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@RiseAgainstEvil That’s a cute rewrite of history😂, but a referendum held under a collapsing system after decades of resistance, sanctions, and mass struggle is not a moral awakening 🤣. It is a petition to negotiate the terms of surrender 🇿🇦✊🏾

Apartheid ended because WE, the White minority, voted to end it. On 17 March 1992, White South African voters turned out in overwhelming numbers (over 85% turnout) for a Whites-only referendum. They were asked if they supported President F.W. de Klerk's continued negotiations to dismantle apartheid and create a new constitutional order. Nearly 69% voted "Yes," 1.92 million White votes in favor versus about 876,000 against. This democratic choice by the White electorate, not battlefield victory or external coercion, opened the door to the negotiated transition that led to the 1994 elections. The ANC did not conquer South Africa. There was no military defeat of the White government or its security forces. Negotiations occurred amid political pressure, internal unrest, and economic challenges, ANC acts of terrorism, but the armed struggle never toppled the state. The transition was a negotiated handover, driven in significant part by the willingness of White leadership and voters to move beyond the old system. Sanctions affected little in the grand scheme. While international boycotts, divestment, and restrictions from the 1980's created pressures, including capital flight and some slowdown in growth, they did not cripple the country. South Africa remained resilient, self-sufficient in many sectors, and resource-rich. The economy adapted through import substitution, domestic innovation, and trade with non-sanctioning nations. Claims that sanctions alone brought the system to its knees overlook how South Africa was still thriving economically in key areas right up to the transition; advanced infrastructure, world-leading mining and agriculture, reliable power, and a first-world standard of living for much of the population (and growing opportunities for others). What have we received in return? Decades later, the fruits of that goodwill and democratic concession have soured for many White South Africans, and for the country as a whole. Promises of reconciliation, rainbow nation unity, and shared prosperity under ANC governance have given way to entrenched issues: - Skyrocketing crime and violence: South Africa now has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Farm attacks remain a brutal reality for White farming communities; entire families tortured, raped, and murdered on their land in ways that often go beyond simple robbery. Thousands of White farmers and family members have been killed since 1994, with rural safety a persistent crisis despite farmers' efforts to secure themselves. - Economic decline and stagnation: Early post-1994 growth gave way to stagnation, corruption (notably under Zuma), cadre deployment, BEE policies that prioritized race over competence, and mismanagement. Load-shedding, crumbling infrastructure, failing municipalities, and policy uncertainty have eroded the thriving economy Whites helped build and voted to share. Per capita GDP growth has flatlined or reversed for years, leaving South Africa lagging behind many peers. - Demographic and cultural displacement: Affirmative action, expropriation threats, and anti-White rhetoric in politics and media have created a sense of marginalization for the White minority (now around 7% of the population). Skills emigration ("White flight") continues as talented professionals leave for safer, more merit-based societies. The very institutions and farms Whites sustained are under strain. White South Africans extended an olive branch through that 1992 vote, believing in a future of mutual benefit and peace. In return, far too many have faced vilification, vulnerability, and the slow erosion of the prosperous society they helped create. The country that once stood as Africa's economic powerhouse now grapples with dysfunction that hurts everyone, but hits hardest those who built it and trusted the promise of the new order. True reconciliation requires acknowledging these realities, not perpetuating narratives that erase White agency and sacrifice.

@PhylaxM I speak the ever evolving kullid "afrikaans" it's more relatable to our people. The apartheid standardized version is fading away ANYWAY so..🚮

Black people would rather speak English, a foreign language, than Afrikaans, a native language.

@CitizenScoopX @GroenewaldPJ @MulderCorn @VFPlus At 1.36% of the national vote? They should thank the ANC for even considering them in the GNU 🤣

Good Morning X!!😎☕️🫡 We would be much better off with either Pieter Groenewald (@GroenewaldPJ) or Corne Mulder (@MulderCorn) from the Freedom Front Plus (@VFPlus) as President of South Africa.

@RiebvJanbeeck Americans are more concerned about Trump making a mockery of their once feared military 🤣

The Americans know exactly what’s happening in South Africa.

@marcel__za I travel around the country for work and I can tell you, I'm NEVER leaving Joburg 😭. I'm renting out my house coz I'm always away but fuck no I ain't leaving. Ever!!

If you live in Joburg, I’m encouraging you to sell your property a.s.a.p.

@Pedi_hun This is standard practice and has ALWAYS been like that globally. When police ask for it you HAVE TO produce it or they detain you until fully verified by Home Affairs. Imagine having to sleep in a holding cell while waiting. Rather have it upfront and you'll be fine.

This is sad our African brothers and sisters are now walking around with passports 💔

@WonderboyN77640 @Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor Mac G stands a much better chance than leyo 2😂😂

@Whatalivewelive @Newbiecijo @Mzansi4shor So a referendum would/might elect Phil Craig or kallie kriel to be our president?

Most Blacks and Coloured South Africans believe that the country should be given back to White people to run it cause the Black leaders have failed, What is your take?

@GiarcMr @Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor You’ve got internet, unlimited information, and still landed on lazy racial stereotypes. That kind of proves access to information isn’t the magic fix you claim it is. You’re living proof that access to information and understanding it are two very different things.

@Newbiecijo @Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor Nice try, but that nonsense does not work on me. People who dont have access to information will never know better, nor will they know the truth about the ANC since they dont have internet. Its tells me more about you since you stand up for the anc and their crimes.

@Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor The post I'm responding to is talking about race 😏

@Newbiecijo @Mzansi4shor You are the only person talking about black and white. How the hell will "I" be able to make poeple vote the way I want them. And btw me and millions of other SA'ns only want whats best for the country and if you think that the current Gov is that then whos daydreaming my friend?

@GiarcMr @Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor So when people disagree with you politically, your conclusion is they’re too dumb to think? That says more about you than them. That isn’t analysis, it’s just ‘I don’t like the result so I’ll insult the voters.

@Newbiecijo @Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor The reason why it remains black = uneducated people in rural areas with no access to actual news. If everyone had access and knew what the ANC were up to, they too would change their votes.

@Whatalivewelive @WonderboyN77640 @Mzansi4shor In South Africa governments are not decided by referendums...they are decided by elections. Majority of all the votes continue going to black parties. You may not like it...but that's the reality.

@WonderboyN77640 @Newbiecijo @Mzansi4shor As I have mentioned earlier, a referendum where people and not political parties are the choices. That will be a true reflection of the will of the people.

@Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor You’ve built a whole imaginary scenario where people vote the way you need them to😂. Convenient universe. Continue daydreaming, in the meantime the government of South Africa remains overwhelmingly black because that is the choice of the majority. That's facts.

@Newbiecijo @Mzansi4shor That is the system yes. But remember back in the 1990's with the Yes/No referendum? That was done because our country needed change desperately (very much as we do now). Believe me, if there is a referendum today you will see a partisipation of more than 70%

@Whatalivewelive @Mzansi4shor South African governments are decided by ballots cast, not by speculative census fiction. The ballot box measures political reality, and that reality is that majority of South Africans keep choosing a black government.

@Newbiecijo @Mzansi4shor You cannot use votes as a true reflection on the population. In the 2024 South African national election there were about 27.78 million registered voters. SA estimated voting-age population (18+) was about 39.75 million people and roughly 16.2 million people actually voted.

@IraninSA South Africans against apartheid ✊🏾

The new generation of South Africa is also wise and courageous.

@DieDagbreker @TheCryptoKeith You can bullshit all you want. African people walked this earth before white people even existed. Right now..earth is rapidly ridding itself of white people. Natural selection 😉

@Newbiecijo @TheCryptoKeith Europe had approximately 240–260 million people (including Russia), while Africa population estimates range from roughly 100 million to 140 million. In 1652, less than 1/km². Now it's ±52/km²

Afrikaner ancestry in southern Africa predates Newtonian physics by 35 years.

@LCabonena That's why they're frothing at the mouth. They want it back. They want white privilege back.

In South Africa, White privilege is a myth.

@TheCryptoKeith @DieDagbreker Those are the facts. My people have been galloping this land waaay before white people even existed on earth. Our languages have evolved and intertwined over hundreds of thousands of years. But the fact is that Afrikaners only became a thing just yesterday 😂

@Newbiecijo @DieDagbreker Haha and you know this history because of feelings 🤣 You migrated to RSA just like the dutch and the British and it was not that long before they did either. Learn to cope with the facts

@ntshoyamathudi @stefanjacobs After the South African war, famously called "the anglo-boer war"...THEY decided that there's them and us. That's the real story 😅.

@Newbiecijo @stefanjacobs You caught up in them THEM AND US mindset

The problem with Penuel is that he’s really not that smart. Here, for example, he’s comparing Afrikaners, who are impossible to dislodge from the very fabric and founding of the notion of “South Africa”, with illegal foreigners who have arrived during the past 30 years of disastrous ANC open-border rule. He’s right that Afrikaners will NEVER leave, though.

@DieDagbreker @TheCryptoKeith Zulu-speaking people had been in Kwazul-Natal for thousands of years before Dutch peasants arrived in 1652. The era of y'all bullshitting through history is long gone 😂

@TheCryptoKeith @Newbiecijo Indeed. Another fun fact: The Afrikaner community began in 1652, while the Zulu kingdom was formalized later in the early 19th century.