The South African leadership knows full well that Mugabe's Zimbabwe is falling apart after the forced evictions of white farmers. Zimbabwe is going to hell, BUT, the South African leadership can copy Mugabe in looting a once very prosperous country.
Ala Mugabe, the choice farms will go to the top leadership and their families, none of whom know squat about farming. But they will have the lovely farm houses and become landed gentry.
It's all about greed, and so what if mass starvation is the inevitable result? The leadership won't starve as they jet-set to Malaysia, Thailand, etc. on their very expensive vacations and shopping trips.
And what's to stop them, their leadership is safe, the Western MSM won't/can't criticize them. Afterall, the Western MSM played a crucial role in bringing to power the current leadership that is now destroying SA & Zimbabwe.
Everyone knows no help will come from the U.N., which has long been a very expensive black joke: Kofi Annan never met a black African dictator that he didn't defend, no matter what.
And of course, the SA & Zimbabwe leadership are black Africans gangsters Marxists. This automatically gives them permanent immunity from the knee-jerk Western MSM, who also don't give a damn about the common people of those countries. As they starve it will automatically be the white Westerners who are to blame, and our MSM will trumpet that message.
It's the old fable of the ants and the grasshopper.
Instant gratification without hard work and saving is reckless.