South African Refugee • Grateful for a second chance in America. Leaving the past behind, embracing the future, and proudly building an American life.
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How many of you actually knew this about Elon Musk? 🤔
At 18, he took a job nobody wanted, crawling inside filthy lumber mill boilers for $18 an hour. 30 people started… only 3 lasted a week! 😂
Funny how some people hate the man, but probably wouldn't last a day doing the job he took at 18.
Love him or hate him, you've got to respect a bit of grit. 😉
But hey, keyboard warriors don't need to crawl into boilers. They start crying if the Wi-Fi goes down. 🤣🔥
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The victim’s account of the brutal attack on him and his wife.
Les and his wife Natasha said the attackers tied the couple’s feet, blindfolded them, bound their arms behind their backs, and kept them apart for two to three hours of torture.
Les: “The worst was when they started cutting my wife’s nipples, just to cause pain. She’s a very, very strong woman. A good woman.”
They forced the barrel of Les’ own AK-47 into his mouth and pulled the trigger. It failed to fire.
Les: “It was God’s grace. There’s nothing wrong with my gun. But they didn’t know much about guns, to be honest.”
Natasha was nearly raped twice. Her clothes were cut off, she was slapped, and rags were forced into her mouth until her frenulum tore. Her lips are badly swollen, there are bruises behind her ears, and her shoulder was almost dislocated. Both were tortured with boiling water.
Les was hit over the head with bolt cutters. His face was severely swollen, the white of one eye filled with blood, and his left eardrum burst. He cannot hear from that ear.
The attackers told Natasha, “We’re not here to steal cables.” Bank cards were left untouched.
🇺🇸⏰ WELCOME TO AMERICA… WHERE EVEN TIME IS CONFUSING! 😂
So apparently, this weekend America changed the clocks again. Something called Daylight Saving Time.
Now, as first-time South African refugees, we're still trying to figure out American measurements, tipping culture, health insurance, and why everything comes in gallons instead of litres…
AND NOW THEY'RE MESSING WITH TIME?! 🤯
Apparently, we FALL BACK one hour.
Does that mean we wake up an hour earlier? Or later?
Do we go to bed earlier? Or later?
Are we getting an extra hour of sleep, or have we just lost an hour of our lives?
And who exactly decided that we can just rearrange time whenever we feel like it?! 😂
But here's where things get REALLY complicated…
Now we need to contact the family back in South Africa, and suddenly they're not 6 hours ahead of us anymore… they're 7 HOURS AHEAD! 😳
WAIT… WHAT?!
Did they move faster while we were sleeping?
Did they wake up earlier?
Did they sleep faster?
Or did WE somehow sleep an hour longer while the rest of the world carried on without us?! 🤣
Do we now need to phone home an hour earlier, or are they just living in the future without telling us?!
I swear, Sunday we woke up, looked at the clocks, looked at each other and wondered if we'd accidentally entered THE TWILIGHT ZONE! 👽
🇿🇦 Back in South Africa, time was just time.
🇺🇸 Here in America, apparently time has seasonal employment!
So if you see us looking confused, please don't panic. We're not lost, we're not jet-lagged, and we're not having a midlife crisis.
WE'RE JUST REFUGEES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TIME IT IS! 🤣🤣
Welcome to America, folks! Where even the clocks need a fresh start! 🇺🇸😂
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Everybody at rememberthefallen.co.za is praying for Donovan Marx who was attacked on his farm between Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp this morning. He was shot in the back and his ears were cut off.
This is not normal crime!!!!!
Hey @SteveRattner just a quick question, what was the percentage of white South Africans was admitted to the U.S. under Biden? Or even better percentage was white at all? Those two figures would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Yes, white farmers in South Africa are facing rape, torture, and murder by black South Africans because of their race.
And the black-dominated South African government isn't protecting the white farmers.
The white farmers add value to America.
Why wouldn't we take them?
🍂☕ GOOD MORNING, OHIO! 🇺🇸😂
Fall in Ohio is beautiful… until you realize the trees are undressing faster than you can afford to buy winter clothes! 🍁🤣
One minute you’re enjoying pumpkin spice, the next you’re dressed like an Eskimo, wondering if your car will start tomorrow. 🥶🚗
And don’t even get me started on raking leaves… the trees just keep reloading! 🍂💀
Luckily, we live in an apartment, so raking leaves is someone ELSE’S problem! 🙌😂 One of the perks of apartment living, let nature make a mess, and let someone else clean it up! 🤣🍁
Have a cracking day, everyone! Stay warm, stay blessed, and may your coffee be stronger than the wind chill! ☕❤️
🇺🇸 FREEDOM, ADVENTURE & ONE VERY DISAPPOINTED PIG! 🐷😂
With freedom comes adventure… provided you’re willing to leave the house and risk your life expectancy dealing with the logistics! 🤣
Now that my Milford lift is installed (a story for another day), I can finally be loaded into the car like premium cargo and taken out to explore. ♿🚙
So, a couple of weekends ago, we rounded up the family, made our trusted tour guide sign an indemnity form (because apparently nobody trusts a quadriplegic with a good time), and off we went! 😂
Yes, I know I should post more often. I'm working on it. One adventure at a time, people!
Now, having lived in South Africa most of my life, I had certain expectations. Dirty rivers, vandalised buildings, litter everywhere, rude people and parks that looked like they’d been abandoned sometime during the Jurassic period.
Before the keyboard warriors emerge from their caves with their two cents' worth, YES, South Africa has beautiful, well-maintained private game reserves and parks. But when it comes to many public spaces, maintenance sometimes seems to have been declared an optional extra. 🇿🇦🙈
BUT AMERICA… WHAT ON EARTH?! 🇺🇸🤯
Clean parks. Beautiful walkways. Rivers without floating rubbish. Waterfalls without discarded shopping bags. Everything maintained like someone actually gives a damn!
No fences everywhere trying to keep humans out or animals in. Nature practically walks into the city and makes itself at home.
I kept looking around, wondering where the catch was. Surely somebody forgot to put up the “Please Don't Destroy Everything” signs? 😂
But the absolute BEST part?
THE ACCESSIBILITY! ♿❤️
For once, I wasn't sentenced to life imprisonment inside the car while the family went off to see the sights.
I could actually get out, roll along the walkways and enjoy the waterfalls with everyone else.
Imagine that! A wheelchair user being able to experience nature instead of watching it through a windscreen. Revolutionary stuff! 😂👏
We even stopped at Pumpkinville to pick up some pumpkins for Halloween. 🎃
And that's where I met my new favourite pet: PIGLET! 🐷❤️
We bonded. We connected. I could see our entire future together.
Unfortunately, the authorities refused to approve the adoption.
Apparently, you can't just rock up to a pumpkin patch, fall in love with a pig and drive home with him.
America has freedom, but clearly not ENOUGH freedom. 😂😂😂
Anyway, our American adventure has officially begun! 🇺🇸
Unfortunately, winter is coming… and knowing Ohio, there's a reasonable chance I'll be exploring the great outdoors again sometime around 2027. 🥶❄️
Until then, I'll be staring out the window, planning my next escape and mourning the loss of my beloved Piglet.
A HUGE thank-you to our trusted tour guide for showing us the ropes and helping us discover just how beautiful this place is. ❤️
One wheelchair. One lift. One family. Countless adventures. And one pig that got away. ♿🇺🇸🐷
*So many photos to share but not aloud to
Well… apparently I’ve been a little lazy.
Okay, maybe somewhat lazy.
Somewhat unsupervised.
And, for the most part, spectacularly side-tracked. 😂
So yes… I haven’t been posting much.
They say small things amuse small minds.
Well, I’ve got news for them:
Small minds can dream BIG, and sometimes the smallest things in life are the things worth celebrating the most.
So, here we are…
🇺🇸 FOUR MONTHS IN AMERICA! 🇺🇸
Four months of ups, downs, unexpected turns, hurdles, paperwork, frustration, laughter, tears, and enough bureaucracy to make you question whether trees are secretly grown specifically to become government forms.
It hasn’t exactly been a smooth ride.
We lost a nephew in a tragic car accident, and one of the hardest parts was knowing we couldn’t simply get on a plane and go home to support his family.
That one hurt.
Then another nephew joined us on his own American adventure, while other family members received the dreaded INELIGIBLE letter less than 24 hours after their USCIS interview.
Yeah… try making sense of that one. 🤦♂️
But I’ve learned something:
Life doesn’t always ask permission before throwing something at you.
Sometimes it just kicks the door open, throws a grenade into the living room and says,
“Right… figure this one out.”
And somehow… you do.
In the middle of all of this, we managed to secure a reliable car 🚗, my wife started her job, and I have officially become WAY too unsupervised.
Honestly, even I’m starting to worry about me. 😂
But as they say…
The possibilities are endless.
And boy oh boy…
THEY ARE.
We’re finally starting to explore America more and actually enjoy the adventure, especially on weekends.
And because clearly we have questionable judgment, we have officially appointed
@virami as our personal tour guide.
So far, she’s doing a pretty damn good job.
She has even agreed to sign the indemnity form.
That’s how you know she’s committed. 😂
Every outing, every new place, every little discovery keeps reminding us just how incredibly privileged we are to have this opportunity.
Is America perfect?
Hell no.
Nothing is.
But every day we see a little more of this country, meet more people, experience more things and discover more possibilities, we realize just how lucky we are to be here.
We left behind a life we knew.
We left behind family, friends, possessions, familiarity and everything that made life comfortable in the sense of being known.
We didn't come here because everything was easy.
We came because we believed there could be something better.
And four months later, despite all the challenges, frustrations and occasional moments of wondering “What the hell have we done?"
I still believe we made the right decision.
🇺🇸 Thank you, America.
And thank you to the Americans who have welcomed us, helped us, laughed with us, opened doors for us and made this strange new chapter feel a little more like home.
There is, however, ONE final boss standing between me and complete happiness…
❄️ WINTER. ❄️
Winter is coming.
And I am NOT a winter person.
My wheelchair and snow are about to have a relationship neither of us asked for.
But…
I survived a car accident that left me quadriplegic.
I survived being attacked in our home
I survived being told my life was over.
I survived losing almost everything.
I survived getting to America.
So I’m pretty sure I can survive a little snow.
Probably.
Maybe.
Ask me again in February. 😂
For now, we’re going to keep exploring, keep learning, keep laughing, keep appreciating the little things…
…and hopefully I’ll stop being lazy, unsupervised and side-tracked long enough to actually POST SOMETHING AGAIN. 😂
Four months down.
A whole lifetime of possibilities to go.
🇺🇸❤️♿
One wheel forward. Always.
One Wheel Forward👨🦼🥳 retweeted
Okay, this is funny. 😂
ANC calls on its ancestors to rescue its fortunes: First deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane has asked the gods of the ANC to be with the party and forgive its members as they face the 4 November elections.
mg.co.za/politics/2026-10-05…
GOOD MORNING, SATURDAY! ☀️😂
Nephew has officially landed safely, survived the journey, and is now settled in. 🇺🇸✈️
Which means there is only one logical thing to do…
🚗💨 ROADTRIP!
We’re heading out for the day, and all I can say is:
OHIO… HOLD ON!
We take **ZERO accountability** for anything that happens today. 🤣
If you see us on the road…
No you didn’t. 👀😂
If you hear strange noises…
That’s the GPS.
If something falls off the car…
It was probably supposed to do that.
And if we get lost…
It’s called exploring. 🗺️😂
Have an absolutely lekker Saturday, everyone! 🇺🇸❤️
Buckle up. Behave yourselves. Or at least make it look convincing. 😎
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has made it clear that the country will not abandon its radical anti-White policies known as “Black Economic Empowerment” (BEE).
“Those who say BEE and affirmative action must stop are just dreaming,” he said.
South Africa has strict laws that mandate discriminatory hiring practices.
A new law called the Employment Equity Amendment Act sets hiring targets for 2025–2030 across 18 economic sectors, with some workforce targets aiming for 90–96% of employees to come from groups excluding White men.
That means that if a company has more than 5% White men, it could face penalties of up to 10% of its income.
