>>5427

>The second news story is amazing. I even had to look up the backstory to understand the origins.

Haha amazing is a bit of a flowery word to describe it but I know what you mean. What you have to understand when you read about things like this is that our political corruption relies on a "Bottom Up" system, which is why very small local level politicians and administrators are the victims of assassinations. (See: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2023-09-06-52-councillors-dead-in-kzn-political-killings/) So it may seem strange that school administrators get targeted but in context this is very typical. Let me explain what I mean

The South African government is bureaucratic to a fault. That means that we have a massive amount of public sector employees. This is a complicated issue but it has a simple source. Since the 1950s and the days of White rule in this country, the government has used the public sector to empower certain groups of people that it favored. In the days of the Afrikaans government between the 50s and 90s the group that received this treatment were Afrikaaners. This was because the Afrikaans government wanted to empower Afrikaaners to reach equality with the more well off English speaking South Africans. But in the 90s the new Black government wanted to do the same thing but instead to help black people reach the level of white people. So basically the government hands out these bureaucratic jobs to help people it Favours. The English word for this concept is "patronage". As a result in our political culture these jobs are viewed as 'favors' that politicians give out to their friends and family to help them.
As a result we have a very strong cancer in our politics that dictates that you must help your friends, and your friends will help you back. So the people on the local level owe their loyalty to the politicians above them who gave them their jobs. As a result, politicians here have become extremely dependent on those under them to facilitate their corruption.
This is made more serious by the fact that unlike in other countries, money goes up from the bottom to the top. That is to say local politicians collect taxes, take their cut of the money, and send the rest to the politicians above them, who take their cut and send it to the politicians above them etc etc until it reaches the top. But the issue is that once the money reaches the top there is so little of it left that EVERYONE has to engage in this practice to give the politicians at the top enough money. This is why politicians at the bottom die if they are not loyal. Their bosses need them to perpetuate the system. So when some upstart with a clear vision and decency makes his way into the system, his rivals have permission and consent from those on higher levels to assassinate him.
Universities like Fort Hare are important in this system because they bring up the next generation of foot soldiers and keep the system of patronage alive.

One day the masses will wake up to the rape of our nation committed by the political class. They will not be able to use their terror tactics against all of us when that day comes. One decent man from the Zulu province trying to het into government, or a university administrator is an easy target. But they will not be able to wipe out an immovable wall of millions of angry people. We need a united front, we need solidarity and we need direction. Our day will come, maybe not in my lifetime but I sleep well at night knowing god is watching. We will wash over them like the unstoppable tide of the ocean.