Your claims are false and misleading, @elonmusk. It is now clear that incorrect information about a so-called “white genocide” was being circulated by people like you, and that narrative has no basis in verified facts, as CBS’s 60 Minutes demonstrated in a documentary by Anderson Cooper, part of which I have attached to this tweet.
Spreading such misinformation does terrible economic damage to South Africa, a country that gave you and your family a head start in a life that was underpinned by white privilege.
Your falsehoods and attacks on South Africa undermine confidence in the country, distort reality for non-South Africans who follow you, and harm an economy that has provided opportunities for you and your family. Perhaps that is what you want.
Those crosses, Elon, were temporarily erected in 2020 by a farmer called Darryl Brown as a symbolic protest following the murder of a white farming couple.
They do not represent one cross for every murdered white farmer, they were a short-lived memorial intended to draw attention to farm attacks and were later removed.
Donald Trump lied that it was actually a gravesite, shamelessly lying in your presence and you kept quiet because you too perpetuate this toxic propaganda.
Why do you not share the truth instead of spreading these falsehoods, Elon? Narratives like yours frame farm attacks in racial terms, yet available evidence and case analyses show that many of the victims are in fact black South Africans, including farmworkers, security guards, and residents living on farms.
This is largely because farms are workplaces and communities, not just private homes, meaning that black workers and their families are frequently present and exposed during violent incidents.
South Africa has a profound inequality problem that is rooted in race, shaped by centuries of dispossession and decades of legislated racism in the last century. That historical reality cannot be erased or rewritten.
What is deeply concerning is the attempt by you and others to reframe that history through false narratives, seeking to perpetuate those divisions through the back door by spreading misinformation that distorts both the past and the present.
Violent crime in South Africa overwhelmingly affects black citizens due to demographics and socioeconomic conditions.
Farm attacks should be understood within the country’s wider crime crisis rather than as evidence of a targeted racial campaign against white farmers. Stop spreading toxic propaganda Elon.
@bbmhlanga In the speech you said “international pressure works”. You only mentioned two countries i.e USA&UK . The two are what we call The West, one colonized us the other sanctioned us. I see this association and attention from our repressors. Nothing genuinely “Internationatiol” here
@bbmhlanga@GenevaSummit I watched your speech blaz but I don’t really understand the notion of crying about “oppression or repression” before the seat of an oppressor/repressor. Does it make you a better person 🤔? Why do we think the west is the answer to the problem we ‘seemingly’ have?
@shylie_zw First of all, you need schooling and secondly , there are worse places on this planet earth. I think it is just self-hate. Wishing and imagining the worst of your origin and identity.
Everyone keeps demanding celebrities speak up during every political crisis. But when things backfire on them, who stands for them?Think about Madzibaba veshanduko ,tsvangson ,Geza,T.Mapfumo .
At the end ndiwe unozoMam@ and Zimbos will move on nelife yavo zvavo.
@Zvoutete14 I don’t know why people are so bothered by “celebrity silence”. As much as everyone has a right to speak, everyone also has the right to remain silent…and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s a personal preference.
@pmkwananzi@edmnangagwa It’s a long existing tradition that lads like us are even aware of while grown ups seem to be shocked by the simplest thing. Don’t always carry negative bias.