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Thirty years after Mandela's election, young black voters in South Africa have turned against the ANC - scarred by an endless tide of violence, corruption and poverty. As the polls open today, SUE REID warns even greater turmoil may lie ahead...
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 29, 2024 | Sue Reid

Posted on 05/29/2024 3:54:45 AM PDT by C19fan

Thank heavens it wasn't raining last Tuesday morning, as it can do in late autumn in South Africa. It would have meant a drenching for the most unusual ­politician fighting today's election — a 32-year-old farmer's son called Chris Pappas, who is white and gay.

Peering through owlish glasses, he was giving a campaign speech to 70 locals in their decaying village hall, a half-day's drive inland from the coastal city of Durban in the sprawling province of KwaZulu-Natal.

The building had gaping holes in the tin roof through which you could see the sky. In every window the glass was shattered, and an entire wall was missing, affording a huge vista of stupendous landscape.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africa; anc; brics; ccp; china; race; sco; southafrica
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What has happened to South Africa over the past 30 years is the biggest black pill of them all.
1 posted on 05/29/2024 3:54:45 AM PDT by C19fan
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They will eat each other.


2 posted on 05/29/2024 4:02:02 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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BTTT


3 posted on 05/29/2024 4:03:14 AM PDT by nopardons
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Having spent some time in South Africa I'm at least somewhat familiar with the country. My first visit was in the early 1980s...my most recent was 4 years ago.

I'm of the firm opinion that SA is headed for a destiny that would make Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo look like paradise by comparison. I do hope I'm wrong however.

4 posted on 05/29/2024 4:04:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Lethal Force Authorized At Mar-a-Lago!)
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One-party rule (by anyone) almost always leads to corruption, oppression, and violence. True in the old Soviet Union. True in South Africa today.

And true in the United States if the Democrats can cheat their way into a permanent majority.


5 posted on 05/29/2024 4:06:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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South Africa could’ve been great.

I spoke to a SA white citizen 30 years ago. He said, “I don’t know where our country will go”.

Having already expressed a negative future for SA, I answered, “I do”.


6 posted on 05/29/2024 4:07:23 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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Remember the roll liberals had in the total destruction of South Africa and Rhodesia. Libs want to do the same to the USA.


7 posted on 05/29/2024 4:07:57 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (s)
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Every honest and rational person knew what would happen.

Sadly no lessons will be learned from this. They will double-down and increase their efforts to make this happen in every country. It's happening in Ireland and Canada.

8 posted on 05/29/2024 4:09:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Thanks for the info, but why not include a little more of the article to save time, and instead of requiring readers to leave FR for a softporn site about a sad battle?
South Africa faces a defining moment.

Crucially, the ANC is being rejected by young blacks — the so-called Born Free generation who cannot remember apartheid — as they rebel against the only government they have ever known....Political pollsters say the ANC, led by ageing black veterans of the apartheid struggle, may be forced into a coalition with the country's third biggest party, the Marxist-Leninist Economic ­Freedom Fighters.

Political pollsters say the ANC, led by ageing black veterans of the apartheid struggle, may be forced into a coalition with the country's third biggest party, the Marxist-Leninist Economic ­Freedom Fighters.

The EFF is headed by a race-baiting, nationalist fire-brand, Julius Malema, who was raised by a single mother in a black township....Malema's party insists apartheid did not end in 1994. It preaches that Mandela handed power to 'white capitalists' who still exist and must be destroyed....The terrifying truth is that Malema's EFF is winning the hearts and minds of disappointed young voters who feel the ANC has left them jobless

and in poverty....

Meanwhile, Chris Pappas of the Democratic Alliance is fighting his corner hard.


9 posted on 05/29/2024 4:15:01 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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How could they not fall in love with Winnie Mandela’s midnight tire necklaces? Those ingrates just don’t appreciate a good dictator when one emerges.


10 posted on 05/29/2024 4:18:33 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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And when governments murder their own citizens, the people are too stupid to understand it’s for their own good.


11 posted on 05/29/2024 4:21:24 AM PDT by abb
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Is Charlize Theron available for comment? Mushbrained Holliwierd leftist whom thought Mandela was the second coming. Yeah, of Stalin maybe. She should migrate back to her homeland and have a good taste of S.A. life from inside her concrete barbed wire compound. Pewtrid clown.


12 posted on 05/29/2024 4:23:40 AM PDT by DAC21
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13 posted on 05/29/2024 4:27:06 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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This great “hero” Mandela, what did he and his wife do for SA? Absolutely nothing except turn the country into a cesspool of corruption and violence. This particular country, a failed nation state has brought charges of “genocide” against the Democratic state of Israel?? What a farce.


14 posted on 05/29/2024 4:29:31 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.i)
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Elections bought by Euro Elites. It’s so cute how they think they get to choose their leaders.


15 posted on 05/29/2024 4:29:59 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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Given how they control the bureaucracy, the Democrats essentially are the only Party now, no matter who is President.


16 posted on 05/29/2024 4:30:39 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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What a surprise: Communism isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.


17 posted on 05/29/2024 4:46:40 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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Haiti is SA on steroids.
18 posted on 05/29/2024 4:55:44 AM PDT by Fido969
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So, for South Africa, it’s either the Flaming Queer or the Flaming Communist. Sounds like the US if Trump wasn’t running.


19 posted on 05/29/2024 5:14:22 AM PDT by BobL
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I read a well researched article years ago that said South Africa is Obamas model for America.


20 posted on 05/29/2024 5:19:42 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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