Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another

The New York Times ^ | 30 Sept 2018 | Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan

[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.

[Vendome]

[GoldenPup]

Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another.

Wonder if they would be willing to give the GOP lessons? Well needed.

[dfwgator]

Pass the popcorn.

[hal ogen]

South Africa is devolving into a joke of a country run by deranged racist losers. If you are a white person, your days there are numbered. At least you’ll be alive.

[hal ogen]

South Africa is devolving into a joke of a country run by deranged racist losers. If you are a white person, your days there are numbered. Leave any way possible. At least you’ll be alive.

[lastchance]

But White farmers are A O.K. and any news that they are being killed is a racist lie. Get that.

[aquila48]

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[yesthatjallen]

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.

The Useful Tools are being eliminated.

[Louis Foxwell]

The Chinese will enslave the black population in a system worse than anything the Afrikaners inflicted. First economically then culturally, the Chinese consider themselves a superior race and the blacks little more than animals. This will not end well for Africa.

[yesthatjallen]

The people of Burma learned a hard lesson when they drove out the British and welcomed the Japanese as liberators from the evil British colonial imperialists.

"Although many Burmese fought initially for the Japanese as part of the Burma Independence Army, many Burmese, mostly from the ethnic minorities, served in the British Burma Army. The Burma National Army and the Arakan National Army fought with the Japanese from 1942 to 1944 but switched allegiance to the Allied side in 1945. Under Japanese occupation, 170,000 to 250,000 civilians died."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar

[gnarledmaw]

Not buying it. We’re half a world away and have known the ANC was organized crime pedaling communism since its inception, there is no way these whistleblowers didnt know what they were doing and getting in to.