Zuma’s Rise Puts Whites to Flight
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London Times, September 28, 2008
A wave of alarm swept through middle-class South Africa last week as President Thabo Mbeki was sacked by the ruling African National Congress and replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe, who has already presided over sweeping cabinet changes.
The new president is still remembered as a communist militant who urged that the country’s youth be “taught to hate capitalism”.
The real winner in the coup against Mbeki is Jacob Zuma. He will lead the ANC into next April’s election and is strongly backed by the powerful Communist party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, both of which favour radical left-wing policies. Polls show that business confidence has slumped to a seven-year low.
There has long been considerable evidence of “white flight” to cities in Britain, Australia, America and New Zealand. It is estimated that up to 20% of South Africa’s whites have emigrated since the advent of democracy in 1994.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Zuma’s rise, coupled with nationwide power cuts and a continuing crime wave, has led to a further massive brain drain. Polls show that 63% of South Africans have “seriously considered” emigration.
“Among my age group the chorus is absolutely insistent,” said Geoff Landsman, 25, a civil engineer. “You must go abroad. If at all possible equip yourself with a foreign passport. I have a Dutch one. I’ll leave by Christmas. I’m not saying I’ll never come back but I want to see if I can cut it abroad.”
Anna Davids, 62, an ophthalmologist, lamented: “There’s a whole generation missing. Look around. Where are the young white couples aged 25-45? At least two-thirds of them are gone.”
She said that affirmative action plans discouraged young whites from staying. “Everything’s loaded against young whites, no matter how well qualified they are.”
Crime, although said to be in decline, is still alarmingly high. Last year the country saw 18,487 murders, 36,190 rapes, 14,481 home invasions, 14,201 carjackings and 118,312 aggravated robberies.
Zuma has sought to calm the fears, but seems oblivious to the fact that appearing at celebrations as a Zulu warrior, replete with leopard skins and assegai, and singing “Mshini Wam” (Bring Me My Machine-gun) at party rallies does little to calm confidence.
Zapiro, the pen name of Jonathan Shapiro, South Africa’s favourite cartoonist, captured the mood last week with a drawing of Motlanthe being sworn in next to a heap of rubble with the wreckage of provincial government, investor confidence and the electricity supply system strewn high and the government itself teetering.
Wise voices caution against panic. “The ANC’s leaders are acutely aware that any hope of addressing the problems of poverty and unemployment depend on maintaining the country’s growth and stability,” said Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, the former opposition leader.
Professor Lawrie Schlemmer, South Africa’s leading social scientist, agreed: “The doom and gloom is overdone. Mbeki’s Aids denialist policies have already been scrapped.
Meanwhile the economy is growing at over 3%.”Zuma moved to relieve worries about job prospects yesterday, telling a Communist party gathering: “We will continue to work with business and labour to build a vibrant, resilient and sustainable economy.”
While private business is pulling its horns in, government has more than taken up the slack with infrastructure projects for the 2010 football World Cup.
This counts for little among the rattled middle class. “The great fear is that a far left government could paralyse the economy by adopting policies that chase away more investors and skilled people. This would cause job losses, growing social frustration and probably even higher levels of violent crime,” said Sholto Cross, a development expert.
“That’s the doomsday scenario because that would frighten away even more skills and investment. So the crisis would feed upon itself. What it all boils down to is that Motlanthe and Zuma are going to have to decide fairly soon whether or not to face down the hard left. It wouldn’t be that difficult; they have plenty of patronage to dispense, after all.”
Slabbert agreed: “We can all have opinions and quite likely the outcome will be better than many fear. But not only business but the great mass of ordinary young people with marketable skills like to feel a degree of certainty about future growth and stability. By definition there are few certainties out there right now.”
(Posted on September 29, 2008)
Between Staying and Going
The Economist, September 25, 2008
FIRST he thought it was a mouse, then a rat—and then the rat shot him in the face. That is how André Brink, one of South Africa’s most famous novelists, described the recent killing of his nephew Adri, at home at 3am in the morning. The young man was left to die on the floor, in front of his wife and daughter, while his killers ransacked the house.
Such murders are common in South Africa. According to Mr Brink’s account, published later in the Sunday Independent, 16 armed attacks had already taken place in a single month within a kilometre of the young couple’s plot north of Pretoria, South Africa’s capital. Soon afterwards—this is more unusual—the police arrested a gang of six. They recovered a laptop and two mobile phones. That was the haul for which Adri paid with his life.
A decade-and-a-half after the end of apartheid, violent crime is pushing more and more whites out of South Africa. Exactly how many are leaving is impossible to say. Few admit that they are quitting for good, and the government does not collect the necessary statistics. But large white South African diasporas, both English- and Afrikaans-speaking, have sprouted in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and many cities of North America.
The South African Institute of Race Relations, a think-tank, guesses that 800,000 or more whites have emigrated since 1995, out of the 4m-plus who were there when apartheid formally ended the year before. Robert Crawford, a research fellow at King’s College in London, reckons that around 550,000 South Africans live in Britain alone. Not all of South Africa’s émigrés are white: skilled blacks from South Africa can be found in jobs and places as various as banking in New York and nursing in the Persian Gulf. But most are white—and thanks to the legacy of apartheid the remaining whites, though only about 9% of the population, are still South Africa’s richest and best-trained people.
Talk about “white flight” does not go down well. Officials are quick to claim that there is nothing white about it. A recent survey by FutureFact, a polling organisation, found that the desire to emigrate is pretty even across races: last year, 42% of Coloured (mixed-race) South Africans, 38% of blacks and 30% of those of Indian descent were thinking of leaving, compared with 41% of whites. This is a big leap from 2000, when the numbers were 12%, 18%, 26% and 22% respectively. But it is the whites, by and large, who have the money, skills, contacts and sometimes passports they need to start a life outside—and who leave the bigger skills and tax gap behind.
Another line loyalists take is that South Africa is no different from elsewhere: in a global economy, skills are portable. “One benefit of our new democracy is that we are well integrated in the community of nations, so now more opportunities are accessible to our people,” Kgalema Motlanthe, now South Africa’s president, told The Economist. And to some extent it is true that the doctors, dentists, nurses, accountants and engineers who leave are being pulled by bigger salaries, not pushed by despair. But this is not the whole story. Nick Holland, chief executive of Gold Fields, a mining company, says that in his firm it is far commoner for skilled whites to leave than their black and Indian counterparts. “We mustn’t stick our heads in the sand,” he says. “White flight is a reality.”
Another claim is that a lot of leavers return. Martine Schaffer, a Durbanite who returned to South Africa herself in 2003 after 14 years in London, now runs the “Homecoming Revolution”, an outfit created with help from the First National Bank to tempt lost sheep back to the fold. And, yes, a significant number of émigrés do come home, seduced by memories of the easeful poolside life under the jacaranda trees, excited by work opportunities or keen—perhaps after having children themselves—to reunite with parents who stayed behind.
In some cases, idealism remains a draw. Whites who left in previous decades because they were repelled by apartheid, or who expected apartheid to end in a bloodbath, can find much to admire. Whites build tall walls around their houses and pay guards to patrol their neighbourhoods; they consider some downtown areas too dangerous to visit. But on university campuses and in the bright suburban shopping malls it is still thrilling to see blacks and whites mingling in a relaxed way that was unimaginable under apartheid.
Reasons not to panic?
So South Africa certainly has its white boosters. Michael Katz, chairman of Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, a law firm in Johannesburg, hands over a book with the title “Don’t Panic!”, a collection of heartwarming reflections by disparate South Africans on why there is, even now, no better place than home. Mr Katz ticks off the pluses as he sees them: minimal racial tension (a third of his own firm’s 350 professionals are black); a model constitution that entrenches the separation of powers and is “revered” by the people; a free press and free judiciary; a healthy Parliament; a vibrant civil society; good infrastructure and a banking system untouched by the global credit crunch. The “one major negative” Mr Katz concedes is violent crime. If only this could be brought under control, he says, the leavers would return.
But would they? Violent crime is undoubtedly the biggest single driver of emigration, the one factor cited by all races and across all professions when people are asked why they want to go. Police figures put the murder rate in 2007-08 at more than 38 per 100,000 and rape at more than 75 per 100,000. This marks a big fall over the past several years, but is still astronomical by international standards (the murder rate was 5.6 per 100,000 in the United States last year). It has reached the point where most people say they have either been victims of violent crime themselves or know friends or relatives who have been victims. Typically, it is a break-in, carjacking, robbery or murder close to home that clinches a family’s long mulled-over decision to leave.
All the same, crime is far from being the only cause of white disenchantment. Some say that 2008 brought a “perfect storm”. A sequence of political and economic blows this year have buffeted people’s hope. Added together they provide reason to doubt whether the virtues ticked off by the exuberant Mr Katz—a model constitution, separation of powers, good infrastructure and so on—are quite so solid.
Good infrastructure? At the beginning of the year South Africa’s lights started to go out, plunging the thrumming shopping malls and luxury homes into darkness and stopping work in the gold and diamond mines. This entirely avoidable calamity was caused by a distracting debate about the role of the private sector in electricity supply. Eskom, the state-owned utility in which many experienced white managers had been too quickly pushed aside, is now investing again in new plant under a new chairman, Bobby Godsell, a veteran mining executive. But for the time being power will remain in short supply and rationing and blackouts will continue.
As for that model constitution and the separation of powers, Desmond Tutu, the retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, was moved this week to describe the sordid battle between Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, the party, government, prosecuting authority and courts as suggestive of a “banana republic”. As well as being appalled by events at home this past year, whites have watched Robert Mugabe’s pauperisation of neighbouring Zimbabwe and wonder whether South Africa will be next to descend into the same spiral.
Besides, fear of crime cannot be separated from the other factors that make South Africans consider emigration. People who do not feel safe in their homes lose their faith in government. John Perlman, who worked for the SABC, the state broadcaster, before resigning in a quarrel over political interference, does not believe that most people leave because they are afraid. “I think they leave when they lose heart,” he says. One white entrepreneur about to leave for New York says that it was not being held up twice at gunpoint that upset him most: it was the lack of interest the police showed afterwards. Tony Leon, the former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, claims that policing has been devastated by cronyism and that the entire criminal-justice system is dysfunctional. The head of the police, Jackie Selebi, is on leave pending a corruption investigation.
How much does the outward flow of whites matter? South Africa can ill afford the loss of its best-trained people. Iraj Abedian, an economist and chief executive of Pan-African Capital Holdings, says a pitiful shortage of skills is one of the main constraints on economic growth. He concedes that the ANC has pushed hard to give every eligible child a place in school, but argues that a “politically correct” focus on expanding access has come at the expense of quality. With virtually no state schools providing adequate teaching in science or maths, he says, the country has added to its vast problem of unemployment (every other 18-24-year-old is out of work) a no less vast problem of unemployability.
The gap they leave behind
On Mr Abedian’s reckoning, about half a million posts are vacant in government service alone because too few South Africans have the skills these jobs demand. Not a single department, he says, has its full complement of professionals. Local municipalities and public hospitals are also desperately short of trained people. Dentists are “as scarce as chicken’s teeth” and young doctors demoralised by the low standards of hospital administration. Last May Azar Jammine, an independent economist, told a Johannesburg conference on the growing skills shortage that more than 25,000 teachers were leaving the profession every year and only 7,000 entering.
A blinkered immigration policy makes things worse. Nobody has a clue how many millions of unskilled Africans cross into South Africa illegally. But skilled job applicants who try to come in legally are obstructed by a barricade of regulations. Mr Abedian says that the ANC used to think that relying on foreigners would discourage local institutions from training their own people. Now at least the government earmarks sectors where skills are in short supply and for which immigration procedures are supposed to be eased. In April, however, an internal report by the Department of Home Affairs showed that fewer than 1,200 foreigners had obtained permits under this scheme, from a list of more than 35,000 critical jobs.
In fairness, South Africa has been through far worse times before. Whites streamed out during the township riots of the 1980s. It is far from clear how much of the present dinner-table talk about leaving ends with a family packing its bags. Alan Seccombe, a tax expert at PWC in Johannesburg, says that many affluent whites have moved money offshore and prepared their escape routes, but that his firm’s emigration practice is doing less business today than it did in 1995.
Perspective is necessary in politics, too. Raenette Taljaard, previously an opposition member of Parliament and now director of the Helen Suzman Foundation, a think-tank, says that events this past year have raised profound concerns about the rule of law and the durability of the constitution. But Allister Sparks, the author of several histories of South Africa (and a former writer for The Economist), maintains that the ANC has done as well as anyone had a right to expect after apartheid’s destructive legacy. Some whites even express enthusiasm about the advent of Mr Zuma. How many other African liberation movements, they ask, have been democratic enough to vote out an underperforming leader, as the ANC has Mr Mbeki?
For the average white person, South Africa continues to offer a quality of life hard to find elsewhere. And there are other compensations. Mr Brink says in the article on the murder of his nephew that people who ask when he will be emigrating are perplexed to hear that he intends to stay. There is, he says, an “urgency and immediacy” about life in South Africa that lends it a sense of involvement and relevance he cannot imagine finding elsewhere.
All the same, he is staying on bereft of some former illusions.
The myopia and greed of the country’s new regime of rats have eroded my faith in the specific future I had once believed in. I do not foresee, today, any significant decrease in crime and violence in South Africa; I have serious doubts that our rulers can even guarantee a safe and successful soccer World Cup in 2010; I do not believe that the levels of corruption and nepotism and racketeering and incompetence and injustice and unacceptable practices of “affirmative action” in the country will decrease in the near future.The famous novelist will stay. Many other whites are making plans to leave, and will be taking their precious skills with them.
Comments
“The new president is still remembered as a communist militant who urged that the country’s youth be “taught to hate capitalism”.”
That’s the problem with these militants. Just say it like the local Sunday school teacher does, “the rich make too much”. Or say it like neo-libertarian, “the elites don’t care about us, only about using us to get even richer”. What’s so hard about that? Score with babes. Get with the program world.
Posted by at 6:26 PM on September 29
“It is estimated that up to 20% of South Africa’s whites have emigrated since the advent of democracy in 1994.”
lol - They blame the loss of whites on emigration. Here, they blame the decline on immigration.
Posted by at 6:32 PM on September 29
If 2/3 of young white couples have already left South Africa, the game is over, as those were precisely the people who, through their education and skills represented the future of South Africa as a remotely prosperous country. A hard-core communist like Zuma will only accelerate the white brain-drain from the country, which will lead to additional economic problems, driving still more whites out.
South Africa’s now-certain future is to become a Zimbabwe lookalike. Stick a fork in it; it’s done.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 6:35 PM on September 29
“It is estimated that up to 20% of South Africa’s whites have emigrated since the advent of democracy in 1994.”
This writer makes that sound like racism is behind this white flight. I’ll see if I can improve on the statement and give an alternate view as to why whites are leaving South Africa:
It is estimated that 20% of South Africa’s whites have emigrated since blacks took over power in 1994 and made the country the rape and murder capital of the world and the most dangerous country on the planet for white people.
Posted by Mike Harrigan at 6:36 PM on September 29
One keeps hearing of the horrors of the apartheid regime, often likened to the holocaust, yet during the regime’s rule from 1948-1990 fewer people were killed by them then are now routinely murdered every year.
Posted by ciccio at 6:46 PM on September 29
More than likely, Mr. Katz lives in a gated community with armed guards shadowing him everywhere he goes. The working class whites cannot afford these luxuries. After the treason of the U.S. government toward whites in South Africa and Zimbabwe, we should take in all whites that wish to come here.
Posted by at 7:22 PM on September 29
South Africa in 2008 =? USA in 2058
Posted by at 7:23 PM on September 29
The Times tells us this:
“Crime, although said to be in decline, is still alarmingly high. Last year the country saw 18,487 murders, 36,190 rapes, 14,481 home invasions, 14,201 carjackings and 118,312 aggravated robberies.”
And then — not even two inches down — the Times turns around and tells us THIS:
“Wise voices caution against panic.”
If the Times is so certain that “wise voices” in South Africa are the ones that are NOT panicking, perhaps the paper’s editors would like to swap their safe, comfortable lives in London to get robbed, raped, carjacked, and quite possibly even KILLED in Jo’burg?
Would you like that, gentlemen? Would you? Hmmm? As you say, the place has a “model constitution,” amongst all its other wonderful attributes. And as you’re constantly reminding us, every race is equal to every other race, therefore England, South Africa, America, Zimbabwe are all exactly the same except for the weather, right? And South Africa’s weather is much nicer than England’s, so you should actually PREFER Jo’burg!
So you Times editors will all be moving there ASAP, right?
I’m sorry, fellas, I can’t hear your answer. You’ll have to speak up.
Although they’d never admit it, the PC liars in the MSM understand the following fact as well as anybody: the “wise voices” in South Africa are the voices that are on the phone calling a cab to the airport.
Posted by The Incredible Shrinking White Man at 7:25 PM on September 29
While these poor whites flee to anyplace they can, we have a open door policy on any AIDS riddled african that can crawl to the nearest social worker.
The US should be doing all it can to get these white South Africans sanctuary in the US.
Posted by Steve at 8:13 PM on September 29
“Crime, although said to be in decline, is still alarmingly high. Last year the country saw 18,487 murders, 36,190 rapes, 14,481 home invasions, 14,201 carjackings and 118,312 aggravated robberies.”
Wow! This makes “African-Americans” in Philly, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, and D.C. look like downright slackers! It’s hard to fathom such figures in such a relatively small country.
Where’s the mainstream media on this? Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. They were the ones that helped bring down “Apartheid”, so this is the obviously the result they wanted. Of course, I’m sure the story would be to blame “Whitey”.
Posted by at 8:55 PM on September 29
Weren’t there around 6 million or more whites in SA around 1990? If I remember right, I even heard whites from other African nations were steadily moving to as things became less pleasant for them around other parts of Africa.
Posted by at 9:42 PM on September 29
Lets see, in America blacks are a minority and enjoy “Affirmitive Action. In South Africa, they are overwhelmingly the majority and still enjoy AA. What a racket.
Posted by RHG at 9:49 PM on September 29
The only surprising thing is that these people didn’t leave ten years ago.
Posted by at 9:59 PM on September 29
“It is estimated that up to 20% of South Africa’s whites have emigrated since the advent of democracy in 1994.”
Ha,ha,ha I love how the media presents things. They
make it sound as though Whites left South Africa because
of a vibrant “democracy”. While completely ignoring
the real reasons.Like being attacked by ANC supporters or
being assaulted,robbed and/or raped for being White.The
media telling the truth ? Never, just the usual
misinformation and propaganda masquerading as fact.
Posted by Dr. Caligari at 10:19 PM on September 29
“Whites who left in previous decades because they were repelled by apartheid, or who expected apartheid to end in a bloodbath, can find much to admire. Whites build tall walls around their houses and pay guards to patrol their neighbourhoods; they consider some downtown areas too dangerous to visit. But on university campuses and in the bright suburban shopping malls it is still thrilling to see blacks and whites mingling in a relaxed way that was unimaginable under apartheid.”
Is that statement in conflict with itself or what? There is nothing thrilling about mingling with blacks.
Posted by GetBackJack at 11:18 PM on September 29
“Zuma has sought to calm the fears, but seems oblivious to the fact that appearing at celebrations as a Zulu warrior, replete with leopard skins and assegai, and singing “Mshini Wam” (Bring Me My Machine-gun) at party rallies does little to calm confidence.”
Yeah that would sure relieve my suspicions… *rolls eyes*. Honestly, I don’t think current South African leadership even cares. If it all sinks into the sea, they’ll just revert back to tribalism like the white man never even appeared and tried to shoe them the way.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 2:17 AM on September 30
Thank you for posting this article on South Africa! Yes, living in SA is like living in two worlds at the same time. It is a beautiful country with friendly people. Yet a knife or bullet can sink into your flesh any minute. We have wonderful black Christian friends and workers-all who suffer from crime by extremely evil barbaric criminals. In Zim the black people are very kind and helpful towards white people-yet there are state instigated militants and barbaric criminals who unleash terror on both races! In SA the polititians stir the race issues-they promise the moon and stars, steal the money and then deliver a ball of air, they then blame `apartheid`for the misery. There will be mass actions country wide against one white hostel where students played a prank on their black staff. (I agree it was demeaning and not appropriate-but they were laughing and lived to tell their story. Yet in the same week 17 black virgins were muilated and kill for their sexual body parts for muti!!!!! Not a word from the polititians, no mass action, no arrests-.Mostly they are killed while alive to give the Muti more power. Who uses this muti? We need a change of heart in SA
Posted by at 3:39 AM on September 30
Lies, euphemisms and half-truths. The reality is that the entire country is being propped up by white tax money and without the Boers to do all the actual work this country wouldn’t last a day.
The problem is being worsened by the fact that the rulers do not care. Africans can not supply one single example of any succesful task undertaken anywhere - I challenge anyone to contradict that statement. There is lots of talk - and oooh they do so love symbolism - but no results.
The long and the short: panick is setting in because the gravy train seems to be slowing and the economic realities will very shortly lead to more corruption, more crime, more cronyism, more nepotism - while whites will suffer more victimisation and taxes.
Posted by Commando at 6:31 AM on September 30
I don’t trust Jacob Zuma at all.
He has a villainous, cruel and untrustworthy face.
I don’t know much about him (other than he was acquitted of raping an HIV positive woman, sans condom), but I have a gut instinct that he is truly a dangerous and evil man.
Posted by Kenelm Digby at 6:45 AM on September 30
“But on university campuses and in the bright suburban shopping malls it is still thrilling to see blacks and whites mingling in a relaxed way that was unimaginable under apartheid.”
This is a good example of the diversity liberal mindset. He is “thrilled” by seeing blacks and whites mingling in one of the few places they can safely mingle under the crime-ridden, corrupt and incompetent ANC government. I expect many of our liberals to be similarly “thrilled” by an Obama presidency.
Posted by Sardonicus at 7:59 AM on September 30
ciccio, excellent point. But the real horror was not the apartheid regime, after all as you point out, many more blacks are suffering and dying since its dismantling. No,the real ‘horror’ was the successful Capitalist economic system in South Africa.
Just where are those Oh so caring, yet now silent activists who spent so much energy fighting for the well-being of African blacks?
Arc.
Posted by Arcadian at 8:40 AM on September 30
If my black mayor was accused of rape and jumped around wearing a cheetah-skin loincloth while brandishing a spear, I would have serious concerns about living where I do.
As for hating capitalism, the only system worse than capitalism is every other system.
Blacks can’t grasp how money works. They believe there is a vast pool of money out there that is being withheld from them by racist whites. They don’t understand the concept that wealth has to be generated.
Of course you can seize all the wealth today and distribute it ‘equally’ but once that pool of money is dispersed, they system to generate wealth is gone.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 10:14 AM on September 30
“Blacks can’t grasp how money works. They believe there is a vast pool of money out there that is being withheld from them by racist whites. They don’t understand the concept that wealth has to be generated.”
I found that to be true with my anthropology teacher. I tried to explain to him that money doesn’t just grow on trees which is then harvested and turned in to the government. He didn’t get it. He remains deeply committed to Obama, marxism, atheism, and looks forward to all the “free” funding that will result for blacks and eduation once Obama is elected. Any attempt to warn him of the possible consequences of increasing our national debt by many more trillions of dollars in these economic crisis times falls on deaf ears. He just reverts back to stories about the deep South and how nobody should have to live like that. It’s like talking to an actor not a real person… someone completely detached from economic realities.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 11:23 AM on September 30
South Africa is going to be characterized by all of the things common to a people with an average IQ of ~70 and a standard deviation of ~11. Nothing can stop that from taking place, nothing.
Reality is manifesting itself inexorably right before the sightless eyes of unbelieving self-deceiving liberals like Mr. Katz, and still they can’t see it.
Race is not a social construct; society is a racial construct, and that is that.
Posted by at 11:32 AM on September 30
Peculiar. Slow-motion genocide against whites is yielding slow-motion poverty, terror, and death to blacks all across the African continent - Nature’s inexorable means of punishing stupidity.
Posted by Gary at 1:28 PM on September 30
Jacob Zuma = another African dictator ready to become a millionaire by the aid stupid whites continue to send to the swollen bellied babies of Africa.
Posted by at 2:34 PM on September 30
At 7:23PM it was written:
South Africa 2008 = USA 2058
Just where are white people going to move to in 2058?
And even if they find someplace non-whites will quickly follow.
Posted by Dennis at 4:07 PM on September 30
Gary is right-it is peculiar. The slow motion decieves
people into thinking that genocide isn’t happening. But boy do
things speed up when an assault is actually taking place. By the
times White wake up, it will be too late in most places.
Posted by Leif the Lucky at 8:16 PM on September 30
Its not that complicated……..
Follow the money…..
Billions of $ of South African (and Zimbabwean) minerals
To get at this cheaply you need to get the country in debt
Difficult to get a black in debt as he doesn’t have a mortgage and car payments like us dumb Whites do
50million blacks do need food though
pretty good market size for national debt here
pesky White farms are producing a surplus of food
gotta stop that
farm murders, crime, genocide, savage torture, planned military attacks, call it what you like
goodbye farmers
still 50million to feed
import food
destroy value of currency
what…..can’t pay?
will take minerals instead
The amount of “Western” effort and dedication thrown at destroying the old functional South Africa, doesn’t add up.
Compare this to the wrist slapping scolding the West delivers to Mugabe and the ANC for their hiddeous human rights violations.
Follow the money………..
Posted by at 11:09 AM on October 1
Zuma has something of an Idi Amin about him.
Posted by at 10:28 PM on October 3
When non-whites get forced out of a region, it’s called “ethnic cleansing”.
When whites get forced out of a region, it’s called “white flight”.
The fact is that whites leave because it’s no longer safe to stay in a region increasingly dominated by a racist, antagonistic, non-white population. It’s still ethnic cleansing, but it’s given a euphemistic name because whites are not allowed to be portrayed as victims, even when it’s obvious that they are being victimized.
Posted by AvgDude at 8:48 AM on October 4
Rather then end Apartheid the Whites should have just carved out a modest-sized state for themselves. It should have been based on the coast for reasons of trade and defence and should have roughly represented their share of the population of the country. The rest of South Africa should have just been jettisoned and the black populace could have created their own world there. A small but all-White state would mean the ending of Apartheid anyways. A rough, admittedly imprecise example might have been what the Ulster-Scots did in the 1920’s when they created Northern Ireland.
Posted by at 2:06 AM on October 5