I found myself part of a heated debate on the social media yesterday evening which ended in the race card being played, once again! “You whites will see, the moment black people gain control of the economy you will have no choice but to return to Europe where you came from.”
This is, of course, the norm – the moment arguments and reasoning dry up, out pops the race card and in kicks the “blame-it-on-the-whitey” move.
Usually the end of the debate – you can’t convince a stone wall not be a stone wall anymore, can you then? It fascinates me, however that the ANC, EFF and others can keep almost an entire nation hostage in the expectancy of a remarkable economic boom under African leadership.
Apart from the fact that the lack of basic service delivery, endless corruption and even the inability to maintain the most basic infrastructure is not at all cohesive with a healthy economy, we have the numerous examples of post Colonialist African economies. Zimbabwe is probably the best example, not that it is going much better in the Sudan, or Malawi, or Swaziland, or Mozambique, or Uganda, or the Congo….
In actual fact, without the endless stream of “developmental aid funding” from Europe and elsewhere, it is doubtful that anybody apart from Jacob Zuma, Tokyo Sexwale, Cyril Ramaphosa and the handful of hard-working, tax-paying South Africans, will survive for more than 3 days.
According to commodity.com the current National Debt of South Africa stands at R1,804,790,678,424. For the life of me, I cannot even pronounce that amount. But if the proposed “complete black control of the economy” eventually happens, I am sure there will be a banknote denomination issued with which that debt could be paid at once.
Uncle Bob tried that one as well… What people don’t seem to realise is this: Even in the highly unlikely event of another political party taking over the reins of government after an election, this debt still has to be paid. And who is going to pay it? The “majority”? Not on your nelly! Can anybody think of a better excuse to push for self-determination and to get out of having to carry the responsibility of footing this bill?
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By Daniël Lötter
