>>508627257For many, it's been "FULLBLOWN COLLAPSE ANY SECOND NOW!" since around 1990. Big upticks around '94, and after the Zim Dollar crash, and every major and not so major incident inbetween.
Most of the hysteria is from outsiders looking in and seeing what certain groups want them to see, since it's in the interest of the narrative they're trying to push.
Most of /pol/ imagines SA as a post-apocalyptic hellscape with bands of machete-weilding cannibal rape nigbies (nig zombies) hunting down small, scattered and starving White communities.
They get angry when you try tell them what things are actually like. It's arrogance and low IQ combined with gullibility/proneness to falling for propaganda, combined with very limited life experience (lack of travel, knowledge of the world) and a worrying lack of general knowledge.