Marianna

South Africa is in the news, leading the charge at the fake ICJ's fake "trial" of Israel for fake "genocide." As with so much else that involves South Africa and UN agencies, you can't rely on the legacy media. South Africa. A complicated place with a complicated history that few outside of the Boers and the Zulus seem to understand or appreciate. When I was at the UN in the 1980s, I had to deal with the South African "Issue." Israel and South Africa, of course, comprised the greatest evils facing mankind, and the UN spared no effort to crush them both. I would, on occasion meet, quite discreetly, the harried and tired-looking South African diplomats assigned to New York and Geneva. I remember their Mission in NY had no identifying flag or symbol; you knew you were entering South African property only because the door handle read "Trek." A giveaway, that. I would also meet, discreetly, usually in Geneva, with representatives of the ANC. Total pro-Soviet thugs. I "knew" if they took charge of SA, what would happen. I wasn't wrong. The British, Israelis and we were about the only ones who argued for a more moderate treatment of South Africa. In the end, of course, our policy likely would have produced the same thing that eventually happened, to wit, the death of Africa's richest and most productive country. Let me remind readers, that just about every African country had extensive trade and financial arrangements with South Africa. We were forced to ignore that and allow the West to be depicted as the only one who did. Hypocrisy. In dealing with South Africa back then, we tried to view it as some sort of replay of our own civil rights struggle and fight against Jim Crow. That, of course, was nonsense, but few of us had the knowledge or courage to say so. The Boers, especially, had about as much claim to South Africa as did the Zulus. Traditional enemies of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, in fact, had reached a sort of accommodation and seemed tacitly united against the massive influx of outsiders that finally did alter irrevocably the demographics of South Africa. Immigration did the place in. Yes, evil South Africa under the evil Boers was a net recipient of immigrants and refugees, almost all black and Asian from other parts of Africa. For a time, of course, businesses, large and small, in the diamond, gold, and agricultural sectors welcomed these migrants as a source of cheap labor. Well, as we can see at home and in Europe, cheap labor can get expensive very quickly, especially once it gets politicized by "progressive" forces. So, evil apartheid was destroyed; Mandela and his ANC took power, and--Surprise!--South Africa has become a hellish place for everybody, black, white, Zulu, Boer, Anglo, Asian, etc. Rape capital of the world. We have seen the South African parliament declare that white-owned property (about ¾'s of the most productive agricultural land) can and should be seized without compensation, in the style of Zimbabwe. We have heard prominent South African politicians openly calling for the murder of whites. The world reaction seems, to say the least, muted. I see no calls for a meeting of the UNSC, or emergency human rights meetings in NY or Geneva. Silence in the face of genocide. White Lives Don't Matter! South Africa is a failed state, destroyed by corruption and racial hatred--as most of us suspected would come about. It now poses as the "savior" of the "Palestinians," to take the focus off the disaster at home. SOP. ~ @TheDiplomad