@kimheller3 Diplomats meet civil society, unions, and minority groups across the world. Pretoria demands billions in duty-free AGOA trade perks from the US, yet cries "interference" the second an envoy hears non-ANC voices. You can't demand US markets while policing US ambassadors.
@JacoKleynhans Another senseless murder, another family shattered in the North West. Yet Pretoria still refuses to prioritize rural farm attacks, while fighting in court to protect dehumanizing murder chants. Rest in peace, Hannetjie van Zyl. Heartbreaking.
@matomebopape17@RenaldoGouws Why so angry? Profanity is the last refuge of someone with zero leverage. Institutional reviews don't run on Twitter speed. Bozell is already laying down Washington's terms. Daring a superpower to revoke trade access that feeds workers is peak economic illiteracy.
@matomebopape17@RenaldoGouws We’re talking about duty-free auto exports under AGOA, and you’re rambling about ancient Persia and Roman legions. Washington doesn’t need an army; they just revoke preferential trade tariffs with a pen stroke. Ancient history won’t pay the wages of unemployed factory workers.
@JaffeJoffer16 Confusing a stadium capacity with total voter support is pure math failure. 90,000 is just who fits inside FNB Stadium! EFF got 1.5 million votes. MK (led by Zuma, who sang it) got 2.3 million. That’s nearly 4 MILLION voters backing parties whose leaders chant it. Not fringe.
@matomebopape17@RenaldoGouws Comparing a Grammy-winning love ballad to a chant calling for the death of an ethnic group is cosmic delusion. "Killing Me Softly" is about music touching someone's soul. "Kill the Boer" explicitly targets living human beings and commands murder. Embarrassing excuse.
@matomebopape17@RenaldoGouws Why the cursing? Swearing only proves you've lost your argument. AGOA provides duty-free access that sustains hundreds of thousands of factory and farm workers. Cheering the collapse of our auto exports just to spite a minority is economic suicide.
@CedricDeBeer1@Bisbille3495611@Martin_ASFL Everything. You cannot have good governance when recruitment and tenders are legally subordinated to race.
Eskom actively purged technical expertise to hit demographic quotas and awarded mega-contracts based on BEE. State-mandated racial engineering killed the meritocracy.
@SizweSidaza@stefanjacobs@ErnstRoets@StefanoLforte@YRepNetwork@NYYRC@LexLibertasOnX Defending civil rights, property rights, and equality before the law isn't "evil".
Looting state institutions, collapsing basic services, and inciting ethnic violence is. When you have no factual defense for current failures, childish demonization is all that's left.
@SizweSidaza@ErnstRoets@StefanoLforte@YRepNetwork@NYYRC@LexLibertasOnX Telling someone to "become a human being" while sanctimoniously lecturing on Christianity is peak hypocrisy. When you can’t defend racial quotas, economic ruin, or violent chants, you resort to hysterical shrieking about "evil" and "white supremacy". Pure projection.
@JaffeJoffer16 A chant led by leaders of major parliamentary parties in packed 90,000-seat stadiums is not "fringe". Nor is an issue threatening AGOA trade access and triggering diplomatic fallout. When the ruling party fights in court to protect it, it is mainstream policy.
@JaffeJoffer16 If it's an outdated relic the ANC "chooses not to sing", why haven't they ever condemned the EFF for chanting it?
Instead of repudiating Malema, the ANC spent years in court defending the chant. You don't legally protect hate speech if you genuinely oppose it.
@Martin_ASFL Spot on.
Silence equals complicity. Lamola launched petty diplomatic spats with Washington without any coalition mandate, actively risking trade access.
The DA and FF+ were elected to stop ANC destruction, not to nod quietly while DIRCO alienates our largest trade partners.
@JacaNewswatch Spot on.
Instead of addressing hate chants, property rights, and investment barriers, DIRCO files three formal complaints.
Ritualistic diplomatic tantrum-throwing won't fix policy failure. Capital answers to the rule of law and market reality, not government theater.
@JacaNewswatch Pretoria thinks "good relations" means Washington ignoring hostile foreign policy and domestic hate chants while keeping trade perks flowing.
Bozell didn’t fail at diplomacy; he held a mirror up to the ANC's double standards, and DIRCO simply can't stomach it.
@iinkAlchemy@Themba0381@ShareenSingh8 Telling 12-generation citizens to "go back" 13 generations is literally advocating ethnic cleansing. By that primitive standard, African Americans aren't American and Bantu speakers belong in Cameroon. Human rights and citizenship aren't governed by blood-and-soil dogma.
@JacoKleynhans For years Pretoria dismissed "Kill the Boer" as harmless rhetoric, but Washington is finally making it a diplomatic issue. You cannot tolerate dehumanizing chants against a minority at home while begging for Western capital abroad. The world is watching.
@BDliveSA Notice what Lamola didn't do: address the actual policy barriers, 140+ race laws, or the state-tolerated hate chants. When challenged on the collapse of investment and rule of law, DIRCO resorts to playground retorts. Tabloid diplomacy with zero substance. Reckless!
@TimesLIVE Shooting the messenger won't magically attract investment or save AGOA.
Bozell simply stated facts: hate chants and racial barriers deter capital. Expelling a US ambassador to defend "Kill the Boer" would turn SA into a diplomatic and economic pariah.