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If you tried to bail now you'd probably take at least a 20% smack on your assets

Better to take a 20% hit on your assets and get out with ones life and health than wait too long and take a 100% hit with the added danger of the locusts becoming more bold with time.

If it became clear that I could not sell what was mine, and at the first sign the end was near, I would still be tempted to monkey wrench and boobytrap everything I owned and couldn’t ship, or carry onto a plane the hell out.

It must be hell watching the country you grew up in disintegrating right before your eyes.

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Better to take a 20% hit on your assets and get out with ones life and health than wait too long and take a 100% hit with the added danger of the locusts becoming more bold with time.

If it became clear that I could not sell what was mine, and at the first sign the end was near, I would still be tempted to monkey wrench and boobytrap everything I owned and couldn’t ship, or carry onto a plane the hell out.

It must be hell watching the country you grew up in disintegrating right before your eyes.[/QUOTE]

You misunderstand me. The 20% loss is in local terms before you try to get it out. By the time you convert, you're left with less that six percent of your original value.

A lot of younger people have left already. This is no place to start your career. For the people around my age group, it's more a case of getting your kids educated so that they can leave.I don't have children, for which I am grateful.
You adapt to the circumstances. A lot of people have predicted SA's demise for decades so there's very little surprise in all of this.
One becomes fatalistic over what's going to happen. Fully 30% of the municipalities have collapsed, another 30% are almost there. Only 8% are considered to be functioning properly.

That’s horrible. I feel for the honest, law abiding people left in SA. GTHO of there while you can, fatalist or not. Better to be alive starting over somewhere else(hard as that may be) than the alternative.

Did anyone see this? This will end 1 way- Badly for all involved.

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South African bank says customers must honour home loan payments even if land is seized

https://www.news.com.au/financ...672c060f6568658c3210

The decline will probably accelerate.

The bank can say that but good luck trying to collect.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Did anyone see this? This will end 1 way- Badly for all involved.

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South African bank says customers must honour home loan payments even if land is seized

https://www.news.com.au/financ...672c060f6568658c3210

How terrible.
That whole place is going to erupt into a fight pretty darned quick. I hope all the good ones escape while they can.

"And Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land.

Nor now the long light on the sea:"

'The white minority took our land. Enough is enough'

On the sprawling maizefields outside Johannesburg, the Engelbrecht family know the full horror of the South African farm attacks that are so common they no longer rate a headline.

The scene inside the house was chaos. A door broken with an axe. Blood everywhere.

And in the bedroom, his parents lying together, their hands tied, their throats slit, the cord of an iron tied around his mother's neck.

Her body was still warm.

"My father always said, 'It's not if, it's when'," says Jo-an Engelbrecht, standing where he found the bodies.

"He knew it's coming," he says, tears choking his words.

"We all know it's coming. It's just a question of when."



http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...arm-murders/10013298

Looks like the violence toward white farmers is ratcheting up:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/...-shot-dead-by-gunmen

Compounds need to be built and families need to band together and start spending their nights there. Guard shifts and what not.

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Not to worry in probably less than 100 years the region of Southern Africa will be fit to serve as new colonial lands; perhaps for the Chinese or Indians.

Silent

Given the heavy Chinese investment in Africa this seems quite possible!

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Originally posted by Kasinefect:

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Originally posted by Silent:
Not to worry in probably less than 100 years the region of Southern Africa will be fit to serve as new colonial lands; perhaps for the Chinese or Indians.

Silent

Given the heavy Chinese investment in Africa this seems quite possible!

Given the Chinese investment/influence EVERYWHERE in the world, this is very possible. Anyone who has not yet realized that the Chinese are out to take over the world, needs to wake the hell up. Steve Bannon is exactly right on this issue.

From nice country to sh**hole in just 3 decades. Communists work fast.

‘Just Kill Him, Brother’: A Widow’s Harrowing Story Of South African ‘Farm Attacks’ The Media Dismisses

Mariandra Heunis and her children are the survivors of a vicious, dead-of-night attack on her family. Her husband — her childrens’ father — is not. He was killed in their home outside Pretoria, South Africa, in what has come to be called a “farm attack — the targeted terrorizing of farmers in a country with a long history of strife over race and land.

Mariandra, her husband, and their three little girls were asleep when the two armed attackers came. She was eight months pregnant with a son Johann Heunis would never meet — Mariandra gave birth just five days after she buried him.

“You hear about these horrific stories and you really hope it never happens to you,” Mariandra told the Daily Caller. “And somehow you never expect it to happen to you. Until it does.”

While the South African government denies the problem, and news sites such as BBC and The Washington Post raced to debunk farm attacks after President Donald Trump tweeted about it in August 2018, attacks appear to have risen from between 100 and 200 in 2012 to over 400 in the past year. Meanwhile, South Africa’s president and his party have vowed to move forward with a plan to amend the constitution to allow for the seizure of farmland owned by white Africans to give the land to black Africans.

“The government dismisses it,” Mariandra says. “The government denies that it’s happening.”

“There’s a climate in South Africa in which violence is romanticized, actively even up to the state president,” AfriForum Deputy CEO Ernst Roets told the Caller, “and it’s romanticized and it’s encouraged.”

AfriForum is an Afrikaner civil rights group and is one of a number of groups that have tracked farm attacks in South Africa.

Watch Mariandra’s harrowing story below.



https://dailycaller.com/2019/0...-farm-attacks-media/

We've seen this before. I am not sure what I would do in their place. Seems the obvious answer is to leave but perhaps losing everything is a fate worse than death. Think about what it would take to get you to leave everything and move to a country to start over in your 60s. I think most of us would fight and hope.

It can't happen in the US of A. Right?



"Actor Danny Glover says House reparations hearing is an "important step" to "cure reparations for the damages inflicted by enslavement and forced racial exclusionary policies"

https://www.breitbart.com/ente...-a-moral-imperative/

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... "Actor Danny Glover says House reparations hearing is an "important step" to "cure reparations for the damages inflicted by enslavement and forced racial exclusionary policies" ...

Glover, the same Glover who praised Chavez's socialist economy in Venezuela and degrades Trump's economy. I hope he wakes up every day giving thanks for sh-+. Without it, he would have no brain.



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... "Actor Danny Glover says...

Since when does the ability to smile and read a script make actors authorities on everything?
Why are they always called before Congress for their opinions?

SA is 90% black. In the US there a 6 white for every black. This is a big part of the answer.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
It can't happen in the US of A. Right?



"Actor Danny Glover says House reparations hearing is an "important step" to "cure reparations for the damages inflicted by enslavement and forced racial exclusionary policies"

https://www.breitbart.com/ente...-a-moral-imperative/

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SA is 90% black.

Yes. Those white farmers are toast. It's only a matter of time. And... when they are gone, the South African people will starve.