists tried to make the country ungovernable by destroying schools, houses and community centres. Of the 20,000 people that died in political violence during the 40 years of the Apartheid-era, 15,000 died in the last 4 years, as a result of black-on-black violence, after the ANC was upgraded from a banned terrorist organization to a political party in 1990.

During the same period, about 400 people died as a result of security police action. Police action was purely aimed at maintaining law and order, not to oppress black people in their townships, as has been propagated widely in the media.

Today the death toll from crime is 20,000 murders per year, and this is what causes ordinary, law-abiding South Africans to fear their country.

The song uses images of violence and the natural beauty of South Africa to contrast the feelings of love and fear that we have for our country.