Ernst Roets
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard May 2025
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And that's why I'm saying it's not compatible with realities on ground level. And there have been many law fairs in South Africa, many, many, many. South Africa is a very good example of political court cases. And we've won many and we've lost many. But it's a ship that is sinking.
So they have been trying to change the South African constitution, the property rights clause, to empower the government to expropriate private property without compensation. That's the buzzword. Just steal the land. Yeah, they call it EWC. It's expropriation without compensation, but it's confiscation of property. That's what it is.
No, exactly. It's just shoplifting. It's flabbergasting to see the extent to which, again, academics and analysts and journalists are rushing to the defense of the South African government. In South Africa? Yes. So here's one of the many bizarre things that they would say. They would say, this is all a lie. You guys are lying. It's not expropriation without compensation.
It's expropriation with compensation, but compensation can be nil. So it can be zero compensation.
And so the president has just signed the expropriation bill in South Africa, which is now... He signed it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's still an attempt to change the constitution and there's now a new bill in process.
It was just announced, I think a week ago, that they want to pass through parliament that says that 80% of... That's what it boils down to, that 80% of land or property in South Africa must be owned by black people. So because it says it must be racially representative. And so I want to tell you a quick story about this because it sort of highlights the ideology.
I was at a land summit in South Africa and a spokesperson for the Department of Land Reform spoke. And it was very clear from his speech that the problem is white people owning land. It was a racial thing. It was very clear. But it's colored with words like restitution and correcting historic injustices and so forth. And so I asked him at this summit, I said, so here's an example.
And what would the government's position be on this? The example is... A white guy owns a farm. The government takes it from him to correct historic injustices. And they give it to a black guy. And it's a black farmer. And maybe a year or two down the line, this black farmer decides he doesn't want to be a farmer anymore. He wants to sell his land. And the buyer is white.
And now there's a white farmer again. What's the government's position on this? And the spokesperson for the department says, in that case, the correction of the injustice has been reversed. It's completely bizarre.
It's very sad what happened to that country.
No, they say that Robert Mugabe is a hero and that ZANU-PF, the party... His party, yeah. Yeah, yeah, is a good party and it's a liberation force and we respect them.
Well, I think you can say there are threats of that happening. There's not a genocide happening in South Africa.
What am I missing? Yeah, if you own land, by definition, that's illegitimate, regardless of whether you bought the land. It doesn't matter how you got the land.
So the ANC in South Africa wanted to – they have this process of name changes. And by the way, this targeting of statues came from South Africa. It's happening in America. It started in South Africa, burning down statues and so forth. And they've had this long process of name changes. And one thing they wanted to –
to change the street in which the US embassy is in South Africa to Fidel Castro Avenue. That's one story. The other one is they wanted to change one of the main streets in Pretoria to name it after Mao Tse Tung. And then some of the opposition parties said, are you crazy? Do you know what Mao Tse Tung did? And the response was, remember, Mao was never convicted of any crime.
Well, I think there's some explanation as to why the South African government has gone so off the rails. And it's that they've gotten a free pass for decades.
Because of this narrative, they could do and say whatever they want. They've got no criticism or very little criticism, very careful criticism. And that's why I think they've gone so ballistic after the recent comments by Trump and people like Elon Musk.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's the biggest story in South Africa at the moment. Really? And what are they saying? Well, they're saying that we've, the organizations that I was involved with at the time have committed treason, that we've been charged for treason. You've been charged with treason? Yeah. For what?
For speaking, well, among others, for me speaking with you about what's happening in South Africa. That's treason? Yeah, because it's bad mouthing your country. That's the argument. Damn. So I don't know if it was one of the opposition parties who filed the charges.
No, no, you should come to South Africa. No, you should definitely come. I don't know if much will come from the treason charges, but that's certainly the action. But you've been charged with treason. Yeah, there were official complaints filed at the police. Yes, yes.
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