The recent riots experienced in London, England envisioned a dark portent for South Africa as a country, because we have all of the same triggers and yet none of the outcomes or results. South Africa could easily be experiencing the same strife and civil unrest that are a landmark of many countries around the world: Libya, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Bahrain, Britain and Syria. Just to name a few...
The straw that broke the camel's back seems to be Julius Malema (the Right Dishonorable Foul-Mouthed Demagogic President of the ANC Youth League) and his repeated comments about Nationalising the mining sector, Punishing the "White Colonialists for their crimes against Humanity", the Botswanan people overthrowing the national government, etc...
This has all in all brought him into conflict with the ANC leadership, as his continued rebelious speeches are causing fears amongst the South African citizens of a full-blown Civil War between African Youth (under 30s) and the rest of the citizens, in the same style as the ZANU/PF War Veterans and Mugabe's Death/Terror Squads, which are even operating in South Africa (CIO: Counter-Intelligence Operatives - As featured on an SABC Special Assignment episode).
Julius Malema has repeatedly threatened to restart the "Liberation Struggle" until all Whites have been driven off African soil and that he will bringing down the Zuma/Mantashe Oligarchy in a blaze of fire that would make even Che Guevarra (!950s Cuban Revolutionary) proud.
The recent violent riots outside Lithuli House in Johannesburg were, according to Andile Lili (Western Cape ANCYL leader), foretaste of what South Africa could expect if Julius Malema is punished in anyway or expelled from the ANC by the Disciplinary Hearing that started on that same day. The ANC Party has definately lost all control of the Youth League, which is operating completely autonomously,which the whole country can plainly see.
Is this the precursor of a Civil War in South Africa? More than Likely... And it definately will be the end of one of the ANC Factions - ANC Old Guard versus ANC Youth League! The result is beyond anyone's scope of prediction, but the country will definately be all the more impoverished for it...
So South African's might as well get used to hearing reporters signing out from the farside!
