The nature of the recent white diaspora characterizes failure of Reconciliatory and Restorative Justice Laws and Programmes in South Africa

Law operations which governs man and man in their diversity in South Africa tend to show fail in milestone. It shows the negation in teleology of structured laws that regulate the diverse interactions of peoples in South Africa. These laws derive from the constitutional provision in section 3 (1) of the Constitution as regards common South African citizenship for black and white. It further shows on face value, that by virtue of the circumstance of the diaspora by white South Africans, South Africa gets to be seen to have failed to live up to this constitutional provision. In terms of Section 3 (3) thereof, the

- By Willy Ditlhake

legislatures and politicians at most had failed to live to "create legislation that provides for loss of citizenship".

The undertaking by whites in the recent departure connotes the awry uphold of the constitutional provision as regards the principle of co-existence by either white or blacks. It shows also that the diversion by whites is a creature of a circumstance not covered by the constitution. What this means is that, diaspora by their historical Biblical Old Testament and New Testament experiences, occurred due to irregularities of laws creating hardship to the captured Jews and Christians respectively, when Babylon had staged captivity on the Jews and when Christians were persecuted for their allegiance to the God of Israel. Odium therefor characterizes diaspora.