The result of the vote for Alberta leaving the federation was not surprising. However, I expected it to be closer than the final 75:25 vote against secession. What was significant was the support for Alberta deciding on its own immigration policy and the opposition to the federal government’s disastrous immigration programme. Once again showing that threats to one’s culture are taken seriously.
The same type of programme or open-borders policy that is responsible for the destruction of Western culture in Europe and the UK. And now the destruction of historic town halls, shops and schools in France.
I lived through the decline of both Rhodesia and South Africa when governments based on Western values and the rule of law were replaced by Marxist governments. Governments formed largely from former terrorist groups with no experience in government and a far greater attraction to power and corruption than the welfare of their citizens.
In Zimbabwe, the decline accelerated after Mugabe’s illegal and disastrous campaign to force productive, commercial (mainly white) farmers off our farms. A clear example of prioritising control and self-enrichment over the state of the economy or the welfare of the population.
For more detail of my experience after being arrested for failing to leave our farm, read this post, or get my book.
Culture & Stability
The change from the old, or as liberals like to call it, “Apartheid” South Africa to the “Rainbow Nation” and the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe provide clear examples of what happens when the Western culture that provides a stable government is overwhelmed by foreign cultures, either through a change in legislation as in South Africa and Rhodesia or massive – and mostly illegal – immigration by people from different cultures.
Prior to the surrender of the South African government to Mandela’s ANC in 1992, the South African population comprised around 33.6 million Blacks, 5.5 million Whites, 2.5 million Coloureds and 1.1 million Asians (mainly Indians). (1991 Census with total population including Black homelands and semi-autonomous states of Transkei & Ciskei).
The legislation in force at the time restricted residence according to one’s race. Blacks lived in Black Townships or Black homelands; Whites lived in White areas. Coloured’s, Indians and other Asians in their allocated areas. Much criticism was levelled at South Africa for this racial segregation. However, it ensured that one culture did not overwhelm another. All population groups increased under this system for three centuries.
Changing Demographics
The thriving economy and shortage of workers for the mines and industry led to massive recruitment of black workers from surrounding territories. High birthrates and lower infant mortality because of access to health care, and restrictions on European immigration, meant that the black population increased at a far higher rate than that of the other groups.
Unlike in the USA, Canada and Australia, where massive European immigration and imported diseases quickly reduced the indigenous people to powerless minorities. Minorities that could not influence the course of government.
For most of the 14 years I lived in South Africa, I lived near Durban in Natal, which at the time had the largest Indian population outside of the Indian subcontinent. Durban had a thriving Indian commercial district adjacent to the city centre and two large Indian suburbs, Chatsworth and Reservoir Hills. There were Indian shopping centres, Hindu temples, community centres, schools and a range of houses from modest to huge, luxurious mansions.
Moslems had areas where there were mosques. Coloured people had their community centres, schools and churches. Blacks had their areas.
Each community was free to live in its own area, among people of the same culture, secure in the knowledge that the strong central government maintained law and order based on a Western-style system of government. None of the communities or cultures were in danger of being overwhelmed by the others.
Yes, liberal critics will scream that “apartheid” prevented anyone who was not white from voting. That, as blacks were the indigenous people of Africa and comprised the majority of the population, they should be allowed to vote for a government of their choosing.
Black people of Bantu descent were not the indigenous population of a large part of South Africa. The area south of the Fish River, which became the Western Cape, was the home of the Khoi and San people, small brown, hunter-gatherers who were pushed North into the Kalahari Desert by the expanding European settlements, and later the movement of black people from the East and North attracted by the opportunities offered by a functioning economy.
The Tipping Point
The huge increase in the black population and slower increases in the other groups started to affect the barriers that had allowed each group to maintain its own culture. The economic success of South Africa created more better-paying jobs than whites could fill. Members of all races rose into supervisory and management positions in commerce and industry. Legislation that created barriers between the races was often not enforced. A prime example was in marathon running, where athletes of all races competed together.
All those changes were beneficial and acceptable to most of the population. However, they were not dramatic enough to threaten the culture or standard of living of each group. I believe that if both South Africa and Rhodesia had been left alone, the barriers between the races would have slowly eroded and both countries would have enjoyed a peaceful and successful future with better prosperity for all their citizens.
The advent of terrorist actions by the ANC in South Africa, ZANU and ZAPU in Rhodesia intimidated large sections of the black community. Sanctions, embargoes, the increasing cost of fighting a terrorist war, and eventually accelerating emigration from the white population and skilled members of the other groups took their toll and caused both countries to open voting to all groups.
Through massive, brutal intimidation of the black populations, a government formed by members of the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups won the first election in 1980, and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. The ANC used the same tactics in South Africa and formed a government after elections in 1994.
With all restrictions and insulating barriers removed, discrimination against whites and anyone else who did not openly display allegiance to the ruling parties in either country intensified; Western values were abandoned, corruption flourished, inflation increased, and currencies were devalued.
Zimbabwe became a basket case; the white population fell from its peak of 300 000 in 1975 to around 20 000 currently.
South Africa’s 12.6% white population of 5.5 million in 1991 fell to an estimated 4.54 million, or 7.2%, according to the 2024 census. While the coloured and Asian groups increased, their percentages of the total population remained at the same levels as in 1991. The biggest gains were shown by blacks, who accounted for 81.75%, with a total of 55.1 million.
Now 46 and 22 years later, the result of the destruction of Western systems, values, and the rule of law can be seen in massive unemployment, corruption, hunger, poverty, widespread theft and violence, decay of infrastructure and utilities. Declining standards of living are the norm for all but a small group of politically connected, obscenely rich individuals.
That is the future facing Western Europe, the UK, Australia and Canada unless these countries radically overhaul their immigration policies, defend their borders and abandon two-tier justice. The Republican government under President Trump has slowed the process in the USA with the exception of California, New York City, and parts of other states where socialist mayors and governors seem intent on following France into the inferno.
When will the spirit of the Allies in WWII return to save our culture and our future?
