Translated from French for the Saker blog by Y
In South Africa, on April 27, 1994, 25 years ago, the first multiracial elections were held. Thanks to them, the hell of apartheid was going to be forgotten and heaven on earth was going to happen, since fountains of non-racial democracy were going to flow milk and honey. Hallelujah!
Twenty-five years later, the illusions were dispelled and the country sank:
– Official unemployment rate, 27.7% (unofficial rate 40%).
– Unemployment of young people aged 15 to 34, 38.8% according to the official rate.
– GDP growth in free fall: 3.5% in 2011; 2.6% in 2012; 1.9% in 2013; 0.6% in 2016; 1.3% in 2017 and 0.8% in 2018, whereas it would take 7% for several decades to simply stabilize poverty.
– Economy entered a technical recession since 2018.
– Income of the poorest part of the black population almost 50% lower than before 1994.
– One in three people surviving on food stamps, the Social Grant.
– With the exception of agriculture, a branch still controlled by whites, all the South African economic sectors are in decline or bankruptcy, starting with the labor industries (textiles, clothing, footwear), which could not resist Chinese imports. As for the mechanical sectors in which, before 1994, South Africa produced most of the parts it needed, they are moribund. The mines have sunk. Due to production losses and rising operating costs, many secondary wells have closed, resulting in the layoff of tens of thousands of miners. Maintaining production would have required a huge investment, but the social climate, corruption and insecurity discouraged investors who preferred to shift their activities to less uncertain countries.
– The mining industry is penalized by repeated power cuts because the public company Eskom, literally plundered by its new leaders appointed by the ANC lived on the legacy left by the white regime without making the necessary investments. As a result, mines, which now account for 10% of South Africa’s GDP, employ 8% of the country’s labor force and are the country’s largest employer with 500,000 direct jobs, have lost more than 300,000 jobs since 1994.
– Crime makes South Africa one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
– The once exceptional medical network has disappeared.
In the face of this disaster, let us look back. In 1994, when, after lying to his people, President De Klerk brought to power a Nelson Mandela who was absolutely unable to conquer it by arms, he bequeathed to the ANC [African National Congress] the first economy of the continent, a country with communications and transport infrastructure on par with developed countries, a modern and prosperous financial sector, broad energy independence, a diversified industry, high-level technical capabilities and the first African army.
Free from “racial oppression”, the “new South Africa” was immediately prey to the ANC predatory party, whose incompetent and corrupt cadres had as their main objective their own enrichment. Cartoon of the corrupt, President Zuma was ousted by a coup d’état internal to the ANC and this brought to power Vice-President Cyril Ramaphosa. On this occasion, the media world sang it as usual: rid of the «mafioso» Zuma replaced by the «virtuous» Ramaphosa, South Africa would be able to reconnect with Nelson Mandela’s legacy.
Now, as I said at the time, apart from the fact that a Venda was going to replace a Zulu, this palace revolution was not going to change anything in the country. From Jacob Zuma, linked to the Gupta Indian gang, succeeded former trade unionist Cyril Ramaphosa, who had betrayed his fellow miners by selling himself to the white employers. In fact, it was on the boards of the mining companies on which he was appointed to counter the demands of the miners whom he had represented before 1994 that he built his colossal fortune!!
Taken between the pressures of the pro-Western business circles of which he was the creature, and those of the heavy radical-racial tendencies that constitute the business of the ANC and the supporters of Julius Malema, the new president was quickly paralyzed. And, of course, he used the usual joker of the desperate ANC politicians, namely the denunciation of the scapegoat represented by the white farmer.
25 years after the first multiracial elections, and as Julius Malema rightly said: “The only thing that has changed in South Africa is that a white government has been replaced by a black government.”
With a difference however: before 1994 blacks were not starving, they were healed and educated for free, electricity was working, water shortages were unknown and the policemen were doing their job.
But all this is a thing of the past because between 1994 and 2019, the ANC, the Nelson Mandela’s movement, led South Africa to disaster. According to the World Bank, and despite achieving ¼ of the entire continent’s GDP, the country has now become one of the five “worst performing” countries in Africa, just ahead of Comoros, Madagascar, Sudan and Swaziland…
In 25 years of power, the ANC has therefore ruined a prosperous country, transforming it into a “third world” state, drifting into a sea of shortages, corruption, social misery and violence.
source : http://bernardlugan.blogspot.com/2019/04/27-avril-1994-le-debut-du-naufrage-de.html
“The first multiracial elections were held. Thanks to them, the hell of apartheid was going to be forgotten”
-Aye, so speak the western liberals, the truth is that the nightmare was just about to begin… South Africa should have been broken up into several smaller ethnostates Zulus with their own nation and so forth. South Africa is one of those dysfunctional artificial constructs of several nations that was just pushed together without any regard for the ethnic and cultural situation on the ground, resulting in eternal ethnic conflicts and corruption
It was the exact long term plan of HF Verwoerd to create a confederation of states out of the Union of South Africa, created through military conquest by the British Empire.
HF Verwoerd was the Prime Minister of the Union, that led the country to independence from Britain in 1961.
In the run-up to independence, and the few years after it, with a government truly focused on developing the country, the new Republic of South Africa became an economic powerhouse.
The Empire of course never forgave HF Verwoerd.
The second assassination attempt was successful on Sept. 6, 1966.
In his place came John Vorster, long groomed by the Empire.
The Empire was back in charge again.
Verwoerd’s policies were still officially in place, but slowly stalled in practice.
By the early 1980’s it was openly abandoned by the government, and officially denounced by the mid 80’s.
The newly in charge ANC, of course wasted no time in 1994 to join the British Commonwealth again.. and was of course welcomed with open arms..
I’m from South Africa as well, and I feel compelled to reply to this piece.
This article represents everything that was wrong with Apartheid South Africa…the friends of Likud who (in South Africa) pretended that white colonists and their offspring were here to civilize the black savages while they enslaved and slaughtered the indigenous people and stole everything they could in service of their ethnic “euro-“Stan, also known as Apartheid South Africa. The spoils of the theft/corruption was parceled out amongst the ethnic white population and their friends abroad, and the country was a de facto police state.
De Klerk did not betray or lie to his people. The Apartheid government, with the support of the USSR and Cuba, had been fought to a standstill in Angola. There were no options left for them. The only question was whether the situation would degenerate into a hot civil war, or whether a relatively peaceful transition could be made. To Nelson Mandela’s credit, he became the public face of the latter position.
Whatever followed after the first post Apartheid election has not by any means been an achievement of what the anti-apartheid struggle hoped to achieve. The ANC was a national liberation movement that included conflicting interests of every stripe…socialists, nationalists, communists, and millions of ordinary South Africans of incredible good will who had paid with their blood to bring Apartheid to an end. Even as Mandela oversaw a relatively peaceful transition, he immediately sold out the country to foreign capital. A national Redevelopment Program was to be implemented. Mandela was persuaded by foreigners to impose a neo-liberal way of doing things. He imposed this without any internal discussion. The decisions were made elsewhere. He went along with it at a time when South Africa could have struck off in a different direction.
A discussion of all that went wrong is beyond the scope of this little comment. Much of it has been a tragedy and a betrayal of our South African people. Still, we largely continue to do the best possible to hold government and state accountable. The struggle continues, much as it always has, with a much larger socio-political space to bring improvement to our country.
The local white racists (a minority of whites are racists, as there are racists amongst all other groups in our country) together with various zionist interests and other racists abroad would love a return to the halcyon days of old Apartheid South Africa. It’s not going to happen.
When I see the Saker providing a platform for this kind of drivel, I wonder how long before you offer Sheldon Adelson a guest column on your pages.
Stephen:
You have to admit South Africa under the ANC is becoming horror show. I don’t see how it can survive. It Inherit a modern country which is descending into chaod
Black Man from NYC
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Stephen is absolutely right. the liberal, likud, capitalist racism of the white west never ever had any intent of allowing RSA to develop properly. they never do for the rest of the world whom they seek to hold in thrall forever. any respectable observer would have been waiting for this, knowing precisely and accurate that the west was working on it..just a matter of time
to keep the rest of the world in check forever that world must be as RSA is sinking into now..no development, no peace, only chaos and corruption..forever on their knees in supplication to ole white Marse’
the RSA capitalist class is complicit in this process with the white west..a fact the people of RSA must never forget, and when the time comes they must eschew all ‘due process’ as set up by whites in previous times. due process is often and best summary process with regard to such people..taking no prisoners and wasting no future resources on them
@ Ben Sampson
” they must eschew all ‘due process’ as set up by whites in previous times.”
“..taking no prisoners and wasting no future resources on them.”
Is the whites the problem in your view?
The Boers, who is today the majority of the ‘whites’ in South Africa, were the most formidable foe the British Empire ever faced, and it took the most costly war the Empire ever fought during colonial times to finally crush them.
Strange; the black population of the two Boer republics were mostly loyal to the Boers during this war, the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, to the extent that the British had them all rounded up and incarcerated in concentration camps, where about 20 000 died of malnutrition and disease.
That is apart from the 28 000 Boer civilians that also died in the concentration camps during the Anglo Boer War.
I get the idea that you lump in all ‘whites’ with the Anglo elites, whom, as you rightly say, never wanted South Africa to develop into a prosperous, sovereign country.
sorry it took me this long to respond…
I simply meant by ‘eschewing due process’..that the people of RSA, should the situation arise where they have the RSA fifth in their hands.. that they should not feel constrained by considerations of trial in established courts of law with lawyers and judges etc..as would obtain in normal times
as the times would not be normal and they have their hands on the devils they ought to try them then and there in their movement, and in front of the people.. and dispatch them if determined to be guilty of crimes against the people and nation
I do not lump white people at all. the Anglos have been very evil in the world but not more so than the Americans unless you consider both Anglos and Americanos to be the same people.
I have said some harsh things about white people but there is the complicating factor that I am half white myself, although dark and like my mother..not my father. my other siblings got that. I know white people you see and the reality that shapes them. I like my Black side and its ancient history..not its modern experience.
in both cases..Black and White.. we need the end of capitalism to clean up ourselves..racism, corruption of all sorts, pollution, prostitution, pornography..all the nasty things we are forced to do to live in capitalism.. and set the world right.
collectively we are knocking on the door of forever and that is due to the way we have organized life for the past 500 years and the outsize influence of the white Khazar group..cause and effect.
if we are to survive we need to live in the ways that produce survival. that means putting an end to capitalism as the socially organizing factor of human existence..not that we can use some capitalist tools here and there for specific developmental purposes..cooperatives of all kinds, credit unions, general ownership of industrial facilities by those who work in it, who would plan all that is necessary for the business with the well being of all in mind long term
that may take into consideration a wide array of possibilities and potentials like investment of profits into business derivatives of their process that would take up employment slack if they are forced to streamline their industry. they can decide tin introduce technologies in ways that reduce labor time but not wages..as the new efficiencies made by the technologies increase profitability..etc
society must kill the worker/owner relationship or we are toast in so many ways. that is where i am coming from..that would end the racism I abhor, all human stupidity by making truth the basis of life. if we have no capitalism, no minority control then truth ceases to be an an enemy of society. what truth really is..is an enemy of minority exploitation of society, so the exploiting minority suppresses the truth humanity needs to know in order to build security in existence, a chance at achieving indefinite existence in nature
That is it, precisely, ben. And don’t ever forget the Zionazis’ hatred of Mandela, who dared to embrace Castro, Gaddaffi and the Palestinians. Africans are just ‘sons of Ham’, and accursed, by Noah, after all.
Dear Mulga,
If the Zionists hated Mandela, then Mandela would never have been released from prison to become the South African leader. And this process also follows the path of Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya. And of course never forget that Idi Amin, the former army sergeant was selected and trained by the UK, USA and Israel for his role in Uganda. The Entebbe incident was rather revealing in many ways.
As for Robert Mugabe, have you forgotten the role played in protecting him back in 2001, by Ari ben Menashe and his partner Alexander Henri Legault, with assistance from Tara Thomas (CSIS), after Canadians protested at the murder of white Zimbabwean farmers which caused Zimbabwe to be listed on the CHOGM agenda, and after Ari ben Menashe’s involvement CHOGM’s Zimbabwean agenda changed to ‘proper’ elections in Zimbabwe.
Of course the roles played by William Sloan and Edward Simms reputedly a member of the CIA, was never to my knowledge fully explained, but it was interesting to note that Gordon Thomas in 2001 stated that Alexander Henri Legault had been a CIA Liaison Officer in Europe, and Thomas was in a position to know all about that.
In other words the usual suspects have had their fingers well and truly in the African pie, and once you consider why, just think of what would have happened had these countries been left to achieve their full potential, including food production, then whose markets would they have impinged upon?
And yes, Mulga, I still insist that Ari Ben Menashe was actually the MI6/CIA operative called Joe Vialls, and that his partner in crime, Alexander Henri Legault was another former MI6 operative, Henry Ayre of Soldotna, Alaska.
Agree – was / is a mega plan to create chaos in Africa – famine, unrest etc while outsiders plunder its assets
Sounds like what was attempted in Russia post 1991.
‘Black Man from NYC’-priceless! Slow day down at the yeshiva, is it?
So, state capture is but a dream? Farm murders are not happening? Overall crime is not at an all time high? The statistics quoted in this article are not accurate? De Klerk did not move out without securing rights of minorities which was part of the negotiations leading up to the freedom election? The constitutional amendments for rural as well as urban land grab without compensation is not being fully pushed through? There are not open fisticuffs between ANC and EFF in parliament like we see even in the failed Ukraine? The brain drain is not fully in process even today?
I really support the little sprig of optimism that is growing now as a result of Ramaphosa’s elections. But to be blinded by the optimism and not to look at what is, is also not healthy. The ANC has ‘state captured’ everything they could and there is no end in sight.
“The ANC was a national liberation movement that included conflicting interests of every stripe”
-Well, to be frank ANC was and is hyper-racist terror organization, sponsored by the globalists to create a “rainbow nation”, the social-democrats in Sweden sponsored them among others. ANC loved to burn and tortured blacks as well as whites. Nelson Mandela was a hardcore murder who refused to say he would stop killing civilians.. And his wife.. Well, she made Nelson seem sane, she more than anyone in ANC enjoyed killing black people, she was especially fond of a method of putting black people to death called necklacing.
“In 1986, Winnie Mandela, then-wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, stated, “With our boxes of matches, and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country”,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
“The first victim of necklacing, according to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was a young woman, Maki Skosana, on 20 July 1985.[8]
Moloko said her sister was burned to death with a tire around her neck while attending the funeral of one of the youths. Her body had been scorched by fire and some broken pieces of glass had been inserted into her vagina, Moloko told the committee. Moloko added that a big rock had been thrown on her face after she had been killed.[9]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
@Stephen
Your first paragraph cannot even be called a gross exaggeration. It is complete nonsense.
The fact that this was a part of the propaganda line incessantly pushed by the progressives to justify the surrender to the ANC, does not make it any more the truth.
Your second paragraph; Yes, De Klerk lied to his electorate.
The 1992 referendum was to “continue the policy of negotiation with the ANC”. Not to surrender to them.
He stated on numerous occasions that the result of the negotiations will be put to his electorate again in another referendum.
That referendum never happened.
And no, the previous SA government was not fought to a standstill in Angola. The Soviet Union was collapsing, and the Anglo-American empire simply did not need their proxy force to push back Soviet influence and keep Angola embroiled in war any more.
And no, civil war was not looming in South Africa. The ANC was trying their utmost for decades to ferment civil war, but apart from brutally terrorizing defenseless black civilians in the large urban townships, they were not making a dent against the government forces.
I will cut a long story short: The ANC headquarters, during the ‘struggle’ were in London, they were financed by the Anglo establishment, and given decades of positive, even glowingly positive press by the whole Anglo-American establishment mass media, while inside SA the ANC were running a brutal campaign terrorizing the local black population into submission.
The empire gave the one after the other ANC president the Nobel Peace Prize, you know, the same prize given to Barack Obama for all the peace he brought to the world..
The ‘anti-Apartheid-struggle’ was simply the empire crushing yet another country that dared to defy it and develop into a sovereign state.
And as always, afterwards, the empire of course put in place a government suitably weak and corrupt, and thus never able to defy the empire effectively again.
The empire was quite successful, weren’t they..?
Yes, after the assassination of HF Verwoerd, the top echelons of the previous government increasingly became a tool of the Zio-Anglo-American empire, but the electorate who put them in place were still under the impression that they were citizens of a free country, and still expected their political representatives to act accordingly.
It was against them, the electorate, that the empire aimed their venom; demonizing them, and accusing them of every misdeed perpetrated by the empire itself.
And you seem to still believe all that propaganda..
You are quite correct, in my opinion. The Western adulation of Mandela was precisely because he sold the country out to neoliberalism. If he had not he would have received the Mugabe treatment of sabotage, subversion, sanctions and eternal racist hate propaganda from the Western fakestream media presstitutes.
No wonder Bob Hawke liked Mandela so much – two of a kind – given how he sold out Australia in the 1980s to the same globalist swine he was indoctrinated in as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford !
Yes, indeed. Hawke and Keating sold the country and the Labor Party out to international capital, and the neoliberal death-cult. They were prototypes for other sell-outs like Blair and Clinton, and were richly rewarded for their efforts on retirement. Not too much, of course-they were merely servants after all. And now, with Hawke returned to the carbon cycle, and Keating nearing it, the poison they introduced is just about to kill its victim.
When I see the Saker providing a platform for this kind of drivel, I wonder how long before you offer Sheldon Adelson a guest column on your pages.
Language like that (“drivel”) is a surefire sign of somebody wanting me to shut up and not discuss a topic. Call it my ODD (oppositional defiant disorder) if you want, but that kind of attempt simply achieves the opposite result: I want to post MORE about the “banned” or “crimethinking” topic.
BTW – rather than trying to make me shut up, I invite you to write an intelligent rebuttal to the article you dislike and I will be glad to post it. Finally, I did not even know who Sheldon Adelson was, but now that you have mentioned him as some kind of symbol of evil crimethink, I will make sure to look him up :-P
The Saker
Actually I would thank the Saker for the opportunity to debate this topic, regardless of which side of the fence we are seated.
For Australians it should be viewed as a similar situation in South Africa as well as most of the African countries in that we cannot be permitted to achieve a proper and full potential in case we may infringe upon the profits of our ‘betters’.
And yes, there are many other examples of the destruction of countries opportunities to expand and to improve their standards of living to ‘protect’ the shekels of our ‘masters’.
Saker, I don’t mean you to shut up at all. However, comments are moderated. Is no form of quality control used to assess the value of articles that are published?
Re Sheldon Adelson: I hope he comes on board. 😜
Let’s continue the debate. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
P.s. to Saker…
Thank you for the invitation to write a rebuttal. I appreciate the offer. However, I’m a painter, an iconographer to be more precise. I don’t do rebuttals… 😎
However, there is a great deal in the public sphere (academic and otherwise) that does address these matters in great detail.
With respect and thanks,
Stephen
I am a follower of The Saker based in that South Africa referred to in the article. I wish I could write a complete rebuttal, word for word. To say South Africa’s demise began on the 27th of April 1994 simply because political power changed hands then, sorts of gives the writer away.
Please write the rebuttal and submit to The Saker.
/submissions-policy/
I think the writer is making an economic point only.
Yes, indeed!
I invite anybody unhappy with this article to submit a rebuttal.
Contrary to what some seem to think, I have no dog in this battle and I am happy to publish different viewpoints.
Kind regards
The Saker
South Africa is just getting the Zimbabwe treatment, a bit delayed, but inevitable. It is part of the BRICS, too. Brazil-down. India-wobbly. South Africa-on the brink. The Empire never rests.
The solution to South Africa problem really is for the Govt to engage in a massive domestic infrastructure program building housing, factories to make whatever it needs, roads, bridges, ports etc… to deal with the unemployment and raise the skills base. This will reduce crime and increase stability. Even if this is done by a docile form of conscription. This could be financed by payment of money that most of is only tradeable in South Africa so as not to create FX effects, and also increase internal demand.
There is a housing shortage in SA which is a root cause of discontent by the blacks so cure the unemployment by building it.
White SA farmers need to be given security of over productive farms or adequate compensation for appropriations.
true man! but that is the point….the RSA government in place and their capitalist elites are not a conservative nationalist class or government. they are a fifth column beholden to the west. they are liberals and traitors to their own country and people.
these would build up their country were they real nationalists, even if so as capitalists. Putin appears to be fully capitalist, christian and all that and he looks out for Russia from that perspective, which does not hamstring his survivalist pragmatism in the least..noting Putin and the Chinese circling up their collective wagons in the face of american attack
I dare to say that we would not have found Medvedev and his fifth in these regions at all..just as we wont find Ramaphosa and his fifth relative to RSA
The root cause of what followed 1994 and attendant disintegration was crime. For the record, I subscribe to a variation of lead poisoning hypothesis (blacks being more susceptible to poisoning as they largely skipped the bronze age going straight to iron age around 1000-2000 ya, hence no development of genetic resistance to lead uptake).
The generation that was murdering in 1994 (peak age of perpetration is about 23) is now of administrative age. Add to that Fanon’s observation that third world elites are loathe to invest in the real economy (Evkom/Escom being the case in point), and none of it is surprising. Dani Rodrik described the east Asian exceptions.
Robbery started to drop around 2012, so murder should start to drop, either this year or next (data from July to the end of the following June is usually published in September), and will slowly decline until 2029, before collapsing. Then wait another 25 years for the less pathological generation to hit administrative age (or ruthlessly promote young workers, once the group born after 2006 comes of age).
South Africa is not the first case. We have Zimbabwé but also before that Algeria.
Algerian rule basically drove the country to bankruptcy in 57 years of independence. Algeria imports just about everything. If it weren’t for oil and gas, the country that produces very little would be in a hellish situation.
The same happened in Zimbabwé.
And exactly the same is happening in South Africa. One cannot build a country with corruption, injustice, nepotism, ignorance, mismanagement…and reverse racism.
The disaster in South Africa was caused by the ANC, under Mandela, selling out to global capital. The emphasis on racialist politics in this piece is misguided, and quite malign. One might note that since 1989, social disasters inflicted by neoliberal capitalism have afflicted all countries, save China and one or two others. The global elite have done very nicely, however.
In 1900, there were as many Whites as Blacks in South Africa. The demographics has killed the country.
The Blacks are of a lower intelligence, what can one expect?
That is actually not true. It all depends on the exact ethnicity. See here:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/
http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-i/
http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-2/
http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-3/
The Saker
All that has happened is that South Africa has rejoined the other Black African countries – where it now belongs.
Define intelligence. Not it sure means scoring high on an IQ test. Blacks invented jazz. Music is the most abstract form of creative expression, similar to mathematics.
The IQ data that the Saker shared still doesn’t refute the view that blacks in general have lower IQ than whites in general IMO. But let us assume for a moment that IQ is relatively unimportant, as Serbian girl has suggested. In what black majority country would you prefer to live in? It seems to me that people vote with their feet, and they continue to move to (nominally) “white” countries as a general rule…a dynamic that has been in process for generations now. They do so for a reason, and no-it isn’t entirely economic. So even if IQ is not the “be all and end all” of intelligence metrics, does it matter? The cultural results are what count.
“In what black majority country would you prefer to live in?”
Tobago.
And no, while not irrelevant, IQ metrics are only a minor factor.
The Saker
Not sure why someone felt the need to insert a gratuitous “racist” remark at the front of mine. If that is you, Saker, please ID yourself. If not, bugger off.
Jon the comment that you saw was from the mod to saker .. saker reviewed your comment and then approved it, he failed to remove the mods internal comment. It has now been removed. Saker comment is on the bottom. … mod-hs
Thanks for clarifying.
I support the ANC/EFF. If a global conflict breaks out, who would the South African white minority leaders side with? Obviously, the US/Britain/Israel. And who would the black majority support or sympathize with? Russia/China/Iran.
I will also preemptively respond to the commentators who will say, “You hate white people!” No, I do not “hate white people.” In fact, I strongly support European countries’ rights to restrict or end mass migration in order to preserve their national characters. Just like I also support the African countries’ rights to reclaim their ancestral lands from pushy, foreign minorities.
I don’t know why anyone is surprissed.
You would have a very clear Idea about what was to happen.
Only have to look only at what happened to Rhodesia… now Zimbabwe.
RIP South Africa
South Africa… The Ukraine of Africa
I have never read such rubbish in my life. SA was a heaven for the white minority and a hell for the black majority. full stop.
White South Africans should get out now while they still can. I would hope that Western governments would provide them with refugee status so that they can emigrate to a safer environment.
What the USA and others did to Apartheid SA, while turning a blind eye to Apartheid Israel, is unconscionable.
Can those White South Africans who wish to leave do so already. I have not heard anyone begging them to stay. Can Russia please hurry and give these great farmers with high IQs visas to farm in their country. We would love to be left alone. We have our Qamata.
It isn’t easy emigrating unless you have some kind of special status (unless of course you come to the USA which has an open southern border). Usually the best you can hope for without refugee status is a long and expensive process during which time you will be living under a visa which may force you to occasionally return to the country from whence you came, which could be hazardous to your health if you are a white SA farmer.
And yes, you’re quite right to say that they have high IQs, though it’s more important to note that they are good and productive farmers…that is indeed a good reason for Russia (and anyone else) to accept them. Of course, for a white farmer, I’d imagine it’s a tough time to sell the farm to gain the wherewithal to leave when the government plans to confiscate it anyway. Such is the peril of being a white minority under a black ruled country.
It is hard for me to know what the situation in South Africa is in reality. Everybody says crime is a real problem and out of control. I spoke to a retired South African retired department store owner in an airport His son is now running it – yes he was white.. For him things were ok through Mbeki but since Zuma the situation has deteriorated rapidly. i have not met any black South Africans so I do not not know what they would say. How is one to know if the alt right types are overhyping the white farm murders? On the face of it taking the land of the white farmers without compensation seems like a bad idea. Mandela is rightfully celebrated for being in charge of a peaceful elimination of apartheid. It does appear that instead of creating a new system just another layer of now black elites has been added. These appear to be less competent and more corrupt than the whites who used to run the country. The same could be said of the elites who run the US.
separate development, self determination and no multiculturalism push…thats whats needed.