2019 ELECTIONS AFTERMATH: White anxiety and the rise of the Freedom Front Plus By Ferial Haffajee ferialhaffajee
Everywhere we went, we heard the same thing. People were saying, ‘Jissus! It’s Eskom, it’s crime, it must stop and someone must say ‘Enough is enough’,” says Freedom Front Plus spokesperson Pieter Swart.So our dilemma was, ‘how do you put that into words? Was it ‘Trek ‘n streep’ ; ‘Stop dit hier’ ; Genoeg is genoeg ? In the end, ‘Slaan terug’ was the right message we didn’t want to use an old DA slogan,” says Swart.
There are now more coloured people in South Africa than white people – 5 million coloured people over 4.5 million white people, according to mid-year population estimates by Stats SA released in 2018. Whites are leaving in droves. Projected net migration figures by Stats SA show a loss to migration of 114,995 whites from 2016 to 2021. The same research shows that that 612,000 white people left between 1985 and 2016.
It is the elite migrating, of course, and the FF+ hoovered up support in peri-urban and small-town South Africa where people don’t envisage staying anywhere else, and not in a volkstaat or autonomous region as a previous generation of go-it-alone politicians may have desired.
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