South Africa: Do Afrikaners Regret That Apartheid Was Abolished?

Profile photo for Kyle Baston Kyle Baston · Follow Feb 3 Do Afrikaners regret that apartheid was abolished, with South Africa looking like the Balkans in the 1990s? I think most white South Africans who were realistic about the prospects of South Africa, left after apartheid ended. 2/5 to be exact. 2/5 black university graduates are leaving as well. My family filled out the immigration paperwork to Australia in 1994. The reality is if you can accept an African standard of living and government, then South Africa is for you. Africa belongs to Africans, and the African mind set will always treat white and Indian people who have lived there for generations as outsiders. I understand why they would hate us, I just sometimes wish they would look at the lessons of the Indian expulsion from Uganda and the white expulsion from Zimbabwe, and accept reality. South Africa is extremely corrupt, and it’s the Indian and the white population that are the main drivers of the economy. There is the constant tiresome excuse of apartheid = lack of progress. There are 52 countries in Africa. South Africa represents 1/7 of africas gdp. Africa despite being one of the most resource rich continents on the planet represents 2.5 % of global gdp. Despite colonisation being blamed Ethiopia and Liberia are the two examples of places in Africa that were never colonised . Ethiopia has been in a constant state of famine and war for decades, and Liberia has just been through a brutal civil war in which cannibalism was rampant. Driving the white farmers from Zimbabwe resulted in 79.5 billion percent peak inflation. 25 % of their food supply comes In a form of a gift from the evil colonising countries who run the world food program. Colonisation existed everywhere in Europe, and in the americas and Africa on a tribal warfare level. It’s called tall poppy syndrome , its easier to resent another persons success than it is to acknowledge your own societies failings. The Jews despite enduring a 1000 years of oppression, not being allowed to own land in Europe and enduring a genocide in world war 2 , managed to build the only democracy and most successful dynamic economy in the Middle East in less than 20 years. It is possible , it’s about societal and cultural standards. If you don’t get that right then expect to be as impoverished as the rest of Africa.