I used to be a liberal.
I grew up liberal, went to a liberal school and university. Wife lent to socialism but understood its limits.
I started working and travelling through Southern Africa. Mines, towns, cities, farms and industries. It was great. Exposure to a lot of the region and people. Saw first hand the good and the bad. Grew up, paid taxes, raised 2 daughters and started my own business.
Now I am radicalised against the very country I was proud to be a part of and supported.
These days I think about tearing down the whole system, loath many of my fellow countrymen and have generally lost faith in humanity as a whole. Why?
It’s a mixture of things. Maybe some reasons are wrong but the majority of them are valid and factual.
So where does this leave me, my family and country? I’ve travelled a lot of the world. I actually like it here - warts and all.
I can quite comfortably stay here and live a great life, I seem to thrive in the chaos. My kids are the same. Most people however cannot. Middle class, poor and vulnerable and many more are about to have a much tougher time. The rich will be fine, sure they might loose one or two qualities of life, but generally, they’ll be fine.
The whole system will eventually collapse and no one will be coming to save us, only exploit us.
There is little I can do to change this, only adapt to it.
To the liberals and progressives out there who disagree with me - if you had my exposure and experiences you would realise it is going to drastically get worse and won’t get better for generations. All of the people you claim you want to have a better life are about to have one the biggest and fastest drops in quality of life in recent history.
To those that are driving this destruction and division - I know you are doing it out greed, envy and wrath. I will doing everything in my power so that you never have a peaceful sleep again.
I love this post coming from a BBBEE supporter.
All that the ANC does is to change the race to 50m for some and 150m for others.
It is called “equity”.
The ANC and the left do not like Equality.
That’s why we have BBBEE. that’s why we have EEA.
It’s about your skin not skill.
🚩SAPS is one of the single largest contributors to the illegal firearms economy through its own losses, thefts and armed robberies.🚩
The recent reply to my parliamentary question exposes how over a five year period, SAPS recorded 3 433 lost or stolen service firearms, broken down as follows:
• 2019/20: 672
• 2020/21: 566
• 2021/22: 712
• 2022/23: 742
• 2023/24: 741

This means that the @SAPoliceService loses on average nearly 700 guns every year. These are not hunting rifles or privately owned weapons, these are state issued firearms intended for policing, repeatedly entering circulation in criminal markets.
The reply goes further and breaks the losses down by cause. Across all five years, SAPS firearms were:
• 212 lost through negligence
• 1 397 stolen
• 1 824 taken in armed robberies

Armed robberies account for more than half of all losses. This is not an administrative weakness, it is an operational threat. It reflects how deeply criminal networks target SAPS as a supplier of weapons. It also reflects the internal vulnerability of SAPS members and infrastructure.
Recovery rates expose an even deeper problem. From 2019 to 2024, only 559 firearms were recovered in total.

That is a recovery rate of roughly 16 percent. Once a SAPS firearm enters the illegal market, it effectively disappears. Communities then face the consequences in the form of murders, extortion rackets and gang enforcement.
Another critical detail in the reply is SAPS’s refusal to disclose which stations, clusters or ranks are high risk for firearm losses. SAPS states that releasing this information may expose vulnerabilities. The problem is that these losses have continued for half a decade without transparent consequence management or structural reform.

Meanwhile, SAPS’s own Annual Performance Plan admits the scale of the crisis. It reports that SAPS lost or had stolen 741 firearms in 2023/24, with future targets hoping only for a slow reduction to 569 over the medium term. In other words, SAPS is planning to continue losing hundreds of firearms a year into the foreseeable future.

These same plans commit to improved firearm regulation and tighter control systems, including the Firearm Control Management System. Yet the core issue remains unresolved: SAPS is one of the single largest contributors to the illegal firearms economy through its own losses, thefts and armed robberies.
This is why it is irrational for government to pursue policies aimed at restricting lawful citizens’ ability to own firearms for self defence, while SAPS itself continues to lose thousands of guns into criminal hands. The state cannot demand disarmament from compliant citizens while failing to secure its own armouries, its own weapons, and its own operational environments.
The data is clear. Before any debate about further limiting lawful gun ownership, South Africa must first confront the reality that SAPS continues to be a major, ongoing source of firearms for gangs and criminal syndicates.
The Democratic Alliance will fight this.
IC
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