Unmentioned is when Idi Amin kicked out all the Asians from Uganda. Most were Indian shopkeepers, government bureaucrats, in the trades. Educated and skilled people who were perceived to be taking good paying jobs from the locals. Never mind that the Asians were 3rd, 4th generation. Uganda was their home. Uganda became and remains a basket case since the 1972 expulsions.
The "Coloured" class in South Africa is doomed. It is likely they'll fair no better than the mixed race Blacks did after the Haitian Revolution in 1804. Neither the Whites nor mixed race people in Haiti were lucky enough to get deported.
Proving blacks can’t govern. Look no further then right here in America. Show me a city where blacks actually made things better. They want the spoils. And after they get the spoils… they don’t share. They buy fancy cars and mansions. Then they go broke, and blame it on racism.
Ask Lord Miles. He shitposted about invading Haiti and 300,000 people immediately started volunteering their money and military expertise to the effort. I daresay you could get some amount of them to sign up if he signed off on a limited South African filibuster.
Do you think many Afrikaners will leave? Things may be tough for them, but they didn’t leave after fighting the Boer wars, and have centuries of history there.
I think if their land is actually taken, they will, as eventually happened in Zimbabwe. But other than that, I think we’ll see a continuing migration of the Afrikaners into the Western Cape
What Western science and development brought to the old colonies has been rejected and now they will return to where they were before. They could still change all that and reject tribalism but I can’t see it happening myself.
I wouldn't fault them for blaming their South African government, the communist ANC, the U.N., foot-dragging U.S. State Department wonks with woke biases doing the visa application interviews and some of the screaming meemie press calling all Afrikaners racist and nazi. Self-blame, for sure, but not highest on the list, Jeff.
Yes, there’s plenty of blame to go around, but what I meant was the white Afrikaners have a likely very small window to extract themselves from this situation and would be very wise to leap at it. I have a feeling once this window closes it will close for good
Agree. The window could close in the next elections in 2026 or 2028. I feel bad for the "Coloured" class of S.A. citizens too. I doubt they have bright future there.
SA was never a colony. When the Dutch arrived nothing was there. No people, no villages, just wilderness. It was only after the Dutch had built a thriving economy that the Black Africans showed up - to get the benefits of other people's hard work. Then, over time they gradually took over and are now about to drive the country they STOLE into the ground, and in 100 years that region will be back to what it was before the Dutch arrived - an empty wasteland.
The minimum IQ necessary to read a paragraph of text and comprehend the information contained therein is 85. Below 85, _Fun With Dick and Jane_ might as well be the _Principia Mathematica_. The average IQ of Africa is 70. And that’s the average—that means that half the people are _below_ 70.
This gave me a lot to think about. The political reality in South Africa is that the ANC and their allies have to push for land redistribution. The economic reality is that if this is done, agricultural output will crash. In Zimbabwe it crashed by about 60%. That's tens of millions of people dropping down to starvation, because of progressive race communism.
I am particularly fascinated by your approach to farmland ownership data analysis.
White farmers own “just” 70% of farmland and produce 80% of food. While black farmers own 30% and produce 10% of produce.
I get the sense you are presenting the former negatively while the latter is reinforced as positive and at the same time evidence of black farmers failures in being productive?
I’m not sure I understand the question. The data appears to show that the Boers are vastly more productive per acre farmed, in terms of producing agricultural produce on it. As shown by the University of Leeds study I cited multiple times, that is true even when prime farmland is handed to the blacks by the government
As to “good” and “bad,” I think government confiscation of private property, particularly without compensation, is evil
This simply isn't true. As shown by the University of Leeds study I cited repeatedly, even when given top-tier farmland, they ran it into the ground and produced nothing
So then what happened in Zimbabwe? And how do you explain the decline in production of the same specific farms after they change hands? How is food production going in the rest of Africa, while we’re on the subject?
Here there are blacks showing their worth, and white Boers who stood impassively while they were dispossessed of political power in the country they made.
I'm eagerly awaiting the spectacle of them eating each other.
Unmentioned is when Idi Amin kicked out all the Asians from Uganda. Most were Indian shopkeepers, government bureaucrats, in the trades. Educated and skilled people who were perceived to be taking good paying jobs from the locals. Never mind that the Asians were 3rd, 4th generation. Uganda was their home. Uganda became and remains a basket case since the 1972 expulsions.
The "Coloured" class in South Africa is doomed. It is likely they'll fair no better than the mixed race Blacks did after the Haitian Revolution in 1804. Neither the Whites nor mixed race people in Haiti were lucky enough to get deported.
I'm haunted about eyewitness reports from the Haitian revolution how barbarous the Haitian blacks were... the atrocities were led by the women
Haunting and horrifying. Civilization has such a thin veneer.
Indeed
I'm not as familiar with Uganda as with Rhodesia and South Africa, but great comparison!
Proving blacks can’t govern. Look no further then right here in America. Show me a city where blacks actually made things better. They want the spoils. And after they get the spoils… they don’t share. They buy fancy cars and mansions. Then they go broke, and blame it on racism.
Yeah, in Rhodesia, the black tribal chiefs were actually pretty good and worked hand in hand with the Ian Smith government. That worked well
In South Africa, giving them the keys to everything and shoveling in USAID money to support their delusions has been a disaster
This isn’t right, it's not properly to turns back on the people that makes biggest
Surprise. Did anyone not see this coming two decades ago?
I suspect this was always the plan, to some degree
It’s already destroyed public infrastructure and entrepreneurs
Arm the Boers
Shoot Shoot Shoot Shoot
Arm the Boers
I would love to see Green Berets and volunteers aiding the Afrikaners in Western Cape secession and independence. Seems unlikely, however
Ask Lord Miles. He shitposted about invading Haiti and 300,000 people immediately started volunteering their money and military expertise to the effort. I daresay you could get some amount of them to sign up if he signed off on a limited South African filibuster.
As Bob Denard shows, getting people there isn't so much the problem
It's that one of the liberal powers will show up with a few destroyers and say you have to leave
Cut your nose to spite your face?
Cut your own throat.
Is what springs to mind.
Rory Duncan’s story of what happened in Rhodesia is precisely what Ayn Rand predicted in Atlas Shrugged.
Yeah the Southern Africa and Atlas Shrugged stories have a lot of similarities, particularly in her depiction of the South Americans
Do you think many Afrikaners will leave? Things may be tough for them, but they didn’t leave after fighting the Boer wars, and have centuries of history there.
I’m of mixed mind
I think if their land is actually taken, they will, as eventually happened in Zimbabwe. But other than that, I think we’ll see a continuing migration of the Afrikaners into the Western Cape
What Western science and development brought to the old colonies has been rejected and now they will return to where they were before. They could still change all that and reject tribalism but I can’t see it happening myself.
Any white South African who doesn’t take advantage of Trump’s new refugee policy will only have themselves to blame when the inevitable happens
I wouldn't fault them for blaming their South African government, the communist ANC, the U.N., foot-dragging U.S. State Department wonks with woke biases doing the visa application interviews and some of the screaming meemie press calling all Afrikaners racist and nazi. Self-blame, for sure, but not highest on the list, Jeff.
Yes, there’s plenty of blame to go around, but what I meant was the white Afrikaners have a likely very small window to extract themselves from this situation and would be very wise to leap at it. I have a feeling once this window closes it will close for good
Agree. The window could close in the next elections in 2026 or 2028. I feel bad for the "Coloured" class of S.A. citizens too. I doubt they have bright future there.
SA was never a colony. When the Dutch arrived nothing was there. No people, no villages, just wilderness. It was only after the Dutch had built a thriving economy that the Black Africans showed up - to get the benefits of other people's hard work. Then, over time they gradually took over and are now about to drive the country they STOLE into the ground, and in 100 years that region will be back to what it was before the Dutch arrived - an empty wasteland.
You are right that no one was there, other than a few Khoi San tribesmen, but it was certainly a colony for a long while
The minimum IQ necessary to read a paragraph of text and comprehend the information contained therein is 85. Below 85, _Fun With Dick and Jane_ might as well be the _Principia Mathematica_. The average IQ of Africa is 70. And that’s the average—that means that half the people are _below_ 70.
It is not DEI starving Africa - but the globalist coup d’etat - the one that until recently also owned and operated the United States.
South Africa is still green lit by global finance merchants.
This gave me a lot to think about. The political reality in South Africa is that the ANC and their allies have to push for land redistribution. The economic reality is that if this is done, agricultural output will crash. In Zimbabwe it crashed by about 60%. That's tens of millions of people dropping down to starvation, because of progressive race communism.
Yeah, it's really the same situation Mugabe was in three decades ago, with the same outcomes on the horizon
I am particularly fascinated by your approach to farmland ownership data analysis.
White farmers own “just” 70% of farmland and produce 80% of food. While black farmers own 30% and produce 10% of produce.
I get the sense you are presenting the former negatively while the latter is reinforced as positive and at the same time evidence of black farmers failures in being productive?
Why this approach?
I’m not sure I understand the question. The data appears to show that the Boers are vastly more productive per acre farmed, in terms of producing agricultural produce on it. As shown by the University of Leeds study I cited multiple times, that is true even when prime farmland is handed to the blacks by the government
As to “good” and “bad,” I think government confiscation of private property, particularly without compensation, is evil
Ah! Okay thanks this is a helpful clarification.
This simply isn't true. As shown by the University of Leeds study I cited repeatedly, even when given top-tier farmland, they ran it into the ground and produced nothing
So then what happened in Zimbabwe? And how do you explain the decline in production of the same specific farms after they change hands? How is food production going in the rest of Africa, while we’re on the subject?
Here there are blacks showing their worth, and white Boers who stood impassively while they were dispossessed of political power in the country they made.
I'm eagerly awaiting the spectacle of them eating each other.