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Race realism in South Africa

By Johann Theron

Racial laws in South Africa were derived in principle from American Minority-Law despite South African blacks being a dominant majority.

The SA Effect

Thabo Mbeki implemented the current racial classification in South Africa where biological superiority is accorded to black Africans being the “source” of all DNA origins. The lesser races identified in the SA context as Indian, Colored and lastly Whites, are penalized regarding privileges in terms of Affirmative Action and Broad Based Black Empowerment.

It means that whiteness carries a severe penalty.

The famous Mbeki trick however, is that race “identification” is not made by somebody other than the self. In other words, any individual can identify his/her own preference of race regardless of the actual medical opinion.

After the ANC won the 1994 elections most companies forced their white employees to re-educate by taking a one day “culture course”. This was a mistake since it was actually the blacks needing education.

Soon afterwards “transition” courses were implemented for black pre-school and for pre-university candidates. In addition companies have black ABET (adult based education training) for literacy. The last training (not yet provided) is Cultural Bridge Training to help the average black employee with his/her safe daily cross-over from a tribal home to a Western workplace. (Dual-culture)

This unsafe activity has only been mitigated in a limited manner and requires more attention. For example schools implemented “breakfast” for school kids and after-school supervision classes, companies allowed continuation of special toilets for “workers” to come in, have breakfast and change clothing vice versa in afternoons (with showers). This means that kids do not get food or supervision at home and that worker’s wives do not safely prepare their husbands for work.

In fact, the migratory system has led to unsafe housing, diseased relationships and general populist conduct including illegal conduct such as “dual production lines” i.e. industrialized production theft in companies as well as aggressive labor members and aggressive labor strikes as demonstrated at Marikana with the mass shooting by the police.

Recent farm employee strikes in the Western Cape Province were actually classified as “unrest” i.e. sabotage is widespread.

Labor Unions in South Africa are in an alliance with Government and unfairly exert pressure on companies anyway they can. It is unfortunately a managerial duty to get “realistic” in order to continue making profits.

Demographic Effects

A good example is a suburban home having an outside toilet. The toilet is not marked “for blacks”, but 90% of sub-contractors using it will be black. Experience shows that these toilets must be cleaned and maintained with higher frequency than those inside the house – as is the case in shopping malls.

Racism and Hate speech

It is forbidden to treat a person as inferior because of his “race”. This means if a person who has classified “himself” as white, subsequently falsely identifies a person acting in an inferior manner, “as black” who has also classified “himself” as black, then and only then the first person is a racist and should be punished according to the law.

In other words four conditions have to be confirmed before a charge of racism can be entertained. The two people must each have identified “themselves” as opposing races and then the first person must be proven to have identified the second to be the same “race” that he classified himself as (that day). Then the inferiority aspect must be proven as well. It will only work if identification of the “inferior” conduct can be proven to have in fact been superior. If I say that you are a black idiot for not passing exams (and it is true) then it is not racism, but more hate speech.

Recent legal cases regarding Hate speech such as the song “To Kill a Farmer” was not treated as racism, but as hate speech – finding that the song should not be sung.

False accusations can lead to charges of Crimen injuria /Libel

One can imagine that an outburst of racism can affect reputations and can also lead to loss of income such as was now found in the entertainment industry. These charges, as well as the outcome activities, should really follow a sort of conflict management process where it ends in a form of re-conciliation.

A racism charge can never be brought to a group such as “management” – it must be individualized.

Careful analysis is required of the individuals involved and their agenda’s where the charges are generally found to be incorrect and even “leading”, but the “conflict” is unresolved requiring emotional support. Some success has been evident where agreeable values were developed and employees encouraged to adopt, benefitting compan(ies). Unnecessary charges of racism should be avoided because it could escalate to libel cases, dragging out any chance of deflating emotions.

Any employees charged with racism, can respond by treating it as libelous from “management” – putting management on the spot. But the same management cannot be charged by a victim unless the “offender” has been convicted. South African Law is interesting – unless one is reminded that the CEO is likely to be black.

Race Realism

It is medically a fact that races exist and people should be encouraged to understand that. In other words it is not really something you can construct in your own mind being something today and something different tomorrow.

Otherwise companies cannot embrace the “productive” diversity which race (admittedly a small part of diversity) present in a company values-based culture. This requires acknowledgement of race identification and conflict followed by realism of economic response.

Blacks are confused and they require help: But what help?

by Johann Theron

Blacks themselves give a lot of clues as to what they want or need, especially when they think some politically correct answer is not required. Very few would venture to actually admit to wrong-doing such as the infamous Pallo Jordan of the South African revolutionary movement ANC (African National Congress), or as the American lawyer Michael Smith pointed out – black Americans would rather believe a cellmate than their own lawyer.

Lately a black South African twitter account tweeted that “they (blacks) do not want to be civilized” – something I would actually believe given their extremely limited and limiting continued tribal and communist education. Then quite surprisingly the South African Moeketsi Masola was published saying that he is both “ashamed to be black and a man”. Stories abound here in South Africa of “black diamonds” – a term denoting black people in senior corporate positions they were never qualified for – which (still) allow those white-run corporations to compete for lucrative government tenders. As long as they have a “scorecard” showing black management and ownership, they can still do business with an anti-white government.

The South African government itself is of course virtually 100% black except for a few important positions such as the Department of Trade and Industry Minister which manages the very influential state-owned enterprises of which there are thousands – with more to come. Then you also get the arrogant side where a “shortage” of money is simply downplayed by the possibility of selling “more bonds” to finance an unsustainable welfare state despite not purporting to be “welfare oriented”. South Africa proposes to be a constitutional state similar to America that actually functions like a socialist/Marxist regime behind the “black” curtain. Apparently 40% of parliamentarians are communist (of the old type) and I will not go into the percentage of councillors in municipalities that are illiterate. Municipal finances are in such disarry that something like 90% of South African municipalities get qualified audits.

Black people, especially in South Africa, agree that they cannot manage the country, but they continue nonetheless! They agree to be token appointments, but continue nonetheless. Recently Matome Letsoalo published an article with the title “African Leaders: Heroes or desperate house negroes?” The term house negro is of American origin (I believe) and he actually describes the President of South Africa (Jacob Zuma who incidentally has zero qualifications beyond primary or elementary school) as such a person or from that “horde”. That he asks how Obama can promote peace while causing war at the same time is perhaps a different discussion because it may have unpalatable answers such as to get rid of those same “hordes”.

That there is an inferiority complex in black people is assured – the question is how does one help these people? – not all of them though – because some are quite self-respecting and self-disciplined. But there are many others that cry for help. Since politics won’t help and neither will religion, the controlling elements in black people’s lives are tribalism and unionism. The interesting thing in South Africa is that unionism (something the anointed future SA President is well aware of) sits on the same side of the table as the government (as an alliance). In fact he appears to be intimately involved in the Marikana shooting where 34 miners died in a hail of police fire because he was most likely a black-diamond Lonmin shareholder.

The last “proper” vestige of influence on the crying masses therefore remains a single concept, i.e. tribal leadership. Unfortunately these “traditional leaders” are making things worse by claiming land they never possessed and monies they did not work for. The kind of land and funds that would have benefitted the individual crying black citizen immensely. But then that requires real (literate) black leadership heroes, maybe even somebody like Prince Buthelezi – not the Malema populist type.

Ebola’s effect on the Afrikaner

Here are some references to what the American journalist and author of “Mugged” Ann Coulter has been saying based on other media, Fox News and her own column:

“Whatever good Dr. Kent Brantly did in Liberia has now been overwhelmed by the more than $2 million already paid by the Christian charities Samaritan’s Purse and SIM USA just to fly him and his nurse home in separate Gulfstream jets, specially equipped with medical tents, and to care for them at one of America’s premier hospitals,”

“American Christians go on ‘mission trips’ to disease-ridden cesspools [because] they’re tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists, and bigots.”

“So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works, forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempt downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.”

“If the GOP is this stupid, it deserves to die.”

Her column was on the immigration bill because they promoted the idea of amnesty knowing that Hispanics vote democrat. The interesting point she made was that enforcement is more important than legalization of immigrants. However, if this continues the America we know will be over.

The satirical Daily Currant wrote that Ann Coulter suggested today that America should infect migrant children with ebola in order to discourage illegal immigration. Clearly the context of the “death” of America equates to the “undeath” of illegal immigrants.

The point she makes is that the undeath of the Mexican immigrants equate to the death of America as we know it. It will end up with the death of the Afrikaner as we know it.

Current activities of ANC and Communists in SA

By Johann Theron.

It is known that the ANC driven Government of South Africa has opposing external to internal relational policies.

Its general purpose is to confuse both the foreign investor and local citizen. However, according to the ANC’s website – the NEC (National Executive Committee of the ANC), calls for the following:

“—destroy the old order”

Clearly they have been advantaged by the old profitable order, but they plan on moving forward soon to destroy it in exchange for an as yet undefined socialism without it actually being a socialist approach. This “officially” comprises the development of jobs through micro-, medium, large companies and cooperatives to be sponsored by the Post Office.

On the other hand the Umsebenzi Online available from the SACP website describes how the world battle for hegemony should locally be engaged via a more robust SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation), with certain implications for other local media organizations (and news sites).

It is quite clear that the SACP is more intellectual, where it even attempts to describe the entire “world balance of forces” leaning towards the left – something Albert Brenner from Praag touched on earlier.

In this same period a recent BMI Strategic Workshop was held with some 100 white haired white gentlemen with facilitators like Llewellyn Lewis and presenters like Theo Venter from North West University. During the day interesting statements were made such as that the general discourse is determined by the small parties with the EFF on the one side and FF on the other.

A well-known (local Indian) economist with “political connections” was asked why the government is going the wrong way despite being advised correctly, pointing to low growth figures compared to countries across its borders. His answer was that the ruling party simply does not have the capacity to understand such advice.

Connecting the dots described above paints an uneasy picture, sometimes known as a “scenario”. Various such scenarios have recently seen the light of day, delivered by the likes of by Frans Cronje and Sampie Terreblanche, and before them Clem Sunter.

Someone said the discourse is determined by the ruling class, and maybe they believe that and want that to be true, but the private sector communications and technological advantage rules the roost, because the infrastructure is independent of the State.

Therefore, while Venter and his ilk are entertaining a highly educated crowd, the fact of the matter is that the old order is going to be destroyed and the only advantage we have is to communicate more effectively.

Not tomorrow like the typical State Owned Enterprise, but today, like driven private and commercial citizens.

Raping an organization

by Johann Theron

South Africa may be the rape capital of the world, for not only personal rapes of men, women and children, but also for organizational rapes. This article is not however, about individual/personal rape cases but of organizational rape, although pretty much the same conditions and effects apply – such as the requirement to say NO. The difference is that while everybody in the world seems to abhor the act of rape, the act of raping an organization seems to be fair play. A simple example is the South African constitution where individual protection against rape is promised, while the rape of Afrikaner institutions is seen as fair discrimination.

It is also not about the West raping the earth with carbon dioxide or the popular intelligence rape someone like Angela Merkel may have experienced as per Edward Snowden.

This article is not about a political party such as hypothetically the ANC raping its own country/continent or the big money powers such as hypothetically Goldman Sachs raping a country such as South Africa (for gold), or the Ukraine (to get at Russia), but it is at a lower level of organizations affecting people in communities. The assumption is that raping such organizations would effectively rape and tear a community apart, resulting in effectively a traumatized society. Where a personal rape affects one person or family, organizational rape which can be caused by one person, affects thousands of people.

Initial thoughts of prospective organizations at the community level are companies like Woolworths or Shell. For the most part these companies are modelled on Walmart that actually provides cost-effective goods even to rural areas and they are also represented in industry institutions that interface with governments, providing some form of quality and governance. That they provide unnecessary goods pushing the consumerist envelope is another topic.

Another possibility is financial institutions where the rape verdict becomes slightly warmer because of the long-term effect of inflation that banks may capitalize on or the insurance companies that may make more money out of the constant premium stream than their subscribers do. It is true that in countries where financial community co-ops are used, inhabitants get more value, but having that option and not exercising it prevents inhabitants from crying rape from centralized banks. However, some actually already do that in South Africa.

Another possibility is communications companies with cell towers everywhere. They appear to control the municipalities where no limit is set on the maximum number of cell towers per area. This is clearly a shortage of intellectual capacity and although radio waves have medical effects on humans, it is not yet seen as rape, unless a price such as unreasonable cost/minute contributes to this distress. The positive effect of improved productivity for communities, if harnessed, should also come into play where some communities such as Irene (close to Pretoria) or Sandhurst (close to Johannesburg) are examples.

One type of business that ratchets the possibility of rape up a notch or two are land developers. Their spreadsheets dictate what they do and customer cashflow (towards their own pockets) determines how fast they do it. Without proper town planning or architectural design, they deliver houses that were planned around the cheapest materials they can get instead of aiming for the South African ideal, as derived from 300 hundred years of building experience. One could say that surely the house prices are cheap due to cheap materials applied, the question is, were quality standards actually applied such as damp proofing or proper cement mixes? In my own case – not – so I feel used, cheated, etc.

But the latest contender to the best organizational rapist crown appears to be the Church. One overt example is the new Pope Francis appointing McKinsey to fix the Vatican Bank’s corruption – how much corruption we will never know but if it is at the same scale as Pastoral “rape” of young boys, then it probably becomes unbearable.

A covert example is the South African Dutch Reformed Church, facing a substantial loss of members across the country after 1994. A lot of qualified pastors or dominees lost their jobs and the drop in pension affected many more. Universities are doing away with Afrikaans-language training which means that the Church may on its own decide to move its entire congregations to the English version in some secret future time schedule – as Doxa Deo is doing. Apart from that, the actuary of the Church is probably doing fine adjustments and long-term planning to protect the dominees currently employed. What this amounts to is that as individual congregation turnover gradually drops at say 5% per year, the incumbent dominee’s salary increases by 5%. Let’s say that a general guideline is that salaries are 50% of turnover, then the guideline may change to 55% the next year. However, to lessen the visible effect of this on congregational spreadsheets, the dominee will be quite happy to only increase his pensionable salary and nobody will be the wiser. All this happens while the congregational turnover drops and by the time it drops to R900 000, the salary percentage might be 80%, with a pensionable portion 200% more than originally contracted. The insidious effect is that the dominee will, without really knowing it, manage the turnover downwards in order to get more benefit. The congregation will also not realize it, but once the turnover drops below R900 000, the church may be sold or handed to the Synod. From past examples, selling a Church is an emotional issue and has a heart-wrenching effect on people. Especially if they do not understand how they got there in the first place.

The devastating effect on communities is psychological and heart-wrenching because theologically, the structure of congregations over the world forms a body, aptly called the “Body of Christ” and when that gets raped, serious outfall will be the order of the day.

This comparative description of the raping of organizations can also be found in literature. For example a book by Howard F Stein: Nothing personal, just business – A guided journey into organizational darkness. While it generally describes commercial organizations, there are a few cases of non-profit organizations from which comparisons can be drawn. Essentially it describes the psychoanalytic effect of thoughts inducing a physical outcome. Where a positive example is happiness resulting in the clapping of hands, a negative example is defensive thoughts resulting in self-enriching by crippling the client. In both cases though, the person does not really know that he/she is doing it.

Afrikaners are simplistic

By Johann Theron.

Academics developed a modeling technique to help with managing complicated problems. A problem is translated to a model and once a solution emerges from the model, it is translated back to reality for implementation. The model therefore helps to find a solution in quick time, but the double translation between theory and reality incorporates errors that are within a certainty-uncertainty predictability relationship, much like risk-mitigation management.

Since academics are generally paid and managed by politicians, the pursuit of truth has become the “academic pursuit”, where real-world problems are simplified using model simplification in order to find solutions, but the problem comes when the translation process is bent in favor of political policy.

One example of this is the concept of safety. In South Africa Government departments have separated safety responsibilities, such as Manufacturing Health and Safety that falls under the Department of Labour and Mining Health and Safety that falls under the Department of Mineral Resources.

A more pronounced outcome is found where the safety of citizens is divided between the military and police departments. This gross simplification is motivated by focusing the police on internal-to-border activities, while focusing the military on accross-border activities. However, anyone can see the obvious differences between the two forces implying a distinct difference in their construct regarding the meaning of safety.

The International System Safety Society attempts to re-combine this deficiency in meaning through an engineering and system methodology. Systems incorporate all safety, be it human, equipment or political i.e. any risk. In other words, the general conceptualization of safety applied today, is insufficient, inaccurate, and even faulty. The actual concept of “safety”, that is what makes up this concept, was “over-simplified” In other words, the statistics ignore the various “vocabularies” i.e. legal, political, social, cultural, economic that are part of the “ingredients” of what we – in contrast to the various ‘publics’ – understand by “safety”.

Derrida (1930 -2004) is a French philosopher who introduced “deconstruction” as a method to break with Western metaphysical thinking based on binaries. Derrida demonstrated how all assumptions on human life and behaviour are grounded in our use of language. Over-simplified safety therefore has a negative effect on our actual physical safety.

Basically then a meaningful simplification of safety would be some combination of human health, system security and applied processes. The simply means that your personal safety will improve if you are stronger, if you have tools to improve security of self and assets, and lastly whether your processes allow incremental improvement in your general safety such as administrative processes (to measure is to know).

But that is not where it ends; Safety is not the only concept that has been over-simplified. Education and Health aside, let’s focus on for example Finances, where the world has different currencies and people make billions just from the differences between these currencies. This in itself promotes the idea that manufacturing (and jobs) is a waste of time. It means that the West’s financial system is not safe for the average productive citizen. So, finances have also been over-simplified.

Let’s take another look at a security. The Minister of Defense for the western world is the President of the United States. His after-hours job is to also look after the US. In principle he is also looking after Africa and specifically South Africa, historically and even now. Let’s say that North Korea or China is looking after Zimbabwe – which country would you support? If we decide that we support Zimbabwe, the West will see it as an act of aggression and they will undermine us in the same way that Zimbabwe has been undermined. Once you choose a security company, you cannot get rid of them, not easily that is.

The only Afrikaner strength is that we are a possible source of unrest should the ANC decide to join Zimbabwe. The only threat the Afrikaner faces is the West losing interest in SA.

However, an interesting aspect emerged during the 2014 elections. The Afrikaner divided itself in two groups ostensibly called the “enlightened” and the “cramped”; if a direct translation is feasible. Compared to the Jewish separation of white and black Jews, Afrikaners now differentiate between liberal and racists. The unsafe implication of this world view is that black Jews are always put on the frontline of battle and so it is that racist Afrikaners are now put on the frontline of what could be called limited genocide – which includes some English farm victims.

Not a very safe practice indeed. But Afrikaners and English citizens in South Africa supported the National Party before 1994 and both groups support the DA – after 1994. The question is not really politics, it is civil structures. We need to improve our civil cooperation drastically, but to do that we need to safely reconstruct our value system despite frantic efforts by the ANC to psychologically keep us unstable by using the racist card – which is not really important – simply ignore it.

Zuma: ‘Don’t worry, I am safe’

An example of leadership stability? Royal family of Denmark

by Johann Theron

Leaders traditionally do not classify themselves. This allows a sort of evolutionary anticipation towards emerging scenarios which makes identification of the “next” leader difficult. In this sense leaders are a lot like entrepreneurs because they essentially come from “nowhere” to upset the status quo to the detriment of some reigning power or corporate interest – or a prior leader. Normal people do not really care who the next leader will be, because they know instinctively that such a person will act in their interests. Therefore, in the normal flow of things, leaders will (theoretically) follow on each other seamlessly because followers will by definition accept them.

One good example of seamless leadership is perhaps the Danish Monarchy where no internal conflict or change of leadership has occurred in more than a thousand years. The British Monarchy is also approaching the same sort of life span although they are being challenged from time to time by irritants like Ireland and Scotland. There are not many examples of non-family seamless monarchies that survived the test of time, but one great example is perhaps the United States of America where it seems that for at least a few hundred years some form of stability and even predictability has been achieved as far as leadership is concerned.

Not much is known about tribal leadership since Western tribes all but succumbed to the higher form of organizational capacity utilized by Western nations to achieve such stability. But at least in Africa which is still immersed in the doldrums of tribalism, a lot of real-life examples have been quite noticeable. Who could forget Idi Amin and later the infamous Mugabe where leadership transition from Ian Smith became such a disaster? Since Mugabe does not transition to the next seamless leader, one can readily assume that any leader surviving the death of Mugabe would turn out to be a disaster as well.

The interesting thing about Ian Smith is that he remained in Zimbabwe until he quietly passed away; thereby signaling that he literally gave his life to his country. The well-known General Erwin Rommel also gave his life to his country and apparently General Patton did too.

Leaders are distinguished here as those that

simply come and go;
those that fit into a comfortable seamless transition without martyring themselves;
those that lead and die for their country and
lastly those that kill everyone else to stay the leader.

Clearly Zuma is not a tribal king so his legacy is not really family-oriented, but oriented towards his king and his king’s legacy. Even Nelson Mandela was not the tribal king and he remained a subject of a (different) king that now votes for the opposition to the political party he personified. This raises the interesting question of who exactly made people that were no tribal kings, “kings”?

There are no transitions applicable in these cases; there is no entrepreneurial emergence because the original kings remained in power; they did not die for the cause but they did kill or were involved in killings to get into power. Such people are highly attractive to international power-brokers that represent – in all likelihood – the onepercenters of the world (for want of a better classification).

It implies therefore that Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma are not leaders and neither is the ANC’s so-called leadership seamless, despite their 100-year existence claim. It merely indicates that some other onepercenter decided that it may be beneficial for the time being, to push the ANC for his or her own benefit. With the unfavorable outcome presently described in the newspapers, the time left over for the ANC has been redefined.

Whereas the citizens of Denmark themselves are safe, only the tribal “leader” can claim to be safe, or at least have “no stress”. While puppets like Mugabe and Zuma feels safe because their followers are killing each other, Danish people move around the world unscathed.

But since new real leadership is about to emerge thereby exposing the rigid “old” patriarchal double standard systemic fault lines, a new phase in South Africa is in the wind, and new ideas are being proposed while bad historic examples are exposed.

To make it clear – it is time to embrace a new leadership.