Floyd Shivambu is a populist South African politician who prides himself on having “superior” logic. Just how superior is it?
Floyd Shivambo, Image: Chronical
Floyd, Economic Freedom Fighter
Floyd Shivambu is the 35-year-old deputy leader of a political party named the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). As its name implies, it's not a peacenik organisation. It is a fascist, racist, populist and violent organisation. It hates all non-black people, particularly whites and Indians. It also hates black people who stand against it.
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The EFF idolises Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe—both leaders responsible for the utter destruction of their economies and the brutal suppression and misery of their people.
WMC and EWC
Inspired by these despots, the EFF has declared war on “white monopoly capital” (WMC), a vaguely defined term invented by disgraced UK-based public-relations and reputation management company, Bell Pottinger. (Bell Pottinger went bankrupt and shut down after the discovery of its role in creating race-division among South Africans, at the behest of an Indian crime family.)
To this end, the Party loudly advocates the State expropriation of all private property, without compensation (EWC). Most of us know this as “stealing”. This policy is said to have come about from applying “superior logic”, a kind of higher intelligence. According to this superior logic, all land will vest in the State and people will be allowed to rent plots of land on an “equitable” basis, and build their dwellings on them and live there for some unspecified time, at some unspecified rental, under unspecified conditions. This, apparently, will bring untold prosperity to the black people of South Africa.
This is very special logic.
Julius Malema, Image: African Mansions
Money, money, money
But what the EFF leaders really love is money. EFF leader Julius Malema sports a large Breitling watch, drives fancy cars and lives in a luxurious house in one of the most expensive areas in Africa (provided by a well know cigarette smuggler and crime boss). He's faced allegations of corruption, tax evasion and fraud. He has been convicted on some of the charges, while others have mysteriously been dropped.
Our friend Floyd, not to be outdone by his Leader, has been a major beneficiary (through his younger brother, Brian) of the plundering of VBS Mutual Bank, a small Black-owned bank. His brother received “gratuitous payments” to the sum of R16,148,569 (about 1.3 million USD), with at least R10 million being funnelled to Floyd's personal account. Brian is a recent graduate from a technical university.
It was reported today that Brian was granted a further R1.46 million home loan—despite not qualifying for one. This was after Floyd had discussions with the VBS chairman, who is also the kingpin in the VBS bank heist.
In a fine piece of almost Trumpian logic, Floyd tweeted:
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A brain twister
But to crown a busy week from Floyd, I leave you with this piece of classic “superior logic”, from a (now deleted) tweet last week:
Image: The Citizen
You're not alone if you had to read it twice to try and make any sense of it.
In the next post, I'll take you back almost a decade to see the first flowering of this amazing, superior logic.
References:
Daily Maverick: The Shivambu Brothers and the Great VBS Heist
The Citizen: Floyd Shivambu deletes embarrassing tweet exposing his terrible maths
News24: VBS scandal: Parliament's ethics committee to investigate Floyd Shivambu's role
news24: Julius Malema, Indian racism and the abandonment of intellectual rigour
BizNews: EFF’s racist diatribe unpacked – shadowy motivation suggested
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