Posted on 12/18/2013 6:22:18 PM PST by Perseverando
The horror stories about life in South Africa under apartheid are endless, of course, and the fall of that morally repugnant political system is universally hailed as a triumph.
But two decades after the white-led government relinquished power, and especially in the afterglow of worldwide praise for the nation’s former president Nelson Mandela after his passing at age 95, an objective look at South Africa today is very disturbing.
In fact, even among the harshest critics of apartheid and racial oppression, there is an acknowledgement that in many ways the “rainbow nation,” under African National Congress and South African Communist Party rule, is heading downhill.
Fast.
“What I said during my several visits to South Africa, during the era of apartheid, is that blacks weren’t for personal liberty; they mostly wanted to change the color of the dictator,” George Mason University Economics Professor Walter Williams, who studied the apartheid system, told WND.
Mandela’s recent death prompted analysts immediately to opine that South Africa is facing a fork in the road that will define it for generations to come: an acceleration of the ongoing shift toward tyranny, or not.
“This is the first time I have felt anxious about the future,” admitted Leon Louw, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and executive director of the South Africa-based Free Market Foundation. He told WND that throughout all of the turmoil in South Africa in recent decades, “We never felt pessimistic, we felt optimistic all along, but now, I feel worried for the first time.”
Today, he said, “most government positions, most of the cabinet are … the ultra-left, socialists and communists.”
That some things are better than under apartheid is not disputed. Many more blacks are in the middle and upper classes and the standard of living has improved for millions since the revolutionary
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Wait! we’re celebrating still
Rapes, murders, disease, corruption, poverty,...
GEE,...Sounds like the US under Obama.
Are there any black countries with stable, productive, democratic governments? The Bahamas maybe.
the fall of that morally repugnant political system is universally hailed as a triumph.
Universally—That means everyone doesn’t it?
I have never hailed it as a triumph. It could have been a triumph if they had done things right and allowed whites that had run successful business’s in that country to the time to teach blacks how it was done and allowed them to continue with their farms.
But declaring war on their farms and the whites that ran them was a terrible mistake.
I realize that it’s really hard to teach savages who put tires around people necks, fill them with gasoline and entertain themselves by watching them scream, but what they did sure has turned to crap.
And full-bore, unfettered, pedal-to-the-metal Afrocentric socialism. All the way, from every party, from every direction.
Yay!
Don’t forget the rest of the subtitle: “Rapes, murders, disease, corruption, poverty, communism rampant – and maybe genocide”
Sounds like year 5 in Obamastan, formerly known as the USA. I can hardly wait for next year.
They will argue that Mandela’s transition made the downfall slower.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/7-nelson-mandela-quotes-you-probably-wont-see-in-the-us-medi
Not any in Africa, anyway.
I totally ignored the entire thig. Is he dead? Who cares? this sorry terrorist is a Joke. His country went to hell!! what a joke. Everyone got the hell out!!
The white’s should immigrate to the US. When the become citizens they would be the true African Americans, driving the media and victim lobby to distraction.....
production at SA gold mines has been
declining in recent years.
anyone know why?
They will not be allowed to come to the US
As most rational people watch S. Africa swirling down the toilet bowl, idiot libs still believe “things are much better” for most people there. Then they recite the crime stats., and the fact that a great percentage of them live on a dollar a day, and the president loves to sing songs about committing genocide against the most productive members of his country, and you’ve got the description of an insane asylum being run by the inmates.
“The white’s should immigrate to the US. When the become citizens they would be the true African Americans, driving the media and victim lobby to distraction.....”
Ideally, we should offer asylum to people is South Africa that have desired skill sets that can contribute to the US economy.
>>>The white’s should immigrate to the US. When the become citizens they would be the true African Americans, driving the media and victim lobby to distraction.....<<<
No chance for these “racists” to put their foot on a land of diversity.
South Africa having problems? Say it ain’t so, Mo. This can’t be true since South Africa is part of the black Continent which is well known as an example of success after success from country to country. /s
Botswana. Fully functional parliamentary democracy with an independent judiciary and a rising standard of living.
Also the only place in Africa where elephant herds are increasing, because instead of trying to stamp out elephant hunting, they regulate it and pay a stipend to farmers out of the revenues collected from elephant-hunting licenses, plus payment for elephant damage to their farms, removing the support for poaching which farmers in other African countries provide because the huge beasts can easily ruin a year’s crop, and, in fact making the farmers very anti-poaching. If the rest of Africa followed their approach, there could be thriving elephant herds *and* an ivory trade, but everyone else suffers from the delusion that you can prevent desirable economic activity (like trade in ivory and keeping elephants out of farms) simply by declaring it illegal.
Nope, there is: Botswana. See my other post to this thread.
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