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"It's A War Zone" - South Africa To Deploy 25,000 Troops As Country On Brink Of Civil War
CFP ^ | 7/15/2021 | CFP

Posted on 07/15/2021 6:53:37 AM PDT by mikelets456

Numerous video at link:

In the past seven days, South Africa has never come closer to becoming a failed state. The riotous looting has reduced Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the two provinces hit hard by the social unrest into what resembles warzones. The country quickly descended into what could be the beginning innings of a civil war, prompting the government to call up military reserves and seek deployment of up to 25,000 troops to quell the violence.

"It is a war zone . . . towns deserted, shops looted, bodies lying on the road," John Steenhuisen, leader of the main opposition Democratic Alliance, in the province, told Financial Times. "We have an internal African National Congress battle that has spilled over on to the streets of KwaZulu-Natal . . . the initiative has been completely lost by the security services. They need urgent reinforcement."

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenfreepress.com ...


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KEYWORDS: communism; riots; search; shortage; southafrica
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To: mikelets456

When will this blood shedding of black on black violence, spread to the neighbor countries of Swaziland and ????~!


21 posted on 07/15/2021 7:08:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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To: mikelets456

Two communist groups fighting each other. So much better than when those evil white people were running the country.


22 posted on 07/15/2021 7:08:15 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: mikelets456
South Africa has never come closer to becoming a failed state.

Sounds a lot like Minneapolis...


23 posted on 07/15/2021 7:08:45 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: BwanaNdege

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ethnic-tribalism-threatens-south-africa


24 posted on 07/15/2021 7:10:11 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep. Especially for those who are unwilling to join a militia.


25 posted on 07/15/2021 7:13:07 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I assure you the Left is. Looking for tactics, what works, what doesn’t etc.


26 posted on 07/15/2021 7:13:22 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Red Badger
If ‘Majority Rule’ was so damned important for South Africa, why isn’t it so here?

Wrong majority.

27 posted on 07/15/2021 7:13:52 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: eyeamok

Don’t forget this little gem....Gotta give’em room to protest!


28 posted on 07/15/2021 7:14:31 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Roccus

This isn’t black-on-black violence, it’s a race war. The mobs are attacking White and Indian neighborhoods attempting to butcher people in their homes. The Police is allowing it to happen.


29 posted on 07/15/2021 7:15:29 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: BwanaNdege

Wow-—so it’s like “Rwanda” and using the same exact propaganda and getting the same exact result. Goebbels is smiling


30 posted on 07/15/2021 7:15:29 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: mastertex

There are various tribes of black South Africans. While all are black, there are Zulus, Xhosa, Sotho, and a number of other groups, who fight each other.


31 posted on 07/15/2021 7:15:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BwanaNdege

Same issue with tribalism can be said to be happening here.


32 posted on 07/15/2021 7:15:41 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: mikelets456

Power struggle. Looters and rioters are merely tools. Just like here.


33 posted on 07/15/2021 7:16:32 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Dilbert San Diego
There are various tribes of black South Africans. While all are black, there are Zulus, Xhosa, Sotho, and a number of other groups, who fight each other.

But....but....they told me in Africa, they all live in perfect harmony with each other.

34 posted on 07/15/2021 7:16:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Big media keep saying civil war. No. Once cops and soldiers start fighting each other it’s a civil war. Right now it’s just looting. Funny how big media wants to say it’s civil war or covid or climate change related. It’s looting.

You're right. The press is primed for 'chaos' on American streets to be called 'civil war'...

Why?

So commies running the Biden Administration have an excuse to call for 'temporary military control' that will never end.

35 posted on 07/15/2021 7:19:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (ARSON isn't fire violence. RAPE isn't penis violence. Murder isn't gun violence.- Criminal violence )
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To: brownsfan

That would be the big egg.


36 posted on 07/15/2021 7:19:52 AM PDT by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Big media keep saying civil war. No. Once cops and soldiers start fighting each other it’s a civil war. Right now it’s just looting. Funny how big media wants to say it’s civil war or covid or climate change related. It’s looting.

You're right. The press is primed for 'chaos' on American streets to be called 'civil war'...

Why?

So commies running the Biden Administration have an excuse to call for 'temporary military control' that will never end. In short, the press is primed with a lie and they're projecting that lie onto South African criminal looting.

>Yeah, the American press IS that stupid/corrupt...

37 posted on 07/15/2021 7:21:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (ARSON isn't fire violence. RAPE isn't penis violence. Murder isn't gun violence.- Criminal violence )
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To: mikelets456

South africa, Cuba, Haiti, even France. We’re starting to see the fallout from the lock downs rumble in. Fasten your seat belts.


38 posted on 07/15/2021 7:23:06 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: BwanaNdege
Thanks for this link. The last paragraph, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Countries don’t just stay together for no reason. If South Africa is to endure the coming decades, it must give its people something to believe in. Failure to do so will allow racial sectionalism to grow, potentially spelling doom for the South African experiment.

39 posted on 07/15/2021 7:23:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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To: cuban leaf

A lot of idle hands.


40 posted on 07/15/2021 7:23:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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