Thabo Mbeki is a typical African leader, and he has been busily turning South Africa into a typical African nation, marked by support for other thugocracies, a paranoid, unscientific AIDS policy and support for the murderous Mugabe regime. That doesn't leave much room for moral exceptionalism.
I have never had much use for the moral posturing of the South African black leaders and I'm rather surprised by the surprise of those who had. The reason that the ANC was able to take power bloodlessly was because the old - Apartheid - government handed the reins over without a civil war. I am not persuaded that - in 50 years - this will turn out to have been a good thing for either white or black inhabitants of Africa.
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