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@WhiteLionII1 Elon can inspire the masses in South Africa. He went to the USA with a few bucks in his pocket! worked hard and became richest man on earth. Imagine they would have had discriminatory laws in the USA, like ' no foreigners'! we would all have lost!

Yes we as South Africans fully support Elon Musk.

@JMeservey one would think he is dumb! but no he is SLY!!

Cant and self-righteousness are de rigueur at events like the “Global Progressive Mobilization Plenary.” South African President Ramaphosa’s speech strictly adhered to tradition. Some of the funniest moments: --He decries inequality and poverty, speaks of protecting workers, and says money spent on illegal wars should be used for building hospitals and schools. Yet he presides over a government and party that are comprehensively corrupt and steal money from some of the world’s poorest people, to the great detriment of his country’s health care and educational systems. --He flatters his audience for “showing those who are powerful that you will not be cowed,” as if he and other speakers are not among the powerful. It’s a great glimpse into the third-worldist philosophy that it is only the West that wields power negatively. The developing world, by contrast, is only ever resisting the West’s malign power, even when it is unleashing horrors on its own and other people. --Relatedly, he condemns wars of aggression and says the UNSC is toothless (correct) because some of its members are undermining the global order. It’s safe to assume he was referring to the US here while pretending Russia hasn’t invaded Ukraine and Georgia and that China hasn’t invaded its neighbors’ waters in the South China Sea. Again, the “moral” standard anti-Western ideologues use only ever condemns in one direction because it isn’t grounded in genuine morality. It is grounded in fighting the West by hook or by crook. --He frequently speaks of democracy and laments the violation of human rights around the world, yet his government and party support many of the globe’s most aggressively anti-democratic and abusive regimes like those in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela. --His first invocation of Palestine sparks by far the biggest response despite his speech also hitting most of the other progressive orthodoxies. Palestine really is the current central dogma of global progressives, in part because they believe it is a potent weapon against the West. --He (again) congratulates himself and South Africa for taking Israel to the ICJ. SA’s government and the ANC do so frequently, yet the hypocrisy of it still amazes.

@DVanLangenhove @trussliz there you go again! over de doden niks dan goed! hier win je niks mee, integendeel.. de eeuwige processie van Echternach van ' den Dries', 2 vooruit 1 achteruit. uw voordeel?? je bent nog jong en dat verstand komt met de jaren!

Why? She was objectively one of the worst monarchs in human history. She oversaw the dismantling of the British empire, the genocide of her people and the rape and torture of hundreds of thousands of British girls. If you’re too sentimental to admit that, just move out of the way.

On the 100th anniversary of her birth, we still miss her.

@DVanLangenhove @PVerijke hey dries, ben een fan ! BUT . een lijst maken van de verkeerde dingen die je al gezegd hebt? man, zoveel tijd heeft een mens niet. het helpt ook niks! dries is dries en zal altijd dries blijven. welkom tot het debat.

@PVerijke Met welke uitspraken heb je een probleem?

Ik heb problemen met vele uitspraken van @DVanLangenhove, maar ik zal altijd zijn recht op vrije meningsuiting verdedigen. Dit lijkt duidelijk een politiek proces en toont aan dat activisme zich in ons rechtssysteem heeft genesteld. Dit is volgens mij een vorm van censuur. ...

@GamingGrifter 100% correct

He's not wrong, corruption is a human problem which is why you must limit the opportunities for potential corruption. There's a reason why African nations are also the most corrupt. You set up your economies to maximise your ability to steal. Then there's culture and maturity. For democracy to work the people must hold the government accountable for its failures and demand excellence from its leaders. In Africa blind loyalty overrides any form of mature thinking leading to parties like the ANC stealing and looting for 32 years with no consequences. Like it or not. Corruption is here to stay until the majority reaches educational maturity. In the meantime systems prone to corruption like BEE is bleeding us dry.

@rodcampsbay you are redressing "zilch", a few cronies benefit and 'the people' have no jobs as long as this madness continues! just imagine it is your money to be spend and some Nkululeko shows up to tell you how to spend it!? those jobs say ' good bye'. opportunity squandered

You were compensated. You were given a huge country with the biggest economy in Africa. What more do you want?

@torfsrik dat was me iets , die godsdienst leraars in de jaren zeventig!!

“Als één op de vijf scholen faalt, falen wij als maatschappij.” Doet me denken aan godsdienstleraar uit de jaren zeventig: “Wij zijn allemaal schuldig aan de honger in de wereld.”

@k9_reaper not 'filled with', many, most south africans are wonderful exceptional people

The world is seeing South Africa for what it is. A beautiful country.. filled with the most violent and blood thirsty criminals that you could possibly imagine.

@flip_buys a president that insults, on a daily basis ,10% of his citizens, because he does not like their skin color , ... what motivates this? Racism?

As long as the ANC views Afrikaners primarily as whites and classifies and treats us as second-class citizens, we are forced to respond in kind and place our own identity first. If they continue to exclude us through race-based laws, we have no choice but to help ourselves.

@ASZulu when they talk, they talk common sense! that proves they are no politicians!

Afriforum should be very proud of itself as a civil rights organisation. It is not a traditional political party, and yet it has had more impact and influence in politics than most political parties have had, and are likely to ever have. It has done more for its constituency than most parties have done, and will ever do for theirs. It has strengthened democracy by consistently holding those in power accountable for poor governance and poorly conceived policy. All freedom-loving South Africans who appreciate the importance of a strong civil society should not entertain the propaganda about it.

the " kill the boer saga" is fanning the racial tensions! diverting attention of the bigger crime: a small incompetent and corrupt group of BEE beneficiaries is keeping 60 million people in poverty. Make a song a bout that scandal and toy-toy to it, until you get jobs.

True, it is shameful for him to stay silent! BUT no denying ; that constitution was a pretty good one. All that went wrong later is because of Roelf's party, not even Madiba could keep them clean. ANC will be remembered as a failure! let's hope they do not start a civil war when loosing at the ballot box! all this, race, race, race, white, white, white is not a good sign

“An Open Letter to Roelf Meyer From an Afrikaner to an Afrikaner Whose Loyalty Lies Elsewhere Mr. Meyer, You know my kind. I am the Afrikaner whose family and friends received none of the prizes, posts, consultancies, or ambassadorships that came your way after 1994. For thirty years we have spoken plainly around our dinner tables about what you did. For thirty years you have chosen not to hear it. It is time the truth was spoken in public. You sold us, then you sold yourself. In 1992, at the trout pool, in Kempton Park, and in your unauthorised bilateral channel with Cyril Ramaphosa, you made solemn promises on behalf of "my people". You guaranteed that sunset clauses would protect civil servants for five years. You assured us property rights were constitutionally non-negotiable. You pledged that Afrikaans language and cultural rights would be safeguarded. You promised a non-racial South Africa would actually be non-racial. Every one of those promises has been broken. The sunset clauses expired on schedule and the civil service was ruthlessly racialised and extended to the private sector. Skin colour became a statutory disqualification for Afrikaners entering the job market. You have never acknowledged this betrayal. Property rights? The man who negotiated opposite you at the trout pool signed the 2025 Expropriation Act that allows seizure without compensation. Your response: silence. Understandably so, you have been an ANC member since 2006 and your In Transformation Initiative depends on his government’s contracts. Language rights? Stellenbosch has been linguistically gutted. Pretoria is English in practice. The University of the Free State, where you studied in Afrikaans, no longer does so. Afrikaans schools survive only because communities built private alternatives after the state you helped create abandoned them. The Bill of Rights? Over 140 race-based laws target a 7% minority. You know the number. You say nothing, because saying it would spoil the dinner parties in the Washington residence you are about to occupy. Non-racialism? Julius Malema sings “Shoot the Boer, Kill the Farmer” to stadium crowds. ANC comrade Fikile Mbalula calls Afrikaners racists as a matter of routine. You raise no objection. You cannot, your career now depends on the party whose officials write those scripts. The South Africa you built for us versus the one you secured for your own family is stark. You are 78. You have six children. You collected cabinet posts under three presidents, the Order of the Baobab, the Golden Doves for Peace, a prestigious Ulster chair, decades of international consultancy fees, and now an ambassadorship with residence and allowances in Washington. My family and friends inherited something very different: 39% unemployment, over 55% youth unemployment, collapsing electricity and water systems, a police service that does not respond to farm attacks, and an education system that bars them from state opportunities before they even graduate. Their family farms, worked for generations, now stand under the legal shadow of expropriation without compensation. Your In Transformation Initiative partners with ANC veterans, including former MK operatives who once planted landmines on white farms. You export the “South African peacemaking model” (failed blueprint) while its failures land on our communities and its ANC dividends flow to yours. This was never reconciliation. It was the selective distribution of peace: the negotiators got the peace; the people they signed over got the slow war. In 2006, at age 59, you joined the ANC, the very party that had waged war on your people, imposed sanctions that ruined Afrikaner savings, bombed civilian bars, and ran torture camps. You did not drift into membership. You chose it. From that day your loyalty has been to the party that defeated your constituency and needed an Afrikaner face to launder its victory.

Iranians must be going crazy! Clerics, government, IRG, the army, getting messages from DJT.: Hormus , closed/ open, doing great, meeing this weekend, maybe next week, bombing starts again on wednesday! who is he talking to, betrayal?? Do I make a call, phone will blow up......;

@adonispara and the matebele murdered

Ian smith said in 1976 that african rule in Rhodesia would bring "the lowest standard of living, the worst corruption, and the greatest misery." called a racist for saying it. every prediction came true.

@PhumlaniMMajozi when I walk through, Cavendisch, Canal Walk or the waterfront, as a 'minority' white man, I am welcomed with warm Cape Smiles! when I walk through the malls in my home town Antwerp I feel the hostilty from foreign invaders. Viva Cape Town viva

The racist toxicity is on social media and in politics, of course. Ordinary South Africans get along well. Go to malls, restaurants, or sports stadiums—South Africans are getting along well. Latest SRF poll shows South Africans don’t care about the race of the President. #politics #markets #economy

the reason Ramaphosa is fighting like hell to maintain BEE: If BEE is abolished tomorrow and the country can take off! reaching 7-8-9 %annual growth. Rising tides lift all boats. BEE lifts a few luxury yaghts. Ramaphosa remembered as the zero growth president

@Pietiepietste ramaphosa keeps defending BEE beacause he is afraid he will have to return most of the money when people are allowed to take a closer look at his dealings! let him keep the money and get the country moving!

When you try so hard to bullshit the people... after 30 YEARS!!!! 30 YEARS of ANC and BLACK incompetence, looting and corruption!!! Still blaming apartheid!!

let's have a referendum on BEE! Can the beneficiaries keep their ill gotten gains? we can refer to the truth an reconciliation experience, exclusive to south africa. I'll say. Stop BEE tomorrow, let them keep the money and let's all work together.

where are the days Madiba united the country behind the springboks and became world champion. now you have leaders that sing the ugly song of racism, racism racism, to hide their corruption and incompetence.