Elon Musk speaks hard truths on what Nelson Mandela actually stood for and how South Africa has completely lost that
Starlink is still blocked in Elon's home country because he is not black
"The vision that Nelson Mandela, a remarkable leader, proposed was for all races to coexist equally in South Africa. Currently, there are around 140 laws that preferentially benefit Black South Africans over others"
Mandela fought for absolute equality, but the current system has betrayed that vision
They cannot claim to honor Mandela’s legacy of racial harmony while enforcing 140+ race-based ownership quotas. That is not progress - it is just discrimination wearing a new mask
By actively blocking Starlink over these "discriminatory laws," bureaucrats are literally keeping their own rural schools and communities disconnected from the future
🇿🇦For those who have not seen this Metro Blitz video
South Africa had a bullet train, the MetroBlitz, 35 years before President Cyril Ramaphosa first made his bullet train promise in 2019.
The MetroBlitz was an experimental narrow-gauge high-speed train which, during testing in 1978, hit 245km/h, setting a world speed record for narrow-gauge rail that remains unbeaten today.
The project began in the 1970s, when Herbert Scheffel of the South African Railways (SAR) experimented with self-steering bogies (trucks), which paved the way for a high-speed passenger service.
The 245km/h record was achieved by one of the Series 4 locomotives, specifically number E1525, which was modified for experiments in high-speed traction.
It achieved the speed record while hauling a modified suburban coach on a stretch of track between Westonaria and Midway in Gauteng.
Union Carriage & Wagon then manufactured the 3kV DC Class 12E electric passenger locomotive in Nigel, Transvaal, for the SAR.
It was a modified single-cab example of the Class 6E1, Series 10 locomotive. The passenger locomotive was designed and built to haul the MetroBlitz.
Union Carriage & Wagon delivered five Class 12E locomotives in 1983, equipped with AEI-283AY traction motives.
Rhodesia in the 1970s was safe, clean, and ordered, a far-flung bastion of Western civilization and the breadbasket of Africa.
Then came “liberation” and “democracy,” Black rule and White erasure.
In the war to impose Global Zimbabwe, we are all Rhodesians now.
Resist.