Marcel Nel

🔥 Afrikaans, Boer, Realist. Anti-BEE. Pro-merit.

ANC, EFF & MK = failure.

“Liberty is the soul’s right… not the state’s gift.”

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

In 1966, the UN voted overwhelmingly to condemn South Africa’s apartheid as a "crime against humanity" because systemic, race-based laws were seen as unforgivable.
(Resolution 2202: 103 votes against, only 4 for.)

Today, nearly 60 years later, South Africa has over 140 race-based laws targeting minorities, yet the UN remains silent.

The last major one passed, Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) should have triggered global outcry.

Instead, the UN recently gifted the ANC government R4.9 billion, despite the fact that legal discrimination persists worse than before.

Discriminatory laws are racism, by definition, no matter who the target is.

Where is your voice now, @UN?
Where is your outcry for the minorities living under modern-day legal discrimination?

Justice must be consistent. Otherwise, it’s not justice, it’s selective oppression.

You refuse to see the injustices even when its pointed out by @POTUS @elonmusk.

We do not ask for your favor.

We demand your consistency.

@UNHumanRights @antonioguterres @vonderleyen @EU_Commission @UN_PGA @EUparliament

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴BREAKING: International airlines freed from racial licensing in South Africa

This follows Sakeliga's victory in the Pretoria High Court on Friday.

Here's the latest 🧵

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

Hey, @autodesk

Your South African resellers have a blatant conflict of interest: they resell your software and compete directly with customers by offering design/engineering services.

How can that be acceptable? Imagine me and the same reseller tendering on the identical project, they control my software access and pricing while bidding against me while providing non-existent re-seller service.

Forcing a full 12-month Inventor subscription R40k for one minor edit on an old model, while you offer monthly/Flex/direct options elsewhere, protects their margins at our expense.

Long-time AEC subscriber. Give SA customers the same flexibility you give other markets and remove the middleman barrier.

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

I've been an Autodesk AEC subscriber for years. I've even had PDM in the past. Today I need to make a small change to an old Inventor model, something that may take me a day or two, yet my only option in South Africa is to purchase a full 12-month subscription for nearly R40,000.

Why?

Many other markets have monthly subscriptions, Flex Tokens, or other short-term licensing options. Yet South African users are still treated like a backwater market when it comes to Autodesk licensing flexibility.

Every reseller in the SA model adds little to no value for experienced end users. In many cases, the reseller is also a design centre. Those are competing interests by definition. One sells software, the other sells engineering services. There is an obvious potential conflict there and shouldn't be allowed...

After years of supporting Autodesk products, I simply cannot justify spending almost R40,000 to open and modify a model for a day or two of work.

My view is simple:

• Allow South African customers the same licensing flexibility available elsewhere.

• Allow direct purchasing from Autodesk.

• Remove unnecessary middlemen from the process.

Engineers, designers, and small businesses should be paying for what they need, when they need it, not forced into a 12-month commitment for a few hours worth of work.

Is anyone else in South Africa frustrated by this situation?

@autodesk

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

Oh, but it predates even 1884.

The British colonised an already colonised land and entrenched racial legislation everywhere they went and the 1809 Caledon Code is a prime example in law to British POW and concentration camps. The picture would’ve looked far less racist without the imperial Brits, their heavy involvement, and their greed for gold and diamonds.

South Africa's racial history is a continuum, not a series of disconnected events, and I see today's laws as part of that continuum. Also, don’t forget Solidarity’s hard work with that famous BBB (Big Beautiful Banner):

“SA is the most race-regulated country in the world”… currently, I might add.

[Paul Graham @PMGeducator]

For those who still think apartheid started in 1948.

[Bureau of African Affairs @AsstSecStateAF]

FM @RonaldLamola, you blame concerns about violence and failed governance on "MAGA politics." Ghana and Nigeria just airlifted their citizens out of your country. Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s��Left-wing policies. Unemployment still remains at 33% while you and corrupt government elites get rich while promoting race-based laws and chanting "Kill the Boer." If caring about your own citizens is MAGA, South Africa might want to give it a try.

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@geordinhl Keep painting those rainbow sidewalks, Geordin.

Focus on the job you actually have, you're already making Mr. FMD look like a high achiever at this rate...

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@Finnthehuman80 🤣 Mchunu must behave and stop with his empty threats or find out what FAFO means. We don't move with knobkerries and bokvel... we are also not afraid... Woza mfethu, come visit the old Boer republics first and try your luck.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

When I arrive at the @WhiteHouse I will tell the Trump administration the whole truth about South Africa!

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

🔴 BREAKING NEWS:

@LexLibertasOnX and the @NYYRC had a meeting with the White House about the White Cross Project.

They will accept our petition and memorandum. Now we need your support!

We need at least 100k names on the petition and 3'000 cross sponsorships to make it happen.

We are currently at 22k signatories (22%) and just over 900 crosses (30%).

Sign the petition, sponsor a few crosses! Link below.

@StefanoLforte

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@boringcompany That's impressive! 👌

[Dirk Hermann @SolidariDirk]

AGOA is verleng en die Withuis het bevestig dat Suid-Afrika deel daarvan bly.

Dit is goed vir werk en goed vir die ekonomie. Dit is betekenisvol.

Dankie aan kollegas Jaco Kleynhans en Theuns du Buisson vir hul skakelwerk en diepgaande navorsing.

Solidariteit het die beste verslag oor AGOA uitgereik. AGOA was die fokus van Solidariteit se skakeling en ons het selfs voor kongreskomitees verskyn.

Hierdie verlenging vir Suid-Afrika is ten spyte van die regering.

Ons moes deurlopend pleit dat gewone Suid-Afrikaners nie gestraf word vir ’n roekelose regering nie.

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@SolidariDirk Wel gedaan Solidariteit!

Ondankbaar soos die regering en sy stiefkinders is, het julle AGOA vir die werkende mense van SA gered.

Die verdraaiing gaan kom, maar ons weet wie het die werk gedoen.

Dankie!

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@ConCaracal As someone who has actually worked in the mining sector his whole life, not some boardroom tenderpreneur or 2c commentator, I concur.

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

Ramaphosa was the mine workers organiser and NUM General Secretary from 1982 to 1991, back when we had 600,000+ workers and he’s proud to say it. Today he picks mining to defend BBBEE, but the sector is worse than ever. Many companies now subcontract just to survive...

32 years into democracy we’re down to +-472,000 jobs.

You did the people dirty... This government nationalised all mineral rights, the State is “custodian” yet ordinary citizens gained nothing tangible, only the elite and connected got rich.

Those rights should belong to SA citizens, not a greedy, corrupt government. Legalise small-scale artisanal mining for locals, regardless of skin colour. That will sort out the zama-zama problem overnight and give real opportunities.

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@ntshoyamathudi @SupaVanSA Cute.

Threaten “inequality on the streets will bite you” then scream “WHITE SUPREME LEADER” same broken record, zero new material. Just pure race hate, siestog.

Your capacity is dololo, exactly like your perpetual victim script. Try harder mtwana.

🤣

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

Welldone Strickland! 💪 Respect where it’s due. 👊

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

Ag, sies man. The only unreconstructed racist language here is your defence of legislated racism like BEE, racial quotas or this Legal Sector Code forcing skin colour targets. That's White supremacist ideology in reverse... because it screams that blacks can't compete without stealing from those who earned it. Sorry princess, but the only thing 'sies' here is your race obsession 32 years later. Black attorneys are already over 53%. Loser mentality.

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

@BoerHindoe

[Marcel Nel @NelMarcel]

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