I sometimes think that the ANCYL is pretty much like the Mafia. The Mafia is famed for entering your business premises, they threaten you, demand what is not theirs to take and in the end you pay them off to keep the peace, although they were the once who disturbed the peace to start with.
This is called racketeering /extortion and this is exactly what is happening on a national level.
The demands are nationalisation and the redistribution of white-owned assets without compensation. When people sing “shoot the boer” in the streets and when minority groups are continually being verbally attacked then I think it is pretty clear what the threats are. There is a clear unspoken undertone, “Pay us or else...”
We as a nation are actually getting shaken down, Mafia style.
I sometimes wonder if our not so revered youth leader understands that he is pretty much just a henchman by those that bankroll him and his organisation. Those are the real people that are threatening the future of this country. They have an agenda and he is but a toll in his arsenal.
Sadly, this is nothing new. Internationally this has happened many a times before. Whole countries have had their natural resources hi-jacked in the name of nationalisation or empowerment of a certain group of people. There are ample international examples of this happening and it nearly always end badly.
Economic failure and even wider spread poverty will be the ultimate outcome. One might ask why there are so many of the public that support this? The sad fact is that social needs in this country will continue to take priority over good economic policies as long as poverty is so wide spread.
If a person already has nothing to lose and someone offered you riches, you will grab the opportunity, because in your mind it can’t get worse.
To put this in context, when people go to the voting booth they go to vote for a party that believe is going to give them the most. Crime, corruption, economic policy etc take a backseat to social issues. For the majority of South African people they are not nearly as important as the promise of food on the table and a roof over their head.
Today the fate of this nation and of the future generations hangs in the balance. Those that bankroll the ANCYL have great aspirations for themselves and the riches of this country. We can but only hope that sanity prevails because things might get very ugly, very quickly for South Africa.
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