On Wednesday night, outgoing IRR CEO Frans Cronje joined comedian Joe Emilio on the Joe Emilio Show to discuss the general collapse of the South African state, the defeat of the ANC, how communities in KwaZulu-Natal are rebuilding after the riots, the prospects for independence both in that province and in the Western Cape, the DA’s ‘hero’ posters, and why South Africans need to build enclaves to survive the next decade.
Cronje said that the communities that manned the barricades in KwaZulu-Natal after the police and the army ran away were real South African heroes.
Cronje told Emilio that there were South African heroes everywhere: the business owners trying to retain jobs and hold up the economy in the face of lockdowns, load shedding and BEE extortion; the farmers that feed the country and build rural economies despite the constant threats of violence and having their businesses confiscated; the ordinary people trying to hold their communities together as the social consequences of mass unemployment tear communities apart.
Cronje explained that the South African state would fail progressively faster in executing its key functions. This would lead to the defeat of the ANC. The kind of conflict and anarchy that swept KwaZulu-Natal a few weeks ago would later spill out to communities across the country. But in those crises Cronje maintained that there were opportunities for communities to find each other across lines of historical class, race, and political division by forming robust enclaves that would withstand the future violence and economic collapse and become the nuclei of a new South Africa.
Watch the show here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32hEpSIotYs and learn more about Joe Emilio https://www.joeemilio.co.za/.