What is the purpose of having the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)and the National Consumer Commission (NCC) if foreigners can sell counterfeit goods right under their noses.
In all the countries I've traveled to around the world, I've never been to one where the government prioritises foreign nationals over its own citizens.
I've also never been to a country that would allow me to stay even one extra day after my visa had expired.
ANC will do whatever it takes to survive. They've been giving foreigners documents so that they can in turn vote for them when citizens get tired.
South Africans need to wake up and do away with ANC before it's too late.
Written by someone else but very well said...
South Africans keep asking how much worse things can get.
That is the wrong question.
The question is what happens when decline becomes permanent.
For more than thirty years we have adapted to failure.
When electricity failed, we adapted.
When policing failed, we adapted.
When municipalities failed, we adapted.
When water systems failed, we adapted.
When roads deteriorated, we adapted.
When corruption was exposed, we adapted.
Every crisis became another inconvenience to work around.
Every failure became another expense.
Every expense became another sacrifice.
What we call resilience today would have been considered unacceptable twenty years ago.
The danger is not the collapse of institutions.
The danger is the collapse of expectations.
South Africans no longer expect functioning municipalities.
South Africans no longer expect reliable electricity.
South Africans no longer expect effective policing.
South Africans no longer expect government accountability.
We expect failure and then congratulate ourselves for surviving it.
That is not resilience.
That is surrender disguised as resilience.
The average South African is now paying to replace functions that government was created to provide.
Private security.
Solar systems.
Generators.
Water tanks.
Boreholes.
Medical aid.
Private education.
Armed response.
Tracking systems.
Insurance products designed around government failure.
Every year more responsibility moves to the citizen.
Every year more authority remains with the state.
That is the imbalance nobody is discussing.
A citizen who spends most of his income defending himself from decline is not building a future.
He is preserving the present.
His children inherit the same burden.
Then their children inherit it again.
Eventually an entire generation grows up believing this is simply how a country operates.
That is the true danger.
Not that South Africa collapses tomorrow.
Not that there is some dramatic event on the horizon.
But that decline becomes institutionalised.
Permanent.
Accepted.
Normal.
History shows that societies rarely lose their freedoms all at once.
They lose them gradually as independence becomes more expensive and dependence becomes more necessary.
The question South Africans should be asking is not whether the country is getting worse.
The evidence already answers that.
The question is this:
At what point does survival stop being resilience and start becoming acceptance?
Because once a nation accepts deterioration as normal, the battle is no longer against corruption, crime, failing infrastructure or incompetent governance.
The battle is against the belief that nothing better is possible.
And that is the moment decline stops being temporary and becomes a way of life.
Written by Shaun Schutte
14 June 2026”
WATCH: A Chinese factory owner was arrested alongside 21 alleged illegal immigrants he had employed to work in his factory in Newcastle on northern KwaZulu-Natal.
The overnight operation was led by the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour, Jomo Sibiya - KZN Tonight Podcast
📸 & 🎥 DM Jomo Sibiya
I was born in South Africa.
I pay taxes in South Africa.
I built a business in South Africa.
Yet I'm expected to accept policies that make it harder for me to find work in my own country while undocumented migrants reportedly work on municipal contracts.
Make that make sense.
https://t.co/cVBF8jMCn6
Any country serious about attracting investment knows it’s about reducing friction, security & freedom to operate.
Money always flows towards the least resistance, most freedom and the best guarantee of safety.
Literally everything South Africa does is the opposite of this.
SA media: “Why is unemployment so bad?” 🤔
Also SA:
State Capture
Eskom looting
PPE corruption
Collapsing municipalities
Broken rail and ports
Cadre deployment
Tender fraud
You cannot loot a country for 30 years and still expect jobs, growth and investment.
Dear President @CyrilRamaphosa; this is a CRIMINAL act by your Deputy @PMashatile , driving towards oncoming traffic! We cannot allow Banana Republic behaviour like Zimbabwe!
"national security interests" is the most socially detached thing for a SAn to say.
70+ murders daily.
Innumerable rapes.
No borders whatsoever.
A SAPS captured by criminal syndicates.
The most senior officials always implicated in transnatl crime.
But "national security" guys.
Only 11 out of 66 smelters remain operational in South Africa due to rising and unstable electricity costs. ANC has dismembered SA industrial capacity piece by piece rendering it a world beggar