Night of the Long Bullshit

With Madiba in hospital and the world press waiting to see what happens next, we are sure that the same old crap has been going around on email again.


We also reckon that the guys at Stormfront are having a field day, if it wasn't that they were out shopping for candles and canned food.

But to get back to the title of this post, The Night of the Long Knives, or operation Hummingbird as it is also known, already took place under Nazi rule in Germany in the 1930's, so even the name is a rehash. If you prefer the other term, Uhuru, it is either a reggae band from Jamaica or the Swahili word for freedom.

You must have received the email at least once, telling the story about how the Swart Gevaar! are waiting for Madiba to pass away before rising up and slaughtering all the white people, woman and children included.

But what about other race groups and foreigners? If you skim the news there has been more violence against people from other African countries than other Race Groups, no matter what the Freedom Front (there's that word again) wants you to believe about farm murders. Will there be special attention or special dispensation? What if you don't want to join, do you also get murdered then and another embassy have to get involved?

Now, have you seen your gardener, domestic or factory worker skulking around with a panga or AK47 today? Just watch out tomorrow, and the next, and the next and so on, until Madiba gets out of hospital.

Because the moment he does not and gets driven away in a hearse, the Swart Gevaar! will come. (Unless they have to quickly pop home to go and fetch the panga because it started getting ridiculous carrying it around. And they will probably ask you for extra taxi fare as there is no way that any taxi driver will allow free rides, no matter the purpose.)

Pathetic as it may sound, some people believe it, but let's consider for a bit.

At this point Mandela is a trending topic on Twitter, the CNN regularly switches over to Milpark hospital, Google is awash and the whole world is watching. Then if he should pass away, we will have a state funeral with more coverage than when Princess Diana died.

With that kind of exposure, what will be the result if the Swart Gevaar! does rise up and kill all the white people?

Foreign Investment will go down the drain, who will want to invest when your CEO gets killed when he sets foot at the office? The JSE will crash bigger than 1929 as all of a sudden in one day or week there are no more leaders in the big international listed companies.

The Rand is also the most actively traded emerging market currency in the world, what would happen if it were to drop to R50 or R100 to the dollar?

Sure, the events in Rwanda can be taken as an example, but the death toll is estimated at 800 000 over a period of three months and it did not happen at a time when the whole world was watching, neither did they have a World Cup in the last year with an estimated 860 000 tourist entering the country every month. The figures speak for themselves, and then the white race in South Africa are around 4.6 Million.

So do you really think that the logistics are possible with a government that can't even fix potholes but have to rely on an insurance company to do so? When the Major of Johannesburg tells everyone that there is no billing crisis when 8% of all invoices sent are queried? When it takes months before a real crisis with acid mine drainage that threatens a World Heritage Site is still awaiting the final report?

And then we have one last question: Why kill and murder off your tax paying residents that ensures your Breitling watch gets you to the exclusive Sandton restaurant on time in your luxury car to feast on Cristal and oysters at their expense?

Isn't it so much easier to just fleece them every month and raise the petrol price and other taxes every so often?