EFFORTPOST South African Theme Park Racism Drama - Suncity and the Guptas Visit

CONTEXT 1: What is Suncity

Suncity is South Africa's largest and most expensive Theme Park, as well as vacation resort, Gholf course, International level Consert Stage. The place is big as s**T, and is effectively South Africa's Disney World. It's got giant swimming pools with wave generators, slides, arcades, and beautiful hanging bridge walks. There was even a mini zoo when I was there 13 years ago, though I have no idea if it's still there. Point is, if you haz money to burn, then you strags should visit it. It's one of the primary international Tourist destinations outside of Cape Town, and is even situated right next to Pilanesberg National Park. There's an airport right next to the nearby city of Pilanesberg, and the Johannes International Airport is just 2.5 hours away.

https://www.suninternational.com/events/

https://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/valley-of-waves/

Speaking of Disney World, remember when Gov DeathSantis of Florida, Burgerland, got into a dispute with Disney? Some woke interns at Disney World started an online spat with DeathSantis about something parental rights, where DeathSantis would ban CRT or something related about grooming kids at school by moral busy bodies in Florida schools, I forgot and it doesnt matter. Point is wokescolds working at Disney pulled in the ire of a powerful man in Florida and tried to use their media influence to butt heads in the upcoming Florida Senate issue votes which DeathSantis championed, and oh boi the SS PanzerFuhrer DeathSantis didn't fricking forget. He retaliated instantly with revoking something called the The Reedy Creek Improvement Act 1967, which the all ready mega-rich monopolistic Disney had successfully lobbied to basically give them bullshit amounts of autonomy, and lack of oversight of everything within the boundaries the massive plot of land on which the Disney Theme Park was physically situated. I'm not sure what the hells this autonomy entails, I think it gives Disney a massive absence of having to pay property taxes, some smart burgers should tell us in the comments.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-signs-bill-stripping-disney-self-governing-status

Immediately afterwards Disney's stock went to the moon, but like, downwards. Robert Iger, the CEO of Disney quickly stepped into silence those Intern morons who drew the company in such an unnessary spat with an unneeded powerful political enemy

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/disney-stock-tumbles-amid-florida-bill-controversy

Especially since things have not been looking too good for Disney, they were bleeding money from their streaming Service Disney+, and their Marvel Soyslop has had falling ratings and viewership ever since COVID lockdown has basically ended globally, and the Disney execs have realized to their horror that their predictions of their viewer growth was only cuz many people were stuck in Lockdown and had nothing better to to. So the

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11729045/Disneys-Bob-Iger-lay-7-000-workers-company-cuts-costs.html

Anyways, sorry back to Sun City. The reason I'm mentioning Disney is to illustrate how corrupt and powerful the Big Mouse Corporation is and how they had abused their wealth since way back when to lobby for absurd monopolistic advantages. Sun City has had a similar set of scandals dating way back into the Apartheid Era.

Basically the newly liberal western nations have started to Sanction the living daylights out of the Union of South Africa, and arranged boycotts around the world of RSA goods and services. Tourism wasn't actually always sanctioned but high profile and famous individuals whom went to SA to vacation were under media fire for indirectly supporting the Apartheid regime. As the international tourism money started to dry up from 1980s onward, places like Sun City would attempt to attract foreign singers/performers with large financial rewards.

And woooo boi was there sneed in the old newspapers of 1980s. I had to dig up some of these sources, as they were originally printed before I was fricking born. But some of the old yank newspapers have digitized their old prints.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-10-18-8502150565-story.html

A bunch of artists would perform in Sun City: Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Boney M, and most high Profile of all was Queen. A bunch of soy mucisians went and made an album called Sun City - in which they criticized the regime, and hoped it would dissuade other mucisians to perform in SA in the future.

Here's a waybackmachine captured article, in which Elton John sneeds about other singers not having given a shit and continued to perform in SA

https://web.archive.org/web/20131219073038/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Elton-John-South-Africa-tour-jogs-memories-of-Sun--30061905.html

Here is an article of sneed against Queen whom had performed in Sun City at the high of protests against Aprtheid SA from both within, and from UN nations.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jan/14/2

https://www.loudersound.com/news/roger-taylor-admits-that-queens-cultural-boycott-breaking-trip-to-apartheid-era-south-africa-was-a-mistake

Basically the sneed for any foreign anglosphere performer who would go to South Africa, would be garenteed to perform in Sun City cuz it was one of the most prestigious and high profile places in the country, this sneed could continue until the National Party regime collapsed and, RSA somehow miraculously peacefully transitioned into a Democracy. By the way did u read the above picture and saw the name Bantustan? Now THAT will require a Loooooooooooooong post on its own to fully grasp, but basically, in the very early stages of when Apartheid was considered in 1910s, before the Boer republics would be incorporated wit Natal and the Cape provinces as a Union of South Africa, there was alot of unironic support (among black people/im not lying) for a Federation of Separate but equal race-based states in South Africa. The Transvaal and Free State would be an afrikaner state, the Cape English, the Matabeles homelands of North-west Province of today would be for Sothos, Limpopo north would be for Pedis, the north part of Kwazulu-Natal and Mpapumalanga would be for Zulus, the Southern part of Kwazulu-Natal would be for Xhosas, and Lesotho would be for Sothos. It was an ambitious plan with unironic non bigoted intent, but the road heck is often paved with good intentions.

Outside of Lesotho, which was a mountainous dirtball with no resources, all of the other provinces were heavily contested, people lived in mixed cities, and the Homelands of various provinces and proposed segregated lands were not equal in water sources, hunting game or the very important value like the gold and platinum of Gauteng. This is where the stories of black people forcibly relocated by the Apartheid regime comes from, the true cruelty of Apartheid was that while many ethnic chieftans and indigenous black peeps were in favour of a Federation of Race States (it would mean equal say for them in SA parliament), many more were not, cuz people wanted to live for example in the proposed "white" cities like Pretoria and Joburg close to their families, and imaginary lines would frick with their way of life, including their capacity to for example to obtain good jobs next to the mining towns in Gauteng.

The 1st world war arrived, and our Commnwealth overlords suddenly found themselves under astronomical pressure to cut this shit back, so that a united South African colony/Commonwealth state could oppose the Krauts whom were right on SA's doorstep with another colony: Namibia! So this created a timebomb where instead of gradual agreement between the black and white races, there would be a sudden push and shock of throwing people together in admin regions which bread resentment and envy. When the South African Union was declared autonomous in 1926, (because bongland was now in cripplingly bad financial situation post WW1 their most expensive war in history, and couldn't afford to rule personally over all its colonies like Canada and New Zealand). Suddenly overnight the populations of the post Boer republics, the afrkaners were the post powerful demographic faction. Racism still reigned amongst the white population, and the Bongs still held the boers as a higher race than that of blacks. The afrikaners were still enormously destitute and poor even 20 years past the Anglo-Boer war, and over time they would lobby SA parliament to divide the lands in their favour, too r-slurred to realize they're fricking over the black races of SA by giving them their Historic homelands which by 1930s was empty of the wild game it used to have, and had not empowering resources of gold and coal and platinum of Gauteng. Ten years later they would enact Apartheid officially under the Verwoerd regime, and black men like Walter Sizulu and Nelson Mandela would start their long campaign to oppose the National Party regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bophuthatswana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan

Right so why am i talking about this crap? One of the black Homelands would be Bantustan, and a few of the reasons why black people supported Segregation was that many of the chieftans of these places would find themselves in control and supported by the racist National Party gov. So paradoxically some of the black tribes would support the Racist regime, as it backed their claim to the homeland, at the expense of other tribes whom also had claims to the same places, similar to how the British divided up India easily by supporting a select few of the Rajas' claim to various provinces, and holding the places with only a tiny army.

Sun City would pay the local leaders of the regions that Sun City inhabited a stipend, because that meant that Sun City was located in a Black Homeland, a regions which the Apartheid regime wouldn't tax. It's not a one to one comparison to Disney, but the similarity is that Sun City has been in a state of controversy forever since it has evaded a metric shitload of taxes by being thick as thieves with both the Local Bantustan leaders, as well as the provincial & national government which it had lobbied for since its founding in 1979. The dramatic drama for Sun City is that the new Democratic RSA under the ANC and Mandela found themselves in a tightrope of drama since they had promised to all of their black constituents to uphold many claims to Black Homelands and allow their return from which they had been forcibly relocated by the Aprtheid regime. This meant that Mandela would draft parliamentary acts which enabled the Chieftans to retain levels of autonomy within RSA, and that the RSA provincials govs could not change lands marked as Homelands without input from their inhabitants through reverendums. You can search for these acts if u give a shit

This crap is enourmously complicated but the summary that matters is that Sun City would basically retain its Disney levels of autonomy by continuing to work with Bantustan local leaders and provincial leaders, and not being under the full juristiction of RSA laws. This will become important later in the story.

CONTEXT 2: Who are the Guptas

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/3/27/investigating-south-africas-mire-of-gupta-linked-corruption

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48980964

https://www.enca.com/news/rise-and-fall-gupta-empire

I have no idea where to begin with the Guptas. To fully describe them would take 10 consecutive longposts holy hells. They have effectively pilfered South Africa coffers under president Jacob Zuma, our unmatchedly most corrupt leader in our short time as a Democratic Nation. The astounding breathtaking horrifying amount of tax money stolen by these men, and the corruption they have caused is soul shattering. It is believed by many that as much as 1 out of every 3 Rands generated by annual taxation in South Africa was stolen and cooked by these men, under the tenure and enablement of Jacob Zuma. The amount of damage that they have wrought to us in not quantifiable. It is a fricking horror show.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/how-the-gupta-brothers-hijacked-south-africa-corruption-bribes

These guys would cut corners on safety of every business they got their claws on, and slash pensions left and right. They were the most steriotypical billionaire villain on those Soviet propaganda posters imaginable.

The article is very good and worth your time.

Jacob Zuma was an anti-apartheid freedom fighter and hero for his Zulu voting base. But Zuma himself was such a corrupt motherlover he can consist of 10 kaamrev Longposts and still not be fully covered. It's sufficient to say that he sold the very ground beneath his loyal zulu people, quite literally in fact when he basically swindled the Kwazulu-Natal mining resources and public companies in the hands of the Guptas, with vert little of that generated mining wealth having found its way into the hands of the poor and impoverished Zulu and Xhosa peoples.

CONTEXT 3: South Africans become aware of the existence of the Guptas

Back in 2013, 10 years ago, our fat frick friends, the Guptas would abuse their awe-inspiring influence of RSA government and systems, to arrange a Wedding in Sun City. This would be the most extravagant wedding ever held in known South African history. 200 of some of the richest Indians on earth would be flown to Johannesburg and driven to Sun City, alongside movie stars from India and Brazil. The entire Sun City would be booked for 2 weeks, venues that were build to hold between 10 000 - 20 000 people would be booked for these super rich 200 people. It would would be such a gratuitous display of obscene wealth in the impoverished RSA that we would have no choice but to finally notce this corruption in our midst

The guests were not flown into Joburg Oliver Thambo airport, or Pilanesberg airport, oh nononono! That's what poors do to arrive in a country. Instead they would arrive/land into Waterkloof - one of our most famous military airbases. Our MILITARY airbases. This would tip off many shitloads of RSA journ*lists later. These frickers would them be ferried to Sun City via a small fleet of hellicopters and Land Rovers. Real Safari like. They had official govermental secret service escort vehicles and military security. South African police would cordon off highways to allow the smooth travels from Joburg to Sun City - not even ministers have ever had entire fricking highways without warning or organization closed for them. South Africans would stand awestruck and confused as a gargantuan convoy of military, police vehicles and Land Rovers would speed past them, breaking speed laws with impunity. Never had we seen such a display of disrespect for the common civilian traffic. Ministers would sometimes speed in places like Joburn with few escort and official gov vehicles - but that would consist a meagre convoy of like 3-4 vehicles. You need to understand dramastrags. Entire cities were cordoned off for a few hours so that a mega convoy of like 100 vehicles could speed past like madmen while saffers just gaped in bewilderment.

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-06-03-traffic-cops-admit-escorting-guests-at-gupta-wedding/

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-05-04-police-posse-arrested-for-allegedly-escorting-gupta-guests/

https://www.news24.com/news24/gupta-police-officers-paid-overtime-for-wedding-report-20150430

Later many of the corrupt officers and their cronies would be arrested for taking Gupta bribes to have enabled such a travesty, they flew way to close to the sun (city hehe) and their corruption was too obvious to let slide when the entire Capital of Joburg saw such an obscene display enabled by our police forces.

A famous and legendary reporter Barry Bateman rush like a bloodhound to Waterkloof military airport, knowing a story on the horizon, the commanders there looked very stupid when they couldn't answer why foreigners were allowed in our top secret national key point facilities. Later after the wedding controvesy was headlines in RSA for weeks the airport commanders would offer pathetic excuses like: The permissions were applied for and granted to the Indian High Commission and not the family. These rights can be applied for by any foreign embassy. The SADF high command would deny ever having given permission to any foreign dignitary, meaning that local fricking commanders must have enabled this shit. The scandal would rage - how the frick does the SADF NOT know what aircraft was going in and out of their airports??

https://www.enca.com/south-africa/confusion-reigns-guptas-land-waterkloof

Bateman would immediately tweet "#GuptaWedding, and once saffers realized what was ongoing, it would be the most retweeted # at that moment in time in RSA history, within just the span of a feww days. The incredible arrogance with which the Guptas answered inquiries by reporters the following days and weeks, would agrravate the shit out of the public.

Remember the Bantustan we talked about earlier? Because Sun City was without the oversight of a Provincial government, it allowed the Guptas to basically hijack much of its services, and had enabled them to use Sun City as a vacation spot by bribing the local Chieftans since they grew their oily tendrils into South Africa's systems and government. Their grotesque display of power and wealth would genuinely have gone unnoticed, if their arrogant wedding had never caught the public eye. Al all that shit in the Bantustan cultural homeland, no oversight, no rules, no repercussions.

CONTEXT 4: The Wedding

If you strags thought the appropriation of national military resources to dunk on RSA poors weren't enough, then what followed next would bussy blast the South African public. You guys see, Indians are kind off mega racist against black peeps, both in India and RSA. Since the majority of racism sneed in RSA is between blacks and whites, their bigotry is often overlooked by the black public until they are usually turbo cucked by a racist indian chad who refuses to let to them, or refuse to to business, to stalk them in the stores in an obvious display of distrusting black pees as thieves compared to white customers. And the sneed that follows is usually glorious, but since the South african laws tend to be retrofitted to be only account for white racism, the black peeps tend to be cucked by their own stupidity.

The Guptas and their ilk were no different, and among the shitload of drama that would dominate about this wedding on RSA news, would be that the Guptas insisted on only having white staff serve them during their wedding at Sun City. They had refused to have any of those gross icky black peeps touch their food plates and serve their meals. It was so profoundly obscene to have corrupt black policemen and military commanders cuckingly accept bribes by men unwilling to even touch their "filthy subhuman" hands . The indian guests also went full turbo indian mode and had insisted on having "pretty white ladies" be their waitresses and hostesses

https://www.news24.com/news24/guptaleaks-emails-offer-further-proof-of-gupta-racist-attitudes-20170609

https://ewn.co.za/2017/06/09/guptaleaks-further-proof-of-guptas-racist-attitudes

Both Sun City and the feast-companies that worked there during the Gupta wedding would come under fire by the press and public as the bloodhound RSA journ*lists would sniff out the contracts which the Guptas had had prior to the wedding at Sun City, and in it the terms and conditions of these catering-companies clearly agreed to the Guptas' demands of "confirms the provision of all Caucasian staff, with the majority of the waiters and a few of the butlers being female staff" LMOA

They also found that the wedding for Sun City had cost 100 Million rands, a sum which usually took about two years for Sun City to generate. Journ*lists also found internal emails that the Gupta wedding guests had called black security guards "monkeys" on several occasions when the guards didn't respond immediately, not understanding as english wasn't their local language. The gaurds did however understand monkey and would complain to Sun City, whom would sweep it under the rugs.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/more-gupta-white-wedding-claims-1514240

To top it all of with a cherry on the top - our Indian friends were so cheap that the waiters were expected to work 12-hour shifts and would be transported by bus to the event, they were to be paid about R20 to R25 an hour, well below the standard rate.

CONCLUSION:

As I said, this wedding would be the Guptas' fall from flying too close to the sun, and too arrogantly displaying their wealth and contempt for the South African black public. For like the whole next year of 2013-2014, the news would be dominated by story after article after story as the public and journ*lists uncovered and untangled the sheer web of corruption that Jacob Zuma and the Guptas had entangled RSA in. And the horror of our lost tax wealth would begin the undoing of Jacob Zuma.

The grave irony in all of this is that despite the scandals of the Guptas, Jacob Zuma's wingcucked Zulu voting base would consistently remain loyal to the man, despite the fact that he had sold out their wealth, their resources, and their very dignity. He knew the Gupta Indians were racist and had contempt for him even as they shook hands, but the wealth and bribery they brought to him and the Zuma family was worth it for his avarice. Even as the black public saw how much Zuma had enabled and allowed the racist Guptas to step upon his Xhosa and Zulu people's faces, Zuma and his cronies would be doormats for them all the way, and the zulu public would be doormats for Zuma all the way.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-police-arrest-27-over-protests-linked-zuma-jailing-2021-07-10/

Even as far as 2021, when Zuma refused arrest for his corruption, and inflamed his zulu base to go full riot mode, they still followed him in spite how much he had directly destroyed their infrastructure with his direct and indirect corruption. It is truly an astonishment

The Guptas Wedding was a watershed moment for RSA, because whenever Zuma's corruption prior to 2013 would be brought to light by his political opponents like the DA and FF, he would instill racial tension and inflame emotions towards apartheid and whites. The Gupta wedding forced wingcuck black peeps that have always hidden behind the Apartheid excuses for their chosen leaders' poor performance to accept, kicking and screaming, that their leaders have done as much damage to their wellbeing and living standards as Apartheid itself had.