# What if: race war in South Africa **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538 "2017-05-13T15:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538/21 "2017-05-16T01:39:12Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Good luck managing to immigrate to either country. just curious, is it particularly hard? Compared to say an Aussie immigrating to the US or GB? I get that there are quotas, but assuming one is patient, is it hard? Being an american, I have never considered this question. Refugees etc get here under special programs as well as normal country quotas which are perpetually full. I don’t know what it is like for non-refugee countries. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538/22 "2017-05-16T01:55:43Z")
> [@rbroome](#): > > just curious, is it particularly hard? Compared to say an Aussie immigrating to the US or GB? I get that there are quotas, but assuming one is patient, is it hard? Being an american, I have never considered this question. Refugees etc get here under special programs as well as normal country quotas which are perpetually full. I don’t know what it is like for non-refugee countries. Wow. I just tried to find out the answer on my own. the immigration system to the US is F\*cked up! No news there, but seeing how messed up the procedures/rules/stats are is depressing… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538/23 "2017-05-16T11:58:19Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Good luck managing to immigrate to either country. Then find another country. IF a white doctor in Pretoria or a white engineer in Cape Town looks around and decides his country is heading down the same road as Zimbabwe (NOT saying it is, just playing the OP’s game), emigrating sounds like a better and more realistic plan than buying Uzis and preparing for Armageddon. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538/24 "2017-05-16T12:35:59Z")
And how about the ordinary white worker? The waiter, the shopworker? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538/25 "2017-05-16T16:07:39Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And how about the ordinary white worker? The waiter, the shopworker? Yeah… trying to picture bunch of white waiters and cashiers starting a successful armed revolution against the huge black majority. Nope. Not seeing it. Try harder to convince me. ---
**Author:** ![WilyQuixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WilyQuixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilyQuixote)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538/26 "2017-05-16T16:40:51Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Good luck managing to immigrate to either country. About a quarter of my matric class (90% white, almost all English speaking, from borderline working class to upper middle class backgrounds) are now resident in London and surrounds. A smaller but not insignificant segment are in other Anglophone countries. One or two outliers in Greece. Few have connections to the UK. There was nothing special about my class or school - just another, pretty typical former whites only school. Doesn’t seem to be too difficult to immigrate, certainly not if you’re white, have some skills and can speak English. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-race-war-in-south-africa/786538.md?page=1)