What will be the ANC's final nail into South Africa's coffin that sends us on a dizzying downward spiral?

Question

After this week with all the happenings in Zim and the ANC's denialist response, together with their communist orientated land laws, I believe we will see a re-enactment of Zimbabwes turbulent history in the next 5 years right here in SA.....
Your thoughts and predictions please.....

Well put Sweet Angel.

Answer 1

As much as I love Africa, I have to say that the African "deterioration" is inescapable. There are differences from other African countries, though, that offers ever so faint glimmers of hope.
First of all, no African country with remotely such a strong economy has gone through this process.
Secondly, in other countries, the whites ousted were European colonists. In SA it's mostly Afrikaners - African whites with a language and culture born and bred in Africa. We don't have a home country to flee to. This is home.
Thirdly we have a diversity of people and races in SA. Apart from brown and Indian people, there is a growing number of next generation emerging from mixed marriages. This confuses the ANC who can only see black and white.
Speaking of new generation, the fourth factor and the one that renders most hope is 2 phenomena in a time-race against each other. Will the new/post-apartheid South African generation gain enough power in society in time to stop the old dinosaurs, driven by racial hatred, plunging us into a dictatorship? Let's hope the young ones win the race.

Without going into too much detail, the final nail into SA's coffin would be if we let the ANC slip past the 2009 elections.
That will leave them with an extra five years to wreak irreversible havoc...ZIM-STYLE.

Answer 2

I agree with Alf and also believe it will take longer.

I also can´t believe how resilient, naive or in denial some South Africans are.
For heavens sake - read a newspaper, open an internet article, do some research.
Ignoring the problem is not going to make it go away!

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I posted a question about Zuma.
It was based on an interview between him and the German "Der Spiegel".
If you read the article you will realise that the final nail is being hammered in right now as we speak - with the land reforms.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,455681,00.html

I believe that one of the few chances that South Africa has left is for the blask South African to be informed about what is going on, and that if it continues we will all see the same end as in Zimbabwe.

But how on earth can we inform a nation of which the majority is already so indoctrinated with ANC policies and would probably risk life and limb going against it?

Answer 3

i think of you have illustrated/painted a stable image right here and in some techniques I accept as true with you. South Africans frequently are feeling of their daily existence what number people experience with regards to the happenings in this very talk board interior the final week or so. I see a frustration and South Africans is almost a stress cooker that has develop steam and able to explode. there are maximum of matters that reason this. we would desire to handle will develop in food expenditures, gas expenditures, sluggish economic develop and the crime factor. we seem at government and ask, WHY!? Silence and denial is all we get. I stated many cases that admire and tolerance is going an prolonged way. i do no longer might desire to accept as true with you or any ANC supporter or participant right here yet my movements in direction of fellow individuals or fellow South African must be of such that i'm respected for my own believes. one factor that I actual have endorsed before and a few thing which I nonetheless say is 'attack the question and not the guy'. you've heated debates and show your thoughts with out being very own. it is my view which i'm no longer afraid to state brazenly. i will basically call for sanity and my charm to all and sundry is to furnish one yet another the hand and say adequate is adequate. I mean, we are able to no longer proceed like this!. it rather is a shame and as Christians, we would desire to constantly experience ashamed of ourselves. can i charm to all and sundry to convey this talk board lower back to what it became. it is huge debating yet no longer this battling and mistrust among us.

Answer 4

I dont think there will be a final nail in the coffin just a slow cancerous death. Zimbabwe stands out as a fine example of how a mad Dictator and Communist turned the Breadbasket of Africa into a desert wasteland. It has been ongoing in SA for the last 10 years e.g. in the mid 90's there were 65,000 Commercial Farmers - in 2007 there are 40,000. Each and every Farm taken and given to a Black Farmer has failed. The Minister of Agriculture foments violence against Farmers with blatant lies and Communist propaganda. Can you see the similarities with Zimbabwe? Only when the shelves were empty did they waken up and South Africa is on the same course.

Answer 5

Thats a scary thought Rage... 5 years is quite a short time.
But the ANC having been allowed so much power...what's left for us to do? What saddens me is who they target when its time for voting, the most rural of people and township dwellers (they make up an astounding number of the nation). These people vote and keep voting, see no difference but still continue coz all they have set in their minds is that ANC delivered them from apartheid...not bearing in mind that they really dont owe the current ANC anything...especially loyalty.

Answer 6

Yup,

5 years would be about right - then we will quickly deteriorate to something similar to what has happened to every country in Southern Africa beginning in the 50s and accelerating faster and faster through each country.

So by the time it reaches the last country on the continent, 15 years from beginning to end would be about right.

Answer 7

as much as i want to believe that it will never happen to us and as much as i want to believe that the good people will stand up against them, well lets just say it is a dream.

south africa will never stand up against the government, the people complain day in and day out about the anc but yet when it comes time for election they just vote them back in!

The final nail will be greed. The government wants everything for themselves and for their families. and don't care about they starving people that sleeps on the street. Greed will kill this country of ours

Answer 8

The land theft. The logical result of that is famine. You think you have violent crime now, wait until there are millions of people with no food to eat.

Answer 9

rSA is toast, 11 official languages...geez thats bright