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A year after the formal end of ‘Apartheid’ and the African National Congress takeover of South Africa, violent mobs began attacking migrants from other African countries to drive them out.
The mobs weren’t the ‘white extremists’ whom the media loved to cover. They were African.
That the ‘Operation Buyelekhaya’ campaign, meaning ‘‘Go Back Home”, reached a new height after the ANC takeover was no coincidence. Ending apartheid had never been about equality, but about key African tribal consolidating control over the country and making no distinction between ousting whites or members of different African black groups from other countries.
South Africa’s current successor to ‘Buyelekhaya’ is Operation Dudula (‘Push Them’ out in Zulu) and has seen large mobs harassing the country’s large 2.5 million migrant population, shutting down their shops, destroying their merchandise, blocking them from hospitals and preventing their children from attending schools, while blaming them for high levels of crime and unemployment.
The old ‘Kill the Boer’ songs aimed at white people have been supplemented with “Burn the foreigner. We will go to the garage, buy some petrol and burn the foreigner.”
King Misuzulu, the Zulu king, recently gave a speech in which he declared that all foreigners or ‘kwerekwere’ must leave the country. It’s a message that has consistently come from the Zulu.
There is plenty of irony in that because the Zulu had migrated to and colonized South Africa, building a nation in the early 19th century. The territory seized by the Zulu from other tribes was obtained in some cases not much earlier than the arrival of the Boers. The end of apartheid just ended white rule and ushered in a new wave of tribal conflicts still going on today. The myth of ‘decolonization’ ran into the reality that every group colonizes when it is strong enough to do so.
Decolonization has never meant anything other than a particular group, one that is usually even more violent and xenophobic, driving out a supposed ‘colonial’ race or ethnicity to maintain exclusive control over it for its own tribe and its own people. ‘Decolonization’ in Algeria and in other Arab Muslim areas drove out not only Europeans, but indigenous Christians and Jews.
Marxism and highly dubious history transform tribal, racial and ethnic supremacism into the noble enterprise of ‘decolonization’, investing ethnic cleansing, terrorism, genocide and xenophobia, with the aura of moral superiority. The moment the academics and pundits move on from manufacturing the ‘resistance’ myth, the grim and grubby racist reality sets in.
Migrants from neighboring and even more distant countries have flooded into South Africa, and African tribal populations are trying to drive them out. The ANC has accused activists of perpetrating a new apartheid, but really they’re just using the same tactics that were used to drive out white people and their African allies against people they consider equally foreign.
Operation Dudula is far more aggressive than the anti-migrant protests in Europe or MAGA’s deportation campaigns that the media decries. Post-apartheid it turns out that what the population under apartheid most wanted to do is what almost everyone wants to do which is to secure the territory for their people alone. But only some people are condemned for doing it.
Politicians and the media complain that America and Europe aren’t taking in enough migrants because they’re racist, but there isn’t a non-western country in the world more willing to take in migrants than western countries are. And it would be nice if liberals finally admitted it.
Decolonization hasn’t made the rest of the world progressive, it just means that in South Africa, there are mobs demanding that the government “put South Africans first”. But what is ‘South Africa’? The only historical definition of South Africa was the state built by the Boers. There is no historical basis for barring African migrants from crossing into it except as a nation state.
“We grew up in apartheid times, where things were much better than what it is now,” one supporter of the Dudula movement complained.
“South Africa needs to go back to the old South Africa that we know,” another agreed.
And so the circle is complete.
Some proposals have been made to change South Africa’s name to Azania: a semi-mythical appellation mostly used by Marxist Africanists, but few in the nation have shown any interest in it. There wasn’t much in the way of civilization before modern times leaving nomenclature options such as Kaditshwene, a capital of one of the Bantu peoples, had the unappealing name of “What an incredible number of baboons”. And so it remains South Africa with Africans who are protesting in the name of a defunct European state, against the entry of other Africans.
The campaign against apartheid, like most decolonization efforts, was based around the twin poles of group solidarity and hostility to an outside group. After apartheid, a new outside group was needed to serve as the enemy. And, following the familiar course of decolonization in much of Africa, the conflict slowly took the shape of tribal, clan and kin conflicts over land and power.
Post-apartheid South Africa just offers narrower and shrinking forms of apartheid as smaller groups fight over a shrinking piece of the pie. The ANC has turned to Russia and China after the Americans and Europeans who fought to put Mandela in power have become disgusted by the corruption and dysfunction that invariably plagues the nations they worked to decolonize.
By now it’s clear that the happy ending that apartheid opponents were waiting for will never arrive. The ANC is too corrupt to be popular and too weak to rule by force. The time will come when it will fall to the likes of Julius Malema or the Dudula movement. The remaining white and mixed race or ‘colored’ population will flee and the stage will be set for civil war and genocide.
And that will be another triumph for ‘decolonization’.
I remember the South African boycott and divest protest, on college campuses back in the 1980’s. How stupid those students were, and foolish, no doubt, they must be today
I remember the dumb “end apartheid” bumper stickers.
Yet the only country on the entire planet accused of apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing is Israel which has never done any of the above and every Islamofascist regime has done such things
Anti Semitism is not based on fact but lies, deceit , ignorinse an prejudice
Yep. Read, Into The Cannibals Pot”, by South African Jew Ilana Mercer. We went to the same high school in Israel in the 80s, only she was there because her father, a Rabbi, had to be even more of a black African radical than Joe Slovo. The good Rabbi attracted so much bad attention that he had to flee SA.
Anyhow, Ilana predicted everything thats happening right now, but from the vantage point of decades ago.
SA has an even uglier future in store than its current ugly state.
Even those who lacked Mercer’s prescience, Taylor, should have got a clue form the nightmare that ensued when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.
The claims against Israel are absurd hyperbole theatre by the commies. They never stop smearing.
It’s a big reason why Israel needs to put slime soldiers on trial for war crimes. There are whole squads that they capture that should be tried and then killed. Just the evidence of where they were.
They need to accept that they are the most hated group in the world, no matter how unfair it is and realize it isn’t going to ever change and there is no reason for them to worry about impressing the world with their impossibly high standards. It is something to be proud of, but as far as the rest of the world caring, just fight dirty, because your enemy is evil.
It just makes sense that a people who would voluntarily give up their privileged status would be appreciated by the formerly oppressed.; and the formerly oppressed, knowing how that feels would know not to visit that same treatment upon others. Who could have guessed this would happen? There is certainly no recent historical precedent for this that could have informed us of the outcome. Seriously, there isn’t, so don’t try to look. I’m in a state of state of total shock that people who put petrol filled tires and around their political opponent’s necks and set them on fire would not know how to properly run a nation.
The so-called “faction fights” between the Zulu and the indigenous Xhosa were the original reason for apartheid – to keep the bloodbath out of the cities. First generation South Africans, whose parents escaped communist European countries, sought to introduce communism to South Africa by teaming up with the A.N.C., Joe Slovo leading the political wing.
I think the Zulus had a better military organization than the other tribes.
One of the things from Ancient scripture that struck me was that when the bad guys won, they split into factions and started fighting each other.
Tribal affiliations easily turn violent and without question use all means available to drive out and conquer other peoples and their lands. Unfortunately, it is the aftermath that repeatedly results in chaos, poverty and strong-man tactics to control territorial resources and populations.
Just imagine the tribal hostilities in the Middle East, much of which still exists in poverty with uneducated people and if it were not for oil there would be similar aggressions for territories to be ruled by one Islamic faction or the other.
King Solomon was right, there is nothing new under the sun!
These are realistic arguments against multiculturalism with people unacquainted with getting alone with anyone else and beneath the tolerant edifice it seems one group or another is relentlessly pursuing dominance by all means necessary..
Perhaps it is better to keep intact borders, language and cultures and return to visiting other cultures for learning and appreciation without interference and invasion.
I wonder what the world might be like if that were the case.
I lived in South Africa for 5 years in the early 1980s, when it was a civilised and safe first world country. A country trying to accommodate the unreasonable demands of international communism by setting up black states, or Bantustans, within South Africa as a whole; for example, Bophutatswana, Transkei, Ciskei and Kwazulu.
But the commies, particularly in the UK and the US, were not satisfied with this compromise, they wanted a complete black takeover of the whole of South Africa. I remember such awful people as Peter Hain, here in England organising boycotts of any organisation that did business with South Africa. Invading cricket pitches and digging them up as a protest. I remember that disgusting creature, Joe Slovo, and his ANC cronies, including the terrorist Nelson Mandela’s wife, organising terrorist activities and planting bombs in white shopping malls. I remember the outrage when Paul Simon came and held a concert in South Africa. I remember Winnie Mandela ordering the ‘necklacing’ of any black who was considered to be an opponent of her and her commie mates. Necklacing by the way was a particularly gruesome method of killing someone; a tyre was placed around their neck, filled with petrol, gasoline, and set alight.
Now, I look at reports from South Africa and these same barbarians have turned the place into a cesspit, with no sign that the Christian whites will be begged to come back and take over the running of the country, including food production.
Interestingly, I have read recently, that the original template for the fate of South Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, is begging white farmers to return to the country because the blacks are incapable of producing the necessary food for the country that was once called the ‘breadbasket of Africa’.
I recall that former prime-minister Ian Smith was frequently beseeched, by black Rhodesians, to return to power (as if he had that option).
When they took over the farms, they returned to “subsistence farming” (not growing enough for export).
Why should they come back?