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Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another
The New York Times ^ | 30 Sept 2018 | Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan

Posted on 09/30/2018 7:10:14 AM PDT by Theoria

Their fear faded as they raced back home, the bottle of Johnnie Walker getting lighter with each turn of the road. Soon, Sindiso Magaqa was clapping and bouncing behind the wheel of his beloved V8 Mercedes-Benz, pulling into familiar territory just before dark.

Minutes later, men closed in with assault rifles. Mr. Magaqa reached for the gun under his seat — too late. One of his passengers saw flashes of light, dozens of them, from the spray of bullets pockmarking the doors.

The ambush was exactly what Mr. Magaqa had feared. A few months before, a friend had been killed by gunmen in his front yard. Then, as another friend tried to open his front gate at night, a hit man crept out of the dark, shooting him dead. Next came Mr. Magaqa, 34. Struck half a dozen times, he hung on for weeks in a hospital before dying last year.

All of the assassination targets had one thing in common: They were members of the African National Congress who had spoken out against corruption in the party that defined their lives.

“If you understand the Cosa Nostra, you don’t only kill the person, but you also send a strong message,” said Thabiso Zulu, another A.N.C. whistle-blower who, fearing for his life, is now in hiding.

“We broke the rule of omertà,” he added, saying that the party of Nelson Mandela had become like the Mafia.

Political assassinations are rising sharply in South Africa, threatening the stability of hard-hit parts of the country and imperiling Mr. Mandela’s dream of a unified, democratic nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; anc; assassination; fake; fakenews; mandela; southafrica; thirdworld; thugculture
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1 posted on 09/30/2018 7:10:14 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Winnie’s necklaces have gone mainstream.


2 posted on 09/30/2018 7:13:20 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Theoria

The ANC learned a lot from the Clintons!


3 posted on 09/30/2018 7:14:08 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Theoria

Once great country reverting to tribalism.


4 posted on 09/30/2018 7:18:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Theoria

What the HELL is wrong with Africa?? There isn’t one decently run country on the entire continent!!


5 posted on 09/30/2018 7:18:48 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Theoria

The ANC was always a communist front group.

Communism has always been nothing but a sweet-sounding lie used to gain power, by people who just wanted unchecked power.


6 posted on 09/30/2018 7:21:07 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Ann Archy

Just like Chicago!!!


7 posted on 09/30/2018 7:21:37 AM PDT by Maskot (soPut every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: Ann Archy

Its culture is a reflection of the people that inhabit it. That’s the problem.


8 posted on 09/30/2018 7:22:36 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Theoria

The population there only grew owing to ag advances of whites:

What will happen to those people once S.A. ag reverts to African norms (standing around, staring).

Millions of people starving to death, I assume.


9 posted on 09/30/2018 7:29:49 AM PDT by gaijin
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Most countries have functioned by in large because one group wiped out the other threats. It happened here, it will happen there. That is the norm. Eventually all whites will leave SA, in one way or another.


10 posted on 09/30/2018 7:34:31 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

It’s okay though, at least they aren’t White...


11 posted on 09/30/2018 7:38:21 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Ann Archy

Take a guess.


12 posted on 09/30/2018 7:38:50 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: PIF
Once great country reverting to tribalism.

Until most of the whites are gone and the Chinese move in. They're going to wish the white people had stuck around.
13 posted on 09/30/2018 7:44:44 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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>> “If you understand the Cosa Nostra, you don’t only kill the person, but you also send a strong message,” <<

That is why Alinsky admired and studied Al Capone . That is why Leftists love Alinsky. That is why Judge Kavanaugh is being savaged . That is why good men cant be silent.
14 posted on 09/30/2018 7:53:13 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: Theoria

Finally!

Great News!


15 posted on 09/30/2018 7:59:06 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: Theoria

Add 1 more to the list of world shitholes. Obama was over there a few weeks back. Think he noticed or commented on any of this?


16 posted on 09/30/2018 8:06:16 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Theoria
"Hit Men and Power...

Oh....

I thought this was going to be about the Democrat Party.

17 posted on 09/30/2018 8:07:28 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Fools are the tools of the scoundrels.)
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“I thought this was going to be about the Democrat Party.”

It is:
ANC = Communist thugs
Democrats = Communist thugs

See?


18 posted on 09/30/2018 8:10:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Theoria

Best news yet! Maybe when the racists get done killing each other off, the country will be safe for the whites to return.


19 posted on 09/30/2018 8:17:34 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: akalinin
Until most of the whites are gone and the Chinese move in. They're going to wish they had not driven the white people out.
20 posted on 09/30/2018 8:32:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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