Why President Trump Should Slap Sanctions on South Africa

American Thinker ^ | 03/12/2019 | Steve Apfel

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To the casual moralist, you don’t slap sanctions on a country on its knees while minding its own business. Never mind the country has a government of looters who campaign on a ticket of lies about Israel and fete Hamas terror leaders and a plane-highjacker on home soil. South Africa is not neighbouring Zimbabwe, on which President Trump already has slapped sanctions, although the Cato Institute warned him that South Africa is on the Zimbabwean road to hell.

For now, South Africa remains afloat. The problem (call it the exemplar effect) is somewhat different.

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe escaped reckoning for crimes of genocide and grand larceny by being nudged into honorable retirement. The ancient fellow squats at the family seat on his Aladdin trove waiting for a natural death to get him. But there’s a problem with that for South Africa. Taking a leaf out of tyrant Mugabe’s soft landing, South Africa’s rulers nudged their criminal President into opulent retirement. Jacob Zuma, the saboteur and treasonist (he flogged the country to friends and let them run it) squats on his Aladdin trove like a genie unable to move for his weight and all his merry wives.

Nor did Zuma retire gratefully. From the sidelines, he pokes fun at the antics of his jolly replacement, President Cyril Ramaphosa. The latter has set up probes and commissions for the public to understand how hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on nothing visible – right under Ramaphosa’s nose. He, many know, was the Deputy President who leaned over Zuma’s shoulder to watch him robbing the country blind.

What good, though, would sanctions do?

One good they would do is light a fire under the looters, many of whom remain at the helm. The ex-henchmen of Zuma breathe down the new leader’s neck.

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Another good that US sanctions on South Africa would accomplish is teach Africa all the lessons to be learned:

1. No one is above the law

2. Crime does not pay

3. Work for a living; no one owes Africans one

4. Legislated jobs and opportunities for blacks only (BEE or Transformation it’s called in South Africa) is racial discrimination under a peek-through cover.

5. Black people are not perennial victims. The moral or economic case for protection against skins of white and brown expired long ago.

6. Human rights go with human responsibilities

7. Don’t emulate Zuma – work for wealth, not steal for it.

South Africa’s new millennials are watching. Values are being shaped. Young people see the many Bentleys on northern Johannesburg’s pocked roads; the mansions...the lifestyle dirty money can buy. The Zumas and Mugabes of Africa have to be made examples of, or South Africa will join all the basket cases on the continent.

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Let’s be honest. Current South African leadership does not possess the skills to run a first world country. Heck, they didn’t have the skills to maintain a first world country handed to them on a silver platter