André Bruwer

Full time dad, part time worker, full time procrastinator...

[André Bruwer @andrebruwer]

@PlethMod @BiancavanWyk16 No worries! The racism on display here is fucking terrible and inexcusable. So the rage is understandable.

[André Bruwer @andrebruwer]

@PlethMod @BiancavanWyk16 Uhh, I thought I was agreeing here even with me referencing a coloured historian's book that made it clear that they had to bring in East African and South East Asia to make their colony viable. Said nothing about the indigenous did. Not sure how you got me disagreeing with OP.

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

The Dutch East India Company (VOC), that established the town, didn’t use white people to build. They used slaves and indigenous people for manual labour and craftsmanship. For example, records show that the building of the Old Pastorie (now Reinet House) was performed by slaves.

[André Bruwer @andrebruwer]

@BiancavanWyk16 Referenced from Patric Mellet's book The Truth About Cape Slavery btw.

[André Bruwer @andrebruwer]

@BiancavanWyk16 Yeah, specifically they had to import slave craftsmen from the east to do any as the Dutch specifically lacked these skills themselves. The Cape Colony was not sustainable without chattel slavery.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

It's actually very easy to leave this website and go to bluesky, people. Everything is exactly the same over there, without the Nazis in charge, and porn AI or whatever.

You won't miss your big follower count. Getting 1000 likes vs getting 200 likes on a joke feel very similar.

[Rupert Koopman @RK_ct]

Yo @CheckersSA , as someone who cares about the environment and works to protect it, this is the kind of thing that will make me walk away as a regular customer.

Unless you make these things biodegradable.

[Blowback Podcast @blowbackpod]

The first episode of our new season on Angola is now live. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

S6 Episode 1 - “The Dead Myth”

https://t.co/hTcqMxZSEG

[Max du Preez @MaxduPreez]

Geheime agent konstabel Roets tot die redding van die beskawing

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

Is Roets openly threatening to violate people’s right to privacy in South Africa and their employment because they don’t properly mourn the death of a conservative commentator in the US that spread falsehoods on South Africa including that there was a “mini white genocide” in South Africa? Interesting.

[Worm Jawfare - The Battle of Ideas 🐽 (Parody) @Mynameisjerm]

A reminder that there is still no proof AfriForum or Solidariteit met anyone except for a pseudo journalist and a YouTuber in a Starbucks.

This was a "skooluitstappie". And its why Jaco isn't showing us a real pic of them meeting Trump.

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

On this note, shoutout to @dailymaverick for the work they did on who Afriforum met while in the U.S.

It seems the Solidarity Movement and Afriforum don’t have the influence they pretend to have.

Worth watching 👇🏻

[Liewe Heksie @LaviniaEngel]

Many odd replies asking whether the Gautrain is profitable. Fundamental misunderstanding of the point of public, urban, mass transit systems. Worldwide most aren’t profitable.

They’re not businesses. They’re meant to oil the wheels of the rest of the local or national economy.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

2 days ago, my friend @wode_maya uploaded one of the most important mini-documentaries ever produced by an African YouTuber, on the subject of Orania, the racially exclusive, Afrikaans-only pseudo-republic in South Africa.

He did what he does excellently, which is listen, ask the right questions, and allow the subjects to express themselves in their own words. It was important that he did that because this was my first opportunity to hear the Oranian cause explained in full by an Oranian who did not fit the stereotype of a racist Afrikaner, and who for the most part, came off as quite well-spoken and thoughtful.

Listening to him also gave me a very important epiphany about Oranians and by extension, much of Southern Africa's white settler population - they are merely IN Africa. They are not OF Africa, they certainly are not FOR Africa, and they are incapable of understanding why that is a problem for everyone else on this continent.

I listened to him talk about how Afrikaners aspire only to work their farms and be left alone. Apparently, having been driven to the brink of extinction by the British, the Afrikaner ambition is to preserve his culture to the fullest extent possible on the land that his ancestors colonised in the 17th century. I listened to him talk about how he "loves Africa" and he "feels like a part of the continent," while detailing plans to turn Orania into something resembling a self-sustaining lunar settlement completely isolated from the "Africa" in question.

I listened to him and realised that after 400 years, he and his kind are still 17th century Dutch colonisers. "Africa" to them is exactly like an Australian FIFO mining town - an economic opportunity.

Meanwhile, what makes Africa "Africa" is not the rich soil of the Transvaal, the lush Okavango Delta, the picturesque Namibian veldt, the dusty Kalahari desert, the turbulent Niger, Congo, and Nile river basins, the grassy Sahel, or the vast Sahara Desert. Africa is not Mount Kenya or Mount Kilimanjaro, neither is it the Congolese rainforest or the Ethiopian Highlands. It is not the rich agricultural potential of its soils or the natural resources bursting from its mines, or the exploitable natural beauty of its coastlines.

All of those things are merely geographical features, not different from geographical phenomena in Antarctica, or in Australia, or on the moon, or on Mars, or on Titan. The ONLY defining characteristic of Africa - and the only identity layer by which a person may become an African is THE PEOPLE. Without the people, Africa is merely a piece of space rock jutting out of an ocean. The PEOPLE are what give Africa its value and its identity.

You cannot become an African, claim Africa as your home, or profess to "love Africa" if your relationship with Africa is not defined and centred first and foremost around African people. Africa is not, and has never been an empty land without a people - this is the world's oldest inhabited continent and the world's 2nd most populous continent. It is and has always been fully owned and occupied by the world's oldest people.

So the intense irony of a Dutchman standing on African soil telling an African that he "loves Africa" and he "has no other home," while his entire life's purpose is to stay as separate from African people as possible - while holding on to African land and mounting statues of people who killed Africans for sport on that land, and defending it by saying "it's private property" and comparing European genocidists to Shaka Zulu - gave me a very clear insight into the animating mindset of this white settler population.

They are incapable of understanding what it means to be African, their lives are defined by their weird settler-capitalism, and it would be much better for everyone concerned if they took Trump's offer and found their way to places like the US and Australia, which offer the ultimate white settler's dream - a land without native people (because they're are all dead).

[cthulhucachoo @Cthulhucachoo]

If people took their emotional blinders off, they'd realize that there IS a violence epidemic in South Africa, but not against farmers or white people.

It's against women & children, & this blindingly obvious pattern can be traced across race, education level, class & religion.

[. @naledimashishi]

It’s becoming increasingly clear these Afrikaner orgs expect Trump to jump in and give them an ethnostate in SA like Israel

[. @naledimashishi]

At some point our government needs to grow a spine and start laying down treason charges

[Matthew George @MatJGeorge]

What happened to being persecuted in South Africa??? @TheKiffness

[Mvelase 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🇿🇦 @MvelaseP]

Screw that. Nobody is mocking afrikaners writ large. And to pretend that any serious person is doing so is at best disingenuous.

Anyway, who is this guy?

He's forever popping up on my TL trying to sound like a voice of reason when most times he's just tone-policing us.

[Eating Halaal, Looking Like Spam @CmNarion]

The boere were the first to attack Afrikaans, jou dom Zionist naai. They took our enslaved & enserfed ancestors' vernacular, called it 'n gam kombuistaal, whitewashed its history & rebranded it 'n suiwer witmanstaal free & apart from the bastaard hotnotstaal of the kleurlinge 🤡