Ernst Roets

Well, Charlie, great to meet you, too. And it's great to be on the show. And thank you very much for talking about this and and for having me on the show. Good to speak to you here from Pretoria, South Africa.

Well, Charlie, great to meet you, too. And it's great to be on the show. And thank you very much for talking about this and and for having me on the show. Good to speak to you here from Pretoria, South Africa.

So the book is entitled Kill the Boer. It was published in 2018. And the title was chosen because that is also the title of a very famous political chant in South Africa that I'm sure you've seen and your viewers have seen that is becoming increasingly popular.

So the book is entitled Kill the Boer. It was published in 2018. And the title was chosen because that is also the title of a very famous political chant in South Africa that I'm sure you've seen and your viewers have seen that is becoming increasingly popular.

a chant it's not a song it's a chant of which the lyrics are kill the work kill the farmer shoot to kill kill a man and the word blur of course refers to the afrikaner people so it's an ethnic or cultural community that is targeted and the book is well it took me three years to to write it's very extensively researched and the the main argument if i can summarize is that farm attacks

a chant it's not a song it's a chant of which the lyrics are kill the work kill the farmer shoot to kill kill a man and the word blur of course refers to the afrikaner people so it's an ethnic or cultural community that is targeted and the book is well it took me three years to to write it's very extensively researched and the the main argument if i can summarize is that farm attacks

There are many problems, crime phenomena in South Africa, but the farm killings are very unique for a variety of reasons. The one is the extreme disproportionate rate at which farmers are being attacked and killed in South Africa. The second is the extreme levels of brutality, the worst tortures imaginable happening during these farm attacks. And I can tell you about that if you want.

There are many problems, crime phenomena in South Africa, but the farm killings are very unique for a variety of reasons. The one is the extreme disproportionate rate at which farmers are being attacked and killed in South Africa. The second is the extreme levels of brutality, the worst tortures imaginable happening during these farm attacks. And I can tell you about that if you want.

The third is the unique role that farmers have to play in South Africa in terms of providing food for the nation, but also in terms of being employers and employing people and so forth. And then the fourth reason is just the fact that a crime phenomenon such as this deserves a unique counter strategy because the farmers are far away from police stations and so forth.

The third is the unique role that farmers have to play in South Africa in terms of providing food for the nation, but also in terms of being employers and employing people and so forth. And then the fourth reason is just the fact that a crime phenomenon such as this deserves a unique counter strategy because the farmers are far away from police stations and so forth.

But on top of this, what we have is not just a disproportionate and an extremely brutal crime phenomenon.

But on top of this, what we have is not just a disproportionate and an extremely brutal crime phenomenon.

We have a crime phenomenon here that is actively encouraged and romanticized by some of the most senior and influential politicians in South Africa, chanting kill the Boer from public platforms, then being protected by the Constitutional Court, which is, you could say, the Supreme Court in South Africa, and then being protected by the president who publicly denies that this problem is happening.

We have a crime phenomenon here that is actively encouraged and romanticized by some of the most senior and influential politicians in South Africa, chanting kill the Boer from public platforms, then being protected by the Constitutional Court, which is, you could say, the Supreme Court in South Africa, and then being protected by the president who publicly denies that this problem is happening.

And then on top of that, we have now this threat to property rights with the ruling party, the ANC, openly saying that they want to take or confiscate property that belongs to white people and redistribute it. And then they call this EWC, expropriation without compensation.

And then on top of that, we have now this threat to property rights with the ruling party, the ANC, openly saying that they want to take or confiscate property that belongs to white people and redistribute it. And then they call this EWC, expropriation without compensation.

And then they would try to convince us that targeting property rights and destroying the free market would somehow be good for the economy as it would lead to what they call black empowerment, which is just, or transformation, that's the other term, which is just the South African term for DEI, as we know it.

And then they would try to convince us that targeting property rights and destroying the free market would somehow be good for the economy as it would lead to what they call black empowerment, which is just, or transformation, that's the other term, which is just the South African term for DEI, as we know it.

Yes, it has become a regular thing. There was a time when it wasn't chanted that often, and now it has become a new way of, you might say, targeting the Boers and poking fun at the Boers, making fun of them and so forth.

Yes, it has become a regular thing. There was a time when it wasn't chanted that often, and now it has become a new way of, you might say, targeting the Boers and poking fun at the Boers, making fun of them and so forth.