South Africa Question

Guest Post by Walter E. Williams

South Africa Question

South Africa has been thrown into the news because of President Donald Trump’s recent tweet that he instructed his secretary of state to “closely study” alleged land seizures from white farmers in South Africa.

Earlier this year, a land confiscation motion was brought by radical Marxist opposition leader Julius Malema, and it passed South Africa’s Parliament by a 241-83 vote. Malema has had a long-standing commitment to land confiscation without compensation. In 2016, he told his supporters he was “not calling for the slaughter of white people — at least for now.” The land-grabbing sentiment is also expressed by Lindsay Maasdorp, national spokesman for Black First Land First, a group that condones land seizures in South Africa. He says, “We are going to take back the land, and we’ll do it by any means necessary.” The land confiscation policy was a key factor in the platform of the new president, Cyril Ramaphosa.

I have visited South Africa several times, in 1979, 1980 and 1992. My three-month 1980 visit included lectures at nearly all South African universities. The 1992 return visit, two years after apartheid ended and two years before democratic elections, included lectures on my book “South Africa’s War Against Capitalism.” During each visit, my counsel to South Africans, particularly black South Africans, was that the major task before them was not only ridding the nation of apartheid but deciding what was going to replace it.

That’s an important question. William Hutt, the late University of Cape Town economist who was an anti-apartheid voice within the academic community, wrote in his 1964 book, titled “The Economics of the Colour Bar,” that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims of injustices or oppression “can often be observed to be inflicting not dissimilar injustices upon other races.” In 2001, Andrew Kenny wrote an article titled “Black People Aren’t Animals — But That’s How Liberals Treat Them.”

Kenny asked whether South Africa is doomed to follow the rest of Africa into oblivion. Kenny gave a “no” answer to his question, but he was not very optimistic because of the pattern seen elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. He argued that ordinary Africans were better off under colonialism. Colonial masters never committed anything near the murder and genocide seen under black rule in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Somalia and other countries, where millions of blacks have been slaughtered in unspeakable ways, including being hacked to death, boiled in oil, set on fire and dismembered. Kenny said that if as many elephants, zebras and lions were as ruthlessly slaughtered, the world’s leftists would be in a tizzy.

Ghanaian economist George Ayittey expressed a similar complaint in his book “Africa Betrayed”: “White rulers in South Africa could be condemned, but not black African leaders guilty of the same political crimes.” Moeletsi Mbeki, a brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki’s and deputy chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs, an independent think tank based at the University of the Witwatersrand, said in 2004 that Africa was in a spiral of decline. “The average African is poorer than during the age of colonialism,” he said.

Zimbabwe, South Africa’s northern neighbor formerly called Rhodesia, was southern Africa’s breadbasket. That was prior to the confiscation of nearly 6,000 large white-owned commercial farms during the 1990s. By the turn of the century, Zimbabwe was threatened with mass starvation and was begging for food. Added to that tragedy, Zimbabwe experienced history’s second-highest inflation rate. It reached 79.6 billion percent in mid-November 2008. (In 1946, Hungary experienced the world’s highest inflation rate, 41.9 quadrillion percent.)

South Africa leads in mining, food production and critical infrastructure, such as power production and railroading, in southern Africa. But it’s going the same way as Zimbabwe, spelling disaster for the entire southern part of Africa. What’s needed most right now is for South Africans to adopt some of the principles enunciated by Nelson Mandela, one of which is, “You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.”

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anarchyst
anarchyst

Mandela was not a “peacemaker” by any means, but was a communist terrorist who refused to renounce violence. In fact, his jailers offered to release him on many occasions, after his initial arrest, if he promised to renounce violence, but his stubbornness got in the way. His “wife” Winnie was a long time advocate of “necklacing” of her political opponents, “necklacing being the practice of filling a tire with gasoline, putting it around the neck of the victim and then lighting it. Hence, the term…
There is an old saying, “you can take the black out of the jungle, but you cannot take the jungle out of the black”.
South Africa is now a “lost cause” being enabled by the “international community” who refuses to call out the black “leadership” for their wholesale slaughter of white farmers.
I wonder of the Kimberly gold mines or the DeBeers diamond mines will be receive the same treatment as the farmers and be “nationalized”? Probably not, as they are owned by those of the “tribe”…

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

…or Chinese contractors invited in to keep the infrastructure going with loans.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

It did not take long for the Congo and Zimbabwe to go to Hell and it won’t take long for the rest of Africa to join them. It did not take long for Haiti and Cuba to go to Hell and it won’t take long for Venezuela to join them. It didn’t take long for Detroit to go to Hell and it won’t take much longer for all the US Democrat cities to go to Hell.

Dutchman
Dutchman

Can you imagine these low IQ, jungle bunnies producing anything? Running a large scale farm? Running mining or railroads or power plants.

It’s going right back to 1000 BC.

ZenitFan
ZenitFan

Remember the 2010 World Cup in South Africa? Without the legions of white engineers, architects, electricians, landscapers and many others, the tournament would have taken place in daylight on dirt fields, in front of bleachers made of dried mud.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

I can’t bring myself to believe this is happening without someones blessings. Someone off the continent must be behind this. I no longer have the time or energy to follow these things like I used to but I just smell a rat.
Who profits? I remember not that long ago a Zuulu leader saying publicly that they were better off under White rule. Nothing seems to have changed for the better for Blacks or Whites.

BB
BB

The central banks who are mostly owned by Jews will benefit. Destroy the country through communist policies and then call in all debt.When SA can no longer pay go after all the remaining resources .They have the same plan for America. America has trillions of dollars in energy related resources under the ground. Last I read somewhere north of 100 trillion .Our political leaders are all bought off .There will be no Hitler coming to save America. America will be raped by these people.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

China will own the place in 50 years…Meanwhile, Africans will do their usual thing…

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

The only justice in this is knowing the commie “gibz me dats” who’ve bred themselves into a large majority of non-productive eaters will starve themselves off.

Miles Long
Miles Long
AC
AC

Ramaphosa has already answered:
http://politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-anc-and-ramaphosas-1994-plan-for-the-whites

http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm

The stated plans and actions of the South African government already violate several provisions of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide – to which South Africa is party.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

What is needed is a “Marshall” type plan in which millions of tons of salt are delivered to every white-owned farm in the country. After it is tilled into the soil, all the farmers are airlifted out along with their families and friends. Let the remaining bastards starve to death.

Iwasntbornwithenufmiddlefingers
Iwasntbornwithenufmiddlefingers

You would get the same effect if you planted corn then airlifted out the whites. Aaaannnd it was the last corn they ever saw. Negroes are violent and uncivilized. Everywhere they go things fall to shit. Show me a place that proves this statement wrong. Keep in mind wakanda does not actually exist.

steve
steve

When whites are in power they show an acceptance and accommodation to other peoples. In stark contrast, those others will not reciprocate when they are in power. Learn this lesson well.

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