South African crisis

There is a problem brewing in South African, and it has been building for a while. This disconnect that the African National Congress has with its white counterpart is frustrating. Tensions are at an all-time high, and the mainstream news outlets have yet to cover this problem at all. This has huge foreign policy implications, as well, immoral repercussions. The African National Congress has passed a motion that will expropriate lands without compensation in South Africa, this was actually tried in Zimbabwe about 18 years ago and we can see the impact it leaves. However, there are two other arguments besides economic that are important in this discussion. The first is that is a racist act, focusing specific on white farmers we can be honest and say that this is a systemic problem. White farmers in South Africa also are dealing with targeted violence as well. There were about 74 murders that occurred against farmers in April of 2016 to March of 2017. This is a statistically puzzle since that would mean that in that time period farmers were three times more likely to get murder than police officers. Also most of these murders were white farmers, and white South African Farmers are four times more likely to get murder than any other South African.

With these high murder rates and intentional systemic racism white South Africans are being pushed out of their homes literally. I am shocking surprise that nobody in the mainstream media is covering this, and I will give an example why. Cape Town’s Day Zero got more coverage in the media than this expropriation. Which I find peculiar because after it blew up in the media the people of Cape Town started rationing better and received aid from their neighboring countries. Slowly the day kept getting pushed further and further away, whereas, this expropriation has been building for a while and now is at its boiling point the media is silent.  Maybe it was that people hoped that they wouldn’t pass this motion but this would be naive since the leaders of the African National Congress have been hinting at this for a while. This expropriation will have huge foreign policy implications the first is this could lead to a humanitarian crisis. If the people refuse to leave they will be locked in prison or murder, some of these farmers have been living for five to six generations. Force would be the only approach by the government, and when governments historically do these types of actions humanitarian problems ensue.

When humanitarian problems occur migration happens. This would be my biggest concern. Europe is experiencing setbacks from Syrian migration due to the Syrian War, and even though the war is indeed more important in the sense for foreign policy and because it is an ongoing war it feels like this can be similar situation that builds upon this trend of migration. Migration can affect that region's economy enormously, more importantly this migration seems very realistic because the African National Congress is proceeding with these changes, and as I mentioned earlier that Zimbabwe tried this, and it seems like the geopolitical climate setting up a trend for white African movement. Since this movement is more than likely to occur I would like to propose a solution, this is a practical solution for where to put these people, I purpose that if this humanitarian crisis occurs that these white South Africans move to Australia, United Kingdom, or the United States.

I only put the United States on this list because Australia and the United Kingdom have taken in Migrants from the Syrian War already. However, I feel that Australia and the United Kingdom are the best fit for them because of their culture, customs, and language. The United States would work however the other states are better suited for those migrants. How this could happen is if the United Nations could help these people migrate there, and it would be easier than the Syrian’s and other Middle Eastern countries because the conflict is not a War. This means that the pathway for white South Africans will be easier because they are not coming from a War-torn area, this is not minimization just the reality of two similar problems of migration with different variables. I hope that some international coalition steps us, we don't want another Rwanda.