No-one to navigate the stormy waters

Crisis time has hit, and South Africa finds itself effectively leaderless. The nation is faced with challenges and there is seemingly no-one at the tiller to navigate the stormy waters.

In a country that was world renowned for reconciliation, our political leaders decided to buy arms. With a pandemic sweeping through the nation, politicians decided that science was wrong and that crackpot theories also deserved a fair run. Having created a social welfare system that is often the only thing between the poor and starvation, our civil servants have busied themselves with stealing grants. In the widespread protests regarding poor quality government services that have continued for years, the political elite have seen only a ‘third force’. As our neighbour’s state has fallen into ruin, a policy of diplomacy has been followed that was so quiet that it amounted to less than a whisper.

We are leaderless and directionless. Our commander in chief is so out of touch with the region that his statements become sound bites for caricaturists: Crime what crime? AIDS what AIDS? Crisis what crisis?

The post-1994 euphoria has well and truly worn off, and South Africa finds itself in a position where the fundamentals have been ignored for far too long. The nation was told in a white paper in 1998 that the electricity supply would be insufficient by 2007. At the end of 2007 when the lights went out, nobody except the government was taken by surprise. We have known for more than a decade that our telecommunications regime is a huge impediment to growth, but still Telkom is effectively a monopoly. Public healthcare is in freefall, but our minister is concerned with the state of the well-functioning private sector. The list of fundamental errors and omissions goes on.

The ANC cannot trade on its ‘liberation’ status forever. The continued bungling of our politicians has failed to address most of the problems, and indeed has created many that were not there before. There has been no leadership in the AIDS crisis, unless we count misdirection as such. Corruption and graft are now endemic, and our re-racialised legislative environment only serves to deepen the problem. The energy crisis, predicted yet ignored for so long, is now showing its effects on our economy as growth slows and inflation soars. The list goes on, and our idle elite continue to abdicate all responsibility for their failures. Commended when they should be condemned, our politicians lurch from ill conceived plan to ill conceived action. South Africa and its people deserve better. This country requires selfless leaders whose discipline and commitment is unquestionable. Those leaders, it seems, have yet to show themselves.

ANC setting South Africa on path towards failed statehood

The recent explosion of xenophobic violence in South Africa has caused President Thabo Mbeki finally to be written off. Can Jacob Zuma reverse the slide towards failed statehood?

The question is about both Zuma himself and the African National Congress (ANC). This party wants to tighten control of the state, but the party, like the state, is increasingly characterised by arrogance, complacency, corruption, and cronyism. They would sooner rename streets than repair them. They can vote millions for a ‘Pan-African parliament’ but cannot supply all schools with lavatories. They can provide billions for an international soccer jamboree but little for sports facilities in poor communities.

The rot set into Mbeki’s presidency when he torpedoed the parliamentary investigation into the arms deal. The state presidency to which Zuma aspires will start on an equally rotten note, the destruction of the Scorpions.

Affirmative action, nepotism, corruption, and the ANC’s deployment policy have undermined almost every department at every level of government and eroded the capacity of local authorities to provide the services promised to poor communities. The independence of regulatory bodies such as the Medicines Control Council is under threat. Having been hijacked by one faction of the party, the SABC is now a target for another hijack. Factionalism also helped to turn the nation’s intelligence services into a comic opera.

Among the things already destroyed are the commandos responsible for rural security.
Destruction now threatens private health care, property rights, the Land Bank, and commercial agriculture. The country’s capacity to produce enough food will be undermined, just as its ability to produce enough electricity has been jeopardised. Our capacity to combat AIDS has been undermined by ministers who trash modern medicine in favour of quack remedies. Poor people battle through the courts to obtain social grants that thousands of civil servants are happy to steal. We cannot produce, retain, or attract the skills we need. Nor can we keep our borders and airports secure, let alone our roads, suburbs, and townships safe.

Even as their ability to do anything useful declines, our ministers seek more intrusive and arbitrary powers. But their ability to build is far outweighed by their power to destroy. Think of the mostly useless sector education and training authorities (Setas). How easy it was by contrast simply to shut down teacher training colleges.

For none of this is anyone held accountable. Accountability has been shed in as cavalier a fashion as Eskom sheds its loads. The only person to pay a price for his actions is the one who tried to upset the gravy cart of cronyism, Vusi Pikoli.

Along with the legacy of apartheid and the liberation struggle itself, the ANC inherited the most technically advanced state in Africa. No other liberation movement started with so valuable an asset, built by people of all races, yet it shows a greater capacity to run it down than to run it.

South Africans are not naturally xenophobic. Millions of workers from neighbouring states lived in hostels and toiled on our mines for generations with relatively little conflict. Now their entrepreneurial abilities and work ethic seem too much for local people to stomach in the context of the corruption, crime, unemployment, poverty, squalor, and despair for which the ANC is responsible. Unlike the Soweto explosions in 1976, the current violence has not been accompanied by widespread destruction of government property. But once the foreigners have been chased home, there will be other targets to attack next time round. A few years ago local councillors were among them.

Like Mbeki in his aeroplane, the ANC seems remote from the consequences of its failed policies. Can Zuma see the writing on the wall? It is hardly conceivable that he will not fire the health minister. His visits to Western countries suggest he will pursue a foreign policy less hostile to the liberal democracies than that of Mbeki. His call for labour market reform – though retracted – can nevertheless open up debate on an issue that Mbeki finally ducked.

But the big question is whether Zuma has the wisdom, strength of character, and leadership skills to turn the ruling party into a different kind of animal.

This article appeared in Business Day on 29th May 2008.

Rainbow Nation in tatters.

AS THE townships burned over the past nine days, in a reprise of the final years of apartheid, and as black foreigners were hacked, beaten and incinerated in a frenzy of killings by black South Africans, it was the cartoonists who captured most neatly the heartbreak behind the savagery.

Two iconic figures in the struggle against apartheid, Nelson Mandela and Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, both Nobel Peace Prize winners, featured in the cartoons.

Tutu had famously dubbed his country "the rainbow nation" and its inhabitants the "rainbow people of God" - metaphors for the unity and hope of South Africa's multiculturalism, the coming together of people of many different races in a country once plagued by strict racial division.

Mandela had said: "To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."

A rainbow dominated the cartoons. But the drawings feature people, including Tutu, gazing towards the end of the rainbow as it burns and as mobs dismember Zimbabweans, Mozambicans, Malawians and members of South Africa's smaller tribes.

The past few days have seen the rainbow nation's disintegration and the trashing of the dreams of Mandela and Tutu. Both men feature in a cartoon by the brilliant Zapiro in which they stare glumly at scarlet blood running down South Africa's rainbow-coloured post-apartheid national flag.

The blame is being laid ultimately at the door of the man who in 1999 succeeded Mandela as state president - Thabo Mbeki. His presidency has been increasingly shamed by scandal, mismanagement and deceit.

Now the pogroms, which have seen tens of thousands of migrants made homeless, with hundreds injured and at least 51 killed, have destroyed Mandela's legacy. Demands are being made that Mbeki go sooner rather than later.

Part of the damning case against Mbeki is this. He failed, in eight years of negotiations with president Robert Mugabe, to solve the catastrophic problem of Zimbabwe, South Africa's northern neighbour. Not only did he fail to solve the problem, but he has given the impression of being more concerned with appeasing Mugabe than caring for Zimbabwe's people.

While Mbeki has continually denied the situation amounts to a crisis, some three million Zimbabweans have fled into South Africa. There they have settled in poor townships where unemployment runs at more than 40% and where people have grown increasingly discontented at the lack of delivery of jobs, electricity, decent houses, healthcare and education by the Mbeki government.

"How can we as a nation expect poor villagers and township people to bear the burden of hosting refugees and sharing scarce resources with them?" asked Dr Mamphela Ramphele, co-founder of the Black Consciousness Movement with the late Steve Biko, whose son she gave birth to after he had been murdered by apartheid police.

Ramphele, until recently vice-president of the World Bank and now co-chair of the United Nations' Global Commission on International Migration, said: "Why are we surprised when they the poor say in brutal terms that enough is enough? While it is understandable that people feeling disempowered often seek scapegoats in their midst, the extent of brutality of the attacks speaks of a deeper social pathology."

The Mail And Guardian newspaper, the most outspoken media voice against government in the apartheid era, seethed about "this most devastating week for the beloved country", and used the "f" word, with a row of asterisks, for the first time in its 23-year history. "We used to be an ungovernable people, now we are also ungoverned," said the paper. "As with crime, Aids and Zimbabwe, President Thabo Mbeki refused to acknowledge the problem and buried his head in the sand once more.

"Then he got intellectual and appointed a panel to investigate the violence. Then he climbed on his plane and f***** off to Tanzania."

link : SA, a mob nation : Mail & Guardian Online

This was a reference to the fact Mbeki, yet to visit the burning townships or address the nation about the crisis, left South Africa at the height of the violence to attend an African Union meeting in Dar-es-Salaam.

The appointment of yet another investigative committee outraged many who said the roots of the violence were blindingly obvious, needing no further explanation or investigation.

The havoc was the result of a vast influx of migrants, legal and illegal, into a country suffering runaway unemployment and very high crime rates, and where the rule of law has been collapsing under a demoralised police force whose national chief is facing trial for fraud, drug peddling and alleged association with the mafia.

In any country, this would be an explosive mix, and in Mbeki's absence his minister in the presidency, Essop Pahad, Mbeki's close friend since their days as students together at the University of Sussex in the early-1960s, provoked a mixture of anger and hilarity by condemning "grave threats to progressive forces in our society" by the township's "lumpen proletariat".

This Lenin-speak was originally coined by Karl Marx, who defined the lumpen proletariat as the "refuse of all classes", including "swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone merchants, beggars and other flotsam of society".

As Heita Mugza, a Mozambican migrant who had been in South Africa for only a month, was burned to death by the mob in Ramaphosa, a settlement in eastern Johannesburg, Desmond Tutu despaired at the return last week of the "necklace", the rubber tyre filled with petrol that was jammed over the heads of alleged "sell-outs" and set ablaze in the apartheid era.

"Please stop the violence now," said the churchman, who often intervened in the late-1980s and early-1990s to stop necklacings. "This is not how we behave. These are our sisters and brothers. Please, please stop."

Tutu reminded his countrymen that other Africans, although poor, welcomed South Africans as refugees from apartheid and allowed liberation movements to have bases on their territories, even when those countries were attacked by the white-dominated South African Defence Force.

"We can't repay them by killing their children," said Tutu. "We can't disgrace our struggle by these acts of violence. It is as if we are back in the days of the necklace. The world is shocked and is going to laugh at us and mock us. Our children will condemn us in the future."

Nearly all analyses of the roots of the mayhem came back to Mbeki.

When he took the reins from Mandela in 1999, he appeared to South Africa, the international community and to journalists who had followed his career to be not only an urbane African statesman with great intellectual qualities, but also a humble man who was readily approachable. He coined the idea of the "African renaissance", a flowering of democracy, education and economic advance on a continent which had been synonymous with disaster, state failure and widespread abuse of human rights.

"Tragically, 10 years later, Mbeki will end his term after a general election in 11 months stripped of his integrity," said The Financial Mail.

"He has protected a criminal suspect former national police chief Jackie Selebi; lied about it to the nation; and interfered with the course of both law-making in parliament and the administration of justice," the newspaper said.

"Put together with an unforgivable blunder on the policy front - the failure to plan for South Africa's energy needs - and with the corruption and power-mongering that took hold of the ruling African National Congress on his watch, the results on Mbeki's final scorecard could hardly be worse."

How, it is being asked, did Mbeki become the leader everyone wants to see the back of? And how was he so blind to not see it coming and do something about it?

With hindsight, Mbeki was out of synch from the beginning of his presidency with much domestic and international opinion on two key issues - Aids and Zimbabwe.

The first shock came when this apparently sophisticated man made startling claims that international medical science, some 99.9% of its practitioners, had it wrong and the HIV virus did not cause Aids.

He began a bizarre courtship of controversial Californian Aids dissidents and abruptly stopped trials of drugs designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of Aids in a country with more HIV-positive people, six million, than any other. He and his spectacularly wacky health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, a proven drunkard and felon who urged consumption of beetroot and olive oil to prevent Aids, said drugs that prolonged the life of people with HIV were toxic, dangerous and killed people.

International medical experts, diplomats and financiers still recall his views on Aids with incredulity and dismiss his much-touted dream of the African Renaissance. "Those who have known and worked with Mbeki for many years believe it was his enormous arrogance that allowed him to believe he, a layman, had answers to complex problems that medical science was yet to discover," said the Financial Mail.

This same arrogance has spilled over into a host of other issues, not least his decision to suspend the head of The Scorpions, the crack FBI-style investigative team that has been the greatest success of the Mbeki years, and actually to disband the unit in legislation now passing through parliament.

The crime of The Scorpions, who have bust many domestic and international criminal gangs? To indict Mbeki's close friend, police chief Jackie Selebi, until early this year president of Interpol, on a 335-page litany of corruption charges that make a John Grisham thriller read like an Enid Blyton novel; to charge Jacob Zuma, the newly elected leader of the ANC and the likely new state president, on multiple fraud and corruption charges in connection with the country's multi-billion arms deal with European weapons manufacturers, including Britain's BAe; and to investigate successfully fraudulent expenses claims by scores of ANC MPs.

Mbeki never anticipated the Scorpions would do their job too well and indict the most powerful people in the land.

The shame of Mbeki's undermining of the Scorpions is gathering momentum, together with a catalogue of other scandals.

But the final nails in his reputation have been his handling of the Zimbabwe crisis, its spillover in the form of millions of refugees entering South Africa and the eruption of domestic resentment and violence against these migrants.

Mbeki was warned of the impending disaster four years ago when Archbishop Tutu gave the second Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand. He warned that an explosive situation was developing because of the stark differences between the rich, many of them newly empowered ANC politicians, and the great mass of the poor, whose lives have not really changed despite the demise of apartheid.

"Many, too many, of our people live in gruelling, demeaning, dehumanising poverty," said Tutu. "We are sitting on a powder keg."

Last week, the keg detonated. Millions of migrants will be unable to return to their homes in South Africa. The rainbow has been denuded of its colours and few people believe anything will get better before Thabo Mbeki steps down from power.

South Africa a "rogue democracy"

South Africa is becoming an example of freedom that undermines the freedom of others, such as urging the United States to stay out of Zimbabwe's affairs.

By Michael Gerson
Washington Post Writers Group
WASHINGTON --

"Things on the ground," e-mailed a friend from a groaning Zimbabwe, "are absolutely shocking -- systematic violence, abductions, brutal murders. Hundreds of activists hospitalized, indeed starting to go possibly into the thousands." The military, he says, is "going village by village with lists of MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) activists, identifying them and then either abducting them or beating them to a pulp, leaving them for dead."

In late April, about the same time as this e-mail, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa -- Zimbabwe's influential neighbor -- addressed a four-page letter to President Bush. Rather than coordinating strategy to end Zimbabwe's nightmare, Mbeki criticized the United States, in a text packed with exclamation points, for taking sides against President Robert Mugabe's government and disrespecting the views of the Zimbabwean people.

"He said it was not our business," recalls one American official, and "to butt out, that Africa belongs to him." Adds another official: "Mbeki lost it; it was outrageous."

It is also not an aberration. South Africa has actively blocked United Nations discussions about human rights abuses in Zimbabwe -- and in Belarus, Cuba, North Korea and Uzbekistan. South Africa was the only real democracy to vote against a resolution demanding that the Burmese junta stop ethnic cleansing and free jailed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi. When Iranian nuclear proliferation was debated in the Security Council, South Africa dragged out discussions and demanded watered-down language in the resolution. South Africa opposed a resolution condemning rape and attacks on civilians in Darfur -- and rolled out the red carpet for a visit from Sudan's genocidal leader. In the General Assembly, South Africa fought against a resolution condemning the use of rape as a weapon of war, because it was not sufficiently anti-American.

When confronted by international human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch about their apparent indifference to all rights but their own, South African officials have responded by attacking the groups themselves -- which, they conspiratorially (and falsely) claim, are funded by "major Western powers."

There are a variety of possible explanations for this irresponsibility. Stylistically, Mbeki seems to prefer quiet diplomacy with dictators instead of confrontation. Some of his colleagues in the African National Congress (ANC) -- South Africa's ruling party -- argue that because Mbeki was an exile during apartheid instead of a prisoner or freedom fighter, he has less intuitive sympathy for prisoners and freedom fighters in other countries. South Africa clearly is trying to league itself with China and Brazil in a new nonaligned movement -- to redress what one official calls an "imbalance of global power," meaning an excess of American power.

Longtime observers of Mbeki also believe that racial issues -- including Mbeki's experience of raw discrimination during the London part of his exile -- may also play a role. He lashes out whenever he believes that Westerners are telling Africans how to conduct their lives, or who their leaders should be. So for years he viewed AIDS treatment as a plot of Western pharmaceutical companies -- and now he helps shield Mugabe from global outrage.

Whatever the reasons, South Africa increasingly requires a new foreign policy category: the rogue democracy. Along with China and Russia, South Africa makes the United Nations impotent. Along with Saudi Arabia and Sudan, it undermines the global human rights movement. South Africa remains an example of freedom -- while devaluing and undermining the freedom of others.

Zimbabwe is the most pressing case in point -- reflecting a political argument within South Africa and a broader philosophical debate.

The labor movement within the ANC, led by Jacob Zuma, is close to the opposition MDC in Zimbabwe (which also has labor roots) and is highly critical of Mbeki's deference to Mugabe. Zuma's faction has provided planes to transport MDC leaders. The labor faction of the ANC is using the Zimbabwe crisis to argue that Mbeki is "yesterday's man" -- indifferent to the cause that gave rise to the ANC itself.

This debate is clarifying a question across southern Africa: Did revolutionary parties in the region fight for liberation or for liberty? If merely for liberation from Western imperialism, then aging despots and oppressive ruling parties have a claim to power. But if for liberty, those who work for freedom in Zimbabwe must also have their day.

So far, South Africa -- of all places -- sides with the despots.

Is someone driving the country?

Exactly what are our politicians up to while the well-documented violence against foreign nationals spreads to each and every corner of the country?

President Thabo Mbeki has been widely criticised for his lack of prompt action when the attacks started in Alexandra two weeks ago (or earlier, according to some sources). And rightly so, I would argue. Whether or not you believe that deploying troops sooner would have stopped the violence from spreading (I don’t), not deploying them merely allowed the attacks to continue almost completely unabated as the police, outnumbered and outmanoeuvered by the mobs in the townships, were obviously unable to cope.

Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a woman generally well-respected since her intervention in the country’s HIV policy-making decisions had been quiet - until the weekend. At which point, I wished she’d stayed quiet. Visiting Nigeria, Mlambo-Ngcuka issued South Africa’s fist public apology for the violence. Like this:

"We are very much concerned and apologise for all the inconvenience that the incidents have caused"

The “inconvenience”? That’s what I expect from the local supermarket manager when they don’t have stock of seedless raspberry jam. It’s what I want to hear on the loudspeaker on Platform 6a when my train is 10 minutes late. Personally, I don’t think ”inconvenience” is quite enough to cover over 40+ dead and 20,000 “displaced” (read “fleeing for their lives”). Another government own goal?

Even charismatic Jacob Zuma, our President-in-waiting, who spoke out early on against the violence, has since fallen silent as the wave of attacks continues to escalate. I find this very strange - Zuma has previously been quick to capitalise on any sign of Mbeki’s weakness. It’s almost a trademark stategy of his. So could it be that even JZ doesn’t have an answer to these problems?

So while the ANC provaricates and struggles to provide answers, solutions, reasons or even a half-decent apology for the violence, what has the oppostition been up to? Well, finally, Helen Zille, leader of the DA, has come out with a statement. Not surprisingly, she blames government policy for the troubles and not surprisingly, she suggests that her party would do better if they were given a chance to run the country. Keep dreaming, Helen.

What’s missing from that statement is any short-term solution. And while most people are well aware that the reasons for these problems need to be addressed, people are being killed every day. So yes, we need “proactive steps to address the root cause of the xenophobic violence”, but first we need to actually control what is happening in the informal settlements across South Africa right now.

In an interesting opportunistic move, the Zimbabwe Government - the reason that most Zim immigrants are here in the first place - have offered to help repatriate those displaced by the attacks. Presumably, those repatriated individuals will then vote ZANU-PF in the upcoming Presidential run-off.

British Times: The shame of Thabo Mbeki

The consequences of complacency are stalking the streets of South Africa.
According to the principle of ubuntu, strangers are always welcome in the new Republic of South Africa. Nelson Mandela explicitly espoused the idea, but his country's civic leaders are now wondering what happened to it. Small wonder. The upsurge of xenophobic violence in and around Johannesburg in the past week has paralysed commercial districts, driven thousands of immigrant workers from their shacks and claimed at least 22 lives, among them that of a homeless man burned alive in his blankets.

Harrowing images of the (still unidentified) burning man recall the nadir of the apartheid era, when black-on-black violence terrorised the townships and suspected collaborators were set alight with petrol-filled tyres. A return to such brutality is shocking by any standards. Yet it is also remarkable that South Africa's truce with its great influx of foreigners has lasted so long. The country has managed to absorb up to five million economic migrants even as President Mbeki's administration has left 40 per cent of South Africans worse off than they were under apartheid. Crime is endemic, with 50 murders a day in Johannesburg alone. Education, for most, remains rudimentary at best. Mr Mbeki has personally deepened the human and economic toll of the Aids pandemic by refusing to acknowledge its extent or talk frankly about its causes, and he has stubbornly refused to face reality in Zimbabwe.

By failing to condemn Robert Mugabe's murderous dictatorship, Mr Mbeki has done more than any other outsider to keep him in power. He has also perpetuated the flood of Zimbabwean refugees who now comprise three fifths of South Africa's foreigners. They seek shelter and livelihoods in an economy burdened further by systemic corruption and sharply rising food prices. The results include lynchings and looting that have left one Johannesburg district looking “like a war zone”. For Mr Mbeki to announce the creation of panel to study the causes of the lawlessness, as he has, is fiddling while Rome burns.

In the twilight of his power, Mr Mbeki has shown himself almost as detached from reality as Mr Mugabe. He can claim some credit for presiding over robust economic growth of about 5 per cent per year. Yet he has failed spectacularly to channel its proceeds to the townships where xenophobia now threatens to take root. Even the state-backed low-cost housing programmes that have helped to lift a lucky minority out of poverty now appear part of the problem, not the solution: attacks on foreigners accused of gaining access to new homes at the expense of native South Africans may have triggered the current violence.

Immigrants from as far away as Somalia are now vulnerable, but it is Zimbabwe's crisis that has turned simmering resentment into rioting. Zimbabwe should be booming thanks to soaring world cereal and commodity prices. Instead, it is acting as a brake on the entire regional economy and flooding South Africa with workers willing to accept a fraction of average local wages. Mr Mbeki could still reverse much of the damage by abandoning Mr Mugabe, insisting on full international access to polling stations for Zimbabwe's second-round presidential vote and ending his puerile sabotage of British efforts to isolate Mr Mugabe at the UN. His record inspires little confidence, but at least the effects of his complacency are now in plain view on his own streets.

The shame of Thabo Mbeki

Too Little Too Late Mr Mbeki

Mr Delivery? No, not the service you call on a cold rainy Sunday night when even a trip to the local take-out seems too much to bare, I am referring here to the man who was to lead us to the promised land. Nelson Mandela had prevented a civil war, lead us through the transition, and brought us back into a world that welcomed our new democracy with open arms. And then he did something truly remarkable… he stepped down! Feeling that his work was done, with his legacy in tact, he made way for Thabo Mbeki.

No one expected Mr Mbeki to have the same style as his predecessor, after all he had a job to do. He was to lead us out of the Euphoria and into the reality. He was to guide us through the hard work the nation had to do in order to take it’s rightful place in Africa and the World. He was going to deliver jobs, housing, a thriving economy, he was going to deliver Africa to the world… then he got a little too caught up in his own press!

The man racked up more frequent flier miles than anyone before him. He became the globe-trotting president of South Africa, an international traveller and world statesman. He had a solution for everything, quiet diplomacy for Zimbabwe, turnips and potatoes for Aids and denial for just about anything else. There is NO crime, NO housing problem, NO inflation, NO aids problem, NO corruption and most importantly NO leadership when we need it most!

I could join the calls for Mr Mbeki to step down, to take an early retirement and allow someone else (anyone else at this stage) to show some direction and leadership, but I am realist… this will never happen! After all here is a man that entertained thoughts of an amendment to the constitution to prolong his reign in power and when he realised that would not work decided to try to hang onto power through the leadership of the ANC. That ended in just a little humiliation.

When the MDC almost won in Zimbabwe, you were almost able to deliver your ‘I told you so’ speech. But alas your mate Mr Mugabe didn’t read the script and you sat back and assured us there was no crisis, I for one felt so much better for hearing that. I had that same warm feeling when Minister Pahad assured us that the stories out of Zimbabwe were fabricated and that the government was not to blame for the Xenophobia and was doing all in it’s power to curb the violence and take care of the foreigners… for heaven’s sake, pull the other one!

Your “we should be ashamed speech” the other night did exactly what your previous speeches have done… leave people shaking their heads in disbelief and reaching for a calendar to start counting down the days to the next election in 2009.

Oh well, Thabo, we are stuck with you for another year or so, try and mend your image if you can, try and be remembered for something or anything other than your failure in Zimbabwe, your stance on HIV and your absence when we needed you most… that alone should keep you busy for a while. In the mean time we will get on with the business of living from day to day and hope your successor is able to deliver, after all… better late than never.

The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same

Like many white South Africans before me I did my military service in the 1980’s, I was fortunate never to have been involved in combat and the closest I came to the border was the border between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Those were the days of the struggle and the Rooi Geware (The Red Danger as communism was then called). Once again I was fortunate not to be on patrol or ever having to come face to face with ‘the enemy’.

That was our country back in the 80’s, divided on racial and political grounds, a third force operating, the army in the townships, people living in fear of being branded a traitor, necklacing (setting someone on fire with a car tyre around their neck), beatings, stonings, intimidation, distrust of our leaders and general dissent throughout the country… the more things change, the more they remain the same.

Twenty years later Thabo Mbeki was sending the troops back into the townships, beatings, stabbings, burnings, rumours of a ‘third force’ and plenty of intimidation is back. People live in fear, distrust authority and find themselves once again divided. Today a song from Evita, the musical, goes something like this (with apologies to the authors)

Let’s hear it for the Rainbow Nation
It’s been an incredible success
We weren’t quite sure, we had a few doubts

Will South Africa win through?
But the answer is yes

And then a little later in the song the mood changes just a tad…

SA started well, no question, by chance
Shining like a sun through the post-war haze
A beautiful reminder of the care-free days
We nearly captured the world, we sure had the chance
But we suddenly seemed to lose interest
We looked tired

Face the facts, the Rainbow’s starting to fade
I don’t think we’ll make it to glory now

It wasn’t on the schedule anyhow

You’d better get out the flags and fix a parade
Some kind of coming home in triumph is required

Would South Africa win through?
And the answer is
Yes
And no
And yes
And no
And yes
No

Why I Will Not Be Voting ANC

There are over a million reasons why I will not be voting for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming elections:

1. Over 700 000 babies have been killed by abortion in South Africa – officially, legally, often with tax payer’s money - since the ANC legalized abortion on demand, 1 February 1997.

2. Over 300 000 people have been murdered in South Africa since 1994 – under the ANC government – yet the ANC has steadfastly refused to consider re-instating the death penalty for murder. Nor have they been willing to put the matter to a referendum.

3. Over 500 000 women and children have been raped in the 10 years of ANC rule – while pornography has been legalized. Less than 8% of reported rapes result in convictions.

4. The ANC is soft on the criminals and hard on the victims of crime. Rather than fight crime effectively the ANC have worked to disarm the potential victims of crime, denying firearm licenses to tens of thousands of law abiding citizens, claiming that self-defense is not a legitimate reason for owning a firearm! Rather than support community initiatives to fight crime the ANC have frustrated communities by demanding that security barriers be removed from crime afflicted suburbs.

5. The ANC’s Ministry of Education has evidenced a consistent hostility to Christianity, insensitivity to the concerns of parents and prejudice against the Bible. Kadar Asmal’s anti-Christian policies and the unworkable curriculum 2005 Outcomes Based Education is dumbing down education and turning our government schools into recruitment centers for radical homosexual groups.

6. The ANC’s affirmative action and blind support for Mugabe’s racist and tyrannical policies have chased away investors and cost the South African economy over 1,5 million jobs. According to the JSE, the net worth of South Africa over the last 10 years has shrunk by over 30%. And the Rand under the ANC has plummeted.

7. Rates and taxes are higher and government services are lower. Despite increased rates and taxes the filthy, litter strewn, graffiti vandalized communities testify to the incompetence of government.

8. Corruption has flourished under the ANC to such an extent that the ANC is being referred to in the streets as the Abortion, Nepotism and Corruption party.

9. The endless propaganda and pornographic programmes on the state TV – which is supported by compulsory “licences”.

10. The arrogance of so many in the ANC and the arbitrary manner in which they ride roughshod over the concerns and freedoms of others.

Xenophobia or Self Defense?

Posted on May 25, 2008 by xenotruth

Xenophobia - an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.

The ANC and the local and international press are quick to dismiss the local street action as an unwarrranted violent attack against innocent foreigners, often time calling these foreigners “refugees” who are now being victimized a second time after being “forced to flee” from their home countries. For the most part, this is far from the truth.

Let’s start with these “refugees”. According to UNICEF, “a refugee is someone who has been forced to leave their country because they are unable to live in their home or they fear they will be harmed”. Very few of the 4-6 million “refugees” actually fit this description, the vast majority of them are economic refugees who have come here to obtain a better standard of living and possibly send money back home.

So what happens when the refugees arrive in South Africa? Most of them come here to work, however because South Africa has an unemployment rate of 30-40 percent, work is not guaranteed. They then either compete with locals for the few jobs that are available by working for a fraction of the wage or turn to crime. While a typical casual day laborer would earn about R100 a day, the Zimbabwean will accept half that amount. So now not only is that South African out of work for a day but also the “going rate” for a casual day laborer is going down.

And it isn’t just the casual labor pool that is being overrun by “refugees”.
Last week the gold mine DRDGold reported that the “xenophobia attacks” have reduced production because foreigners make up 38 percent of workforce. Again, this is in a country with a 40 percent unemployment rate. In this case, 38 percent equates to around 500 people. That is 500 South Africans out of work.

Here in South Africa those who are the loudest in their condemnation are also those who are one of the biggest cause in the problem - White South Africans. Nearly every white South African knows of someone who has that gardener from Malawi or maid from Mozambique. These are the same people who claim to be “Proudly South African” and feel all warm inside when they purchase something that is “Proudly South African”. While it is true that it does help when one purchases a locally produced garment rather than a Chinese import, it helps even more when you give a South African a job rather than a “refugee”.

Is it not clear that black South Africans have a reasonable reason to loathe other Africans who decide that they will earn more money in South Africa and come here to take their jobs? How would white South Africans feel if 4 million white Russians came to South Africa and got their job because white Russians are willing to work for less money? What if those Russians called themselves “refugees”, would that make it easier for white South Africans to accept their unemployment?

The simple fact of the matter is that something must be done. Charity should begin at home. Those who are genuine refugees do deserve our protection, but we simply can’t and will not allow our jobs to be taken by those who simply want to live a better life than what they have at home.

Conditions now are ripe for what is currently taking place. Prices of food, electricity, EVERYTHING is skyrocketing while jobs are becoming more and more scarce. This while “refugees” are flooding our country.

These economic refugees must go! Whether they go vertically or horizontally is for them to decide.

Africa Addio / Farewell Africa (English Subtitles)

***Uncensored***
PLEASE NOTE : NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!


LINK - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4540134202583442015&q=addio+africa&ei=8rEUSOSSGIWEqgOijqTTBA

'Africa Addio' / 'Farewell Africa' (shot in 1964; released in 1966) is a documentary film about the decolonization of Africa, made by the Italian film directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi. It shows like no other documentary what blacks are capable of if they get the chance. It is a masterpiece with beautiful music, composed by the Italian composer Riz Ortolani.

Probably 'Africa Addio' is the best and most exposing documentary ever made about what happened in several African countries directly after decolonization, but because of political correctness the masses never heard of it.

In the USA a censored version called 'Africa Blood and Guts' was released, which was deliberately stripped from the original music and the powerful message of 'Africa Addio' - so the censors were able to portray the destruction, cruelty, savagery and genocide performed by the Africans as a 'struggle for independence'. The directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi dissociated themselves from this Hollywood (per)version of their film.

White victims of black racism in South Africa

Warning graphic content. This video may not be suitable for minors.



Here it is boys Click on this link to see the video

An ocean of ink has been spilled to describe the crimes of white racism directed against blacks. This practice has also frequently been the subject of numerous television programs and movies that denounce the days of slavery and segregation. The end result of this decades long assault against white racism has been to end its alliance with law, and to turn most whites into anti-racists who build bridges to those who are people of colour.

Yet at the same time rising black racism has been ignored, or rationalized by those saying, “Black people cannot be racists: They lack the institutional power.” This notion flies in the face of the reality that thousands of blacks in this country have considerable power in the government and business. It also flies in the face of the reality that many countries in Africa, such as the Republic of South Africa, are ruled by black majorities many of whom practice a new form of racism where black racists prey on white victims.

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

Now Africa heads toward continental government

Union complete with own flag, military, proposed new currency...


Flag of the African Union

Advancing the movement toward economic and political globalism, the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the expected end result of continental economic and political integration.

On July 11, 2000, at the Lome Summit in Togo, the states constituting the Organization of African Unity, signed a declaration to form the 53-nation African Union.

While the African Union professes to respect the sovereignty of the individual countries constituting the group, it still has created executive, legislative, and judicial bodies required for regional government, including an African Union Executive Council, a Pan-African Parliament and an African Union Court of Justice.

And while the AU is still in a formative state, it’s already officially designated by an emblem, a flag, an anthem, a central bank, and unified continental military force.

The goal of the African Central Bank is to create an African Single Currency. African Union planners are currently calling the African continental currency the “Gold Mandela.”

Yet, skeptics note that the eco, a common currency designed to be issued by the West African Economic and Monetary Union is now rescheduled to be issued in July 2009, after failing to materialize through earlier efforts.

Prof. Adebayo Adedeji, a former executive secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, has observed successful economic integration in Africa will require successful political integration.

“The United Nations is a long-standing supporter of regional integration in Africa,” U.N. Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro told the AU summit in Accra, Ghana, on July 1.

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It all sounds like the perfect solution for Africa. Indeed, such a horrible situation has been created that there is almost no other way out; a situation that should never have eventuated in the first place. Nanny states, poor government, exploitation and Apartheid, along with the Leftist incitement to rage of the African blacks created dependency, poverty and anarchic, violent rage. This is what has bubbled over to create a state almost intolerable on that continent. Regionalization will, no doubt, seem like a brilliant solution in the short term. But in the big picture of global regionalization, Africa is going to be just another pawn again.

ANC’s failed policies

This report includes graphic content.
Viewer discretion is advised.

What caused the terrible scenes unfolding in South Africa today: children beaten and displaced, women raped and men left with pieces of flesh hanging from their faces, homeless and hungry and desperate?

What led to a situation where young men were unashamed to stand in front of television cameras and say they will kill foreigners?

We should not be surprised. For the ANC, led by Zuma and Mbeki, the chickens are coming home to roost.

A cocktail of factors, mixed by the ANC over the past 10 years, is responsible for the barbarism.

These people are behaving like barbarians because the ANC has failed — despite numerous warnings — to act on burning issues that are well known for having sparked similar eruptions across the globe.

This cocktail is made up of stubborn denialism on Zimbabwe, an increasingly incompetent and corrupt police service, poor service delivery and corruption in government departments.

The crime-does-pay culture fostered by the ANC — criminals such as the Travelgate fraudsters walk away scot-free — is a central ingredient of the cocktail.

But the bulk of the cocktail comprises the failed state that is Zimbabwe. The country’s economy has collapsed. Its political leaders, security services and agents are looting the treasury. Zimbabweans are fleeing.

When a state fails, crime goes through the roof. Corruption, characterised by bribery at every turn, becomes the norm. Crucially, crime is exported across the borders of the failed state to neighbouring states.

The Mbeki government’s refusal to even acknowledge the crisis in Zimbabwe has resulted in as many as 3-million Zimbabweans walking the streets of South Africa.

If Mbeki and his deputy president, Zuma, had acted decisively on Zimbabwe nine years ago, when they were told repeatedly by fellow leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Durban to do so, these Zimbabweans would not be here today.

Mbeki’s resolute refusal to address the crisis in Zimbabwe — and his friendship with President Robert Mugabe — has brought them here. His block-headedness is directly responsible for the eruption of xenophobia.

Add to the cocktail the fact that the SA Police Service has become so incompetent and overstretched there is no way that any of the perpetrators of the past week’s atrocities will be brought to book.

Ordinary citizens predicted last week that these riots would spread to the Joburg CBD. When violence erupted downtown on Saturday night, the police were unprepared.

The police have no intelligence- gathering capacity and can hardly explain what is happening today, let alone contain it.

Their failure is rooted in the fact that many of them are taking bribes from foreign refugees anxious to avoid being deported.

Their incompetence is also responsible for the culture — entrenched during the Mbeki-Zuma regime — that crime goes unpunished. After all, these marauding hordes know that Mbeki protected his crony, Jackie Selebi, for years.

There is no respect for the law. These hordes can rape and loot without fear of arrest, let alone prosecution.

The endemic corruption among government officials is an integral part of the cocktail. There is so much corruption in the construction and allocation of government housing that resentment, misplaced or not, is inevitable.

There are no quick fixes to this mess. The removal of Mbeki, as suggested by Mathews Phosa, is not a solution. The problem is that the ANC’s policies have failed.

In the short term it would be an idea for the incompetent minister of safety and security, Charles Nqakula, to get his charges to come down harder on perpetrators. Better intelligence-gathering, including the early identification of potential trouble-makers, would help.

Government leaders such as Mbeki should visit the communities afflicted by this xenophobia, instead of issuing condemnations from Mozambique.

In the long term, some cool heads, efficiency and moral fibre would help. But asking that of the ANC today is asking a little bit too much. These are the same people who are disbanding the Scorpions. Asking them to act in the interests of the country, and not their own narrow interests, is useless.

'Necklace' lynching returns to South Africa

Mugabe Militia cutting off hands and feet now

In the same spirit that the Burmese Junta display by not allowing aid into their dying population, one African Marxist dictator believes he has the right to mutilate people because they didn’t further his ambitions to remain in power til death. How can this man justify this crime against humanity? Someone needs to round him and his thugs up…NOW.

Mugabe’s militia are now cutting off the feet and hands of those who voted against him:

In Sierra Leone (West Africa), the Marxist terrorist trash made it their business to cut people’s hands off so that they cannot “vote for the wrong party” again! No hand, no more vote, his men said, as they chopped off limbs with machetes and axes. ! It is that same evil communist logic now occurring in Zimbabwe. They have cut people’s hands off “to stop them voting wrongly” and they’ve cut their feet off “to stop them walking to vote wrongly”.

Africa's Internet drought

This Map illustrates the fragile and spotty nature of Africa’s "Internet Weather" -- or "teledensity" as tracked by Internet monitoring technology.

Researchers at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, tracked Internet connectivity at points in more than 40 African countries, whose populations make up more than 80 percent of the continent's inhabitants. Their findings (pdf) are sad, though not surprising: "Africa's network performance is over 10 years behind that of Europe and the U.S. and falling further behind," and among African countries "performances in developing regions are a factor of 5-20 times worse than that in developed regions."

This video maps daily connectivity and explains each dot's meaning

Xenophobia: Is it too late?

The senseless xenophobic slaughter in Alexandra could have been averted a very long time ago, had public representatives played an honest role and played open cards with citizens. There are various reasons for the unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants into South Africa - from Eastern Europe, Israel, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, many parts of West Africa, and all over the SADC countries. Some have fled because of political unease, religious tension, starvation and the search for the proverbial greener pastures.

The ANC government allowed millions of foreigners into the country, especially from the African continent. The rationale was that many African countries had given South African exiles succour during the times of apartheid tyranny. So, in effect, the new government was paying back these countries.

But the new government was also supposed to contend with more immediate and pressing matters at home: past wrongs had to be redressed, infrastructure had to be strengthened and extended to those the apartheid regime had deliberately marginalised, the housing and health sectors had to be improved, and more and better sanitation and water facilities had to be provided. Electricity had to be supplied to millions of new households.

Such a mammoth infrastructural upgrade, taking in large communities across the country, could not cope at the best of times; with countless millions of immigrants, for whom zero provision had been made, there just was no way in which the country would cope.

Adding to the malaise, the immigrants brought along with them some unsavoury and unacceptable practices: many were drug pushers, thieves and fraudsters (read many Nigerians), and Pakistanis, in particular, "married" local women fraudulently, with the active connivance and co-operation of corrupt officials of the local home affairs department.

The newcomers, in most instances, were better educated than the average black South African. Many had entrepreneurial skills, which our people simply lacked, and the relative ease with which they appeared to start small and medium-sized businesses was bound to leave the sour taste of jealousy in the mouth.

In many poorer and less sophisticated communities - such as the North West villages of Mafikeng, Sannieshof, Delareyville, Ditsobotla and Mooidorpie - Pakistanis and Somalis, mainly, took over non-performing shops and displaced the original owners. That was viewed in a very dim light by the affected communities, and latent xenophobia was stoked to the surface.

This week's Alexandra uprisings were just a further manifestation of the simmering hatred. The foreigners are being accused of stealing jobs from locals and contributing to the high prices of food and other commodities.

The government's abject failure to address the uncontrolled entry into South Africa is chiefly to blame, and the arrogance of many foreigners doesn't help either.

The way things look, it may be wishful thinking to imagine that somehow the phenomenon of uncontrolled immigration can be capped.

War On Our Streets

Police say at least 22 people have been killed in South Africa's city of Johannesburg since the violence first erupted a week ago in a wave of attacks against immigrants.

WARNING: Readers may find the following images in this video upsetting.

Flames of Hate

If you have been labouring under the misconception that this murder, rape, assault, thuggery, robbery and brutality (hiding behind Xenophobia) was a million miles away, this weekends violence in Central Johannesburg was a huge wake up call for most. The streets and flat lands of Johannesburg exploded this weekend.

At least 13 people died this weekend, hundreds were injured and thousands displaced in what has brought back memories of the worst of years long forgotten by many of us. It is difficult not to sympathise with people who feel that the spiralling crime, housing shortages and high food costs are a result of our almost non existent border controls and for the government it must, at least from a PR point of view, be more preferable that the foreigners and not their own short comings and policies be blamed for the woes that have befallen their constituents

But nobody could have anticipated the level of violence and anarchy that has descended. The police seem unable to stem the flow and leaders making speeches behind television cameras and large desks are having no impact. Our presidents call for calm will have about as much effect as mine. What is needed right now is troops on the ground! Police, Army or even the friggin Navy who have nothing to do but polish those submarines we bought with the billions of rands that could have been ploughed into housing and job creation.

Stem the violence first and then start making speeches about what changes we can expect (and make them quickly, the elections are close). Foreigners surfing the net for accommodation and restaurants for 2010 must be having second thoughts, must be wondering whether they will be subjected to the same violence? How do we explain to them “Not to worry we only kill Zimbabweans, cause they took our homes and jobs!”

Now if you are feeling up to visit FLAMES OF HATE. This pictorial essay of violence this weekend is available from The Times and the pictures displayed here are from the essay.

WARNING - The images are extremely graphic and viewer discretion is advised.
FLAMES OF HATE

Black South Africans worse off under ANC Rule

Well, its "Disaster Capitalism" being implemented by Socialists and Communists - that's why. I hope the CIA learns its lesson from this. Don't hand the country over to Marxist TERRORISTS and expect them to run a proper Capitalist Pro-Western society!!

WHY ARE VIOLENT SA TOWNSHIP PROTESTS BACK?

'Black South Africans are much worse off under ANC-rule than they ever were during apartheid... ' -

After over a decade of ANC-rule under Thabo Mbeki, conditions for black people in SA are today so much worse than they ever were under apartheid that black communities all across the country's townships again have returned to the streets to protest -- waging violence-driven campaigns, this time against their own black regime. They are protesting against their dismal living conditions and also the drastic lack of civil liberties being endured under the Mbeki-regime.

Far-left Canadian journalist Naomi Klein noted these shocking living conditions of black South Africans under the Mbeki-regime -- describing them in her latest book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". Klein provides the following list of how living conditions for SA blacks have gotten worse:

*Four-million people now live on less than $1 a day (doubled since apartheid);

* 48% of the people now are unemployed; it was 28% under apartheid;

* only 5,000 of 35-million+ black South Africans earn over R60,000 a year;

* the ANC government has built 1.8 million (ramshackle, tiny) new homes while two-million South Africans have lost theirs;

* Some 1-m blacks were evicted from farms by new black farmers;

* the shack dweller population grew by 50% in 2006, one-quarter of the entire SA population lives in shacks without running water or electricity.

* the TB/AIDS infection rate is soaring past 20% -- and the Mbeki government denies the severity of the twin killer-epidemics;

* The average life expectancy for everyone is at 48 years; it hovered around 62 years during apartheid;

* 40% of all SA schools have no electricity;

* 25% of all the 46-million people in SA have no clean water; 60% of all the people have inadequate sanitation; 40% have no telephones.

SA has more AIDS-victims than taxpayers now

May 17 2008 - Cape Town

8-m South Africans with AIDS+TB* -- and only 7.7-m permanent taxpayers...

South Africa officially has 47-million citizens plus some 5-million economic refugees and more streaming in from the rest of Africa every day...Yet the country only has 7.7-million officially-registered permanent taxpayers - claims labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana, who noted during the recent parliamentary debate about the black-economic empowerment laws that although 13-million people do have jobs; 5.8-million of these are low-paid part-time workers whose wages are not contributing to the central tax registers: they are not registered to pay unemployment insurance.

In other words, only 7.7 million people are paying permanent wage-related income-taxes to the central government to support the country's entire infrastructure for 52-million people -- moreover this is also a population which for the most part now is becoming seriously endangered by the deadly AIDS+TB epidemics, the soaring crime epidemic and the rapidly-growing famine in SA.

It's also interesting to note the report from UN and SA aid-agencies who say that some 23-m indigenous South Africans (of all races) already have to survive below the breadline of $1 a day.

6-million primary-pupils survive only on free school-meals.

The education department (i.e. funded by those 7.7-million taxpayers) now feeds some 6-million or so primary-age pupils to stop them from starving to death and wants money to feed even more. More than half are AIDS-orphans living with grandmoms, aunts or older children on government pensions, the rest become increasingly feral, living on handouts, crime and prostitution.

The countryside around all the major cities is dotted with massive filth-, disease- and crime-ridden shantytowns where these kids are growing up: forming increasingly organised feral youth gangs which clearly now practically rule the streets 24/7.

• They are also the main ''foot soldiers' who lately are conducting ethnic-cleansing campaigns to clear out all the foreigners' (Asians and blacks) from the townships, which campaigns are receiving a lot of attention, with the senile media referring to this as 'xenophobia'.


• However these feral gangs haven't only been targetting the black foreigners in the townships - they have also been organised to target the country's whites.

Now it's clearly becoming all out warfare which the police is not equipped to stop or even combat from day to day. This is due mainly to the fact that the ANC-ruled officials themselves are looting the treasury so massively that they have left the police and military grossly underfunded and thus totally unable to protect the population.

These so-called 'wealthy African ANC-ruled upper-class' -- often referred to as the 'black diamonds' -- are pissing away the country's looted tax-money from those 7,7-million permanent taxpayers on utterly mindless luxuries while the country's border-to-border municipal infrastructures and the entire transportation, policing and health-care systems are collapsing from criminal waste, massive fraud and utter neglect.

Mdladlana warned the country's top-JSE-listed companies -- i.e. those very guys generating those taxes paid in by those 7,7-million people -- that they would be severely punished if they didn't start hiring all those many 'qualified blacks out there' at once.

• The fact that the working-age population pool has been allowed to become infected with AIDS+TB only due to the criminal neglect of the country's denialist-president Thabo Mbeki clearly won't matter either: the defence force union this week moved these last goal-posts by hurriedly obtaining a High Court order through which the SA military must keep its 12,650 AIDS-infected staffers (their own official stats, 23% of 55,000 employees) on its payroll - and moreover also have to hire new applicants even if they are HIV+.

Obviously this will then also have to be applied to all the government posts including the police.

SA defence force turned into a huge AIDS+TB hospice

• In other words, South Africa's entire defence (and policing) force is now rapidly being turned into a countrywide taxpayer-funded hospice for AIDS-infected working-age men and women.

I fully expect that this court order will now also be used as a new weapon against any JSE-listed companies which still dare to turn down 'qualified black" HIV-infected job applicants in future.

And why stop at HIV - which is a communicable disease? What's to stop the ANC-regime from now interpreting this court order to also include other infectious diseases such as TB?

Foreign investors will undoubtedly have to take an even closer look at any JSE-listed company which now has this new sword of Democles hanging over its head.

Clearly, just as has just been done to the (taxpayer-funded) military, all these JSE-listed companies now will also be forced to become hospices for AIDS-infected employees and job-applicants:

• These companies will not only be forced to start hiring HIV-infected applicants just as the military is now being forced to do;

They also will have to pay for the employees' increasing absences and production losses as the deadly infection progresses; pay for their huge medical bills to keep them on antiretroviral treatments as long as possible; pay all the funeral costs -- and the widows-and-orphans benefits in perpetuity.

Execution by Necklacing

*WARNING GRAPHIC*

During Nelson Mandela's trial, they found a document wherein he had said that some hideous punishment must be found for "traitors" (i.e. Blacks who actually support, work with and are friendly to Whites). In this document, Nelson Mandela suggested - cutting off their noses.

Years later, his wife, Winnie Mandela, publicised the idea of "necklacing" the traitors.

For non-South African readers: the "necklace" was a method of execution used by the ANC 'liberation army guerillas" whereby black 'sellouts to apartheid" were cruelly torched to death with petrol-filled tyre placed around their necks. Some 400 people were burnt alive by this ANC-horror execution.

Now you know if anyone ever offers you a necklacing, you should probably say no. Horrible.

Why the violence?

One of the most frequently asked questions is why the violence? Why do these criminal swine have to resort to extreme and prolonged violence in the perpetration of what is usually a petty crime like the theft of a cell phone and a few household belongings – nothing of which could ever be worth a human life.

The answers are clear. This is a country that after the release of Nelson Mandela and the build up to “democratic” elections was birthed with electioneering slogans and chants that actively and unequivocally called for the slaughter of white South Africans.

How else is one to understand the meaning of “ONE SETTLER ONE BULLET” and “KILL THE BOER – KILL THE FARMER”?

These chants were the platform upon which was engineered the ANC rise to power in SA and formed part of their campaign to rally support – word of mouth undertaking throughout the entire population of South Africa that whites were to be slaughtered after the “Liberation” of South Africa on a piecemeal protracted basis in the exact manner that we see taking place in South Africa at this precise moment.

We do not exactly have the most sophisticated electorate on the planet – which African country does – and the question has to be asked, how would an unsophisticated electorate respond to the continuous brainwashing that white people have robbed him of everything he ever had or could have had and that white people are the cause of all ills that he, his ancestors and his descendants have, are, or are ever going to experience.

Indoctrinating the population in SA in this manner has been the most infantile accomplishment of the current powers that be with the most incredible outcome. The rest of the world, absolutely incapable of fathoming the rudimentary workings of the indigenous African mind are at a loss and white South Africans at as much of a loss as to understanding why the violence.

After some thoughtful consideration, the answer becomes easily apparent. We are dealing with a race that for the entire history of its existence has not developed or evolved in the same way as most of the world’s other races have. They have no written history prior to this being recorder by white people a few hundred years ago and this fact in itself challenges the exclusivity that South African blacks claim to this country at the exclusion of everybody else, particularly whites.

We are dealing with a race that is infinitely fragmented into tribal and ethnic divisions, sub divisions, languages, dialects and others defining separatist mechanisms that makes defining them as simply as “Black People” outrageously simplistic and myopic if any effort is to be made to understand the absolute inability of these people to contribute anything constructive or positive to humanity.

Nevertheless, in keeping with simply definig these murderers as "Black" we need to understand that as such we are dealing with a race of people that for whatever history is apparent of their existence have shown us that they have lived in as close proximity to their other splinter tribes and ethnic kin as geography, hostilities and speed of travel provided for.

There was no economic activity other than that if one tribe or group required anything that they could not grow or make, they simply went over the plains to a neighboring tribe, wiped them out, usually very cruelly; took their belongings and livestock and burned down their dwellings before disappearing.

WHAT HAS CHANGED ????

It is this same culture of entitlement and absolute lack of any economic evolution by indigenous black Africans that still manifest today as violent crime in modern societies all over the planet. It is a congenital peculiarity of blacks that no amount of integration into western societies will eradicate, maybe refine a little to give the illusion of similar levels of sophistication as western societies but never eradicate, as is amply evidenced by people like Mugabe who wears a suit, is by Western standards eminently civilized and educated with SEVEN university degrees – look what he did to Zimbabwe for all his western style sophistication and education – exactly what his ancestors have done throughout their history. He has plundered, murdered and pillaged to acquire what he wanted because he simply knows no other way despite his westernization.

That is all these people know and this is all they will ever do. It is the reason that they were colonized in the first place and the reason they will be colonized again – for certain. Black Africa will be colonized again and this time, having been exposed as a murderous liability no matter where they put down their roots, their new colonizers are not going to be the benevolent kindly BOERS that they are killing daily. This time their colonizers will be a race of people that can currently put 200 million armed soldiers into the field at any time and THEIR approach to violent crime is simple – a bullet to the back of the head and the bill therefore to the criminals kin.

In the meantime white South African are being slaughtered like pigs in an orgy of retribution and by way of penance for Apartheid – a system that was implemented precisely to preserve white people from the attentions of these savages that we see today – but has been twisted by the international bleeding hearts society to be perceived as a diabolical mechanism for persecuting blacks. Opponents of apartheid by way of their voluble opposition, sanctions etc, etc. have shown that what they understood of Apartheid was that white South Africans could only function if some perverse desire to see blacks squirming dying and being humiliated on a daily basis was assuaged sufficiently for them to be able to build the South Africa that the ANC inherited, took credit for and then proceeded to destroy.

Never has the thought been given by these bleeding hearts to the possibility that the implementation Apartheid was an act of survival by white South Africans to isolate them from the attentions of blacks that we see currently in a form and on a scale that by any definition can be labeled a Genocide of whites in SA.

A genocide that has been cunningly planned all along by the ANC and equally as cunningly executed. A genocide that is justified by apartheid and the victims thereof acceptable losses for redressing of “Past injustices”. A genocide that is explained away as crime. A genocide that the ANC government fully approves of, fully encourages, fully supports and fully endorses by its absolute refusal to do anything about violent crime against whites in South Africa.

It is a genocide the agenda of which is clearly apparent to any thinking person without the odd loose cannon black giving it away at a “youth rally” at which the call was made to black youths to “Go and steal from whites because they stole from us…”

This is the kind of indoctrination that generations have black youths have been subjected to to such an extent that they see little merit in applying any personal effort or endeavour into acquiring anything that their “leaders” are telling the they can simply take from white people and if it involves killing the white pig all the better – remember “KILL THE BOER KILL THE FARMER”

They don’t have to go to “Youth Rallies” to be told this, it’s all they hear all the time because it is an ongoing part of the indoctrination strategy that the ANC has inherited from the communists and implemented with absolute results.

What the idiots haven’t figured out yet is what they are going to do when all the whites have been slaughtered or driven out of South Africa and every last possession of white people has been plundered and destroyed. The answer is equally as clear – they turn on themselves and before long the beautiful country that whites built is reduced to rubble and is just another African civil war zone – until the neo-colonizers move in.

In the meantime law abiding, unarmed, productive white South Africans are slaughtered without the immediate realization that for every white life gratuitously snuffed out hundreds of blacks will ultimately end up starving and dying in the years to follow.

And when things in the “Liberated” country get unbearable because the economy has collapsed the “Free” blacks invade the very countries from where their “Oppressors” originated and go and perpetuate their culture of entitlement there.

So to all those bleeding hearts countries gleefully clapping their hands and laughing “Serves you right for Apartheid” (isolating yourself from black on white hate crimes); take note of who the perpetrators are in your cozy countries of unrest, riots, civil disobedience, murder, rape and robbery. I’ll put my money on it that it’s usually a black African…..