South Africa has abandoned civilisation

[Dashinka 24,846]

I have only seen a few stories of what is going on here.  Very sad really.

 

South Africa has abandoned civilisation

 

Moeletsi was the victim of a deliberate state policy. In September last year, the South African government, led by the African National Congress (ANC), launched Operation Vala Umgodi, which in Zulu translates as ‘close the hole’. The aim, in the words of a government minister, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, was to ‘smoke out’ illegal gold miners. The government would do this by cutting off the miners’ supplies and trapping them underground, in an attempt to force them to the surface. In Buffelsfontein, where the shafts are over two kilometres deep, this was a tragedy foretold.

 

As public concern for the trapped miners mounted, the ANC remained callously indifferent. It argued that these miners, most of whom were immigrants, were acting unlawfully and remained underground of their own volition. ‘We are not sending help to criminals’, Ntshavheni told reporters. This was, apparently, a justifiable action against the rising tide of criminality in South Africa. Illegal mining has thrived in South Africa through small-time pilfering and organised criminal networks, costing the economy billions of rands in lost income and royalties.

 

You may recall that South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is the man who, at a BRICS meeting in November 2023, accused Israel of committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza. He qualified these accusations by stating that the ‘deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of Gaza is tantamount to genocide’. So, did Ramaphosa commit genocide in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine?

 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/31/south-africa-has-abandoned-civilisation/

[TBoneTX 46,226]

South Africa and the former Rhodesia have been in freefall ever since the (what to call it) majority rule.

[hplusj 162]

It's definitely been in the forefront of our minds.  Jon's dad is still there but his mom was Rhodesian and left for Australia years ago.  

Luckily they aren't farmers.  Even though that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[TBoneTX 46,226]

Trump to South Africa:  No More Money for You Unless You Stop Doing 'Terrible Things'

 

Donald Trump spent a lot of the first day of his administration issuing executive orders that dealt the getting rid of DEI in the government, improving education, ordering all federal employees working remotely to get back to work, releasing the JFK and MLK assassination files, and so much more.

If you think that wasn't enough to accomplish in the almost two weeks since he was inaugurated, he's also been making waves on the international scene—big waves.  He got Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro to take back his citizens who are here in the U.S. illegally, he just got the Panamanian president to agree to reduce Chinese influence over the Canal, and he imposed large tariffs on Canada and Mexico.  Whew.

But he wasn't done, and on Sunday, he announced that he would be pulling any funding for South Africa because he believes the government is unlawfully confiscating land from its own citizens.  He took to Truth Social to announce his intentions:  [...]

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/02/02/trump-to-south-africa-no-more-money-for-you-unless-you-stop-doing-terrible-things-n2185127

[hplusj 162]

7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Trump to South Africa:  No More Money for You Unless You Stop Doing 'Terrible Things'

 

Donald Trump spent a lot of the first day of his administration issuing executive orders that dealt the getting rid of DEI in the government, improving education, ordering all federal employees working remotely to get back to work, releasing the JFK and MLK assassination files, and so much more.

If you think that wasn't enough to accomplish in the almost two weeks since he was inaugurated, he's also been making waves on the international scene—big waves.  He got Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro to take back his citizens who are here in the U.S. illegally, he just got the Panamanian president to agree to reduce Chinese influence over the Canal, and he imposed large tariffs on Canada and Mexico.  Whew.

But he wasn't done, and on Sunday, he announced that he would be pulling any funding for South Africa because he believes the government is unlawfully confiscating land from its own citizens.  He took to Truth Social to announce his intentions:  [...]

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/02/02/trump-to-south-africa-no-more-money-for-you-unless-you-stop-doing-terrible-things-n2185127

I gotta say, it is absolutely refreshing to see the US government wake up to the atrocities in SA.  Before Jon, I had no idea and I think this is the presumption of a lot of Americans:  Apartheid over, mission accomplished, yay Nelson Mandela's rainbow nation.

 

It's been 30 years of constant decline and the rest of the world turning a blind eye to it because the minority is the wrong skin color.

Edited February 4 by hplusj

[TBoneTX 46,226]

Wow!

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Trump Imposes Sanctions on South Africa Over Racist Law and Encourages Afrikaners to Immigrate to America

 

[...] For decades, White farmers have been subjected to ambushes and organized attacks on their farms.  Hundreds, along with their families, have been killed in what appears to be organized, or at least as organized as the South African government is capable of, ethnic cleansing by murder and terrorism.  One might have thought that the end of apartheid might have brought with it some revulsion at laws encouraging racial discrimination, but you'd be wrong.  Of the 313 racially discriminatory laws adopted by South Africa since independence, 116 (37 percent) have been passed since the end of White rule.  Making matters worse, the all-time popular singalong "Kill the Boer" is a staple at political rallies.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/07/trump-imposes-sanctions-on-south-africa-over-racist-law-and-encourages-afrikaners-to-immigrate-to-america-n2185352

[hplusj 162]

My husband and I are now living in a perpetual state of irony.  lol

 

We've been looking into getting a small holding here in Iowa.  If the Boers are granted asylum status, well, they will make amazing American farmers.  As much as we'd love to see the farmlands claimed by these hardy folk over the CCP, there's a bit of anxiety over the potential impending competition over land, and the resulting hike in values.  Additionally, as Jon is an English/Afrikaner mudblood Saffer, he'll be back to square one with the Boers getting a good laugh out of his funny accent/stilted attempts at Afrikaans. Man can't catch a break 

[TBoneTX 46,226]

"How's it?"

[hplusj 162]

13 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

"How's it?"

It's Howzit, that's how it is LMAOOOOO

jaykay

[TBoneTX 46,226]

11 minutes ago, hplusj said:

It's Howzit

Why would one inquire about the status of pimples in Joburg?