South African genocide conspiracy

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The South African genocide conspiracy is a complex of conspiracy theory claiming that the white people in South Africa will be the target of a genocide campaign.

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[edit] Background

Since European colonisation, centuries before the apartheid era in South Africa, most land and wealth has been owned by white people. In the very diverse anti-apartheid movement, there were indeed some racist expressions directed against white people.

Post-apartheid South Africa has its challenges. A generally high crime rate, South African farm attacks, as well as corruption within the African National Congress, have brought attention. White supremacists have made the conclusion that there is an ongoing campaign to persecute white people from South Africa.

[edit] Articles on the alleged conspiracy

In 2004, World Net Daily ran an article by Joseph Farah entitled "White Slaughter in South Africa?". Citing unspecified "G2B sources", the article claims that the South African Communist Party is planning to murder all whites in the country upon the death of Nelson Mandela; Farah goes on to claim that these plans are known variously as “Operation Vula,” "Night of the Long Knives," "Operation White Clean-up," "Operation Iron Eagle", "Red October campaign" and "Operation Uhuru" and would involve such events as 70,000 armed black men being transported to the centre of Johannesburg in taxi cabs, ready to kill white people.[1]

Farah's article touched a nerve amongst white nationalists. Sarah "Maid of Albion" Davies, a pro-BNP blogger, wrote a post entitled "The Deadly Dream of Uhuru" that expands upon Farah's piece, using much the same information from the "G2B sources". Davies begins her argument by citing the atrocities of the Mau Mau rebels, using this as evidence that black South Africans will commit similar murders after the death of Mandela (or "when that most beatified of retired terrorists has his final meeting with Beelzebub", as she puts it). Because the WND article at one point uses the word "Uhuru" (Swahili for "freedom") in connection with the plans, Davies appears to have taken any instance of the term as a codeword for white genocide - even implicating singer Miriam Makeba ("the liberal's favourite ethnic songbird", apparently) for releasing a song entitled "Not Yet Uhuru". Bizarrely, she ends by suggesting that black Americans might also go on a murderous anti-white rampage should Barack Obama ever be impeached.[2][3]

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