IT'S RUSSIA, NOT AFRICA, BLOODY STUPID: THE UKRAINIAN FASCIST PUTSCH, WESTERN DIPLOMATIC HYPOCRISY AND SOUTH AFRICA'S EFFEMINATE CRIMEA POLICY
INTRODUCTION
In one of its promotional audio clips, which has become a kind of its signature debate emblem, Power FM, the new Johannesburg, northern suburb-based radio station presumably catering predominantly to the so-called black middle class of the Gauteng province of South Africa, former president Thabo Mbeki can be heard, in his typical deep monotone voice, intoning:
"It would be good if, in the future, you heard people say, if you want to know the truth about what is happening in the world, switch onto Power FM."
Or something to that effect.
In search of the truth about the volatile situation in Crimea, and the tensions over it between Russia and Ukraine, as well as between Russia and the West over Ukraine itself , I have been switching onto Power FM the last few weeks, taking a cue from Mbeki's advice.