Posted on 06/19/2015 7:46:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Few things are more disturbing than the collaborative media silence that attends the ongoing disintegration of post-apartheid South Africa. The nation’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), led by President Jacob Zuma, is the essence of corruption in a nation with one of the highest rates [2] of rape in the world, and a murder rate best described [3] last September by MP Dianne Kohler Barnard of the Democratic Alliance, the nation’s second largest [4] political party. “We have 47 murders a day,” she said. “That sort of figure is what one would expect in a war zone.”
In her book, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot” [5] author Ilana Mercer cuts through the tyranny of political correctness that surrounds the ostensible improvement that was supposed to have emerged in that nation, following the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990, and the subsequent adoption [6] of a new constitution in 1994, enfranchising blacks and other minorities. While she rightly describes the “terrible injustice” of the apartheid regime that produced an average of 7,036 people murdered per year, she reveals the Western-celebrated ANC government saw an average of 24,026 murders annually in the first eight years of its existence.
The South African government currently [7] estimates there are 31 murders per 100,000 people per year, which comes out to about 50 per day. That ranks the nation above drug cartel-infested Mexico, the nation of Rwanda that endured the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu sympathizers in the ‘90s, and Sudan, where the government of Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir precipitated [8] the mass slaughter and rape of Darfuri men, women and children that continues to this day. That would be the very same Omer al-Bashir the ANC allowed to leave South Africa on June 15, ignoring [9] a pending arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which had charged him with multiple counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. In doing so, the ANC violated South Africa’s international legal commitments and its own constitution.
The same stench of ANC corruption applies to the aforementioned murder statistics: outside groups believe the murder rate is actually double that total admitted by the government.
Moreover, white Boer farmers remain a primary target. According to the Times of London, over 4,000 of them were murdered since the end of apartheid in a nation rated six on a scale of eight for genocide by Genocide Watch [10]. Of the 50 murders committed daily, 20 percent of the victims are white, and the black on white murder rate is approximately 95 percent.
Some of the carnage is attributable to Zuma himself. In 2013 he led [11] a crowd in a song promoting the murder of the Boers. “We are going to shoot them with machine guns, they are going to run… The cabinet will shoot them, with the machine gun… Shoot the Boer, we are going to hit them, they are going to run,” Zuma chanted. Hence it is no surprise the murder rate of white farmers is quadruple that of the rest of the population.
South Africa’s rape statistics are equally appalling. Approximately half a million rapes occur [2] on an annual basis, of which only one in nine are reported. This amounts to 132.4 rapes per 100,000 people per year, far and away the highest total in the world. Many of those rapes are of the “corrective” variety, precipitated by legions of men who believe that raping a lesbian will “cure” them of their homosexuality. “There is a clear sense of entitlement to women’s bodies which underlies the general rape pandemic, and no doubt the attack of lesbian women or women who read as gender non-conforming,” says Emily Craven, policy and program manager at ActionAid South Africa, one of the first charities to document the use of “corrective rape.” “The notion that women do not need men for either economic support or sexual pleasure is one that is deeply threatening to entrenched patriarchal values.” Those same patriarchal values undoubtedly factor into the reality that for every 25 men brought to trial for rape, 24 will be freed.
They also factor into predictably twisted attitudes. According to research group CIET, an anti-violence NGO, 20 per cent of rapists insisted the victim “asked for it.” A related survey reveals 25 percent of Soweto schoolboys described as “fun” the local term for gang rape known as “jackrolling.” And many so-called corrective rape survivors have reported their attackers wanted to show them “how to be real women and what a real man tasted like.” Furthermore many rapists are not content with that crime: 32 women have been raped and murdered in the last 15 years, but since underreporting of such incidents remains rampant, the number is likely to be far higher. South African charity Luleki Sizwe contends more than 10 women are raped or gang-raped on a weekly basis.
In the economic arena, South Africa’s the primary reasons for a rapidly deteriorating economy are succinctly described by Mercer as “apartheid in reverse.” In an effort to correct the racial disparities of the past, the ANC established the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) program, followed by Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) program. This is a system whereby all enterprises public and private were required to “make their workforces demographically representative of the country’s racial profile,” Mercer explains. In 2013, ANC parliamentarian Mario Rantho described his party’s vision for government. “It is imperative to get rid of merit as the overriding principle in the appointment of public servants,” he declared.
The results were predictable. Black households saw their incomes shrink by 19 percent during the first six years of ANC rule, and the total number of persons of all races living in “absolute poverty” had doubled following the ANC’s ascension to power. Farmland confiscated from whites as part of a land-sharing agreement remains virtually barren. Life expectancy has declined from 64 at the end of apartheid to 56 today. And as The Economist put it, “Public healthcare, the roadways, ports and road infrastructure bear testimony to the insidious effects of racial preference on South Africa.” More recently, economic growth has been anemic [12], the national debt has grown by 44 percent, the nation’s rand-based currency lost 20 percent of its value in 2013, and the current unemployment rate stands [13] at 25 percent. Moreover, the city of Durban has fallen off the list of the world’s 50 largest container ports.
And with those racial preferences, coupled with de facto one-party rule, came the inevitable corruption. Plum government jobs were given to ANC insiders, irrespective of qualifications, and President Zuma recently spent $24 million of public money to add a pool and amphitheater to his private home. Nonetheless he was reelected to another five-year term in 2014. Think-tank theorist Leon Louw, who helped defeat apartheid, characterizes the crime and corruption in South Africa as “a simple manifestation of the breakdown of the state. The government is just appallingly bad at everything it does: education, healthcare, infrastructure, security, everything that is a government function is in shambles,” he adds.
And it is not likely to get better. The Communist-aligned ANC has a vise-like grip on the corridors of power, getting 62 percent of the vote during the 2014 election. The second place Democratic Alliance, won a paltry 22 percent of the vote. Thus, it’s no surprise that the nation’s justice system as described [14] by the Daily Maverick’s Ruth Hopkins is “broken beyond imagination.” South Africans are battling a dysfunctional court system “where lengthy delays put presumed innocent suspects behind bars for years, where overworked state-funded lawyers do not bother to question glaring inconsistencies, shoddy evidence and lying police officers,” she writes.
Politically-driven favoritism abounds [15] as well. Richard Mdluli, former head of the South African police’s crime intelligence section, was charged with murder, attempted murder, intimidation, the kidnapping of a man who married his former lover, money laundering charges, fraud, theft, and corruption. All charges were dropped and he was re-instated after he sent a letter to Zuma and his police bosses promising to help Zuma win reelection in 2014. It was one of many cases where connections to Zuma have have influenced judicial proceedings conducted—or dropped—by the nation’s official prosecutorial body, known as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Zuma himself had an astonishing 783 counts of corruption against him dropped a few years ago. “There is no political will to subject politically-connected people at the highest levels of government to the criminal justice system when there are allegations of wrongdoing,” wrote Gareth Newham, head of the Crime and Justice Program at the Institute of Security Studies in early 2014. Mdluli was suspended in 2012, but continues [16] to live a lavish lifestyle underwritten by South African taxpayers. And despite renewed calls to push criminal proceedings against him, that effort remains in politically-influenced limbo.
Following their victory in 2014, the ANC promised [17] to embark on “a second radical phase of the national democratic revolution!” that included the “strategic transformation of the ownership and control function of key commanding heights of the economy.” In short, the nation is on the fast track to emulating the disastrous policies of Zimbabwe, a nation destroyed by mass-murdering Marxist despot Robert Mugabe and his minions. And as goes South Africa, so goes the Western-promoted halo surrounding Nelson Mandela: shortly after his death in 2013, the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress both released official statements acknowledging [18] his role as a Communist Party leader who served on the Soviet-backed organization’s Central Committee. Nonetheless, he remains a revered icon among Western apologists—one whose terrorist past of bombing campaigns against fellow black South Africans opposed to his communist predilections has been all but erased.
South Africa had the potential to serve as a great example of the cause of human equality winning out over prejudice and political injustice. Unfortunately, the far-left seized the opportunity to institute their policies of perpetual poverty, violence and race hatred. The failure of South Africa is the failure of the world to acknowledge this reality. Where it might have been a model for other nations, it instead stands as a dire warning — while the toxic seeds of leftist politics grow elsewhere, including in our own backyard.
Israel is attempting to prevent the same thing from happening there.
What’s happening in South Africa today, and what has happened in Zimbabwe, doesn’t fit the liberal narrative of peaceful racially mixed societies, with peaceful coexistence among diverse peoples.
So the media don’t report much of what’s going on in South Africa. And the media have been virtually silent on the extermination of white farmers in Zimbabwe.
Do you mean with the Palis or the Africans?
Bkmrk
South Africa - Africans
Israel - Palis.
It happened in Bosnia too, in a way. Heck, one could argue it’s happening in the US in a way.
Something like this:
1. Civilization moves to a backwards and impoverished area surrounded by similar impoverished area.
2. Civilization brings prosperity.
3. Prosperity brings workers from the surrounding impoverished areas.
4. These workers outnumber the folks that are ancestors of those who civilized the area.
5. They create laws to ensure they remain more powerful than the indigenous people to ensure the survival of their civilized oasis.
6. The creation of Political Correctness makes this impossible.
7. They lose power to the indigenous people.
8. Barbarism ensues.
9. The area becomes a shadow of the civilization it once was and eventually returns to its former condition, but with more garbage.
FWIW, Apartheid never prepared Blacks for majority rule.
I have a friend from South Africa, a PhD in materials science - moved his family to the USA about 12 years ago. Still has relatives there, returns occasionally for visits.
I asked him - so do you think S. Africa will turn into Zimbabwe in 20 years?
His answer - more like 10.
If you are White in South Africa, you need to flee as did the Jews from Europe. If you are left behind, you will suffer.
And, they want to make Mandala a saint.
I keep saying this. The Liberal Monopoly of the media is THE GREATEST THREAT THIS NATION FACES.
And by THREAT I mean people are going to die in mass numbers if we don't destroy that Liberal monopoly.
Haven't heard much from Ferguson, Missouri either in the last few months.
I watched how representative government grew in Taiwan from the 80's onwards, and even though they started from a greatly more advanced economy and civil society, had a common culture, etc.. - it still took 20 years for most of society to accept and agree to a democratic, rule-of-law society.
South Africa would need many generations to instill these ideas.
RE: If you are White in South Africa, you need to flee as did the Jews from Europe.
Not so easy for those who own large tracts of agricultural land.
I will point out that many White Farmers in Rhodesia owned large tracks of land. They don't own anything now.
Bottom rail on top now, boss.
“In the economic arena, South Africa’s the primary reasons for a rapidly deteriorating economy are succinctly described by Mercer as “apartheid in reverse.” In an effort to correct the racial disparities of the past, the ANC established the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) program, followed by Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) program. This is a system whereby all enterprises public and private were required to “make their workforces demographically representative of the country’s racial profile,” Mercer explains. In 2013, ANC parliamentarian Mario Rantho described his party’s vision for government. “It is imperative to get rid of merit as the overriding principle in the appointment of public servants,” he declared.”
IIRC At one time white owned/run farms were not only providing an export product but also feeding African mouths as well. This little idea took property away from white farmers and gave it to blacks who had no idea how to run a farm, and inevitable results followed. Farms fell into disrepair, fields and equipment were left unattended. But hey, they got what they wanted so good luck to ‘em............If I were a White person there I woulda been gone a loooong time ago.
The black race in America, despite over sixty years of being given rights over and above that of whites(lowered standards for jobs, affirmative action, lowered test standards and billions of tax dollars), is still unable to sustain any kind of living standard for itself on its own. In fact, getting good grades in school, speaking English understandably, dressing neatly, is grounds for being ostracized by almost all of them.
What respect can be given to an entire race of people who refuse to call themselves by the nationality of the country that has given them so much. They aren’t “African” by any stretch of the imagination, but insist on calling themselves such. They insist on setting themselves apart from American citizens in every way(music, speech, names) and still insist on “equality”. They have even developed their own brand of Christianity.(Black Theology)
Equality is about the furthest thing from their minds. What they really want is privilege. The melting pot of America has accepted all races and nationalities that wish to be American. Blacks want all the perks and privileges while clinging to long past grievances(that all of us have in one form or another) as a tool to gain advantages over everyone.
Asians, Irish, Germans, Italians, East Indians, etc. have all made their way here. Some of them, like my ancestors, were indentured servants that had no say in whether they came here or not. They have educated themselves, worked, struggled, overcome obstacles and prejudice by effort and perseverance.
Not so American blacks. They cling to their grievances generation after generation because they have learned to profit from them. However, their Golden Goose has just about expired by their own hand. The nation that they refused to honor, the white race that has caved to so many of their demands in the name of “equality” and “fairness” is about to sink under the weight of foreign hordes that are demanding a free hunk of that pie too. Even a good portion of white America got tired of watching those who whined the loudest get the freebies and they jumped on the bandwagon too. Now, guess what? The pie is all gone. It actually has been gone for quite some time. The Golden Goose is breathing her last. American blacks will finally get the “equality” they have been longing for. They will suffer and go hungry under a Communist/Marxist regime just like the rest of us.
please see my post #17, I think we are on the same page.
“It is imperative to get rid of merit as the overriding principle in the appointment of public servants,” he declared.”
We’ve got that one here already. Rampant in the fed gov.
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