1 Thank God for him indeed! Who'd ever have thought that one of our greatest friends would have been a foreigner? And do you remember when we counted South Africans as enemies because of (shudder) apartheid? When as innocuous a chap as golfer Gary Player was regularly booed?

2 I remember the Apartheid era and how S. Africans were treated.

Musician Manfred Mann was an exile from his own country because if he ever went home, even just to visit family, he was going to be blacklisted. He spoke of it once. As if HE was responsible for the policies of his government!

The funny thing is we let known terrorists come from the Middle East and say we have no right to stop them, yet we somehow found the right to stop peaceful artists and scholars and athletes from South Africa when it suited us.