Get out of Africa. Now. While you still can.
You are in a similar situation as a Jew in early-1930's Germany. As things turn to shit, white people will be blamed. You will be accused of "sabotage". Pogroms will ensue.
It’s easy to say, from a distance, “get out while you can”. In fact, we are often told even by Africans “Go back to where you came from”. Well, I was born here. My Dad was born here of Scottish parents. My Mom was sent out here from the UK as an orphan when she was a couple of months shy of 16. She never gave up her British citizenship, however that doesn’t carry forward to the children from the mother’s side except for a brief period in the mid 1980s when they allowed under age 18 offspring to acquire British citizenship. My youngest sister was around 15 or 16 at the time so she was sorted out, however I and my other sister were already in our upper 20s.
The big issues would be:
1) Work. Who is going to hire a 59 year old female even assuming that she could even get a work visa? I don’t even have a university degree even though I am now working at a university. I started work in the days when, unless you had really good school results and could get a bursary, or you had parents who could afford to pay, you started work straight out of school and worked your way up to some extent. (I do, however, find myself having to teach the modern graduates how to think! I’m sure many older Freepers can identify with that.)
2) Money. When I finished school, end 1973, we could buy 1 USD for ZAR 0.70. Now it costs us around ZAR 12.00. South African money doesn’t travel well nowadays. If I had to liquidate my retirement savings (would have to pay a whack of tax), and sell my extremely modest flat, I would probably have about USD 140,000. Not much to finance the remainder of life of an almost 59 year old without much in the way of job prospects.
3) Where do I go? My youngest sister took advantage of her dual nationality to move to the UK in 1998 with her (then) boyfriend. They married about 6 months later. Problem with moving there is that I don’t like what I read about it nowadays - seems heavily Muslim. My sister is also very anti-Christian and her husband just not interested. While I enjoy her visits here, I don’t think we could live at close quarters for any length of time without clashing. They also live in a very multicultural environment which is not working too well here, as I think you find in the States as well in some areas. I believe that you can live very cheaply in certain parts of the world, but not parts that I really want to live in. Probably I would fit in best in certain parts of the USA, but I wouldn’t qualify for entry.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that when people tell us to just pack up and leave, don’t just assume that we are young and well qualified enough to do so or that we are financially equipped to enable that sort of change.
The best I can do is to rely on God while not abdicating my own responsibilty to keep myself as safe as possible.
Back to topic - I left work about 1:00pm today. We had been advised that although many students had vacated Bremner Building (which they’ve currently named Azania House) there were quite a number who had refused to do so. The university had a court order for them to vacate by 2:00PM (currently around 3:55pm) so things could get rather hectic.