What has happened to the once great nation where heart transplants originated?

The unskilled, uneducated, unsophisticated, and unprincipled leaders in the South African government have turned a great nation into a nightmare. I don’t mean to be unkind but graphic and to the point: thieves and idiots (or thieving idiots) are running and robbing and ravaging South Africa.

Highly trained and experienced engineers and other professionals have fled to other nations for better jobs and possible promotions. Unqualified Blacks have stepped into complicated positions and have made everything worse.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), South African Airways PRASA, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, and Eskom, the national power system, are riddled with scandal and all are facing bankruptcy.

There is little hope for that nation because it seems that leftists, liars, looters, and loonies are in control of the government and major industries. Everyone knows what leftists, liars, and looters are and the loonies are characterized as racial loonies, political loonies, academic loonies, and looney loonies.

Lindsay Maasdorp is a racial looney and the Black Land First (BLF) spokesperson did not help the racial divide when he stated his views that he would support a rapist as long as the victim was white and the rapist was black. His party believes that all white people in South Africa are criminals by virtue of their existence.

ABC News reported that General Kehla Sithole declared, “White people brought crime to South Africa, they brought things they know we would be tempted to steal, just to make us look bad.” Sure they did. Whitey again. Sithole told 500 police officers in Pretoria “if it wasn’t for white people, there would be no crime in South Africa.”

All the official crime reports are clear that the great majority of rapes, robberies, and slaughters are black on black and black on white.

A Member of Parliament said, “Not all that visit our beautiful country come with the right intention, as they did 2,000 years ago by the person named van Riebeeck. He overstayed.” No, Jan van Riebeeck went to Africa in 1652, stayed about ten years, and “founded (1652) Cape Town and thus opened Southern Africa for white settlement.” It was not 2,000 years ago but less than 400 years ago. It seems most ANC members have trouble with numbers but they sure know how much cash to expect in bribes.

Other race loonies made an unnecessary problem for the nation when health officials advertised for 100 new doctors; however, Whites need not apply because they would not be considered because officials “aimed to fill the new posts with only black candidates.” Health officials, trying not to appear to be the racists they obviously were, said the move was “implemented to redress the country’s historical racial imbalance of Apartheid that saw most high-ranking positions filed (sic) by white doctors.”

The sick and dying don’t give a flip about apartheid, racial quotas, or whether their health care person is black, white, or polka dot. They just want a doctor.

There are political loonies, such as President Cyril Ramaphosa, who “assured ANC volunteers” that the ruling ANC is going to seize white land without any compensation. They also admitted that “90 percent of all black-seized farms have failed and lie fallow.”

South Africa cannot feed its own people so food must be imported; yet these loonies are taking farms from successful white farmers and giving them to Blacks who have no conception of farming. So, the confiscated farms (now black owned) are overgrown with weeds, modern equipment is rusting in the fields, and all animals have been killed or sold.

The leader of the extreme left wing party known as Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema said, “There’s no system that has worked successfully for Africans, except the Zimbabwean system.” Of course, everyone in the most remote village in Africa knows about the Zimbabwean nightmare.

There are academic loonies. South Africa has had a major scandal recently as numerous high profile officials have been exposed for lying on their credential vita. Some claimed to be high school graduates while others professed to have advanced degrees only to be revealed as frauds.

The selling of false credentials is big business and is illegal in South Africa. One online site boasts that a fake degree will be sent within 24 hours and promises “Our products are extremely realistic and professional…and we are South Africa’s safest and most reliable fake certificate online store, we guarantee you the best results always!” It adds, “Our products look so real that it will fool ANYONE!”

Many South Africans have purchased these degrees or lied about having a real one and unqualified South African officials in various levels of government have been a major embarrassment to the government. Just another reason why South African leaders have lost credibility.

Fake degrees are serious and dangerous as well as profitable business. The University of Zululand’s dean of the faculty of arts, Professor Gregory Kamwendo was killed “after he uncovered a fraudulent Ph.D. syndicate at the institution.” He was shot by another professor at the school and two men, including a lecturer at the same institution, were arrested for his murder. The professor was fighting against the illegal scheme that awarded doctoral degrees without academic preparation.

The African nation has major problems with unqualified people in other departments in addition to Education.

Then there are looney loonies such as former Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang who raised many eyebrows when she gave her opinion about slowing the developing of HIV. “Shall I repeat garlic, shall I talk about beetroot, shall I talk about lemon…these delay the development of HIV to Aids-defining conditions, and that’s the truth.” Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang was derisively called, “Dr. Beetroot.” A study by Harvard researchers stated that the defective South African AIDS policy was responsible for 365,000 premature deaths.

The incompetence went to the very top of the government when President Jacob Zuma opined that a shower [after sex] would minimize the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. He also declared, “This continent [Africa] is the biggest continent in the world. All continents put together will fit into Africa.”

Some aide should have handed the President a world atlas and explained how to use it.

On February 2, 2000, South Africa’s Steve Tshwete, the late minister of safety and security, and former minister of justice and constitutional development Penuell Maduna were guests on the CBS telecast, 60 Minutes. The statement was made that “one person is raped in South Africa every 26 seconds” and their reply was “We’ve been standing here for more than 26 seconds and I haven’t seen anyone raped, have you…?”

That callous attitude about rape is one of many reasons South Africa is the rape capitol of the world and on a toboggan slide to oblivion.

If South Africa is to be salvaged, the leftists, liars, looters, and loonies that are in control of the government must be removed. If not, they may manage to un-invent the wheel and return to the jungle.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

South Africa’s Sunday Times’ headline on September 9, 2018 screamed, “Exposed: Jacob Zuma plot to oust Cyril” [Ramaphosa], the president of South Africa’s largest political party, the African National Congress (ANC).” The article revealed an ANC “secret meeting” involving the Secretary-General Ace Magashule. The paper alleged that former president Jacob Zuma held a clandestine meeting in Durban recently with major ANC leaders including the Secretary-General. At that meeting were three members of the ANC—North West chairperson Supra Mahumapelo, ANC Women’s League Secretary General Meokgo Matuba and ANC Youth League KwaZulu-Natal Secretary Thanduxolo Sabelo.

The ANC denied that the meeting took place and any plans to dump President Ramaphosa and return Zuma to office in the 1919 General Election. Of course not, they love each other like brothers. Maybe like Cain loved Abel. Bloomberg quoted an ANC email statement on September 9 that the ANC “will not dignify these blatant lies and fabrications with a detailed response.” With that, the ANC, pretending to take a principled position, has simply given itself an excuse not to answer the charges.

Reuters reported on September 10, “The ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Sunday labelled reports that top ANC officials, including former President Jacob Zuma and the party’s secretary-general, were plotting in secret to unseat Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader as ‘Shameless gossip.’”

However, the Sunday Times published a photograph of the three above alleged conspirators at the Maharani Hotel in Durban on Thursday with Zuma. Two of the alleged conspirators declared that they “just happened” to be at the hotel at the same time. Sure. Sabelo said he was driving by and stopped to chat at the hotel because he saw Magashule there.

Ramaphosa consolidated his power after becoming President of South Africa, but it seems his political opponents, led by former President Zuma, are pushing him toward the exit. Zuma has a strong following in the ANC and wants to push President Ramaphosa (with very powerful business connections) off a cliff to provide a clear path back to the presidency next year in the General Election. The Sunday Times reported that a new political party had been formed by Zuma’s close ally Caesar Nongqunga, with Zuma’s blessing. Nongqunga is president of the Twelve Apostles Church in Christ.

The Sunday Times Sept. 17, 2018 issue reported that President Ramaphosa took a swipe at ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule over persistent rumors that Magashule was involved in the clandestine meeting to plot the president’s removal. He suggested such action was “counter-revolutionary” as Magashule was sitting directly in front of him with other ANC leaders.

The President suggested such secret action was not wise since they were in a “war” and with the General Election approaching in 2019, they all need to work together.

There are many players in this sordid, dangerous story. Many are stirring the pot and many people are getting rich and many are getting dead. The ANC, now fractured into many factions, has been hip deep in intrigue for many years. Some have been ousted from the party, some from the provinces have been promoted to top positions, and others have been killed—by former friends and compatriots. Since 2016, more than 90 politicians have been killed according to researchers at the University of Cape Town.

The New York Times published an article “Hit Men and Power” on September 30, 2018 highlighting that “corruption and divisions have flourished within the A.N.C. in recent years.” It admits that too many have lost the vision of earlier years and are struggling for “influential positions and the spoils that go with them.”

The Times reported on April 16 that “graft has engulfed the country” and “Corruption has enriched A.N.C. leaders and their business allies—black and white South Africans, as well as foreigners.”

President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to work on the corruption and political murders but refused to provide police protection for whistle-blowers who are in fear for their lives and are in hiding. Ramaphosa himself has been tainted because some of his allies he appointed to office have been accused of corruption. He is trying to hang on to power until the General Election next year. The political murders are not simply taking place in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, and Pretoria but in rural areas. Ramaphosa simply can’t contain all the various, warring factions.

Some new leaders in the nation are more extreme than Ramaphosa appears to be and they are giving him perpetual heartburn.

According to The Citizen, September 17, 2018, Lindsay Maasdorp , the Black Land First (BLF) spokesperson has stated his views reflecting his party’s belief that all white people in South Africa are criminals by virtue of their existence! He also repeated his party’s slogan, “land or death.” The founder of BLF Andile Mngxitama is so far to the left that far left Julius Malema couldn’t get along with him and Mngxitama was booted from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).

In its “Revolutionary Call” published on April 27, 2016, BLF asserted, “We want all the land with all of its endowments on its surface together with all the fortunes underground as well as the sky. All of it belongs to us! We are a people crying for our stolen land! Now we have decided to get it back by any means necessary.”
The black racists made clear that “by any means necessary” means without concern for horrific results such as famine, bloodshed, or another Zimbabwe nightmare.

Obviously, Ramaphosa is being pulled and pushed from many sides, many of them more radical than he. He is busy enough trying to stay in power and get reelected next year, but he has so many warring factions inside and outside the ANC, plus the murder for hire of wayward members and multiple acts of sabotage in many major cities. Everyone seems to carry guns or has bodyguards—even low-level provincial (state) leaders. If one complains about the shoddy work done on a government project or publicly complains about political corruption, he ends up dead in a few days. Of course, the culpable politicians often attend his funeral and may even weep copious tears. I suppose such people are in the Department of Hypocrisy.

The Communist dominated ANC is infamous for sabotage in earlier years and now that there are many factions within, it has returned to sabotage plus assassinations—of longtime comrades.

Surely, Hollywood and well-meaning leftist politicians from the west will organize boycotts and protests (as they did in the late 1980s) in support of white farmers who are being murdered by Blacks, and some black ANC politicians who are living under death threats from black hitmen.

Don’t count on it since far leftists—black and white—are the most inconsistent, insensitive, and incorrigible people in the world.

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