Embezie

This is Piet Els of Kimberley, South Africa. A true "rainbow nation" believer, just like @CNN and @60Minutes, who still paid the ultimate price. This was a man who opened his heart and his wallet to the new South Africa from day one. When Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 and first came to Kimberley, Piet Els was right there; the humble, kind-hearted businessman who welcomed him, looked past his acts of terrorism, worked with everyone, and was known as the White man Black people could always turn to for help. Years later he was still giving. In 2008 he donated R3 million to the ANC at a major fundraiser. A friend of Mandela. A donor to the ANC. A man who believed in "reconciliation." Yet none of that saved him. On 24 January 2018, at 5am on his farm, Carter’s Ridge outside Kimberley, Piet Els (then 86) and his partner were brutally attacked. Beaten with iron rods, tortured, robbed. He fought for his life in ICU for 111 days, but died on 15 May 2018. Piet Els gave everything to the “new” South Africa, and it still came for him on his own farm. Because he was White. Because every single post-apartheid president made White people the enemy. Because they successfully sold the narrative that White people stole their land, their opportunities and their dreams. Tolerance is no longer an option. Coexistence is impossible.