Mandela's Nightmare

I guess when someone thinks about South Africa the main things that come to mind are the sickening Apartheid system of the past, Nelson Mandela and the current crazy levels of insecurity, gangs violence and murder. Maybe you have also read about how after the end of Apartheid the pressure from Financial Markets prevented the ANC from carrying out effective social policies, and on the contrary forced them into a privatisation campaing that is at the root of the failure of this African nation. One could think that the race unequality has been replaced by class unequality.

Watching this documentary one learns that racial tensions and segregation have been getting worse and worse in the last years, but this time it's the "white" population who is suffering racism. It would be wrong and unfair to just say that wealth has changed from white hands to black hands. A huge majority of rich South Africans are "white", and "whites" continue to be a majority in companies high ranks and land ownership. But this said, we've seen an explosion in the number of "whites" living under poverty levels and being dragged into shanty towns. This has been caused by the stupid "positive discrimination" policies forced upon by the government. Companies are obliged to prioritize the hiring of "black" employees. Probably this new color of discrimination is not having too much effect in highly qualified jobs as there are not many "black" candidates, but for lower positions, it's doing almost impossible for many "whites" to find a job and pushing them into poverty.

Poverty is equally sad whatever the color of who is suffering it, and race/ethnic supremacy is equally disgusting whatever race or ethnicity is endorsing it. Now, it's "Black"/African supremacy what is on the rise, thanks to the EFF anti-white racist party. We can see in the documentary how some "Black" rappers-criminals are also preaching hate against "whites", advocating for assaulting them and grabbing their lands. This is not just some theorical crap, "white" farmers are being attacked all over the country. As a response, "white" communities are closing over, and the dream of a multicolor/multiethnique South Africa seems now as far away as during the old Apartheid times. Mandela's dream still waits...