By Brandon Smith
Some people might be wondering why a backwater nation like South Africa has become a flash point in the global debate over politics and culture. It’s really not that hard to understand once you recognize the core conflict, which is in part about racial division but also about the fundamental evils of the political left and socialism.
South Africa represents a perfect petri dish, a window into the minds of progressive authoritarians. The country is near the end point of the natural socialist evolution – From “hopeful humanist endeavor” to the communist slave plantation that all socialist adventures inevitably become.
A key pillar of leftist authoritarianism is an obsessive desire to prevent people from walking away. In other words, citizens are seen as property of the collective and property of the greater progressive experiment. When citizens try to leave, this is treated as a crime beyond reckoning.
It’s a concept I’ve been writing about for many years now. Walking away from from the leftist plantation brings the entire edifice into question; it is the worst thing a citizen can do.
Afrikaners that want to immigrate to the US under the refugee program put in place by the Trump Administration are being targeted by a malicious smear campaign. Recently, the SA parliament debated what should be done about these immigrants and also debated how to protect SA’s image in the world stage.
Their narrative was broad, but it basically asserts that Afrikaners that talk openly about racial discrimination and race motivated murders of whites might be investigated under treason laws. By extension, Afrikaner refugees seeking to leave SA could be designated as threats to national security. Anyone warning about the growing movement for racial genocide of Afrikaners is a potential traitor and a threat to the country (Go to 118:00 for the discussion).
Interestingly, the pursuit of investigations was announced just before South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile asked white farmers to “please stay”. Meanwhile, socialist and communist party leaders continue to call for a total land grab and reparations, swiping farms from Afrikaners and giving them to black citizens.
As is typical with leftist governments the fallback is to deny all claims and evidence, then gaslight and demonize the people that speak out. The Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni made it clear that the State Security Agency (SSA) is on the alert for any disinformation campaigns, foreign meddling and treasonous acts.
Concerns over the United States cropped up during the sitting and officials argued that US involvement in relocating refugees was a “violation of South Africa’s sovereignty”. This doesn’t make much sense, unless we keep in mind that Trump cut off foreign subsidies to South Africa because of the Afrikaner issue and this has placed their economy in a precarious position. The SA government seems to think they are entitled to American tax money. They’re not.
Those asking Ntshavheni questions during the session used words including “racist” and “right-wing” as well as “lunatics” and “civil war.” The rhetoric is designed to stifle dissent and frighten Afrikaners into apathy. We have seen this same strategy in multiple leftist plantations around the world recently.
From the UK to France to Germany and Romania, European governments have used censorship and door-to-door arrests of political opponents and people speaking out on issues like open borders and the invasion of violent third-world immigrants. White citizens are not allowed to criticize migrant polices, or they risk being punished.
In the US, conservatives are very familiar with the treason narrative after years of the Biden Administration accusing MAGA of being a “threat to Democracy”. This is nothing new.
However, South Africa’s case has escalated beyond persecution. Leftists aren’t just attacking Afrikaners as racists that “want Apartheid back”, they are also desperate to stop whites from leaving. You would think if Afrikaners were so reprehensible the leftists would WANT them to exit the country as quickly as possible. Instead, the establishment has engages in a vicious slander war to shut down their efforts to migrate to the US.
A member and candidate of the ruling party (the ANC) wrote this week in the Africa Times:
“South Africa’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) has sweeping powers under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA Act 121 of 1998) to seize property deemed to be the proceeds of crime. It has been used successfully against corrupt officials, criminal syndicates, and even bogus NGOs.
But what of land obtained through historical fraud? Why has the AFU not moved decisively to investigate the origin of property titles, especially where the state was the original grantor or lessee?
Let me be blunt: white South Africans should be compelled to demonstrate the lawful origin of title—not just via deeds, but through ethical justice and the question of how the land was first acquired. If such proof fails, that land must revert to the state and be redistributed under constitutional and equitable parameters…”
He continues:
“Let us not sugar-coat this: when South Africans—whether political parties or private citizens—go to the USA to solicit intervention or publicly declare persecution, they commit an act tantamount to treason. They bring shame not only upon the Republic, but spit in the face of those who died so they could vote…”
“Where is the legal courage to prosecute this betrayal? The Intelligence Services Act, RICA, and Foreign Interference Bill must be invoked to investigate external political influence masquerading as refugee claims and foreign ‘investment pressure’…”
And this showcases the underlying hypocrisy of race communists – The political left wants revenge for Apartheid against people that had nothing to do with Apartheid. They want to steal the land that those white farmers cultivated for generations using legal chicanery. The farmers must then “prove” their ownership was not obtained through racial injustice using a government-run struggle session (guilty until proven innocent).
At the same time leftists also assert that white farmers that abandon their lands and leave for the US are traitors. The Afrikaners are trapped, and that’s just the way leftists like it.
Social media is rife with woke activists calling Afrikaners racists and cowards for wanting to go to America. Activists in America have threatened violence against white refugees, claiming that they want to “bring Apartheid to the US”. Other critics try to dissuade potential refugees by asserting that when they enter the US they will be “at the bottom” and will not survive in the American economy. I believe that this campaign is at least partially coordinated.
Keep in mind that Afrikaners know full well that they will be starting from scratch in the US, and they don’t care. Many of them are leaving behind property and a life they have built over decades. What I find refreshing about these migrants is how different they are in temperament from the millions of illegal migrants we have been dealing with from third world counties.
Afrikaners say they want to contribute, to earn their keep in America and to assimilate. This is a completely different attitude from immigrants heralding from central and south America that arrogantly demand welfare subsidies, easy labor access and cry racism when they’re asked to assimilate or learn English.
Furthermore, leftists never address the obvious question here – If there is no threat to white Afrikaners and they are actually living the high life without any fear, then why are they willing to leave everything they worked for to come to America? Listen to the deafening sound of crickets…
Another question that leftists can’t seem to answer is why they care so much? Why are they so emotionally fragile over Afrikaners leaving for another country? What are they REALLY angry about?
The reaction of South African politicians and leftists to this event tells us everything we need to know about their true motives – They hate the Afrikaners, but they also think they own the Afrikaners. They will do anything to prevent their racial equity Utopia from being exposed as a farce.
South Africa’s denial of genocide is predicated on a logical fallacy – The idea that not all white people have been attacked or killed, therefore the current situation does not qualify as a genocide. Under Gregory H Stanton’s 10 Stages Of Genocide, written as a kind of alarm meter for impending tragedy, South Africa actually meets 8 out of 10 of the requirements for a genocidal scenario.
Nearly all of the pieces are in place, including official group classification, discrimination, dehumanization, preparation and persecution. There’s the open calls to “kill the Boers” (Kill the white farmers) by leftist political parties, government complicity in property theft and redistribution, as well as thousands of racially motivated murders which the SA government has tried to hide, categorizing them as basic crimes rather than racial crimes.
The African National Congress has implemented at least 142 race-based laws (similar to DEI policies in the US) designed to redistribute wealth, property and jobs away from the white population into the hands of the black population.
And, the progressive authoritarians believe they have the perfect justification for the continuing oppression of whites – Because Apartheid existed 35 years ago in South Africa, this means that any brutality that happens to Afrikaners today is fair game.
It’s the same argument that leftists use in Europe and the US: “White westerners were colonizers and colonization is evil, therefore, as repentance for their sins against the multicultural gods, whites must allow their societies to be deconstructed and submit to generations of abuse.”
My question is, why would we do that? We can simply organize and tribalize if that’s the intention of the progressive movement. We can easily drop the hammer on them if necessary. The only reason progressives and socialists think they can railroad white citizens in South Africa is because they assume we will sit back and let them.
Just so there’s no misunderstanding, everything happening in South Africa is a consequence of progressive governance. The race targeting of whites, the crumbling infrastructure, the 32% unemployment rate, the ongoing civil instability, etc. They’ve had 30 years to make things better and instead they made things worse.
Conservatives have no political power and white citizens have no political power (their representation in government is next to nil).
One might wonder why the government hasn’t swiped all the farm land from the Afrikaners already? The conundrum for progressive authoritarians is that they want to, but the vast majority of their domestic food production relies on the expertise of white farmers. They remember the starvation crisis that happened when Zimbabwe ethnically cleansed white farmers. They have to get rid of the Afrikaners slowly and replace them with black farmers over a period of years.
Utility and political optics require that the SA government keep Afrikaner farmers trapped within the country so they can continue to produce until the government sees fit to eliminate them completely.
I believe the “treason” narrative is part of this agenda, along with the general smear campaign. If even a handful of Afrikaners are able to come to the US and succeed this will encourage thousands more to leave SA. The country will then lose a large portion of its most productive citizens. The last vestiges of civil stability will disappear. South Africa will collapse.
This is why some officials are begging Afrikaners to stay. This why the government is talking about national security concerns over a mere 59 immigrants leaving for America. Secretly, they know that an eventual mass exodus of white farmers is coming and it will crush their fraudulent system.
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“ Secretly, they know that an eventual mass exodus of white farmers is coming and it will crush their fraudulent system. “
my only, very minor, exception to your conclusion is there is no secret, as you mentioned Rhodesia.
my conclusion, the sooner the better.
I think the secret is more in the fact that they will never admit that this is the reason why they want to force the Afrikaners to stay.
“… South Africa’s case is unique… leftists aren’t just attacking Afrikaners as racists… they are also desperate to stop whites from leaving. You would think if Afrikaners were so reprehensible the leftists would WANT them to exit the country… The political left wants revenge for Apartheid against people that had nothing to do with Apartheid.”
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Naturally, the Left as the irrational Global political movement of hate and insanity that it is, wants to turn everything into major class warfare and a vehicle to promote its unholy gospel of Wokeness and hatred of Anything White. They are a one-note song. A pathetic tune that the sane people of the World are sick of hearing already, over and over and over without letup.
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But underlying this dynamic is the seemingly eternal contentious dissonance of conflict and suspicion among the Human Races – those differences of skin tone and thinking and culture and spirit that have divided the human family forever.
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It is not ‘racist’ to do an honest and unbiased evaluation of the relative advances and contributions (or not) to the World of each of the various races (as a whole) within the human family.
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Whether the differences among races are due to some actual physical properties, or cultural tradition and acculturation, or for some other reasons… these fundamental racial differences are real and actual and evident and easily seen by looking through the lens of honesty and the fullness of time.
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For many today it is believed politically incorrect to view these differences among races at all. But whether one cares if it is politically correct or not… to borrow a phrase of the day… ‘It Is What It Is’. That means if something is real and true then it remains real and true regardless of whether one looks at or chooses to believe it or not.
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All human beings have worth. All human beings have value and are unique. But the bottom line is that some groups within the human family have contributed more to living a positive experience of Life for humanity as a whole than others.
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We each need to be evaluated (and judged, if you prefer) as individuals. We are individuals first and members of any group secondarily. But when there are many similarities in thought and deed and behavior and attitudes that coalesce within a human grouping… then these need to seriously be discerned and evaluated and understood for meaning and significance.
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Many today are sore afraid to talk about race and its effects and implications – even to think about these things privately. That is wrong. Race is as much a part of who each of us is as the shape of our nose or the contents of our thoughts. To not think deeply and honestly about race is cowardly and does not serve the bests interests of the entire human family. Instead of fearing to talk about race…. we need to talk about it more. More deeply, more honestly, with fearless clarity and compassion. Doing this serves the best interests of all of us. Not doing this just keep racial disharmony and distrust going with even more momentum.
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For many today, all Whites are racist and thus guilty of all sorts of terrible social sins for which they are supposedly to pay for the rest of eternity. Or course, that is utter nonsense. First of all, not all Whites are racist and never have been. And even if some Whites are racist, is the implication here that members of other races are not just ‘racist’? Sorry, but some are. Maybe many are. And to deny that truth is being dangerously dishonest.
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Bottom line here is that all groups – whether skin-toned based or not – prefer their own group however they choose to define that for themselves. That is true of the entire animal kingdom within which humans also forever remain. Life forms simply prefer their own kind. And it is likely that this will never, ever change regardless of what kind of phony social engineering anyone tries to impose.
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Therefore, we need to fully accept this reality without question and then do something about it to bring about better communication among human groups. But most of all, we need to find more effective ways of living on the same planet together.
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For some this might mean learning to be more accepting of ‘other’ groups and doing a better job of living together. For others it might mean retreating into one’s own chosen group and avoiding areas of conflict with other human groups that do not seek better relations with them.
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Freedom to live and think as one chooses is a fundamental human right. And included within that is the right not to be branded as racist just because you dare to see and acknowledge that there are real differences among races.
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The real racist is anyone who tells you never to think about race. Or who dares to see the differences.