Marcel Nel

In 1966, the UN voted overwhelmingly to condemn South Africa’s apartheid as a "crime against humanity" because systemic, race-based laws were seen as unforgivable. (Resolution 2202: 103 votes against, only 4 for.) Today, nearly 60 years later, South Africa has over 140 race-based laws targeting minorities, yet the UN remains silent. The last major one passed, Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) should have triggered global outcry. Instead, the UN recently gifted the ANC government R4.9 billion, despite the fact that legal discrimination persists worse than before. Discriminatory laws are racism, by definition, no matter who the target is. Where is your voice now, @UN? Where is your outcry for the minorities living under modern-day legal discrimination? Justice must be consistent. Otherwise, it’s not justice, it’s selective oppression. You refuse to see the injustices even when its pointed out by @POTUS @elonmusk. We do not ask for your favor. We demand your consistency. @UNHumanRights @antonioguterres @vonderleyen @EU_Commission @UN_PGA @EUparliament

@ErnstRoets I think South African politicians in general should be studied...

The friendship between Gayton McKenzie and Cyril Ramaphosa should be studied.

Thank you @elonmusk for recognising my work. I thought you might like to hear a little more about it.

Good morning, @SAHRCommission. Is this person that is inciting violence against people based on their identity indeed a receptionist at your institution?

@kalliekriel @afriforum 👏👏👏

I regard being insulted by someone like you as a huge compliment 😉. It means @afriforum and I are on the right path! You are a central role player in the party that has destroyed the country through incompetence and corruption. Now you are endangering the country by insulting powerful economic partners. You don’t care because you will continue to wear your designer clothes while joblessness and poverty grow because of your stupidity.

The ANC has no exclusive right to interpret South Africa's history. The truth is that the ANC and several of its leaders were directly involved in terrorism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Landmines and bombs were planted and innocent people lost their lives. The ANC was also strongly aligned with the Soviet Union and communist movements around the world and leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher quite rightly predicted that if the ANC were to take over South Africa it would be catastrophic. Anyone who took a strong stand against the ANC in the 1980s, like Ambassador Bozell, was therefore taking a principled stand. That has nothing to do with racism. But racism is the only argument the ANC has left.

Before praising South Africa’s judicial system, remember that @Julius_S_Malema returns to court around 15-16 April for sentencing in the firearm case. He has already been convicted under the Firearms Control Act. Yet he is still treated as a credible political voice and invited to testify in national inquiries into policing and corruption. The public will ultimately judge the system by how consistently the law is applied. In many cases, it clearly isn’t.

Thanks to @BizNewsCOM for hosting me yesterday. I want to clarify that while my personal view—like that of many South Africans—is that “Kill the Boer” constitutes hate speech, the U.S. government respects the independence and findings of South Africa’s judiciary.

The report finally puts hard numbers on BEE's cost: R145-290bn in annual compliance costs (2-4% of GDP), up to 192k jobs lost per year, and a 1.5-3% drag on GDP growth. But the debate often stays stuck at policy level. The deeper problem is institutional capture and entrenched rent-seeking. Businesses long ago priced BEE into their strategies and it functions like a permanent tax on economic activity. Once rent-seeking normalizes, both the extractors and the compliers defend and sustain the system, for both sides, it becomes a matter of survival. And compounding is brutal, even a modest 1.5% lower annual growth rate, sustained over decades, leaves SA with a dramatically smaller economy today. We could be far richer now with millions more jobs and far less poverty. How do we escape this trap? For me I avoid it completely, if a contractor works here I ask if they are BEE compliant, if they are I don't use them and so should you, money is not worth selling your soul to the devil. If you oppose BEE but work for a company that applies it, you too are an enabler of the sick system.

South Africa is triggering a diplomatic rift with the United States. After our ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III (@USAmbRSA) protested the use of "Kill the Boer" by prominent South African politicians, he was summoned by South Africa's government. Support for the "Kill the Boer" movement is not a fringe issue in South Africa, only limited to a few radicals - it is supported by South Africa's government. The United States should take all necessary steps to reign in South Africa - or make them pay the consequences.

🇺🇸🇿🇦 The U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell, has warned that his country is running out of patience. He said the U.S. put “five asks” to the South African government about a year ago and that there has been no response. The “asks” were that the government: - rethink the Expropriation Act and broad-based black economic empowerment; - condemn the Kill the Boer chant; - prioritise farm murders to protect white farmers; and - be non-aligned. “As I’ve made clear in meetings I’ve had, the U.S. is running out of patience. We believe more and more it becomes a statement by the South African government when it doesn’t want to respond to simple questions we have,” said the ambassador.

Nothing wrong with what Ambassador Bozell said testerday. Absolutely nothing. Kill the Boer is hate speech.

@elonmusk AI bias is a symptom. The real problem is when nuance overrides first principles. Systems stop reasoning and start rationalising. I explored this earlier this year. x.com/NelMarcel/stat…

Yup

@Fuckboyfuc Yes really… Personal testimony… requested by an anonymous account called “Fuckboy”. Maybe start by building some credibility first, champ. If you really want to know, go read my TL. Maybe even verify that account. In the meantime, stray strong…

@NelMarcel Really name how U personally are are affected

Facts...

Careful, Prof. One more exclamation mark and it might become evidence. Very peer-reviewed indeed. 🗣️

In South Africa it’s not just ordinary identity politics. It has been structurally embedded in the state for over a century. The Union in 1910 and laws like the 1913 Land Act, enacted under British rule, entrenched racial policy long before apartheid or the race-based policy debates of the last 30+ years. That’s why “identity politics” in South Africa often really boils down to race politics.

I don't mean to come off as flippant, but "identity politics" is genuinely a universal feature of all societies, and the only way to end it is to kill, expel or forcibly integrate all heterogeneous elements of society No leader who emerges from a divided society can truly get away with a nonpartisan approach, even if tacit support is necessary from all groups

Yeah SA just needs to wait until three generations after the last white man is wiped out for the national consciousness to catch up

@uMarhobane Nice proverb. Got one about leadership too? Or are we sticking with horses today?

@NelMarcel "an end to identity politics" If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

The American people deserve to know what is happening in South Africa. Racial laws and state sanctioned targeting have pushed Afrikaners to the margins in their own homeland. The white crosses are real. It’s time for America to find out. Sign the petition. Sponsor a cross!