Hi Penuel
For over a decade I have called for stronger borders so that we can know who is coming into the country and I have called for strong enforcement of immigration laws.
I did not stop there, I have spoken about the root causes of immigration in South Africa and how we fix it.
We cannot fix the immigration crisis in South Africa without talking about ZANU PF, FRELIMO and the relationship they have with ANC.
The three largest immigrant populations in South Africa are from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho.
The reason why the populations are here is because of the violent, corrupt and dictatorial regimes in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
To deal with the issues of immigration which cost us as South Africans we must deal with the root causes.
We must call for fair elections in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, we must cut ties with ZANU PF and its crony oligarchs.
If we do that the people of Mozambique and Zimbabwe will be able to choose their leaders and many of them will return to those countries.
I have said this before but maybe you did not take the time to read or listen to understand my position which I have honestly posted several times and written articles about.
Now let’s address vigilante interventions. We have to soberly ask ourselves if the approach of beating people, closing shops and checking for passports and profiling people based on skin complexion and Zulu proficiency works. It does not.
Vigilante action and vigilante violence is itself illegal. You do not solve an unlawful action with another unlawful action. If we hate illegal actions then we have to extend that to vigilantes who are breaking the law too.
It is illegal to beat people, it is illegal to check documents of people if you are not a member of law enforcement, it is illegal to loot businesses. It is illegal to incite imminent violence.
We cannot solve a crime with another crime. The reason for the immigration is not Mmusi Maimane. It is the government of the last 32 years which has caused this crisis by supporting ZANU PF and FRELIMO party.
It is the government of the last 32 years that has not increased the number of police and has not stopped corruption in home affairs and at the borders.
When we talk solutions we must be pragmatic and we must be realistic. Intimidation and harassment will not solve this problem and pose a risk to our international reputation.
Maturity is acknowledging the pain of the people, acknowledging the root causes of the problem and discussing viable solutions. Maturity is also pointing out dangerous solutions and advising against them.
Whatever you are planning to do on 30 June will not solve the real problem and may create many more problems.
People ask why they want to kill me, it’s because of this land. They sold it to the company that owns Century City and partnered with an Australian firm to develop a seafront estate for rich whites only, cutting Black people off from the ocean. I mobilised our people, we took the land back by force, and we compelled the Western Cape government to buy it back for the people.
Since then, they’ve brought trumped-up charges of incitement and public violence. When they realised they were losing, they started hiring people to assassinate me.
One day our people will get fed up and repay them in kind. We’ll see how the state responds then. It’s not that I’m unable to do what they’re doing, I simply choose to protect myself instead of allowing the masses to avenge me. But I’m only human. My patience will eventually run out.
They took the gold.
They took the diamonds.
They took the rubber.
They took the ivory.
They took the palm oil.
They took the copper.
They took the uranium, including the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which came from the Belgian Congo.
They took the labor, for centuries, in chains, across an ocean, in the largest forced migration in human history.
They took the land.
They took the governance structures and replaced them with administrative systems designed to serve extraction.
They took the educated class and either exiled, imprisoned, or assassinated those who resisted.
They took Patrice Lumumba and had him killed.
They took Thomas Sankara and had him killed.
They took the future these men represented and replaced it with regimes that served the extraction.
And then they looked at what remained and called it proof that Africa could not govern itself.
Coca Cola will invest $1.05 billion in South Africa by 2030.
Microsoft is investing $273 million to acquire land and boost its data center infrastructure in South Africa.
Amazon is building its $300 million African Headquarters in South Africa.
Equinix is investing $442 million in South Africa to expand its data centre capacity.
I'm a white South African and I have literally zero problems with BEE. But hey, what would a white man (Elon) that benefitted from a wealthy upbringing during apartheid know about it?
Calling BEE anti-white is anti-intellectual. You're just unhappy that you can't get your starlink empire to expand to a country you happily left. Good riddance too
@elonmusk If we are talking about genocide, look at what black South Africans lived through. The police were ruthless under white rule. That was genocide against black people here.
The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR.
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