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Karen Gordo's avatar

I am woefully ignorant of politics in South Africa. Do you know offhand when the financial woes of the ANC started? Bankruptcy of a long term institution like that usually is a direct consequence of angering globalist financiers. Very interesting.

Of course, destabilization is the theme heading into 2024. It's spreading like wildfire. Could just be that, too.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Destabilisation began long ago. Whereas the USA benefited from the Cold War and was thus isolated from consequences, we were a battleground, with sanctions on us and war in Namibia and Angola. Our neighbours, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, had civil war.

The Apartheid government was corrupt but always ensured services worked. When they sold the country to an already corrupt ANC that had no government skills, it multiplied. Mandela was a glowing period of common folk of all colours believing marketing that there will be a better world. But Mandela had no control over the thieves under him.

A page or two of this will be enlightening https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/ruhome/documents/pp97_-_108_Exile,_where_the_rot_began.pdf

Now there's global destabilisation but the West and East have always fought over us.

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Karen Gordo's avatar

And they likely will again. It will spread further and faster than COVID. Especially in countries that are threats. Even ideological ones.

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Karen Gordo's avatar

The description of the ANC as a party and its history mirrors every "democratic" political party in existence. They're all corrupt top to bottom, owned by corporate interests, and only caring for their own enrichment and pushing those agendas that procure it. That's the nature of democratic governance and 200 years had been invested in perfecting it before ANC got a chance to play with it. Politics and honourable people have never mixed. No matter how optimistic the writer trying to justify democracy as an institution. At least feudalism was brutally honest. It may just be a learning curve issue but dark skinned politicians in the US at least are no more or less avaricious than any others. It's a very shallow learning curve for them all.

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Karen Gordo's avatar

I'll have to find an archives copy. Got the link saved if you want to delete. Bedtime reading; Thanks!

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Night.

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