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The DA’s latest plan to scrap BBBEE, affirmative action, and other redress laws is proof that they have never believed apartheid truly existed in South Africa. They ignore that black people were deliberately dispossessed of land, wealth, and economic opportunities in their own country. They want the child of...

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It is well known that I do not support xenophobia or Afrophobia in South Africa. I have become deeply unpopular among xenophobes and Afrophobes because of this. However I disagree with this white South African. We must condemn xenophobia without hesitation, but we should never use that condemnation to rewrite history. His argument is that black South Africans who have taken over businesses previously run by African migrants should not ask the government for financial assistance to buy stock because “real entrepreneurs” do not depend on the state. It sounds appealing until you look at history. Many of South Africa’s most successful white-owned businesses were built with enormous support from the state. The apartheid government deliberately created and financed a white entrepreneurial class. It did this through subsidised loans, preferential access to land, state procurement, industrial incentives, protectionist policies, and legislation that excluded the black majority from meaningful economic participation. Sasol and Iscor were either created or heavily financed by the state. Volkskas Bank was established specifically to empower Afrikaner business. White commercial agriculture flourished because of generous state support, cheap credit, and land acquired through discriminatory laws. Colonial Rhodesia followed the same pattern. Many of the country’s most successful commercial enterprises were built on land allocated by the colonial state. They were supported by favourable government policies and sustained by an economic system that overwhelmingly favoured white settlers over the African majority. The suggestion that government assistance makes black entrepreneurs less legitimate than white entrepreneurs does not survive contact with this history. Governments have always played a role in building national business champions. The real question is not whether government should support entrepreneurs. It is whether that support is transparent, fair, and available to everyone rather than reserved for one group. If today’s government chooses to support black traders who are trying to rebuild businesses and create jobs, there is nothing inherently wrong with that. What would be wrong is if that support were distributed through corruption, political or patronage. We should reject xenophobia and Afrophobia because they are wrong. We should also reject attempts to erase the fact that many of Southern Africa’s most prominent white business fortunes were built with substantial government assistance under systems designed to favour them over everyone else. History deserves to be confronted honestly, not selectively. The scarecrow of the “tenderpreneur” is often invoked by people who do not understand the economic history of South Africa and Zimbabwe. They speak as if the relationship between business and the state began in 1994. It did not. Another point that is conveniently ignored is that the word tenderpreneur is often used as though it describes a uniquely post-apartheid phenomenon. It does not. What changed after 1994 was not the relationship between business and the state, but who was allowed to participate in it. Under apartheid, access to state contracts, licences, agricultural subsidies, mining rights, import permits and industrial finance was overwhelmingly reserved for white South Africans. Political connections and racial privilege determined who received opportunities, while the black majority was legally excluded from competing for them. Today, people condemn politically connected businessmen as “tenderpreneurs”, yet many of the fortunes accumulated under apartheid through political patronage are rarely subjected to the same scrutiny. History should be applied consistently. If we are going to criticise businesses that prosper because of their proximity to the state, then we must acknowledge that this relationship did not begin with democracy; it was a defining feature of the apartheid economy itself. It is a fact that one of the major downsides of many post-colonial governments in Africa has been the inefficient and, in some cases, corrupt use of state resources. That, however, does not mean the solution is to abandon the idea of helping black people build businesses. The real solution is to ensure that state support is directed towards those who have the merit, the capability, the discipline, and the vision to build sustainable enterprises. I have heard public intellectuals such as Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi argue for the establishment of a state-backed bank dedicated to supporting black entrepreneurs. For expressing such views, they have often been demonised by people who, unfortunately, have not taken the time to study the history of how many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs built their fortunes. This is not unique to South Africa or Rhodesia. In the United States, Fred Trump built much of his property empire through Federal Housing Administration-backed loans and public contracts, and his son Donald Trump inherited a fortune substantially shaped by that state support, later benefiting from long-term tax abatements that made several of his own developments commercially viable. Of course, there is a real difference. FHA lending was framed as broad-based housing policy, not an instrument of racial exclusion, whereas apartheid-era support for white business was explicitly designed to entrench a racial hierarchy. But the underlying mechanism, the state absorbing risk so that private wealth could be built, s the same in both cases. If similar instruments were proposed for entrepreneurs in South Africa, Zimbabwe, or Angola today, many would call it corruption outright without first asking whether the policy was transparent, accountable, and merit-based. The same was true in South Africa and Rhodesia. Many successful white-owned businesses were built with the assistance of subsidised finance, preferential tax policies, state procurement, industrial incentives, and legislation that deliberately favoured white entrepreneurs while excluding the black majority. In many instances, the state absorbed much of the risk, while the wealth that was created became private. The beneficiaries accumulated private fortunes, but the broader public continued to bear many of the long-term economic costs of those policies. So let us not be duplicitous. We must condemn xenophobia, Afrophobia, and all forms of violence directed at people because of their nationality or origin. But we should not allow that condemnation to erase historical reality or prevent serious discussions about how entrepreneurial classes have been built throughout history. The real debate is not whether governments should support entrepreneurs. History shows that governments across the world have done exactly that. The real question is whether such support is transparent, merit-based, accountable, and directed towards people who have the ability to create successful businesses that generate jobs, create wealth, and drive economic growth. Equally, people who have made mistakes or who have been associated with wrongdoing do not automatically lose the right to contribute to important public debates. Their arguments should be judged on their merits, not dismissed simply because of who they are. Listening to an idea is not the same as endorsing the person making it, just as supporting capable entrepreneurs is not the same as supporting corruption. Recognising history does not justify corruption today. It simply reminds us that the relationship between the state and private enterprise has always existed. The real issue is how that relationship is governed.

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WATCH] On behalf of the African National Congress, I want to state that we a country of over 60 million. There are many people who come to our country and many come to our country to contribute to the wealth of our country and its progress. Many contribute positively in our country. There are people in our country who have taken it upon themselves to do things which the vast majority do not condone and this must not paint South Africans as xenophobic. Indeed we do have a challenge of illegal immigration in South Africa and it’s not a problem unique to South Africa. There are many country’s affected by this. South Africa is a signatory of the Geneva Convention and we must deal with this challenge within the perimeters of the law. We can’t deal with it with hatred. That is why government has adopted a program of action to deal with this particular challenge which the President has made a public announcement. We have called for law enforcement and calmness and follow the government’s Action Plan on dealing with illegal immigration. We have made it very clear as the ANC, we cannot and should not be associated with anything that amounts to hate crimes. In this particular instance the majority of South Africans are people of Ubuntu and humanity. Because we too would not be free without the solidarity and assistance of country’s such as Mozambique in the fight against apartheid. Many people sacrificed such as Samora Machel the President of Mozambique and many combatants died here fighting against apartheid. #ANCinMozambique #ANCatWORK

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🔥🚨GRAPHIC Warning: South Africa Kill the Boer Extremism; Why is South Africa going crazy? Hate created hate and people have chose hate to express pain. The appalling chant started because of Apartheid South Africa and colonization of Aboriginal lands. I don’t agree with the approach but I study where things originate from. There are millions of South Africans that have been engaging in a culture and racial war. Unfortunately the West only get to see the highlights. The same man that is leading the chants about killing the white farmer also stated “we are Putin and Putin is us” so for my Conservatives and Democrats it appears we have a confusing narrative. Racist South Africans who are resisting Ukraine? It would be beneficial for the people of the world if we all stopped looking at every scenario based off one video and for Americans saying this is the Woke that America is heading to. If white people never went this far with black please when it was legal to do so please don’t expect black people to do the same. We aren’t in the 90s anymore, there is no way I accept that people still believe media propaganda that people do these things because they are “mindless black savages.” The only reason MSM is truly ignoring this is over their hate for Ukraine. Putin has been forgiving Africa’s debt by the billions this year. There have burials of Black children while they are alive by White South Africans while they were alive, this war that they have is truly beyond us. To the people of the world, we are all tired but we have to LOVE. This white vs. black thing is really looking more barbaric the more it continues. South Africa is simply America if we never had dreamers like Martin and Lincoln.

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