re: South Africa is about to go full Zimbabwe

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I was just being cheeky because the non-arrival of the Bantu-derived people you referenced struck me as irrelevant.
My point may not have been clear. There exists this silly myth that the entirety of modern South Africa was utterly devoid of human life when the Dutch arrived. This is demonstrably-false, as the San were present.

But ot IS true that the ancestors of 99% of modern South African Blacks (there are only about 10k San descendants) had not yet arrived. The White argument (vis-a-vis the Bantu-derived majority) was always “We were here before you.”. This was largely true (there were a few Bantu settlements in the extreme northeast) and thus had some merit, but completely untrue vis-a-vis the San.

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To add to that, a not insignificant chunk of black South Africans are either first- or second-generation descendants of refugees who fled from the post-colonial wars (1960's to 1990's) in places like the Congo, Rwanda, Mozambique, Angola, etc.

There are wings of the ANC that have long had an ardent communist streak dressed up in racial grievances, and they have garnered more and more power in recent years.