Posted on 02/24/2014 12:24:21 PM PST by massmike
Moonbat demigod Nelson Mandela’s collectivist legacy continues to unfold in what was once a prosperous and relatively civilized country:
The Economic Freedom Fighters have stuck to their guns for the nationalisation of mines and expropriation of land without compensation.
Party leader Julius Malema on Saturday unveiled the organisation’s elections manifesto at Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg.
“We want to do away with colonial patterns of ownership in South Africa,” he said.
That means if a white person owns it, the government is going to take it, just like in Zimbabwe, which has been reduced to basket case status by similar policies.
Malema’s manifesto consists mainly of one word: nationalization. Very little will be left in private hands if he has his way. The name of his party is appropriate: it exists to fight economic freedom.
Malema revved up supporters by proclaiming that after 20 years of democracy, blacks are still poor. The implication is that it is time to give up on democracy, and go whole hog on the communism.
When communism doesn’t work either, there will be no going back. After the wealth that was produced when property rights were honored has been devoured by the government, there will be nothing left but poverty and tyranny, as in Zimbabwe.
The insanity of Malema’s agenda guarantees economic ruin. For example,
Malema said his party believed all jobs in the country should be permanent.
The EFF would implement legislation that would ensure this.
What effect will it have on employment if once hired, a worker can never be let go? No one likely to vote for the EFF would think it through far enough to wonder.
Malema also plans to impose set wages for various occupations, to inflict nationalized health insurance that will incorporate “traditional healers” (i.e., witch doctors), and to pass out all sorts of goodies like social grants, increased pensions, increased child support grants, free education, scholarships to study abroad, et cetera, ad nauseam. Peggy the Moocher would love it.
Any of these goodies that actually materialize will be financed by Western aid, since there is no chance South Africa will generate significant wealth without property rights.
EFF sticks to guns in manifesto
http://www.news24.com/Elections/News/EFF-sticks-to-guns-in-manifesto-20140222
Democratize everything and you have communism.
So, can these retards win?
Or is this a tiny group of crazies?
Time for the Boers to re declare independence.
It’s coming to America, too. Read “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa” by Ilana Mercer.
African natives acting as they have always done.
Africa wins again.
I guess South Africa is not big on history? or even the present?
“...Time for the Boers to re declare independence....”
Depends on how dumbed-down and mind-numbed the white South Afrikaaners have become.
If they’re anything like the guilt-infested, gullible white liberal idiots in this country, they’re in big, big trouble. They’re about to find out that maybe it wasn’t such a great idea giving in and giving up.
If they’ve retained the self-preservation ferocity of their ancestors, then I’d put my money on them.
permanent jobs is idiocy.
Has any African nation or nation populated primarily by Africans ever succeeded without the government being dominated by other ethnic groups?
What happened was that the smart people who were running the country had their control of the country taken away by the stupid people who greatly outnumbered them. What do you think the results would be in a profitable business if the dumbest workers got rid of all the owners and managers who had made the business profitable? Can we say BANKRUPTCY!!!
Liberals operated under the delusion that all that wealth in SA simply existed, and the whites were just hogging all for themselves. It was just a matter for the blacks to take control, get rid of the whites, and things would keep on humming like before. Another lesson in gross stupidity on a national scale.
“...It was just a matter for the blacks to take control, get rid of the whites, and things would keep on humming like before...”
Good luck with that...
See, “Detroit”...
For the most part, white South Africans don’t see any problems. Remember, a large part of them are English-speaking liberals who fought against the Afrikaners, and still do.
Here is a good article that discusses the issues in more depth: http://praag.org/?p=12911
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Malema is an opportunist and political agitator, who was expelled from the ANC. He would no doubt take South Africa the route of Zimbabwe. Given that he is a demagogue, is already well-practiced at self-promotion, and fact he is only 33 years old - means he will be around for a long time in S. African politics. Even though he is outside the ANC (at the moment) this doesn’t bode well for S. Africa’s future.
Funny, we’ve always had difficulty maintaining good relations with the Africans.
Obama must be establishing American influence down there.
And the remaining whites in South Africa are surprised by this? Anyone who has even briefly studied the hard left’s thinking knew this was coming. Also president for life: one man, one vote, once.
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