Sam Woulidge

Journalist. Aspirant Domestic Goddess. Seeker Of Authenticity.

[Sam Woulidge @SamWoulidge]

Thank you @lesterkk for this. You are so right. We need to be better and restorative justice is what is needed here. Vengeance will not serve us well.

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

OPINION | Every time we let outrage turn into spectacle, we keep the cycle alive. And then, we all become part of the very thing we claim to hate, writes Lester Kiewit.
https://t.co/pH2Zt8vknj

[Sam Woulidge @SamWoulidge]

@geordinhl @jsteenhuisen What a politically petty and divisive caption. John did well as did the rest of the delegation. They were led by the president of SA who did us proud.

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

“You’re too white for this.” 🤣😂🤣
More terrible things happening in South Africa.

[Sam Woulidge @SamWoulidge]

@iamSivN I'm sorry you are receiving such hate. You don't deserve it. No one does. Thank you for always speaking your truth. And for calling out the bullshit.

[Riaad Moosa @RiaadMoosa]

Dear Apartheid Nostalgics

First of all, I’m sorry you feel persecuted more than other races in the New South Africa in 2025…I am sorry. For real.
I know life is hectic!
Even for us brown and black people…it’s pretty bad.
I am sorry…but a few things need to be said…

(I’m gonna use sports analogies here. I hope the Rugby one gets you)

Look, everybody agrees with the concept of merit and working hard. Black people. Brown people. White People. Everybody.
But everybody should have opportunity to access the game.

Affirmative action doesn’t mean there’s no merit. Affirmative action does not mean there’s no working hard.

For hundreds of years, people of colour were LEGALLY prevented from playing the game of self determination. Legally oppressed. Legally not allowed access.

Apartheid wasn’t like affirmative action - It wasn't like if there’s a qualified white dude & qualified black dude…the qualified white person will get the opportunity. No.

The Apartheid & colonial laws meant that - no matter what - you CAN’T get access. It’s illegal. If you’re black - u can’t buy the land. You can’t have the job. You can’t get the education. You can’t move up no matter how hard you work. No matter how smart you are.
It’s AGAINST the law.

Versions of this happened all over the world.
A funny example is the NBA in America.
There was a time, unbelievable as it may seem, when the NBA was WHITES ONLY.
It’s not that the white people didn’t compete hard against other white people for victory on merit…
…but black people weren’t allowed to play…
even guys like Lebron James grandfather wasn’t allowed to play.
He wasn’t dunking a basketball…making buckets. He was dunking…a mop…into a bucket.
Meanwhile he could probably 360 clean the backboard from the free throw line.

The idea of affirmative action is just to get people of colour or people who’ve been historically disenfranchised…into the game. Let them play.

Once they’re in the game, they still have to compete like everyone else.
Like anyone who’s given an opportunity..QUOTA players can only survive if they’re good. They can only survive due to competence.

Another way of looking at it…
..black people’s legs have been LEGALLY AMPUTATED for hundreds of years. Real, horrifically messed up laws that amputated their progress.

Now Imagine Oscar Pistorius right…
When he ran, he ran with his affirmative action prosthetics. It didn’t guarantee that he won, it meant he could run the race.

Imagine Oscar had to compete with no prosthetics. Trying to run the race on his stumps.
And then Oscar has to run a race with Usain Bolt.
And on top of that…Usain Bolt’s ancestors amputated his legs in the first place.
Might make you insecure right? May make you wanna shoot someone.

With prosthetics he can compete…
and to stay in the race, he still needs to be able to run…
and if Oscar wins the race…even with prosthetics…
…you can’t say he’s not winning on merit.

If privileged people still don’t agree with what I’m saying…let me use a language you may understand…

Golf.

The next time you play golf - don’t play with a golf handicap cos a Golf Handicap could be called Golf Affirmative action.
Or 140+ handicap based golf laws.
It’s a way to get people into the game.

Apartheid laws weren’t white people playing golf and black people getting a golf handicap…
Apartheid was…
a black person has to be a CADDY. You’re not allowed to ever play golf. You have to be a caddy.

Now if you still not with me…this is my final attempt.

Rugby.

If I can’t get through to you with rugby it’s impossible…you’ll never get what I’m saying.

As a nation, if we figure out how to include ALL RACES into the game of SELF DETERMINATION, it’ll be better for everyone.

We won the rugby this way. We became world champions this way. Many times.
And every single time there was a new black or coloured face introduced to the team, the assumption was that the black or coloured face was not qualified. Quota player. By default - the perception is 'not qualified' until proven otherwise…
That assumption, bias and racism still exists.

If there were no systems of redress and so called “140+ race laws” or affirmative action -
…because of historical disadvantage, guys like Siya, Cheslyn and Mapimpi for example would probably NEVER have played for our country.
Because there would have been no 140+ race based opportunities to get them development, coaching and access.

I’m not saying an all white team would not win…there’s nothing scarier than a white Afrikaner rugby player with no neck and cauliflower ears…
Baksteen Du Toit will bliksem you and be very effective…white people have the expertise no doubt.
…but it’s much better that we all won together.

Even though white people had all the expertise, it’s much better that effort was put into diversity, inclusion and equity in conjunction with the obvious hard work and merit based systems.

Continuing with the status quo…could still have won us the Rugby World Cup with Afrikaner players called Os or Blikkies many times over…but more importantly the consequences of the “140+ race laws” won not only the World cups, but the heart of all South Africans.

We all won together.

And it’s possible. And it’s inspiring. And it’s nation building. And we can do it in all industries in SA. It’ll just take time. And effort.

But the morality and ethics are sustainable and long lasting.

What @afriforum is doing is completely the opposite. It’s just selfish…and no matter how they try to disguise it - fundamentally racist to the core.

Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika

[Zapiro @zapiro]

Zapiro cartoon published on @dailymaverick (15 February 2025) on Mouthing Off @realDonaldTrump @afriforum @CyrilRamaphosa @MYANC - https://t.co/3R1RqxO7ki

[robertmarawa @robertmarawa]

"Terrible things continue to happen in SA!!" ~@kalliekriel & his convicted felon!!

[Sam Woulidge @SamWoulidge]

South Africa 😍 @Springboks @iamSivN ❤️❤️

[Springboks @Springboks]

After seven long years, rugby's greatest rivalry found a new home in Cape Town 💥
A special shout out to @IamSivN, aka "Hugh Blackman", and the Street Stylers for this epic celebration 🤩
#ForeverGreenForeverGold #Homecoming #Springboks

[Springboks @Springboks]

After seven long years, rugby's greatest rivalry found a new home in Cape Town 💥
A special shout out to @IamSivN, aka "Hugh Blackman", and the Street Stylers for this epic celebration 🤩
#ForeverGreenForeverGold #Homecoming #Springboks

[Rebecca Davis @becsplanb]

I am also absolutely certain that @jsteenhuisen and @helenzille already know about this video as it is circulating among DA employees, many of whom are appalled by these appointments.

[Rebecca Davis @becsplanb]

In its insistence on taking a “brave stand” against the “woke mind virus” and “cancel culture” the DA leadership is willing to ride roughshod over what we hope will be the very basic GNU values of decency and inclusivity.

[Rebecca Davis @becsplanb]

“But the ANC is worse”. Sure. The ANC-run government also fired spokesperson Mcintosh Polela for a homophobic tweet: https://t.co/mUVUCpIaBk

[Rebecca Davis @becsplanb]

These are two men the DA wants to award +million-rand salaries of taxpayers’ money to uphold a Constitution they, very simply, clearly do not personally endorse.

[Rebecca Davis @becsplanb]

Video in which Renaldo Gouws and Roman Cabanac discuss how Roman can’t listen to Queen because Freddie Mercury was gay, and also that his death from AIDS is proof that God exists. Cc @jsteenhuisen @helenzille

[Jared Wright @jaredwright17]

Siya Kolisi. A national treasure. 🇿🇦 #RSAvNZL

[Claire @claireXanda]

Rent fucking free . The beard story in spare is so much funnier right now 😂
Prince Harry you will always be the main character 🙌😮‍💨🔥

[Sam Woulidge @SamWoulidge]

Hi @friendsofbash an inside out, severely crumpled and wrinkled shirt along with some other stuffed-in items of clothing came in my delivery today. I am, of course, sending it all straight back to you.

[Sam Woulidge @SamWoulidge]

@ZeldalaGrangeSA @KeithDinabantu @LewisHamilton Love this Zelda! 😘

[deni @fiagirly]

#BritishGP 🇬🇧 | Stormzy says he’s going to Ferrari with Lewis Hamilton next year! 😆

“We’re going to Ferrari too! I love Mercedes, I love George, I love Toto, but Lewis is, that’s our guy innit. Wherever he goes we’re with him!”

[Claire @claireXanda]

Prince Harry &Meghan meeting President of Ireland ,his wife & his dogs , his dogs fell in love with Meghan and Harry,refused to go back in the house &followed them . Dogs know . I will trust what they do over the British media any day .