African immigrants in South Africa are not unaware of the irony of their treatment in the self-proclaimed "Rainbow Nation," whose constitution declares "that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity." But for Betri Jama, 21, whose shop in Motherwell was razed in February, South Africans are not learning from their own history: "The same people who know oppression, who know dehumanization, they are the people who are oppressing us now," she says.

This is a very hostile article. You get the strong impression that the writer would prefer the old apartheid white rule was back!!!

"The same people who know oppression, who know dehumanization, they ...

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African immigrants in South Africa are not unaware of the irony of their treatment in the self-proclaimed "Rainbow Nation," whose constitution declares "that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity." But for Betri Jama, 21, whose shop in Motherwell was razed in February, South Africans are not learning from their own history: "The same people who know oppression, who know dehumanization, they are the people who are oppressing us now," she says.

This is a very hostile article. You get the strong impression that the writer would prefer the old apartheid white rule was back!!!

"The same people who know oppression, who know dehumanization, they are the people who are oppressing us now," she says.

These words would be more appropriately applied to the US's client state where the oppressed certainly have become the oppressors of totally innocent victims. A case of the camp inmates becoming the guards!!!