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To: LindyBill who wrote (606241)	8/27/2016 5:41:16 PM
From: bruwin	2 Recommendations Recommended By SirWalterRalegh skinowski Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793791

"But it is inevitable, IMO, that you will go under" I don't think that it's as straight forward as that. South Africa is a complex society. One has to have been in it, or have been part of it, for an extensive period of time to really grasp what it all entails. More often than not, when African countries first confronted independence and their initial exposure to Western style politics, there usually sprang up some African political "resistance" movement that gave their own kind the impression that they were their saviours and would be working on their behalf. That's how the ANC started off. That's how SWAPO in what is today, Namibia, started off. When the west, especially the USA and the UN, pressured the South African government to give South West Africa (SWA) their independence, the S.A. government finally agreed. Now what the S.A. government did was to arrange for all the Indigenous peoples and tribes of SWA to sit around a table (the Turnhalle Conference it was called) and hammer out a Constitution that would be acceptable to all the peoples of SWA. S.A. would not interfere with that process. No sooner did that process begin then the fat and smug UN representative, Martti Ahtisaari, informed the SA Government that the SWA elections would not be recognized if SWAPO (a terrorist, political organization operating out of Angola who actually represented no one) was not part of the negotiating process. Once SWAPO got their foot in the door then the run up to the elections was a fiasco. Because the likes of SWAPO, and many similar other African "resistance" movements such as Zanu and Zapu in Zimbabwe, know exactly how to intimidate the local black populace so that they will vote in a certain way .... or else !!! Fortunately S.A. did not entirely go that way in 1994. As I mentioned previously there was a hammered out Constitution, plus a Constitutional Court that decides what is and isn't allowed based on that Constitution. And any ruling party needs 66.667% of the vote to change one single iota of that Constitution. Due to the very poor performance of the ANC controlled government in recent years, their popularity has fallen dramatically and they will now never get anywhere near that percentage. Now what we also have in this country is a very effective political opposition called the Democratic Alliance (DA), which is what the majority of whites vote for. They control the province that I live in. And needless to say, the blacks from other nearby ANC controlled provinces keep streaming into my province because living conditions, schooling and job opportunities are so much better here. And it has become more and more obvious to the indigenous black population in this country that the ANC has not delivered the goods, especially with a corrupt idiot as President. As a result, in the recent countrywide Municipal elections, the ANC lost control of several major cities to the DA and coalitions between the DA and other parties. The ANC realises that the writing is on the wall for them, as the DA has actually has been attracting more and more better educated black voters who are now entering the middle classes and who are intelligent enough not to believe that naive crap that the ANC has been ramming down the throats of blacks for decades. As I said before, there is far too much at stake for the millions of whites in this country for them to just lie back and let the old style of African intimidating politics walk all over them. Plus the fact that there are major industrial corporations in South Africa that have a heavy black presence on their boards, etc. The last thing they want is for South Africa to "go up in flames". They've tasted the good life and they are not going to lose that because of some corrupt idiot. And apart from anything else, South Africa has one of the major and most diverse stores of mineral wealth in the world. What this country needs to do more of is to STOP shipping our iron ore and manganese and coal, etc, etc, to other countries, such as Japan and Korea and China for them to turn into motor cars, and fridges, and tv sets, and microwaves, and, and, and, ..... and to start putting our millions of workers to work turning those minerals into products, here in South Africa, and making our own pile of foreign exchange out of it instead of selling it for a relative song to someone else to benefit financially ..........