I’m from Zimbabwe.. 10 years ago when I was in highschool I told my SA friends that they needed to vote the ANC out or they’ll become like Zim. They laughed and told me SA could never become like Zim. A gross underestimation of what institutional incompetence can do to a country
The entire idea was built on nothing but "hope."
It was doomed to fail. Success comes from hard work and diligence. "Hope" can motivate, but it means nothing without the hard work and sacrifice.
Afrikkaners and Jews have kept S.A.’s economy afloat for the past 20 years. Now they are trying to genocide the former (farmers) and drive out the latter (Jews are fleeing in droves). Soon, the end will come. They will starve in darkness.
Maybe the Cape will secede.
And after a year or so, of the ANC takeover, ALL of the newspapers ( which were and still are OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT! and run by BLACKS) posted a 3/4 title on their front pagers, in BIG BLACK LETTERS:"BRING BACK APARTHEID !"
Everyone knew what was going to happen to South Africa once they chased the whites out of power. Black culture is not conducive to having a high functioning society. They are less able to organize themselves the way whites and Asians do and they live in a low trust society. Obviously there are intellectual differences among the groups as well. Everyone is well aware of the situation but not allowed to talk about these things in polite society.
Mandela and the ANC was always known to be Communist. I thought Apartheid must go but replacement with Mandela would be a disaster. South Africa at one time was the greatest country on the continent and now is slowly dying as most others in Africa. SA is the definition of the failure of Socialism and social “equality”.
> For a moment, there was so much hope
Rational people did not have hope for South Africa
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 on the same landscape.
0:12 There was the white nation—wealthy and westernized—boasting a similar, if not higher standard of living 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 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 like what it was.
0:37 But finally, following decades of internal struggle and mounting international pressure that reached a climax with the waning need for an African anti-Soviet ally, the nation’s 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 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 transition—something some thought impossible—as the structures of apartheid were stripped away.
1:11 Then, in South Africa’s first truly democratic election, the most symbolic moment yet: Nelson 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.
1:34 As the continent rose, the world hoped and believed that South Africa could be the poster-child 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
South Africa has maxed out it’s DEI
Nelson and Winnie were Communists.
Communism can only exist as a parasite of capitalism.
They will soon successfully extinguish capitalism.
It is my understanding that SA is a nuclear power. Who gets the bombs?
The ANC will be hiring Jimmy Barbecue from haiti.
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 brimming with potential. It had massive mineral wealth, it had a diversified economy, it had a large highly-educated workforce—as the continent rose, the world hoped and believed that South Africa could be the poster-child of the potential of African economic and human development. If the white and black nations could truly integrate into one…”
What nonsense.
If if if. If your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle.