South Africa Cancels 2,100 Amateur Radio Licenses

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The SA government has a bit of past reputation, that includes making dissidents disappear, which actually happened to a (black female) foreign exchange student that came to my high school. The host family received a weird last communique with something to that effect and lost all contact. Consequently, one doesn't need tin foil to be suspicious of their intentions. Anyway, this paragraph caught my attention and my immediate thought was that a lack of radio licenses stop communication like gun control stops violent crime.

Usually during severe government instability with a coming crackdown, Amateur Radio licenses are one of the first things to get pulled- the narrative must be controlled, with any potential communications between dissident groups being cut. The previous amateur allotments are then heavily monitored for traffic by anyone other than ‘authorized users’. Now to what degree the repression can be maintained is anyone’s guess. But when the president of your nation is making statements like this, it’s time to kit up.
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Reagan took a lot of heat for not supporting the main anti apartheid group, ANC. But the media left out the fact that the ANC, Which Mandela was the leader of, was/Is a communist group, then backed and armed by the Soviet Union.
Mandela order more than 2 dozen bombings of soft civilian targets and never renounced the use of terrorism for political gain.
The current ruler of South Africa is just now open about his call for violence against the opposition, white or black.

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fishgutzy said:
Reagan took a lot of heat for not supporting the main anti apartheid group, ANC. But the media left out the fact that the ANC, Which Mandela was the leader of, was/Is a communist group, then backed and armed by the Soviet Union.
Mandela order more than 2 dozen bombings of soft civilian targets and never renounced the use of terrorism for political gain.
The current ruler of South Africa is just now open about his call for violence against the opposition, white or black.

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There's very little difference between Mandela and his peer Mugabe... one just happened to be jailed and therefore deified as a martyr.
 
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