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Werner Prinsloo retweeted
Die swaard oor Agoa gaan heel waarskynlik môre, 2 November, val en duisende werkers se koppe gaan rol. Die Suid-Afrikaanse regering lyk heeltemal oukei daarmee.
Vir meer as tien jaar veg Solidariteit vir Agoa. Selfs tydens die Biden-administrasie het ons voorleggings aan die Amerikaanse kongreskomitees gemaak, want ons kon sien hoe die spanning oor Suid-Afrika se roekelose buitelandse beleid opbou.
Daarna het ons ‘n lang geskiedenis gehad van veg vir die land. Ons hou nie, van die regering nie, maar ons is lief vir die land en sy mense. Mense se werk is die rede vir ons bestaan.
Dit het lank voor die Trump-administrasie begin.
Die regering van Suid-Afrika was ’n formidabele vyand in Solidariteit se stryd vir Agoa.
Die SA-regering het alles moontlik gedoen om Agoa te kelder. Dis asof hulle ’n meesterplan ontwikkel het om Agoa te laat val.
As Agoa die beskerming van eiendomsreg vereis, wil die regering sonder vergoeding onteien.
As Agoa vereis dat Amerikaanse belange en veiligheid nie benadeel word nie, dans die regering met Iran, knipoog hy vir Rusland, hou hy hande met China vas en ontwikkel hy ’n liefdesverhouding met Hamas.
As Agoa vereis dat daar nie handelsbeperkings moet wees nie en dat werkersregte billik moet wees, word rasvereistes vir buitelandse maatskappye en raswette in die werkplek strenger.
Ironies genoeg moes Solidariteit ten spyte van die regering vir Agoa veg. Sowat 250 000 poste gaan waarskynlik in gevaar wees as gevolg van die regering se roekelose hantering van Agoa.
By elke liewe spanningspunt het die regering sy belangrikste handelsvennoot beledig.
Dis die SA-regering se skuld as ons uit Agoa geskop word. Agoa is nie ’n reg nie, maar ’n wet wat handelsvoordele onder bepaalde voorwaardes bied. As ons uit Agoa geskop word, is dit ‘n regeringsmislukking.
Die SA-regering het elke voorwaarde as ’n uitdaging beskou om dit te verbreek.
Die aantal poste wat verlore kan gaan, is gelyk aan die totale aantal werknemers van die vyf grootste mynhuise in SA. Hoe sou die ANC-alliansievennote gereageer het as die regering se optrede direk tot die sluiting van SA se vyf grootste myne gelei het?
’n Burgerlike organisasie, soos Solidariteit, kan net soveel doen om ’n ooreenkoms tussen twee lande te red as die begunstigde land alles doen om die ooreenkoms te kelder.
Die SA-regering moet sy kop in skaamte laat sak en Suid-Afrikaners om verskoning vra vir sy mislukking. ’n Regering met selfrespek sou bedank, maar ons regering het nie respek nie. Hulle regeer vir hulself en nie vir gewone mense
Werner Prinsloo retweeted
Thanks @Mngxitama2 , you just confirmed that the attacks on farmers are politically motivated.
You will have your day, you utter piece of excretement.
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The international community is taking note of an Afrikaner farmer in South Africa being tortured by having his ears cut off. The New York Post reported: “South African farmer shot, had ears hacked off and almost castrated by barbaric robbers.”
Despite such brutality, there are still farm attack denialists, including @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa, who continue to refuse to unequivocally condemn the “Kill the Boer” chant as a call for ethnic violence against Afrikaners and farmers.
Furthermore, President Ramaphosa refuses to have farm attacks and rural violence declared priority crimes, despite the fact that other categories of crime requiring tailored strategies, such as gang violence and rhino poaching, have been declared priority crimes.
@AfriForum has already submitted a constructive and comprehensive proposal for cooperation to combat rural crime to President Ramaphosa’s office. However, despite the ongoing crisis, no response has yet been received from the Presidency.
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Must be one of the dumbest things that has ever come out of this okes mouth. And there has been MANY!!!
“Potholes will be there because we live in the situation of a climate change there are rains water the the streets get washed out” ANC SG Fikile Mbalula
“We are not talking something that you know is falling from the sky we talking about what government is going to do to help” @MbalulaFikile
Werner Prinsloo retweeted
On Saturday, 24 October, at a rally in the North West province, EFF leader and convicted criminal Julius Malema again called for the slaughtering of white people and farmers in South Africa with the hateful "Kill the Boer"-chant.
4 days later, on Wednesday morning the 28th, also in the North West province, farmer Donovan Marx was attacked, shot in the back, stabbed, beaten, and tortured.
Don't tell me it's "just a song".
Werner Prinsloo retweeted
🇿🇦 White South African farmer brutally tortured in farm attack
A 50-year-old White South African cattle farmer, Donovan Marx, was brutally tortured during an attack on his farm in Syferfontein, between Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West province.
According to police, three unidentified armed men wearing balaclavas entered the property and tied up a farmworker before confronting Marx, shooting him in the upper body, dragging him into his house and restraining him with cable ties.
During the attack, Marx had both ears cut off, was severely beaten, shot in the back and stabbed in the leg. According to Agri North West deputy chairperson André Strydom, the attackers also attempted to mutilate his genitals.
The attackers stole three firearms from a safe and escaped in Marx's red Isuzu pickup truck. The farmworker eventually freed himself and alerted Marx's wife, Louise, who had left for work earlier that morning.
Marx underwent emergency surgery at Mediclinic Potchefstroom after suffering a kidney injury. Doctors reportedly managed to save the kidney. As of Thursday afternoon, he was described as being in critical but stable condition.
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A 🇿🇦 pilot from Kimberley, Northern Cape, helped foil that mid-air terror attack. Rowan Tooth and a 🥝 pilot, took control of the plummeting jet and diverted to Saudi Arabia. All 182 souls on board survived
Our pilots don’t just fly low at the rugby. They fly pretty high too.
What an achievement!! Well done Rowan Tooth from Kimberley South Africa, one of the pilots that saved the crippled @flydubai 737
WATCH | Northern Cape pilot among those receiving UAE medals for foiling mid-air terror attack | NovaNews share.google/vDE84TFIHtMGANp…
Werner Prinsloo retweeted
The ANC has governed South Africa since 1994.
Shit now flows in our streets; we faced years of rolling blackouts, and taps now make children sick. In Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria, more than 800 people have fallen ill since early October, most of them under four years old, from water sent out by the state's own treatment works, full of E. coli. Apparently, some official forgot to order chlorine.
Somehow this party still expects to win the November 4 local elections, which tells you what state capture does to a voter base.
Municipalities across Limpopo and the Eastern Cape now pipe sewage into the streets. ANC officials built the system this way, because a dependent electorate is a captive electorate.
Central to this is cadre deployment, the practice of placing party loyalists inside every state institution regardless of competence. The result is predictable: Transnet collapsed, SAA burns through bailouts, and water treatment works poison the towns they serve. Potholes in our roads are often so large that entire cars fall into them.
The state is a machine for moving wealth upward to politically connected insiders while public services rot.
The latest Social Research Foundation poll puts the ANC at 32 percent nationally and 22 percent in Johannesburg, behind the DA in the city it ran for most of the past thirty years. Thirty years of dependency grants, captured media, and patronage networks still make rational exit costly for millions of South Africans.
The question remains: How is it possible that people walking through their own shit to collect buckets of drinking water are still voting for this party of criminals? That 32% should be 0%.
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🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA, I HAVE SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS! WHO IS DR IMTIAZ SOOLIMAN, AND HOW MUCH INFLUENCE DOES HE HAVE OVER OUR GOVERNMENT⁉️
I might be missing something, but I believe these are questions worth asking as a South African citizen.
Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of Gift of the Givers, is widely known for humanitarian work. His organisation has helped many people in times of crisis, and that work deserves recognition.
However, humanitarian work does not place anyone above scrutiny.
Remember the Palestinian passengers who arrived at OR Tambo International Airport in November 2025? Gift of the Givers offered to accommodate them, and the authorities eventually permitted them to enter South Africa. But let us be accurate: they were not all officially granted refugee status; the authorities allowed them to enter under visa-exemption arrangements.
Now, I read the News24 headline:
“Gift of the Givers founder warns ANC against forming govt with parties that do not support Palestine.”
And I have to ask: WHY?
Why should the position of a political party on Palestine become a condition that determines who the ANC should or should not form a government with?
If the ANC chooses to form a coalition with parties that support Israel, what happens then? What will Dr Sooliman do? Will he campaign against them? Mobilise public opposition? Or simply disagree with their foreign policy?
He has every right to express his political views. But the ANC is accountable to South African voters, not to any unelected individual.
MY SECOND CONCERN IS EVEN MORE SERIOUS.
In an interview on 7 October 2024, Dr Sooliman made a controversial statement about the law. He was quoted as saying:
“I break the laws all the time … I follow Islamic law, and Islamic law overrides any other law.”
These are serious words. What exactly did he mean?
South Africa is a constitutional democracy. Section 2 of our Constitution establishes that the Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic.
Muslims have the right to practice their religion. Christians have the same right. So do people of every other faith. But no individual can simply declare that their religious convictions exempt them from South African law.
If any Christian pastor, political leader or religious figure made the same declaration about their own religious laws, would we accept it without asking questions?
Then why should we remain silent when someone else makes such a statement?
MY THIRD QUESTION: WHY DOES HIS VOICE CARRY SO MUCH WEIGHT IN POLITICAL MATTERS?
Is it because of his humanitarian reputation? Is it because of his influence in civil society? Or is it because politicians believe that his public standing can affect how people respond to their decisions?
I do believe that every influential public figure should be open to questions.
And regarding the Palestinians who have found themselves in South Africa, I ask another question: can we have an honest conversation about immigration procedures, humanitarian assistance, the right to peaceful protest and the responsibilities of everyone living in our country?
South Africa has its own people facing unemployment poverty, crime, homelessness and failing services. Our government must address these problems while respecting the rights and dignity of everyone within our borders.
LET ME MAKE MY POSITION CLEAR.
This is not an attack on Islam. It is not an attack on Palestinians. And it is not an attack on humanitarian assistance.
It is a call for transparency, accountability and equal application of the law.
I want to know what Dr Sooliman meant by his statement about Islamic law. I want to understand why he believes the ANC should consider a party's position on Palestine when forming a coalition. And I want our elected leaders to explain the principles guiding their decisions.
South Africa is a constitutional democracy, not the property of the ANC, or any humanitarian foundation. No individual should be feared into silence, and no individual should be treated as beyond criticism.
We can appreciate humanitarian work while questioning political advocacy. We can respect religious freedom while defending the Constitution.
SOUTH AFRICA FIRST IN ACCOUNTABILITY. THE CONSTITUTION FIRST IN THE RULE OF LAW. EVERYONE ANSWERABLE TO THE LAW.
Credit: Tshepo Mosala
Werner Prinsloo retweeted
Once again, SAA has become a bottomless money pit. Zuma and Miyene's cash box and now under new plunderment.
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🚲 WHO'S DOING THE PEDALLING - AND WHO'S ENJOYING THE RIDE?
On 17 November, CIAG and Lex Libertas unveil independent Econometrix research into a decade of Western Cape tax revenue and government spending.
Are Cape taxpayers getting a fair deal?
🎟️ Tickets in the reply below 👇
Werner Prinsloo retweeted
Media Statement | Brutal attack on North West farmer proves that more should be done about farm attacks
PRETORIA – The attack on a North West farmer, during which he was shot, stabbed, and had his ears cut off, is evidence of the fact that more should be done to combat farm attacks in South Africa, said Lex Libertas. The think tank and advocacy group added that it intends to announce a second phase of the White Cross Project soon, which would include displaying three thousand white crosses in front of the Union Buildings about the South African government’s lack of care regarding farm murders.
Netwerk24 today reported that Donovan Marx (50) was attacked on his farm between Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp this morning. He is currently receiving treatment in Potchefstroom.
Dr Ernst Roets, Executive Director of Lex Libertas, has reiterated that farm attacks constitute a unique crime phenomenon for a variety of reasons, including the frequency and the brutality thereof. ‘Most concerning, despite the severity of the crisis, this is the only crime phenomenon in South Africa that is both openly encouraged and actively denied by some of the most influential politicians in the country.’ He added that President Ramaphosa himself openly stated during an international event in New York City in 2018 that ‘there are no killings of farmers or white farmers in South Africa.’
In September this year, Lex Libertas, in partnership with the New York Young Republican Club, displayed 3,000 white crosses on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to raise international support for interventions regarding the farm attack crisis in South Africa. The institution will announce several steps to be implemented as part of Phase Two of the White Cross Project within the next week. This will include bringing the crosses that were displayed in Washington to South Africa and displaying them in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Lex Libertas has once again called on the South African government to implement measurable steps to combat farm attacks, and added that the persistence of the crisis is evidence of the need for decentralisation in South Africa. ‘Those in power in South Africa are simply too far removed from those who suffer the consequences of their decisions and lack of action. Political power should be brought closer to the people.’
Lex Libertas is a South Africa-based think tank and advocacy group working towards a viable political order for the peoples of South Africa, based on the principles of freedom, decentralisation, and self-governance.
Statement issued by:
Dr Ernst Roets
Executive Director
Lex Libertas
Wonderful news indeed!
EFF leader Julius Malema said that they cannot join the government of national unity (GNU) as long as white parties like the DA and Freedom Front Plus are represented.
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Former South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter said that the country’s leaders lie about serving the people and instead serve themselves.
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Here is an idea you haven’t tried yet chief.
Don’t loot all the state money.
Invest in schools and universities.
Appoint people on merit.
Resign.
We cannot solve the challenge of youth unemployment simply by doing more of what we have always done.
We must be prepared to do things differently.
We must be prepared to challenge established practices, remove unnecessary barriers and rethink the way we prepare young people for the world of work.
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