Earlier this month the Sowetan (Live) published an ARTICLE under the above title. Author Prince Mashele may well have been in a cynical frame of mind when he wrote this piece, but he is spot-on correct. In a country where the state broadcaster is instructing its personnel to NOT broadcast any scenes of the true mayhem in the country, the truth is refreshing, if frightening. One imagines they prefer to rather transmit scenes of the president’s various polygamous marriages (below) where he demonstrates his dancing abilities in leopard skin. One can only wonder at the symbolism of the machete, or panga, as it is known in South Africa. It is less than clear whether this image was taken at a marriage to one of his present four wives.
And yet there are people who delude themselves into thinking they are still living in a Western country just beacuse they can get an ATM to work and they have a working cell phone. Perhaps one has to look from the outside to realise that idea is long dead.
For those whites who think that they can mystically gain acceptance like the character of Richard Harris in A man called Horse, I need to explain: it will never happen; that was a movie (below). Wake up; they will just laugh at you and then make you sit up and beg. If you have a black South African friend, ask him. He’ll tell you that. He won’t bite you. He’ll just be honestly mystified at how it is you do not realize that.
If the realization that South Africa, after 22 years of the Black Nationalist Socialist ANC government, is now more like Cameroon than Canada comes as a shock, then the international observer can only shake his head at the mass delusion to date. I have considered this stupefacted behaviour as being Boiled Frog Syndrome for well nigh two decades. Any person who has had other views after Thabo Mbeki effectively took over from Mandela in 1997 has been actively misleading himself. The writing was on the wall in that year for all who cared to take note.
If they had refused to notice when ANC political officers were being put into the everyday workplace as part of “Cadre Deployment” in 1999-2000, then they had to have lacked normal human powers of perception.
If they still did not comprehend this by 2004 when the Black Economic Empowerment laws were implemented, actively doing white people out of their livelihoods with malice aforethought, then they were willfully deaf and blind.
If they still refused to believe it in early 2008 when it was announced that the Scorpions (The South African FBI) was to be shut down, then they could not possibly have realised that a massive number of ANC members of Parliament were under investigation by said Scorpions. Instead, folks focused on the old psychological standby of “Braaivleis, Rugby, Sunny Skies and Chevrolet“; they preferred to polish their Mercedes, have a barbecue, and watch rugby.
If they did not understand that the Marikana Massacre of 16 August 2012 was none other than the BEE laws backfiring in the hands of Cyril Ramaphosa like a rusty barreled handgun, then I cannot help them. They clearly do not want to hear, understand, or act.
It is now another four years later, and when South Africans had an opportunity in 2014 to turn this disaster around, they ignorantly and stupidly voted yet again for the hapless Idi Amin-like character, Jacob Zuma (image above). They look away while he steals the country blind and instead they threaten completely helpless white people. And the ANC keeps siccing the uneducated on white people.
Author Prince Mashele is correct when he says South Africa is now “just another African country“. What else did people expect!? The revelation here is that a thinking black man has finally realized it and has appreciated that there is a difference between a Western Country and an African Basket Case. Clearly the majority of voters have zero clue what this means.
In the absence of the ANC being removed from power, that country cannot conceivably be saved from itself. Those few people of all races who have the insight and intelligence to save the situation are completely outnumbered by millions who are absolutely clueless, and thoroughly incapable of a rational decision.
And Prince Mashele knows this.
As before in a few of your other Posts I commend you on your ability to see the entire picture of Africa in its many and varied interpretations by the World. I hope to study all those I have not seen before.
Your headline says it all, but this time I want to add a proviso to your statement.
It would be, and I agree with you, to say that from a world perspective but there is a sector in South Africa, two I should say, that will never be part of Africa. It will forever or at least for a long time still, hang in the vacuum between Government and the rich in the JSE.
Very few South African whites have any illusions about maybe one day gaining power again. To me it’s done; it will simply never happen again.
However, it is not only Zuma that is stealing the country blind. When we threw all doors open to everyone, all the vermin, leeches and parasites in World Finance descended in clouds to grab what was available. From a country that only allowed the citizen a small annual travel allowance to see the outside world we changed into the money launder capital of the World, and that is still in white hands; another thing that is not likely to change soon, if ever. Compared to what they do with the wealth of the country Zuma’s personal palm-grease is not even a drop in the Atlantic Ocean.
And that makes us a little part of Zurich, London, Chicago and wherever we can transfer Forex on the Internet. Ok, OK, yes you are right, the Blacks don’t have a clue. The big problem is that it applies to their knowledge of World Finance as well; strangely so, it in turn confirms how right you are that at last South Africa is what it was always going to be: Part of Africa.
May I add another small point Good Sir? What will happen to the white remains in Paton’s Beloved Country depends largely on date of birth.
I am a child of 1940, which to me is a perfect point as the cut-off line.
In 1988 I was almost ready to relocate to a Small Town America hamlet and took the person for whom I wanted to make the move to see what I had dreamt of doing. To my great disappointment he declined what I was able to offer and my life fell apart.
Then Clinton came; then the Bama arrived after a short respite by George W during which time I decided rather the devil we know than …
America will, I am sure, survive the Bama but cannot survive another Clinton.
LOL. How long will it be before America returns to be part of Africa?