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8. Look at the CPI

Mon Aug 20, 2018, 07:45 PM

Aug 2018

Compare SA to the USA.

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017

Also read this article

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/africa/south-africa-corruption-jacob-zuma-african-national-congress.html

If memory serves the ANC government charged striking mine workers under an apartheid era law a few years ago.

They can use the brutal legacy of apartheid to get people to support polices that won't benefit them for the same reason poor white people in the USA vote for tea baggers. Poor and uneducated people are easy to manipulate.

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South Africa to Seize Land from White Owners [View all] left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 OP

The land was stolen malaise Aug 2018 #1

This isn't about justice. nycbos Aug 2018 #2

Look at the CPI nycbos Aug 2018 #8

Some of the land was stolen.. EX500rider Aug 2018 #9

Not that simple Nonhlanhla Aug 2018 #7

Tell everyone to get the hell out of Manhattan. Throck Aug 2018 #11

How much did the whites pay the blacks for their land? angstlessk Aug 2018 #3

I wonder why now? DFW Aug 2018 #4

Zimbabwe 2.0 roamer65 Aug 2018 #5

So, seize game farms full of wildlife and turn them into corn fields? NickB79 Aug 2018 #10