South Africa's situation reminds me of Russia after the Bolshevik revolution, except that things are moving slower in SA. In Russia, within a few months of the Bolshevik seizure of power, landowners were dispossessed by mobs, and any titled person was in danger of summary execution. Russia's banking, transportation, agriculture and industry collapsed, and the country that in 1913 had provided wheat for all Europe was quickly reduced to mass starvation. The only aristocrats or capitalists with a reasonable chance of survival were those who left. South Africans with an option should emigrate now, before their country looks like post-revolutionary Russia. There are sadly too few to have a reasonable chance of success at resistance.
Contrast that state of FUBAR in S Africa, versus the US Revolution.
ReplyDeleteOver in SA, hate is the motivation
In the US, freedom from an oppressive crown was our motivation
When the British demanded we surrender our guns, we shot them.
ReplyDelete"The bravest are those who have the clearest vision of what lies ahead, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”
Thucydides.
South Africa's situation reminds me of Russia after the Bolshevik revolution, except that things are moving slower in SA. In Russia, within a few months of the Bolshevik seizure of power, landowners were dispossessed by mobs, and any titled person was in danger of summary execution. Russia's banking, transportation, agriculture and industry collapsed, and the country that in 1913 had provided wheat for all Europe was quickly reduced to mass starvation. The only aristocrats or capitalists with a reasonable chance of survival were those who left. South Africans with an option should emigrate now, before their country looks like post-revolutionary Russia. There are sadly too few to have a reasonable chance of success at resistance.
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