South Africa continues its spiral into utter chaos. Rioters are not stopping with mere looting, but are now destroying infrastructure as well, burning down farms and crops. This goes beyond a revolt of the so-called poor, since destroying the very things needed for their existence is suicidal nihilism. Really, any whites still foolish enough to still be in the country will have to face their fate; it is not as if they did not see this coming. Almost every one of them could have got out to some less hostile country, like Russia, where they could easily have rebuilt, even with just the clothes on their backs. In any case those who are sticking it out, better have embraced survivalism long ago, and have a few years’ supply of food on hand. Cops were running out of ammunition, so hopefully the civilian Boers will have stashed plenty of that. Or, they perish too.
Mike Adams and others see this chaos as possible in America, and maybe Australia, certainly Europe. It is likely in any highly diverse and multicult country, when the uneasy peace of consumer materialism, unravels, and there is no social glue to hold everything together.
“This crisis has been entirely engineered by globalists, and it’s all part of the chaos that they want to see erupt all over the world. Largely due to loss of jobs, food scarcity and lockdown tyranny, the impoverished South African citizens are rising up to lash out in anger. As is often the case, they are irrationally over-reacting, now burning down the very infrastructure that might provide them with food, electricity and fuel for years to come.
This is all by design. And the situation is rapidly imploding into a failed state or a civil war, depending on whom you ask.
There are key realizations you need to grasp about what’s happening in South Africa:
- This engineered chaos is coming to America and other Western nations soon, for many of the same reasons.
- The destruction of infrastructure will lead to long-term destitution, famine, collapse and war.
- The police are overrun and out of ammunition. They are largely helpless against the looting masses.
- Only civilian security forces(i.e. militias) are providing effective safety and security for residential communities.
- Food is extremely scarce. Mass famine has already begun. Those who did not prep in advance may die.
- Gun control means you DIE, because only those with firearms are able to defend themselves and stop the looting mobs.
Globalists are deliberately plunging the world into chaos, civil unrest and collapse
What we are all watching here — in South Africa, Cuba, France, Beirut and other places — is globalist-created chaos that they hope will end in total collapse and worldwide depopulation. And this is only the beginning.
With door-to-door vaccine strike force teams now demanding everyone consent to medical tyranny, depopulation via bioweapons is in full force. This already means, according to prominent, outspoken doctors, that as many as 92 million Americans may perish from the vaccine over the next few years. (That’s because the CDC says 184 million Americans have already been injected with at least one dose, and doctors are saying the “majority” of those people will eventually die from the vaccine.)
It raises the obvious question: How will America’s infrastructure continue to function if 92 million people are killed by the vaccine?
And then there’s the planned economic collapse, the provoked race war, engineered food scarcity and mass starvation, etc.
If America emerges from all this by 2025 with fewer than 50 million people dead, it will be nothing short of a miracle.
And much the same scenario is playing out in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and all across Europe as well.
The globalist war on humanity is in full swing. Have no illusions about where we are now in the tipping point of history.”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/boots-on-the-ground-in-south-africas-chaos-33072/
“Editor’s Note: Today’s letter is written by a Sovereign Man team member, Andre Bothma, who is based in South Africa.
In KwaZulu-Natal province, where Zuma is from, supporters of the former president launched a massive, coordinated protest campaign against his incarceration. Freeways were blocked with burning tires. Vehicles were stoned. Trucks set alight across the province.
And then the looting and arson started in Durban and Pietermaritzburg, two of the province’s largest cities.
South Africa, once again, is making global headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In case you missed the news, last week former President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry.
It was probably a calculated risk on his part; had Zuma actually appeared at the tribunal, he may very well have been convicted and sentenced to a much harsher punishment.
And when his sentence was announced, many South Africans gave a collective sigh of relief; it had been a long-overdue victory for the rule of law.
But then, virtually overnight, things started falling apart — rapidly.
First it was just small shops. But then entire shopping malls were looted and burned to the ground.
Once the shopping malls were in ashes, these “mostly peaceful” protesters moved on to torch distribution centers and loot cargo containers in Durban’s harbor.
They even rampaged against some of the region’s critical infrastructure, going as far as setting a water treatment facility on fire.
At this point the riots were still localized to the KwaZulu-Natal region, Zuma’s home turf.
But then the rioters started agitating for protests to break out in Johannesburg, the country’s economic capital…
Nobody thought the violence was going to spread there; Johannesburg is not a Zuma stronghold, and the locals there enjoy a much greater level of affluence than those living in Zuma’s native KwaZulu-Natal.
And yet, overnight, the violence spread to Johannesburg.
Bear in mind that South Africa’s national police force has been recently ‘defunded’, with a massive 11.8 billion rand (roughly $750 million) budget cut. For South Africa, that’s a staggering sum of money.
So with a heavily defunded police force unable to quell the violence, more ‘mostly peaceful’ protestors rampaged across these two key provinces, specifically targeting supply chain infrastructure.
On Monday night, for example, rioters brazenly looted a BLOOD BANK while being filmed on live television.
As things stand today, the Johannesburg and Durban downtown areas look like war zones.
I live in Cape Town, which so far hasn’t erupted. But the atmosphere here is tense; people are justifiably worried. Yesterday afternoon I came home to find a police NYALA (a NYALA is an armored 4×4 riot control vehicle) speeding past my house.
And the panic buying has already begun; I waited in line for ages last night at my local grocery store, only to find that many major product categories were totally sold out.
The line of cars waiting outside our local petrol station told the same story.
Economic analysts and observers are now sounding the alarm over food security risks; they’re saying that all the looting and burning of major infrastructure and distribution centers could cause a food shortage.
But South Africa is already running out of food — the shortages are here!
Across Durban, finding products like bread, milk and insulin for sale has become almost impossible.
The few shops that are brave enough to remain open are selling loaves of bread for 4-5X the normal price. And good luck finding any petrol anywhere in the city.
As of yesterday, the body count stood at 70.
Over a billion dollars in damages to businesses and public infrastructure.
Supply chains decimated and investor confidence gone…
Thousands of retail jobs, gone for good, and even more at risk.
The rational person needs to be intellectually honest about what’s happening right now: this is deliberate violence and sabotage designed to destroy critical infrastructure and terrify people, all in an effort to influence public policy (and free Jacob Zuma).
But there’s a word for this: terrorism.
And it’s been coming for a long time. South Africa has long been home to instability, corruption, and tension. We have politicians like Julius Malema who pour gasoline on racial tensions and threaten to seize private property.
It’s clear that South Africa has been declining gradually.
But then all this violence broke out very suddenly, practically overnight.
As Simon often writes, it’s like how Hemingway described going bankrupt: “gradually, then suddenly.”
Human beings are easily susceptible to normalcy bias — the bizarre voice in our heads that tells us “everything will be OK” even when the warning signs are completely obvious.
Our brains simply cannot comprehend that tomorrow could be radically different than today… and that our world could be turned completely upside down.
It is for reasons like these that Sovereign Man consistently writes about having a Plan B, which Simon describes as something like an insurance policy.
But you can’t wait until your house is already on fire before thinking about an insurance policy.
Yesterday, I spoke with a successful business owner based in KwaZulu-Natal. He runs a franchise business, and scores of shops just like his have already been looted and burned to the ground nearby.
He and his wife are almost at retirement age, and have had the means to get a Plan B in place for at least the last decade.
But they didn’t. They procrastinated. They put off taking action because there was no clear and present threat compelling them to do so.
Now, at a time where literally no one in their right mind wants to buy commercial property in their city, they are looking to liquidate their assets to get a Portuguese Golden Visa, which gives them a flexible second residency option in Europe.
Given that the application process takes several months to complete, even outside of Covid times, they’re way too late.
Having a great Plan B requires NOT procrastinating… and taking the appropriate steps for your situation BEFORE anything terrible happens, while you still have the resources and presence of mind to do so.
Because if you wait until the proverbial hits the fan, you’ll probably be too frantic and panicked to be thinking clearly about rational solutions.
Don’t give in to normalcy bias and assume that everything will always be OK. The last 18 months should be reminder enough that things can (and do) change very quickly.
Two weeks ago, South Africa was still a relatively well-functioning country. Yet the “civil” in civil society has been proven to be a precariously thin veneer.”
Having a plan B is essential in these crazy uncertain times, but most conservatives cannot break out of normality bias.
“While we weren’t looking, South Africa, which has actually been teetering on the edge of unrest and instability for years now, has completely fallen over the edge and is now descending into the kind of chaos Americans experienced throughout 2020 in the form of riots and will experience again soon when patriots are pushed to the bring by the fascist Biden regime.
Following days of unrest and riots, South Africa’s largest oil refinery, which is responsible for producing more than one-third of the country’s fossil fuel energy needs, has shut down citing uncertainty and the country’s security apparatus being unable to keep the facility from being overrun.
Bloomberg News reports:
South Africa’s biggest oil refinery, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc known as Sapref, shut down because of safety concerns and logistical issues.
The 180,000 barrel-a-day facility was closed “due to the ongoing civil unrest and disruption of delivery and supply routes in and out of the KwaZulu-Natal Province,” the company said in an emailed response to questions.
“This decision was taken after careful consideration of risks involved including the safety of our people,” the email continued, noting that the plant could not even be guaranteed a supply of oil to process.
The shutdown comes on the heels of other reports noting that the country’s largest food distribution warehouse, like so many businesses and malls, has also been looted and completely drained.
“VALUE TRUCKS National warehouse situated in KZN, the biggest food distribution centre in Africa and RSA is being looted to the bone by thousands of looters. This is the central nerve centre for bulk food distribution in KZN supplying Shoprite, Checkers, Woolworths, SPAR [a]nd Game,” a local journalist reported via Twitter.
“This means not only retail but even the bulk supply food channels are being destroyed in KZN. There will be starvation and famine in KZN as early as next week. Shops that are open are running out of stock, due to panic buying. They cannot be restocked,” the journalist continued, using the acronym for KwaZulu-Natal-Natal province.
“This is going to be the biggest food crisis in Africa since the Ethiopian Famine since 1984. There is no bread, meat, milk, petrol and other essential supplies in most parts of Durban. KZN is literally burning to the ground,” he continued.
In other words, what’s happening in South Africa is a total collapse which will lead to anarchy, mass death, and the collapse of a country that once managed to build its own nuclear weapons without the world ever knowing about it.
But if South Africa becomes weakened and a shell of itself, there will likely be tribal warfare from within the country and from outside, as old scores are settled. South Africa’s Zulu population has never liked the African National Congress Party (ANC), and the tensions between the two factions have been building for years. Also, in more recent times, attacks and murders by blacks again minority whites have also accelerated.
“SAs current population level can only be sustained via modern agriculture & industrial logistics infrastructure. They’re destroying both. Famine is guaranteed, and on a greater scale than Zimbabwe,” wrote another observer.
As of this writing, the violence is already ramping up; CBS News reports that at least 72 people have already been killed, and the country’s police and military thus far seem incapable of ending the mayhem.
“Some of the most violent unrest has been in Alexandra township, a suburb of Johannesburg, where CBS News correspondent Debora Patta said hordes of looters have spent days ransacking retail stores, grabbing anything they can get their hands on. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, the police have struggled to contain the violence,” the network reported.
And, in a prelude to what will happen in America when the left-wing anarchists come around again, CBS News added: “Over 1,000 arrests have been made, and the South African military has been deployed to hot spots. But thrown into the volatile mix now, are armed militias, taking the law into their own hands.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57835756?
“Leading a comfortable life in South Africa's coastal city of Durban, John - not his real name - risks running out of food for the first time ever following the mass looting and burning of supermarkets and shops after protests over the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma spiralled out of control.
"Middle-class people like me now face shortages. On Tuesday, I could not get bread and milk until I became aware, through our neighbourhood WhatsApp group, of a community organisation giving it out.
"I went to their hall. We had to queue, and each person was given two loaves of bread and one litre of milk. I don't know where they got the stocks from but they gave out 8,000 loaves. Today [Wednesday], they don't have any," he added.
Durban, the main city in KwaZulu-Natal, is the political heartland of Zuma.
He began a 15-month prison sentence last Thursday for contempt of court after he disobeyed an order from judges to appear before an official inquiry investigating corruption allegations against him from his nine-year tenure as president.
Zuma's supporters reacted furiously to his imprisonment, blockading major roads and calling for a shutdown to demand his release.
The protests have since descended into riots on a scale rarely seen in South Africa, with businesses in every sector looted, burnt and petrol-bombed in cities and towns across KwaZulu-Natal.
Fears of fuel shortages
Similar unrest has swept through the economic hub of Gauteng, but KwaZulu-Natal remains the main flashpoint, with the riots reaching, or coming close to, some affluent neighbourhoods, terrifying shop owners and residents like John.
He said that only two or three shops in his suburb remained open. And this was for only a few hours a day.
"We are stocking up on dry food, and things like potatoes and onions. The shop owner said farms are inaccessible, and there will be no vegetables once his stocks run out," John added.
His other worry is medication for his chronically ill wife.
"Some of the big pharmaceutical chains have been looted or are closed. I went to a small pharmacy that is still open. I queued for three hours to get medication. Baby food and nappies are in huge demand," John said.
There are also fears of fuel shortages - something most South Africans have never experienced in their lives.
"At my petrol station, only one pump is open. There are long queues. I have half a tank of petrol left," John added.
He does not need much fuel at the moment though, as it is not safe to travel outside his suburb.
Furthermore, some adjacent suburbs have been blocked off by residents who have formed neighbourhood watch groups, or what local media call "defence squads", to prevent invasions.
"They don't allow any non-resident in, not even during the day, so even if I want to, I can't take a drive there to look for groceries," John said.
In his suburb, the neighbourhood patrol operates only at night. He has joined it, along with about 25 other men.
"Some have guns, but most of us just carry sticks, pipes and torches. I never thought I'll ever do this, but we have no choice. There are no police; no soldiers," he said.
"We block all intersections with our cars. Some of us will stand there; others will do foot patrols.
"If we get suspicious of someone we'll tell them to leave, and we've had a few instances of unregistered cars. We suspect they had come to survey our area to plan an attack," John said.
Raising money to help victims
In some other Durban neighbourhoods there have been violent confrontations, with large numbers of looters managing to raid shops and some homes before armed residents opened fire, forcing them to retreat. Some were shot.
Local leaders from both communities stepped in to negotiate a "no looting; no shooting" agreement, hoping that this will prevent a further escalation of conflict and help restore stability in a country shaken by the unrest.”
This is a modern zombie apocalypse in action.