GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The destructive power of nationalistic symbols

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Above all else, honour thy symbols, is the mythologised mantra of the ANC, which loves the idea of things working rather than working ideas

Power within the ANC is largely symbolic. The ANC government is incompetent. The bridge between the fantasy and reality is the symbol.“Korean Air had more plane crashes than almost any other airline in the world for a period at the end of the 1990s. When we think of airline crashes, we think, Oh, they must have had old planes. They must have had badly trained pilots. No. What they were struggling with was a cultural legacy, that Korean culture is hierarchical.

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