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Over decades, selective reporting by the liberal western media has created a distorted picture of what really happened in South Africa during Apartheid. Under white rule South Africa developed into the undisputed economic leader of Africa, with by far the most advanced infrastructure on the continent.Now South Africa is following the same pattern seen throughout sub-saharan Africa. The European expansion and settlement of Africa over the last 300 years always takes the blame. Blacks were enjoying a pastoral existence, resources sufficient to support a stable population through subsistent farming – no need to plan for winter, and with a vast, sparsely populated continent there was very little competition from other tribes. They did not have many belongings, no money, and in terms of Western standards, lived in poverty. Population growth was kept in check by high infant and maternal mortality rates, natural disease, droughts and occasional tribal conflicts. The Europeans brought modern technology: the wheel, improved healthcare, highly efficient food production, and modern weapons. This resulted in a population explosion for a people not used to such efficiency. In South Africa, the black population grew from 3.5 million in 1900 (official British census) to 10 million in the 1950’s and 35 million in the 1990’s – totally unprecedented in Africa. Overpopulation leads to limited resources, which leads to famine and conflict. With access to modern weapons, these conflicts in Africa became extremely bloody. The black people looked at the whites, and saw they enjoyed greater wealth than themselves. This created envy, and the facts that whites had smaller families, used their resources more efficiently, and considered education of their children a high priority, simply did not register with them. No, they wanted the same, and they wanted to take it, rather than gradually building up and developing their own civilization to the same standards over time. Now, the African stage is set. Chase the white farmers off their farms, kill them, drive them away – and they take their technology with them. Food production and infrastructure collapse, and resources start to ebb away. Add to that the African mentality to venerate their leaders, not to question them, and Zimbabwe is the result. All these things were foreseen by the only indigenous white nation of Africa, the Boer, or Afrikaner. That is why they wished to retain political control of the country they love and regarded as their homeland. They way they tried to achieve this with the policy of Apartheid, was flawed and could never be implemented successfully. Providing homelands for black people which they could develop at their own pace, and where they had full political rights, was a pipedream. The whites’ dependence upon black labour on the one hand, and the inability of the black leaders of their homelands to utilize resources efficiently on the other hand, made the dream of separate development and a “little Europe” of African homelands inside South Africa, an unattainable dream. Another European invention, Democracy, came along as a convenient tool for those ambitious black leaders who understood that they could use their numerical supremacy to take power away from the whites, who had thus far provided the direction to build South Africa into a regional superpower. This is against the spirit of Democracy, which is really only fair, and works best in a country with a largely monocultural society. During the 1980's the white government abolished one apartheid law after the other. However, black activists knew that a simple democracy would give them power on a spoon. They were not interested in Apartheid reforms, and saw this as a sign of weakness on the part of the white government. The result was an escalation of black on black violence, as black political groups were jostling for the power that loomed on the horizon. Security forces intervened, trying to restore order and protect lives and property. These clashes with police and soldiers were broadcast to the world, and portrayed as violent suppression of black people, who were seen as fighting for freedom from oppression.

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