Introduction
Conspiracies I’ve known - Part I, Part II, and Part III addressed the relationship between the two white population groups in South Africa, the Afrikaans and the English.
Conspiracies I’ve known - Part IV compared the local South African conspiracy, the Broederbond, with the international conspiracy of covid. It also brought up similarities and differences between the Broederbond and Q.
Conspiracies I’ve known - Part V and Part VI introduced the non-white population groups of South Africa.
Conspiracies I’ve known - Part VII described how apartheid functioned and, though written from the point of view of someone on the privileged side of the fence, gave some sense of what it felt like.
This post is going to address what things have been like since the abolition of apartheid.
What ended apartheid?
There is a perception among my Canadian friends that western countries’ sanctions against South Africa helped to bring down apartheid.
I disagree with them. I think South Africa could have soldiered on almost indefinitely in the face of sanctions.
In my opinion — and it’s only an opinion — there were two factors that brought down apartheid:
1. The dissolution of the Soviet Union.
A quirk of fate blessed only the Soviet Union and South Africa with certain strategic minerals that were critical to vital industries in the west.
While the Cold War was in progress and the west couldn’t access those strategic minerals from the Soviet Union, the west had to get them from South Africa.
In some cases, the strategic minerals were exempt from sanctions. In other cases, the west secretly bought them from South Africa anyway.
When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the west could obtain the desired minerals from Russia, and South Africa lost its strategic advantage.
At that point, South Africa had no option but to cave in and play nice.
2. White soldiers couldn’t stomach shooting black children
During the apartheid era, there was compulsory military service for white males.
During most of that time, they patrolled South Africa’s northern border, through which Communist-trained insurgents were said to be infiltrating.
Though many young white men didn’t enjoy military service, they were able to hold their noses and do it as long as they believed they were defending the country from external enemies.
In the later stages of apartheid, however, unrest increasingly broke out in the black Townships. At first the black protestors were adults. But it got to the point where crowds of black school children took to the streets too. The imposition of detested Afrikaans as the language of instruction (Part VII) was one of the flashpoints.
White soldiers were diverted from the northern border, sent into the black Townships in armored personnel carriers, and ordered to shoot the black protestors, including school children.
For growing numbers of white soldiers, that was a bridge too far.
What is South Africa like now?
The pros
In some respects, South Africa is much more pleasant than it used to be.
Everyone mingles freely on beaches, in restaurants, and everywhere else. The youngest children in my family have black classmates, play sports with them, and go camping with them. A female cousin has married a Coloured, Muslim man, and has converted to Islam.
One sees examples of interracial marriage all over. This no doubt will proliferate, and I expect it to do so in my family too.
There is interesting cuisine that reflects the influences of the multitude of ethnic groups.
Similarly, there are vibrant examples of music and art that draw from a variety of traditions.
As there always used to be, there still are beautiful beaches, mountains, and wildlife parks.
The cons
Crime is through the roof.
Especially in the big cities, like Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban. We’re talking crimes like carjackings, kidnappings, murders.
Infrastructure is in a shambles.
There are frequent, unscheduled power outages lasting up to fourteen hours.
Job Reservation
Part VII described the system of Job Reservation that excluded blacks from decent jobs. Though it’s no longer called Job Reservation, there effectively is a system that excludes whites from many jobs and university spots. Not only does this hobble whites economically, in the way that apartheid disadvantaged blacks, but it exacerbates the infrastructure woes. There was not enough of a transition period for blacks to acquire the skills to run an electrical grid.
The economic class divide is bigger than ever.
When one visits a South African shopping mall, one sees black women driving up in luxury cars and climbing out wearing fur coats and dripping with bling.
At the same time, the slums have proliferated and look more impoverished than they did before.
Middle class exodus
There has been a mass exodus of middle-class South Africans with skills and education. This exodus has been even bigger than it was fifty or so years ago, when people like me left to escape apartheid.
South Africans have emigrated all over the world. Because of the similarities in climate, sports, etc., Australia and New Zealand are favorite destinations.
Perth is especially popular, because it takes only one, non-stop flight to get from there to Johannesburg.
I have heard that there are now more Afrikaans speakers in the city of Perth alone than there are in the whole of South Africa.
Adding insult to injury
During my covid truth-seeking journey, I’ve heard horrendous things that my South African relatives don’t have a clue about.
For example, I’ve heard that, in the apartheid era, Afrikaans elites — Cabinet Ministers and the like — used Bird Island, located in Table Bay, Cape Town as the equivalent of Epstein Island. They took black boys there and raped them.
Not only was that outrageous in and of itself, but this was going on at the very time that ordinary South Africans would have been arrested if they’d had sex with anyone of another race.
I’ve also heard that, of all the sex trafficking tunnels around the world, the ones under South Africa were the worst of the worst.
Superficial S.A. history
On the face of it, I think the last 150 years or so of South African history can be summarized as follows:
1. English oligarchs controlled South Africa.
I consider this to have been from 1869, when diamonds were discovered, to 1948, when the English lost power to the Afrikaans-led National Party.
2. Afrikaans oligarchs controlled South Africa.
I consider this to have been from 1948, when the National Party got into power and imposed apartheid, to 1994, when the National Party was forced to relinquish the reins and abolish apartheid.
3. Black oligarchs are controlling South Africa.
I consider this to have been set in motion with the 1994 abolition of apartheid.
The average person could be forgiven for believing he/she is trapped in a game of Pick Your Poison.
The oligarchs were fronts for the Cabal
But I believe that, at each step, the Cabal was steering things. Regardless of which wave of oligarchs they were dealing with, the Cabal let the oligarchs think they had money and power. And, yes, the oligarchs did have money and power. Up to a point. In areas that the Cabal could afford to concede.
An example of the Cabal’s navigation was the way in which Henry Kissinger inveigled the apartheid regime into getting involved in a covert war in Angola in which South Africa and Cuba participated as America’s and the Soviet Union’s proxies respectively.
It hurt the white South African soldiers who were forced into an undeclared war without the protections of the Geneva Convention. There were no standards for the treatment of prisoners, which resulted in South African captives becoming guests of a Hanoi Hilton of the kind that American POWs experienced in the Vietnam War.
I believe that the Cabal recruited what they considered to be “promising” individuals from the ranks of each wave of oligarchs. These recruits, in turn, were used to pull the wool over the eyes of the next wave of oligarchs.
Thus, even as the apartheid regime appeared to be ceding power to the new “Rainbow Nation” of South Africa, Cabal recruits within the apartheid regime were deftly securing the control mechanisms that mattered to the Cabal. (This was the Afrikaans hierarchy’s Plan B that I referred to in Part VII.)
But if South Africa truly is gravitating towards the multi-polar structure of the BRICS1 Alliance – suggested by its hosting of the upcoming BRICS Summit in Durban – perhaps there is some house cleaning going on in South African politics. Maybe not quite so much toadying to the Globalists in future. I think that very well may be the case.
I’m optimistic
Strange though this may seem to you, after reading the depressing information I’ve shared, I’m optimistic about South Africa.
Just as I am optimistic about the whole world.
Perhaps I’m like the child who, when she walked into a room full of manure, grew excited, started shoveling, and said, “With all this horseshit, there’s got to be a pony in here somewhere.”
Whether the analogy is applicable or not, I do believe that Planet Earth is going to come right sooner rather than later.
Next …….
Books about South Africa
Movies about South Africa
BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.