The collapse of South Africa?
South Africanization of the USA intensifiesā¦.
Redbrickbear said:
https://x.com/indian_bronson/status/1691116535337873408?s=46&t=M0bDAyo9sOCd-LdXt_rpmA
Footage shows an attempted robbery in Cape Town, South Africa, but the robber quickly finds out.
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 22, 2023
This is why it is necessary to carry at all times when you live amongst people who hate you no matter what. pic.twitter.com/VZ1WdOIKz7
The big "Der Spiegel" feature on South Africa (which is as good as everyone says) marvels at hearing a black South African express nostalgia for apartheid when at least the country worked, etc., but if you look at polling it's not that unusual. https://t.co/GGXKUucMAA pic.twitter.com/AgdYTRiObl
— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) September 11, 2023
It was impossible NOT to hear black Zimbabweans express nostalgia for Rhodesia. For working class black Zimbabweans, life was indeed better in many ways in Rhodesia....higher wages, lower costs, better social services (at least in urban areas), etc..... The primary beneficiaries of majority rule were the new socio-political elites ushered in with the Zanu-led government.Redbrickbear said:The big "Der Spiegel" feature on South Africa (which is as good as everyone says) marvels at hearing a black South African express nostalgia for apartheid when at least the country worked, etc., but if you look at polling it's not that unusual. https://t.co/GGXKUucMAA pic.twitter.com/AgdYTRiObl
— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) September 11, 2023
It's taken South Africa over a decade longer to fall apart than it did in Zimbabwe. The big difference between the two seems to be that in Zim, the unrest mostly occurred in rural areas, the farms. In South Africa, there seems to be a lot more urban component to the dynamic. There are reasons for that - Rhodesia was an agriculture led economy, while RSA had a far larger industrial base. But I wouldn't over-apply that observation. Racial tensions are the true driving force, and by any measure, they were/are worse in SA than they were in Zim. It was palpable back in the day....
They really are. They are just a mafia like organization that engages in lawfare and shakedown tactics to extort money from companies. They actually have way too much power and they need to be shut down along with the SPLC.Jack Bauer said:
The ADL is the enemy of the people
Niall Ferguson writes an interesting piece about his psychologically-complex but exceptionally-intuitive pal Elon Musk.
— i/o (@monitoringbias) September 17, 2023
This excerpt is my favorite. https://t.co/aecZOYnx3l pic.twitter.com/gAOcST2PAh
Nothing special about Cape Town.Jack Bauer said:Footage shows an attempted robbery in Cape Town, South Africa, but the robber quickly finds out.
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 22, 2023
This is why it is necessary to carry at all times when you live amongst people who hate you no matter what. pic.twitter.com/VZ1WdOIKz7
There are at least 10 cities in the United States where it pays to be constantly armed.
And its only getting worse.
šæš¦South African government owned power producer Eskom is the largest producer of electricity in Africa.
— Boer (@twatterbaas) September 26, 2023
How it started. How itās going pic.twitter.com/UHUJpBn5br
Spent over $ 30,000 for the two of them.
Said they felt far safer in the bush than in the cities.
KaiBear said:
Some friends just recently returned from a two weel hunting trip in South Africa.
Spent over $ 30,000 for the two of them.
Said they felt far safer in the bush than in the cities.
There are a lot of places in the United States that you can say that about.
Stores Looted in Philadelphia by "Large Crowds of Juveniles"
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— i/o (@eyeslasho) October 26, 2023
1/ At a South African university, an argument is made to eliminate science from study because it's a "product of Western modernity."
"We have to restart science from an African perspective."
As an example, the speaker suggests "Black magic."https://t.co/nTHSkm4HHW
fadskier said:
So now, is there a single "non-****hole" country in Africa...Egypt maybe?
If someone put a gun to my head and forced me to go live in mainland Africa, Ethiopia would be the easy winner. If I was given the additional choice of Indian ocean islands probably Mauritius or the Seychelles just because there would be a good bit of ocean separating me from the rest of mainland Africa.
But given current events I increasingly look at whether a place has an ancient Christian culture that has survived or been re-embraced as the primary screening tool for such things. Nepal and Thailand might be the two exceptions to that rule.
The U.S. should put sanctions on South Africa for racially discriminating against an ethnic minority.
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 12, 2023
We donāt have to wait till thereās a genocide to do something. pic.twitter.com/niMwyKRRCV
šæš¦24000ha Molopo Government Game reserve.
— Boer (@twatterbaas) November 26, 2023
Animals are dying of thirst. No water is being pumped to waterholes. Just like the rest of the country, what the ANC touch, is destroyed. Forever.
White farmers from the area are busy implementing plans to save the animals. Readā¦ pic.twitter.com/FuQuuHGJPG
When a South African refugee designs a car: https://t.co/Mb689iFQaK
— Dissident Soaps (@DissidentSoaps) November 30, 2023
Letās check in on South Africaā¦ This is a member of their parliament. pic.twitter.com/TExn9kfdLz
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) December 22, 2023
I think this was the only white illegal alien I saw on the border in Lukeville, Arizona. Border Patrol agents told me he was from South Africa. Apparently thatās his son with him. Must be bad in South Africa if white people are coming here illegally. pic.twitter.com/10Ro2GXdhu
— Just Jeff From Cali (@liberty_clarion) December 20, 2023
You cannot drive south Africa's roads at night.. there are countless individuals who lay spike strips and stone vehicles - when you stop, you die. It's that simple. pic.twitter.com/AR7DwtLzJo
— k9_reaper (@k9_reaper) January 11, 2024
South Africa has 27.3+ million people on welfare grants ā but only 7.1 million taxpayers
— Conscious Caracal šæš¦ (@ConCaracal) January 12, 2024
https://t.co/GBKOy8jhT1
South Africa unemployment rate for the past 10 years:
— Conscious Caracal šæš¦ (@ConCaracal) January 13, 2024
2013: 24.1%
2014: 25.1%
2015: 24.5%
2016: 26.5%
2017: 26.7%
2018: 27.1%
2019: 29.1%
2020: 32.5%
2021: 35.3%
2022: 32.7%
2023: 32.6% https://t.co/vsKDkUyzHp
> South Africa has a population of 60 million
— Conscious Caracal šæš¦ (@ConCaracal) February 1, 2024
> South Africa has 28+ million people on welfare grants
> South Africa only has 7.1 million taxpayers https://t.co/zwOShC8Ooa
Redbrickbear said:South Africa unemployment rate for the past 10 years:
— Conscious Caracal šæš¦ (@ConCaracal) January 13, 2024
2013: 24.1%
2014: 25.1%
2015: 24.5%
2016: 26.5%
2017: 26.7%
2018: 27.1%
2019: 29.1%
2020: 32.5%
2021: 35.3%
2022: 32.7%
2023: 32.6% https://t.co/vsKDkUyzHp
TTT
South African democracy dying in darkness as state infrastructure ceases to function.
— AnechoicMedia (@AnechoicMedia_) February 16, 2024
There is no great collapse or reckoning - only endless duct-taping of old systems, and the privatization of everything as trucks and solar inefficiently route around the failed commons. pic.twitter.com/x1yWiCWZw7
For non-south Africans; āmutiā means her body parts will be used for protection magic. https://t.co/a0lKw3sQ3W
— Sifi (@SifiReturned) March 6, 2024
Nasty adverse selection in South Africa. The failure of socialism to deliver electricity chases the highest paying customers off the grid, leading to more budget shortfalls and price hikes...https://t.co/fGsNTngsF1
— Bachman (@ElonBachman) August 31, 2024
RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:I will respectfully disagree, Sir. There are many educated blacks in our country and many hard-working blue collar black men and women that have made their way, risen up, and succeeded. They are not going to allow the deadbeats and criminals to bring them down. My best friend since childhood is a black man. He was the first in his family to get a college degree. No way in Hell he is going back. He worked hard to be where he is today.atomicblast said:
South Africa is the **** hitting the fan scenario that will happen here in the US when whites become the minority. You have the education system peddling hate politics with no resolution other than violence.
Not to discount your personal experience, but (TV advertising aside) they are 15% of the population. His specific demographic is a percentage of a percentage.
It is hard to explain to people Oren Cass's age how the drama of South Africa dominated our discussion in the 1980s. Apartheid was the evil of the era. Mind you, Soviet communism was still a thing, but the media, the academy, and the usual suspects were intensely focused on South Africa. That was as clear a case of Good vs. Evil as they could find anywhere. It made perfect sense to Americans, who applied our own racial history to this rather different situation. I well remember how we all thought that once the wicked white racist government went down, all would be well there. If you doubted it, you must be some kind of racist.
In fact, though I was a campus liberal, I was called so for suggesting in a paper I gave in an opinion journalism class that we should judge South Africa by the standards of African tribalism, not by the standards of the US civil rights movement. My argument was that it would make it easier to understand the complexities of the situation there if we thought of the Boers as one tribe among many but a tribe with white skin. It turns out that all over sub-Saharan Africa of that era, countries were ruled by members of particular tribes, many of whom oppressed their rivals from other tribes. But Americans and Europeans couldn't see that, because these corrupt and oppressive Africans were black.
Well, post-apartheid South Africa has not flourished. In this long reported piece for Tablet, Will Tanner sees in South Africa's fate danger signs for America. Excerpts:
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Though it has avoided the worst outcomes, South Africa is hardly a multiracial paradise. Instead, it has trended toward chaos and internal disaster; its economy is in shambles, its once-budding space and nuclear programs are long gone. Crime rules in place of law and order. South Africa's internal issues are manifold but can be distilled down to two categories: economic tyranny stemming from an unyielding top-down emphasis on racial spoils programs in the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mode, and anarcho-tyranny in which the government is both unable and unwilling to protect the Afrikaner, Anglo, and Indian populations from vicious criminals.
The post-apartheid government has imposed racial laws designed to benefit the black majority. This has wrecked the economy:
Who among us could have guessed that promoting people because of the color of their skin, despite their lack of training or competence, would go bad? Gosh.Quote:
The country's economy is shrinking while unemployment is crushingly high. South African universities struggle to produce qualified graduates while being known for overt racial discrimination. Corrupt politicians and party-linked, gangster like entities use the country's racial laws to skim profits off the struggling economy. Basic infrastructure like the hospital system has crumbled. Meanwhile, what's left is being pillaged or frittered away in bribery schemes by some of the most corrupt politicians and civil servants on the planet.
B-BBEE, though an albatross on the neck of South Africa's economy, isn't the country's only pressing issue, however. In April 2023, President Ramaphosa signed the Employment Equity Amendment Act into law requiring "equity," meaning racial-ratio-based representation of staff members in all companies employing 50 people or more, threatening to bring what remains of private enterprise inside the country's racial spoils system.
The result of South Africa's policies, racial and otherwise, is, as the Center for International Development described in "Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa," that its vast post apartheid promise has been frittered away, and economic stagnation has taken hold, impoverishing everyone, regardless of race. As the South African economy has lost critical capabilities, the disadvantaged suffer the most.
Last year I wrote about a memoir by a white South African business executive brought in to save Eskom, the country's power company, which was falling apart under mismanagement. Excerpt from that review essay:
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Maritz said that DEI-obsessed Americans need to learn from the South African experience that when you give people jobs based on race, connections, or any reason other than competence, it will have cascading negative effects throughout the society and economy. There is a serious, material cost to be paid when wokeness is the measure of a company, not its actual performance.
Back to Will Tanner's piece. He says South Africa is now the most crime-ridden country on that anarchic continent:
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The worst of the crimes under which South Africans suffer are the farm murders, in which African criminals use equipment, including signal jammers and automatic weapons, to break into isolated farmsteads and torture, kill, rape, and rob the predominantly Boer inhabitants. These attacks are known for their brutality, with atrocities like drowning children in boiling water and gang-raping female victims being close to the norm rather than radically atypical. Similar atrocities are inflicted on other South Africans, including children.
Here is Tanner's point:
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It seems clear that post-Mandela South Africa is in a state of disaster that seems likely to get worse. In public life, tyranny reigns as the government enforces race-based mandates on companies that are suffering mightily under the burden. In private life, the government levies taxes to pay for welfare programs, but otherwise, it is largely absent as criminals cause an immense amount of suffering and are rarely stopped by the police. Meanwhile, politicians like those in the EFF encourage criminals to engage in more crime as a form of punishment or reparations for apartheid. All of these localized disasters stem from the decision to continue putting race at the center of postapartheid South African life and thereby producing a photo-negative version of the past, rather than trying to build a new and better society.
Tanner goes on to compare South Africa to DEI-obsessed America. Read it all.
And think about this. Click here to listen to VP Harris talk about racial "equity" in disaster relief:]
Redbrickbear said:
Yet our media ignores it all.
They are certainly scared of something.
Isn't South Africa so much more peaceful, prosperous, and rich now than when it was ruled by the Afrikaners?KaiBear said:Redbrickbear said:
Yet our media ignores it all.
They are certainly scared of something.
