South Africa

Rising rates of extreme poverty have driven the homeless to occupy unsafe properties across Johannesburg

Walking past the old Presbyterian church in downtown Johannesburg is an assault on the senses.

Damp sewage spills out onto the pavement near the building’s wooden doors, which are permanently bolted. Many of its windows are broken, with clothes left to dry within the empty frames. There are no hymns to be sung here.

Several individuals are said to be living inside, both men and women, without any access to water or electricity. One resident, who claims to have been a professional boxer, says he has called the church home for 21 years.

Malema could become deputy president in next year’s elections

“Shoot to kill! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Brrrr! Pah! Pah!” These were the words chanted in fine voice by Julius Malema to a rapturous crowd of 100,000 at South Africa’s biggest stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday July 29. Malema was celebrating the tenth birthday of the EFF, the political party he founded and leads.

Confession time! I did something last weekend that I’ve never done before: I read a business book.

It’s called Truth To Power, and it’s the memoir of André de Ruyter, who led the troubled South African power monopoly Eskom for three years, before resigning in early 2023. Over his short, fraught tenure, he uncovered criminal networks stealing from the company, allegedly with the collusion of partners high in the ruling African National Congress. On his way out the door, someone in his office tried to poison him with cyanide. Quite a business climate South Africa has these days.”

‘Shoot to kill! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Brrrr! Pah! Pah!’ These were the words chanted in fine voice by Julius Malema to a rapturous crowd of 100,000 at South Africa’s biggest stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday 29 July. Malema was celebrating the tenth birthday of the EFF, the political party he founded and leads.

In recent days, a chilling video emerged of a stadium filled with black South Africans singing “Kill the Boer,” a fighting song calling for the murder of white South Africans. The clip went viral, shocking Western people whose idea of South Africa was fixed in the Nelson Mandela era, and who haven’t paid attention to the country since its first black president died in 2013.

The New York Times rushed to assure its readers that there was nothing to worry about. The song, it said, is a relic of “decades” of anti-apartheid struggle (false: it debuted in 1993, one year after South African whites voted to end apartheid, and one year before Mandela became president), and besides only “far Right” whites are troubled by it.

Shocking video shows South Africa’s black party singing “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer”

This is all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness and CRT plaguing America today.

You have been warned.

WATCH.

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 31, 2023

The brutal murder of two elderly individuals near the Echo Caves outside Ohrigstad once again highlights the cruelty of violent crime in South Africa.

They were set on fire while still alive after being tortured.

That is how a broken Jan-Daniël Claassen, son of the murdered Anneke Claassen (73), described the last agonising moments of his mother and her friend, Hennie Claassen (77), last Saturday on Anneke’s farm near Ohrigstad in Limpopo.

h/t Mauser

For a very long time, South Africa was a well-managed country that engaged in immoral racial apartheid. Blacks were denied all civil rights and were forcibly economically marginalized. When apartheid finally ended, it seemed as if South Africa could continue to be a well-managed country, only without the evil of racial segregation. However, with Cyril Ramaphosa, who rose through the communist African National Congress, in charge, the country is violently imploding, and apartheid is back…only this time against whites and Indians.

Vladimir Putin’s ongoing brutal war against Ukraine. The Chinese Communist Party’s continued aggression in our region. An upsurge in violence in the conflict between Israel and various Palestinians factions. Each of these conflagrations have rightfully drawn the attention of students within international affairs.

Yet there is a forgotten international calamity that has been neglected, certainly in the West.

The backlash against illegal miners in South Africa is gathering pace as local residents formed mobs to beat them and destroy their camps in retaliation for the gang rape of eight young women filming a music video last week.

Miners’ camps were torched and roads around the townships of Munsieville and Bekkersdal outside the town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, were barricaded with rocks and burning tires as residents protested against the presence of illegal miners.

Many of the miners are migrants from other African countries, and the reaction has raised concerns over xenophobia, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday condemning the violence.

A South African opposition figure has warned of impending civil unrest in the continent’s richest country and likened it to ‘an Arab Spring.’

The controversial opposition leader Julius Malema spoke of the country waking up one day with ‘very angry people that are not going to be reasonable.’

Discontent with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa is at all-time high levels due to the social conditions within the country and ‘the poor becoming poor,’ according to Malema.

‘When the unled revolution comes… the first target is going to be white people,’ Mr Malema told the BBC’s Hardtalk programme, adding that the uprising would also target ‘black elites.’