After Mandela what will happen to South Africa?

BBC News ^ | 6 April 2013 | Andrew Harding

[MinorityRepublican]

"All hell will break loose," said the voice on the radio.

It was a call-in show - on a topic that is on many minds here these days: the fate of a 94-year-old man lying in a hospital bed in Pretoria, and the fate of South Africa once he is gone.

For years people here have been understandably reluctant to discuss the death of Nelson Mandela - out of a profound respect for the man who, more than any other, steered this country from apartheid to democracy.

But the passage of time, and the health scares of recent months - have nudged the issue away from the shadows.

The man on the radio was a black South African from a poor township, and he was articulating a belief that has gained a small level of currency here: that Mr Mandela's passing will unleash not just grief and nostalgia, but a violent rage against the poverty and inequality that still exists here, two decades after the end of white minority rule.

[17th Miss Regt]

Zimbabwe will be reenacted fully.

[Jonty30]

There will be no more whites, that’s what will happen.

The smart ones have gotten out, when they could.

[vladimir998]

I think we can all predict that there will be more than 3 million SA whites who will forced to leave. I say we take them in. I would choose them over Somalis any day.

[marron]

the poverty and inequality that still exists here, two decades after the end of white minority rule.

Because greed and envy are great tools for revolution but are poison to peace and the creation of wealth.

[MinorityRepublican]

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I think we should take them in and help them become US citizens. I know they will be more productive than the illegals and welfare parasites.

[vladimir998]

Exactly!

[randog]

It was perhaps fitting that a senior government minister chose this week - with Mr Mandela still in hospital - to declare a decisive break with the past.... He urged a gathering of civil servants to stop blaming apartheid for everything that was still going wrong in South Africa.

Does this mean that the "Blame Bush" crowd has another decade or two of shelf life?

[EQAndyBuzz]

After Mandela, the whites should take back the country. It will be a war, but it won’t be the slaughter that will take place if they choose not to fight.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

http://nbppnews.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-black-panthers-make-ground-with-pan.html

[Dalberg-Acton]

It would be great to have all those new white African Americans if for no other reason than to see the multi-culturist’ heads explode.

[ansel12]

A Switzerland it won’t be.

I’m going to go way, way, way, out on a limb and predict that South Africa will not be well run anytime soon, just one of those wild, crazy, guesses.

[Cyber Liberty]

Does this mean that the "Blame Bush" crowd has another decade or two of shelf life?

You must ask yourself: Do they still blame Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression?

They have a century of shelf life on "Bush's Fault."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Doesn’t he have a wife that can take over for him? That seems to be the fad these days.

[dfwgator]

“We are going to blame Bush forever.” - Madeleine Albright

[PistolPaknMama]

a violent rage against the poverty and inequality that still exists here, two decades after the end of white minority rule

Buy a clue. Maybe it wasn't the white rule if nothing changed when white rule ended?

[MinorityRepublican]

[hal ogen]

What does it matter?

[Tijeras_Slim]

She’s working at Discount Tire.