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South Africa could have become a continent-spanning bastion of excellence and achievement in a world dementedly attached to the equality millstone After all, the Afrikaners built space and nuclear programs in a land where, before them, the tallest structure was a termite mound. They could have spread that civilization had they remained a bulwark of it against the rising tide of equality and communism They tried this, at times. They fought bravely in Namibia and Angola But they didn't always have it in them. They were lured away from resolute anti-communism by the siren song of detente, and in their case it proved deadly, for it convinced them to try to make peace with the communists rather than remain in Rhodesia's corner And so Rhodesia died as a result of their machinations alongside Kissinger, and when it fell they were completely alone. Soon they got Mandela, and with Mandela came the beginnings of the Cultural Revolution that today risk sending South Africa back to the Stone Age What might have been! with Rhodesia secure, they could have pushed North to the rich copper belt of Zambia and the vast, fertile fields of Nyasaland. They could have even pushed back into Katanga, from which the Belgians were forced, and achieved dominion over all those valuable minerals Imagine! A civilization stretching from the Cape to the Congo, secure in its position because it controlled all the valuable minerals of the world, from gold to cobalt, tin to copper. Such an entity could not have been bludgeoned by sanctions as South Africa was, and if nuclear-armed, as apartheid South Africa was, invasion would be a non-issue. Such a land, not dragged down by the millstone of equality's siren song, could have been glorious. It could have continued to advance as the rest of the world, attached to the false god of equality, destroyed itself. As has already been happening with it and Rhodesia to a certain extent in the Commonwealth, it would have been a land to which the capable and excellent fled to escape the expropriatory tax policies and public security-shredding equality policies of their regimes. Perhaps we'd already be on Mars, for it would have been an achievement-oriented society rather than one premised on knocking down every tall poppy Instead, it got Mandela. And now clean drinking water can't even be reliably provided

It’s the only thing that fixes this is colonialism