South Africa’s brutal ANC seeks whitewashing through ideological indulgences

South Africa has been blighted by the rule of a single party ANC which has been gradually destroying the country’s democratic and liberal post-apartheid foundations, while often resorting to ideological indulgences to whitewash its brutality towards its own white nationals and African migrants and conceal its economic and social failures.

Taking aim at both Palestine and the artificial dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, the ANC has often tried in vain – since Mandela’s death- to meddle in these two geographically distant issues to project the image of an ideological regime that rejects “genocide” and “apartheid.”

To feed their ideological anachronic rhetoric, ANC rulers use Cold War lenses to navigate through their diplomatic maneuvers.

Yet, a party that advocates genocide and xenophobia at home has no legitimacy to oppose it anywhere else abroad!

“Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer,” and other slogans instigating violence against white South Africans have long been commonplace at ANC gatherings across the country.

The Afrikaans NGO AfriForum has for years been warning of a surge in attacks on white farmers, while homicide targeting descendants of Europeans in South Africa spiked to an average of 75 a day (27,494 murders were recorded for the 2022/2023 fiscal year).

Former South African President has publicly sung “Kill the Boer!” in a party meeting in 2012 and his video indulging in the chant is still available on youtube.

In 2012, Elon Mush urged in a tweet President Ramaphosa to act against the genocide of white people in South Africa.

In its immediate regional neighborhood, South Africa has in fact resurrected an apartheid approach against fellow African migrants.

In July 2022, The UN refugee agency strongly condemned South Africa’s “escalating violence against foreign nationals in South Africa and called for accountability against xenophobia, racism and hate speech that were harming migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and even citizens perceived as foreign throughout the country.”

South Africa’s social media is awash with hateful campaigns against foreigners, including “Operation Dudula”. This campaign, in particular, has become an umbrella for mobilization of violent protests, vigilante violence, arson targeting migrant-owned homes and businesses, and even the murder of foreign nationals.

“Anti-migrant discourse from senior government officials has fanned the flames of violence, and government actors have failed to prevent further violence or hold perpetrators accountable,” the UN agency said.

“Without urgent action from the government of South Africa to curb the scapegoating of migrants and refugees, and the widespread violence and intimidation against these groups, we are deeply concerned that the country is on the precipice of explosive violence,” it said.

Over the past decade, scores of African migrants were murdered by South Africans in full sight of law enforcement.

South African officials have doubled down on xenophobia with Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi saying in November 2023 the government has made a “serious mistake” when it signed up to international agreements – such as the UN refugee convention – without seeking exemptions from certain clauses.

South Africa, under the ANC, has become mired in ideological anachronism and indulgences that are directed to project a false image of grandeur to a disenchanted South African people struggling with high inequality, poverty, unemployment, insecurity and most recently lack of basic services such as electricity.

Until it resolves its own issues with anti-white and anti-migrant rhetoric and practices, South Africa has no lessons to give!