Posted on 04/11/2024 3:38:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
For a moment, there was so much hope. 0:04 Apartheid was over. 0:05 South Africa had, for decades, essentially operated as two different nations superimposed 0:10 on the same landscape. 0:12 There was the white nation—wealthy and westernized—boasting a similar, if not higher standard of living 0:18 to that of Europe due to its similarly strong and diversified economy. 0:22 Then there was the black nation—impoverished and excluded from that wealthier white nation 0:27 by a legally enshrined system of segregation. 0:30 It felt like Europeans had just built an insular outpost in Africa—that’s to say, it felt 0:36 like what it was. 0:37 But finally, following decades of internal struggle and mounting international pressure 0:42 that reached a climax with the waning need for an African anti-Soviet ally, the nation’s 0:47 new president announced the release of apartheid-era political prisoners. 0:51 Most of these prisoners were members of the African National Congress—the strongest 0:55 anti-apartheid force—including the famed and beloved Nelson Mandela. 1:01 As time marched forward, Mandela negotiated with the existing government to ensure a peaceful 1:06 transition—something some thought impossible—as the structures of apartheid were stripped 1:10 away. 1:11 Then, in South Africa’s first truly democratic election, the most symbolic moment yet: Nelson 1:18 Mandela, the former prisoner, was elected President of South Africa. 1:23 In the view of most, at that moment, South Africa was brimming with potential. 1:28 It had massive mineral wealth, it had a diversified economy, it had a large highly-educated workforce—as 1:34 the continent rose, the world hoped and believed that South Africa could be the poster-child 1:39 of the potential of African economic and human development. 1:43 If the white and black nations could truly integrate into one, the country was well on
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It is my understanding that SA is a nuclear power. Who gets the bombs?
They HATED the Zulus, because they were once their slaves ( the Boers did NOT own slaves! ), though Mandela and Mbeki were both very well educated, from wealthy families, and knew how to give the appearance of being "reasonable".
That’ll NEVER happen!
This has nothing at to do with DEI and NEVER has.
Note the qualifier. “Relatively reasonable”. In contradistinction to the Zulu, who are regimented and have a hive mind. Mandella, communist that he was, still saw the necessity of creating a black middle class to facilitate the transition from Apartheid to an integrated polity. Unfortunately, he died, and afterwards so did his efforts.
The Boers did not own slaves after the Great Trek, because in the Grahamstown Manifesto they declared that they would no longer own them, but would make such laws as were necessary between masters and servants. Arguably, the colored and black servants that they kept on the veldt were more like serfs than actual slaves. Many of them perished in the concentration camps that Lord Kitchener set up, along with the “memsahibs and “little baas” to whom they were connected.
They are savages by nature.
More likely it would be a combination of a Muslim Chaka and a Robespierre.
” SA needs a Black Napoleon to come in and save the day.”
Napoleon ? No chance.
Maybe they can manage an Idi Amin.
Yes, I do know all about the Brits invention of CONCENTRATION CAMPS, which were as brutal as one can imagine.
OTOH, in more modern times, blacks who worked for whites were NOT normally ( I don't know about EVERYBODY, but DO KNOW about many! ) treated quite well.
The Brits didn’t invent concentration camps. That distinction goes to the Spanish in Cuba.
And there was a middle class, but not a substantial one. It grew as the Nationalists slowly yielded to the inevitable and the strictures of Apartheid declined, preparing the way for Mandela’s ascension to power, I believe with his cooperation. But of course his efforts had to fail in the end. Communism is communism. To his credit, he didn’t commit any massacres of whites or dissident blacks. Now that he’s long gone, it’s started. Again: Relatively reasonable.
The Afrikaners in RSA and many history books claim otherwise!
Want an example?
The whole SOWETO UPRISING, was basically done by a group of slum dwelling blacks, who were AGAINST having their children taught Afrikaans AND more importantly ENGLISH! Neither did they want their own children to actually be well educated. They wanted to keep their own tribal language and that was that, so a math teacher was railroaded out and the riots began in earnest.
So...........HOW can the poor raise themselves up, when they are unable to read and speak languages that are used in business, locally, and re English, WORLD WIDE?
The ANC was formed by USSR loving COMMIE whites, most of whom, were later murdered by the blacks whom they had mentored. It was not exactly like, but still a COMMIE pattern, of the once leaders being murdered by those whom they trained.
You're viewing this from the outside. Did YOU or anyone you know ever had a long personal relationship with Mandela?
Did you live in RSA before, during, and after his presidency?
And "relatively reasonable" is not a fitting term for him at all; it's a better fit for Mbeki, actually,
The ANC will be hiring Jimmy Barbecue from haiti.
They have more than enough murderous thugs of their own!
When Mandela, the COUGH/CHOKE "relatively reasonable" COUGH/CHOKE took over, the police departments threw out the vast majority of whites. He also gave high positions, to top ANC members and their family members, but they were NO SHOW JOBS, kicked out some whites, and the remaining whites had to do their own work, as well as the jobs of the NO SHOWS and/or incompetent blacks who either never came to work, or once there, did NOTHING!
But yes, that "grew" the middle and upper middle classes of blacks. YIIIIPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
And things have gone from bad to worse to HORRIFIC ever since then.
Crosses for farmers murdered in South Africa. Africa, and South Africa in particular, was a target of the Soviets. The crumbling economy is the legacy of Communism.
With over a billion people Africa remains a Continent where Civilization goes to die. Plagued by both a Communist and Islamic past the lesson should be don't run things like it does.
South Africa was once a nuclear power in the sense that it developed and possessed nuclear weapons. It is the only country to have voluntarily dismantled its entire nuclear weapons program. South Africa built six nuclear weapons in the 1980s but dismantled them in the early 1990s before joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state. Since then, South Africa has not maintained a nuclear weapons program but does maintain a significant nuclear energy infrastructure for peaceful purposes.
Met a young woman from South Africa (English, not Afrikaner) last fall who was in the US as an au pair but was planning to return to South Africa in February 2024 to go to college--did not appear to be afraid to go back.
ALL students, in RSA are taught English in school.
Some are more proficient in speaking it than others, but they ALL understand the English written word. Many blacks and coloureds can speak Afrikaans as well; just as many whites ( though now I think it's less ) know at least one tribal language.
And Afrikaans was also taught in schools, as well!
The original settlers were Dutch and Hugennot French, who had fled to the Netherlands, during the great PROTESTANT MASSACRE in France. Their last names were Dutchified, when they were living there, so you WILL find some strange spellings of last names, as a result of that.
Some diehard RSAers still, sadly, haven't woken up to the fact that staying there is not ever going to get better.
OTOH...it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to leave RSA and depending upon her Visa, she probably could NOT stay here, for many different reasons!
If she was going back to attend college, I wonder which one she's going to. A few years ago, black college students there RIOTED and attacked a lot of the white kids; it was disgusting and egged on by racism towards white. Which was really ridiculous, since the blacks were there too and NOT ill treated by ANYONE.
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