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Sigh. Before anyone goes off harking how Mandela almost single-handedly brought down Apartheid, think of the following:

- SA has vast mineral resources...

- ...that the banksters wanted

- ...which SA didn't want to share (give away for almost nothing)

- CIA starts orchestrating a fall of apartheid. Their tool are the liberals: "Apartheid is terrible for the poor blacks"

- De Klerk gets told by Those In Charge to release Mandela, or else

- Mandela released, ANC take over with a majority of the vote

- ANC are corrupt like a motherfucker, privatize the government mines

- Mines are bought for cheap by foreign multinationals

- Mine workers still treated like shit, shot by police if they protest

- The situation has gotten so bad that the police mix statistics to make it look better than it is[1]

- How about the Free State spending 140 million rand on a site that costs a few thousands in reality? How's that for corruption. [2]

- Black people are showing up in interviews here and there saying that it was better during apartheid [3]

- CIA have gotten what they wanted, liberals have forgotten about SA

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFOkUY_vkE

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKfemruhnC0

[3] Here is some "better during apartheid": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_7JbTZXng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydY9WLbCwc

Other things I haven't mentioned: The jewish-led South African Communist Party working together with the ANC to promote violent uprising, Mandela approved Church Street bombing, killing civilians, Winnie Mandels pastime of burning non-ANC voters alive (necklacing). Etc.

However bad it was during Apartheid, it's even worse now.



An economic angle, summarised in: Lowenberg, Anton D. "Why South Africa’s Apartheid Economy Failed", 1997

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Contemporary-Econom...

TLDR:-

1. Decades of intensifying international isolation over RSA's political climate.

2. RSA's growing reliance on international short-term loans in 1980s, leading to balance of payments crisis.

3. Threat and introduction of economic sanctions by international community.

4. ... Leading to increasing economic costs to industry and individuals, which reduced internal support for Apartheid amongst South Africa's elite.

5. Coincidental fall of the Soviet Union, leading to the West's reduced support of RSA against revolutionary front-line states.

(Not to discount the struggle for equality amongst non-white South Africans, embodied by Mandela and others.)

EDIT: Clarity




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