Life in South Africa...

Nasher · 21 Jul 2021 at 18:13

China will walk all over them. But they will pay off the useful idiots like this guy.

krooton · 22 Jul 2021 at 11:01

That article is a perfect example of why I laugh hysterically when Brits ask me "Ever plan on moving back?"

BallistixOnZ490 · 27 Jul 2021 at 17:01

Rroff · 27 Jul 2021 at 17:13

Sounds like in the background someone is planning on something - amongst targetted looting:

-Armoured vehicles, pickups and light trucks stolen and/or "missing" from police compounds, etc.
-Medical equipment especially stuff for blood transfusions
-Communications equipment
-Ammunition
-Foreign currency

EDIT: Quite a lot of possible explanations for that though - it could be headed to war zones and/or unrest in other parts of Africa, etc. either stolen to order taking advantage of the unrest in SA or black market taking advantage of the situation, etc.

Nasher said:
China will walk all over them. But they will pay off the useful idiots like this guy.

I have to wonder the agenda of people who want the West and/or UK to stand down from world affairs.

Moley · 27 Jul 2021 at 17:45

dowie said:
I wonder if they will end up with more white flight, only to be replaced by the Chinese perhaps - and with leaders like that then I'd be a bit wary about what sort of deals they get talked into striking with China in return for big infrastructure projects etc..

This is exactly what is happening right now. I've been to Jo'burg and Cape Town a couple of times over the past few years and the Chinese are flooding into the country buying up everything then can. It's basically colonisation again but because it's not White Western Europeans it's accepted. Or at least it will be until the Chinese start seizing property when their predator loans are defaulted on. Africa never learns.

Quartz · 27 Jul 2021 at 17:52

And China will learn the hard way when revolution comes. Or, as they say, Africa Wins Again.

ianh · 27 Jul 2021 at 19:31

Quartz said:
And China will learn the hard way when revolution comes. Or, as they say, Africa Wins Again.

Alternatively, China has shown in the past that killing 10-20 million of it's own people means nothing to them and I'm sure that they would think "legally we now own the land and therefore trespassers will be shot" etc.

For modern Africans they've never really dealt with someone with this kind of mentality and have become used to a very "Western" way of "world powers" dealing with things over the past few decades, well if the Chinese decide to stamp their foot then a lot of Africa will very quickly relearn what "Colonialism" means to them I fear.