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South Africa under the Afrikaners was a European-style nation-state; under the ANC it has adopted “American radicalism which aims at abolishing the nation state and replacing it with a kind of global corporatism and welfarism.” Like successive American governments, the “progressive,” lax-on-law-and-order ANC government is indifferent to immigration enforcement

“Jews,” he avers, “do, however, appeal to Christian guilt when they are living as a minority in Western societies. They may even take advantage, in the way Nietzsche once described, of the special inclination of Christians toward social guilt. But this is mostly tactical, in the same way that patriarchal Hindus in the U.S. support the Democratic Party, as the more leftist and therefore less nativist of the two partie

The paucity of planning and future preparation in African life Etounga-Manguelle puts down to a suspended sense of time. The reverence for the “strongman of the moment” he roots in the sincerely held belief that these men harbor magical powers. Magic wins out over reason; community over individual; communal ownership over private property; force and coercion over rights

“The slave trade between Africa and the Middle East antedated the Atlantic slave trade by centuries, and far outlasted it.” “Tens of millions of Africans were carried away—north through the Sahara, and from East Africa, by Arab and Muslim slave traders, well before Europeans took up the trade from West Africa.”

It “is an absurdity to assert that cannibalism, slavery, magical therapy, and killing the aged should be accorded the same ‘dignity’ or ‘validity’ as old-age security, scientific medicine, and metal artifacts,”

History is being extremely kind to “Madiba.” Since he came to power in 1994, approximately 300,000 people have been murdered. The “Umkhonto we Sizwe” rallying cry is, indubitably, emblematic of the murderous reality that is the democratic South Africa

History is being extremely kind to “Madiba.” Since he came to power in 1994, approximately 300,000 people have been murdered. The “Umkhonto we Sizwe” rallying cry is, indubitably, emblematic of the murderous reality that is the democratic South Africa

the good economists are loath to let on is that a free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.

This entails not compelling property owners to part with their real estate or rightful revenues in the name of affirmative action.

In a court of law, statistical data is taken as both proxy for and proof of discrimination. Creedal multiculturalism simply doesn’t admit of the possibility that aptitudes and abilities may vary by culture or ethnicity, as well as from one individual to another

The popular will is seldom an embodiment of natural justice. In South Africa, neither is the Constitution. South Africa’s Bill of Rights is contemptuous of equality before the law; it enshrines group rights and allows for compensatory and distributive “justice.”

the Bantu, like the Boers, were not indigenous to South Africa. They “dribbled south” from some “reservoir in the limitless north,” and, like the European settlers, used their military might to displace Hottentots, Bushmen, and one another through internecine warfare

more people are murdered in one week under African rule than died under the detention of the Afrikaner government over the course of roughly four decades