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History asks a question we rarely ask ourselves: not who we would have beenbut where we would have been. Born to privilege or poverty? Opportunity or hardship? How different would our lives have been That’s the journey Ruth Goodman and I take in Rich Lives, Poor Lives. Series 2...

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The attached video is an interesting clip from a news article just before the referendum vote. Make no mistake, the black population was ready for a fight and if the vote was NO, that we would have had a full on civil war on our hands. The question that I have to ask myself, after seeing with my own eyes many, many times how the mobs scatter after the first bullet flies, is how they would have stood up to the Armed Forces of the Republic. Should it have resulted in an outright war and the gloves were completely off, my personal feelings are that the numerical advantages of the enemy would have been neutralised by artillery and airstrikes into the townships. Not that I would have ever hoped for this, but this is the reality of war. With water, power and supplies cut off and disease spreading, I do not think that the 'majority' could have held out forever. Wouter Basson could have been properly unleashed and entire townships wiped out with poisoned water supplies and other nefarious means. Let's not even talk about our nuclear weapons, which would have most certainly drawn other nuclear powers into the war, some with us and some against us. Nukes aside, we would have had our work cut out for us with communist reinforcements arriving from neighbouring countries. SWAPO were formidable opponents and with them now well equipped, we could have faced some indiscriminate artillery shelling of our own cities and population areas. The Mozambicans were battle hardened by that stage and also a formidable enemy. As always, we would have had to deal with traitors and sympathisers from our own people. As an officer, I would have been responsible for executing traitors and deserters which would not have been nice, or that nice depending on how one looks at it. The whole country would have definitely come to a standstill, possibly for decades, the losses would have been devastating on both sides, and we would not have gotten to enjoy the 1995 World Cup victory, the wonderful 1990's or any day as we know it since then. Every single day from then until now would have been different. Some of my children would not have been born and I would have most certainly lost many loved family members, friends and brother comrades-in-arms, if not my own life. My best friend through my service lives down the road from me and I see him at least a couple of times a week. For that I am blessed. I am not saying that we could not have won, I am just asking if it would have been worth it. Come to think about it. I am glad that peace prevailed, in whatever iteration of peace that we call this. It hurts real bad to think that we laid down our arms and handed over governance of our beloved South Africa to an organised crime syndicate masquerading as a political party. Ultimately true intentions are judged by results and there is nobody alive that can not see plain as day, that the intention of the ANC all along was just to loot the country for themselves without a care in the world for anybody else. They took it all and threw everybody else the scraps. A tear runs down my face when I think of what we could have become and how those wonderful late 90's could have gone on forever. How do we fix this?

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