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The Robert Wolk case has sparked renewed debate regarding the return of capital punishment in South Africa.
This video examines the recent legal updates surrounding the Robert Wolk case and explores why it has reignited public discourse on sentencing laws.
I break down the arguments currently circulating in the media and analyze how this specific situation fits into the broader context of the South African justice system. This analysis is intended for those following ongoing crime reports and those interested in the evolution of South African law.
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Most are still stuck on the sounds of words.
"Black economic empowerment" sounds great.
It sounds noble.
It sounds like a win.
Few understand how terribly unempowering it truly is.
They're feeling the results of it.
But they can't connect the two.
Probably the biggest lie ever sold to the South African people.
They must be worried about the elections if they are already issuing press releases that read like opposition pamphlets. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Like the "grave economy" just arrived, not ushered in under their wing.
The ANC spent 32 years running the country and is now issuing a press release that reads like an opposition pamphlet ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
8.5 million people out of work and youth unemployment near 47 percent. Growth has crawled along at roughly 1 percent a year and the economy even contracted 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2026.
Public debt 79 percent of GDP after years of deficits and repeated bailouts. Those are not acts of God or the Federal Reserve. YOU DID THAT.
YOU once pushed e-tolls that motorists simply refused to pay, leaving taxpayers to absorb tens of billions in SANRAL debt.
YOU presided over an energy collapse that destroyed firms and jobs for more than a decade.
And now lecture the central bank about the high cost of living as if it just arrived?
You're a joke.
My people are running away from South Africa.
I used to work with MANY black South Africans in the USA in the hotel and hospitality industry and they are all there because they can't find work here.
Many people leave for very different reasons, and you can sugar coat is as you like, but given the opportunity, 99% of the unemployed would run away from here if they could.
One of the USA's asks is allowing Equity Equivalent Investment Programmes (EEIPs) in the telecoms and most of the mining sectors.
ICASA has licensing issues, but mining is the interesting one because the South African government considers actual ownership to be an objective in itself, not merely a means of attracting investment or creating jobs, which EEIPs satisfy.
Knowing the government's MO, it is unsurprising to me that they prefer ownership stakes "which belong to the people" - but DO THE PEOPLE EVER SEE ANYTHING FROM THIS?
The EEIP's would, however, directly attract investment and create jobs. Things that are needed by ORDINARY SOUTH AFRICANS NOW.
If you asked the ORDINARY South African which is more valuable: R10-billion investment in South African businesses, skills, infrastructure and R&D
or
30% shares towards mining stakeholders...
I think the answer to that question would be rather obvious.
BBBEE doesn't ask whether you are black or white when you pay for electricity, but BBBEE is the reason most can't afford it.
BBBEE doesn't ask your race when you have no public transport, but BBBEE is what destroyed it.
BBBEE doesn't ask your race when your municipality can't provide water, but it is BBBEE cadre deployment and maladministration that enabled it.
BBBEE doesn't ask your race when you can't find a job, but it is BBBEE that destroys business and prevents growth.
You see the poor pay for the corruption BBBEE enables the most. And South Africa's poor are disproportionately black citizens.
It's ironic how this is branded "empowerment"...
When it's the single most destructive policy in South Africa
South Africa is deadlocked with the United States.
The ANC, proponents of the GNU, are claiming political interference and an invasion of sovereignty.
The ANC wants the world to believe that its policies are meant for the good of the people and that the United States, @SecRubio and @USAmbRSA are merely white supremacists imposing imperialism based on racism.
History and the effects of the ANC on ordinary people seem to suggest the total opposite.
South Africa has turned its back on the USA.
I want you to imagine for a second:
It's 1985
South Africa is still under Apartheid.
The world is putting pressure on SA to dismantle its racial system and one of the countries applying that pressure is the United States. Ronald Reagan signs an executive order targeting the apartheid government and restricting certain economic dealings with South Africa.
America is telling South Africa that it's racial system is unacceptable.
Fast fast-forward 4 decades.
South Africa is now telling America: You're attacking our sovereignty. Don't question our race-based policies. It's our sovereign right.
HOW DID WE GO FROM ASKING AMERICA TO HELP US FIGHT RACIAL DISCRIMINATIONโฆ TO ACCUSING AMERICA OF INTERFERING WHEN IT QUESTIONS RACE-BASED POLICY?
Even worse, we're now referring to them as racist white supremacists / White Christian Imperialists!
Why now when we didn't hold that opinion when we needed their help?
Reagan was a Democrat who turned Republican.
They are doing now EXACTLY what THEY did THEN.
The USA didn't change its position.
We did.
South Africa is deadlocked with the United States.
The ANC, proponents of the GNU, are claiming political interference and an invasion of sovereignty.
The ANC wants the world to believe that its policies are meant for the good of the people and that the United States, @SecRubio and @USAmbRSA are merely white supremacists imposing imperialism based on racism.
History and the effects of the ANC on ordinary people seem to suggest the total opposite.
Regean objected because he argued that it would also hurt black South Africans, much like sanctions on South Africa would hurt all of us today if the USA were to impose them again. That was his main objection.
The same objection is being used again today and it probably why we haven't been broadly sanctioned by the USA yet, thanks to the envoys that have gone over there.
MASS SHOOTING IN DURBAN LAST NIGHT
According to police, 14 people,13 men and 1 woman, were inside the house in the Ziko area when at least three armed men arrived and started shooting.
10 died on the scene.
1 died in the hospital.
The woman who died was believed to be pregnant.
Police have said that some of the people who were shot were already known to Crime Intelligence in connection with alleged illegal activities. Police have not revealed what those activities were because doing so could interfere with the investigation.
Calls for the death penalty are getting loud.
Opponents say: "Let's not aspire to being a bloodthirsty, barbaric nation"
I would argue that we already are.
@Anteejay Fair. Your stance would offer a little more if you provided alternative options. It's easy to pick up a shotgun and blow holes in everything after the fact.
The problem was never BBBEE and all the other noble ideals implimented post apartheid.
The problem is that the same political establishment presided over state capture, cadre deployment, the weakening of institutions, enormous procurement corruption and yet continues to present racial transformation as the moral justification for an economic system that can create opportunities for politically connected beneficiaries.
You can not rob a country blind and then claim that the tools you used to do it with were "for the good of the people"
You're guilty of your crimes.
Noble intentions don't absolve you of them.
BBBEE was a noble idea that has been exploited by a corrupt political system.
The USA isn't challenging the idea. It is challenging the crimes committed while hiding behind the idea.
@Zwelinzima1 Sovereignty doesn't absolve you from criticism.
The apartheid government was sovereign.
The USA also critized them.
In fact, it sanctioned them.
You didn't cry about it then?
Why cry now?
Your argument is much like the Checkers employees claiming that they own the entire franchise because they work there.
Checkers didn't just pop up.
It required investment, risk...etc.
Simply wanting to claim it without paying for it, is theft, even if there are 100,000 workers and only 10 owners.
You're saying the exact same thing I am.
You're observing BBBEE from a present perspective.
I'm observing it from what it should have been.
Handing over an entire economy through distribution was never going to work, and the present state is proof of that.
That, however, does not mean that upskilling and expansion focused on empowering the people who now had legislative control over everything was not a valid ideal. The lack of that is what brought us here.
Instead of using sustainable growth models, they opted for legalized theft.
@dailymaverick We already are.
Much like BBBEE were implemented to shift a balance, Capital Punishment may indeed be needed to shift another one.
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