The writing is on the wall for South Africa

Save yourself, this Ship is going down!

Dear world,
I'm sorry to announce, but this is the end for South Africa.

Yes, there are still many die-hard, stay-with-it-till-the-end citizens here. So much positive thinking, strong-willed, refuse to accept defeat, fight till the end to save South Africa people.

In fact, I was one of them.

Usually you can divide people into two camps:
(a) Those that whine, and do nothing
Or
(b) Those that Remain positive, and take action

and now consider

(c) The Realist, that accepts reality, deals with it, and develops a personal action plan to save himself, instead of clinging to false hope.

Am I too harsh ?

Lets assess what has transpired here since South Africa was handed over from minority apartheid rule (white racist rule - only white people was allowed to vote and participate at the higher levels of the economy) towards democracy which lead to a new majority black government (98% of top government positions are now held by people of color) :

* South Africa has spiralled into the highest crime rate in the world. Highest murder and rape rates. Refer to: 100,000 Dead, 1.3mil Assaulted, 1 million leave

* For nearly 13 years South Africa has aggresively pursued policies of affirmative action and black economic empowerment, that has led to a massive skills shortage, incompetence at all levels of major institutions and a national electricity crisis. See: A little affirmative action can't hurt; Electricity switched of in South Africa

* Massive numbers of top government officials are clearly incompetent and corrupt, ranging from the minister of health that's a proven drunk despite her liver transplant, to several judges arrested for drunken driving and the chief of police who has admitted to being friends with a major mobster. See: SA - Democracy or Idiocracy

* The people (black majority) has voted as the next president of the country a guy that is still under investigation for corruption, has recently refused white journalists from attending a media conference, were accused of rape (and admitted in court that he showered after sex as a way to prevent getting aids from the woman he slept with, knowing that she was HIV positive). This guy loves singing a song "Bring me my machine gun". He is also married to several wives and has over 20 children. See BRING MY MY MACHINE GUN ; What did Zuma Say behind closed Doors ; Zuma may take 5th wife ; Blacks-only forum betrays ANC’s founding principles ; The machine-gun presidency

* The special operations: "The Scorpions" have been ordered to be disbanded (and members re-integrated into the regular police force). This transpired after this unit was the main unit investigating several top ranking officials from the ruling party (Jackob Zuma the likely next president of South Africa, the Chief of Police etc...) This special unit was one of the most succesful crime fighting units in the country, and is now suddenly getting shut down. See : Confusion around Scorpions plan ; Zuma lays into scorpions ; Business backs Scorpions ; Nqakula backs off on ‘dissolving’ Scorpions ... However this is now still going ahead as it was mandated at the Polekwani ANC conference.

* South Africa maintains exchange controls that prevents individuals or companies to arbitrary obtain foreign exchange (you need special permissions from the reserve bank, or can otherwise take limited amounts for travel purposes).

* Our country has completely lost its moral compass. As mentioned, the person most likely to be our next president (Jacob Zuma, president of the ANC) is confirming that racism is OK by explicitly asking white journalists to leave a media conference. It appears that just about every major ANC top person has been linked to some or other crime. South Africa has been supporting Zimbabwe despite the fact that it murdered and chased white farmers of their farms in a massive land grab - through private diplomacy, a general purpose loan of $us 1000 000 0000 in 2000 with no political conditions attached; and now another investment in Zimbabwe's electricity infrastructure of several millions under the auspices that its for South Africa's benifit. See: COULD SOUTH AFRICA BE THE NEXT ZIMBABWE.

* An opposition DA member was asked to leave parlament when they did not like the questions that he asked (He asked if the president was aware of certain wrong doings ), thereby seriously compromising the political independance of the governance procedures of parlament.

* Public infrastructure is falling into all round disrepear. Roads full of potholes. Continious electricity black-outs. A looming water crises. So many problems at local municipalities that its been given the common label: "Lack of service delivery".

* There are plans on the cards to abandon the "Willing Buyer, willing Seller" principle as the means for driving land re allocation to black people in South Africa. see YOU BASTARDS WILL STAY POOR!

* Anyone who has read books like "Freakonomics" by Steven Levitt, and then read about the "Avalanche of Aids Orphans" in Think Again Mr Minister, will realise that the crime problem in South Africa has now become unsolveable.

How much more convincing do you need ?


This ship IS going down.

It will take many years, but down its going. From COULD SOUTH AFRICA BE THE NEXT ZIMBABE, I estimated it within the next 20 years or so.

In my next article: How to save yourself from South Africa, we'll take a look at what we can do.

In the mean time, I can only hope that the whole world is getting informed about what is really going on here, and that South Africa is not the dream democracy that everyone believes.

Still rubbing your eyes in disbelief ?
Take the red pill - You are not crazy

Please encourage as many people as possible to read this article.
and Remember:

• You are not a nay-sayer for telling the truth about South Africa
• You are not a looser if you decide not to stay on a sinking ship! There is no cowardice in leaving, in deciding to walk away from an unwinnable battle.
• If you decide to stay, and still believe that you (and enough others) can still prevent South Africa from meeting its fate, then great too! That is your personal right and choice. Just don't give the moral high ground to others that decide to choose differently.

Whatever you do, decide to be informed, and take personal action.