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What I am about to relate is news I received from my wife (currently in Zambia), early this morning, which would have been evening in that region of Africa.

This pertains to the "Xenophobic Campaign" (to give it a name) conducted on 30 June against various and sundry foreign black residents and workers, wherein the Campaign participants (mostly native Zulus) marched en masse through city business and residential districts to collar and displace any whom they deemed "foreign", dragging them from their homes and businesses, to be conveyed to the nearest border crossing and expelled from the country. This was mainly directed against workers originating from other African countries, especially neighboring ones.

Although the present U.S. attention is directed toward the situation of the SA white population, they were substantially unharmed by this campaign, having robustly armed up and determined to resist. In several cases where the mob congealed around a white dwelling, a few warning rifle shots were sufficient to cool their ardor and make them move along. As she put it, the whites had thrown all respect for the gun control laws aside, in favor of stern and armed resistance. Seemingly, the government had larger problems with the X Campaign.

The X Campaign had apparently been led by some woman, who was sufficiently funded for the whole affair to afford transportation in armored Land Rovers and to be dressed elegantly. My wife is convinced that this whole Campaign is calculated to destabilize the government of SA. By whom, we had no clear idea. She surmised criminal cartels, for a wider hand. i speculated China, desirous of African footholds.

But nothing happens in a vacuum, and the redoubtable President Cyril Ramaphosa (a complete bag of cowardly shit) recently discovered he was unable to attend a meeting of African heads of state in Ghana. He had been declared persona non grata, as the home nations of the expelled foreigners took extreme umbrage at their treatment. As a result, these nations were embarking on reciprocal expulsions of South Africans, and the termination of business arrangements with South Africa. Likewise, air flights to South Africa declined to nothing, being rerouted to neighboring nations. Oliver Tembo airport now resembles a ghost town. No incoming or outgoing flights. (My wife must travel to SA in a week for eye surgery. She is anticipating being The Passenger coming through the main airport. We found that droll.) And, of course, in an application of the Mugabe Effect, there is no economic productivity from the small businesses that the mob had deranged and dispossessed. Various shortages are now appearing (or disappearing as the case may be).

Supposedly in reaction to this reaction, Ramaphosa called out this woman leader of the Campaign as a culprit. However, underground video circulated showing her in attendance at a high level party, quite cheerful and enjoying herself. Ramaphosa is putting on a face, but he still reeks of political B.O.

Possibly in light of this reaction, the Campaign organizers have announced they would focus their effort in and around Durban, a major port city in the province of Kwazulu-Natal, the former homeland and present stronghold of the Zulu tribe.

There are also sporadic reports of internecine conflict within the Campaign.

So, it remains to be seen where this will go. The whites are entrenched and solidly armed, with the tacit acceptance (if not approval) of the totally undermanned and ineffectual government forces. (They claimed to have made arrests of hundreds of Campaigners, but there were thousands on the march.) The government is now faced with international and internal repercussions of these violations, to the immediate detriment of the economy. This may possibly induce them to put a lid on the whole affair---but once the genie is out of the bottle, on a rampage, it is very tough to put it back in again (particularly when the Economic Freedom Fighter party [communists] led by Julius Malema are all in favor of such dispossession). The thought is that Jacob Zuma, Ramaphosa's predecessor and eminence grise, is also behind what is going on.

Again, this is what my wife has heard as best as I can recall. Apologies for any inadvertent errors or misunderstandings. Fog of war.