Posted on 02/03/2025 12:56:48 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
‘Their breath grew shallow, their bodies still. They didn’t die with any great commotion, just a quiet surrender, as if their bodies had finally given up. The hollow, lifeless look in their eyes was a constant reminder of what awaited the rest of us. It was not an illness that killed them. It was starvation. A cruel, drawn-out death that consumed them piece by piece.’
These harrowing words are not from a witness to the conflict in Gaza. Nor are they an account of the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust. No, they are from an affidavit to the South African Constitutional Court by a miner called Clement Moeletsi. Moeletsi was one of hundreds of black miners who were trapped by police in abandoned shafts at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine for two months. Earlier this month, he was rescued by members of the Stilfontein community. Then, he was arrested for mining illegally.
Moeletsi was the victim of a deliberate state policy. In September last year, the South African government, led by the African National Congress (ANC), launched Operation Vala Umgodi, which in Zulu translates as ‘close the hole’. The aim, in the words of a government minister, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, was to ‘smoke out’ illegal gold miners. The government would do this by cutting off the miners’ supplies and trapping them underground, in an attempt to force them to the surface. In Buffelsfontein, where the shafts are over two kilometres deep, this was a tragedy foretold.
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It was sure swell when SA was forced to give up apartheid even though they knew what would happen. And it did.
Used to argue with virtue signaling freepers over this 25 years ago here
At one time they were a well located strategic friend with nuclear weapons, something sure changed.
It always amazes me that the most liberal
people worship the concept that all
people on Earth came from Africa or the middle east.
Yet one has to ask why are they(Africans and middle east)
are the most barbaric
and backward peoples on Earth today?
Something is wrong with this picture.
That’s it, I’m not playing Sun City!
Maybe Bono and U2 can write a song about it.
Simple. A totally corrupt communist oriented ANC took over, and the logical result followed.
ISLAM - fries the mind from independent / creative thinking from childhood on. Most have mental issues.
South Africa will remain incompetent and corrupt. So I think status quo will prevail.
I do not think there will be a dictator like Mugabe in South Africa ordering everything to be confiscated. They're not that organized.
But they may try.
Yet one has to ask why are they(Africans and middle east) are the most barbaric and backward peoples on Earth today? Something is wrong with this picture.
I’m with you, man. No Sun City for me!
Communism will bring paradise on Earth, problem is it’s always just one more murder away.
Well said.
Most Freepers get this. Most leftscum? Not so much. These same type of leftscum here in the US are the ones losing their minds over President Trump getting elected and what he is doing.
South Africa has been governed for decades by the ANC, which is NOT communist and loves to steal money from the capitalist pigs.
So communism is not why it becomes a sh.thole country. Nice deflection though.
You win my favorite comment today and in a few days.
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In my first FR life I clearly remember being in on some very similar (same???) threads about then and I could not believe it.
Freepers gloating about our staunch ally and pro-western South Africa being abandoned to the dam ANC Communists and led by the terrorist MANDELA. I used to wonder “what the bloody hell craziness is this?”.
Sure apartheid wasn’t perfect but history has proven what a disastrous decision it was. Why not have used a little more caution and you know…maybe make sure capitalists took over and the former government had some partial political power?
How bad is SA now???…well how about this. Many rape and purposefully ejaculate into little girls because they believe it rids their bodies of AIDS. And it happens 10s of THOUSANDS of times there:
https://billmoyers.com/content/children-child-rape-aids-south-africa/
No, the ANC is strongly linked with communism and always has been.
“ Partly due to its Tripartite Alliance with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, ‘.
This is now, 2025.
Zulu Wars in South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Vfq4YaWJ0
Comment in place for the clip:
“I have seen this scene countless times, but this is the first time I listened to it with headphones. I’ll be honest, I damn nearly cried. It really is a beautiful movie.”
Have you ever considered the possibility that the smarter and more energetic ones (the ones with what my grandfather called "gumption") left while the rest remained?
Intelligence is a very heritable characteristic. A few millennia of that and distinctly different populations emerge.
Tom Lodge, Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick, wrote an article in 2021 about the
incestuous relationship between the Communist Party and the ANC.
Quoting a portion of the excellent analysis:
"Next to the 109-year old governing African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party is the
second oldest political organization in Africa.
It was no coincidence that the ANC had the most entrenched and systematic presence in the 1950s in the localities in
which communists were best organized in the 1940s. In short, the “Decade of Defiance”, the ten years or so of mass action
against apartheid in the 1950s, was incubated in party networks.
Communists have held important positions in ANC governments for nearly 30 years. For example, in Cyril Ramaphosa’s
first cabinet communists were appointed to a number of ministerial portfolios, including Trade and Industry and Higher Education.
Former communists have held other key positions, including the presidency itself as well as the Finance Ministry."
This article goes on to explain that although the two parties define themselves as separate entities, they
commingle resources, arms, and 'community organization.'
In short, the ANC is not the national Communist Party, but they ascribe to the same tenets as the CP.
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