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For some time now, social media has been replete with stories about Americans who have quite recently become vocal about the farm murders and attacks on commercial farmers in South Africa. Although this has been well documented for more than thirty five years by, inter alia, TLUSA, the story has in the main remained in this country.  The world’s press moved on after the media frenzy of the apartheid years, but not before their parting shots effusively eulogised on the “dawn of democracy”, accompanied by soft-soap tales of one Nelson Mandela, the saviour of the “rainbow nation”. South Africa was summarily left to the mercies of the African National Congress (ANC), and the orgy of stealing and the plunder of resources which occurred as the ANC settled in to strip the country clean, was seemingly ignored by the journalists and their liberal fellow travellers whose ability to turn a blind eye on the ANC’s chaos was breathtaking!

South Africa got what it deserved, mused the fundi’s. The ANC was left unfettered to pillage and ruin what had once been a functioning country. The damage was shameful, but no concerned media group ventured to do a follow up on what they themselves had propagated.

Enter President Donald Trump as the new president of the United States. There is no doubt that he and his followers had observed that the influence of Western values in the United States was diminishing. He promised an anxious American population that he would remove the purported 11million illegal immigrants who had entered his country under the auspices of previous presidents, including the liberal President Biden. But this problem of Western societal influence was a worry to many Americans. Some prominent SA groups and private citizens believed the time had come to bring the plight of South Africa’s commercial farmers to the president’s attention, with emphasis on the ANC and their fellow travellers’ anti-white bias in general.

A White House Oval Office meeting with SA president Cyril Ramaphosa in May 2025 saw the now infamous video where South Africa’s firebrand politician Julius Malema exhorted thousands of his followers in a Johannesburg football stadium to “kill the boer, kill the farmer”. Millions viewed this video, and the South African racial conundrum was out there for the world to see.  Malema’s history of pronouncements against the farmers - and whites in general – was printed and U-tubed and dispatched on social media, and the world caught on that perhaps, “bad things are happening in South Africa”, as President Trump succinctly declared.

THE NEW AMBASSADOR AND BEE

On December 18 2025, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of L. Brent Bozell III as US ambassador to South Africa. He arrived in this country in February 2026 and formally presented his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 8 April 2026. This particular envoy was well briefed on South Africa’s endemic problems, particularly those which offended the sensibilities not only of the ambassador, but of most Western people. What particularly disturbed his  government was the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) legislation, suffocating South Africa’s economy and prospects for investment, yet strongly defended as non-negotiable by the ruling ANC, whatever the consequences to South Africa.

The reason for this parasitic legislation is historical -  the ANC politicians who introduced it were the progeny of stone age people, not from millions of years ago but from just a few hundred years back. This primitive way of life was attested to by European visitors and missionaries to Southern Africa in the mid nineteenth century. With no agenda other than to record what they saw, these visitors’ written and graphic accounts bore witness to the fact that the ANC’s forefathers were tribesmen, killing animals for food, living in grass and adobe dwellings, and fighting with other tribes for land and domination. They had created nothing. They did not have the wheel, nor the written word.   See (inter alia):

+  Sir Andrew Smith’s Journal into the interior of South Africa 1834 – 1836, at the behest of the British government. He was accompanied by illustrator Charles Davidson Bell, a surveyor and artist on the staff of the Surveyor General’s department, Cape Town in 1833. While travelling with Dr. Smith, he made hundreds of drawings, most of which survived.

+  An account of the Xhosa in 1807 by Ludwig Alberti – Tribal life, customs, material culture laws, language, history. Illustrated. Translated from the German by Dr. W Fehr.

+  Foundations of the Cape/About the Bechuanas by W. H. C. Lichtenstein. 1807- 1811. History, social and economic life.

+  Travels in the Wilds of Africa by John Burrow. Diary of a scientific assistant to Sir Andrew Smith on his 1834- 1836 expedition. Illustrated by the author.

Is it any wonder then that they must still parasite on other people who actually produce? The DNA hasn’t changed over the centuries. Hence BEE legislation.

These spongers are terrified that those who carry them may finally rid the country of this predatory law: threats in this regard are now emanating from none other than an erstwhile president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki. Since leaving office he has set up a Foundation which has essentially amassed millions from BEE investments. Launched in 2010, big business (allegedly including Anglo American) were initial “donors”. To put it simply, Mbeki and company then invested these preliminary and comparatively small sums in top South African companies, many of whom gave discounted shares to the various holdings within the trusts that had been formed. These trusts are now worth billions as a result of Mbeki and other beneficiaries of BEE piggybacking on established white-created companies

THE THABO MBEKI FOUNDATION DOCUMENT

Entitled “The United States of America and the Future of Afrikaners in South Africa”, a Mbeki Foundation’s document runs to123 pages and is dated 31 August 2026. (It is interesting to note that President Ramaphosa is a mellifluous speaker, while Thabo Mbeki writes with imagination and educated grammar. These are decided talents. But this is about all they can do. Not to put too fine a point on it, what have these two presidents of South Africa achieved to better the lives of South Africans? What are their legacies?)

Inter alia the foundation’s document discusses the ANC’s holy grail, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), the ruling party’s comfort blanket. Mbeki threatens bloodshed if BEE is done away with. We quote from BizNews (7.10.26) quoting the Institute of Race Relations which supplied the following excerpt from the Mbeki Foundation document:

“Were South Africa to abandon a determined program to eradicate the legacy of colonialism and apartheid, it would lead to a social explosion much worse than the 1960’s riots in the United States.  As Afriforum/Solidarity celebrates whatever it might consider to be its victory, if such victory serves to perpetuate any element of the apartheid system, they should know that not only will that victory be short-lived, but also that it will provoke a level of violence which will cost many lives, including those of Afrikaners”.

Are these threats not within the ambit of explicitly exhorting violence, a hallmark of Julius Malema?

The warning tone of the Foundation’s declaration was clearly a result of the US ambassador’s requests to the ANC government to, inter alia, abolish BEE, halt the racial exhortations to kill people, and remove legislation enabling the government to expropriate property without compensation. The ambassador’s request on these three issues was roundly refused.

The reaction of many SA citizens to the Mbeki document has been: who is this man threatening the people who built this country he lives in, he who uses their language, wears their clothes, has an office in a posh white suburbs and survives on the food that they produce? This man whose forefathers were wandering the veld in animal skins while the European world was building railways and steam engines and high-rise buildings and telephone lines? Who is this man threatening people whose very existence in South Africa enables this malcontent to eat three times a day?

To the watching world it is astounding that there are people living in the twenty first century, purporting to be civilised, who still cannot run a small town, let alone a country they inherited as a going concern;  that they are not ashamed to be seen as parasites who have the temerity to complain, nay threaten with bloodshed, if the largesse ceases!

THE TRAGEDY OF BEE

A black Sunday Times columnist (3.5.2026) succinctly nailed the BEE fat cats, ”the few who have made billions of rands from state-linked BEE deals and corporate transactions. They love being chairpersons -collecting  R2m a year in board fees. But ask them to build a factory in Mamelodi (black township) or fund an incubator in the Cape Flats and they’ll argue that the network is ‘closed’. Meanwhile 45% of our youth sits at home with no jobs and no hope.

“These same BEE elites shout loudest when transformation fails. They blame ‘white monopoly capital’ while buying shares in old mining houses and banks – businesses built by someone else. From their cosy boardrooms, head-nodding BEE elites  shamelessly complain of exclusion.

“Let me break it down. The BEE model has become a rent-seeking scheme. It’s a crowbar for prying equity from established companies. It has created some millionaires but failed to establish any black-owned innovative companies like Capitec and Yoco. Starting something is hard. It requires sweat, risk and tenacity. It is much easier to buy a stake in a retail chain and collect dividends.

“The department of Trade, Industry and Competition talks about a R100 billion BEE fund. Let’s talk facts: the money will end up in the same pockets – buying more equity from existing businesses. It won’t reach a young person in Diepsloot building an AI tool. Where are our black angel investors?  If BEE moguls had dared to invest R10m in Entersekt in 2008, they’d be sitting on a fortune today. Instead, they bought shares in a  company that created zero jobs. What we need are BEE founders. People who take their capital and move into the high-risk, high-reward world of venture capital.”

FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH!

There it is Mr Mbeki. You’ve followed the path of all the others, from sub-Sahara down. You hitched a ride on top South African businesses, whose successes in which you played absolutely no part!  (You’ve come a long way from your R2500 a month salary which the ANC (or Thebe) paid you while you occupied a desk in their old building in a less than salubrious area of Johannesburg after you returned from abroad).

Your Foundation’s vision of “knowledge generation, dialogue facilitation between governments, civil society, academia, business and the diaspora” and your obsession with an African Renaissance, are no match for actually doing something practical to help the millions out there who voted – in hope – for your shameless party.

The world realises the travesty of the ANC’s BEE theft and who got rich and are now called “good businessmen”!  This is why there is no investment in South Africa. Ambassador Bozell relates that trillionaire Elon Musk has offered his Starlink program free of charge to 500 South African companies. Unable to control its collective avarice, your ANC has demanded 30% of the deal. Musk refused of course.

This greedy demand reveals a mindset to which we have become accustomed, a peculiar perspective that cannot connect cause and effect, that consequence does not matter. Clearly people like Mr. Mbeki can write123 pages threatening people who keep him functioning, but he cannot see that his party’s antediluvian policy in this regard is directly responsible for South Africa’s descent into third world status.

How long does he think these companies upon whose successes he is amassing serious money will exist if his party’s policies continue much longer? And how much longer will the country’s commercial farmers continue to tolerate his government’s treatment, let alone the murders and farm attacks?  What if a good portion of them decide to throw in the towel because it’s no longer worth it?  Who will provide the sustenance for 65 million people? The ANC? Mr. Mbeki’s people from the African Renaissance?

He should rather write his next soliloquy about something practical to help those who go to bed hungry every evening, who cannot find a job with an ANC Education Department matriculation certificate, or who lost the family bread winner to the endemic crime rampant in the ANC’s South Africa.

BEE at its most obscene is demonstrated by Mr. Hangwani Maumela who allegedly looted the Tembisa Hospital  of R2billion. While the Hawks launched an investigation into this man’s activities in 2022, he has still not been charged. The SIU moved a year ago to “preserve assets”  worth around R350m. His properties “under preservation” include a R75m property in Bantry Bay, a R70m mansion in Sandhurst, a R32 m house in Camp Bay, and a R25m mansion in Zimbali. Other properties in Sandhurst, Hartebeesfontein and Zimbali total R40m. Other properties have been placed under the name of his mother. (Sunday Times 11.10.26)

He has a collection of luxury vehicles which include a Rolls Royce Cullinan at R13,5 m, two Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae Coupes worth R10m and R8,5 m, and a Lamborghini Hurican Coupe valued at R9m. Other vehicles include a Lamborghini Urus worth R5,5 m, two Bentleys V8one valued at R3,8 and the other value undisclosed, and a Mercedes Benz AMG G63 valued at R2,3m.

There are many plunderers in South Africa. They loot the country, then they buy houses and cars. They don’t know what to do with the money because they aren’t very smart. They are not quite up to scratch when it comes to getting a job. But they are masters at stealing.

Meanwhile outside the country’s supermarkets, young black men stack groceries into car boots for perhaps R5. They hope to get enough to maybe buy a pie, but these are now quite expensive. His family lives in a village in Kwa Zulu/Natal and they live from hand to mouth on their SASSA grants every month.

This is South Africa’s BEE travesty; Mr. Mbeki pontificates on philosophy and a  Renaissance, amassing a fortune from someone else’s hard work, while millions go to bed hungry. Why don’t the millionaires build schools and clinics in deprived areas? Why don’t they fix the plumbing in townships where people don’t have water for weeks on end?

What a reputation Mr. Mbeki has created for the ANC in the eyes of the world where he threatens those who keep him alive and comfortable? Only in South Africa!