For a little more than a quarter century, South Africa has been governed by black politicos which is understandable since blacks comprise are fa and away the majority population of the country. The stewardship over the nation has been a stunning failure. One third of all South Africans are unemployed. 13% of all citizens are HIV positive. Murder of white farmers in the hinterlands is epidemic. South Africa is now the “Rape Capital of the World.”
The largest ethnic group is South Africa are the Zulus who incidentally migrated to the region AFTER the Dutch who arrived in 1620. The latest political violence which has set the nation afire was initiated by the jailing of former president and Zulu leader Jacob Zuma. Zuma was a corrupt and racist politician, known to sing frequently the “Kill the Boer” song, exonerated on a rape charge of an HIV positive woman in which Zuma testified that he’d showered after having consensual sex with the woman to avoid having the HIV spread all over his body. Zuma refused to appear in court on one of many corruption charges, and is presently jailed. It is Zuma’s confinement that allegedly has sent in the nation into incredible turmoil: blacks fighting blacks, blacks fighting whites, blacks fighting Asians. Seventy-five people have been killed to date. More than half the deaths have resulted in South Africans, unlike Americans, protecting their property and shooting the throngs of looters. As in the U.S., the political nature of the riots have provided a grand opportunity for nationwide looting.
As of Monday of this week, over 200 malls have already been destroyed. Looters have been spotted torching farmland, setting chemical plants on fire, attacking water-treatment facilities, plundering shipping containers, and burning electronics plants to the ground. The country’s biggest oil refinery shut down to protect itself in the face of the growing hostility. It is estimated that the entire nation’s food supply will run out within two weeks.
The diversity rainbow of South Africa is collapsing. No doubt, there will be an appeal to WESTERN nations to come to South Africa’s rescue. Hmm, diversity does not seem to be tantamount to strength in South Africa. Unity NOT diversity is strength. Why do we have to learn this lesson time after time.