How is South Africa doing since the end of Apartheid?

Many people across the world rejoiced when Nelson Mandela was freed and white rule came to an end in South Africa. Those people no longer seem interested in the state of that country.
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[@andyvanm1]

Here in America we are following the examples set in Zimbabwe and South Africa by putting unqualified people in charge of positions of power based on their color,sex and or non Christian religions... Totally suicidal .....

[@oliverpearson1577]

It's started to happen here in the UK too. Identity politics and wokeism will kill the West stone dead.

[@andy199121]

@@oliverpearson1577 it’s already dead, we haven’t moved forward for 20 years. Multiculturalism creates stagnation, this is why Europe created a magnificent civilisation first, It had a defined peoples, customs, tradition and established culture all seperated by borders. The alleged intelligent politicians in charge are fucking idiots

[@jameswright6886]

All part of the master plan.

[@rambo2603]

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[@andy199121]

@@TBarton7849 what’s bs?

[@mikebellis5713]

This should be included in Black History Month taught in woke UK schools

[@R.A530]

That will never happen. The truth is not allowed in “Black History Month”. That scam is purely for taking inventions off white people and crediting black people for them. Should be called “Black History Lies”…

[@gavhenrad]

😆 yeah right

[@gavhenrad]

@@R.A530 or black lies matter

[@peteraleksandrovich5923]

Nazi much?

[@KJensenStudio]

If a miracle occured and it was taught, the narrative would be changed and the participants shown as brilliant but tragic victims of colonialism.

[@dot872]

I worked in Nigeria in the 90s. The country was, and still is, ruined by corruption. In my office there was a thoughtful, very religious Nigerian of about 50 years of age. In quiet moments he and I would have short chats (usually about the state of the country.) One day, during one such conversation, when the office was deserted apart from the two of us, he leaned close to me and said quietly "If only you people would come back, til we get these things sorted out". Astonished I said " you would like the British to come back to run the country?". He replied "yes". I asked him how long would he like the British to stay after we returned. He glanced around to make sure we were alone "Maybe 100 years?"

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

After 100 years, it still wouldn’t matter. The same thing will happen again when the British leave. You can’t change biology, unless ofc there was mass miscegenation or eugenics in those 100 years time (meaning, you’d be changing the make-up of the people themselves).

[@johnburnett3942]

The only problem with that, is that the UK is now full of Africans, who would love to come back and rule your nation.

[@davidashton2361]

When I was working in Saudi Arabia there was a distinguished indian gentleman working as a labourer in the company. He spoke very good english and once said to me that the worst thing that happened to India was when the British left.

[@davidashton2361]

What he wouldn't have known is that about 30 years later, we would have people like Boris Johnson running our country! 😳😄😄

[@stephenwilliams1824]

I was around the same time in Nigeria. It was around 12 - 15 Naira to the pound. Nowadays, it is hovering around 800.

[@kaputkompa1866]

Very accurate comments Simon. As a South African I have learnt that the western culture will never be adopted by african nations. The tribal roots of most african nations is deeply entrenched and widely supported by the majority of african people. Laws that the west have established will never be acknowledged as being of benefit as a totally different rule of law prevails. Western culture and the settlers that arrived to "civilize" africa are laughed at and derided. There is a huge untaxed economy that operates in parallel to the westernized shell economy and government that taxes the few for the benefit of the many. In tribal culture the chief is the autocratic ruler of the tribe and dictates who gets land to build a house and grazing for cattle, this has merely been replicated in a so called government that distributes jobs, tenders and other resources to friends and family. This will not change.

[@WillyEckaslike]

if you look hard enough the Juice are involved with the demise of SA while the diamond and gold mines production soars

[@NoahBodze]

They’re not like us and it’s suicide to pretend they are.

[@5103jerry]

well stay out of africa, and the rest of the nations of color. devs

[@themedbvll1114]

Several African countries are sub 70iq. They can never achieve self sufficiency and the world needs to stop draining trillions into that trash heap of a continent

[@keiths41nt38]

@@NoahBodze ok explain??

[@stevecarson4162]

I had a white South African classmate when I was in Jerusalem, who shocked me by saying that most of the blacks in Africa were still basically savages. That's not what "politically correct" me wanted to believe. Then I became friends with a woman in London who had spent years living in SA when her husband had a job there. She told me horror stories about "muti killings" and how marauding black gangs were torturing and murdering white farmers and their families. She was keeping a growing tally of the deaths. She said, "If anyone tries to show you a picture of one of the victims, DO NOT look at it. You will never forget it." She had photographs of once-beautiful suburbs with lovely homes and gardens, that were NOW wastelands full of garbage. People in the West thought that when the black populations took over, everyone would be better off. But not only do you have a huge exodus of everyone who is educated and capable -- you also have "governments" run by corrupt and greedy dictators like Robert Mugabe and that idiot who called himself "Emperor Bokassa I", who live in unbelievable luxury, while their subjects are starving and living in squalor. But gee, saying so will get you called A RACIST! Can't have that now, can we!

[@Duke_of_Prunes]

Just go to Mississippi. Look at bigger towns like Jacksonville -- just be sure to leave before the sun sets. The whites fled years ago after school integration.

[@cletusoneill8732]

100% correct And if you think that that makes me a racist your a blind idiot,..(you reap what you sow),have a look at the change in S Africa in the last 8 or so months and it’s not even reported on the main stream media. Raped,robbed,looted,smashed,wrecked, by there own people to there own country, but I’m sure the white man will get the blame somewhere along the line. ,not even 25 years back in charge and they manage to fuck it. (You reap what you sow)

[@frankmueller2781]

I can see KZbin's P.C. police are censoring in full force on this! SCUM!

[@stevecarson4162]

@@koenvanmaldegem6351 : Were people better off then? YES, they were! MUCH. It's just sad that so much of the continent declines into corruption, greed, and savagery, just as soon as the "colonists" leave.

[@koenvanmaldegem6351]

@@stevecarson4162 The 'colonists', is that the wrong word? The 'rightful owners' maybe, that sounds better, doesn't it?

[@hizzyvoltaire3764]

My brother about 10 years ago was chatting to a doorman at a hotel in Kenya, he was a very elderly gentleman. He said we were very keen to get rid of British rules in the 1960s. He went on to say that was a big mistake. Once the British left we ended up with corruption and crime everywhere. Take Japan, relatively small islands, very limited useful agricultural land and very few natural resources yet are one of the most technologically advanced nations on Earth. Then we have sub Saharan African nations awash with agricultural land and natural resources, yet always end up being in the league of poor nations. The Japanese being industrious, civilized and technologically advanced people. Whereas most African nations appears to be corrupt, dangerous and technologically backwards.

[@jasongeorge745]

And America is the country that introduced Japan to the technologies that led them in this direction. Nations that embrace western tech. advances prosper. Those that do not, we are talking about now. And now in America the university's are brainwashing our pampered, idiotic youth into embracing the good old South African way of forging out a clean and lively utopia.

[@chrisgraal7319]

The IMF and the BIS aren't really interested in enslaving countries without natural resources.

[@jonesroberts3640]

Britain is the cause of racism and tribalism and wars they have created this behaviour everywhere they have migrated to in the world and they sit in denial of their deep rooted hatred of racism and sweep it under the carpet.

[@jasongeorge745]

@@jonesroberts3640 OMG dude read a book. Prove this to me with facts, just quit spouting shit you have no clue of. Please inform yourself, I say this for your benefit. You sound like a kid that talks out of emotion not fact.

[@happyplaces773]

As for the comment made by the Kenyan gentleman, you should look up Kenyan leader KWAME NAKRUMA and CIA Assassination along with the history of negative foreign intervention into sub-saharan politics and policies then compare it with Japan over the past fifty years. Learn some history before you try to make comparisons.

[@kevinadams9468]

I traveled to South Africa in 1984, a few years before the power hand-over. I saw a country with serious racial issues, discrimination and wide-spread poverty for most of the non-White population, with the Indian population floating somewhere in the middle. SA was and is a fantastically rich country, both in resources and culture. The apartheid system did not only affect blacks; it affected whites as well. I became acquainted with a man who lost his original family farm to the mandatory land swap to create Bantustans. He was not happy. The Blacks received free business loans, free training as managers and owners... and these businesses had to be 're-created' and re-funded on a regular basis because the Blacks basically robbed the businesses blind and took off. A never-ending cycle. I visited (illegally) two homelands, as they were called. We were greeted and even entertained by the local school kids - in a school with no windows while half of the ramshackle houses had new Mercedes parked in front of them! Above I mentioned racial issues, discrimination and wide-spread poverty. Today the racial issues as worse, much worse. The discrimination is now legalized in reverse against White and Indian citizens. White farmers are murdered outright for no reason at all except hatred and the fact that SA has learned NOTHING about land appropriation from Zimbabwe! Poverty? There was a time when socialist Mocambique sent thousands of its impoverished citizens to work 'for slave wages' because the Mocambique couldn't offer them any jobs at all! Also, except for the friends and social cliques of the ruling elite, it is a grinding existence, worse than under apartheid. You cannot even walk safely in downtown Johannesburg where I then stayed in the Protea Hotel in Hillbrow - it is taking your life into your hands. SA now is a failed African state and there is no long-term solution to the problem, because the problem is not apartheid, Whites or Covid. It is Black indifference, arrogance and sloth. It is SA hatred towards even other Black Africans. Former Zimbabwean farmers have discovered both Zambia (tax incentives and citizenship) and the Congo, and if the Congo is safer than Zimbabwe or SA, then that is the true mark of a national dumpster fire! Whenever I hear people talk about Black people running anything, defunding the police, or 'becoming black entrepreneurs', I gag and think of what SA has become, and what both the US and UK risk becoming in the name of 'fairness'. I remember watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain in the Congo (former Belgian Congo). The Blacks where he visited said the Belgians were the worst colonial rulers on the continent, but that they wish they would return because their own are far worse. Straight from the horse's mouth.

[@stephanledford9792]

I am 70 so remember quite well when most of Africa was still divided into colonies and got to watch as each of these colonies got their independence. I met a US citizen who worked in Brazil as a young man, and he married a girl from Angola, the daughter of a Portuguese settler in Angola, who left for Brazil when Angola got its independence. Both Angola and Brazil had been Portuguese colonies at one time and Portuguese is spoken in Brazil today. His explanation of how things worked went like this: The Whites ran the colonies, but they trained and used Blacks in all levels of society, such as police, local administrators, teachers, etc. There were not enough Whites to run all aspects of the country without Black subordinates. There was a level of corruption, but on the whole, most of the money sent to colonies was spent where it was supposed to because that White administrator's job depended on it. When the colonies became independent countries, most of the Whites left and the Blacks who were subordinates before took over the top leadership positions. It didn't take long before the level of corruption rose, and bribery became so common that it was required to get something done. Soon only a portion of the tax money assigned for a project was actually making it to the project level, with most being skimmed off. Soon things started to go backwards economically for most people and things started to go very well for those in charge.

[@Shack01]

You forgot the tribalism, factionalism, murder, rape, looting and burning. Nothing good has come from decolonizing africa, ask the millions of poor souls dying of hunger, murdered for witchcraft, etc. Etc.. just judging by the amount of records south africa alone holds in terma of murder rate, rape, robbery even as mentioned above a statistic for baby rape. The west forced communism.on south Africa in 1994 and we are reaping the rewards of their poor judgement

[@NoahBodze]

Africans aren’t even suited to be a simulacra of Europeans, it turns out. Not only did they pack the imagination for civilization but they also lack the will to maintain the civilization others gave them. I don’t view it as a tragedy for them. I view it as suicide for us to keep trying to change them when we should just disengage.

[@Shack01]

@@NoahBodze unfortunately there are still European south africans who cry seeing the country we built run into the ground

[@worldofameiso5491]

The same thing happened to Rhodesia when it became Zimbabwe. The country went from being the bread basket of Africa to being the basket-case of Africa.

[@destroyerarmor2846]

Shoo away colonial person

[@chuckwadnofski7147]

Fact

[@stevethomas5849]

hit the nail on head

[@theprofiler8531]

I understand that Zimbabwe is begging white farmers to return

[@chuckwadnofski7147]

@@theprofiler8531 so that they can have their successful upstart farms taken away from them again...

[@BigBenn2014]

What did South Africans use before the invention of the candle? Electricity.

[@jandavidson7093]

😂

[@GerhardtRoos]

True story 😂😂😂

[@Twmpa]

Sad but true. One more example of the descent into corrupt dictatorship, poverty and mediaeval living conditions that each colonized sub-Saharan country has taken since its independence was granted. South Africa is the final example and nobody wants to admit the truth of the situation.

[@dponzi56]

OMG, this would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and true.

[@kapunda6741]

ANC = Another Night with Candles

[@nickielondon2594]

I'm an extremely proud English woman born and bred in South London, and I can safely say with both shame and gratefulness that you've opened my eyes more to the world in the past few years about White achievement than I've learnt in almost 50 years of being on this earth. I know a lot about my own beautiful England but have never really looked outward to see the bigger picture of what the English or White people in general have truly contributed to the world, and for that I'm eternally grateful.

[@Mariusmjvr]

Everything comes from the Whiteman.

[@NoahBodze]

Pick another European country and learn about them! Then another! Did you know Hungary and England were invaded by Rome in the same century? Did you know both countries built grand castles around the same time?! What a continent!

[@ElectricInevitability]

@@NoahBodze Indeed, European people and their cultures are simply more advanced but with this multiculturalism bollocks you aren't allowed to recognise that fact. Europe has given the planet the modern world

[@5103jerry]

slavery, suffering, death, and christianity

[@NoahBodze]

@@5103jerry You’re a stupid person, Jerry. What language are you speaking right now, stupid ingrate? You’re inferior living in a superior world and you’re so stupid that you not only don’t know where it came from but you think you had something to do with it. You didn’t, stupid, and you’re lucky enough to live around significantly better people that don’t remind you of your inferiority every day.

[@ditta7865]

I had a friend from South Africa whose family were lucky enough when he was still young to leave, but the rest of his family is still stuck there. His uncle informs them every day of the murders and death around them. One of the scariest things he told me was that Africans broke into an age care place. They wanted the old tv. An old box tv which is out of date by this time of the story, but instead of taking the TV and going they decided to round everyone up, tyre them up and get every kettle boil in the place and chuck hot water over everyone until most of them died. He also told me that before he left the area where he lived had a mix of blacks and whites in some parts. When '80s Rock music was around the black community treated it as if it was the devil magic and they would take the music which the people who owned it purchased from overseas and get a big pile, burn it and have a party around the fire. I have also watched a KZbin video which sadly I cannot remember who it was. It was an African American who lives in Africa, but he was getting mad about how his brothers treat white people with such respects and manners. He was mad that he was seen as one of them and not as someone with money or without the intent to steal and hurt.

[@seanreidy5549]

People are starting to wake up. Thank you Simon. Your message is not unheard here in the US.

[@frankmueller2781]

How can you say that? I see people with their head in the sand all the time, and others who may as well have welded their eyes shut. This country is stumbling into the abyss like a blind man.

[@GA-os1uy]

@@frankmueller2781 Yes, but there are many who see it more than before. It’s repeated observation.

[@3Kiwiana]

I doubt that people are waking up, it’s too late anyway

[@keithkelso9872]

Way to late

[@It_is_common_sense]

I always find it fascinating that the UK media portrays South Africa as a success, not one of the most dangerous places in the World. Equally they promote Mandela as a hero, not a bomber that has killed many people including women and children.

[@AbdulRahman-bi1nu]

It is a success it wiped out all the whites that's the goal

[@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf]

A long time ago when I was in college our "old school" World History prof posed a thought question to my class. He asked us what we thought would happen if we could magically send the Japanese population to occupy an African nation and the African people to occupy Japan. We all sat in stunned silence because we knew the answer. The Japanese population would cause the African country to prosper and become a world power. Likewise, the Africans would destroy Japan and turn it into a poverty stricken country full of corruption. The prof took our silence as a cowardly answer to an obvious truth that we could not admit.

[@brent4073]

Read The Bell Curve if you really want to know why

[@yolandabrinkman2653]

A bit like Muslims and Jews then.

[@gutz323]

I have an Irish friend who lived in South Africa for years. He married (a white lady) and had a couple of kids. They are in their mid to late 40's. When ever I ask them about South Africa and what it is like, they say how lovely a country it is, with the nature and scenery. When I ask them why they came back to live in England in a dismal little town in Essex, they clam up as if they don't want to talk about. I never have got the reason out of them, why they came here.

[@glenp3985]

While Nelson Mandela was a towering figure, he did nothing during his tenure to stop growing corruption under his watch and he made a huge mistake in appointing his successor, the white-hating Thabo Mbeki, followed by a man who threw the entire constitution into the bin and was too unintelligent to run anything let alone a country. It's a mistake to say that the country's infrastructure is now beginning to crumble. In truth it already crumbled more than 15 years ago. Business after business has collapsed due to incompetent "affirmative action appointees" who were hired solely on skin colour and zero ability. The coffers are regularly emptied. The parliament offers nothing but spectator sport - a bunch of highly uneducated dolts pretending they're the creme de la creme. People who grew up their understood exactly what would happen, but the world judges countries by their own standards and can't understand that there are peoples out there - not just in Africa - who have neither an understanding of democracy, nor even a desire for it. They are used to being abused and cheated by their leaders and know no other way of life. It's time westerners learned that we can't apply our values to other nations.

[@KillerBill1953]

Nelson Mandela was the figurehead for a vile Marxist organisation that promoted its "ideals" with murder and violence worthy of the IRA. He was nobody special and was not locked up for no good reason.

[@kevinadams9468]

Manela was an avowed terrorist. He killed people. he planted bombs. The end.

[@redcalx9568]

Remember the sign language guy at the world cup? everything above in a nutshell .

[@eugeniaskelley5194]

So, what you are saying is the people were abused and cheated by the white man/government and now that they are in power choose to do the same thing their abusers did to them that they so much fought against?

[@Neo_Rain146]

So true, the west and countries like the USA trying to push their ideas of democracy in SA when the masses there had no capacity for it. Makes one realize it was just an ulterior motive so they could get their hands on SA’a natural resources easier by having some western black puppet leader in place

[@MattM23]

As a South African, Simon I can say this is spot on and quite mild compared to the way we ourselves talk about the situation. Already I know many family and friends who have emmigrated or who still intend to emmigrate, myself amongst them, not least due to the crime rate which continues to skyrocket unabated. Yet still we all love this country and thats what makes it all the more tragic, I've heard the exodus of whites who have been compelled to leave, due to these circumstances, compared to "constructive dismissal". All we can say is cry the beloved country.

[@vordman]

White South Africans should set up an ethno state and just get on with things as before. They did an amazing thing in turning an uninhabited wilderness into a First World Country originally, they can do it again.

[@desthomas8970]

I also live in SA. Not for much longer I hope.

[@BasedinReality1984]

It’s a shame we can’t ship you all out to Australia . Every South African I’ve ever met have been excellent people .

[@neilwilliams2409]

@@BasedinReality1984 Breaker Morant would not agree with you. Mathew 10 : 36.

[@TimBitts649]

Easy solution: massive immigration from Europe, to South Africa. Goal 30% white population.

[@jamesoneill5070]

A black South African bemoaned the end of apartheid with the comment 'At least we were fed and educated'.

[@randall1959]

In 1999 I spent some time in SA. My ex wife's family had this old Zulu lady living with them and we had quite a conversation one day. Bill Clinton had been in SA apologizing for slavery and she told me point blank that she only wished her ancestors had been slaves because she would be in America. I was utterly shocked but a lot of blacks there told me that SA was actually safer and better off during apartheid. SA has been in utter chaos since the fall of apartheid.

[@Asdasty]

Sure but they had very little freedom. That is what we were fighting for. There was no way of knowing the government would end up being super corrupt. Also non whites weren't allowed certain jobs either and there were measures in place to prevent non whites from getting certain jobs. Not only that, people were forced out of homes in good neighborhoods and forced to moved into cheaper homes and areas. Whites still own majority of the land, despite being a minority. They still hold majority of high paying jobs, even when accounting for BEE hiring practices. Etc etc etc. The only difference is, that the government screwed over the country and left the already disadvantaged people in a worse state. And because of this, it's also harder to escape poverty.

[@randall1959]

@@Asdasty What does that have to do with what I said? Your "freedom fighters" were the originators of the "south african necktie" Yea you sure fought for freedom.

[@Asdasty]

@@randall1959 even though it was considered "safer", the people weren't as free as whites. Freedom in terms of education, jobs, travelling etc.

[@Asdasty]

@@randall1959 it's not as simple as you're making it out to be. There were obviously bad actors and that seems to be what many outsiders and even white south Africans seem to focus on. Especially when freedom is brought up. It's not as simple as saying many freedom fighters did bad things. That's a generalization.

[@randall1959]

@@Asdasty Sugar coat it all you want. It doesn't change the fact that people were actually safer and things in govt ran better.

[@MartyP-lr7vw]

I live in Cape Town and would like to pass on my experience with our Home Affairs office this morning : After waiting for about two hours in a queue moving at snails pace ( with about 200 other people ) I managed to get my son into the Home Affairs office to collect his ID card. Once in the building we waited for another 45 minutes being served by two officials who were slower than a sloth. All of this for an ID which is required for entry into a private college which I pay for as he is not a person of colour and due to quota reasons unable to gain entry into the University of Cape Town ( famous for - Science/Rhodes must fall and burning down the library ) whilst those indigenous types are pushed into registration with mediocre qualifications - only to fall out after the first year for being too dim or lazy. Apparently also at the same time the single machine which prints drivers licences is being repaired in Germany and drivers are without current driving permits.

[@gidondejong1802]

I hope you have plans to move out of the country and soon.

[@BassistPaul]

So very illuminating to hear from someone's first hand experience. Somehow, I don't think we'll be hearing insights like this on the BBC...

[@gidondejong1802]

@@BassistPaul I have a better idea come and travel through South Africa and if you manage to survive then you can tell them all what it is truly like.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Not all places are falling apart but sadly most places are.😐

[@andy199121]

@@gidondejong1802 not even Europe is a safe haven for white people within a decade or 2 it’ll be fucked

[@American-Plague]

@@gidondejong1802 At the rate America and Europe are "progressing", there soon won't be anywhere to move TO.

[@TheMentalblockrock]

It's not just South Africa, but the WHOLE of Africa that is rich with natural resources, warm weather, lots of land for agriculture, oil etc etc, all the opportunities!

[@CASPB]

Pity it's full of...

[@TheMentalblockrock]

@@CASPB Endless opportunities for tourism that I forgot to mention.

[@CASPB]

@@TheMentalblockrock 😅

[@RUfrikkinkiddinME]

Endless opportunities for the Chinese.

[@carolramsey6287]

I have already published my prospectus for the English Emigration Party whose policy is to encourage them to all come here and live off our benefits while we go there and work hard to make it the paradise it should be.

[@darnation8650]

I never believed the hype regarding SA. It just so happened that i had made friends in the 90's with a couple who were English South Africans (many in the US don't understand that their are Dutch SA's and English SA's as far as Whites are concerned). Back in SA they had been rather wealthy, owning a lot of property and a successful chain of hotels. Because of capital controls, they were not able to get much money out when they fled SA after the change in government. Through them, i met a lot of other successful SA white folks who had also fled. None of these people were born with money. They started with nothing, worked hard, and built successful businesses, some of them very large. But their stories were remarkably similar. After the change, a black high minister in government and a rep from the ANC (black political party, dominated by Zulus if i remember correctly, African National Congress) would show up one day at their place of business with a contract handing over a 51% share of their business to a named black person not present. This contract was in fact a favor to them, to ensure they would continue to have a long life expectancy.

[@Mariusmjvr]

Not Dutch SAs. We are Afrikaners.

[@darnation8650]

@@Mariusmjvr Ha ha, yeah, duh. You claim you Afrikaners are not of Dutch descent?

[@lefkytheshin]

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

[@mesolithicman164]

This is a history lesson you won't see on a David Olusogu documentary.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

There is a superficial or passing reference to history in anything by Olusoga.

[@bsimpson6204]

You won't see it on the BBC or any other UK TV program either, they won't want the truth to be known

[@BlackGriffin195]

Because he is not a historian, he's a campaigner for the blacks. He should go and live in Africa.

[@spanglestein66]

David olosogo (what ever) 1/8 black at a push Octoroon

[@motortraction]

*propaganda piece.

[@jaywalker712]

After Vietnam I served in the S African Defence Force and I thought Africa was a beautiful place, all the big nice farms. I went back a few years ago and I could not believe the change, the farms were all torn down, left in ruins, people were super poor , the police so corrupt. Now several farmers come here to the US to work because their country is gone, they work so hard and are so good at their trade.

[@GIRRIG001]

As an english South African, I have to say that the Afrikaans work ethic is second to none. Those guys graft and take pride in their work. I sometimes wish I was born in an Afrikaans family so I could have had that instilled in me at a young age.

[@thunderlips350]

We've taken some S African farmers here in Australia too. Good hard working people. Unfortunately we have also taken other Africans who are better known for their gang activity, street robberies, bashings, home invasions and car jackings.

[@NoahBodze]

What you must have seen was that Europeans were never on that continent for the people.

[@Habu2]

@@NoahBodze Same as now then.....

[@bushwarveteran6159]

Absolutely... I'm also a South African, served for many years and then went farming...land claims and security issues burst my bubble. Now I'm farming in Zambia, and similar issues which Simon mentioned in other posts about Africa prevail here too. But, at least no violence, land claims etc. and we feel safer.

[@dammitdad]

The real problem is that we have two basic cultures here, and they are completely orthogonal. 1. The traditional people are nomadic by culture. Used to consuming whatever they can at a location then moving to the next place. Such a culture is 'time blind', somewhat like a child with attention deficit disorder. They know right from wrong but can't bring themselves to act appropriately or timeously without a threat being placed on them. ADD people who recognise this in themselves usually seek a rigidly structured environment like the government, military or academia. However if you have no use for knowledge then you will not value it. Knowledge is of course only useful when you value the future value of todays efforts. It contrary to nomadic values. These people value relationships highly but put their individual wants first, even ahead of their children. You can only get black kids from orphanages here. They don't even want their own kind. The concept of black farmers working the land is a myth. They starve even on the equator where it is so humid and fertile that kreosote street poles sprout shoots. 2. Agricultural, information driven europeans who have been working the land for hundreds of years. Arab traders have been in the region for thousands of years! It was Europeans who arrived with nothing who broke rocks by hand to clear fields, built dams and irrigation for their brand new farms. From there they started mining and ploughed all the money back into road, rail and general infrastructure. Indians were brought in by the British because the locals were too lazy to cut sugar cane. These indians came with nothing but built businesses and farms. Well today it's not the indians cutting cane. The black students continually burn and break educational facilities today because it has no perceived value to them and importantly they have a vindictive streak that wants to deny everyone else. Sorry to share the following story but it gives context to people who are not from here: my father was a builder, grew up poor on a farm. He understood and spoke Zulu extremely well. He was kind and would give left over building material to his zulu workers. One day he visited one of them at their house in the location (tribal land owned by the Zulu king with the authority of the local chief). All the houses are mud huts and are pretty much the same. My father asked why the materials he had given away had not been used and was shown them stored in the hut. The answer was that the other villagers would burn down and destroy his house if he used the materials because he was trying to be better than them. This persists deeply in their culture today. They like equality of outcome but not of effort. I can explain in much greater detail how this works but you get the idea. You simply cannot build a modern economy like this. BTW they are now calling pension funds 'hoarding'. There's no concept that someone should keep what they have earned. I don't have a mango so I will take yours. With malice.

[@bricaaron3978]

Wow -- you almost described communism. Like any honest person I understand that Marxism is fundamentally illegitimate, but it just occurred to me that one reason that savage peoples never advanced is that their philosophies/ideologies, if not actually communist, have fundamental similarities.

[@bertibear1300]

Sad.

[@Idothinkysaurus]

This has opened my eyes in such a way I can't explain. The comparison to ADD clicked for some reason. I have become just a little more Enlightened. I think there was an attempt to have me (and perhaps all American people under a certain age) subliminally trained to LARP as an African nomad. In fact it's pretty obvious. What with the movements and constant push for equality of outcome, rather than opportunity. It's sly, and I don't understand why the powers that be would want that. If we're unruly then they have nothing to rule. If we're that violent then they are at risk of harm. It doesn't make sense.

[@archiebunkers7881]

Best comment👌

[@raspucin70]

Excellent explanation on why roots of problems run so deeply in while sub-Saharan Africa. it is not the land. It is the inhabitants. And sadly, that behaviour is replicated wherever you move those inhabitants to. It doesnt matter if it is going to be most developed countries of Europe or USA/Canada, the outcome is always the same: The sub-Saharan Africa will create...well, a sub-Saharan Africa

[@weignerleigner3037]

The term in america is called Indian giving. Early American settlers purchased the island of Manhattan from the native Americans who were living there. They built what would be the foundations of New York City. The natives then came back awhile after and said they wanted their land back. Interesting how they were quick to give up the land when nothing was there but when civilization began to form it was suddenly “their land”.

[@powertuber4.068]

But still, everyone is afraid to talk about IQ.

[@legalmexican]

Oh, dear.

[@powertuber4.068]

@@legalmexican See what I mean?

[@waynesawyer]

I've seen studies substantiating a number of '70' being considered on the high side. Compare this to the US Military who will not employ anyone below 83, as they are considered not able to do the most basic of tasks. ......

[@rambo2603]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXKvo5uBoLKWn7c

[@michaelleigh859]

The Bell Curve..

[@johnm7267]

I lived in England at the time of apartheid and was one of the majority of British people that opposed it and believed all the anti white propaganda in the media. However in 1991 about the time of the end of apartheid I went to live in Sth Africa so I was there when the election was held that toppled the apartheid regime. Of course I soon found out that we in the west were being lied to by quite a large degree. I lived in Cape Town which doesnt give a true reflection of Sth Africa as a whole. There were several squatter camps placed on the Cape Flats, where the people lived in appalling conditions, Each year these camps were flooded by torrential rains and the white people would help them, of course not to the extent that they should have been, they shouldn’t have been there in the first place. There was a small squatter camp in Somerset west where I lived, a beautiful village at the foot of the Helderburg mountain. There was no running water for these poor people in this camp, so the local Chamber of Commerce I think it was or one of those business groups installed a big water tank for them, which was soon blown up by the ANC, which is the black political party that is in power at present. You might think that is an awful thing to do to their own people, believe me they have done a lot worse since. The present President Cyril Ramaphosa when he was a minister in the govt ordered the shooting of some black gold miners, who were on strike for more money. Over a hundred poor miners were shot. If it had been the white govt that had shot that many there would have been international outrage. It has barely been reported.The company who owned the mine was a white company who gave Ramaphosa shares in the company so he had a vested interest in breaking the strike and instead of backing his own people he backed the white company. I could write a lot more about the goings on in The ANC but I haven’t the time. Suffice to say that the change from white power to black power has shown little change to the lives of black people. The squatter camps are still there and they are still subject to brutality from the state. The main change is that under white rule in spite of sanctions Sth Africa ran like clockwork. They sold surplus electricity to Zimbabwe that had let their own generators fall into disrepair when the British left. Guess what Electricity is now scarce in Sth Africa and there are power cuts most weeks. I don’t live in Sth Africa now so how do I know all this? My son is married to a coloured girl and I still keep in touch with her family. We were duped in the west into believing the whites were monsters and the blacks were nice people. The whites clamped down hard on criminals because they knew they had to keep a firm hand, now crime is through the roof because the black politicians don’t care about crime they are too busy lining their pockets

[@thegeneralist7527]

We were lied to about everything. And people think 'fake news' is a new thing or doesn't exist. Lol!

[@madheadztime]

Thanks for your comments, interesting read ! I really believe that being politically correct as they put it, in other words not being realistic is going to be our demise !

[@kidjustice7945]

The only question I have is where does the word coloured come from ?and why is it used in SA ?

[@lynncw9202]

@@kidjustice7945 a coloured person in S A is a person of mixed race i e black and white.

[@lynncw9202]

S A still supplies the surrounding countries with electricity at a CHEAPER price than what S Africans pay. And we don't have enough power to provide the whole of S A. It's ludicrous

[@AlderaansRanger]

I just found your channel today. You are the epitome of what I always pictured an old genuine scholar of history looking and sounding like. I love your videos. I hope you keep on living a good life and educating us.

[@Arnsteel634]

I remember when an unwed woman having a a child was a scandal in America. We need to return to that mentality.

[@madeinireland2383]

Oil and diamonds are completely useless if you don't have the intelligence to remove them from the ground .

[@catsamazing338]

And the virtue to share the benefits equally.

[@jgb8038]

As a South African, I'd just like to confirm, things are only getting worse. With strife curroption across the ANC, EFF and BLF parties, black on black xenophobia, cultural in fighting, political infighting, rape, child pregnancies, farm murders, theft and collapse of practically any opportunity or hope of finding and securing a stable income (especially for those without a higher education), things are looking pretty dark and hopeless. Not as dark as escom these days, but for now at least, the light are on, but who knows for how long.

[@lillian9221]

True

[@dnxsol]

Fax

[@NoahBodze]

South Africans should come to America and be a vanguard for what’s to come here.

[@jgb8038]

@@NoahBodze look to your Mexicans friend, at least we aren't fleeing from our country in the thousands. Let them be your vanguard

[@terywetherlow7970]

@@NoahBodze I was saying this too. A young S. African man I heard about fled to Texas here in America. He walked back to D.C. to communicate the situation. I lost track of the story, sadly,when it was time to figure out the CV stuff,lockdowns and all. Maybe someone else here follows lovinglife ytr

[@ravinbarbs]

Being south african , this country has been pillaged robbed and stripped, I live here., high levels of poverty rape murder tribal fighting , Now apartheid was extremely wrong but has any one stopped to think that apartheid in some form was to protect the nation from itself, The strictness of it was good , segregation was not Africans talk about their lives were actually better under apartheid, schools, hospitals, houses, law and order kept in check Now our utilities have been robbed and run into the ground hence continously load shedding electricity shut off for 2hrs at a time 3 times a day, A railway system stripped robbed, even complete stations stripped and robbed, theft of copper, Violence murder in schools, Mass poverty, Pollution Resources running scarce, Mass corruption People starving South africa since the anc is now the 3rd most dangerouse country in the world I've been attacked 6 times in the last few years, all lucky to escape with my life , Farm murders brutal and violent from burning and rapping babies, garroting adults, placing kids in boiling water, yet you defend yourself your charged with murder or assault Beautiful country fucked up leadership South africa had the chance to shine By the way Nelson mandalas organisation targeted and bombed civilians women and children..

[@hermansteyn6053]

Thank you Simon ,for your erudite programs. As a South African I can vouch for the integrity and accuracy of the content thereof. SA is fast deteriorating in all spheres of society and will eventually implode to become another Zimbabwe.

[@julieellis277]

I lived in Zimbabwe and South Africa after their independence so I have first hand experience in living in both countries. Zimbabwe has been decimated following its independence due to corrupt politicians and sadly, South Africa has gone the same way, again due to corrupt politicians.

[@thesmirkinggrape]

There is no corruption like ANC corruption, trillions gone

[@andrewpepper8031]

Kickin out us Brits has been a disaster for much of Africa.

[@exponentmantissa5598]

I know a lot of ex pats from South Africa. They are all professionals - engineers, doctors, accountants, scientists, executives. They all mentioned the same thing that there was a serious brain drain in SA and that everything good in country was being destroyed. There was an engineer that worked for me in the 90s. He was the first amongst his family to leave but as time went on the country became unlivable and extremely dangerous. He now has not one single relative left in SA despite his family being there for well over a 100 years.

[@anatoliagolden-hall4553]

What is the difference between expats and immigrants?

[@farmingbyfaith4210]

my family is about to have another sibling leave. and my own plans are in place. my parents will be left with very small next generation

[@philipford6183]

Just finished reading 'The Scramble for Africa' by Thomas Pakenham (1990). I wonder if modern 'decolonial' studies teach their students that cannibalism, organised slavery, theft, sexual assault, human sacrifice and conquest was widely practiced by native tribes across large swathes of Africa until the early 1900s?

[@jaytaylor9232]

And still widely practiced in some regions of Africa.

[@hardlines2635]

That’s why when you buy a car it’s fitted with side flame throwers.

[@shaunpatrick8345]

For the slavery issue, you will be answered by searching Amazon for "Mansa Musa". He got rich through forced labour, took 12,000 slaves on his pilgrimage to Mecca, and is portrayed as a black hero.

[@obadiahspong2300]

Pakenham is a superb historian.

[@richardwebb9532]

Nope....still carries on to this very day. 🇿🇦

[@1slandB0y77]

Most people don't know the half of it, Simon. I was engage to a South African woman (we had a 2 year LDR) who lived in one of the few mostly-functional small cities along the south coast. I heard first hand about the looting and rioting that took place all through the country on a daily basis in 2019 (hordes of angry black people would roll up to a bus station, trash it and the buses, turn up the next day expecting everything to be repaired, get violently angry when it wasn't, then trash and torch some other essential piece of infrastructure etc.), the rolling power outages that affected the entire country each day in odd, piece-meal fashion, and the appalling genocidal rhetoric that poured daily from the mouths of black leaders encouraging their followers to beat, murder, rape and otherwise "push into the sea" every last white person. Racism in SA is at such horrific levels now for white people that it reminds one of the worst of the "Jim Crowe" era in the southern US, but "in reverse". I don't know what the problem is with the majority of the "indigenous" population of Africa, but one thing is bountifully clear: for whatever reason, they always devolve into savagery, tribalism, tyranny and wickedness when left to their own devices. SA is now effectively a TPLAC - how it functions at all is a miracle in itself.

[@cervantesrauler7301]

Don't compare 50's blissful White America of Jim Crow that simply separated other groups to Black supremacism. It is comparing apples to oranges. The end of Jim Crow lead to the death of America.

[@paulbaker2054]

It’s in the dna I guess and tribal no matter what coat they wear it always turns out the same . Just blame the whiteman.

[@ruthc8407]

We will have to fight for our freedom, or be doomed to murder and genocide.

[@TheMadManPlace]

Dont get me wrong, the racism towards white, coloured and indian people has not been described explicitly enough But the tribe on tribe "racism" amongst the black population is equally if not more bad. Black on black is where the civil war in South Africa is coming from. Even the current ruling party is vehemently split and fractured along basic tribal lines.

[@edwardharley9]

they were not the indigenous. there were nearly NO blacks living in South Africa at the time of the colonization by the Dutch. they came to get the benefits of a European based civilization and now are eliminating it...Caucasians.... leave... come to Canada.. !

[@SIDCIAVIC]

What happened in South Africa also happened at the academy's award show.

[@vannessar32]

Having visited London this weekend You realise it has become a third world enclave within our country.

[@scout2nut]

I watched a video of a Chinese man talking with an African man, who was a translator, in as demeaning language as he could told the African how stupid they were, that the west had shown them how and left the infrastructure in place as they left but the Africans pissed it away and learned nothing from it. The Chinese do not want to "raise" Africa to some level of civility, they just want the minerals underground, and have no intention whatsoever of immigrating Africans to China. The west (whites) are always under the assumption we can "show them the way" and save them because there is no difference between us, and their (African) culture is just as humane and wonderful as western culture and we will Immigrate thousands or millions to the west to show that we are not racist just so they can bring their brutality to our shores too.

[@mike_skinner]

I saw that video. The Chinese guy asked what happened to the railway and the local said that when the whites left they destroyed it. The Chinaman told him that it was state of the art and could have helped the country.

[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

Video is called " Empire of Dust " by Some Dude.

[@rambo2603]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXKvo5uBoLKWn7c

[@robertparkinson6919]

How true.

[@TheLurker1647]

Guess the Chinese are smarter than us after all. No foolish Christian universalism, no "civilizing mission", just using raw power and influence to extract what they need before going home and leaving ruin in their wake. If only we had been so callous, cruel, and wise as them. They won't make the same mistakes as us - they're not so sentimental.

[@alexdavis1541]

De Gaulle said it all in the 1960s, "Africa is finished..."

[@stephfoxwell4620]

It never really started did it.?

[@alexdavis1541]

@@stephfoxwell4620 He was referring to the end of the colonial era. In other words, once the European powers weren't managing the place, Africa was going to be stuffed. He was right, at a time when most were wrong

[@CatAtomic99]

When the Queen died, I saw lots of professors blaming her for the state that Africa is in. It was all about her ruthless "colonization" and oppression. When informed that Europeans had left these states long ago, they shifted straight to "so they just left them ALONE, and without support??" without missing a beat. :P

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Permanent victim mentality

[@slackdaddy1912]

They are trying the same thing here in the states. I’ll die protecting our Constitution, and the culture that built this country!

[@Cleisthenes607]

We all know you won't do shit.

[@slackdaddy1912]

@@Cleisthenes607 ……Try Me

[@BlackGriffin195]

There was a joke in Rhodesia in the 1970s. Two blacks on either side of the Zambezi. The one on the north (Zambia, independence 1964) jumping up and down laughing and shouting "We've got independence!" The black Rhodesian on the southern bank was unimpressed but shouted back "But we've got bread, cooking oil, flour, butter.........." The older Zambians were also amused by this, they could remember the "old days".

[@marcwilliams9824]

That's similar to: What did Socialists use before they had candles? Electric light bulbs.

[@craigzdyb390]

There was a joke that previously we would go to Rhodesia to see the Zimbabwe ruins. Now we go to Zimbabwe to see the Rhodes Ian ruins.

[@karlosthejackel69]

I worked with a Zimbabwean in Wiltshire. He explained how the Dutch destroyed the diamond mines when they were being driven away with violence. I said surely you can recreated those ‘holes’ down to where the diamonds are: he said, that’s the dutches job to come back and dig them, everyone that starves as a consequence is their fault. I said these starving people are LiTErALLy standing on diamonds, he couldn’t grasp what I was saying.

[@TonyRule]

Sounds too much like work to ever catch on there.

[@willem7399]

That Zimbabwean is talking rubbish. No mines were destroyed either in South Africa or in Rhodesia when the blacks came in to power. Everything that was destroyed was done by the blacks over the past twenty five years. At present they are burning historical buildings like the House of Parliament, the Queenstown city hall and others like they have burned the old Rissik Street post office, the Bloemfontein city hall, the University of Cape Town and lately even a cathedral in Cape Town. The only thing the whites destroyed before handing power to the communist ANC were the nuclear weapons we had developed.

[@archiebunkers7881]

@@willem7399 true. The black elite like the president and his family became billionaires through Broad Based Black Empowerment and affirmative action. After they received 51% to 80% ownership of all the mines. After that the mines basically closed down. Every few month a new law to exclude whiter looking folks from the private sector. About 120 racist laws like this has been enforced and introduced . Cant make it up

[@TRUTHandLIGHT4809]

Stupid. That is why tge Marxist want interbreeding. Its easier to rule over stupid

[@simonchilli2088]

Literally diamonds on the soles of their shoes!!

[@allanmunsami1767]

I am of Indian origin or so labelled. I was born in South Africa. I grew into 60s under apartheid rule. in the 70s I was a supporter of the ANC as an alternative for one retain Unity. Mandela was my hero. My parents were strong supporters of the White Regime. I migrated in 1999 you might say I was a rat that deserted the sinking ship. South Africa's democracy is being systematically destroyed. by black empowerment. destroyed by the Greed. Governments officials that change their BMW and Mercedes more often than their socks. Sad sad sad. Cry the beloved country. you will walk the same road that Rhodesia trod. thank you for you Simon Webb.

[@Madmac96]

South Africa reminds me of every inner city in America.

[@samsmith7585]

I wonder what they have in commen?

[@Cleisthenes607]

@@samsmith7585 Racist white people as per the media.

[@markxl]

I used to know a couple who were friends of Mandela and fought for his release for years. After he became President he visited the UK and the BBC went to speak to the wife and asked her if she was planning to return to SA now that they had won. She said "No, things haven't turned out the way we had hoped".

[@vumba1331]

The author of 'Cry the Beloved Country' also left the 'wonderful country' that he had written about and promoted, and moved to England, that horrible racist place, for better hospital treatment and safer living environment. What a hypocrite, he should have lain where he made his, and many other people's, bed.

[@a.b.g.8490]

You racist islamophobe!!

[@northernlights8126]

@@vumba1331, my brother was a good friend of his son.I got a signed copy of that book for Christmas one year.

[@Xgeneration28]

I've heard people say meeting Mandela was the greatest experience of their lives and have never felt that feeling before like they were in the presence of somone higher than a human being. i mean white ppl and black.

[@blahblahoink]

@@vumba1331 Just looked up 'Alan Paton biography'. 2 examples I found said he died in South Africa (one said Durban one somewhere in Natal). Did he move to England and then back to S.A then?

[@jimbo2629]

I worked in a hospital in kwa Zulu South Africa during the last years of apartheid. I always thought migrant labour was a worse evil. The colonial powers abandoned the African colonies. The beneficiaries were the African politicians. The ordinary people became much worse off. It’s no use being moralistic if the end result is disastrous. All political systems will have corruption. What the European brought to Africa included many obviously good things, such as order, managerial skills, logic, education, health services…….I was amazed there was a peaceful transition. Throughout the world the ordinary person gets little say. They are drowned out by the manipulators. Look at the so called communist countries. It is nigh impossible to understand Africa until you have lived there for a while.

[@richardwebb9532]

Correct. Howzit from Jo-burg. 🍻🇿🇦

[@gidondejong1802]

Exactly.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

I remember well my times all over Africa with the forces over the years providing medical support to infantry or assisting in UN ops, or dealing with the ravages of African politics in Sierra Leone. We would often see or get involved in some ridiculous situations with African officialdom and wonder how anything ever got done! As these people used to say to us "This is Africa" and apparently that explained the reasons adequately.

[@theveryproudmoroccan2834]

Decolonization was a mistake. It happened in order to execute the kalergi plan.

[@fredmercury1314]

I don't need to live there to understand that people will be lazy if they can be and corrupt if they can get away with it. Both of those things are basics across much of the animal kingdom, humans included. When someone who hasn't earned power on merit seeks power, and gets power, you can bet your ass they'll abuse it. I don't need to go to Africa to know that.

[@Samson373]

It's telling that, during apartheid in South Africa, South Africa attracted large numbers of black immigrants from neighboring countries. They voted with their feet, and what that vote implies is that they'd rather be second class citizens in a first rate country than equal citizens in a third rate country.

[@Im_Not_From_Around_Here]

America is proudly following South Africa's footsteps.

[@dalemoss4684]

There's a Boer saying that goes something like: "give a white community bricks and you'll get a city. Give a black community a city and you'll get bricks"

[@RUfrikkinkiddinME]

I remember as a kid in the 80s suddenly all the movie villains were white South Africans for a few years.

[@TransparencyandMerit]

Yes and today the elites don’t want any talk about South Africa

[@rambo2603]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXKvo5uBoLKWn7c

[@christobosman5710]

Hollywood the evil of the world

[@entropy5431]

Yes, it gave the English a break for a few years. 😉

[@jaspermcminnis5538]

Leathal Weapon 2 was one of those films. Or was it Lethal Weapon 3? The villains were from South Africa. A scene with one of the starring roles at an SA embassy, surrounded by protesters yelling, "Free South Africa!" The actor was a Bernie Sanders supporter, and said it was Hillary's turn. The fourth movie, I think had something to do with illegal immigrants. And in one of those movies, had something to do with one of the child actors, saying they learned about reproduction in school, right after they had just watched a condom advertisement. It's been awhile since I've seen those movies.

[@richardboughton8338]

Took a vacation in Cape Town several years ago having first visited in 1970.I wanted to see if things had really changed. Before the 2 weeks were up we were more than ready to leave. Every Hotel, Business, Public Building, etc, etc had (black) armed Security on duty 24/7,we never felt safe outside of the main tourist areas, and crime was rampant, so much so we were advised not to go very far on nights out. A taxi driver we regularly used was forced to sleep in his cab in order to protect his livelihood, claimed corruption was through the roof and taxi wars to corner some of the more lucrative routes were costing lives. This guy was himself black and wished fervently that whites were still in charge, thats just how bad things were then. I often wonder if that poor man is alright. He drove taxis because there was nothing else for him as regards work. A beautiful City, a beautiful Country very sad the way it was then. Ive been to some dodgy places but that was one place i really was glad to leave.

[@stevejamieson8468]

What is happening in South Africa has happened in many major American cities. The black people become the majority in an area, they get into elected positions, and the place falls apart. Jackson Mississippi is a perfect example.

[@davidoldboy5425]

I'm afraid this is a perfect example of aspirations over reality, I know because I've been there, this country is now the same as every other African country, hope you're proud Mr .Geldof (who made millions out of it). The country wasn't perfect but the people were employed and fed and crime controlled, not so now. It is amazing how the MSM ignore the plight of this country despite their enthusiasm in overthrowing the Government who actually governed. In my lifetime billions has been pumped into the nations of Africa, they are no better off than 100 years ago. I foresee South Africa becoming as bad as Zimbabwe and like Zimbabwe the blame will be pinned on the wrong people. Anyone with any sense needs to leave now while they have the chance.

[@charles1964]

@David Oldboy54 I remember that "Saint Bob's" own wife at the time called him out as a Hypocrite....

[@gregpenny4384]

you sound like a closet racist to me, after you treat people like animals for hundreds of years, and don't let them learn to read and write and when it ends what the hell do you think! it will take decades to un do all the damage and hurt, give your head a shake you nasty little racist!

[@justynjonn]

@@gregpenny4384 Why teach them the evil colonizers tricks of reading and writing? That's white man stuff.

[@robsta1980]

Wasnt the money raised at live aid stolen instead of being spent on the people? Im sure theres a video of bob going mad over it.

[@jamierobertson9832]

Living in South Africa has many challenges. The collapse of every state department, the electricity crisis, the politicians stirring up racial hatred to fuel their Marxist agendas, the out of control crime etc etc.

[@jeffjackson9679]

Sounds like California.

[@jimjessie2704]

@@jeffjackson9679 sounds like any large city in us

[@jamierobertson9832]

@@jeffjackson9679 we just got the news that our electricity supplier will be having blackouts for 83% of the Winter month days. Up to 10 hours of blackouts per house per day.

[@gcflower99]

Sounds like Joe Biden's America!

[@lillian9221]

The stench of sewage is getting me, a beautiful little town in Limpopo destroyed.

[@rovhalt6650]

This process is starting to creep into every corner of Europe aswell and shattering it from the inside. Wherever there are areas with large non european populations civilization is failing. And those areas are growing larger in Europe each year.

[@chriskell4019]

I knew a fellow in South Africa, and he told me much. It has been ruined. It's a crime-riddled nightmare, much like America has become with our Auntyfa and Bee-El-Em terrori$t$.

[@leomallard9358]

In Africa, rape, incest and child molestation are widespread and vastly underreported. These practices are precolonial, and are part of African culture.

[@oliverpearson1577]

Mass incest is also prevalent right here in the UK with Muslim first cousin marriage.

[@donaldmacdonald9993]

What about homosexuality in the West? You don't even want to imagine what happens at night in the bedroom of two men having sex with each other. What about pedophiles in the West? What about greed that pervades all facets of Western society? West is not an example of good morality. Your people have seized to be humanbeings and nobody takes Europe and the broader West seriously anymore. You are just a joke and declining very fast. Please in your decline don't cause another world war because that is in you fatalistic DNA.

[@leondight8162]

@@donaldmacdonald9993 All the things you talk of in regards to western culture are not really part of western culture just part of an ideology currently being foisted on us. Paedophilia is one of the most unacceptable act one can have in Western society. Homosexuality was until recently a crime.

[@abloshow91]

No they are not stop lying my people don't support rape. You sound exactly like those feminist on the news who keep fucken claiming that the rape of children is somehow okay in my country. It's not it never was not was incest that's weird and it's weird that people believe such baseless nonsense about a country they have never visited lived in or taken 3 second to research.

[@geoffreym2769]

@@abloshow91 There are lots of very horrible things that happen in large and small communities, In the west we have done our best to stamp them out (sadly it still happens) , but first with corruption and no one to police and uphold the law fairly, then even if it is against the law and even if the majority believe the law is correct . no one is ever held accountable to it. So rape murder incest pedifilia all thrive. If I drive my car at 100km in a 50km zone and a policeman tickets me and I loose my license, there is a consequence, If I drive my car at 100km in a 50km zone and the police man says just pay me a fine in cash and you can be on your way, then I know to keep some cash on me, this is exactly what my chinese friend was doing in china he got stopped doing 280km and paid cash to the policeman, no ticket

[@melodyschleicher81]

I am one of the South Africans by birth who left the country. After the fall of apartheid, we thought that when we were all considered equal, with no restrictions on where one could live or work, or who one could associate with or marry, things would start improving and we could be the rainbow nation Mandela dreamt of. That dream has turned into a nightmare and in 2005 we packed up and left. I was one of the lucky ones who, by virtue of marriage, hold a German passport. Others are not so lucky and have no means of getting out if they so wish. The infrastructure has crumbled and basic services are absent for hours at a time - switched off power is politely called load shedding. It is truly a case of "Cry, the Beloved Country".

[@carljung9230]

how could anyone in SA have ever thought things would turn out differently than they have? what did the whites et als who voted for ending apartheid think was going to happen? sad what is happening there but well deserved.

[@AzureSymbiote]

@@carljung9230 They thought the same they are thinking now: That equality actually works. They are wrong, of course.

[@valdivia1234567]

So naivete was rampant among White supporters of the anti-apartheid movement? This is a serious question.....do you regret supporting it? I'm truly curious.

[@melodyschleicher81]

@@valdivia1234567 the saying goes: Hope springs eternal in the human breast. We hoped for the best, but unfortunately, like the rest of the African countries, most of the new leaders were out for what they could get for themselves instead of looking out for the good of the entire population of whatever colour. Naive? Probably, but we gave it our best shot. It didn't work so we moved on. A real pity for all concerned, both those who have been uprooted and are trying to settle in other countries, and those who remain and suffer worse deprivation than they did under white rule. Just the few who sit on the gravy train are enjoying the ride.

[@frankmueller2781]

@@carljung9230 At least the pre-Mandela government disposed of the country's nuclear weapons before they ended Apartheid. Can you imagine the current government with nukes? They'd sell to the highest bidder.

[@wazza33racer]

Lets just say, Enoch Powell was right. Thomas Sowell "there is not a single successful majority black nation on earth".

[@zombieat]

bermuda. it is a british overseas territory but is 52% black.

[@guyhall1414]

@@zombieat wow one small island

[@zombieat]

@@guyhall1414 gotta play devil's advocate. plus for every rule there are exceptions even in the laws of physics.

[@guyhall1414]

@@zombieat if humans weren't so tribal we could do great things

[@zombieat]

@@guyhall1414 everyone is tribal except modern wyts.

[@iantaylor7840]

When I was at college, a black African student told me that Africans didn’t need or want the western aid. He said that all Africans wanted was to be allowed to run their countries their way. Perhaps this is what he meant. He didn’t stay on the course but left after three weeks; he didn’t like a female teacher telling him his work wasn’t up to standard.

[@MrRrrr698]

Lol 😂, we wuzz good leaders and govt

[@supersonicsid5930]

Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa generations of white farmers made it that way. Once Robert Mugabi took over Zimbabwe fell into despair . A corrupt and brutal dictator ship was born .

[@obadiahspong2300]

There was an interesting theory postulated a few years ago that claimed that all Mugabe wanted was to be accepted and respected as "an English Gentleman" and when he failed to get that respect he took his anger out on his own people. If you remember he was always immaculately groomed in Saville Row suits.

[@supersonicsid5930]

@@obadiahspong2300 He could never be an English gentleman, the same as I could never be Zulu warrior. The simple fact is I’m not a Zulu and he is not English. He was however the most racist person I’ve ever seen .

[@obadiahspong2300]

@@supersonicsid5930 By English gentleman it meant that he would be given membership of a club in St James and the MCC, regularly take tea with the Queen and rub shoulders with the Old Etonians as an equal. Sadly for Bob he was just an oike like the rest of us. ROTFL

[@supersonicsid5930]

@@obadiahspong2300 I’m sure Liz would have loved to have Bob popping around for a cup of tea and some chocolate digestives. Not too sure if Phil would appreciate it but would have loved to have been a fly on the wall if it ever happened

[@tomsawyer4321]

I matriculated in Johannesburg in 1990. Fast forward to 2022 and 58% of my classmates have emigrated. The reason they have done so is that ANC corruption has denuded the infrastructure to such an extent that they could not countenance subjecting their children to a future with so little prospects. Add to that the government are trying to pass expropriation without compensation laws which would give governments the right to confiscate houses, cars, bank accounts, Bitcoin, stocks and shares even the clothes on your back, for the public good. In other words not satisfied with stealing tax payer money they have now decided to pass laws to steal whatever they want

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

No responsible person would stick around under those circumstances.

[@sirdudleynightshade8747]

Tell the BBC........you'll get sooo much support!

[@tomsawyer4321]

@@chesterdonnelly1212 sadly with the devaluation of the Rand due to mismanagement of the economy and not having any other passport than a South African many people are trapped. Add to that if you are white, no euro zone country will shed a tear. The ones that can get out either have extended family overseas or are qualified to the hilt. The average working class Saffa is well and truly screwed. That’s why I predict enclaves being formed and a total collapse of any meaningful government

[@TheMentalblockrock]

"expropriation without compensation laws" not surprising that the Communist ANC party would enact communist policy!

[@Corolla97ww]

@@tomsawyer4321 So sad

[@JT-ee1ii]

On much smaller scale, here in Alabama there was a very successful Farm set up on some the best Farm land in our state. Houses were built, a Cotton Gin built, schools and all of the necessary infrastructure. After a few years of successful operations, it was turned over to the local blacks. It was in total disarray in year or so. Same thing happened in New Zaire when the Dutch left. It is what it is.

[@wendydevereux4375]

My aunt and cousin escaped Rhodesia after my uncle was murdered in Bulawayo. Having lived and worked there since the end of the second world war. Lucky to escape with their lives

[@jimcy1318]

Give a a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach an African to fish and he'll sell the fishing rod.

[@AJ-qn6gd]

Or swap it for an AK47 !

[@theveryproudmoroccan2834]

Nelson Mandela was an evil bastard. He did nothing good. Depressing to see what's happening in south Africa 😟. God save Europa and the Europeans.

[@user.--.]

How was he evil? What did he do?

[@jewelcitizen2567]

@@user.--. He quite literally meets the definition of a ‘Terrorist.’ He did blow up buildings and there’s plenty of footage of him merrily dancing to a song, whose lyrics are *_”Kℹ️ll the Boer… Shoot the Boer”_*

[@CASPB]

Aye

[@S-North]

@@user.--. He was a convicted terrorist who served his full prison sentence for his crimes, I'm guessing you somehow didn't already know this.

[@chris-mg5ui]

It will happen in Europe too as the natives are replaced

[@jpteknoman]

the brother of the husband of my father's sister was the owner of a plantation in africa (cant remember which country) . when the country was liberated he was chased out barely allowed to keep his clothes and everything he owned that he hadn't already send home was seized. fast forward 5 years and he gets an official letter from the government that he will be getting everything back if only he goes back and takes charge of the plantation again because nobody has any idea on how anything works and there's famine because nothing is produced.

[@justinthislife]

Want to know a story, in 2006 a friend of my sister got into medicine at a South African university. She couldn't start for 6 months, she asked the university if she could do anything for those 6 months. The answer was this; her marks were too low for any otheR course. Yet she got to study medicine, where other more meritorious students should have gotten the spot. This past year it was revealed that there are different criteria for certain demographics than others. This is only one such story I could tell you.

[@hermanthegermancctv5988]

As a resident of South Africa I cannot agree more with this information except to say that it is in actual fact much worse that it is stated here. During Apartheid mistakes were made for sure, but now the whole country is collapsing. The infrastructure is being dismantled rapidly by way of theft and railway tracks for hundreds of kilometers have been uprooted, stolen and sold for scrap. The same goes for all copper cabling that can be accessed, which causes power outages lasting for days. They even climb up high tension poles with hacksaws tied to long wooden poles to saw through cable which causes the safety devices to trip and cut the power after which they will simply tie the end of the cable to a truck and rip off kilometers at a time.. There is such an enormous graft going on here that an amount equal to the entire countries' budget has already been stolen. Universities have been given instructions to pass black students even if their marks are totally below failure level. Heavy transport vehicles are stopped on highways and their entire cargoes stolen. And this is happening every single day, and rarely is anybody apprehended. More often then not the police are themselves involved. In the labor market there is a system known as cadre deployment where politically connected individuals in the ruling party have the first pick of all the top jobs regardless of whether they have the necessary education or skills. In Universities access to professional training has been barred for whites entirely because of the color of their skin. White kids cannot study to become doctors even if they have distinctions in every single high school subject when they complete their tenure. The borders of South Africa have been open to the rest of Africa for years and we now have the highest joblessness figures in the world...Farmers who are supposed to feed the nation are being brutally murdered on their farms, and South Africa has gone from a major food exporter in Africa to an importer of virtually everything. I can go on and on in this vein all day yet the World who was so vocal back then now looks the other way...SAD actually...

[@paulmorris5166]

What do you mean "WE", many of us who could see what would happen were called "racists" for just saying what we thought.

[@rambo2603]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXKvo5uBoLKWn7c

[@markdaniels2200]

You are 100% correct in what you say. I have a neighbour who has moved back to the UK from SA in the last two years & he will confirm what you are saying & more. I also have a family member who is still there. I have seen videos of things which I have sent to people & spoken to them about. For whatever reason, they don’t seem to believe me?!? The blacks in SA seem to live like animals. Speaking of that, slaughtering animals in their own backyards. From what I have seen, please don’t think SA is like what you see in glossy advertising or on tv, it is far from it. White farmers are having their hands cut off & there are children seeing their mothers being raped… Everything you say is true & yet not seen on UK news……..

[@nobbytang]

Simon Do a video on Haiti ….the slaves revolted and killed their french slave masters in 1790s and had self rule ever since …and still over 230 yrs later the poorest country in the world despite millions and millions of dollars of in foreign aid !!

[@bruce350]

It's the same in Ghana. My mother was brought up there in the 1950's on a Diamond Mine where her father was manager. The Company provided schools, doctors and hospitals for the locals and created the infrastucture. It has all gone to wrack and ruin since the white's left and the mine, while still having good reserves, is barely operational any more. It is very sad.

[@washingtongarden4078]

Shouldn’t of been there in the first place 😂😂😂😂.

[@gidondejong1802]

What is the average IQ in Ghana?

[@blokeabouttown2490]

@@gidondejong1802 According to Lynn in 2006 the average IQ of Ghana is 71. Most sub-Saharan African nations have an average IQ around 68 to 74. Keep in mind that in most developed countries an individual who measures less than 70 on a standardised IQ test is considered mentally retarded.

[@stewartw.9151]

You have to believe this is what they actually want. How can one think otherwise when the pattern is repeated ad nauseam, even with the best advice from the West, massive aid poured in, experts sent to countries to train and guide personnel and so on?

[@garrywynne1218]

@@washingtongarden4078 - You do know that your user name “ Khartoum” was a city founded on slavery don’t you? It is a relatively modern city established in the 1800’s to facilitate the slave trade that continued until the 1900’s before the British stamped it out.

[@MsStack42]

I've heard some horrific tales about what has been done to white farming families by gangs of criminals. (One involves a baby and a table, that I'd rather not repeat). I've heard they don't even spare the family pets....

[@MartyP-lr7vw]

There was a case of cannibalism recently in a town called Estcourt where some of the locals were eating each other - this is not a joke ! Google it at IOL 'Officer tells of shock at Estcourt cannibalism scene' !

[@weaponscommanderroringusan5625]

You've heard the truth. But be prepared to be called a liar. Much of it will be swept under the rug, in "trying to keep a lid on it" policies, and denial, deceit and delusion will be the order of the day. I don't know when the truth will be admitted freely, probably not for decades. But they will claim such happenings never happened...reports have been exaggerated...etc.etc. official reports will be "lost or misplaced"...you simply can't expect them to let things like this get out and be known.

[@garybeattie2403]

I lived there for twenty odd years . You'd be horrified by some of the stories I could tell.

[@weaponscommanderroringusan5625]

@@garybeattie2403 you ought to write them down or record them somehow. Even if they aren't seen for years, at least eventually they will be known. Of course, there is such a thing as self publishing nowadays, and if you're internet savvy, you can get it done rather easily. And perhaps a sort of anthology could be collected...you know, stories not told, sort of thing. I believe it's important. Even if all you did was read them aloud on your own KZbin channel.

[@rambo2603]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXKvo5uBoLKWn7c

[@RebelWithACause-ts7de]

This chaos was predicted in 1993. A Black employee told me in those days that once the ANC took power there would be no economy and he would not be able to feed his family. We had our Black employees sleep in our store in Spartan, Kempton Park because they would be necklaced by the ANC terrorists on their way home. A Black business man from Soweto said once the ANC take power the White owned chain stores would move into his territory and he would not be able to compete. He and many others left South Africa and took their business acumen with them. Successive government officials have raped and pillaged South Africa and continue to do so. The "Rainbow" has collapsed and the rest of the World including the BBC who encouraged the changes have walked away. I know, I was there and my book will reflect on all the damage the ANC have inflicted on such a beautiful country as South Africa. RIP. You can take a man out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of the man.

[@Stevie-74]

As a South African who left a good few years ago; let me summarise for those who can't be bothered to watch the vid like me - it's worse.

[@farmingbyfaith4210]

Can you assist me to be established in your country? I am living in SA.

[@steveNCB7754]

As a steam railway enthusiast, I recall that it wasn’t that long ago, when the large collection of South African steam locomotives that had been amassed at the proposed site of a national railway museum there, were systematically vandalised. Groups from a nearby township, raided the lines of locomotives (some of them, unique survivors) for the valuable metals they contained, often just flame-cutting them apart to gain access to the bronze, copper and brass they contained. Cultural heritage lost, though quite obviously, not a heritage relevant to their situation. ☹️

[@jaytaylor9232]

They would sell their kin for copper, bronze and brass.

[@MartyP-lr7vw]

I cycled past the Orange Express Class-26 Red Devil currently parked in the harbour due to the savages repeatedly trying to burn down Cape Town Station - it is starting to rust and the philistines don't have a good track record with 'maintenance' !

[@allseeingotto2912]

Imagine my surprise 😐

[@mokopa]

I come from a family that spent a couple of generations by the rails, whose sweat had dripped on those very pipes.

[@elgringoec]

That's what people get for leaving their junk around. Miracle is wasn't pilfered decades ago.

[@patriottothecore6215]

Zimbabwe, from African Bread Basket to African basket case in one easy dictatorship.

[@ivannavi8154]

I spent several years in Angola when Eduardo dos Santos was President. The country had been bringing in eye watering amounts of money from oil for many years. When the the civil war ended, diamond mining became very active as well. All the money went directly through the President's office and he shelled it out to his mates (mainly Generals). Absolutely nothing went to the Provinces or the people, it was all spirited away into Swiss banks, mansions and land in foreign countries, flashy cars, etc. I've been to many sub Saharan countries and they're all basket cases. The leaders are unbelievably corrupt and rich and the poor villager with half a dozen skinny cows is given nothing. I think if you fast forward a century those countries will still be the same.

[@Sionnach1601]

There isn't quarter enough of these kinds of videos. Well presented and honestly portrayed. Well done.

[@royalirishranger1931]

Sadly we are doing are very best to catch up with the SA degeneration. Some areas of London and other UK big cities are well on their way to becoming third world enclaves.

[@BlackGriffin195]

Tell your MP.

[@garrywynne1218]

@@BlackGriffin195 - they don’t listen though do they 🤷🏻

[@asleyjen]

@@BlackGriffin195 Most of them are in on the destruction of their own constituencies.

[@simonchilli2088]

When you say on their way?? I think they've succeeded.

[@daggggy]

@@BlackGriffin195 The MP gets stabbed to death

[@seanmccaffrey6378]

Spot on as always Simon! The real facts not lies the media continually churns out.

[@TheBoone57]

Like all tiers of the animal kingdom, fish, birds, rodents, reptiles, mammals, some species cannot be domesticated.

[@normahopkin3393]

What a Tragedy. Why? In Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, my the 23year old future husband, was very curious as to why the local native Rhodesians didn't take over the then very prosperous country, especially as they had the weapons to do so, eg., the policemen and sergeants were native Rhodesians and well armed;the captain heading up the police and some of the office staff were white British origin and unarmed. . There was some unrest at that time. The answer astonished him..... He was very young and working there for a year at the hospital. NO, the Native Rhodesians did not want a hand back to Indigenous native rule! Why not? Primarily because of British Justice!! Law and order and the relaxed, harmonious and good standard of living, was prized at that time. As was explained, before the British arrived, money was the only justice and gave the only power; abject poverty and ongoing warfare was endemic. It was believed by the indigenous population in the area, that the country would deteriorate to it's previous state if Rhodesia had it's independence; plus, they already felt independent anyway! So sad what happened, even if the two tribes had been separated as with the Indian handover, they felt that the outcome would be bad! The native Rhodesians were fully trained for the positions that they were to hold on handover and many migrants especially the British, who loved their new country, intended to remain and carry on, so it could have worked. However a power hungry dictator ruined any future potential. Just what the local people feared happening.

[@lesterbeedell9725]

Rhodesia and South Africa were the only well-governed countries in Africa and look what’s happened now Ian Smith was loved by the population and they knew what would happen when Mugabe took charge

[@mammyoriordan]

Morgan Tsvangirai was a fine man and hugely popular - Mugabe did everything to intimidate him even to the point of trying to kill him in a traffic accident - his wife was killed but Tsvangirai survived. I do believe given a fair chance he could have done great good for Zim but unfortunately he died quiet young from cancer. I so admired him.

[@stevephillips3541]

Mugabe , Communism ...Always the outcome

[@AMR_k400]

Somalia and Ethiopia were pretty decent aswell but commies destroyed both plus Somalia made the mistake of invading Ethiopia that alone punched somalia back to the iron age

[@janrabie1890]

The root cause of all the problems in South Africa are very simple: 1) When the Dutch arrived in 1652 they encountered people who were still living in the Iron Age. By contrast, the first University in the Netherlands opened in Leiden in 1575. Bologna in 1088 was the first in Europe. 2) There was an obvious difference in development between the Europeans and Africans. Could this development gap be overcome? 3) Possibly, but in SA the population grew from 15,2m in 1955 to 59m in 2020 with the vast majority being black. That is growth of 43,8m people or 288%. 4) The tax base in SA is simply too small to lift millions of people out of poverty. 5.8% of the population is paying approximately 92% of all personal tax and they are also paying about 85% of all VAT. Mathematically, it is impossible. 5) These are gigantic problems and the ANC is not able to solve them. In fact it is getting worse. 6) Everything else is just noise.

[@colinwoodbridge493]

Effectively the Stone Age. There was a tiny amount of iron working.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Dude - 50 to 100Kgs of platinum leaves Pretoria each day to go into the Anglo American's coffers. They don'y care about the country at all.

[@rizon72]

@@glennllewellyn7369 And how would SA use it if it stayed? Do they have the resources to use it? Even if you built the resources would it work?

[@glennllewellyn7369]

@@rizon72 You missed the point. It is being stolen at the cost of the people.

[@rizon72]

@@glennllewellyn7369 I got that, which is why I asked those questions. You don't want it stolen, then you need a plan which involves those questions and many, many more.

[@felixsanders1691]

Similar story in what is now called Zimbabwe, someone close to me grew up there in a white farming family, and since they were forced to leave, the successful farm they had has fallen apart and is now overgrown and largely abandoned. Why everything has to be ruined because of difference in skin colour bewilders me.

[@chelton87]

I could sit in a pub and talk to this guy for hours on end

[@S-North]

Sadly there isn't any South Africa anymore, it's just 'Africa'.

[@Mmh882]

My home is a prison, having to lock myself and my mom in our own house, to see the next day.

[@andrewoh1663]

We lived in various African states for 20 years, latterly in RSA, and packed our bags when Mandela was let out of prison, because there is an inevitability about black rule. One Man One Vote. Once.

[@nattcharles]

I have family in South Africa. Since the end of Apartheid many of them became the victims of violent crimes. Some moved to the USA the rest are trying to get out but their money the Rand is pretty worthless so cannot afford to leave.