Clinton Engelbrecht

Free the political prisoners in Britain!

I saw this on FB and it made me very sad. Is their absolutely NOTHING that this criminal government can do properly. Written by James Deacon. I am about to write what has to be one of the most difficult and painful posts for me to write on Facebook. On Friday I was given news which unfortunately I cannot disclose yet that has forced me to turn my back on something I truly love with all my heart: Kirstenbosch Garden. I have been involved there for 19 years due to my love and passion for the garden. However Kirstenbosch is no longer a place that brings me joy and happiness but rather pain and sadness. When I walk through nursery now I see neglect, decay and death. The amazing plant collections that have taken decades and more to establish sit neglected slowly dying. The Protea collection is less than a third of what it was and only a fraction of the Ericas remain. One plant has gone from extinct in the wild to completely extinct purely due to lack effort to keep it going. Places once full of plants sit empty and in some cases full of weeds because the production of plants is so diminished. Great plantsmen and women like Ernst van Jaarsveld, Monique McQuillan , Louise Nurrish , Cherise Viljoen , Anthony Hitchcock who I admired and looked up to all left way before they should have because working there had become so unpleasant and because things like procurement made it impossible for them to do their jobs. One told me when they tried to order pots the response they got from the management of SANBI the SOE that runs many of the country's botanical gardens was what were they cooking. Another ordered pots and three years later they yet to arrive. Poor financial management has resulted in the organisation having to use funds donated for educational purpose to pay staff salaries. Kirstenbosch no longer has a Protea or an Erica expert and hasn't had either for years. Staff morale is at an all time low and respect for the leadership of the garden has broken down. The garden cannot produce metal labels to tell visitor what the names of the plants are. I say all these things not out of animosity to anyone or with the desire to see people in trouble. I say these things because I love the garden and what I am seeing is breaking my heart. I am also saying these things because after all the friends, experiences, knowledge and memories the garden has given me I feel I have a duty to speak out for the garden in difficult times such as these. I don't know what will happen to me for saying all this. Maybe I will be banned from the garden or get into trouble. However I refuse to stay silent and standby while the things and people that I care about suffer. I also feel that we the current custodians of the garden have a duty to preserve and protect the work of those custodians of the past for the custodians of the future. We have two choices to be remembered as those who fought for Kirstenbosch during its most difficult and challenging times or as those who sat idly by and allowed it break down and be ruined. I don't know if anyone will read this or if it will achieve anything but I will not keep silent while the place I love suffers and will continue to speak out against what is happening.

BEE compliance raises business costs, deters foreign investment, and reduces competitiveness, slowing SA's growth and job creation amid already high unemployment. Preferential procurement has enabled corruption via inflated tenders to politically connected "tenderpreneurs," as highlighted in Zondo Commission findings and reports on state capture. Benefits have largely flowed to a small elite of ANC-linked individuals rather than broad black economic participation, with critics noting elite enrichment over widespread upliftment. Persistent inequality and low growth persist despite decades of implementation.

Christopher Nolan is working on a career-ending failure. No amount of marketing is going to fix this. You are attempting a murder of White mythology and Western civilization, to undermine a pillar of the Renaissance -- on purpose -- to destroy the European soul and somehow Africanize it with diversity. Nolan is a criminal, and his movie needs to flop so hard it bankrupts the studio that dares to release it. The Oddity is SnowBrown II

Knowing a little about the mentality of artists, I know 100% what THE comment is that will hurt Christopher Nolan the most. I am sure of myself. Try to spam this sentence in the comments under press articles that talk about the film. Here is the key sentence ⬇️ “Stanley Kubrick would never have introduced Africans and transsexuals into the representation of an ancient myth. He loved truth too much for that. And that is why he will forever be a greater artist than Christopher Nolan.” Trust me. It will hurt him 100 times more than any direct political attack. And besides, it is true.

Mzanele Manyi (@MzwaneleManyi) and I had an hour-long, very lively debate yesterday about his push to remove section 235 (the self-determination clause) from the South African Constitution. - I accused him of not understanding international law. - He called me a racist for thinking self-determination is a good thing. - I asked him why he's so obsessed with attacking Afrikaners. - He asked me why I'm so obsessed with being / remaining an Afrikaner. - I pointed out that giving more power to the state (evidently his primary objective) makes things worse. - He responded to my concerns about the failure of the state by discussing coal capacity and wind power, but denied that he was changing the topic, because those are policy issues. - I confronted him about his obsession with race laws. - He passionately denied that there are race laws in South Africa, and then immediately defended the continued existence of race laws in South Africa. - I pointed out that these laws (which he defends as passionately as he denies) are objectively destructive. - He said that those laws are good, because the intentions are good. - I said that you cannot judge a law by its intentions, but by the outcome. - He accused me of wanting to bring apartheid back because I oppose race laws (😂) - I pointed out that he was unknowingly quoting Hendrik Verwoerd. - He said that if that's true, then perhaps Verwoerd was right. - I said that his attack on section 235 will create a Streisand effect, strengthening the case for self-determination, as opposed to weakening it. - He accused me of wanting to promote enclaves. - He said that I'm filled with hatred. - He encouraged me to lie awake at night and contemplate my racism. - I accused him of speaking like a man who lost an argument. My honest conclusions: 1. Mr Manyi has very strong opinions about why self-determination particularly for Afrikaners is bad, but he evidently doesn't know what it means. 2. He didn't show any comprehension of the fact that there are different forms of self-determination - internal vs external, territorial vs functional etc. He creates the impression that he thinks self-determination is simply a synonym for secession. 3. I got the impression that he doesn't understand that there is a difference between "states" (Afrikaans: state) and "peoples" (Afrikaans: volke). When international law recognises self-determination for peoples, he reads that as self-determination for states. 4. He doesn't understand the difference between self-determination and cultural participation. He argues that having the right to participate in your culture renders the right to self-determination redundant. 5. He doesn't understand the difference between individual and collective rights. I explained to him that the individual right to participate in your culture becomes moot when your cultural institutions are destroyed, and that individual rights alone do not cover the rights of communities for the continued existence of their institutions. That's why self-determination is important. From his response, I got the impression that he had no idea what I was talking about. 6. I asked if he thinks that his party leader, Jacob Zuma was wrong to agree that Section 235 had to be included in the South African Constitution, in response to which he was particularly vague. I'm sure that he would have dramatically different conclusions from the discussion and I'd be keen to read it. But when all is said and done, we'll leave it to the viewers to decide for themselves. We will publish the discussion on my YouTube channel on Thursday.

Dänemark wird WEF, WHO, FN, und EU verlassen! 🇩🇰 Det Nye Folkeparti 🇩🇰 Wir vertrauen diesen Oligarchen nicht mehr.

Escrologie : Pour fabriquer les pales d’éoliennes, il faut du balsa qui provient de la forêt amazonienne, 40 arbres coupés par éolienne, vous validez la déforestation du poumon de la planète. Les éoliennes françaises ont nécessité de couper 388 000 arbres de la forêt amazonienne.

🌍 Beaucoup de likes internationaux. MERCI ! Allez, on pousse ENCORE. NOLAN, nous n'irons pas voir ta bouse gauchiste au cinéma. Respecte-nous si tu veux recevoir du respect.

Another one of my fav X posts.

Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system.. Someone said on x

This is an incredible piece of journalism by the BBC and @SueM1tchell She has tracked down the identity of an Iraqi Kurd who appears to be responsible for a significant proportion of the people smuggling into the UK. He has boats and trucks and even advertises his services online and offline. He has remained unknown for years. But no more - now his name is revealed. There is no extradition treaty between Iraq and the UK but this man and his organisation should be found and prosecuted fully. The UK government should refuse to take a single migrant from Iraq until the government hands him over. And what has Keir Starmer been doing all this time, when he talks about “smashing the gangs”? Nothing. It has taken a gutsy BBC journalist to do his job.

It occurred to me today that they completely ruined movies for me b/c of DEI and wokeness I just don’t watch movies or tv shows any more At least not anything that was made after around 2013/2014 or so unless I have heard EXPLICITLY in advance that it is devoid of this ideology, otherwise I assume everything is tainted by default I don’t even watch new movie trailers anymore, I don’t care what Hollywood is producing, I have been burned far too many times giving new movies a chance; everything now features: - aggressive Mary-sue girl bosses - mandatory gay characters - excessive forced diversity esp interracial couples - white men always the villain, bafoon or beta coward I can’t take ANY of this into my eye holes any more I’m not quite this bad with video games yet but it’s headed in that direction It has to be made in the 80s 90s or 2000s - from a time before this poisonous ideology even EXISTED “Aww you’re missing out on xyz” - I don’t care, it doesn’t matter what redeeming qualities it might have, my tolerance has reached zero I just realized this about myself and wow it kind of blows my mind that Hollywood has consistently produced so much garbage in the last 10 years that it has irreversibly destroyed its reputation for me - I now regard it as a cesspool of evil programming that I want nothing to do with You can smell the spirit of rot in everything they put on the screen now Sure, there are still some gems made here and there, but they’re so few and far between that is not even worth trying to find them anymore There’s enough movies from the old world to keep me going that I don’t need to bother shifting through the cesspool any more RIP Hollywood, you are now dead to me

This is worth repeating: I never cared that you were gay until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were until you started blaming me for your problems. I never cared about your political affiliation until you started condemning me for mine. I really never even cared where you were born until you wanted to erase my history and blame my ancestors for your problems. I never even cared if your beliefs were different from mine until you said my beliefs were wrong. But now I care. My patience and tolerance are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this. There are millions of us who feel like this.

There are now more anti-White and anti-Asian laws in South Africa than anti-Black laws under Apartheid. Racism is wrong no matter who it is against.

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The South African laws are literally super racist, plain and simple. It’s not complicated: imagine if the law was called “White Empowerment”, instead of “Black Empowerment”! People would have a seizure 😂 South Africa now has more anti-White laws than Apartheid had anti-Black laws. Think about that for a second … The current South African government has objectively implemented Apartheid 2.0. Shame on them.

@business Good, South Africa should be shunned until it stops its extreme anti-White and anti-Asian racism. It’s time for severe sanctions against South Africa.

It’s definitely not fine