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[a_kleber]

It had always been hoped that the coming of democracy would see a return of the South African diaspora, for the country had leaked talent throughout the apartheid period. In the event, not one tenth of the white émigrés returned. I was one of the few white returnees of the diaspora. Many, even of those who did return, did not stay long. Everyone welcomed democracy but none could welcome the hugely higher crime rate, the anti-white, anti-Asian and anti-coloured discrimination in the job market and the speed with which Mandela's rhetoric of national reconciliation gave way to Mbeki's black nationalism.

RW Johnson, An African Lament