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4	->''I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru [...]\
5	But I've never met a nice South African\
6	No, he's never met a nice South African\
7	And that's not bloody surprising, man\
8	'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant bastards\
9	Who hate black people''
10	-->--''Series/SpittingImage'', "I've Never Met a Nice South African"
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12	UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica: land of amazing varieties of wildlife, breathtaking mountain views, diverse people, perennial cricket chokers, and one of the world's best rugby national teams.
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14	However, fiction would have you believe that South Africa isn't much more than a spawn point for white [[EvilPoacher big-game poachers]], [[HiredGuns mercenaries]], and [[SociopathicSoldier bloodthirsty military types]], who are probably {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s to boot.
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16	There's [[TruthInTelevision some degree of truth to this:]] During the Cold War, South African soldiers and mercenaries participated in various conflicts and civil wars across the African continent. The military of the apartheid regime was particularly brutal towards the civilian population of South Africa, and it even operated a nuclear weapons program as a deterrent against any possible threat to the regime. After the end of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, the South African military and police forces [[FormerRegimePersonnel downsized a lot]], which left a lot of highly trained South African soldiers and paramilitary operators [[PsychoForHire looking for jobs]]--which they found as PrivateMilitaryContractors. When those [[ShellShockedVeteran battle-hardened]] guys brought their Apartheid-era sensibilities to the table... well, look out. From a storytelling point of view, apartheid-era South Africa was the archetypal pariah state for decades during the 20th century, making them an easy choice for villains, especially since the regime seemed to propagate the long-discredited racial ideas of the Nazis (if a less extreme variant).
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18	So with South Africa's history of apartheid and mercenaries, this created the archetype of a shady, greedy, and corrupt villain who is often involved in military-related activities. Going back even further, the Boers (Dutch settlers in South Africa) fought [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar a pair of unsuccessful uprisings]] against the ruling British Empire in the late 19th century, during which time the Boers [[TropeNamers coined the word]] "commando" (and during which time the British made use of concentration camps). Needless to say, there's a long tradition of brutal warfare in South Africa.
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20	[[NonIndicativeName Despite the title,]] this trope isn't only for Afrikaners (Dutch South Africans). It's possible for Rooineks (British South Africans) to be just as nasty, and Rhodesians (white [[UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} Zimbabweans]]) and white Namibians also show up. For native black South Africans (such as those of Xhosa or Zulu descent) who you don't want to mess with, see BadassNative, ScaryBlackMan, and AfricanTerrorists.
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22	See UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica, UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar, and UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra for more information, UsefulNotes/SouthAfricansWithSurfaceToAirMissiles for the current military of South Africa, and PrivateMilitaryContractors, FormerRegimePersonnel, SociopathicSoldier, BountyHunter, and HiredGuns for various roles these guys often play in stories. The more ideologically extreme Afrikaners often become {{Right Wing Militia Fanatic}}s or WesternTerrorists.
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30	* The Zoldyck Family from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' hail from the country of Padokea, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to South Africa, are pale-skinned, and also the world's most successful and feared assassins.
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33	* In the original ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]'' comics, Scrooge's nemesis Flintheart Glomgold is portrayed as a South African Boer (the Ducktales version [[AdaptationalNationality made him Scottish]]). He is essentially a more ruthless version of Scrooge himself, and is willing to murder people and feed the corpses to the jackals in order to achieve his goals.
34	* [[ComicBook/PowerCompany Kirk [=DePaul=]]], the [[LegacyCharacter sixth]] man to wear the mantle of Creator/DCComics' Manhunter, isn't a villain ''per se'', but he's a massive {{Jerkass}} and has no qualms about using the many lethal weapon he carries.
35	* The ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' spinoff ''Sam & Twitch'' had an arc featuring South African villains who left parts of the murder victim's body at the crime scene. (Parts like ''[[{{Fingore}} thumbs]]''.)
36	* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' strip "Skizz" had the sadistic and xenophobic [[TheMenInBlack government alien-hunter]] Mr. Van Owen, (possibly named as a ShoutOut to the Warren Zevon example below), who didn't just have a stage South African accent, but was drawn as a clearly-recognisable caricature of PW Botha.
37	* The obscure DC comic ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'' had a white supremacist South African recurring villain named Janwillem Kroef.
38	* Neil Gaiman's ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'' includes a group of hunters [[spoiler: tracking down Black Orchid and her childlike companion in the Amazon.]] It's implied they're South African--the ruthless leader is named Vandervoort, and one of his men mentions Pietermaritzburg (a South African city).
39	* In ''ComicBook/{{Batwing}}'', the series never comes out and says that rich bastard Ancil Marksbury is an Afrikaner, but considering that he's a white guy who lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo and whose family is said to own a significant portion of Africa, one can make the assumption.
40	* In ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'', Dr Octopus is a white South African eugenicist and Nazi sympathiser who lobotomises Black people to turn them into mindless slaves.
41	* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' and ''Comicbook/BlackPanther'' villain Ulysses Klaw grew up in Belgium, but later {{retcon}}s have his ancestor as a member of the Voortrekkers, whose failure to conquer Wakanda led to him returning to Belgium in disgrace. Even though Klaw himself is not an Afrikaner, the implications of a guy with a Flemish accent repeatedly attempting to pillage an African country are pretty clear.
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45	* The ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Interstitium}}'' seems to cast Zaeed Massani as this. His nationality is never mentioned in the games themselves, but he repeatedly tells stories of fighting in Namibia in his youth with CASAI (the Coalition for the Advancement of South African Interests), and his British accent is broad enough that it could conceivably be South African.
46	* A "South Africa" exploiting all the clichés and perceived stereotypes is developed in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal.
47	** A character called Horst Lensen is introduced as a brash, opinionated and rather loud young man who somehow survives seven years at the Assassins' Guild School. He could be seen as a typical ''bro'' and ''boykie'' with a streak of ''[[LowerClassLout zef]]'' in him. In the opinion of [[UnresolvedSexualTension one compatriot]], a ''pielkop'', a ''[[YouBastard bliksem]]'' and perhaps a ''[[ForeignCussWord draadtrekker.]]'' However, he has several Near-[[TheGrimReaper Death]]-Encounters in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/1/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', and grows up as a result.
48	** Subverted by Hans Ruijterman from ''Fanfic/SlippingBetweenWorlds'': Ruijterman is a Rhodesian who later moved to South Africa, but left when the rumblings against apartheid began. While he is nostalgic for the Rhodesia of his youth and resents being targeted by black politicians with a chip on their shoulder against whitey, he has nothing but respect for the black soldiers he served and serves with, frequently questions why black soldiers in Rhodesia and South Africa stayed loyal ("We gave them ''nothing'' to be loyal ''to''") and was "encouraged" by [[StateSec BOSS]] to leave South Africa because of his "dangerously liberal" attitudes towards apartheid laws. And by "dangerously liberal", we mean "got pissed he couldn't have a drink with his black comrades, headed out into the townships to do just that, and incited a race riot when the police came to run him off".
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52	* Creator/NeillBlomkamp, being South African himself, has had ''personal experiences'' with these, and has cast FormerRegimePersonnel from UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra as [[TheDragon Dragons]], {{Dragon Ascendant}}s and {{Big Bad}}s in all his films.
53	** Piet Smit and Col. Koobus Venter from ''Film/District9''. Smit is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and head of a PMC who doesn't give a second thought to forcibly relocating thousands of alien refugees. His underling Koobus is even worse-- a vicious psychopath who cheerfully admits that he'd kill [[FantasticSlur prawns]] for fun, and can't believe his luck that he gets paid to do so. Note that this film is ''set'' in South Africa (Johannesburg, to be exact), so just about every character in it (except for [[ScaryBlackMan Obesandjo]] and his goons, who are Nigerian, and the aliens themselves) is either an example or an aversion. [[TheHero Wikus]] and [[HappilyMarried Tania]] both fall into the latter category.
54	** [[AxCrazy Kruger]] and his henchmen Drake and Crowe from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. Notable because they're a trio of South African mercs in futuristic ''Los Angeles''-- they aren't exactly inconspicuous.
55	** Vincent Moore from ''Film/{{Chappie}}'' is more of a MadScientist, but he's lived in Johannesburg for a while and Moore is both a mercenary and a former soldier. Though he seems consistent with an Amoral Afrikaner, he's actually originally Australian (he served in the SAS), so he doesn't quite fit. There's also "Hippo", a heavily-armed Afrikaner gangster and crime boss whose accent is so thick that the movie gives him subtitles when he's speaking English.
56	* ''Film/BloodDiamond'':
57	** Col. Coetzee, who became a mercenary when Apartheid ended. Also Rudolf Van de Kaap, head of the company that's profiting off the titular diamonds.
58	** Danny Archer, Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]'s character, is a Rhodesian who served in the South African military, and only slightly more heroic than the people he's fighting until the very end.
59	* ''Film/RedWater'': Langley Kirkwood is Brett, a psychopathic diver obsessed with sharks.
60	* In the 2004 film ''Film/InMyCountry'', involves victims of apartheid testifying about their experiences and perpetrators confessing to their crimes in return for an offer of amnesty. Creator/BrendanGleeson plays De Jager, an unrepentant racist colonel who strikes a deal with African-American protagonist to incriminate his superiors in return for a possible amnesty offer, [[spoiler: which he [[LaserGuidedKarma doesn't get on the grounds that his actions were disproportionate and excessively cruel]].]]
61	* The villains in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' are South African government drug dealers (and an assassin) with DiplomaticImpunity.
62	* The film version of ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' features a South African arms dealer who finds the lost Israeli bomb and sells it to the BigBad.
63	* The BigBad of ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' is South African, and one of the only white men in his [[AfricanTerrorists terrorist organization.]]
64	* ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' has Lyle hire a half-dozen of these to capture George for him. But they prove no match for George's gorilla friends.
65	* ''Film/TheColorOfFriendship'':
66	** Mahree Bok's father, a South African policeman. On the surface, he seems like a regular man enjoying a dinner with his family in a restaurant. But his joy at Steve Biko being arrested, his racist viewpoints, and his [[KickTheDog nonchalant attitude toward a black waiter being assaulted]] certainly make him this.
67	** Mahree herself is a subversion. She starts out as being pretty racist, but this is more due to the society she grew up in than any genuine hate. Her time spent with the Dellums family and her friendship with Piper whittle away her old prejudices.
68	* Invoked in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse with international gangster Ulysses Klaue, an enemy of ComicBook/BlackPanther who appears in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and ''Film/BlackPanther2018''. Like in the comics, he's actually a Belgian of Dutch descent, but the films have him operating out of South Africa. He's hardly picky about whom he sells to or works for, and threatens clients who don't pay on time, but he does [[AffablyEvil offer visitors candy]]. His assistant Limbani in ''Black Panther'' is played by a native South African David S. Lee.
69	* The PrivateMilitaryContractors in ''Film/{{Sheena}}'' are all white Africans, led by a guy named Colonel Jorgensen. They're presented as brutish and militaristic, massacring an entire village just to make a point, refer to the black Zambuli tribesmen as "those bastards," and later attack a herd of antelope using their helicopter. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent Only a few of them]] bother trying for an Afrikaner accent, though.
70	* ''Film/CryFreedom'': ''All'' of the Afrikaner characters (except for one) come off this way. Of course, since they're State Security officers, that's not really surprising.
71	* The "wet team" that invades Frank Moses' home at the beginning of ''Film/Red2010'' are said to be an independent South African hit-squad-for-hire.
72	* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' depicts Zartan as one of these. He’s played by Afrikaner actor Arnold Vosloo.
73	* ''Film/OperationDeltaForce'': The terrorist legion in the film are a ''White Supremacist'' group who wants to steal a highly-contagious viral strain to cleanse the world "in their own image". Their boss, Colonel Johann Nash, is explicitly depicted to be openly racist, frequently throwing racial slurs at Ernie Hudson's protagonist.
74	* PlayedWith in ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'', which features a scene with foreign "murder tourists" flocking to America to participate in the annual Purge. Among them are a party of South Africans, both black and white and quite friendly with each other; although there's none of the racism this trope usually implies, they ''are'' still taking a holiday to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame kill people for sport]].
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78	* Deon Meyer's ''Blood Safari'' (Afrikaans title ''Onsigbaar'') has two Amoral Afrikaners as the villains who would do anything to keep their dirty secret under wraps. They have strong political connections to both the Apartheid government and the new one. Lemmer, the anti-hero protagonist, could is also pretty amoral at times. His love-interest, Emma le Roux and her family (alive or dead), are aversions.
79	* The Creator/HarryTurtledove novel ''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'' is about time-traveling members of the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging]] (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB for short) who give AK-47s to the Confederacy to help them win the American Civil War.
80	* Hugo Grief, the MadDoctor villain of the second ''Literature/AlexRider'' book, ''Point Blanc'', and his assistant Mrs. Stellenbosch, are both South Africans who after the end of apartheid emigrated to Austria. Their extremely racist views would make Hendrik Verwoerd himself (or hell, even most Nazis) protest; they took a kind of sadistic pleasure in the subjugation of black people in their native country. [[spoiler:Their plan is to clone Grief, give the clones MagicPlasticSurgery to make them look like the children of influential billionaires, and indoctrinate them as white supremacists, so that apartheid will eventually be restored in South Africa and possibly other countries around the world as well.]]
81	* Eeben Axelroot, the pilot in ''Literature/ThePoisonwoodBible'', fits this trope to a T. He runs dubious errands for anyone who will pay, he definitely knows something about the American plots to kidnap and murder Congolese leaders- and he seems downright gleeful about all of it.
82	* The South African Police Force as depicted in Tom Sharpe's apartheid-era black comedies, ''Literature/RiotousAssembly'' and ''Literature/IndecentExposure''. The police commander is an [[GeneralFailure incompetent idiot]], his deputy Lieutenant Verkramp is a vicious paranoid psychopath (and local BOSS sector head -- i.e., [[SecretPolice secret policeman]]). The rank-and-file coppers on the Piemburg force are a bunch of social dregs who regularly arrest black African women for purposes of rape. The worst of the lot is the possibly part-black Konstabel Els, a [[RabidCop nutjob and killer]] who does things like fight a Doberman guard dog bare-handed -- ''and bites it to death.''
83	* A retroactive variant in the ''Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra'' novel ''Catalyst of Sorrows''. Agent Luther Sloan of [[RenegadeSplinterFaction Section 31]], a rogue paramilitary group within the Federation hierarchy, is said to have been born in South Africa. Somewhat of an unexpected choice for background since his canon incarnation from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has no trace of any African accent (he's played by Creator/WilliamSadler, who uses his native Buffalo, NY accent with the character).
84	* ''Literature/{{Vortex}}'''s villains are Afrikaaner hardliners who hate, in no particular order, blacks, all other minorities, Communists, foreigners, South-Africans-of-British-descent, and Afrikaaners who are not hardline enough.
85	* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' has Paul Redeker, he who created the Redeker Plan that gave humanity its much-needed shot in the arm [[BackFromTheBrink to start fighting back]]... which was originally created as a government plan for use ''in case of revolution during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra'' and is noticeable for taking TheNeedsOfTheMany ("the many" being those who could be considered strategically useful to the Zombie War, in this case) [[ReleasedToElsewhere to a pretty]] [[SafeZoneHopeSpot cold-blooded extreme]]. [[spoiler: Redeker ultimately turns out to be something of a subversion: when Nelson Mandela himself extends a hand of forgiveness and friendship, Redeker’s StrawVulcan façade cracks and he develops a split personality, [[SplitPersonalityTakeover forgetting that he ever was Paul Redeker.]] The interviewer visits him in a mental asylum, where he is kept under heavy guard.]]
86	** Notably averted by some of the South African soldiers who come to escort Redeker to Pretoria during the crisis: even as desperate as they are to hear his plan, they’re disgusted by its callousness.
87	* Reuben Rosenthall, the antagonist of the ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' short story "A Costume Piece", is an illicit diamond buyer who owns slaves and made his fortune in South Africa.
88	* ''Creator/DickFrancis'': in ''Forfeit'' the BigBad Vjoersterod and his henchman Ross (a former government-sanctioned TortureTechnician) are South African expats who make a fortune rigging English horse races and are willing to both threaten horrific violence and deliver it to anyone who gets in their way. Zigzagged in ''Smokescreen'' where the novel takes place in South Africa. The BigBad is not a native of the Country and many of its residents are portrayed sympathetically but we do get some selfish Apartheid-condoning reporters and a weaselly PR man wiling to hurt people for PublicityStunt's .
89	* ''Literature/TheDraka'' is an expansive AlternateHistory series centered around the Draka Empire, a South Africa-based white supremacist, expansionist, totalitarian regime that conquers much of the world. They're not so much strictly Afrikaners as an amalgam of various reactionary white/European movements throughout history (Confederates, Crown Loyalists, French Royalists, etc.) but the implications aren't hard to see, especially since the series began during the most bitter, climactic years of the anti-apartheid struggle.
90	** Perhaps under Draka's influence, it became something of an infamous cliché in alternate history circles for Afrikaners or Afrikaner-analogues to be expansionist racists with no redeeming qualities.
91	-->'''Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom user Thande''': The reason I bring up Stirling was that it reminded me of how he views Afrikaners, especially in ''Literature/ThePeshawarLancers'' where that one Afrikaner airship captain betrays the good guys to the evil Satanist cannibal Russians purely because the British stopped his people from doing some of the nasty things they like doing to ''"blicks"''. As if Afrikaners literally have nothing more important in life to do then sit up all night thinking of new interesting ways to make black people's lives more hellish.
92	* ''Literature/{{Pronto}}'': Ex-mercenary Robert Gee mentions he worked in an outfit consisting of these types, who he hated namely because he himself is a black man.
93	* ''Literature/TheStarFraction'' by Creator/KenMacLeod mentions at one point that South African paramilitaries are brought in to control civil unrest in balkanised England. The South African accent is mocked in the narrative by being spelled [[FunetikAksent funetikally]].
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97	* In ''Series/DarkAngel'', the Red Series were mercenaries who supposedly came from South Africa.
98	* In the ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "[[Recap/BurnNoticeS2E1BreakingAndEntering Breaking and Entering]]", Michael poses as a businessman with interest in a diamond mining venture to stake out a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private military company's]] security setup. His cover story includes wanting to hire the PMC to wipe out a Kenyan village that's in his way, and he affects a South African accent for the role. At least one of the PMC's soldiers (a ColdSniper who shows up in one scene late in the episode) also has an Afrikaner accent.
99	* {{Subverted\|Trope}} in an episode of ''Series/NUMB3RS.'' A bank is robbed and a number of safety deposit boxes are emptied. The boxes belong to a number of shady individuals, including a South African mercenary, and are suspected to have contained very incriminating evidence. In the end, the FBI determines that the whole thing was a KansasCityShuffle-- the Afrikaner mercenary was behind it, but instead of an elaborate heist, it was a plot to ruin the corrupt bank owner who was responsible for the death of the mercenary's brother. The merc turns the evidence over to the FBI and gives the stolen money to his brother's favorite charities.
100	* The MonsterOfTheWeek in the ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode ''Mr. Sandman'' is an African fly-like monster who feeds on human tears and speaks with a thick Afrikaans accent.
101	* Played with in ''Series/{{Crisis\|2014}}'' with Jakob Vries, the South-African-born founder of a private contractor that is implied to have done a lot of nasty jobs... and a Ballard Academy parent. When the kidnappers call him up to extort his services in exchange for getting his daughter back, he doesn't even hesitate, even though he knows he'll probably have to do something horrible. On the other hand, he ''is'' doing all this for his daughter's sake, and he privately expresses his disgust at the kidnappers' extortion.
102	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Delta and the Bannermen", the evil HumanAlien BountyHunter Keillor has a South African accent for no apparent reason.
103	* In the third season of ''Series/TheAmericans'', which takes place during the 80s, Phillip and Elizabeth have to prevent a bombing intended to discredit the ANC. They have to kidnap Eugene Venter, who is a very nasty Apartheid operative, and very much this trope. The thing is, their ally on this mission, an ANC operative name Reuben, isn't exactly better, and [[KillItWithFire what he does to Venter]] is very, very ugly... It's averted by a nice Afrikaner who's an ANC supporter though.
104	* An episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' has some South African mercenaries serve as [[{{Mooks}} henchmen]] for [[BigBad main villain]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Vandal Savage]]. Oddly, given the episode was set during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, it has [[EqualOpportunityEvil both white and black South Africans working together]] in service of their evil master.
105	* ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'': In "Sleeping with the Enemy", the BigBad employs a team of ruthless South African mercenaries to carry out his plan of terror and murder, which includes bombing public areas.
106	* ''Series/{{Guerrilla}}'': Pence is an Afrikaner policeman whom the British police hired to help break up black radical groups (it's no doubt because of his experience doing this in South Africa). He shows the same ruthless nature as usual, though he's also involved with his black female informant.
107	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': The [=DeVoe=]s seem to have become this in the course of their research, although the flashbacks we see portray them as originally having been nice, normal people.
108	* An episode of ''Series/CriminalMindsBeyondBorders'' revolved around these; a SociopathicSoldier squad from the apartheid era had killed a white woman (as a false flag attack) and her brother was hunting them down for revenge.
109	* In the 1979 miniseries ''Franchise/{{Quatermass}}'', set in a grim, dystopian near-future Britain, the UK's police services have been disbanded and replaced by the Contract Police, or 'pay cops', a force comprised of overly aggressive and not-
110	* In ''Series/TheFastShow'', Arabella Weir gave her breathtakingly rude cosmetics saleswoman (the "No Offence" Woman) a South African accent, because they're AcceptableTargets.
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114	* The narrator of the Music/RandyNewman song "Christmas in Cape Town" is a deeply racist old man who's lamenting that Christmas just hasn't been the same since the end of Apartheid.
115	* By implication, the treacherous "son-of-a-bitch Van Owen" in Music/WarrenZevon's "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner".
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119	* Colonel [=DeBeers=] (real name Ed Wiskowski), a pro-apartheid heel who wrestled in the [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]] from 1985 to 1990. Though he was billed out of Cape Town, he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent didn't even try]] to sound like it.
120	* The Truth Commission, a group of paramilitary white-supremacist {{Heel}}s who wrestled in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWE]] from 1996 to 1998. {{Wrestling/Kurrgan}} got his start here, as "The Interrogator", before shedding the gimmick and becoming one of the Oddities.
121	* Wrestling/CelticChampionshipWrestling has Jack Vice, who is actually South African and wrestles with the flag on his gear. He's also a {{Heel}} and TheBrute of The Establishment.
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125	* ''Series/SpittingImage'' even did an entire song based on it: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDk6ZeGNnU "Never Met A Nice South-African"]], which listed all the negative stereotypes of White South-Afrikaaners. It was strong stuff, but with Apartheid in full swing, that portrayal (and mockery) was generally seen as an important propaganda tool in bringing down that racist system. They note there ''are'' some nice white South Africans however -- those that opposed apartheid[[note]]They specifically mention [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach]], who is a nice South African who hasn't killed anyone and opposed apartheid... which is why they threw him in jail. He'd also been essentially exiled for marrying a French Vietnamese woman, which violated their laws [[MalignedMixedMarriage against mixed race relationships or sex]].[[/note]].
126	-->''No he's never met a nice South African.\
127	And that's not bloody surprising mun.\
128	Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers.\
129	Who smell like baboons.''
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133	* Invoked by Jeremy Hardy on an episode of ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz'', when he talked about the number of white South Africans in London, post-apartheid, and claimed "These aren't economic migrants. They are genuine refugees who are fleeing from a land of freedom and democracy!"
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137	* Several years before they would become famous worldwide for producing ''Theatre/WarHorse'', the Handspring Puppet Company premiered ''Ubu and the Truth Commission'', a retelling of Alfred Jarry's late-19th century Dada work ''Theatre/UbuRoi'' that changed the titular character from a VillainousGlutton PsychopathicManchild into a greedy, none-too-bright, and self-interested agent of a South African death squad.
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141	* Sgt. Blisk of the IMC in ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}''. He's a PsychoForHire who orders his men to open fire on civilian vessels [[EstablishingCharacterMoment in the first mission of the campaign.]] He would later survive to lead the QuirkyMinibossSquad in [[Videogame/Titanfall2 the sequel]] and [[KarmaHoudini years later]] would host [[Videogame/ApexLegends a popular bloodsports show]].
142	* Many of the mercs in ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' are Afrikaners and working for either the United Front for Liberation and Labour ([=UFLL=]) or the Alliance for Popular Resistance ([=APR=]), a pair of differing political sides that are the same even in story. The Afrikaners speak Afrikaans and have some pretty funny lines sometimes.
143	* Hoyt Volker, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FarCry3.'' Unlike most examples of this trope, Hoyt isn't a soldier; however, he's a ruthless slaver and drug kingpin who commands a small army of mercenaries and can still hold his own in a knife fight. He even gets an orientation speech to his men threatening to burn alive anyone who goes against the company rules- 1, don't damage his slaves: 2, kill any natives you meet: and 3, all profits go to him. Many of his men appear to be Afrikaners, too.
144	* Frickie Van Hardenburg, a minor antagonist in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'', is a South African businessman who is secretly an arms dealer responsible for selling weaponry to brutal regimes and conflicts. He's also a drug trafficker and slave trader.
145	* The villain in the original ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' is one Sergei Dekker, a former colonel under apartheid who blames the west for South Africa's "downfall" and plots to get revenge by nuking the United Nations. [[TheDragon His brother]], Wilhelm "Sabre" Dekker, is a black market arms dealer and terrorist with largely the same goals.
146	* The Vermaak 88 from ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' were a unit of world-famous [[PrivateMilitaryContractors South African mercenaries]] even before they were [[EmpoweredBadassNormal powered up]] with [[AnIcePerson freezing powers]]. Unfortunately, the psychological trauma associated with the change means they're almost all completely AxCrazy, with the exception of one DefectorFromDecadence who helps Cole out in the Good Karma missions. They are arguably a subversion, as information you can find ingame shows they weren't all that villainous before they were [[spoiler:forcibly]] given their powers, and even then, [[spoiler:their main goal is to heal their insanity]].
147	* Donovan Hock from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the BigBad of Kasumi's story arc and a notorious smuggler and weapons dealer, speaks with an Afrikaans accent, suggesting that even in the future, this trope is still in massive effect.
148	* The Africa sections in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' have two [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PF's]] made up of ex-SADF soldiers. They work primarily with UNITA rebels in Angola and can be pretty nasty at times, with the larger of the two explicitly being a front for [[TheConspiracy Cipher]]. There's also a third PF that is also made up of white Africans and is just as bad, however that one is mostly comprised of [[FormerRegimePersonnel ex-Rhodesian SAS]] instead. The black mercenaries you face are obviously coded to be just as ruthless and prefer to speak Afrikaans. Ironically, due to randomized enemy game chatter, they'll have pretty civil chats with black enemy NPC mooks. No racism abound.
149	* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception'', several unnamed members of [[RuthlessModernPirates Rameses' gang]]-- who otherwise appear to be made up of Yemeni locals-- speak with South African accents.
150	* The main enemies of ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' are Shoreline, a South African {{PMC}} hired by the main villain composed primarily of Afrikaners, with their leader being Nadine Ross, a black South African woman. That said, Nadine's only a PunchClockVillain, she's increasingly uncomfortable with the lengths her employer is willing to go to in order to get Avery's treasure, [[spoiler:and eventually she leaves him behind.]] In the following game, ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'', Nadine lost control of Shoreline and is working as an independent contractor [[AwesomeAussie Chloe Frazer]], eventually performing a HeelFaceTurn (relatively speaking in that she goes from merc to treasure hunter). Her former lieutenant Orca and the rest of her men stay amoral, though.
151	* One of Agent 47's targets in ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' is a South African white supremacist selling bio-weapons for blood diamonds on the black market.
152	* ''Videogame/Payday2'' has Vernon Locke, a mercenary who serves as one of the contractors in the game, which typically involves the PMC he works for. Despite being South African, he works for the American [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Murkywater]] PMC and he's more of a tech expert than a typical gun for hire.
153	** Also, Jimmy (the Maniac) from the film Film/HardcoreHenry. AxCrazy, a career criminal, and voiced by actual Afrikaner Creator/SharltoCopley himself. That said, he's AffablyEvil.
154	** According to [[MissionControl Bain]], most of the Murkywater grunts are undocumented South Africans, Albanians and Germans.
155	* The Krenel mercenaries from ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' check most of the boxes of this trope: they're [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], [[SociopathicSoldier sociopathic]] war criminals in the service of a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC]] that has been forced to rebrand multiple times after PR disasters; most of their service history involves massacring black people in Third World backwaters; and they've all got Dutch surnames. However, ''Disco Elysium'' liberally utilizes [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy counterpart cultures]], and the mercs' home country of Oranje is more of a CulturalChopSuey of the Netherlands and the United States than a straight riff on South Africa, so this trope is ultimately more PlayedWith than played straight.
156	* Soren Van Wyk, Chairman of the Initiative in ''VideoGame/TerraInvicta''. He's a Boer who made his fortune in arms dealing [[spoiler:and can lead the Initiative to not only take over the world but enslave the aliens]].
157	* Kraven the Hunter's MultinationalTeam of disciples in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' includes many of these guys, alongside other negatively portrayed nationalities like [[TheBogan coarse and violent Australians]] and [[BalkanBastard brutish Eastern Europeans]]. Although the South African Hunters aren't singled out as being particularly worse than their brethren, the organization's vicious cruelty, mercenary nature, and "GreatWhiteHunter [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame of the Most Dangerous Game]]" theming closely match this trope.
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161	* ''Podcast/{{Trashfuture}}'': Whenever South Africa gets brought up regarding a story, Milo Edwards often launches into the character of Jerk Van Der Kleerk, incorrigible war criminal.
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165	* While the ethnicity of Mutro Botha, from the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "The Final Cut" is never mentioned, his surname and accent ''strongly'' suggest that he's an Afrikaner. Fulfilling the "amoral" part of this trope, he is a [[MurderInc Society of Assassins]] member who extorts Batman into protecting him from Curaré by planting a high-yield bomb somewhere in Gotham that only he can locate and disarm in time. Even if you were to chalk such a craven act up to desperation, he's still an immoral, unrepentant assassin, [[spoiler:so [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for him]] when Curaré ambushes and [[MindWipe mind wipes]] him while Batman is distracted.]]
166	* While the original ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|1987}}'' portrayed Flintheart Glomgold (see Comic Books above) [[AdaptationalNationality as Scottish,]] ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has him as actually South African but putting on a [[{{Fauxreigner}} fake Scottish persona]] in his efforts to outdo Scrooge in ''everything''.
167	* The Pantorans in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' are given South African accents, and Supreme Chairman Chi Cho is essentially a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy counterpart]] example of this trope. As the leader of a moon-based technologically advanced species, he tries to assert his authority over the planet the moon orbits, which is inhabited by the Talz, a technologically primitive species whom Cho views as savages and holds in absolute contempt. The trope is partially subverted by other Pantorans, such as Senator Riyo Chuchi, who is kind and empathetic to the Talz and convinces the Pantoran Assembly to strip Cho of his power. The [[WordOfGod creators also stated]] that Cho wasn't based just on Apartheid South Africans, but also on perpetrators of genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
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