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2021-11-07 Africa Subsaharan

[Unherd] A hinge moment happened this week in South Africa. The country finally transitioned from rainbow utopianism to reality.

The turning point was the municipal elections in which the 110-year-old ruling African National Congress failed to gain a majority of the vote. The party is, despite its manifest failings, still custodian of the liberator’s mantle among many black South Africans — a recent survey showed that although 60% of ANC voters associated their party with corruption, they would nonetheless vote for it; such is the brand loyalty — but the party’s once hegemonic power is in retreat. The decline over the years is neatly in tandem with the nation’s trajectory towards a failed state. At its peak in 2004, the ANC pulled nearly 70% of the national vote. This week, it could barely pull past 46%.

The party has lost majority control of all the major metropolitan areas; across 62 municipalities, desperate, if informal, coalition negotiations on power and patronage are underway. And the collapse is being blamed on the fact that so few ANC supporters bothered to vote.

This is surely the result of catastrophic declines in public trust across all institutions of state — and particularly in the political classes during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s term. According to some under-reported polling in August, two thirds of respondents said they were willing — 46% were "very willing" — to give up elections altogether in favour of a non-elected government that could provide security, houses and jobs.
The death of the USSR shows that communism isn't forever. It's just that it has to die over and over again in other places.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 46% were "very willing" — to give up elections altogether in favour of a non-elected government that could provide security, houses and jobs.

Wait until they discover 'Guaranteed minimum income (GMI), SNAP, COVID checks, Planned Parenthood, endless unemployment insurance, Uniparty, Dominion Voting Machines, BLM, Antifa, The National School Board Association (NSBA), Build Back Better, reparations, ~~Affirmative Action hiring and promotions~~.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-07 00:54|| 2021-11-07 00:54|| Front Page Top

No, actually the "grip" will tighten. The Marikana platinum mine massacre of 2012 clearly illustrated that. The ANC may undergo a name change, but the same elitists will control the mines and resources.

Guardian link.

“You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with the guns.”
~ General Mark Milley

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-07 01:26|| 2021-11-07 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Chinese mining Lessons Learned:

Chinese control over African and global mining—past, present and future, an excerpt:

Sinosteel’s acquisition of the Dilokong chromite mine in 1997 marked the start of Chinese investment into African mining. This was not, however, the first contact between African and Chinese miners. In 1904, in the aftermath of the Boer wars, the shortage of labourers on the South African gold mines was acute. In the next two years, a total of 64,000 indentured Chinese workers were imported to South Africa. In 1906, they represented 34% of the total number of unskilled workers on the mines.

The Chinese workers were treated as an international commodity and stayed on a three-year contract with conditions in principle similar to the African migrant labour. In 1907, the risk of having a large group of Chinese workers as immigrants when their contract ended made the Chinese question a key issue in the elections in Transvaal. The Boer generals Smuts and Botha won the elections, and all the Chinese workers were repatriated to China after their contracts ended. By 1910, all of them had been shipped home (Allen 1992).

Emphasis added.

Source link found here.

The repatriation of Chinese workers, and replacement by locals. What a novel idea.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-07 04:40|| 2021-11-07 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4

From what I am reading regarding the treatment of Non-Blacks in South Africa.

It seems the Socialist leaning Government there has just changed to the color of apartheid to WHITE and anything NON-Black.

So where are the Anti-Racist / Equal rights and treatment Speakers now?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-07 05:19|| 2021-11-07 05:19|| Front Page Top

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