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1. Stress under autocratic society in general is bad.

This is how South African Blacks lived for 200 years.

A Libyan who went into exile away from Gaddafi, wrote that he would not be surprised if a large number of Libyans had mental health issues, after living for so long being afraid to talk.

People who sit in judgement of people who have been oppressed, have absolutely no idea of what is like.

I remember a Black South African friend who was always cheerful (as most of them were even under oppression), who showed me the deep, dark anger hidden away when we talked about the government. It came as a shock, because I had never seen that side. As we talking in the dark evening outside near her tiny kaia, about her worries about her son turning into a tsotsi and the fact that she could not afford to see a doctor about her leg, and the impact of the government, she shook her hand in anger in the sky in the direction of Pretoria. The anger was palpable.