The ANC have seemingly become masters of distraction by diverting our attention away from any of their hundreds of failures, by giving us juicy, tantalising news bits containing everything other than what our greatest fears warn us about.
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When you go onto YouTube or any news channel lately, what do you see? If it's not a hoo-ha being made of the EFF in Orania, it's the Joslyn Smith court case which is demanding everyone's attention.
Just like Ramaphosa's Phala Phala scandal, which got buried very quickly and drowned out by other, alternative news events, so too the ANC's perceived involvement with Hamas and Iran since 2023 before the elections, is already dead and buried- all forgotten! How did we, as a democratic, uniquely diverse nation, allow ourselves to get to this point where nothing we see or read in the news anymore can be believed or trusted?
The ANC have seemingly become masters of distraction by diverting our attention away from any of their hundreds of failures, by giving us juicy, tantalising news bits containing everything other than what our greatest fears warn us about.
Our diversity has been used against us as a weapon. Our love for one another has been tainted black by fake stories of how we hate each other, and the government of the day has been smiling all the way.
Watching us get more and more divided every day through propaganda, fake news, distractions and lies, is a very sad and serious reality for South Africans in 2025. The question, I guess, is this: how do we protect ourselves against this form of dividing and conquering?
The only thing we can do is to start thinking for ourselves. The more we educate ourselves by opening ourselves up to differing views from those of mainstream media, the better.
There has been a massive surge of leftist propaganda from dictatorial governments and people groups around the World, and the ANC's latest trippling down on BEE legislation and refusal to give up the Foreign Affairs portfolio, is yet another example of how quickly societal collapse can happen and how easy it is for socialist, left-thinking leaders to assert dominance in an uncontested climate where the general public are too scared or uninformed, to notice these subtle assassinations on our freedoms.
The White, Afrikaner Minority group is first in line when it comes to the maximum marginalisation of its kind. Unfortunately, these laws that are passed in light of the need for so-called 'Transformational values' are nothing other than targeted sanctions against Whites and other minority groups.
The media, public opinion and ANC's Luthuli laws are weaponised to almost force us and coerce us into accepting these highly unusual, unfavourable, by-laws which are a direct contradiction of what our constitution stands for.
To summarise, it's time we hold the government accountable! There are too many distractions, by-laws, unconstitutional regulations and red tape which seek to destroy the independence of our private sector, especially the middle class, White folk who have done much to build South Africa into what we see today- a functional democracy, or so we hope!
The ANC must stop its ideological wars on the people of this country, and allow for everyone to succeed economically, socially and enjoy moral freedom in a fair societal climate. It's time.
L Oosthuizen Durban