South Africa

In recent days, a chilling video emerged of a stadium filled with black South Africans singing “Kill the Boer,” a fighting song calling for the murder of white South Africans. The clip went viral, shocking Western people whose idea of South Africa was fixed in the Nelson Mandela era, and who haven’t paid attention to the country since its first black president died in 2013.

The New York Times rushed to assure its readers that there was nothing to worry about. The song, it said, is a relic of “decades” of anti-apartheid struggle (false: it debuted in 1993, one year after South African whites voted to end apartheid, and one year before Mandela became president), and besides only “far Right” whites are troubled by it.

Shocking video shows South Africa’s black party singing “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer”

This is all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness and CRT plaguing America today.

You have been warned.

WATCH.

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The brutal murder of two elderly individuals near the Echo Caves outside Ohrigstad once again highlights the cruelty of violent crime in South Africa.

They were set on fire while still alive after being tortured.

That is how a broken Jan-Daniël Claassen, son of the murdered Anneke Claassen (73), described the last agonising moments of his mother and her friend, Hennie Claassen (77), last Saturday on Anneke’s farm near Ohrigstad in Limpopo.

h/t Mauser

For a very long time, South Africa was a well-managed country that engaged in immoral racial apartheid. Blacks were denied all civil rights and were forcibly economically marginalized. When apartheid finally ended, it seemed as if South Africa could continue to be a well-managed country, only without the evil of racial segregation. However, with Cyril Ramaphosa, who rose through the communist African National Congress, in charge, the country is violently imploding, and apartheid is back…only this time against whites and Indians.

Vladimir Putin’s ongoing brutal war against Ukraine. The Chinese Communist Party’s continued aggression in our region. An upsurge in violence in the conflict between Israel and various Palestinians factions. Each of these conflagrations have rightfully drawn the attention of students within international affairs.

Yet there is a forgotten international calamity that has been neglected, certainly in the West.

The backlash against illegal miners in South Africa is gathering pace as local residents formed mobs to beat them and destroy their camps in retaliation for the gang rape of eight young women filming a music video last week.

Miners’ camps were torched and roads around the townships of Munsieville and Bekkersdal outside the town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, were barricaded with rocks and burning tires as residents protested against the presence of illegal miners.

Many of the miners are migrants from other African countries, and the reaction has raised concerns over xenophobia, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday condemning the violence.

A South African opposition figure has warned of impending civil unrest in the continent’s richest country and likened it to ‘an Arab Spring.’

The controversial opposition leader Julius Malema spoke of the country waking up one day with ‘very angry people that are not going to be reasonable.’

Discontent with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa is at all-time high levels due to the social conditions within the country and ‘the poor becoming poor,’ according to Malema.

‘When the unled revolution comes… the first target is going to be white people,’ Mr Malema told the BBC’s Hardtalk programme, adding that the uprising would also target ‘black elites.’

Personal attacks within the ANC come either by smear or funeral oration; the organisation’s strong traditions of omerta allow few other avenues. So when the former South African president Thabo Mbeki recently warned incumbent Cyril Ramaphosa that his inaction was courting a new “Arab Spring”, there was a sharp intake of national breath. It was akin to Pope Benedict openly accusing Pope Francis of not saying his prayers.

South Africa’s president says he’s “deeply disturbed” at the abuse of foreign nationals working in the country. It is a particular problem in the township of Alexandra, which was at the centre of xenophobic riots in 2008. Some immigrants there have told the BBC they now live in fear.

“When they came here for the first time there were seven of them. They made us lie all down. They took the machines, hairdryers and sprays. We had no choice but to let them take them because they had guns”.

David – not his real name – sits nervously in front of me at his barber’s shop in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township.

The Mozambican looks down at his hands as he describes the numerous attacks he’s been the target of, simply for being a foreigner.

Imagine the headline if the South Africans were white.

Corrupt politicians care little for the fracturing nation

A hinge moment happened this week in South Africa. The country finally transitioned from rainbow utopianism to reality.

The turning point was the municipal elections in which the 110-year-old ruling African National Congress failed to gain a majority of the vote. The party is, despite its manifest failings, still custodian of the liberator’s mantle among many black South Africans — a recent survey showed that although 60% of ANC voters associated their party with corruption, they would nonetheless vote for it; such is the brand loyalty — but the party’s once hegemonic power is in retreat. The decline over the years is neatly in tandem with the nation’s trajectory towards a failed state. At its peak in 2004, the ANC pulled nearly 70% of the national vote. This week, it could barely pull past 46%.