South Africa: Tutu said sth.

In South Africa the violent black youth goes on the road and riots. The tension in the country with the glaring social contrasts grows. Radical tones like violent protests are proofs as well as irritating speeches of Nobel peace prize laureate Tutu. The demands for nationalization of industries and expropriation of whites have growing approval.

The functionary of the South African government party ANC, Andile Lungisa, had threatened "The protests of the unemployed persons would make the country ungovernable in september. The power of five white families…, the Stellenbosch Mafia" , must be broken. On tuesday, South Africa got an early taste of it, how it could look, if the hateful black youth of the country unloads its rage.

About 6000 supporters of the ANC youth org chief Julius Malema rioted in front of ANC headquarters in Johannesburg, where the 30-year old had to stand trial for party-damaging behaviour. The demonstrators attacked journalists, smashed shop windows and burned T-shirts with the portrait of the ANC chairman and president Jacob Zuma. The ANC veteran Kebby Maphatsoe condemned the actions with "germinating a civil war". The incidents in South Africa really surprised hardly anyone.

The recent rant of Nobel peace prize laureate Desmond Tutu was much more surprising. South Africa owes it to the 79-year old that the end of the racist apartheid system in the 90's did not lead to hatred and civil war. One year ago Tutu had announced, now finally "becoming too old". He wanted to dedicate himself to family, "to read, write, pray and reflect." Many -already at that time- did not believe a word from the charismatic, transpiring ex-archbishop.

Now he raised actually again his voice: He demanded a "Reparations" - tax of the whites. Whites, who "profited from the apartheid, should pay a kind of special tax" regarding the large gap between poor and rich . Thus Tutu continued to heat up the explosive topic racism in South Africa. 'For the first time since 17 years the topic of the skin color moved again into the center of the debate,' commentated frightened "Cape Times."