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

Posted on 10/03/2018 1:01:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1

UMZIMKHULU, South Africa — 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.

But unlike much of the political violence that upended the country in the 1990s, the recent killings are not being driven by vicious battles between rival political parties.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: anc; southafrica
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Property rights and the rule of law are more important than "democracy". I'd rather live in Singapore than South Africa.
1 posted on 10/03/2018 1:01:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another

Well, at least they got rid of the white people.

2 posted on 10/03/2018 1:03:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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"...Mr. Mandela’s dream of a unified, democratic nation.

That was not Mandela's dream and was never his goal.

PS: This article minimizes a lot of tribal savagery.

3 posted on 10/03/2018 1:06:11 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (I posit that there IS something left worth fighting for.)
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Good. They’re killing each other off. The whites will be able to move back when the criminals are all dead.


4 posted on 10/03/2018 1:08:16 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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When they run out of whites to kill, they will kill each other.

Zimbabwe v2.0


5 posted on 10/03/2018 1:08:41 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Surprise !

Another couple years and the savages will have trashed everything it took a century to create.


6 posted on 10/03/2018 1:10:00 PM PDT by tomkat
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Zulu, Bantu, Hutu, Tsutsi, etc... have tribal or group tendencies of violent cruel treatment to one another for a thousand years. Without a white devil to unify against, they will murder each other by the millions.


7 posted on 10/03/2018 1:10:34 PM PDT by blackdog
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Plenty of white folk are still there. Over the last year, you could find a few Zulus that hate the Bantu/Xhosa ANC that openly call for White Rule once again...

...and they are being listened to. Not many saying that now, but if things get bad enough, do not be shocked to hear that exact wish more frequently from a-political blacks in the RSA that simply want a stable government and economy and are smart enough to understand who could provide it.


8 posted on 10/03/2018 1:12:14 PM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Steely Tom

Whites need their own homeland, just like the other tribes of S. Africa.


9 posted on 10/03/2018 1:23:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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That was not Mandela's dream and was never his goal.

Whatever is your goal is irrelevant when you set this stuff in motion. Mandelea's acts made this "goal" inevitable.

10 posted on 10/03/2018 1:26:01 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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South Africa is becoming like the rest of Africa. Shocking. Who (besides the evil, horrible, super-duper bad, Apartheid racists) could have foreseen such a thing?


11 posted on 10/03/2018 1:29:21 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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Minutes later, men closed in with assault rifles....

What are those?

Oh, it’s the slimes.


12 posted on 10/03/2018 1:34:24 PM PDT by Ceebass (Complacency = Pompeii at Pharsalus)
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Good. They’re killing each other off. The whites will be able to move back when the criminals are all dead.

You underestimate the length of that line of criminals. There is a virtually unending supply.

13 posted on 10/03/2018 1:36:06 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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The equator effect, closer to the equator, fewer democracies.


14 posted on 10/03/2018 1:50:30 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (So what!)
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I've been to South Africa several times and I've traveled other parts of East Africa and southern Africa as well. Unlike in Kenya,Tanzania,Malawi and Zambia (all of which I've visited) one can easily see Western style affluence,particularly in the suburban areas of their major cities.IMO that would make it easier for a South African politician to loot the Treasury and get away with it than would be the case in the rest of Africa.Thus the motive to eliminate one’s enemies/rivals...it seems to me.
15 posted on 10/03/2018 1:51:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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Interesting theory. Other latitudes / longitudes require reliable social, economic, and agronomy systems for survival. Cooperation among people with specialization is essential in less warm zones.

Hmmmm..... ..

16 posted on 10/03/2018 1:59:03 PM PDT by blackdog
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Thank god Non Whites are running that country now, it seems to be doing wonderful under black control.


17 posted on 10/03/2018 2:24:14 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Once they have destroyed the South African economy, the looters will kill each other competing for the power to embezzle from the NGOs, the UN and foreign aid. This will continue long after the last white South African has fled, or is pushing up daisies.


18 posted on 10/03/2018 2:39:12 PM PDT by sphinx
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So ends the history of a valuable ally in WWII!


19 posted on 10/03/2018 3:07:19 PM PDT by Reily
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These freaks killing each other is all good.


20 posted on 10/03/2018 3:42:11 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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