Heard of BRICS?

It's a reason I don't trust Putin.

Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Myn excuuses, Zuid-Afrika!

Here are some news from Zuid-Afrika:

Faithwire : ‘They Shot Him in the Head’: South African Security Expert Details Horrific New Wave of Attacks on White Farmers
http://www.faithwire.com/2018/08/27/they-shot-him-in-the-head-south-african-security-expert-details-horrific-new-wave-of-attacks-on-white-farmers/

Featuring another article:

Faithwire : ‘FARM MURDER and RAPE’: Nearly 400 White Farmers Killed in South Africa in 12 Months
http://www.faithwire.com/2018/03/25/farm-murder-and-rape-nearly-400-white-farmers-killed-in-south-africa-in-12-months/

And a very horrible news apart from the headline:

The ruling political party in South Africa is seeking to amend the nation’s constitution in order to allow the free seizure of land from white farmers. Earlier this month, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that the time had come for a mass expropriation of land without compensation — a clear and aggressive action against the white farming community.

Meanwhile:

President Ramaphosa and President Putin signs Joint Statement on Strategic Partnership
GovernmentZA | 26.VII.2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMrwBPy1Jpw

OK, white Europeans, Christians, do you still trust Putin?

Suppose we had been dealing with the times of French Revolution. Suppose the King of England had openly made an agreement with Robespierre? Would one have trusted England in the reactionary camp? I think not ... Czar Alexander made a deal with Napoleon, and at least one conservative Monarch, Gustav IV Adolf, concluded Alexander was playing on Antichrist's team. That is how we lost Finland to Russia (the Czar did change teams a few years later, when we already had lost Finland).

And, one other guy who seems to have been silent on violence in S .. Zuid-Afrika ... is Bergoglio.

Or perhaps even not:

VaticanNews : South Africa’s season for repentance, dialogue, conversion and change
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-02/south-africa-zuma-ramaphosa-jesuit-institute-pollitt.html

Russell Pollitt, SJ, would be giving a hint on how his "Pope Francis" sees things, as they are both Jesuits.

Ramaphosa’s first state of the nation address takes place on Friday signaling a new dawn for the nation, and Pollitt agrees Zuma’s resignation on the evening of Ash Wednesday poignantly highlights the need for South African leaders to pause and reflect in penitence and conversion.

On balance, I don't see Russell Pollitt as making any special mention of white farmers, though ... was I just sloppy? You read that link and judge ...

I consider it is timely to quote St. Augustine:

City of God, IV, 4:

Without justice what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? And what is a band of robbers but such a kingdom in miniature? It is a band of men under the rule of a leader, bound together by a pact of friendship, and their booty is divided among them by an agreed rule. Such a blot on society, if it grows, assumes for itself the proud name of kingdom.

Quoted from: Political Philosophy Part I. Extracts from St Augustine: The City of God.
http://imagining-other.net/pp4augustineextracts.htm

After all, it's his day today.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Augustine of Hippo
28.VIII.2018

Hippone Regio, in Africa, natalis sancti Augustini Episcopi, Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris eximii, qui, beati Ambrosii Episcopi opera ad catholicam fidem conversus et baptizatus, eam adversus Manichaeos aliosque haereticos acerrimus propugnator defendit, multisque aliis pro Ecclesia Dei perfunctus laboribus, ad praemia migravit in caelum. Ejus reliquiae, primo de sua civitate propter barbaros in Sardiniam advectae, et postea a Rege Longobardorum Luitprando Papiam translatae, ibi honorifice conditae sunt.