A whole generation of South Africans would be shocked to read this, especially when they look at where the country is today.
Before 1994, South Africa built capabilities that few countries in the world could claim.
It developed nuclear weapons, a rocket programme, large-scale synthetic fuel production, a globally respected defence industry, and medical breakthroughs that made world history. At the southern tip of Africa, one country achieved all of this before the Cold War had even ended.
Today, Africa is often spoken about as if it is still waiting to industrialise, still dependent, still trying to build what others already mastered long ago. That is what makes this history so striking.
While South Africa was enriching uranium at Pelindaba, testing rockets at Overberg, producing fuel from coal at Secunda, and carrying out the world’s first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur, much of the rest of Africa was being pulled in a very different direction. Instead of industrial self-reliance, many newly independent states were sold ideology. Instead of building durable technical capacity, they were pushed toward socialist models that too often ended in weak institutions, dependency, and collapse. The pattern repeated itself across the continent.
South Africa, by contrast, built real strategic capability under sanctions and international pressure. It developed its own uranium enrichment process, built six nuclear weapons, and then voluntarily dismantled them before the democratic transition, opening its programme to international inspection. No other nuclear state has done that in the same way.
It also built a serious rocket programme. Vehicles in the RSA series were designed and tested, and the country came close to having its own orbital launch capability. That programme was not simply paused. It was dismantled.
Sasol achieved something equally remarkable: turning coal into fuel on a huge scale. When South Africa could not secure enough oil, it used chemistry and engineering to produce its own supply. That was not theory. It was functioning industrial independence.
The defence sector was another pillar of that capability. South Africa designed and produced advanced artillery, armoured vehicles, aircraft projects, and attack helicopters. Some of these systems went on to influence military designs far beyond its borders.
Then there was medicine. In 1967, Christiaan Barnard and his team performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant in Cape Town. That was not an isolated achievement. It reflected a wider culture of scientific and medical excellence.
So the uncomfortable question is this: if all of this is documented, why is so little of it widely remembered?
The answer may be that it does not fit neatly into the version of history most people are taught. Pre-1994 South Africa is rightly remembered for apartheid and injustice, but that is not the whole story. It was also the most technologically advanced state Africa had produced, and acknowledging that forces people to confront how much capability existed, and how much has since been lost.
South Africa did not inherit these achievements. It built them under pressure, under sanctions, and largely on its own. That is not nostalgia. It is history. And the fact that so many people barely know it happened says a great deal about how history is told.
No country exists where farmers are the wealthiest group in society.
Zimbabweans “own all the land” but are poor. Same goes for every African country.
It’s a communist lie that taking farmer’s land will make everyone rich.
Sunette Bridges: Debunking the “70% White Owned” Myth
In summary, the most accurate calculation of Land Ownership of South Africa’s 122 million hectares in 2025 is as follows:
Land not owned or occupied by Private Individuals – 46.8%:
• State-Owned: 24%
• Uninhabitable Land: 12%
• Public Land: 0.8%
• Mining Land: 5%
Land occupied or collectively owned by mostly Black South Africans and some Coloureds and Indians – 17.8%:
• Townships: 1.6%
• Informal Settlements: 1.2%
• Tribal Land: 13%
• Other Communal Lands: 2%
TOTAL: 64.6% of South Africa’s entire Land mass.
Land with mixed ownership by South Africans of all races, not including Farmland and Private, Non-Agricultural Land – 4.6%:
• Urban Land: 3%:
White (40%); Black (45%); Coloured (10%); Indian (5%)
• Residential Land: 1.6%:
White (35%); Black (50%); Coloured (10%); Indian (5%)
Farmland – Crop-Yielding and Non-Agricultural – 30.8%:
• Arable Farmland: 22%:
White (50%); Black (25%); Coloured (12%); Indian (8%);
Corporate (5%)
• Private, Non-Agricultural Land: 8.8%:
White (65%); Black (25%); Coloured (5%); Indian (2%); Corporate (3%)
The ANC’s refusal to release an Official Land Audit conceals the Inconvenient TRUTH: White South Africans do NOT own 70% of the Land in South Africa!
White South Africans own approximately 18.48% of South Africa’s landmass, a far cry from the “70% lie,” covering their homes, farms, and businesses, established over a period of
almost 350 years, where they live and work, contributing significantly to the economy and almost 70% of Agricultural GDP, while Black Tribal Lands alone at 13%, nearly match this in landmass, yet cost approximately R8 billion more than they contribute in the more than R1.4 billion cost annually of maintaining their Royal Families, 13 Kings and 2, 700 Chiefs (National Treasury2025), and potential income of more than R10 billion lost due to Corruption and bad farming practices, draining more than they yield (StatsSA 2025, OUTA 2025).
White-owned farms employ 610,000 non-White workers, and 970,000 domestic workers and gardeners in White households. This 7.3% Minority contributes more than 50% of South Africa’s Income Tax of R1.2 trillion, supporting more than 18 million grant recipients, yet the ANC scapegoats them for all of the ills in South Africa, including their own failure to sustain Economic Growth and Redistribute that land, including more than 800 farms, they have already Expropriated. (StatsSA 2025, SARS 2025).
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So it's official:
B-BBEE has cost this country R5 TRILLION and 4 MILLION jobs.
Let that sink in.
(Are we not tired of being right all the time!! 🤦🏻♀️)
A policy that was supposed to uplift the many has only enriched a tiny, politically connected elite. Over R1 TRILLION has moved between fewer than 100 people since 1994, all while the rest of the country gets poorer, hungrier, and more hopeless by the day.
We've sacrificed growth, jobs, and dignity, just to appease @MYANC Mafia cronies under the false banner of "empowerment."
Meanwhile, genuine black entrepreneurs with no political ties are sidelined.
Merit is ignored!!
Excellence is punished!!
And poverty? Still rampant. 🤷🏻♀️
We're sitting on trillions in lost opportunity, all thanks to a race-based racket that divides instead of uplifts.
Enough is enough!!
South Africa doesn't need more elites!! It needs opportunity-based freedom for everyone, not this recycled pyramid scheme in struggle credentials.
So speak the truth loudly and unapologetically:
BEE hasn't just failed.
It's betrayed us!!
🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA MATCHES MURDER TOLL OF ENTIRE WESTERN WORLD
South Africa, with just 60M people, records over 22,000 murders annually - equal to the total murders in North America, Europe, and Australia combined.
UN data shows a 2023 homicide rate of 36.4 per 100k, one of the world’s highest.
Studies point to a complex mix of trauma, inequality, alcohol abuse, and cultural history - factors that help explain South Africa’s violence, including the disproportionate attacks on White farmers.
Sources: UNODC, Journal of African Criminology, SA Journal of Psychology
Former leader of the Afrikaner political party, Freedom Front, brings the receipts:
- Mandela requested the leader of the Freedom Front to come up with a plan to curb farm murders.
- The government was reluctant to follow the recommendations of the plan.
- In 2003 the commissioner of police came forward with a comprehensive report on farm attacks.
- In the report it acknowledges there are POLITICAL MOTIVES IN FARM ATTACKS.
- Nampo has more than 2800 names of murdered farmers engraved on the wall of remembrance. Considering that there were around 60k white farmers in the 90’s and there are <30k now, that is a massive number.
- In 2012 the police came forward with a strategic plan for rural safety but it lacked implementation.
- In 2017 farm murders were discussed in parliament.
- The brutality alone means farm murders cannot be regarded as normal crime.
- Political parties agreed on this at the time.
- In 2018 an updated rural safety plan was developed to curb farm murders but again lacked in implementation.
Now suddenly they try to gaslight us and pretend that farm murders aren’t an issue and it’s just “normal crime”.
Katie Hopkins: South Africa - The Killing Fields
I spent months living & sleeping on white farms. At night is when the monsters come
Please share. Full documentary on YouTube
South African President Ramaphosa stated he intends to seize land without compensation from those he does not regard as “our people.” He means White people. He lied and played ignorant during his meeting with Trump.
Man saved from jumping off a bridge.
Don't ever allow politicians and the far left radicals to devide us.
This is a perfect example of what can be achieved if we stand together.
Cape Town
South Africa