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Peter Thomas retweeted
BREAKING NEWS 🚨: Calls to dissolve the South African Human Rights Commission are growing, as ordinary South Africans feel that this Chapter 9 institution does not represent them. They say it is always against South Africans, and they want it dissolved….
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‘Makgoa are out in numbers’: Hill-Lewis calls Tumi Sole racist over voting post
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Dear @Derek_Hanekom I’ll give you 10/10 for perseverance. There are great examples of oxymoronic thinking. “ANC credibility” is one of them. It must be very disappointing to have been inside the liberation movement virtually all your life, and watch it crumble into a greedy, corruption infested organisation that cares less for the people and more about their own wallets. Keep on hoping.
Peter Thomas retweeted
ANOTHER brutal farm attack and torture in South Africa:
An elderly couple were burned with boiling water and beaten as attackers tried to cut off wife’s nipples with bolt cutters.
Only psychopaths consider this "just normal crime".
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Peter Thomas retweeted
VISUALS | Several farmers from the Ventersdorp and Potchefstroom areas have gathered outside the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court, where five suspects are expected to appear in connection with the brutal attack on 50-year-old Donovan Marx. For more visit sabcnews.com
Peter Thomas retweeted
10. CT has had 3 clean financial audits while JHB moved from an unqualified to a qualified audit. Jhb’s unpaid bills rose to R72 billion trapping it in service delivery paralysis. CT has added 18 megawatts of independent capacity while JHB is dependent on a fragile state grid.
Peter Thomas retweeted
Powerful statement from the Minister of Agriculture. Well done!
"We must never be afraid to do the right thing. The law protects you. There is such a thing as self-defence."
Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp said that he will kill anyone who comes to his farm and threatens the life of his wife and kids.
newsday.co.za/south-africa/3…
Peter Thomas retweeted
South African social media is about to be filled with "experts" telling you who's to blame for the Trump administration kicking South Africa out.
Don't get propagandised. Read the key eligibility requirements for a country to qualify, and decide for yourself.
The country must have, or is making progress toward establishing:
1. A market-based economy that protects private property rights and minimises government interference in the economy.
2. The rule of law, political pluralism, and the right to due process, a fair trial, and equal protection under the law.
3. A system to combat corruption and bribery.
4. Does not engage in gross violations of internationally recognised human rights or provide support for acts of international terrorism and cooperates in international efforts to eliminate human rights violations and terrorist activities.
How does the ANC-led South African government score on this checklist?
Peter Thomas retweeted
In South Africa, the murder of White farmers is not only encouraged by members of parliament but also celebrated.
Last week, 50-year-old cattle farmer Donovan Marx was brutally tortured during an attack on his farm in Syferfontein, in South Africa’s North West province.
According to police, three unidentified armed men wearing balaclavas entered the property and tied up a farmworker before confronting Marx, shooting him in the upper body, dragging him into his house, and restraining him with cable ties.
During the attack, Marx had both ears cut off, was severely beaten, shot in the back, and stabbed in the leg. According to Agri North West deputy chairperson André Strydom, the attackers also attempted to mutilate his genitals.
Marx underwent emergency surgery and is currently in critical but stable condition. Police have now arrested five suspects in connection with the attack.
Following the attack, Andile Mngxitama, a member of South Africa's parliament, took to X to celebrate it, stating that “attacking the ears is symbolic to denote the refusal of land thieves to listen” and “No land no peace.”
Over 3,000 farmers have been murdered in South Africa over the past 30 years. The South African government, however, has refused to acknowledge that there is a racial element to farm murders and instead insists that they are part of a broader crime problem in a dangerous country.
Peter Thomas retweeted
FARM ATTACK: 01/11/2026, Broederstroom, NW.
Elderly couple severely assaulted and tortured with boiling water. Firearms stolen. Security and safety structures responded. No arrests yet. @afriforum
Peter Thomas retweeted
#SAoutOfAgoa #MembershipTerminated1Jan2027 #ANCFailedSA
It is a total disaster that SA’s membership of Agoa will be terminated on 1 Jan 2027. The VF Plus did our outmost to save our membership but the incompetence of those in charge of our International Relations prevailed
@maroelamedia @Netwerk24 @iol
Peter Thomas retweeted
Solidarity blames Ramaphosa and Lamola for US decision on AGOA
Solidarity has expressed its disappointment at the White House’s decision not to retain South Africa as a beneficiary country under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for 2028. This decision is a direct result of the South African government’s failure to repair the deteriorating diplomatic relationship with the United States.
Despite Solidarity’s repeated and sustained efforts to safeguard South Africa’s participation in AGOA, it was already clear last week that relations between Pretoria and Washington had deteriorated to such an extent that the White House was no longer willing to keep South Africa in the programme. The government, President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister Ronald Lamola repeatedly ignored warnings. Instead, they pursued a foreign policy and made public statements that further strained relations with one of South Africa’s most important trading partners.
According to Jaco Kleynhans, Head of Public Liaison at Solidarity, the organisation played a key role last year in securing support in the US Congress to extend AGOA by two years, until the end of 2028.
“Through direct engagement with senators, members of the House of Representatives and officials, we helped secure the continuation of the legislation itself. We are currently working with members of Congress on plans to extend AGOA beyond 2028. However, the annual review of beneficiary countries remains the responsibility of the White House. Ramaphosa and Lamola’s antagonism towards Trump and the White House made it impossible for the Trump administration to keep South Africa in AGOA.
“We have been warning for months that the government’s actions, including Minister Lamola’s undiplomatic remarks during his visit to the US in September, were putting South Africa’s participation in AGOA at risk. The government, Lamola and Ramaphosa must take full responsibility for this exclusion. Ordinary workers and industries will now pay the price for political negligence,” says Kleynhans.
Solidarity urgently calls on the government to resolve the dispute with the US immediately and constructively. The economic cost of this decision – particularly for the automotive, agricultural and other export-oriented industries – will be significant and will put thousands of jobs at risk.
In the meantime, Solidarity is engaging with the US government to limit the negative impact of the AGOA decision on its members and the affected industries in South Africa as far as possible. The organisation will continue to protect the interests of workers and the economy, regardless of the government’s failure to do so.
Peter Thomas retweeted
People heavily underestimate the devastating impact of political illiteracy across Africa.
It is the single greatest bottleneck to Africa's advancement.
In South Africa: You have grown adults who genuinely believe that if the ANC is voted out of power, apartheid will magically return overnight.
In Zimbabwe: You have adults completely convinced that colonization will return the exact moment they vote out ZANU-PF.
In the DRC: You have citizens who believe they are spiritually destined to be poor and fight in the bushes forever, all because of Belgian exploitation that ended generations ago.
This is a total absence of critical thinking. The cognitive shallowness and logical bankruptcy are glaring.
Millions of people have absolutely zero knowledge of how modern systems, economics, or governance actually work. They are driven entirely by state-sponsored phantom fears and manufactured trauma.
Closing this massive information and knowledge gap through aggressive, logical education is the most critical investment Africa can make right now.
You cannot build a modern economy, enforce the rule of law, or do anything of global significance with minds that are still held hostage by cheap political fairy tales.
Peter Thomas retweeted
World Bank research shows every 10% increase in broadband penetration can raise GDP growth by 1.21% in countries like South Africa.
Yet South Africa is blocking Starlink with race-based ownership rules.
South African farmers and rural communities are asking the government to approve Starlink. In many remote areas, there is no internet at all.
SpaceX committed about $30 million to deliver FREE high-speed internet to 5,000 rural schools in South Africa. That would help over 2.4 MILLION kids learn better, access opportunities, and build a stronger future. But race-based ownership laws are blocking it.
Starlink is already live in 20+ African countries. Villages there now have internet for education, healthcare, and business. South Africa’s villages are missing out because of these racist rules.
This is an injustice to the people of South Africa.
Peter Thomas retweeted
Here’s some awkward content for all those “City of Cape Town only delivers for some” idiots. A short thread;
Peter Thomas retweeted
Why do so many Zimbabweans appear desperate to turn South Africa into Zimbabwe by pushing even more extremist racialist, anti-white nonsense?
South Africa cannot continue to have a predominantly white national rugby team when about 80% of its population is black, writes Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
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Peter Thomas retweeted
African liberators took power to be in power. That's the truth.
The hard question is what they did with it, and why the people never asked.
Innovation was there. Building was happening, unfinished projects had plans in place, and resources were being saved for construction. Johannesburg and Salisbury were near world-class and moving toward that standard in service delivery, sanitation and infrastructure.
The rand and the Zimbabwean dollar were at their peak, competing fiercely with the British pound.
The liberators' concerns were not economic or infrastructural, but power. That's the biggest red flag in how Africans inflated their hopes in the ruling class.
People never ask how they came about in the first place, or what they wanted. Many came from activism, unions and law. Those are real strengths, but they don't build water systems, power grids or sound currencies. Governing is a different job.
Lawyers knew that if they succeeded, they would get the top positions. The men didn't have the best ideology or ideas. The struggle was fought on emotion, and emotion is a poor policy.
Where the ideology was rigid, many countries got slogans instead of delivery. Marxists delivered squalor and called it freedom.
Loyalty to a liberation story is not loyalty to the people. Respect the sacrifice, but demand results. No one is owed power forever.
When Nelson Mandela was inaugurated in 1994, South Africa's national finances were in remarkably good shape.
The Rand sat at R3.50 to the US Dollar, and both a South African passport and an average middle-class income carried real weight internationally.
Government debt stood at just 13.5% of GDP, the state owed almost nothing to foreign creditors, handing the new democracy complete fiscal independence and enormous room to invest in building a strong, modern state.
Skip ahead to 2026. Following years of state capture, cadre deployment, and repeated bailouts of failing state enterprises like Eskom and Transnet, that debt to GDP figure has climbed past 75%.
South Africa now spends more on servicing its debt than it does on healthcare or law enforcement.
Rather than channeling that borrowed money into factories, schools, or infrastructure like high-speed rail, the funds went largely toward inflated salaries for politically connected insiders, while the country's physical infrastructure was left to decay.
Peter Thomas retweeted
So true. And there are few examples as good as South Africa @IngrahamAngle
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My real problem with you folks is how lowly you think of Zulu folks. It seems many of you aren't used to a patriotic proud nation of people. They way you people undermine them, is what's actually going to push them to the direction you've been accusing them of.
It is not lost to anyone with a memory how white racists instinctively seek Zulu nationalism, as a partner in their quest to divide and conquer. I hope those who lost relatives, were maimed and lost property in KZN, the East Rand, those who survived the violence on trains and hostels, will speak. The Zulu nation, a proud "member" of South Africa's rich tapestry, will tell us if they approve of right wing SA's renewed interest in them. And the rest of South Africa? Apartheid South Africa's financial and security support for the IFP cost this country dearly. Do we want that again?