panopticon
Superstar
100% Facts.People have to remember that even though the White population in SA is relatively small, during Apartheid they got a lot of the work done fighting ANC, SWAPO, Angola etc. by using predominately Black troops directed by White officers. Especially some groups that hated surrounding Bantu like the San or the Lozi, who are Bantu but were predisposed to SA for a few reasons including trying to get their own state in the Caprivi strip of Namibia, did a lot of the fighting.
Same deal throughout African history from slavery to West Indians being used by the Brits to suppress the Ashanti and others.
If you don't think they will not reprise this model with the turncoat Blacks or even Coloureds you don't know the full history.
It's always a mistake to project black American racial consciousness onto Africans.
Different black ethnic groups have different interests, histories, hatreds, and alliances.
One group I'd expect the white ZA to successfully exploit - the Zimbabwean immigrant population. They're universally despised by black South Africans (if you thought the bugs in District 9 were black South Africans, think again), and have experienced plenty of resentment-generating discrimination and maltreatment by black South Africans since they began arriving in real numbers during the Zimbabwean hyperinflation.
The deal would be citizenship and all attendant rights in exchange for Zimbabwean immigrants' assistance in the fight. South Africa's per-capita GDP is 5x that of Zimbabwe - this would make a pretty compelling offer for a Zimbabwean illegal who, if he left ZA for home, would face only poverty, unemployment, and misery. Plus, he'd get a chance to get back at those who treated him so poorly in his most desperate hour