The “white genocide” narrative works inside this wider machinery. It racialises South Africa’s internal contradictions for foreign consumption. It turns a country struggling with the unresolved consequences of colonialism and apartheid into a supposed persecutor of whites. It erases land theft, labour exploitation, racial capitalism and the real suffering of the African majority. It invites external intervention and commercial leverage through racial fear
European state banks are happy to finance projects using pesticides deemed too dangerous for people in their own countries. One of these is in Ghana
In mid-July, supply chains and industrial output were disrupted when parts of the country were rocked by looting, triggered by protests against Zuma’s incarceration