{"id":13366,"date":"2017-06-06T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13366"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:24:39","slug":"the-decolonization-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/06\/06\/the-decolonization-of-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decolonization of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite having as a role model the nation of Botswana, a stable democracy that proved that is it possible to have a President with a Black African father and a White English-speaking mother who isn&#8217;t a schmuck, many in South Africa would rather attain more immediate abet disastrous course of not only bashing White people, but of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017\/04\/17\/South-Africa-must-fall-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blaming anything and everything<\/a> considered &#8220;colonial&#8221; or &#8220;Western&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The group of 50 protesters \u2014 led by controversial pastor Xola Skosana who claims Jesus was HIV-positive \u2014 walked 11.5km from Gugulethu to Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Saturday to highlight townships\u2019 existence as &#8216;breeding grounds for black pain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Carrying an enormous wooden cross\u201a the group has called for an end to \u201cthe colonial construct\u201d that is South Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13367\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_.png 685w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite having a Black majority democracy for decades now, the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Kulaks<\/span> Whites must be blamed for&#8230; colonizing <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/10\/19\/science-and-racism-or-why-witches-throwing-magical-lightning-bolts-dont-exist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/03\/decolonizing-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">minds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;One of the protesters\u201a Andreas Banetsi Mphunga who works in the mental health sector in townships\u201a said: &#8216;It is part of white psychology that says\u201a &#8220;if we put people together in one place\u201a all hell will break loose&#8221;. Even social housing is built in those same areas\u201a far away from all resources.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He said that a Pan-Africanist psychology would have to prevail before Azania could be reached\u201a and pointed out that Hendrik Verwoerd was a psychology professor who had used his expertise to suppress black South Africans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;The answers might come from our own belief systems instead of white psychology\u201a&#8217; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/08\/29\/the-colonizing-decolonizers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ultimate irony<\/a> is that these people who want to purge South Africa of &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; have based their ideology on&#8230; a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century dead White male&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8221; Another said that during apartheid\u201a those in the liberation struggle knew who the enemy was. &#8216;But now\u201a the enemy is assimilated and it is harder to know who is who when we are oppressed by the black bourgeoisie\u201a&#8217; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Good luck with that &#8220;decolonization&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Decolonization of South Africa\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Despite having as a role model the nation of Botswana, a stable democracy that proved that is it possible to have a President with a Black African father and a White English-speaking mother who isn't a schmuck, many in South Africa would rather attain more immediate abet disastrous course of not only bashing White people, but of blaming anything and everything considered 'colonial' or 'Western'.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite having as a role model the nation of Botswana, a stable democracy that proved that is it possible to have a President with a Black African father and a White English-speaking mother who isn&#8217;t a schmuck, many in South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/06\/06\/the-decolonization-of-south-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,48],"class_list":["post-13366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13368,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13366\/revisions\/13368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}