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Frans Cronje. A Time Traveller's Guide to South Africa in 2030
Frans Cronje
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known. And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Foreword
Chapter 1: The fourth transition
Chapter 2: Seeing very far ahead
Chapter 3: A good story to tell about a better life for all
Chapter 4: It all hinges on the economy
Chapter 5: The race war cometh
Chapter 6: The political race
Chapter 7: Making order from chaos
Chapter 8: Rise of the Right
Chapter 9: The Tyranny of the Left
Chapter 10: The Break-up of South Africa
Chapter 11: Rise of the Rainbow
Chapter 12: Through a glass, darkly
Acknowledgements
Summary
About the author
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A Time traveller’s guide to
SOUTH AFRICA
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Elias and Sam Tshabalala were both unemployed and had been hired as casual labourers at a rate of R150 a day by the company contracted by the Tshwane council to demolish the Hammanskraal shacks. At a point during the evictions the community turned on the casual workers. Sam Tshabalala was amongst those who managed to escape, but his brother was caught and burned alive by the people trying to save their shacks. A later news report said that the company that had hired the Tshabalala brothers had offered to donate cabbages for his funeral.
The whole incident is an all-too-common window into the cruel brutality of life for many South Africans − the poor fighting the poor just to save their homes or to earn R150 for a day of menial work. South Africans are wrong if they think this kind of thing can continue, day after day, without it one day tearing the country to pieces. Less than a year after the events at Hammanskraal, the ANC lost its majority in Tshwane and held a series of meetings to try to understand what had gone wrong.
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