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[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

🧵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.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Is this happening to you?

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Spam calls update:

[AfriForum @afriforum]

Vuurwapenbeheerkrisis is regering se verantwoordelikheid, nie wetsgehoorsame burgers s’n nie – @AfriForum

[AfriForum @afriforum]

Die uitgelekte e-pos uit die kantoor van die minister van landbou is ’n ernstige klap in die gesig van elke boer wat tans onder die bek-en-klouseer-krisis gebuk gaan. Terwyl boere daagliks met siek diere, bewegingsbeperkings, finansiële verliese en groot onsekerheid worstel, word ’n versoek vir dringende betrokkenheid by die land se inentingstrategie binne die minister se kantoor afgemaak as iets vir “amusement”.

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

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[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

South Africa’s proposed digital ID system is being presented as voluntary and convenient.

But at @LexLibertasOnX, we believe citizens should be very concerned. Even though it is called voluntary today, systems like these tend to become compulsory in practice.

Once banks, employers, and government departments start requiring the digital version, your physical ID card becomes second-class. What starts as optional can quickly become mandatory.

This system also creates a central record of where you go and what you access — powerful surveillance infrastructure in the hands of a government that has repeatedly shown admiration for highly centralised authoritarian models.

That’s why Lex Libertas has made an official submission to the Department of Home Affairs.

We need to show, however, that our concern is not a lone voice. If you are concerned about government overreach and the steady erosion of freedom and privacy, we need you to act with us.

Register your support, and add your voice to this campaign. The more people who take a stance, the harder it is for them to ignore us. Register your support at the link in the comments.

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

Farm murders is a unique crime phenomenon for various reasons.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Let me be absolutely clear. I have never tried to sell financial services or products to senior citizens and this is absolutely a scam. Please pass this message on to any gullible old people you know, to prevent them from being taken advantage of by thieves.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Europeans better decide what kind of future they want and they’d better take action soon, or the great cities of the west will become shit-holes very quickly. Parts of them already are.

[AfriForum @afriforum]

AfriForum nader die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria om die besluit van Gayton Mackenzie, die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, om Graaff-Reinet se naam te verander, te hersien. Dit volg nadat die minister op 6 Februarie vanjaar in die Staatskoerant aangekondig het dat 21 plekname in die Oos-Kaap en KwaZulu-Natal verander, insluitend dié van Graaff-Reinet.

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

It's ONLY farm murders...

[StephanZA @GamingGrifter]

Redi's piece effectively argues that Starlink is a threat to "democracy" because when governments try to clamp down on their citizen's right to freedom of speech. Starlink won't play ball.

Redi is as evil as the communist terrorists who run this country and every bit as evil as every other leftist on the planet.

[Vrydenker @vrydenker]

Die adjunkpresident van Reënboogland erken nie die Afrikanervolk nie. Daar is dus geen rede waarom ek hom as leier van my of my land behoort te erken nie. Noudat die misbaksel en sy korrupte kaders die Afrikaner onderdruk, om nie eens te praat van Shaka Zoeloe se Mfekane-volksmoord nie, is hulle self volgens sy eie definisie ook deel van imperialistiese magte.

[mark 🇿🇦 @markmywords]

This is shocking. Dear South African, @GovernmentZA and @MYANC are wasting your money.

[Solidariteit @solidariteit]

Rassewette hou Suid-Afrika vas in verdeeldheid, korrupsie en swak ekonomiese groei. In plaas daarvan om werkgeleenthede en voorspoed vir almal te skep, bevoordeel die huidige stelsel net ʼn klein elite terwyl miljoene Suid-Afrikaners steeds sonder werk en hoop sit.

Solidariteit het ʼn plan vir ʼn rasvrye Suid-Afrika teen 2030! ʼn Toekoms waar beleid op werklike behoefte, ekonomiese groei, werkskepping en geleenthede vir almal fokus, en nie op ras nie.

Raak vandag deel van hierdie stryd! Help ons bou aan ʼn Suid-Afrika waar mense volgens meriete, harde werk en behoefte beoordeel word, en nie volgens velkleur nie.

Klik hier en stap die pad saam met Solidariteit na ʼn rasvrye Suid-Afrika teen 2030: https://t.co/dLQXw55spo

[Tiberius 🇿🇦 🇺🇲 @Rcilis]

@ErnstRoets Done and 2 crosses

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

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[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Climate hysteria, Al Gore, and the real inconvenient truth - another bullshit story we’ve been told…