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What is going on in South Africa – 2021 riots?
I am asked this often by concerned foreigners. I’ll scratch your curious itch and give you the punchline early: The answer is rampant, destabilising, crippling, xenophobic, violent looting is the result of decades of race essentialist and socialist policies, essentially Critical Race Theory, implemented without concern to its impact on the expendable poor, by the seemingly untouchable African National Congress; once haloed birth-child of elite western socialists of the Cold War era.
South Africa is a CRT state.
So, can you go back to your mocha latte and the latest season of Woke propaganda on Netflix? Sure, but when the riots erupt near you, you will wish you paid more attention when we sounded the alarm.
Who Am I?
I want to avert your default urge to categorise this piece as just one white guys opinion and dismiss me. I need to give you a few facts about myself relevant to this topic that you probably couldn’t imagine.
I was born to a refugee of post WWII Italy who came here because his village had no food, no water, no power. He was a brick layer and helped build many of the schools here in South Africa still standing today. I grew up in severe poverty having to shoot pigeons for dinner at one stage of my childhood, stealing food in my teens, abandoned at age 15. I know a little of the hunger, fear and insecurity the looters are feeling. A desperate person will not let danger, law or social judgement stop him. Later in life I was fortunate to start a small restaurant and spent 21 years as a ‘social justice’ employer. Trying to do my bit for the new-born ‘Rainbow Nation’ which I was so proud to be part of. I am a child of Mandela’s dream and I passionately marched for his release in my youth, much to the disgust of many of my peers. I value a touch of Anarchy, original Feminist Equality goals, reasonable aims to achieve equity of outcome and liberal ideas around gender, sexuality, and democracy. I am male, middle aged and mostly masculine although I embrace the ‘perceptions of masculinity‘ lately advocated. I am also an adult student in third year counselling psychology in a college in Johannesburg, South Africa. I was forced to close my business permanently during 2020 Covid-19 lock-downs.
As I write this, (July 2021) military helicopters come over my house daily, our food shelves are empty, petrol is scarce, power across the nation is intermittent; often off for days, water is off in some areas (yes taps can be dry!), we are warned not to travel around Johannesburg; a “world class city”. My Malawian, Nigerian, Congolese, European, Asian and Indian friends are terrified of murderous xenophobia. Food production farms, 200+ malls, dairy plants, 32+ schools, 100+ cellphone towers, medical warehouses and more have all been looted and/or burned down. Twitter is awash with calls for genocide of the Indian community in Phoenix, Durban. Chants of “one Indian, one bullet” are used publicly. We risk turning into a Rwanda or Somalia overnight. Remember this when you make comparisons to Portland riots USA, or a few corrupt MP’s in the UK. These are not the same things at all.
I know what it feels like to be the scapegoat of a failed government because of the colour of my skin.
What does CRT have to do with South Africa 2021
CRT is a Marxist paradigm, locally dressed up as NDR, RET and EWC; all soviet era strategies adopted by the leadership of South Africa since 1994. Detailed South African study here
South Africa is led by the African National Congress; birth-child of well meaning, but ultimately misguided Cold War era humanitarians from the west. Many of us, myself included, were too naive to understand the socialist agenda still at work years after the fall of the Berlin wall. The ANC is made up of a tripartite union between the Communist Party, Trade Unions, and the original ‘liberation’ organisation the ANC. Most members lived in exile during Apartheid in sympathetic nations, many of them communist, like Cuba, North Vietnam and Soviet Russia, incurring many debts being repaid to this day. These ‘struggle’ veterans also glorify leaders like Muammar Gaddafi and Robert Mugabe. They have banned the Dalai Lama entry to visit Bishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu has become silent lately in disgust at what the ANC has done since Mandela died. Be aware that this is effectively a single party state more like China than the UK. Single party rule is achieved by this unholy alliance, a kleptocracy which enriches a minority of connected and already privileged, mostly black elite. This is repeatedly proven and even admitted by ANC leadership when they feign attempts at internal change.
The NDR (socialist-oriented National Democratic Revolution adopted by the tripartite alliance since the 60’s) has roots in Soviet era Russia where the Marxists realised Africa didn’t have a ‘middle class’ to utilise for divide-and-conquer strategies. NDR, like CRT therefor makes the bourgeoisie white people, and the proletariat is the black population. The NDR has been reformulated repeatedly but basic goals remain; using the state, centrally controlled by party cadres, to forcibly reconfigure class, education, production, freedom of movement, land rights and distribution of taxes. It requires the scapegoating of other groups to explain persistent inequality, keeping the masses in a state of low education while pontificating a paternalistic elite leadership class, promoting a victimology and growing a dependency syndrome.
This means the state has taken over mines, controls labour through the unions and punitive labour laws, owns and regulates details of broadcast media, uses race based Employment Equity laws and demographic prescriptions to manipulate the flow of capital and opportunity toward itself. Note, this is all unconstitutional by Section 1 of the Constitution which expressly makes non-racialism as a core
value of post-apartheid South Africa. Our Constitutional court, instead defends these policies because they adopted broad ‘social justice’ goals born in the elite academia of far away wealthy nations.
Gross inequality?
Yes, there is a massive gap between the rich and the poor in South Africa. Millions here live without piped water, electricity, adequate housing, functional schools, access to transport or reliable communication, far from affordable food outlets, on subsistence nutrition with a very high preventable disease burden which can cripple children’s development for life. Youth (19-29) unemployment is up to 73%. They want to teach a ‘decolonised‘ but ‘woke’ curriculum. Universities have a massive dropout rate because schools are inadequate, driving up student debt and failed expectations. We have 3.8 million AIDS orphans, many abused in homes where there are up to 12 other children, they become the slaves of the household, often forced to walk kilometres twice per day for the households water needs, collected from nearby muddy river beds, all before and after school. Rape or assault en route is common. Watch The Lost Girls of South Africa on YouTube to get a better idea of the conditions these “looters” live in. Although, in this recent crisis many “looters” pulled up in new SUV’s and even luxury German cars. See Sky News reports during this period.
What should be obvious by now is that after 27 years of socialist policies the top 10% of black ‘cadres’ (party loyalists) and their families have become obscenely rich, having obtained 32% of national income by 2015, three times more than whites, and at least one Trillion Rand transferred through black empowerment deals. Remember that 10% of the black population is 10x more people than the white population, can you see why inequality has increased since 1994? (see Demographics of South Africa – Wikipedia)
This is probably a low estimate as corruption is still being uncovered after 3 years of hearings into state capture under former president Jacob Zuma; the Zondo Commission. To give you an idea; deals from years ago have been exposed, going from R4 million jumping to R200 million for a minor project. During lock-down 2020 corrupt deals began before the President even announced the lock-down; our Health Minister stepped down recently due to massive corruption which benefited his immediate family, while people were dying of Covid-19. Understand that we have 60 million people in South Africa, supported by 8 million tax payers reducing each year.
Any illusion that this one party rule is for ‘the people’ has been obliterated. The idea that a tiny white minority, eight per cent, mostly middle class, still holds the levers of production 27 years after liberation requires a level of denial only the ideologically possessed can support. Although I don’t discount foreign pressure, but it is more likely to come from China and Brazil than the USA or the UK. The exception being radical socialists in Europe who I personally know of, that fund the hate filled radical left personality cult called the Economic Freedom Front (EFF) and various ‘NGO’s’ who sow socialism in the impoverished areas.
Images you see of poor townships next to clean developed suburbs do not indicate white-black division. Instead they indicate massive metro population growth, similar to other developing nations, fuelled by the relative prosperity achieved in South Africa which draws people from all over Africa. Images of tender-preneurs’ (beneficiaries of state contracts and race based employment) eight bedroom glass mansions and brand new SUV Porsche’s overlooking mud huts do not make the media. I know some of them personally, they holiday in Switzerland in mansions once a year. Importantly, in repeated surveys conducted by the Institute of Race Relations, (a local Liberal think tank which commissions research into race relations) repeatedly found that a demographically represented sample of up to 58% of South Africans listed unemployment as their biggest concern, as opposed to 3% who said racism was a concern, since 2001 up to 2020. Yet we have a state which blames racism for everything even in 2021.
International Race Opportunism
In 2020 the ANC state here, never one to miss a race opportunity, took up the mantle of BLM and the killing of George Floyd, quoting activists in the USA; ‘If you are silent on racism, you are actually perpetuating it’, the CRT punchline. They called for a ‘new struggle’ against racism in South Africa, 27 years after we elected Nelson Mandela. We are reinventing Apartheid.
So despite the NDR policy, which broadly mimics CRT, the ruling party has enriched itself to the detriment of the majority poor for 27 years. The jailing of Jacob Zuma for failing to attend corruption hearings is laughable when you consider the beneficiaries of state level looting are still in government. The masses know this. It’s offensive to the Zulu nation who have benefited little from the NDR or state capture looting. The Zondo Commission enquiry into state capture corruption was broadcast live each day for the last three years. We all saw how pervasive and endemic the looting of state wealth has been, yet we are expected to accept one old man being jailed as resolution? It insults every South African.
It is important to note that in these hearings many large corporations have been openly implicated as ‘playing the game’ of bribery, fraudulent Employment and Corporate Equality measures which enrich the same people over and over again. People like our current President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has enjoyed positions on executive boards for the last 27 years leading to him being a billionaire. President Ramaphosa has described himself as a dedicated socialist and someone who can negotiate by “walking on eggshells” and avoiding direct conflict. This man is the last great hope of committed liberals?
As I have Tweeted; RET – Radical Economic Transformation official policy of the ANC to cripple foreign or white owned assets and take land through EWC – Expropriation Without Compensation. All currently well underway by various means. Brain drain since 1994 means lowering of skills each year – @Vincenz59109253
Policies Matter
CRT likewise requires revolution, RET is that mechanism, brutally boosted by the conditions provided by Covid-19. State bailout funds openly excluded white or non BEE (black ownership) businesses leaving thousands of small and medium enterprises, the lifeline of the unskilled, to flounder, stagger and bleed-out after repeated hard lock-downs. The state openly declared this an opportunity to address NDR and RET goals. Those loans are already in arrears and many businesses have closed, or will cede assets to…the state, achieving ‘redistribution of wealth’. EWC, the policy of forcibly taking land from whites and anyone the state doesn’t like, is going ahead in parliament.
Ibram X Kendi, race opportunist and milquetoast ‘revolutionary’ writes we need “‘a kind of political chemotherapy”, his latte version of our RET. Race based empowerment programs action Kendi’s idea; a Marxist strategy of “a remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination”. This, despite the celebrated constitution of South Africa which likely averted civil war in 1994. Taking land from title deed owners, meaning at some point they paid for the land, means the state owns the land, meaning the ANC owns the land. This is a failed policy all over Africa which requires more denial of the reality; that the state already owns most of the land in South Africa but has achieved nothing with it in 27 years. Failed state owned farms are a recurring tragedy in the news. Yes, comparisons to Zimbabwe are completely justified. Other policies like AFFIRM in gender ideology seeks to cripple the capitalist mechanisms by dismantling the nuclear family, this while children are failing Maths en masse and drowning in pit toilets.
In education, this nation adopted the teaching of Paulo Friere. They slip in ‘School Indoctrination Theory’ which teaches about ‘intersectionality’ and ‘whiteness’ as the major problems in society. Recall the survey’s of the last 20 years I mentioned earlier? The public want jobs, not psychobabble Marxism from a long dead Marxist South American ‘revolutionary’. I have seen this with my own eyes in the curriculum currently used in South Africa.
Empathy
In terms of psychology, South Africans are an abused, traumatised, powerless, starving, desperate nation. Moral judgements of the looters, at least the really impoverished ones, would be unethical. As we accept limited capacity in cases of crimes of desperation we should understand these people have little to live for, and nothing left to lose. The ANC has bled out the social capital we had in 1994. There is no energy flow left in any of these people. Even the wealthier looters, who arrived in SUV’s, are drained of moral leadership. Their conscience has been absolved by the constant rhetoric of structural oppression and dependency syndrome that permeates the ANC’s strategy. Men are vilified as evil, leaving fathers homeless and hopeless. Young men face joblessness and powerlessness foreseen by Mamphela Ramphele in 1990.
This nation needs emphatic leadership, not more CRT.
The ANC’s finest trick has been to convince the world that it is not a socialist kleptocracy hell bent on enriching itself at the expense of the very people it professed to ‘liberate’.
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