Politics

[Red Leg]

South African ambassador 'no longer welcome' in US, Rubio says

The US Secretary of State called the ambassador a "race-baiting politician who hates America".

www.bbc.com

He was understandably declared persona non grata when he called the President a leader of a white supremacist movement. No one is closing embassies. At least, not yet.

 

[Doubleplay]

According to Breitbart US has kicked the South African ambassador out. I would expect SA to do the same. Hunter’s could lose US embassy assistance.

We don't have any ambassador in SA right now. He resigned after Trump got elected. However Embassy is fully functional and will be without the Ambassador. My son is the Marine attache there and I hope things don’t get complicated.

 

[Altitude sickness]

So the ZA ambassador was ok with the ZA government stealing land to “give back” to groups of people that did not live within 1000 miles of the property when it was settled in the 1800s.

 

[Doubleplay]

So the ZA ambassador was ok with the ZA government stealing land to “give back” to groups of people that did not live within 1000 miles of the property when it was settled in the 1800s.

I'm not an advocate for RSA government or I approve them but you have to educate yourself on the subject. It’s not that simple and there's a white majority party in the coalition right now.
There wouldn’t be any white landowner left there if it would be like that and more than %90 of the land is still owned by whites.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Technical Difficulties

Of course it isn’t the only issue. There are many violations. Stealing land being one of the many.

 

[Wheels]

I'm not an advocate for RSA government or I approve them but you have to educate yourself on the subject. It’s not that simple and there's a white majority party in the coalition right now.
There wouldn’t be any white landowner left there if it would be like that and more than %90 of the land is still owned by whites.

When Van Riebeeck landed 370 years ago the only indigenous people south of the Orange River (pretty sure this was the river without looking it up) were Hottentots and San. People that are virtually gone today. The great Bantu migration had not made it that far south. Of the races now in South Africa, the whites were the first ones in that area.

By the time of the Great Trek, the Bantu had certainly moved south of the Limpopo in significant numbers. I think this is what @Altitude sickness is talking about and it is certainly good to "educate yourself on the subject."

 

[Altitude sickness]

^^^ exactly. Many, incorrectly try to equate the US westward migration in the mid and late 1800s with the ZA northern migration.

In the US white people did actually take land from indigenous people. Not so in ZA.

Land stealing is one of many issues Trump is addressing.