QUESTION: I suspect the black extremists in SA will not slow down such rhetoric and actions until all white farmers disappear or the whites in SA own no land outside of urban residential areas. After that, they have to choose between cleansing all the way or stopping the purge and keeping the whites in professions unrelated to land and farming. Do you think there can be such a natural endpoint to the cleansing?
That is plausible — but I don’t think there’s a “natural” endpoint to a process driven more by ideology than by strategy.
Land is just the most visible battleground because it ties directly to history and sovereignty. But once land is seized or redistributed, the logic of racialized redistribution doesn't stop — it moves on to all other form of ownership.
I think that unless a counter-principle is asserted — like autonomy or separation — it doesn’t naturally stop. It stops when it meets resistance.
Please allow me to ask a follow-up question: In your opinion, how much of South Africa's critical infrastructure, national government included, is still managed by whites? The blacks certainly can learn the necessary tricks. However, historically, that will take maybe a hundred years to operate smoothly, although the pure engineering part, such as maintaining an existing power plant, can be learned quickly.
QUESTION: I suspect the black extremists in SA will not slow down such rhetoric and actions until all white farmers disappear or the whites in SA own no land outside of urban residential areas. After that, they have to choose between cleansing all the way or stopping the purge and keeping the whites in professions unrelated to land and farming. Do you think there can be such a natural endpoint to the cleansing?
That is plausible — but I don’t think there’s a “natural” endpoint to a process driven more by ideology than by strategy.
Land is just the most visible battleground because it ties directly to history and sovereignty. But once land is seized or redistributed, the logic of racialized redistribution doesn't stop — it moves on to all other form of ownership.
I think that unless a counter-principle is asserted — like autonomy or separation — it doesn’t naturally stop. It stops when it meets resistance.
Please allow me to ask a follow-up question: In your opinion, how much of South Africa's critical infrastructure, national government included, is still managed by whites? The blacks certainly can learn the necessary tricks. However, historically, that will take maybe a hundred years to operate smoothly, although the pure engineering part, such as maintaining an existing power plant, can be learned quickly.