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This is what ‘normal crime’ looks like: Donovan Marx was viciously beaten into critical condition on his farm, his ears cut off, and left fighting for his life after being tortured and shot.
Rhino poaching, abalone (sea snail) trafficking, and the illegal removal of endangered cycads are treated as priority crimes with dedicated focus and resources. Attacks on farmers and their families in remote rural areas are not.
Have you no shame or basic humanity, @ThePresidency @CyrilRamaphosa?
UPDATE: Donovan Marx is in a stable but critical condition. Sending prayers and well wishes to him and his family. @afriforum
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The problem is you're committing yourself to a voter base that will never have the numbers to effect any real changes and you'll end up diluting the conservative vote. Conservative people of all races need to band together and march behind one banner.
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Having parties based on race wont work in South Africa. They will always hit a ceiling and won't be able to effect change.
You need parties based on ideologies and policies to align.
South Africa needs a left and a right block, maybe a centre block.
The more conservative right, the socialist left and maybe a middle party that has some elements of both the left and he right.
If one looks at what is happening in the world at the moment with most elections, there are two broad movements - the Conservative side (this side is more aligned to zionism, capitalists, etc) and then on the left are the socialists (more for equality, humanitarian needs, workers rights, helping people out of poverty, etc)
There is a centre grouping (eg. the Democrat socialists in the USA), that is also forming.
I would say that South Africa needs the left and a centre bock majority at the moment because of the situation the majority find themselves in.
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Ambassador Meyer’s claim that Afrikaner “dissenters” are merely a small minority is a convenient misrepresentation that ignores both numbers and substance.
The Solidarity Movement (including Solidarity and AfriForum) is one of South Africa’s largest civil right movements. AfriForum alone has roughly 300,000 contributing members and Solidarity nearly 200,000, with the broader movement reaching around two million South Africans, mostly (90%) but not exclusively Afrikaners. That is not a remnant of the 1992 “No” vote (roughly 31% of white voters). It reflects a substantial portion of the Afrikaner and other minority communities who accepted the negotiated transition in good faith but now confront measurable failures: persistently high rates of farm attacks and murders, race-based legislation such as BEE and affirmative action that systematically disadvantages non-black citizens, collapsing public services and a government that has often dismissed minority concerns rather than address them.
Equating those who organise neighbourhood watches, defend language and property rights or simply document crime statistics with hardline apartheid holdouts is a rhetorical tactic, not an argument. Most of these “dissenters” are ordinary people who want the non-racial democracy that was promised in the 1990s, not its racial reversal.
Meyer, who helped negotiate the transition, is in a position to acknowledge where the post-1994 settlement has completely failed. Solidarity’s consistent message has been practical: equal citizenship, secure communities with the right to maintain themselves and the rejection of race laws. That is not extremism. news24.com/politics/afrikane…
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Mbalula commemorates Gaddafi as a pan-African visionary who inspired unity and liberation.
Let's see who was Brother Leader:
Gaddafi governed Libya for 42 years without a single free election.
He ordered the execution of 1,270 political prisoners in Abu Salim prison in a single incident in 1996.
He funded the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 civilians.
He funded terrorist organisations across four continents.
He personally ordered the torture and disappearance of political opponents across his entire tenure.
His African unity vision produced the following outcomes.
He destabilised Chad through military invasion, funded Charles Taylor's documented war crimes in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and armed groups across the Sahel whose documented violence continues killing Africans today.
The quote Mbalula selects, about enlightened African masses making informed decisions, comes from a man who permitted no informed decisions, no free press, and no political opposition in his own country for 42 years!
Mbalula celebrated Fidel Castro last month. He celebrates Gaddafi today.
Both men shared one documented characteristic: they told their people they were being liberated while denying them the basic documented freedoms that liberation means.
The ANC celebrates men who imprisoned, tortured, and killed their own people.
That tells you everything about the ANC's relationship with freedom and the people of South Africa.
#BetrayedPromises #SouthAfrica
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FROM ICU - STRAIGHT TO THE GYM, STRAIGHT TO OR TAMBO🤣
I honestly think we need to start paying closer attention to the role that some lawyers and doctors play in our justice system.
If there are professionals who deliberately mislead courts, fabricate medical reports, exaggerate health conditions or misrepresent a witness's condition to help someone escape justice, they must be held accountable.
How can someone be so critically ill that they require ICU care, only to be seen standing, speaking confidently or engaging in activities that seem completely inconsistent with the condition presented in Madlanga ? 😳
Of course, recovery can happen quickly, and appearances alone cannot prove that someone was never seriously ill. But where there are genuine inconsistencies, shouldn't they be independently investigated?
The problem is that when money can allegedly influence medical opinions, legal arguments and the evidence presented before a court, ordinary people begin to lose faith in the entire justice system.
A poor person can be expected to face the full force of the law, while a wealthy person can afford teams of lawyers and medical experts to challenge every possible detail.
If a doctor knowingly submits a false medical report or a lawyer deliberately misleads the court, why shouldn't they face serious professional and criminal consequences?
Justice cannot depend on how much money you have, who you know or how many experts you can afford to hire.
Because when the public starts believing that justice can be bought, we have a much bigger problem than any single case.
Honestly, guys, sometimes you look at these situations and wonder:
IS JUSTICE REALLY BLIND, OR DOES IT JUST SEE WHO HAS THE MONEY? 😭💔
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ATTACK THE MESSAGE? OR DISCREDIT THE MESSENGER?
I promised myself I would never dignify anything published by @News24 with a formal response. But its hit piece on Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma demands one.
Let me be clear: this is not an endorsement of Jacinta or the March and March movement per se. It is a defence of her right, as much as mine and that of every other South African, to hold this government to account on issues about which we feel passionately.
What the editors at News24, huddled around their editorial cauldron, concocting the latest batch of ideological gruel to serve their readers, appear to have missed is one rather inconvenient fact: Jacinta's message resonates with millions of South Africans. And not one of them seems remotely interested in asking the most obvious question of all: Why?
Instead, we are served a steaming bowl of hyperbole, histrionics and emotionally charged sound bites. Anything, it seems, to avoid confronting the substance of the discontent.
So let us strip away the theatrics and get to the heart of the matter.
This government has, from the outset, abdicated its responsibility to serve the best interests of the South African people. And the government we have today - the entire political establishment, not merely one party or faction - has become a malignant mass, a festering cancer on the body politic.
The real story isn't that Jacinta is saying things that make News24 uncomfortable. It's that millions of South Africans are listening - because, after decades of broken promises, corruption, incompetence and political indifference, they have every reason to be angry.
And perhaps that is the question News24 should be asking itself: not why Jacinta is speaking, but why so many South Africans feel she is worth listening to.
Doxxing Jacinta, threatening her, and attempting to portray her as dangerous, as though she herself represents the problem in South Africa, is an exercise in creative deflection.
It is far easier to vilify the messenger than confront the message. Far easier to intimidate a citizen than answer the questions she is asking. And far easier to manufacture a public enemy than acknowledge the failures of those who actually hold power.
When the spotlight falls on the messenger rather than the message, ask yourself what, exactly, they are trying to distract you from.
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I must say. I find this headline rather confusing. “Eskom cuts diesel spend by 81% amid steep fuel price hikes”. Surely it should read “Eskom cuts diesel spend by 81% due to no need for diesel spend on OCGT, because of excess power availability from coal fired plants, now that load shedding is over”
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No. It's actually about the US wanting SA to condemn incitement to violence, hate speech, land expropriation without compensation, tackling rural and farm crime, racial laws and policies. You know basic things that all reasonable governments should actually do and want.
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The real reason you’re seeing the tantrums about the White Cross Project is this.
And this applies to almost any criticism of the South African government. It’s why people call for critics to be arrested for treason and in some cases even “necklaced”. Google that term if you don’t know what it means in the South African context.
The truth is that some South Africans simply refuse to confront what so-called post-apartheid South Africa has become.
We have one of the highest murder and rape rates in the world. Our per capita murder rate is roughly 8 times that of the United States. Extreme violence on farms. Incitement of violence by politicians against farmers and minorities. More race laws on the statute books than at the height of apartheid.
Just about every major state-owned enterprise has been hollowed out by corruption, mismanagement and looting. People live behind 8-foot walls with electric fencing, burglar bars and security gates. Some South Africans literally install “rape gates” in their hallways to protect their bedrooms from intruders.
Our police and military are a running joke. Police stations don’t answer their phones and struggle with broken-down vehicles and basic resources.
Once world-class cities have been allowed to decay. There is rubbish everywhere, crumbling infrastructure, sewage running through communities and potholes you could practically swim in.
Our education system produces millions of functionally illiterate children. 8 out of ten Grade 4 children cannot even read for meaning.
We have an expanded unemployment rate of 43.8%. Only 16.7 million people are employed. 26.5 million people receive social grants. Read that again: we have more people on social grants than we have people employed.
For years, they sneered at the people who warned where this country was heading. They called them racists and traitors. They insisted the warnings were hysteria and that the ANC would never destroy the country.
Now they have to look at the results.
And when those results are exposed internationally, they don’t rage at the failures. They rage at the people exposing them.
Because admitting what has happened means admitting that the people they mocked and vilified were warning about things that ultimately came to pass.
That crying you hear over the White Cross Project?
It’s humiliation and embarrassment.
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It is a strange phenomenon where 95% of a country's population believes that the suppression of 5% will uplift the masses.
South Africa is a powerful engine connected to a very broken exhaust. We have huge mineral resources and good agricultural potential, with excellent ports geographically.
South Africa's real economic strain took flight after the destruction of Eskom. Businesses spent years dealing with unreliable electricity, high tariffs, and uncertainty. And South Africa still has transmission and distribution constraints. The OECD says electricity supply remains below historical levels.
Rails and ports are probably one of the biggest self-inflicted economic wounds. We're a commodity-exporting country.
A mine can produce billions of rands worth of coal, iron ore, manganese or chrome but that doesn't help much if you can't economically get it to the harbour.
Rails and ports have shown a significant uptick with increased private-sector involvement.
We carry a significant debt burden.
In 2010, South Africa's debt rose from 31.5% of GDP to 77%. Thus, debt-service costs are consuming an increasingly large portion of government resources, leaving them unable to invest in infrastructure, which is why the cities and institutions like the SAPS is falling apart.
And to top it all off, government red tape is slaughtering small businesses. The IMF's 2026 research found that South African businesses face unusually heavy regulatory and licensing burdens compared with peer economies.
Businesses simply choose to remain small due to regulatory nightmares and racial equity obligations policies.
These are tangible issues exacerbated by corruption and cadre deployment.
South Africa had operational infrastructure.
The ANC broke it.
South Africa has compounding fiscal issues.
THE ANC stole it.
And somehow the narrative exists that if only more racial regulations can be put into place and your right to own property is practically abolished, the state will somehow magically fix all of the above...
The things they broke.
How they math that math is fascinating.
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"The South African public has to prepare itself for the worst-case scenario," said Minister Lamola in response to @SecRubio recent announcement of VISA restrictions.
Minister Lamola also claims South Africans have decided via the ballot box. Lamola seems to forget that the ANC is dying and that the ballot box reflects that, with their recent decline estimated to sit within the low to mid 30%.
The ANC no longer speaks for the majority.
The current US-South Africa clash is not a sudden invention either. Lamola uses "sovereignty" to defend his position, but seems to forget that the United States helped squeeze the apartheid state in the 1980s, then later treated post-1994 South Africa as a partner.
Decades later, there's not much left to steal, so abolishing property rights and ringfencing connected elites under the guise of BBBEE is the final rabbit to pull out of the hat.
In 1986 US Congress passed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act over @POTUS Reagan’s veto.
The law banned new investment and loans, restricted imports, cut air links, and prohibited certain nuclear and military cooperation. Combined with private-sector divestment, bank refusals to roll over credit, and parallel pressure from the Commonwealth and others, it added real economic cost at a moment when the apartheid government was already under internal strain.
The ANC loved the USA then, but of course EWC and BBBEE laws were not in existence then. The ANC only brought those to the table later, with BBBEE coming into effect in 2003.
The ANC claims its purpose is to reverse the economic exclusion created by apartheid... while 32 years later unemployment is at all-time highs and ANC cadres continue to loot the country with impunity.
After 1994 South Africa wrote a constitution that is formally non-racial yet contains explicit transformation clauses. These were the terms the USA agreed on. If anyone has broken that agreement, it is, in fact, the ANC.
So, when the current US administration treats these new alterations and more stringent racial laws as illegitimate racial engineering, Pretoria answers that a country that once sanctioned apartheid has no standing to dictate how the democratic successor state remedies its effects?
Now it's branded American interference?
Both sides are invoking the anti-apartheid struggle, but they draw opposite lessons from it.
The United States now says the tools once used against a racial oligarchy cannot be turned into tools that classify citizens by race again.
The ANC's legacy has turned from liberator of a group to devastator of a nation.
And Lamola's position is that South Africans must prepare for the worst as the ANC antagonizes its second-largest trading partner.
South Africans are already on the brink.
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Ek het nog nooit moedeloos gevoel in ons stryd teen die ANC se strooptogte teen die staat, en sy rassediskriminasie nie. Ons sal daar deur kom! Wat my onder kry, is Afrikaners wat harder teen ons baklei as die kaders self! Dis landbou-organisasies (mede-boere) wat ter wille van die ANC se weergawe van "transformasie" selfs bereid is om die winsgewendheid en volhoubaarheid van ons plase op die altaar te sit. Hou maar dop wie hulle as sprekers na hulle boerevergaderings nooi!
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A good ruling indeed. We need every party to respect our laws and processes. We dont need "technical glitch" excuses when there wasn't one. We certainly dont need a party who can't manage its own basic affairs, to be in charge of managing complex systems like municipalities. Electoral Court dismisses ANC’s candidate lists case against IEC news24.com/politics/electora… via @news24
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Notice how nobody is dismissing these killings as "just normal crime"?
Notice how no politicians are chanting "Kill the women"?
Notice how the president is not going on an international platform to declare "There are no killings of women in South Africa"?
Notice how commentators are not falling over their feet to remind the people who care about this issue that "actually" more men are murdered per day in South Africa and that these killings of women are just a "small fraction" of total murders?
Notice how no journalists are cracking jokes on social media about "what wine pairs best" with serial femicide?
Notice how News24 is not hunting down those raising awareness about the Kempton Park murders and doxxing them and their families?
This double standard once against proves that activists against farm murders aren't demanding special treatment of this pressing issue, simply equal and normal treatment.
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We keep hearing from lefties that every approach to dealing with farm attacks and murders is somehow wrong.
Talking about it is wrong.
Organising community safety initiatives is wrong.
Calling for dedicated SAPS task teams is wrong.
Asking for more resources is wrong.
Demanding that government take it seriously is wrong.
Appealing to the international community for attention and support is wrong.
So what exactly do they want farmers to do?
What is their solution? How, according to them, should farmers respond to people being attacked and murdered?
Because they seem to have endless criticism for every attempt to address the problem, but very little to say about what should actually be done.
Should farmers simply shut up, stop organising, stop asking for help and accept being attacked and murdered?
If every proposed response is unacceptable, then tell us what the acceptable response is.
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Ernst Roets sê hier vir Piet hy moet in sy moer vlieg. 😁
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The last time government said “just trust us, bro,” we were locked down for 2 years, millions of livelihoods were destroyed, people were arrested for surfing alone in the ocean and buying baby formula after dark. Armed law enforcement officers threatened families on beaches and soldiers beat people to death for drinking in their own backyards.
So forgive me if that experience left me a little reluctant to give government even an inch more power.