Great conceptual future, but alas, the tyrants ruling this continent (like Mnangagwa, Museveni and his ilk) have zero development plans unless the development is his bank balance or property portfolio in far off places. No chance they will change to serving the people in a world of law abiding, pro education and development, pro growth & progress, honest libertarian opportunities.
As for open borders, do you really think we can afford another 50 million grant recipients in SA who will flood down from the North into SA and claim their SASSA benefits if open borders existed, and the crime they must resort to to put food onto their table in the interim will disable how many slaving bread winners to keep working under criminal rule (car stolen, phone stolen, business and properties stolen) while the police "service" protect only the politicians?
Pessimism for Africa has been the accurate viewpoint for over half a century, look at the murder and rape rate in SA since ANC rule. EWC, NHI, BELA idiocy, FCA, and our economic shrinkage proudly touted by the (anti development, anti industrialization, anti education, anti progress, pro white hate and genocide) ANC as progress. The ANC has shown its respect for the constitution, democracy (ask the Zimbabweans whose last 6 elections were stolen) along with alliances with genocidal tyrants (like Mugabe, Iran + IRGC, Maduro, the new Idi(ot) Amin in the clothes of Musevenis son,). Will the ANC accept total loss of power, not according to the talk I have heard and the plans I have read.
The WEF has many tools in place (Global press, World Bank, loans and debt, GNU etc) to make agenda 2030 work in Africa, you will own nothing, and be happy in your poverty, while totally dependent on your "government" for everything, food & water, housing, safety, medical care, education, liberty. Not a pretty picture.
This is where my faith comes into it, I know that man ultimately doesn't have control of outcomes, God does. My job is to pray for things to get better and do my part to make them so, I will continue to advocate for and work towards what I believe in. I refuse to be overwhelmed by pessimism.
There is a lot to be negative about, but being negative is the easy thing to do and it does not make anything better. This is not to say put on rose-tinted glass, be a realist, but also try to make things better.
Africa will remain a noisy, tribal and balkanised continent for another 1,000 years. Wishful thinking is good but it is also bound to lead to disappointment. The Sahara desert alone, has and will divide Africa forever.
That may be true, I fully understand the difficulty of what I am suggesting, I am the last person to engage in wishful thinking, as you put it. It is good to remember that civilisation is where it is now because some men dreamed impossible dreams and worked towards them against the weight of what they could see around them. Imagine being an abolitionist in the 1700s, with all of human history telling you that slavery can never be ended.
Nothing worth having comes easy, and at the same time, pessimism never built anything. I have outlined what levers SA could use to start to move us in the direction of unity, using tools we already have available to us. Also remember that SACU is the world's oldest existing customs union, we can build on this and we already have a treaty via the African Continental Free Trade Area, to begin to extend SACU to the continent as a whole.
Every grand, top down, colonial or global 'empire'/union has been short-lived. Societies are built from ground up; family, tribe, community, cities, states and if they are very fortunate in leadership, they may become nation states...most often these are loose alliances of a confederal nature with devolved powers. The current fight back against world government in all its forms is proof. The EU, Britain, South Africa (watch the Zulus and the Western cape) are all movements decrying massive, over bureaucratised, top down rule. It is a great pity that South Africa chose union and not confederation. What does the expensive "AFRICAN UNION" achieve?
President Trump agrees:
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2037662713921314881
Great conceptual future, but alas, the tyrants ruling this continent (like Mnangagwa, Museveni and his ilk) have zero development plans unless the development is his bank balance or property portfolio in far off places. No chance they will change to serving the people in a world of law abiding, pro education and development, pro growth & progress, honest libertarian opportunities.
As for open borders, do you really think we can afford another 50 million grant recipients in SA who will flood down from the North into SA and claim their SASSA benefits if open borders existed, and the crime they must resort to to put food onto their table in the interim will disable how many slaving bread winners to keep working under criminal rule (car stolen, phone stolen, business and properties stolen) while the police "service" protect only the politicians?
Pessimism for Africa has been the accurate viewpoint for over half a century, look at the murder and rape rate in SA since ANC rule. EWC, NHI, BELA idiocy, FCA, and our economic shrinkage proudly touted by the (anti development, anti industrialization, anti education, anti progress, pro white hate and genocide) ANC as progress. The ANC has shown its respect for the constitution, democracy (ask the Zimbabweans whose last 6 elections were stolen) along with alliances with genocidal tyrants (like Mugabe, Iran + IRGC, Maduro, the new Idi(ot) Amin in the clothes of Musevenis son,). Will the ANC accept total loss of power, not according to the talk I have heard and the plans I have read.
The WEF has many tools in place (Global press, World Bank, loans and debt, GNU etc) to make agenda 2030 work in Africa, you will own nothing, and be happy in your poverty, while totally dependent on your "government" for everything, food & water, housing, safety, medical care, education, liberty. Not a pretty picture.
The tyrants will surely resist this, but their power is not infinite. We cannot afford any grant recipients, but why do you think immigration always means the immigrants must receive welfare? Why do you think they must resort to crime when we have so many peaceful immigrants running businesses and making money without resorting to crime? I have more to say here on immigration: https://www.news24.com/citypress/voices/mpiyakhe-dhlamini-closed-borders-are-antiubuntu-so-heres-a-better-fix-for-mzansi-20260228-0977
This is where my faith comes into it, I know that man ultimately doesn't have control of outcomes, God does. My job is to pray for things to get better and do my part to make them so, I will continue to advocate for and work towards what I believe in. I refuse to be overwhelmed by pessimism.
There is a lot to be negative about, but being negative is the easy thing to do and it does not make anything better. This is not to say put on rose-tinted glass, be a realist, but also try to make things better.
Africa will remain a noisy, tribal and balkanised continent for another 1,000 years. Wishful thinking is good but it is also bound to lead to disappointment. The Sahara desert alone, has and will divide Africa forever.
That may be true, I fully understand the difficulty of what I am suggesting, I am the last person to engage in wishful thinking, as you put it. It is good to remember that civilisation is where it is now because some men dreamed impossible dreams and worked towards them against the weight of what they could see around them. Imagine being an abolitionist in the 1700s, with all of human history telling you that slavery can never be ended.
Nothing worth having comes easy, and at the same time, pessimism never built anything. I have outlined what levers SA could use to start to move us in the direction of unity, using tools we already have available to us. Also remember that SACU is the world's oldest existing customs union, we can build on this and we already have a treaty via the African Continental Free Trade Area, to begin to extend SACU to the continent as a whole.
Every grand, top down, colonial or global 'empire'/union has been short-lived. Societies are built from ground up; family, tribe, community, cities, states and if they are very fortunate in leadership, they may become nation states...most often these are loose alliances of a confederal nature with devolved powers. The current fight back against world government in all its forms is proof. The EU, Britain, South Africa (watch the Zulus and the Western cape) are all movements decrying massive, over bureaucratised, top down rule. It is a great pity that South Africa chose union and not confederation. What does the expensive "AFRICAN UNION" achieve?
What I am suggesting is a confederation and it has nothing to do with the AU.