While the country waits with bated breath for news of Nelson Mandela’s health, some South Africans breathe a sigh of relief when they learn that the ailing statesman’s condition is improving.
Because these South Africans live in fear of the day Mandela dies. It is widespread. Search the words “fear, Mandela and death” and the headings of websites include “Blacks will massacre whites after Mandela’s death”, “South Africans fear Mandela’s death” and “White genocide after Mandela’s death in SA?”.
There are thousands of websites from interest groups to social networks and news sites. It happens whenever Mandela is admitted to hospital.
There is a fear on the part of some white people that black people will no longer hold back – that they will wield sjamboks, knives and guns and take what they believe is owed to them. It will be chaos, they say; the country will burn.
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