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Old 02-07-2015, 13:38   #1
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THE END OF SOUTH AFRICA !!

Ahh, liberal/progressive/socialist /communism at it's finest.

Looks like South Africa is becoming a very large Detroit....

As we've been saying for over ten years, Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress is nothing more than a communist front, and highly "incompetent and corrupt" group at that.





THE END OF SOUTH AFRICA !!
February 7, 2015 4:00 AM

The End of South Africa
White South Africans are in grave danger; there may be a solution.
By Josh Gelernter

Things are very bad in South Africa. When the scourge of apartheid was finally smashed to pieces in 1994, the country seemed to have a bright future ahead of it. Eight years later, in 2002, 60 percent of South Africans said life had been better under apartheid. Hard to believe — but that’s how bad things were in 2002. And now they’re even worse.

When apartheid ended, the life expectancy in South Africa was 64 — the same as in Turkey and Russia. Now it’s 56, the same as in Somalia. There are 132.4 rapes per 100,000 people per year, which is by far the highest in the world: Botswana is in second with 93, Sweden in third with 64; no other country exceeds 32.

Before the end of apartheid, South African writer Ilana Mercer moved, with her family, to Israel; her father was a vocal opponent of apartheid, and was being harassed by South African security forces. A 2013 piece on World Net Daily quotes Mercer as saying, with all her anti-apartheid chops, that “more people are murdered in one week under African rule than died under detention of the Afrikaner government over the course of roughly four decades.” The South African government estimates that there are 31 murders per 100,000 people per year. Or about 50 a day. That would make South Africa the tenth most murderous country in the world, outpacing Rwanda, Mexico, and both Sudans. And that’s using South Africa’s official estimates — outside groups put the murder rate 100 percent higher.

Choosing not to trust the South African authorities is a safe bet — South Africa’s government, which has been led by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress since the end of apartheid, is outstandingly incompetent and corrupt.

Of course, de facto one-party rule doesn’t promote integrity. Unemployment is 25 percent, but President Jacob Zuma, of the ANC, recently spent $24 million of public money to add a pool and amphitheater to his private home. Not long after the story broke, he was elected to a second five-year term. Think-tank theorist Leon Louw, who helped defeat apartheid, calls the crime and corruption “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 — citing “anecdotal data” — that “most people don’t bother to report crimes.”

It appears that South Africa is about the most dangerous place you can be outside a war zone. What’s more worrying is the chance that it might become a war zone. Nelson Mandela was able to hold the “rainbow nation” together, but he’s passed on. Now, according to the human-rights organization Genocide Watch, South Africa is at pre-genocide stage 6 of 8: “Preparation.”



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http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...josh-gelernter
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Old 02-07-2015, 14:30   #2
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I would like to say this is a shock to me, but it is not.

Look at Rhodesia / Zimbabwe.

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Old 02-07-2015, 18:46   #3
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Looks like the Zombie Apocalypse is gathering momentum.
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Old 02-09-2015, 06:45   #4
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I would like to say this is a shock to me, but it is not.

Look at Rhodesia / Zimbabwe.

TR
It is as simple as that.

This has been coming from the start and the figures given by the SA Govt are cooked in order to look better than they are. So-called Xenophobic murders are rife. the police have around 1500 members with criminal records, and are often involved in Cash-In-Transit heists, various armed robberies home, invasions etc. All these crimes have in common the extreme violence with which they are perpetrated. In fact the police are not trusted by any communities.

As of 2014 the country's state owned power utility Eskom has again implemented a country-wide three stage rolling load-shedding program to try and avoid a nationwide blackout due to the power generating infrastructure not having been upgraded for at least 20 years. There has predictably not been a tsunami of foreign investment inflows.

The traditional core of the country's economy has been rooted in resources. The mining sector is in an absolute shambles with debilitating strikes all but crippling the industry all the while government dithers unable to act like a deer in the headlights. Not however missing any opportunity to siphon off funds for their own personal enrichment.

Their response? The State President Jacob Zuma in a recent speech effectively blamed all the current issues and problems squarely upon the white community. Completely ignoring the fact that from inheriting the powerhouse of Africa with first rate infrastructure, public medical facilities second to none, an effective police force and an economically small but effective military and a thriving industrial and business base, to reducing it through purges of whites from skilled technical and managerial positions replacing them with political appointees, family and friends effectively reducing the breadbasket of Africa to just another basket-case in Africa.

The DA run Western Cape is the closest we have to a correctly run local government but the ANC keeps up an unrelenting program of trying to destabilise them by capitalising on racial divides and tensions.

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Old 02-09-2015, 07:21   #5
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To be brutally honest. The problem is the people, not the leaders. If the people allow their leaders to do whatever they want, the leaders will take complete advantage. This is not only true in Africa, but everywhere. The American constitution is more about preventing abuse of power than anything else. The founding fathers knew that leaders will be just as evil as the people allow them to be.
In Africa, we have two countries that , until relatively recently, were very good places for Africans to live in. Rhodesia and South Africa. The reason why these countries worked so well, for all inhabitants, is that they kept the vote out of the hands of cretins.
Rhodesia had a qualified vote, where anyone with a matric certificate (secondary school) would be eligible to vote. This handled the problem quite elegantly, in that it was not a race-based system at all. However, because of the IQ Bell Curve and the average IQ of the black residents being in the low 70s, and the average white IQ being about the same as it is elsewhere, 100, the vote did end up being largely restricted to whites. The rest of the world could not allow that and sanctions were imposed and the country eventually was forced into a majority rule situation. The switch from a government with an average IQ of 100, to one of an average of about 72 was catastrophic. Who else has actually lost their currency?
In South Africa, the voting restrictions were less fair. For many years, the vote was restricted to whites only, but in later years, it was extended to the Colored community (Mixed Race) and the Indian community in a try-cameral parliament.

Blacks we entirely excluded from voting, which was unfair to the many black people who dwelled on the upper reaches of the bell curve and were entirely capable of making rational choices.

The world demands an all or nothing franchise, so sanctions were again imposed and the country was slowly strangled until power was handed to the black majority.
Again, the completely predictable happened and rule by cretins quickly destroyed everything. Whites were kicked out of government jobs and these jobs were given to sub-normal intellects who thought that management was driving a German sedan and having lunch.
Nelson Mandela was a brief flash of OKness. He served one term as President and failed to curb the rising corruption and non-management now infecting the country.

He handed power to Mbeki, who thought he was much smarter than he was. His claim to fame was corruption in the form of a hugely expensive arms deal that filled the pockets of the top guns in his party while the aircraft, submarines and corvettes they bought were mothballed or sunk because there were no blacks who could qualify to sail or fly them. Mbeki also denied that HIV cause AIDS and prescribed salad to sufferers. He cause the death of over 350 000 of his own people with this stubborn denial.
The latest cretin, President Zuma has somehow avoided his day in court for hundreds of charges of corruption by suborning the national prosecuting authority and stocking the judiciary with his own tribesmen.
Here we are now, 20 years after majority rule. Everything is broken, the post office doesn't work, we get electricity for a few hours a day only, and this will soon stop too.
How nice to be moral.

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Old 02-09-2015, 09:51   #6
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The world demands an all or nothing franchise
Bingo.

Unfortunately, both the "all" and the "nothing" franchise have the same result.

"Rights" cannot exist without corresponding "responsibilities".
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Old 02-09-2015, 11:48   #7
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"Rights" cannot exist without corresponding "responsibilities".


Ironically there is a radio advert (commercial) being aired that says exactly this.

I think they got their target audience confused with the choir

Of course the fact that the country is disintegrating around our ears is a fact lost on the masses. They've got other priorities.
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Old 02-16-2015, 06:42   #8
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South Africa's Zuma outlines land reform plans

South Africa's Zuma outlines land reform plans

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31471427

"Foreigners will be banned from owning land in South Africa under new proposals outlined by President Jacob Zuma...."

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"...In the future, foreigners will only be allowed to lease land, not to own it, he said, adding that local farmers would not be able to own more than 12,000 hectares...."
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Old 02-16-2015, 08:46   #9
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My view on what Zuma is saying

We Like Your Money, but We Don't Like You.
This is what Jacob Zuma told foreigners during his disrupted and chaotic State of the Nation address.
Barely a week after attending Davos, where he and his henchmen beseeched foreigners to bring their capital to South Africa, he tells these same foreigners that they are not allowed to own property in South Africa.
The most fundamental investment anyone can make in a country, is to buy property there, and this, as far as the ANC is concerned , is out of the question.
Perhaps the President should have re-phrased that, to say that Westerners are prohibited from buying property in South Africa. The Chinese however, who have just bought and are developing huge tracts of land in Modderfontein, and the Indian Guptas, who are doing the same in Saxonwold, seem excluded from this prohibition.
Does this ruling translate into a new direction where the BRICS are the flavor of the decade, superseding the old cronies who were so generous during the arms deal?
While it is certain that some Europeans are still totally open to a little incentivisation of government officials, the word has probably gone out that the deployed cadres cant be trusted to do their bit after the SANRAL fiasco.
Was the President advised that the Western Cape is the prime foreign investment location in the country? The world’s most attractive seaboard and the incomparable wine lands have for years been the second home to Europe’s wealthy. From the ANCs point of view, this high value is a poke in the eye, because they don’t, and won’t for a long time , rule in the Western Cape.
By denying foreign ownership, the ANC has in one foul swoop, devalued the Western Cape immensely. By cutting out the possibility of foreigners owning property there, the houses of Clifton and the farms of Franschhoek have lost their dollar and pound value and are back with the almost useless Rand.
As usual, the ANC has chosen the path of destruction rather than of building value. Their dog-in-the-manger attitude prevents them from building worth in the areas they rule. Rather, they prefer to destroy worth in areas where they don’t rule. Destructa Continua.
Another thing that will make foreign capital very unlikely to seek a home here, is the insistence that 2015 is the year of the Freedom Charter. This document, which has long ago been overtaken by history, stipulates the Stalinist seizure by the government of all forms of capital and the means of production.
Now it is entirely understandable that the ANC believe their electorate is stupid, having ensured that their education is of the toy-toy sort, but to presume the same of foreigners bearing capital, is a blatant act of the deepest stupidity itself.
Who, in their right mind, would say to themselves? ”Self, this guy seems pretty genuine. He would like us to come to his country and spend billions prospecting and mining and building factories on land we cant own. He will then, according to the Communist authored Charter he is touting, take it all away from us whenever he likes? That seems like a good deal. Bring me my cheque book.”
Someone, please give the President a clue.
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Old 02-16-2015, 08:53   #10
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Guy,

My heart goes out to you reading this and hearing firsthand about the destruction of your country. There are no words. I can only pray that this too shall pass or that you can migrate with your family and with at least some of your hard earned resources intact and enjoy a good life. Godspeed.
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Old 02-16-2015, 09:45   #11
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Guy, so sad. I hope you endeavor well.

Same goes on in our largest cities, maybe not with the property thing, but the downhill trend....

Hopefully the cancer will be stopped....it will eventually when we run out of the working man's money....

Then who knows...

Stay safe and vigilant..
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That's ok, America is right behind South Africa........ our liberal/progressive/socialist/communist left-wing will destroy America just like SA, from within.

Soon we will not be able to climb out from the wild left-wing spending and we will collapse. And when we do we will take down the entire world with us.

Until then purchase more guns and bullets, you will need them.

Guy, you really need to think about moving.......
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We will wait for the youngest to finish university and see what transpires. My eldest son struck up a romance with Miss Malta when the Miss World contest was held in SA a few years ago. We are quite keen on moving to Malta after the wife and boys went there for a recce a year ago. It is not too expensive, English speaking and within the EU with a lovely climate, which is important to us.
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We will wait for the youngest to finish university and see what transpires. My eldest son struck up a romance with Miss Malta when the Miss World contest was held in SA a few years ago. We are quite keen on moving to Malta after the wife and boys went there for a recce a year ago. It is not too expensive, English speaking and within the EU with a lovely climate, which is important to us.
And Malta has a lengthy history of fighting back when faced with external threats!
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Old 02-16-2015, 17:09   #15
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I had a conversation with a SA Major in 2002 who described the ANCs implementation of an extreme version of affirmative action which, as he described, would destroy everything in SA. Ironically, he suggested the situation in South Africa was comparable to if the United States was being controlled by its Cold War enemies. (How profound)

Also, within the SA military, everything was being directed upon the completion of certain school house training for ANC Officers being conducted at Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institution (DEOMI), Patrick AFB.

ugh.....

Good luck Guy, Malta sounds good!
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