Editor’s Note: Today’s letter is written by a Sovereign Man team member, Andre Bothma, who is based in South Africa.
In KwaZulu-Natal province, where Zuma is from, supporters of the former president launched a massive, coordinated protest campaign against his incarceration. Freeways were blocked with burning tires. Vehicles were stoned. Trucks set alight across the province.
And then the looting and arson started in Durban and Pietermaritzburg, two of the province’s largest cities.
South Africa, once again, is making global headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In case you missed the news, last week former President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry.
It was probably a calculated risk on his part; had Zuma actually appeared at the tribunal, he may very well have been convicted and sentenced to a much harsher punishment.
And when his sentence was announced, many South Africans gave a collective sigh of relief; it had been a long-overdue victory for the rule of law.
But then, virtually overnight, things started falling apart — rapidly.
First it was just small shops. But then entire shopping malls were looted and burned to the ground.
Once the shopping malls were in ashes, these “mostly peaceful” protesters moved on to torch distribution centers and loot cargo containers in Durban’s harbor.
They even rampaged against some of the region’s critical infrastructure, going as far as setting a water treatment facility on fire.
At this point the riots were still localized to the KwaZulu-Natal region, Zuma’s home turf.
But then the rioters started agitating for protests to break out in Johannesburg, the country’s economic capital…
Nobody thought the violence was going to spread there; Johannesburg is not a Zuma stronghold, and the locals there enjoy a much greater level of affluence than those living in Zuma’s native KwaZulu-Natal.
And yet, overnight, the violence spread to Johannesburg.
Bear in mind that South Africa’s national police force has been recently ‘defunded’, with a massive 11.8 billion rand (roughly $750 million) budget cut. For South Africa, that’s a staggering sum of money.
So with a heavily defunded police force unable to quell the violence, more ‘mostly peaceful’ protestors rampaged across these two key provinces, specifically targeting supply chain infrastructure.
On Monday night, for example, rioters brazenly looted a BLOOD BANK while being filmed on live television.
As things stand today, the Johannesburg and Durban downtown areas look like war zones.
I live in Cape Town, which so far hasn’t erupted. But the atmosphere here is tense; people are justifiably worried. Yesterday afternoon I came home to find a police NYALA (a NYALA is an armored 4×4 riot control vehicle) speeding past my house.
And the panic buying has already begun; I waited in line for ages last night at my local grocery store, only to find that many major product categories were totally sold out.
The line of cars waiting outside our local petrol station told the same story.
Economic analysts and observers are now sounding the alarm over food security risks; they’re saying that all the looting and burning of major infrastructure and distribution centers could cause a food shortage.
But South Africa is already running out of food — the shortages are here!
Across Durban, finding products like bread, milk and insulin for sale has become almost impossible.
The few shops that are brave enough to remain open are selling loaves of bread for 4-5X the normal price. And good luck finding any petrol anywhere in the city.
As of yesterday, the body count stood at 70.
Over a billion dollars in damages to businesses and public infrastructure.
Supply chains decimated and investor confidence gone…
Thousands of retail jobs, gone for good, and even more at risk.
The rational person needs to be intellectually honest about what’s happening right now: this is deliberate violence and sabotage designed to destroy critical infrastructure and terrify people, all in an effort to influence public policy (and free Jacob Zuma).
But there’s a word for this: terrorism.
And it’s been coming for a long time. South Africa has long been home to instability, corruption, and tension. We have politicians like Julius Malema who pour gasoline on racial tensions and threaten to seize private property.
It’s clear that South Africa has been declining gradually.
But then all this violence broke out very suddenly, practically overnight.
As Simon often writes, it’s like how Hemingway described going bankrupt: “gradually, then suddenly.”
Human beings are easily susceptible to normalcy bias — the bizarre voice in our heads that tells us “everything will be OK” even when the warning signs are completely obvious.
Our brains simply cannot comprehend that tomorrow could be radically different than today… and that our world could be turned completely upside down.
It is for reasons like these that Sovereign Man consistently writes about having a Plan B, which Simon describes as something like an insurance policy.
But you can’t wait until your house is already on fire before thinking about an insurance policy.
Yesterday, I spoke with a successful business owner based in KwaZulu-Natal. He runs a franchise business, and scores of shops just like his have already been looted and burned to the ground nearby.
He and his wife are almost at retirement age, and have had the means to get a Plan B in place for at least the last decade.
But they didn’t. They procrastinated. They put off taking action because there was no clear and present threat compelling them to do so.
Now, at a time where literally no one in their right mind wants to buy commercial property in their city, they are looking to liquidate their assets to get a Portuguese Golden Visa, which gives them a flexible second residency option in Europe.
Given that the application process takes several months to complete, even outside of Covid times, they’re way too late.
Having a great Plan B requires NOT procrastinating… and taking the appropriate steps for your situation BEFORE anything terrible happens, while you still have the resources and presence of mind to do so.
Because if you wait until the proverbial hits the fan, you’ll probably be too frantic and panicked to be thinking clearly about rational solutions.
Don’t give in to normalcy bias and assume that everything will always be OK. The last 18 months should be reminder enough that things can (and do) change very quickly.
Two weeks ago, South Africa was still a relatively well-functioning country. Yet the “civil” in civil society has been proven to be a precariously thin veneer.
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Is it just the Boers that slimy, avarice driven, rotten toothed Brit’s don’t mind slaughtering …..
Plan A is: Move to a place that has very, very few negroes. It reduces the likelihood you’ll need a Plan B.
Not all Africans…..reeeeeeeee
Or where blacks are massively outnumbered by Mexicans, who won’t put up with any of their sh*t……e.g. Arizona
Executed that plan 17 years ago. No regrets.
“Two weeks ago, South Africa was still a relatively well-functioning country. Yet the “civil” in civil society has been proven to be a precariously thin veneer.”
That’s odd because I remember many conversations here about the genocide taking place on a large scale and I don’t mean Zimbabwe.
Chicago is fine.
I guess the murder of white farmers doesn’t bother the author….
Or the mismanagent of all government functions and services since the end of apartheid. That doesn’t bother his kike sucking face either.
‘IT’S A WAR ZONE’ South Africa riots – Starving rioters say they are ‘on verge of eating each other’ after violence sparks food shortages
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3285797/south-africa-riots-starving-eating-each-other-food-shortages/
How weird, that cannibalism is the first option to come to mind? Are there no wild animals left in Africa?
Not in walking distance.
Yes, but they are the ones who did the looting to put the country in this predicament.
Just don’t eat or get a blood transfusion from a Covid shot recipient.
“Are there no wild animals left in Africa?”
That’s ALL that’s left.
Take up the White Man’s burden —
The savage wars of peace —
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought.
Must be winter in South Africa.
It is.
Shotgun is #1 in these situations.
Isn’t that photo from a scene in District 9?
I thought so.
I laugh my ass off every time I see the scene where the two lobster man aliens are stealing a flat screen.
Man, they’re giving humans a bad name. No wonder the power elite want to kill us all off.
Edit: Seeing that pic makes me think it would be a good SA version of ‘Where’s Waldo’. Maybe call it ‘Wheres Siyabonga ‘ or something.
Guess which store wasn’t looted?
Chris Rock explains why (3:30 in):
The white supremacists are the greatest danger in South Africa just as they are in the United States. They are better organized in africa and their target is the whole country not just the capitol.
Austrian Peter,
Are you STILL considering moving there?
I really wouldn’t mind some video of uniformed niggers chimping out on chimping out niggers.
you guys need to look at the big picture instead of focusing upon s.africa–
why are riots,civil unrest , civil war and totalitarianism all occurring around the world at approximately the same time?
could an organized group or nation be behind it?
china?
No. Israel.
israel does things that are in her own interests ,which sometimes is not in the interests of the usa–
that doesn’t necessarily make her our enemy–
regarding my question,israel would not necessarily benefit from world conflict unless she were making a decisive pivot from the west to the east–
As a matter of fact Red, they are throwing us under the bus right now like AP said. We were the best batch of useful idiots money could buy.
If you refuse to see the evidence it’s not my problem it’s yours.
It is extremely important to grasp that Zionism, Communism, the two World Wars, and the creation of Israel are interconnected. The key movers and planners behind all these upheavals were the same. Due to the deliberate and intense control of narrative, there is a misconception about Communism and its relation to Zionism. Both movements were led by nascent, violent and organized Jewry, backed by the wealth of Satanic Zionist Illuminati international banking families who were the real planners and controllers of these movements. To quote Douglas Reed: “The organizing force and leadership were drawn from the Talmudic-controlled areas of Russia, and in this sense Communism was demonstrably Easter Jewish.” [5] In 1918-1919 the Bolshevik government officially published a list of 556 most important officials of the Bolshevik state. Robert Wilton, the London Times correspondent in Moscow, printed this list in his book on Russia. Douglas Reed points out: “The French edition of his book included the official Bolshevik lists of membership of the ruling revolutionary bodies (they were omitted from the English edition).” [6] The omission from the English language editions is highly significant and shows how the narrative is controlled and information concealed. Of the 556 most important officials “were 457 Jews and 99 others”. As Reed states:
“The records show that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party, which wielded supreme power, contained 3 Russians (including Lenin) and 9 Jews. The next body in importance, the Central Committee of the Executive Commission (or secret police) comprised 42 Jews and 19 Russians, Letts, Georgians and others. The Council of People’s Commissars consisted of 17 Jews and five others. The Moscow Cheka (secret police) was formed of 23 Jews and 13 others.” [7]
[19] Menuhin also quotes from the September 10, 1920 issue of the American Hebrew Magazine: “The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was the work of Jewish planning and Jewish disaffection. Our Plan is to have a New World Order. What worked so wonderfully in Russia, is going to become Reality for the whole world.” [20] Douglas Reed states: “Conspiracy bred Communism and Zionism, and these took the future of the West in a pincer-like clutch.
Baruch taught Marx that revolutionary Jewish leadership would be considered traitorous if they rejected Judaism. Lina writes:
“When one of Baruch’s letters to Marx was published, its contents caused a big scandal. This letter explained, among other things, that it would be easy for Jewry to get into power with the help of the proletariat. Thus the new government would be led by Jews who would forbid all private property so that all these riches of the world would come into the hands of Jews, or made the Jews administrators of the fortunes and estates. In this way the old dream which the Talmud speaks of, namely that all the riches of the world would come into the hands of Jews, was to be fulfilled. In this letter Baruch also made it clear that the goals of Judaism were power over the whole world, a mingling of the races, abolition of national frontiers, elimination of royal families and finally the founding of the Zionist world state.
Have a good blissful rest of your life and hope this doesn’t happen to your family.
“Many were tied to horses and dragged through the streets of the city, while Jewish mobs attacked them with rocks and kicked them to death . . . Pregnant women were chained to trees and their babies cut out of their bodies.”
From, WHY WAS WORLD WAR II WAGED?
Mujahid Kamran
July 14, 2021