I was just browsing through all these photos

These ruins are the places I frequented while growing up in Johannesburg.

Under the rule of Communist led ANC rule it has become a ghetto of filth

run by Nigerian gang lords, murderers, thieves, gang rapists etc.

The following excerpt from The Jourmals of Ayn Rand came to mind.

What is destroying all civilization? Just this one idea—that to a good cause

everything can be sacrificed; that individual men have no rights which must

be respected; that what one person believes to be good can be put over on

the others by force. And if you—in the privacy of your own mind—believe so

strongly in some particular good of yours that you would be willing to deprive

men of all rights for the sake of this good, then you are as guilty of all the

horrors of today as Hitler and Stalin. These horrors are made possible only

by men who have lost all respect for single, individual human beings, who

accept the idea that classes, races and nations matter, but single persons

do not, that a majority is sacred, but a minority is dirt, that herds count,

but Man is nothing. Where do you stand on this? There is no middle ground.

Recently a friend of mine emailed me the following two depositions ( 1 2 ) by "Agliotti,

the Landlord", a high flying South African Mafioso now facing charges of bribery, corruption and murder

together with Jackie Selebi, South Africas Chief of Police and the leader of Interpol.

One of the barristers mentioned in these documents actually purchased some electronic

law libraries off me once...so close to home. After reading through these two intriguing

documents, another excerpt from Ayn's work (The Fountainhead) sprang to mind.

"two forces that had fought since the world began—and every religion had known of them—

and there had always been a God and a Devil—only men had been so mistaken about the

shapes of their Devil—he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small. "