🧵Open Letter to the Minister of Home Affairs, @Leon_Schreib
Concerns about the proposed Digital ID System
Dear Minister Schreiber,
@LexLibertasOnX is a think tank and advocacy group committed to the promotion of basic freedoms and the principles of constitutionalism. In this sense, our central aim is to promote decentralisation and self-governance for the various peoples of South Africa. We also take a stand against particular policy ideas that we believe to be counterproductive to the promotion of decentralised governance.
One such issue is the proposed digital ID system.
We have recently submitted our concerns about the proposed digital ID system to your office, and we have opened a channel through which members of the public could express their concerns. Within days, thousands of people have added their names to our submission. Support for our opposition to the digital ID system is still coming in. For this reason, we will add this to the submission that we already presented to your office at a later stage.
This strong public reaction reflects deep and widespread concern about the direction your Department is taking. While the proposal is presented as a technical improvement aimed at greater efficiency and fraud reduction, we believe it represents something far more serious.
We do not believe that the public should be asked to simply trust that this infrastructure will be secure and free of abuse. The design of the system itself — particularly the mandatory logging of verifications and the broad discretionary powers granted to the Director-General — makes abuse not only possible, but likely over time.
In this sense, there are several concerns that we wish to bring under your immediate attention. We will do so one by one. Thereafter, we will conclude with a list of questions with regard to which we would appreciate your answer.
A South African🇿🇦 business group, Sakeliga, has proposed changes to the US🇺🇸 AGOA program to let individual companies or regions retain trade benefits, even if their national governments lose eligibility.
The proposal comes amid US🇺🇸 threats to impose tariffs on goods from several African countries, including South Africa🇿🇦, due to concerns about forced labour.
Currently, AGOA eligibility is decided at the national level, which can punish businesses for government policies beyond their control.
Sakeliga's plan suggests 'subnational differentiation,' allowing firms, provinces, or special zones to qualify independently by meeting US🇺🇸 standards.
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Wow! The ANC is going to get a heart attack when they view this Midnight Oil video and their supporters will be so much more informed. Wow!
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Mr @MP_Smit_LIM since you seem to have been the most vocal person for @jsteenhuisen and his willingness to work with farmers.
Since you are the @Our_DA spokesperson on agriculture, what is your statement on this?
Do you condone such actions and wording or will you be the first to condemn it?
Are you willing to tell @TheoDJager@Saai_org@FrancoisRosso15@Sakeliga@vslandbou you are sorry for any attacks on their members?
Or should we trust @AtholT to raise this in the ag committee and ask where the accountability is?
South Africa’s ANC is facing a major political collapse. Voters are losing faith in ANC.
• ANC support has dropped below 50% across most groups
• Even among black South African voters, it is polling under 50%
• Rural support is also below 50%
• Only 4% of suburban voters say they would vote ANC
People are getting poorer.
Real GDP per person has fallen from over R80,000 in 2012 to around R75,000 in 2025.
Job creation has also collapsed from about 1 million new jobs a year in the early 2000s to around 100,000 a year under Ramaphosa.
Many South Africans feel their lives are getting worse.
The government also continues to block Starlink from launching. The service is already operating in many other African countries. This denies high-speed internet to millions of South Africans, especially in rural areas. It limits education, small business growth, and economic opportunities. Their corrupt officials even asked Elon Musk for bribes to approve Starlink, but he rightfully refused.
Oops! This is how seriously Steenhuisen and team mean their assurances that 'the door is always open to farmers'. A request from the farmer organisation FMDResponse SA to co-operate more closerly with the department – inadvertently copied back to the senders. Steenhuisen must go...