[B4Ranch]

It sure took them long enough to get off their butt and see the fire!

[Cicero]

It's not complacency or politics, it's pure fear. The businessmen in South Africa must know deep down that they are sitting on a volcano, and that what is happening in Zimbabwe today may happen in South Africa tomorrow. It would be enormously self-destructive for the blacks in South Africa to drive out the white businessmen, but that hasn't stopped blacks in numerous other postcolonial countries from doing the same thing. Ironically, I think it's only the continued presence and enormous authority of Nelson Mandela that has kept these resentments from exploding. After he dies, things may well spiral out of control.

None of these businessmen wants to get out on a limb and call attention to himself as a future target of racial resentment.

[thucydides]

These countries, which formerly enjoyed some modicum of civilized life under colonial rule, are rapidly slipping back into the conditions of utter savagery that always prevailed before. Cannibalism, genocide, slavery, and all the evils of savage society are returning.