Guest Column
South Africa Violence in a Failing State
Based solely on reporting and interviews presented by Tousi TV.
If you are still watching the liberal establishment media, it is probably best to stop, because they are lying to you. About a year to a year and a half ago, the international media talked for about twelve minutes about anti-white attacks on farmers in South Africa. Even then they were not telling the truth. They reported at all only because individuals such as Elon Musk and President Trump, and a number of others, raised the concerns and left the media with no other option. Then they stopped. Then they told the whole world it was all fake: that nothing is happening in South Africa, that everybody is happy, that the government is great, that the ANC is loved, and that the white farmers are doing fine.
That is not right. The job of Tousi TV is to tell the truth and to expose the media when they are either lying or refusing to tell the truth. A team was sent to South Africa to conduct an investigation on the ground. It took months to speak to a large number of people. That is something the global media are refusing to do. The resulting documentary, South Africa Violence in a Failing State, was released on 2c.tv. The full uncensored version is on the Tousi TV Plus platform, available on the website and the app. A shorter version of about ten to fifteen minutes was published for free on YouTube because the issue is important and because people should be able to see at least part of it publicly.
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A Continual State of Fear
People on the ground describe this as the life they are always facing. One voice in the film says people need to understand that this is a very real problem, and that violence against them has taken many severe forms.
South Africa, according to those interviewed, holds two world records. It has the highest formal unemployment rate on the planet. It has consistently featured in the top three or five most homicidal countries in the world. One reason given is that politicians encourage violence as a method to achieve political objectives. Even when they do not call for actual violence, violent slogans and violent revolutionary slogans create a culture and an atmosphere that makes violence acceptable. They make violence trendy.
If a government is constantly using a minority group as a scapegoat and vilifying them for all of its failures, then turning inward toward self-preservation is presented not as a malicious choice but as the only logical response left for survival.
As parts of South Africa have started to fail, crime is exacerbated. When street lights do not work because of power outages or failures in maintenance, it becomes much easier for criminals to break into homes and to hijack people. South Africans, the film says, live in a continual state of fear. The sad thing, one speaker says, is that South Africans have become used to it. They believe this is a normal way to live, and it really is not.
Drugs, Decay, and Where the Money Goes
Drugs, copper, the zama zamas, and trafficking are all present. A kindergarten that was one of the best in its area in the mid-2000s is now described as a hotspot where crack is made, where cocaine users gather, and where most dealings are done. Every year the ANC government spends billions of rand in tenders for companies to clean these places. The question asked in the film is where that money goes.
A cheap street drug is described as available for ten rand a portion. It is said to be made out of cocaine, wheat, HIV and antibiotic medications, red poison, and other substances, formed into one drug. It can be smoked, inhaled, or injected. One practice described is called glutting: a person who has money buys the drug, gets high, then blood is withdrawn and injected into others so they can get high as well.
A young person with nowhere to go and nothing else to do, the film says, always has a friend who knows a friend who uses the drug, and will try it because there is nothing else to do. Police arrest people. People without papers are afraid to go up and down.
Race Laws After Democracy
The film states that those involved are not aware of a country in history that has had more race laws than South Africa today. Virtually every sphere of society is regulated by race. Since parliament was created in 1910, there have been 324 race laws in total. Of those, 122 — almost 40 percent of the total — were adopted since South Africa became a democracy in 1994.
One can almost imagine, a speaker says, the anguish of a young white South African, age 22, born after democracy, being told that he or she will not be able to get a job because those jobs are being given only to black people.
The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act is described as saying, casually or in passing, that every sphere of society must be racially representative. In practice, the film says, that means everything must be at least 80 percent black. That requirement is presented as an obstacle to Starlink investing in South Africa, because Elon Musk and Starlink are not willing to give up equity. The person who would receive that equity stake, the film argues, would not be an ordinary poor black person in a township or village, but a politician who has already benefited from empowerment deals over the past 30 years.
The ANC has come up with a policy of expropriation of property without compensation. A policy like that, the film says, is an absolute disaster because it undermines property rights.
Farm Attacks and the Language of Killing
A chant captured in the film includes the words: there must be killing because the killing is part of it; kill the poor; the farmer; kill the poor.
The reverberations from the meeting between President Trump and Ramaphosa were significant. They forced the South African president to confront the nature of these killings. There was a protest arranged with thousands of crosses aligned along a road. At that monument, seeing what 3,000 crosses actually looks like, the film says those were real people who died deaths that should have been prevented.
Rural populations, farmers especially, face a risk of violent crime that is disproportionate compared with the rest of the population. It is described as a very dangerous profession. One speaker personally had a farm murder in his own family and does not know a lot of Afrikaners who do not at least know of somebody who was in a farm attack or had been killed in a farm attack.
What is happening is described as a gradual process of killings and murders together with a system of race laws. It is said to be almost closer to ethnic cleansing in the sense that it encourages people to leave the country, telling them to go back to Europe, get out of South Africa, and that their land will be taken.
In one exchange presented in the film, a person is asked whether they are willing to condemn the murder of white people. The reply is: no, I am willing to condemn murder, not of white people. Asked to pledge never to call for the slaughter of white people, the person first says they will do it with ease, then refuses: why would I do that; I will not do it.
Part of what was canvassed in the Kill the Boer trial, the film says, was evidence of extreme brutality in some farm murders. One story told is of a mother and daughter, Alice and Helen Ler, described as one of the most brutal farm murders there ever was; the film describes them as having been very severely mutilated. The perpetrators are said to have used the victims' blood to write the words “kill the Boer” on the farmhouse wall. This is presented as one story among several the film says involve extreme cruelty, including accounts of torture with molten plastic and scalding water. One speaker says they mean it literally when they say they cannot think of a method of torture that has not been used in a farm attack in South Africa.
How the Story Was Treated
The problem President Trump pointed out, the film says, is a real problem that needs attention. It was almost universally condemned. The concerns expressed by President Trump were almost universally defended against, up to the point where both South African and American media openly said there are no race laws in South Africa, that it is all a lie, a hoax, a conspiracy theory, and that there are no farm murders in South Africa.
One of the most famous examples given is Jimmy Kimmel: there is no genocide against white farmers in South Africa; the evidence Trump presented has been widely debunked; those are not burial sites.
Taking Responsibility for Safety
The film states that about three and a half million Afrikaners in South Africa do not have a place to call their own. Dangers for Afrikaners being discriminated against in a big way later became a reality. A town was purchased. It has grown to 3,000 and is increasing at the moment between five and ten percent per annum.
Those involved understood that they had to take their own responsibility for safety and security in the region and established safety and security services. To make something valuable, the film says, you have to add productive input with land and with construction of everything. If the sole focus is extraction of wealth, you deny yourself culture.
Culture and labor, demographics and culture, are described as intertwined, with demographics dictated by labor practices. If people are brought in in mass from elsewhere to do all the work so that others can live a more comfortable life, the dominant culture will become that of the majority doing the work. A flood of other people coming in and changing the culture is described as endangering one's own culture. The same problem, the film says, can be seen in the UK today.
There are so many philosophies sitting around a table trying to move in one direction. At least, the speakers say, they can determine their own future.
Watch the Documentary
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