A new mixed elite is replacing the whitewash of a decade ago.The likes of Mr Ramaphosa made their pile in the first phase of empowerment, when big white-owned conglomerates, such as Anglo-American, a mining company now listed in London, unbundled parts of their business to black investors who had borrowed money to buy shares.
The issue here is the price of oil and his whitewash of a corrupted market (our OPEC friends, were they American or chargeable under American law, would all be sitting in jail as massive violators of anti-trust laws).
Goudsmit and other critics said those statements were a whitewash of an active bomb program stymied only by Heisenberg's misunderstanding of some basic physics of bombs.
There's been outrage over the "whitewashing" of a Chinese movie with Damon, but it seems that the marketing within China features Damon as just one of five co-leads, with Andy Lau in the primary role.
There is no set formula for justice that effectively wipes the slate clean -- and which will prevent either a whitewashing of a scandal or an overreaction that decimates the careers of those who naively thought they were just doing their job.
Under his fine-point micromanagement a group of mature players were able to perform for three years to the peak of their abilities, most noticeably during the brilliantly focused, brilliantly brutal roll-over glory of a World Twenty20 victory, a Test whitewash of India and an away Ashes victory.
A few days earlier, Nisman, the prosecutor in charge of the AMIA case, had released a report alleging that Kirchner had tried to orchestrate a whitewash of the investigation in a bid to pave the way for a deal to trade large quantities of much needed Iranian oil for Argentine grain. .
Others on Twitter compared Cranston's move to Scarlett Johansson's decision to play a transgender man (she changed her mind after public backlash) or Emma Stone's whitewashing of an Asian character in "Aloha" (she apologized just days ago at the Golden Globes).
Robert Bolt wrote many fine plays other than his seductive whitewash of Sir Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons, so it is refreshing to find his first West End hit getting a rare outing.
There are signs that time is approaching: Mayweather's failed negotiations with HBO before moving to Showtime and the underwhelming buy rate for his May whitewash of Robert Guerrero intimated a decline, however slight, in his pricing power.
If someone were to be so ambitious as to write a series on the "Highest Values of Western Civilization," one could also see it as a whitewash of history, as well as an unrealistic and problematic undertaking.
