02.06
A few months ago, during a bizarre police raid that consisted of a huge number of policemen, given that the target was only one individual, a raid which was clearly aimed at intimidation rather than law enforcement, the owner of the web site ZASucks.com was arrested on charges dating back to a minor case that took place in the 1990’s, coupled with a relatively minor dispute between two individuals which seems to involve computer privacy. ZASucks’s real sin was apparently to highlight the enormous problems that South Africa has with violent crime, corruption, disintegrating infrastructure, black-on-white racism perpetrated by the ANC regime and other huge issues that continue to blight the continent, more than 40 years after the last colonialists departed.
The way ZASucks.com did so was admittedly controversial, with the crudest racial epithets imaginable to be found in almost every article and certainly in the comments section of each posting. The final straw appears to have been the publication of a series of gruesome pictures, purporting to be of crime victims. This seemingly convinced the authorities to intimidate its owner into shutting down the site. Is it a coincidence that this happened only a few months before the 2010 Soccer World Cup, given the South African authorities’ Holocaust-denier like refusal to acknowledge the frightening extent of violent crime in the country? However, ZASucks.com was very popular until its owner pulled the plug due to the police harassment. It provided a way for some whites to vent their anger against a black regime and its consequences, even if this venting was of an impotent nature, being unable to make any real difference.
On most other South African internet forums, including News24.com, Moneyweb and others, one finds the same general type of reactions from white commentators on any article that concerns crime, incompetent government or corruption (which in South Africa means many, if not most, articles), albeit that the censorship on these sites filters out the more crudely racist utterances that were allowed on ZASucks.com. With a few exceptions, the white respondents are almost united in condemning the general situation in South Africa, as well as being extremely critical of the ANC regime. The old adage that South Africans don’t complain about poor service is no longer true. White South Africans have become experts at complaining about the current situation and this abysmal lack of good service caused by the ANC regime’s incompetence and racist policies.
There is clearly a need for white South Africans to give voice to our discontent.
All this complaining is, however, completely futile and, in reality, ineffective. It makes no difference whatsoever whether whites complain or not, even if it is in the way ZASucks.com did so. The ANC does not need to take heed of whites’ gripes, because elections in Africa are usually for show only, especially if there is a dominant ethnic group. They are senseless tribal or racial censuses, often to appease naive foreign donors. Whites constitute less than 1 in 10 people in South Africa. Voting patterns in Africa are determined by ethnicity or tribal allegiance, not policies. To put it bluntly: we do not matter at all, except when we pay taxes. The ANC does not need whites’ approval. As long as you pay your taxes, whitey, complain as much as you like in your impotent way on News24.com, ZASucks.com or other sites. It may make you feel better, but that’s all. You are powerless to do anything more.
If complaining on internet forums or letters to the press don’t help, except as an unsatisfactory type of cheap psychotherapy, what solution do most of the mainstream media, newspapers and liberal commentators offer those of us who object to the ANC regime?
Firstly, there is South Africa’s so-called best constitution on earth and the individual rights contained therein. We are repeatedly told, most recently by FW de Klerk, that we need to put our trust in the “wonderful” constitution that De Klerk and his incompetent NP cronies “negotiated” for us at the scandalous capitulation of the NP at Codesa. I would go as far as to seriously suggest that Afrikaners need to apologize to white English-speakers for this disaster perpetrated by an Afrikaner leader. The NP held all the cards at Codesa, including having six nuclear weapons as aces up their sleeve, but their retarded negotiators frittered away the opportunity and left whites utterly exposed to a racist, hostile black regime. The constitution, FW and the mainstream media however continue to claim, is some kind of magical piece of paper which would somehow protect us against a black government’s abuse of power.
There are two huge problems with this naïve faith in the constitution, problems which are painfully apparent. For example, why are whites subject to blatantly racist discrimination at the hands of the ANC, if the constitution did in fact offer us any protection? The first problem is that the ANC cannot be trusted to observe the constitution. An organization that in the past thought nothing of murdering innocent civilians in cowardly terror attacks will think nothing of completely disregarding a constitution. Incidentally, that demigod of the liberal media, St Mandela, personally approved the murder of 11 civilians and injuries to more than 200 in the Church Street bombing. Hardly the actions of a saint, I would say.
The ANC will merely ignore the constitution where it doesn’t suit it, and if caught out and challenged in court, which has happened often, it will “transform” the courts and pack them with racist buffoons like the drunk and anti-white racist, the so-called “judge”, Nkola Motata, or the equally racist and corrupt “judge” John Hlope, who needs to be behind bars, not on the bench. (Hlope received a monthly retainer from one of the parties in a court case he presided over. In any normal democracy, Hlope would be in jail, but in a black demockracy he is still on the bench, not because he is competent, but merely because he is black.)
If you are wondering why the ANC is so hell-bent on cadre deployment and transforming the judiciary and especially the public service in the most racist fashion imaginable, wonder no more. It is not just about scoring points with its electorate. It is also to ensure that its plunder of the country’s wealth can continue uninterrupted and unchallenged. Yes, transformation is extremely racist and comparable to the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their society by the Nazis, but there is a chilling logic to it if you are intent on plundering the country or ignoring the constitution.
Examples of ANC politicians ignoring the constitution are numerous, and include the disbandment of the Scorpions to protect the corrupt polygamist and sex addict, our dear president, as well as ignoring the requirements for consultation when instituting name changes.
The second problem with placing one’s faith in the constitution is that it is subject to change, as long as you have a two-thirds majority. The ANC has had two-thirds majorities in the past, and may in future again have one. If it doesn’t like something the constitution, if something contained therein prevents its abuse of power, the ANC can easily change it.
My last observation on the constitution: if an incompetent like FW de Klerk tells us to put our faith in him or something he had a hand in, most sane people will realize that that is the very last thing we should do.
If not the constitution, then we are proffered the party political system and the “demockracy” as an alternative. The utterly naïve hope is often expressed that the ANC may, at some indeterminate date in the future, be beaten at the ballot box. A variation on this is that the ANC may split into left-wing and right-wing factions, and be forced to form an alliance with some third party, such as the DA, which would break its hegemony. Usually this fantasy, for a fantasy it is, takes the shape of some kind of black-white coalition defeating the ANC, where whites and blacks both realize the ANC is an unmitigated disaster and send it packing at the ballot box.
To which my answer is: forget it.
This is wishful thinking of the worst kind and completely ignorant of the realities of African or black politics. Of course I’m generalizing here, and some blacks may admittedly be exceptions to the rule, but how many successful African countries can you think of? I am deliberately not offering an opinion as to which reasons (genetics or cultural factors, perhaps) would offer a psychological explanation as to why blacks behave in a certain way when it comes to politics, but merely using demonstrable historical facts to illustrate my point. The post-colonial history of all of Sub-Saharan Africa is my evidence. In 1960, under Belgian rule, the Congo was a treasurehouse of minerals and potentially the richest country in Africa. By 2010, however, it had been reduced to a hell-hole, like almost all of its neighbours. In 1960 Zambia was as poor per capita as South Korea. By 2010 there was no comparison. What made the difference? I am also not saying all or indeed most Western politicians are honourable and all Western countries have good governments, but on the other hand, clearly both the Smith government in Rhodesia and the Belgians’ government in the Congo were far better than either Mugabe’s or Mobuto Sese-Seko’s, especially for the black citizens of those countries.
Some politicians in Western countries, although by no means all, may have a genuine desire to improve their nation’s lot or to make a difference in society, but we need to realize this is not why most Africans seemingly participate in politics at all. Politics in all African countries, Haiti and even black-ruled cities in the USA such as Washington DC under mayor Barry, are a way of getting one’s hands on the treasury, a means of gaining access to opportunities to leverage power with one and one goal only: that of plundering taxpayers’ and the country’s wealth. The ANC is no different, and only differs from the Zanu-PF in that the latter is slightly more extreme in its blatant plundering of state resources. Any other black government, even if the ANC would by some miracle were to be beaten in an election, would do exactly the same as the ANC, according to all the available evidence from the rest of the continent.
The prime example of this plunder is the legalized theft and nationalization by stealth known as so-called Black Economic Empowerment, BEE, which in reality is just a legalized way for the inner circle of the ANC to extort wealth from white businesses. As the former ANC bigwig, BEE beneficiary of hundreds of millions of rands and current Cope member, Smuts Ngonyama puts it so succinctly: “I did not join the Struggle to be poor.” There you have it from the horse’s mouth: the ANC’s Struggle and its entire raison d’etre boils down to getting rich in the shortest possible time. Smuts Ngonyama is one of the worst examples of a blood-sucking parasite who added non one iota of value, but nevertheless obtained obscene wealth. However, he was at the time probably seen as a hero for his chutzpah and his successful participation in plunder with racist undertones.
Furthermore, it is highly unlikely the ANC, even if it does split, will be beaten within the next 50 years. Although the liberal media blames the ANC for malfeasance and bad government, very few in the mainstream media would dare to question why the voters would then continue to vote for the ANC. Surely, if the ANC is so bad, the voters would logically vote for somebody else? The excuse for this illogical behaviour, voting for the ANC in election after election, is often that the voters are uneducated. There are even conspiracy theories that go that the ANC is deliberately sabotaging the country’s education system to keep voters uneducated and ignorant.
This I don’t buy. Educated blacks vote for and defend the ANC too, not just the unwashed masses. The ANC will therefore never stop its anti-white racism known as affirmative action, because it’s extremely popular, especially among educated African voters, who like the unfair advantage AA offers them in the workplace. AA is their way of participating in plunder, and they will defend the ANC to protect this “right.” Go and read articles that criticize Zuma’s behaviour, such as those in the Mail and Guardian, and you will find that apparently educated black readers will defend the indefensible in their responses to these reports.
Not only the ignorant, but also the majority of educated blacks are therefore also voting for the ANC, because they like the ANC’s racist policies. Those educated fans of AA like participating in the plunder at whites’ expense, and will continue voting for the ANC, regardless of how badly the ANC governs. Replacing the ANC with a clean, well-run government may in fact be directly in conflict with AA beneficiaries’ own interests, because under such a government the current system of crony appointments of those who cannot do the job but who are of a fashionable shade of pigmentation, and forcing companies to appoint AA passengers to meet quotas will stop. There is logic in voting for a party that perpetrates anti-white racism in the workplace, because it offers its voters an unfair advantage. Who cares whether the party is not only racist but corrupt and incompetent too, provided it continues offering an unfair advantage? This explains why Jacob Zuma has no shame, and does not resign as president, and why even educated ANC voters still support Zuma. In a normal democracy, he would have resigned and his party would have lost the next election by a landslide due to Zuma’s sexual indiscretions, but once again expecting a normal democracy, accountability and ethical behaviour in Africa is hopelessly naïve and a disease only Westerners suffer from.
You and I as Westerners need to understand that although Sipho in his squatter-camp shack is suffering in dismal poverty, or an AA-appointee may worry about mismanagement in his local authority, politics to him does not mean differentiating between parties in terms of policy and expecting accountability from elected politicians at all. He doesn’t care who rules the country, provided they are black too, and that they hold out at least a possibility for the voter of participating in the plunder too. We as Westerners may get upset by corruption, incompetence and criminality, but Sipho and his brother blacks apparently do not.
Blacks in the old Rhodesia were living in a prosperous country with enough to eat, to the point that their country was known as the breadbasket of Southern Africa. Nevertheless they took up arms against Ian Smith’s government. In the Zimbabwe of 2010 they are starving and millions have had to become refugees because of an economy that has utterly collapsed. Mugabe murdered 20,000 Matabeles. All of this was due to Mugabe’s party’s mismanagement, but still no black seems to be willing to take up arms against the Zimbabwean regime. Why not? Because Mugabe is black and Smith was white. Should we have any sympathy for those Zimbabwean refugees who are apparently unwilling to help themselves? If you’re starving anyway, why not rise up and take up arms against the Mugabe regime, those who are clearly causing your starvation?
Politics in the black psyche rather seems to be a way of becoming rich by plundering others’ wealth, and this is perfectly acceptable as long as those commiting plunder are black as well. Accordingly Sipho does not care that the ANC is robbing him blind, and nor do the Zimbabweans who still vote for Mugabe seem to care that his wife shops in Paris while they have to eat rats to survive. On the contrary; he admires the plunderers. Instead of getting angry at JuJu Malema’s undeserved wealth and vulgar extravagance and bringing out a protest vote for somebody else, Sipho probably rather dreams of the day he too can be elected as an ANC councilor and participate in the plunder himself. Sipho will therefore continue to vote ANC, whether you and I as Westerners find that to be rational voting behaviour or not.
This phenomenon explains extremely well why the same residents of Standerton who rioted due to the poor service delivery of the ANC town council, will predictably vote for the ANC again in 2011’s municipal elections. You and I may think that, if you are so angry enough that you throw stones at the police, or burn down the municipal offices, you are angry enough to vote for somebody else, come the next election. This unrealistic expectation is however due to our Western ignorance. It is only us naive Westerners who find rioting but then voting for those whose mismanagement led to the riots to be a contradiction, and this is only because we don’t understand that politics is about plunder in Africa. The residents of Standerton are not rioting because of poor ANC policies and implementation, but rather because they feel excluded from the plunder their ANC rulers are participating in. The mainstream media politely refers to this mindset as a “culture of entitlement.” When they toyi-toyi, when they demand this and that, they are really saying: “Hand over the loot! We too want to partake of the plunder.”
Another good example of this naivety by Westerners where it comes to African voting behaviour is the mystification and frustration the mainstream media often expresses as to why Cope, a splinter party from the ANC, seems not to have any discernable policies of its own. Of course it doesn’t! It doesn’t care one iota about solving the country’s many problems, any more than the ANC cares. When will we learn? Politics in Africa is not about foreign, Western concepts like principles or policy at all! It is about plunder, and getting access to the levers of power to enrich yourself. The one and only reason Cope split from the ANC was because Cope’s leadership was excluded from the plunder by the anti-Mbeki coup at the Polokwane conference in 2007. It consists of exactly the same villains, criminals and former terrorists. None of Cope’s leaders, many of whom were part of Mbeki’s government, had any problem with Mbeki’s anti-white racism. It is tantamount to insanity for a naive white to vote for Cope and expect that a Cope government would differ in the slightest from the ANC.
The same applies in Zimbabwe. Even if, by some miracle, the MDC wins an election in Zim and Mad Bob Mugabe gracefully steps down, or Cope were to win an election in South Africa and the ANC recognizes the result (which, given its terrorist past, is unlikely), what makes us believe the MDC or Cope is any better than the Zanu-PF or the ANC? There are very few, if any, examples of a successful black government anywhere on earth, and this includes the liberals’ favourite example, Botswana’s, whose government is wont to discriminate against its Bushman inhabitants, and where you can be imprisoned for making a joke about the president. That’s hardly the hallmark of a liberal, modern democracy, not so? It reminds me more of a tinpot dictatorship with a giant chip on its shoulder. The oldest black republic on earth, Haiti, has been ruled by a variety of different governments for 200 years and as a result it is a total shambles. The governments tended to differ only in terms of how many victims their rulers murdered, raped or even cannibalized. Literally eating your political opponents seems to be a feature of some types of black politics.
Let’s face facts, even though some may find the facts or even the universe itself to be racist: from the overwhelming historical evidence, it is clear that government by blacks is the problem, and not only individual parties like the ANC or Zanu-PF. Since 1960 Africa has swallowed up more than 7 Marshall Plans’ worth of foreign aid, only to remain the most backward continent by any measure. Why should South Africa be any different? The fault lies with us, the sadly naive whites who voted yes in the 1992 referendum, and who got excited by the mainstream media’s “rainbow nation” propaganda. We were the suckers, the idiots who in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, convinced ourselves that our country would be a special case. It’s not. The common denominator in Washington DC, Africa and Haiti is clearly a black government.
Whites constitute less than 1 in 10 of the inhabitants of South Africa. We are deluding ourselves by pretending that even the DA has any hope. Even if all whites and coloureds voted for the DA, it can, due to demographical realities, never achieve more than 20% of the vote. Although the DA is trying very hard to polish its black credentials, the vast majority of blacks will not vote for a white party, full stop. As I wrote earlier on, elections in Africa are merely racial and tribal censuses, and have very little to do with policy or fitness to rule, at least as far as we as Westerners can discern. Black government is therefore a given in South Africa, because 8 of of 10 or more inhabitants of the country are black.
The moral of the story: a small white minority’s complaints and whingeing on web sites are futile. Trust in the constitution is similarly hopelessly naïve, because it will get ignored or changed if and when it doesn’t suit the ANC regime. Participation in an African demockracy, a.k.a. a racial census, is also of very limited use. The DA may be in charge of the Western Cape for now, but this is a temporary aberration. Sooner or later enough Xhosas and other will flood the Western Cape, and restore ANC rule. This is only a matter of time.
Read my lips: a good, clean government, as measured by Western standards, will never rule the unitary state called South Africa again. There will forever be a badly-run government, from a Western point of view, in power. This is because blacks are in the majority and a badly-run, inept, corrupt, black government is a tautology, judging by the history of the vast majority of other black governments in Africa and elsewhere. The problem is accordingly not the ANC only, although it is admittedly an egregious example of everything that is wrong with black governments. The real problem seems to be a complete lack of compatibility between Africans’ approach to politics and power, and that of Westerners. Replacing the ANC with another black government, or the Zanu-PF with the MDC, will not make a difference to whites in the long run. Just ask the citizens of Haiti, who’ve had a variety of black governments for more than 200 years, but are still the most backward country in the western hemisphere. If one excludes other third-world countries such as Detroit, of course.
(Author’s footnote: this is the first in a series of articles which I intend to publish as an online e-Book. Although I usually write in Afrikaans and am a member of a Pro-Afrikaner organization, Praag, this is specifically aimed at white, English speaking South Africans and therefore written in English.
Why did I write this article? To make people negative and give up hope? No, that wasn’t the intention. The intention was to point out that we first need to be realistic in terms of what is practical and possible in South Africa. Having established that, I will in future articles propose alternative ways for whites to improve our lot, and to avoid sinking along with the South African Titanic.)









