Comments by "Michael Nurse" (@michaelnurse9089) on "South Africa: On the edge of darkness - BBC News" video.

  1. The ANC has the same peasant mentality that trapped Russia into a Soviet nightmare - the idea is that wealth is guaranteed - you only have to worry about sharing it. The ANC has systematically gone about destroying or maiming all wealth generating structures in the country based on the simple idea that they can simply take wealth and share it among their followers.
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  2. 30 years ago South Africa had the #1 electrical supply in the World - not only rock solid but also the cheapest. The thing is - power plants only last 50 years - so the ANC 'stole' the money for replacement plants for cadre deployment - local lingo for redirecting political lackeys into positions where they can enrich themselves.
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  3. The Gold ran out long before the ANC lost their way. What the ANC needed to do was to avoid demonizing white people - both local and foreign - and work with them instead - but it was easy politics to play the blame game - so the best white wealth creators left and the foreign investors (mostly white) silently redirected their money elsewhere.
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  4. There is no other game in town for the poor - they cannot get employment - they cannot self employ themselves - so they can only rely on hand downs from politicians, crime and the odd NGO. Seventy years ago the black population of South Africa was 13M not it is probably north of 45M.
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