disinfo | South Africa’s unemployment rate stands at 27%.
Yes, I said 27%, not 2.7%. Worst yet, almost half the population of 55
million earns less than the country’s minimum wage. In America, that
translates to abject poverty. The situation has only gotten worse over
time, including crime, which continues to climb. South Africa is the rape capital of the world
with almost 150 sexual assaults happening every day. The rolling
blackouts of the past years have eased, but that is only because demand
is down from an economy in freefall. Physical brawls in parliament
and confused attempts at peacefully redistributing white minority owned
farmland to the black majority have created an almost intolerable rage
within the majority population. Riots are becoming the norm in the cities as well as the universities. Additionally,
the rules of the turnover of white property and businesses to the black
majority switch almost seasonally. This is from a deep corruption and
disorder within the ANC. This makes the party look as if it’s suffering
from multiple personality disorder.
With this worsening economic situation it
comes natural for politicians to look for an escape hatch to explain
their apparent lack of competence.
Race is everything in South Africa and ever since President Jacob Zuma infamously called for the killing of the Boer,
a dangerous narrative has formed. It’s a familiar one. Here’s how the
plot goes. An incompetent government gets into trouble. Rather than
fixing its own problems, those in charge find it best to blame all its
ills on a small minority. Once the ire of the voters’ attention gets
turned to the minority, the politicians then buy themselves some time to
figure things out. If the minority gets slaughtered in the process,
well, you know, that’s just politics. Here’s the unfortunate plot twist
for Zuma and his ruling party the ANC. From all of this chaos came a new
political party that has quickly cut into the ANC’s monopolistic grip
on the political structure. The Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF has a
more radical, Marxist vision for the country. That includes a less
harmonious divestment of white owned land and businesses. But there
really is nothing new about the EFF. It’s promised the usual rainbow
panacea that a far left Marxist group might offer a vulnerable public.
The BBC has politely said
its leader, Julius Malema, has offended various groups including
whites. I would attribute his rhetoric and stances to that of Robert
Mugabe and his violent handling of white owned farms back at the turn of this century.
