South Africa Trivia

If we're going to have any sort of affirmative action, this actually makes more sense. This policy would benefit MORE black people than BEE does. Because BEE only benefits already rich elites. This will help people who are poor, by definition, and will stop helping them when they no longer need the help.

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The US ambassador to South Africa just gave an excellent synopsis of the issues the South African government must address if it wants a better relationship with Washington: “ 'The non-alignment issue...is one of the top concerns that we have...We need South Africa to return to a non-aligned status'." " 'Israel is America’s staunchest ally and we are going to defend and protect Israel in return...Israel was well within her right to defend herself'." " '[Hamas et al.] make it a point to affirm this desire to wipe out the State of Israel. Does the South African government want to be aligned with that kind of thinking'?” " 'the South African government has to ask itself the degree to which it wants to be in solidarity with a [Iranian] government that eagerly slaughters tens of thousands of its own people in its own streets'." " 'There’s an executive order that prevents any investment from the US in South Africa...if you want things like trade barriers dropped, investment at a time when South Africa desperately needs jobs ‒ we have US companies that desperately want to do business and we have billions that are just sitting there. There are some great deals that can be made with South Africa. We all want it to happen. But these things have to be resolved'.”

🇺🇸 🇿🇦 The Trump administration is proposing to raise the U.S. refugee admissions ceiling to 17,500, exclusively for White South African Afrikaners. -Last year's refugee cap was 7,500, focused on Afrikaners -New proposal raises that to 17,500 -The Trump administration cites "government-sponsored race-based discrimination" against Afrikaners in South Africa -Trump has pointed to murders of White farmers and land confiscation policies -The South African government has implemented expropriation without compensation laws targeting White-owned farmland -Crime statistics show farm attacks have been a serious issue for decades The South African government's own Expropriation Act, passed in 2024, allows the state to seize land without paying owners. Senior ANC officials have openly chanted "kill the Boer" at political rallies. The country's murder rate is among the highest in the world, and farming communities have been hit disproportionately hard. Refugee status isn't supposed to be a popularity contest. It's supposed to go to people facing real persecution. Whatever the global media wants to label them, Afrikaners are watching their property rights stripped, their communities targeted, and their leaders ignored by international institutions. That's a textbook refugee case. America has historically opened its doors to the persecuted. This should be no different. Source: CNN

South Africans 🇿🇦 ❗️This matter needs urgent attention. How can one man benefit alone from mineral resources that belong to our country while ordinary citizens continue to struggle?❌ ‼️We want answers on how he managed to accumulate such massive wealth in less than 10 years while South Africans see little benefit from these resources. Thank you 🙏🏽

I love your question because it recognises that you genuinely want to know. Nothing stops Black attorneys from starting their own practices - and many are doing exactly that. The real question is: what makes it so much harder for them to succeed and scale compared to established white firms? ● Access to capital & funding to set up proper offices ●They don't get Commercial work and consistent briefing - big clients and corporates still overwhelmingly brief established (mostly white) firms ● They need senior mentorship and networks - these have been built over generations ● Reputation and track record in a market where relationships run deep Starting from scratch is tough when the top end of the market remains heavily networked and skewed. The Legal Sector Code doesn’t stop anyone from building their own firm - it tries to open real opportunities (ownership targets, fair briefing, leadership) so that new Black practices can actually compete and grow sustainably. Many white firms have already endorsed the Code. The applicants themselves apply generic codes. They just dont want to share the pie.

This also applies to construction sector. Interesting to see the City of Cape Town case vs WBHO/StefStocks for 2010 Collision.