The reality of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Africa is very sad

This whole deal with South Africa piqued my interest and caused me to do some research on the history of the region. My previous flawed perception was that whites within the last 100 years or so came in and ran roughshot over peaceful, established, black dwelling places by conquest or swindling blacks out of land.

Reality paints a much different picture...

Whites arrived in the 17th century. They did purchase land and did take land by conquest...exactly like what happened in America. The blacks in the region...also took land from each other. The Bantu expanded south from central Africa, conquering and absorbing other African peoples in the process...they were not any more native than the Dutch or British.

Like all of human history, land is subject to being taken by force and must be defended. The reality is that whites were well established in South Africa for centuries. They may have taken or purchased land from native Africans...but that land had been taken from its previous owners...and previous owners before that.

Whites set up prosperous countries and territories that, particularly in modern times, highly benefited the black population. The truth is that Communists infiltrated and armed those that took land that had belonged to whites for generations in Rhodesia while the UN sanctioned them to the point that they could not supply themselves adequately. Mugabe was a terrorist and a Communist and ran the region into the ground after expelling the white population.

Mandela was also a Communist and the black takeover of the South African government is leading the same kind of disaster that befell Zimbabwe. Whats sad is that the west turned a blind eye and even aided and abetted those who were only capable of tearing down what was once a great place.