The Cost of Being White in South Africa
If you are looking for sympathy or an easier life in SA, forget about it, especially if you are White, a supporter of Capitalism and free markets, and a friend of Israel or Trump.
Hostility towards Whites purely due to their skin pigmentation has skyrocketed in a post-Apartheid, post-Mandela age. The World once looked at our country as the blueprint for a perfectly synchronized, non-racial rainbow society, but as the Zuma-led ANC entered our economic timeline, everything that was once hoped for and fought for came crashing down and swirling down the drain of ‘redress and revenge’. Race laws, quotas in sport, BBBEE, a hunger for land reform, nepotism and state capture had become stock standard everyday practice for the pro-transformation tenderpreneurs. Throw into this mix the aggressive pushback from the red berets and Malema’s insatiable appetite for ‘cutting the throats of Whiteness’ and ‘killing the Boer’, as his song suggests, and you have a cesspool of wanton race politics constructed by hatred and a pigmentation obsession.
For over 20 years now, White people have had to endure the constant reminders from our Black brothers and sisters how wrong Apartheid was and how much hurt our forefathers had caused, and I’m starting to wonder what the sum total of White hatred has ultimately added up to, and how much longer White minority groups can endure the onslaught? From thousands of proudly South African, Springbok-loving, biltong-eating Mango-groovin Whities leaving our shores for the cold, volcanic island of the New Zealand Maori with its long white cloud, or the similarly warm blue oceans of Australia, with its kangaroos, very different accents and similar multi-cultural Mish-mash of Asians, Afrikaners, Chinese, Muslim and other interesting people, to farmers having to pack up to go and farm in the USA or Europe, leaving behind decades of South African dreams and aspirations, pushed out by racist legislation and ANC cadre-corruption.
Whether your son had been left out of a particular rugby team due to race politics or affirmative action, or your job application was unsuccessful despite your obvious qualifications for the role that had been advertised, if you are White and have been living in SA for long enough, you would have felt the sting of revenge and anger at some point, driven by an ANC government and kept alive by millions of ignorant voters who just keep voting for the most inept, greedy government to continue pounding whites into the ground and literally edging them out of society, one race law at a time, but not only that, but hurting their own people through rising unemployment, ridiculous cost of living and making them depend on a social grant which would inevitably force them to either commit crimes, steal or end up in prison, only to continue the same patterns of an unfulfilled and uninspired life again.
