You know, South Africa’s government is so corrupt it’s infuriating. But when it comes to human rights? Exceptional almost to a fault. In fact, it’s sometimes too soft to the point where it enables lawlessness at home. That’s the paradox. Our post-apartheid rights culture is so deeply internalised that it often overcorrects: endless restraint, endless due process, endless caution.
That same culture is exactly why, when the South African government says you are wrong on Iran, you are not handling Iran properly, you should believe them. They know what they’re talking about. When our government says you are committing a genocide, it’s because they actually understand what genocide looks like legally, historically and structurally. They are not lying. We are not throwing that word around for narrative effect.
We don’t have a government that fabricates intelligence about imaginary weapons of mass destruction somewhere in the Middle East. We are thorough. We comb. We investigate. It takes time. But we don’t lie to manufacture casus belli or justify regime-change agendas. We don’t rush to war, rush to sanctions or rush to condemn for geopolitical convenience.
In 2025 we said Donald Trump was bullying us and the world, people said South Africa was crazy, hysterical, anti-Western. Now, just this past week alone, Canada and the European Union have confirmed that Trump is indeed bullying the world. At the time we said it, people mocked us. Now reality has caught up quietly as it always does.
That’s the pattern. South Africa says uncomfortable things early. The world laughs. Then a few years later, everyone pretends it was obvious all along. There is actually a rumour that president Thabo Mbeki warned the USA about the lack of evidence of WMDs in Iraq and was ignored. That could have saved millions of lives. The same pattern is happening in Iran.(Americans!! eyeran this eyeran that…you know nothing about what’s happening in Iran.🫠)
One day the world will look back and remember South Africans not as a superpower, not as a perfect state, but as a deeply flawed country with one of the cleanest moral compasses in global diplomacy. A country that refused escalation, insisted on international law, warned about instrumentalising human rights and rejected propaganda and camp politics.
I just hope it won’t be too late.
and by ‘too late,’ I mean a nuclear winter.❄️
Don’t watch a lot of MMA but that was the worst fight I’ve ever seen.
Frustrating and boring.
DDP had no answer for the takedowns but the entire fight was basically one oke laying on top of another.