Ernst Roets
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard May 2025
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And the government owns the land, most of the land that they expropriate. They don't give it to people. It goes to the government.
How's that? Yeah. Well, civil disobedience can be a wonderful thing. And we've had some examples of successful civil disobedience campaigns in South Africa where the government had these, they call it the ETO system. It's like a big,
tax system on the highways that just, it's an electronic tax toll system that, but people just buy the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands just refuse to comply, to get the tags and so forth. And eventually they had to stop it because even though it was law, people just didn't do it. And the same with COVID. COVID was a good example. We've had a bizarre COVID.
Everyone has had a bizarre COVID. So we had these strange laws like you can't buy flip-flops during COVID.
Yeah, and you cannot buy shorts. You cannot buy cooked chicken. We had these really, really bizarre COVID laws. It's a crime to buy cooked chicken or to sell cooked chicken during COVID. And so people just said, well, we don't care. We're just going to do what we want. And so there was a massive civil disobedience phenomenon in South Africa during the COVID lockdown.
And so I think people have learned, and the government couldn't do anything about it, I think people have learned that you can actually do a lot if you just don't comply with these completely ridiculous, irrational laws.
Yeah, so we've had some examples of this. It started with the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Oh, the Rhodes, oh, Cecil Rhodes. Cecil John Rhodes, yeah. So this one guy defecated on Cecil John Rhodes' statue at, was it UCT? What university was it in Cape Town? Okay. And then they started this movement.
Yeah, yeah.
Just shit on it. They started this movement of tearing down statues, which eventually boiled over to America, and that's how it got to America. And it boiled over to Europe and so forth. But it started with that, this targeting of statues. I think it was 2012 or something. It was maybe before that even. And it became a mob.
And they wore t-shirts with slogans like kill the whites, like on the t-shirt. And it became very violent and very overtly racist. And it was students running around just, you know, setting things on fire, burning down buildings and stuff like that. So that is a real threat. And then later we had the fees must fall movement that was university students demanding that education must be free.
You shouldn't pay to go to university. And it was the same thing. And now we've had these, more recently, we've had political parties sort of taken up that thing. This kill the boer and so forth. And so I honestly think in South Africa, the threat of mob violence is a bigger threat than the government.
Well, the thing is, there's no silver bullet. There's no one thing that we can do to make sure that we're equipped to withstand that.
But if there is a silver bullet, it would be, or the closest to it, it would be what I mentioned earlier is well-organized communities, communities that have a sense of community, that recognize that you have a sense of responsibility, not just towards yourself and your own family, but towards your community.
and that you have some form of a communal identity that is under threat that is being targeted and you have to protect yourself you have to fulfill a bunch of functions that the government is not fulfilling even though you're paying them to do it they're not doing it so you have to look after your own safety you need to have a gun you need to have a bulletproof vest you need to have or if you don't then at least a significant amount of people in your in your community must especially those who are more interested in
this type of thing. You need to be well-organized. You need to be prepared if something bad happens in your community, if the mob comes, if they set the shopping mall on fire, or if they come for people's houses, that in a very short timeframe, you can get a whole bunch of people mobilized to protect their community. And with these riots in 2021...
That was a good case study because some communities were completely unprepared and they were virtually destroyed. And some communities were very well prepared. And when the mobs arrived, there was a bunch of people with guns waiting for them.
Yeah, they were very well armed. Yes. Yeah. It's like some heroic Indians out there. Yeah, there was one, I think, some guy with something that looked like a minigun on the back of a pickup truck. I don't know where they got that.
We have some brave Indians. We do. And there were other examples. One was the mob was approaching a town and the people were waiting for them on a bridge. And then they got there, they just couldn't enter because the people had just cordoned off their own town, their own village or community, and they weren't able to enter. So we've had some case studies of this.
South Africa is a fascinating case study for a lot of things.
Of course. Of course it would be better. I think it's because they have – when they took power in 1994, they explicitly said we are not a political party. We are not a government in terms of what people think a government should be. We are a liberation movement committed to the promotion of socialism and committed to the promotion of black nationalism. And that's their ideology.
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