Are Educated Black South Africans Gunning for Civil War?

And so it begins. Sweeping up the populace to anarchy and civil war. Blessings Ramoba doesn't know what he's doing.

In the developed world, when the population of a country loses trust in their government, they vote for a new party, a new government. But never, never in Africa. Violence always, without an exception, follows when the populace regards their leaders as crooked.

 Democracy isn't rooted into the African psyche, instead a government is seen as a king and his household, that cannot be removed by any other means than violence. Civil unrest follows then, because the percentage of the population loyal to the 'king' equals that of the disloyals.

Instead of robust, real debate, the primitive African way of solving big issues are always with violence. We have seen it twice in the last decade in the 'stable' Kenya, in Zimbabwe where Mugabe had major support even after his ousting, in Lesotho, in Swaziland, in Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, and so many others. Instead of putting a viable alternative forward to replace the government via democratic means, violence are opted for, with the strongest group then seizing control despite not having popular support.

South Africa itself has 51 daily 'service delivery' protests across the country, with the vast majority of it ending in violence and destruction of property. Those are ordinary, fed-up, semi-illiterate, impoverished black people that have got nothing to lose and that got fed up with municipalities not delivering basic services as the latter are supposed to do. A direct result of plain and utter incompetence. 

While almost 100% of municipalities were fully functional during the apartheid regime while under white management, today the situation is completely reversed, with around 90% of the country's 230 municipalities in dire financial straits and firmly under black rule. Many are deemed by the auditor-general to be technically bankrupt and unsustainable to continue operating. Debts amounts to billions of ZAR, owed to other public departments as well as companies in the private sector, of which the largest chunk will never be recovered. Some towns goes without water for several days at a time, and even middle-class suburbs in Johannesburg are without electricity for days, on top of the hours of loadshedding from the national monopolistic electricity provider Eskom. 

Although it's very true that the ANC failed their nest, it's not just because of corruption. Plain incompetence plays a major role, the inability to solve problems, and the knack to create more problems because of that incompetence.

Calling for a whole government to be placed on trail for the worst crime a government can commit is the African prelude to a civil war. What should be concerning is that there are far more educated blacks than just Blessing calling for the same thing, people with influence among other poorer blacks that are prone to acting violent. Aren't the former supposed to be educated, complete with tertiary education behind them? Then why haven't they learned from Africa's history?

 Or are we looking at educated opportunists seeing the opportunity to gain financially from civil unrest?