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| Africa Subsaharan |
| S. Africa's Crime-Driven Emigration |
| 2008-12-21 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 I used to go to Carlton Center in mid-seventies Johannesburg. Last I heard, that building - then the largest in Africa - had closed. It also had the only skating rink in the Continent. It might sound racist, but black leaders are more concerned with taking their cut, than with economic stability. The country stopped working when white rule ended. You may have noticed that Oprah invests in SA schools, but not businesses. |
| Posted by: Beldar Creting7411 2008-12-21 20:43 |
| #4 They had better leave while leaving is still legal. No country tolerates this level of emigration indefinitely. |
| Posted by: Jiggs Shorong2120 2008-12-21 14:29 |
| #3 the government appears to be more concerned with criminal rights than victim's rights. Because it's a feature, not a bug. It's slow-rate ethnic cleasing through independent contracting proxies (and sometimes, as for farm attacks, probably straightforward proxies, with some organization behind them). Disarming the "right" population is a feature too. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-12-21 14:12 |
| #2 The shole continent is going to regress to its state in 1800 with the exception of enclaves where outsiders come to get the minerals they can't get elsewhere. Lot's of opportunity for the nest Joseph Conrad. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-12-21 11:01 |
| #1 As I've said here before, I saw the same kind of thing that this author is writing about in 2005 in South Africa. The crime is truly shocking, whites and Coloureds seem to be a disproportionate share of the victimized, and the government appears to be more concerned with criminal rights than victim's rights. I didn't meet one white person in my time there who wasn't either already in the process of emigrating or thinking very seriously about doing so. Between the crime and the official moves to dispossess white farmers, SA is on the fast track to emulating Zimbob. They've got more to break down so it will take longer but eventually it will happen. They could reverse this, or at least slow it down considerably, if they allowed wider legal gun ownership and use. The ANC government severely curtailed those rights after 1994; the criminals now know that there are almost no ways a citizen can use a firearm in self-defense that are both legally justifiable and rationally possible. For the ANC government, that's a feature, not a bug. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-21 10:36 |