The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 31, 2025


The Anchormen Show Episode 45 - Kill the Boer w⧸ Ernst Roets


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

184.84889

Word Count

9,670

Sentence Count

594

Hate Speech Sentences

41


Summary

In this episode of The Matt Gaetz Show, host Matt sits down with Ernst Rotst, an advocate for the Afrikaner community in South Africa, to discuss the current state of racial strife in the country and what it means for the future of the country.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Now, it's time for the Anchorman Podcast with Matt Gaetz and Dan Ball.
00:00:16.820 Welcome back to the Anchorman Show. I'm Matt Gaetz, host of the Matt Gaetz Show,
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00:00:29.900 talking to a lot of folks about the great things going on in the country. And this program,
00:00:33.980 the Anchorman Podcast, gives us a chance to really address the human condition on a weekly basis.
00:00:39.560 We also distribute it to my entire online universe, whether that's on YouTube, Rumble,
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00:00:55.300 the homeless community here in California, policy experts, political candidates. And our goal is
00:01:01.420 really to have a better understanding of what's going on here in our country with humanity and
00:01:05.160 the world. And one of the subjects that we've really been following closely on our daily program
00:01:10.520 is the plight of white farmers in South Africa. There has been a real tinge of genocide to the
00:01:18.320 governmental policies in South Africa. And with President Trump issuing executive orders,
00:01:24.540 punishing South Africa for some of their conduct, we really wanted the chance to do a deep dive into
00:01:29.680 why this is happening and what it possibly says about other racial strife that we see emerging in
00:01:35.060 other parts of the world. And so we'll get to that with an expert with a plan in just a moment. But
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00:02:36.980 Stay sharp, stay strong, stay free. And I am joined this week, as always, by my good friend and
00:02:42.380 on-again, off-again employee. He was the founding producer of Steve Bannon's War Room. Now he's a
00:02:46.580 producer on the Matt Gaetz Show, worked on Capitol Hill in my office and in the office of George Santos,
00:02:51.960 Vish Burra. Thank you for being here. And one of our regular guests on the Matt Gaetz Show,
00:02:57.100 but someone we've really been following, Ernst Rotst. And Ernst is an advocate for the Afrikaner
00:03:03.380 community in South Africa. And he is recently out with a plan to create self-determination for folks
00:03:11.400 in South Africa to fight back against these genocidal impulses that we have been observing.
00:03:17.200 And so we're going to get into all of that, Ernst. I can't wait to really get to the core of this issue.
00:03:23.920 But Vish, first, when really the New York Young Republican Club started talking about the challenges
00:03:31.000 in South Africa well before this was the subject of Oval Office meetings or executive orders,
00:03:37.340 how did the club that you were in the leadership of come to this issue and think about it?
00:03:42.700 Well, honestly, we can really thank Ernst here for kind of helping initiate that. We have a very robust
00:03:49.000 international committee at the club that's led by Nathan Berger. He's the former vice president. He's
00:03:55.000 still part of the leadership there at the club. But we've always looked to create partnerships and
00:04:01.940 pipelines overseas. Because the whole idea is that, you know, people talk about the MAGA movement
00:04:08.300 being populist or isolationist or all these other words, isms that, you know, kind of implies that we
00:04:15.880 want to be alone in this world. And that's far from the truth. We want to, we want, went out there with
00:04:21.520 the kind of objective to create global connections with people of like mind who have similar sort of
00:04:31.460 nationalistic views and pride in their own nations. And one of those pipelines was constructed by that
00:04:40.500 international committee and Ernst. And the funny thing is, we did, I think, our first event with
00:04:47.200 Ernst back in 2022. And before the event happened, we were marketing it. And I had made my way down
00:04:55.140 to NatCon 2022 down in Miami. And at NatCon 2022, I was going through the crowd and I saw this handsome
00:05:03.740 gentleman there. And I recognized him from our promotional materials. And I was like, I'm pretty
00:05:08.580 sure we're having an event about South Africa with this guy in just a couple of weeks at the New York
00:05:13.800 Young Republican Club. So I went over, introduced myself to him and we hit it off as, as friends.
00:05:19.520 And we had the event, uh, just, uh, you know, two weeks after that. And honestly, the thing is that
00:05:25.880 this South Africa issue is really, there's a, a, a tangential line between where America is going
00:05:35.020 and what South Africa and the Afrikaners have already been through and, and the kind of reactions
00:05:41.960 and solutions that they've developed in response to the, this kind of racialized politics and
00:05:49.880 balkanized politics that we're going through right now in America. And so that's, we just,
00:05:54.620 we wanted to be able to bring up those pipelines, create that, um, that conversation and dialogue,
00:05:59.860 and also provide ideas on how they can fight back in their home country while they provide us ideas on
00:06:06.480 how we can fight back here.
00:06:07.540 At the good that the New York Young Republican Club is doing for the movement, because of your
00:06:11.380 great connections through the club, you've been able to connect our entire audience to Ernst and
00:06:15.540 his message. So Ernst, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to a conference in Miami
00:06:20.940 with Visborough.
00:06:23.060 Um, thank you. So, uh, yes, well, I'm an Afrikaner and I grew up in South Africa. I live in South Africa.
00:06:29.040 I live in Pretoria. Uh, I grew up up in the North in South Africa, not far from the Zimbabwean border.
00:06:34.320 Um, and so I grew up with that reality with the farm invasions and all of that, and the crashing of the
00:06:40.160 Zimbabwean economy, uh, just not far from, from we lived. And, and also the reality of the farm murders.
00:06:47.080 Uh, I lived in an agricultural community. So, you know, living in an agricultural community in South Africa,
00:06:52.660 you know, people who are attacked and you knew people who have been murdered. And it's the same with me, uh,
00:06:56.880 friends who went to school with me, who've been murdered and, and it's really, it's really something.
00:07:01.800 Um, and so that sort of just naturally pushed me into doing what I'm doing today. Um, and it's
00:07:07.880 through that, and I've been involved with a variety of organizations, including back then I was with
00:07:12.140 AfriForum, which is a civil rights group in South Africa that does fantastic work. And, um, uh, we
00:07:18.220 started, you know, reaching out to other communities and reaching out to the rest of the world.
00:07:21.800 I met the, the guys of the club at, uh, uh, CPAC in Hungary. I remember the first guy from the
00:07:29.040 club I met was Nathan. In fact, you just mentioned, um, and then Gavin, and we had a great conversation
00:07:34.140 leading up to an invitation to speak at, at the club. And, um, I think that was, like you said,
00:07:39.400 it was the Miami conference was just before, shortly before the event. So I figured let's go a bit
00:07:43.360 earlier. Well, sure. I'm sure it was a compelling message you had to share, especially when you're
00:07:46.760 talking about growing up and losing friends to, you described them as murders. Uh, how old were
00:07:53.820 you when your first friend, when you first had to encounter that dynamic of a friend or someone you
00:07:58.640 knew about being killed? And, and what was that like? Well, the first, uh, that I remember was in,
00:08:04.780 I believe it was in 1994 when the ANC took power was, um, and we had recently moved to this
00:08:11.260 agricultural community and someone we knew who was quite close to us. Um, someone who was working
00:08:16.880 with my mother, his, uh, wife was kidnapped, uh, and raped. And it, I mean, I was, I don't know,
00:08:24.220 10 years old, uh, nine or 10 years old at the time. And I didn't really know what this means.
00:08:28.980 Um, and that was my first real experience with this. And then, um, the people who live next to us
00:08:35.920 or across the street from us in, in this town where we grew up, uh, I lived in a town for some time
00:08:40.880 and some time on the farm, uh, uh, was family of a very victims of a very well-known murder in
00:08:47.940 South Africa in 1985. It was two families who were killed in it by a landmine that was planted by,
00:08:55.020 by the ANC, uh, back before. Who's that that planted the landmine? Uh, the ANC is the party that's
00:09:00.560 running South Africa today, the ruling party in South Africa. They took responsibility for it. And
00:09:04.760 that's because they have, they had a formal position adopted in 1985 that they regard farmers and
00:09:10.360 especially white farmers as legitimate target, not as soft targets. And so including, and they
00:09:15.740 deliberately said so, including their wives and their children. And so they started targeting
00:09:20.000 farmers. And one of the ways in which they did that back then, they don't do it today anymore,
00:09:24.700 was through landmines. And so, uh, this was a very well-known case of a, the farmer actually survived,
00:09:30.520 um, but his children were killed and his wife was killed in this landmine accident. And we grew up
00:09:37.200 next to them, um, and sort of learning about this from their perspective. And then the other stories
00:09:42.800 is just people, um, who sort of in the community in which we lived, who've been attacked on farms.
00:09:48.140 And, and one case that was particularly vivid was one Sunday we were in church and someone came,
00:09:55.640 came running in and there's an elderly couple in, in our church. And if memory, I was young,
00:10:00.780 if memory recalls, I think the lady stayed at home and the husband, uh, came to church and then they
00:10:06.600 murdered her, uh, what on the Sunday during the, the, the congregation or the ceremony, they had a,
00:10:12.860 uh, they tied her up next to a tree and I believe she was beaten with a hammer and eventually her
00:10:17.420 throat was slit. And, um, and then for some time we lived on a farm and it's really something growing
00:10:22.740 up with this sort of knowledge as a child. And I remember sleeping on the farm, you know, next to the
00:10:28.540 window and a twig or something would fall from the tree. And your first instinct is someone came
00:10:33.400 to murder me or the power would go off. And your first instinct is not that there's some strange
00:10:39.440 reason. Maybe some cable got wet or something. Your first instinct is they're here. They're going
00:10:43.780 to come and kill us. So, so you sort of growing up with that sort of really shapes you in a particular
00:10:48.700 way. Violence is always something that would shape anyone, however they encounter it. But it would seem
00:10:56.360 to be different if you were growing up believing that that violence was somehow inspired by shaped
00:11:02.620 by your own government. I mean, even when people grow up in, in deeply violent places, uh, if they
00:11:09.160 think that the cops will come, there's hope. Yes. Uh, what, how should Americans think about
00:11:17.280 kind of where the violence starts and where the government begins in South Africa in a lot of
00:11:22.120 these instances? So, so, um, my book Kill the Boer that was published a few years ago is it's called
00:11:27.300 Kill the Boer and the subheading is government complexity in South Africa's brutal farm murders.
00:11:32.420 And we debated whether that's the appropriate term, the term, the word complexity. And I felt strongly
00:11:38.000 that it is because firstly, there are some reported cases of government officials involved, like members
00:11:44.260 of the police in directly involved in the killing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now maybe that could be
00:11:48.840 isolated cases. In most of the cases, we don't have that detail, but there are such examples.
00:11:53.900 But what is more concerning is the political climate that has been created in South Africa,
00:12:00.020 where if you go out and you kill a farmer, it's not a bad thing, or it's not as condemnable when the
00:12:05.240 victim is someone else. And this continued chanting of Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer, while the farmers
00:12:10.580 are being killed, and then the politicians, including the president, would either deny that the farm
00:12:14.720 murders are happening, or they would try to justify it in some way by saying that, well, the problem is
00:12:20.120 actually the farmers. And if they just behaved better, then maybe we wouldn't kill them.
00:12:24.720 Well, wait, that's exactly what happened during this Oval Office discussion where President Trump
00:12:30.100 really gave a lot of voice to the concerns you've been expressing. The very thing you said happened.
00:12:36.280 There was a there was a denial. There was, oh, well, this isn't the policy of the government.
00:12:40.100 These things aren't happening. Let's take a listen. We have hundreds of people, thousands of people
00:12:44.620 trying to come into our country because they feel they're going to be killed and their land is going
00:12:48.840 to be confiscated. And then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they
00:12:54.040 kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them. The farmers are not black. And the people that are
00:12:59.100 being killed in large numbers. And you saw all those grave sites. And those are people that loved ones
00:13:06.060 going, I guess, on a Sunday morning, they told me to pay respect to their loved ones that were killed.
00:13:11.580 Their heads chopped off. They died violently.
00:13:18.960 Is the president on point?
00:13:21.300 The president of which president?
00:13:23.540 Our president. The president.
00:13:24.700 No, he was definitely on point. And I can say that even though there was this very fierce reaction
00:13:31.200 against President Trump, because there are a lot of people, especially in America, but also in South
00:13:37.460 Africa, who like to believe if President Trump says, A, then B has to be the truth. So there were-
00:13:44.200 We see that condition arise sometimes here as well. But what I'm seeing described, it would almost
00:13:51.820 inspire within the farmers that exist in South Africa a hatred, a racism, a worldview that would
00:14:04.720 not be compatible with continuing to be under the same government and in the same country together,
00:14:10.420 right? I mean, is it like, are we going to, are we seeing a situation arise where what people have
00:14:17.320 faced have caused, like, the farmers to be inherently racist when they see anyone approaching?
00:14:23.400 Like you say, you're waiting for the twig to fall in the middle of the night. What do you think?
00:14:27.640 Well, I, you know, I want to point that out. It's because in that first event that, that Ernst did with,
00:14:34.200 with the New York Young Republicans, one part that really stood out to me was that, yeah, you know,
00:14:40.660 Afrikaners can be mad or, or, or even be filled with rage about what's going on with these people.
00:14:46.340 But another reaction that they had was that they relied on their innovation and ingenuity to
00:14:51.440 respond to it. Right. And we talk about today that there's this kind of parallel economy kind
00:14:56.800 of developing where things are like, people are saying, you can't, we're going to cancel you off
00:15:01.460 this platform, cancel you off this. If you want to go build your own Facebook, go build it. But then
00:15:06.740 we blow you off the Amazon servers. Right. But the South Africans actually had an incredible response
00:15:13.200 to this. And Ernst, maybe you can talk about that, about the systems that you had to build
00:15:17.100 in response to that, the normalization of racial violence and hatred amongst, uh, against the,
00:15:23.040 the farmers of South Africa. So, so from an Afrikaner perspective, when the political transition
00:15:28.980 happened in South Africa, the, the government used to be very much pro Afrikaner and then overnight
00:15:35.480 it shifted and then it became, um, very openly antagonistic. Why, why the change? Well,
00:15:41.140 it was the political transition when, when the ANC took power in 1994, when, when Nelson Mandela
00:15:46.520 became the president and it was sort of mellow initially with all the talk of reconciliation
00:15:50.900 and a rainbow nation. And then the ANC started showing its true colors, which has been there
00:15:56.240 since before the transition. I mentioned the killing of the farmers, uh, the landmines and
00:16:00.520 so forth. Um, and then it's, it's really, it really shakes you up into your foundations when
00:16:06.880 the Afrikaners, I think to our detriment became very dependent on the state during the 1980s and
00:16:13.100 so forth. And then suddenly the state became our single biggest existential threat. And so we,
00:16:19.500 and then we quickly discovered that we cannot rely on the state if, I mean, I was in an, in an armed
00:16:23.960 robbery a few years ago in South Africa where someone was killed, um, in front of my family actually.
00:16:29.160 And, and I actually, while we were sort of hiding from the robbers, I tried calling the police and
00:16:35.240 they didn't even answer their phone. Then I called private security and I called what we call community
00:16:39.980 security. It's like neighborhood watches and they responded immediately and they were there within
00:16:43.900 five minutes. So, so you can't, you can't depend on the government. And so you can't, you also can't
00:16:48.760 outvote them because South Africa is very big. Uh, it's, it's like trying to, it's, it's the equivalent
00:16:54.360 of a small state in the U S Louisiana or something trying to, uh, uh, to outvote the national, you
00:17:02.700 know, ballot. No, yeah. We understand the notion that, uh, there are times when you are not going to
00:17:08.340 be beyond the political power of an ethnic minority in the country. Yeah. And so the only way, so, so
00:17:16.820 firstly, we should talk, I mean, you mentioned this, the political system needs to change, but other than
00:17:21.340 that within the existing circumstances at the moment, the only way forward is for us to sort
00:17:26.800 of rediscover an ancient truth, which is that a nation saves itself. Don't wait for the government
00:17:32.020 to fix your problems, fix them yourself. And so if it's dangerous in your area and the police aren't
00:17:37.100 there, you should keep calling them and you should keep applying pressure. But at the end of the day,
00:17:41.460 just do something about it yourself. Get, get armed, uh, know, learn how to use a firearm, get radios,
00:17:46.720 start driving patrols in your areas. And then we also started establishing a variety of institutions
00:17:52.380 in South Africa to look after our community. And so the Afrikaners have been accused of developing
00:17:57.360 a parallel state, um, through sort of private initiatives, just, uh, you know, developing our
00:18:03.160 own schools, private schools and so forth. And it goes for basically every sphere, basically
00:18:07.540 everything that the government is supposed to be doing. We have just de facto taken over just
00:18:12.540 through doing it ourselves, establishing our own network, our own private security,
00:18:17.200 our own education systems, our own cultural institutions, uh, and so forth. You can go down
00:18:22.240 the list. And what have been the societal and cultural ramifications of establishing those
00:18:27.960 assets? Well, it's, it's interesting. If you look at some of the great atrocities of the last
00:18:33.100 century, there's, there are some recurring themes or threads, which is that it's usually, or in most
00:18:39.700 of these cases, almost all of these cases, in fact, a minority that has been, that are being
00:18:44.360 targeted, that is easily identifiable, and that is economically better off than the majority.
00:18:50.440 Uh, that was the case. Obviously we saw that in Germany, we saw that in Europe, we saw that in many
00:18:54.860 of these, um, atrocities and, you know, whether it's Yugoslavia, uh, the Tutsis in Rwanda. And that's
00:19:00.700 the problem that we have is in, as far as we are successful, we are being targeted because of that,
00:19:05.280 because the, the Marxist line is, if you are successful, that's because you stole something
00:19:09.440 from someone or you have exploited someone. And if you are poor, it's because someone stole
00:19:14.100 something from you. And now they blend that in South Africa with race nationalism. So then the
00:19:18.580 line is more or less that if you are, that being poor and being black is the same thing and being
00:19:23.880 rich and being white is the same thing. And there are no poor white people, which of course is a lie.
00:19:28.580 And there are no rich black people. And so also a lie, which is, yeah, which is also a lie,
00:19:33.720 especially the politically connected elites are incredibly wealthy. Um, and so, and so then we
00:19:39.260 would be targeted as a result of that. So in, as far as we are successful or we remain successful,
00:19:43.840 the argument is, oh, so that's privilege. And therefore we need to take more extreme measures
00:19:48.260 to destroy the privilege that you have. We have heard that argument made, uh, in this country a time
00:19:54.400 or two, the, uh, you know, the diagnosis of where things are now helped me understand. Is it getting
00:20:03.240 better? Is it getting worse? Are we in a stasis where things are the same? Is there really a
00:20:08.400 community left to be saved? Have so many Afrikaners left under this pressure that, that we're really,
00:20:14.660 you know, not, uh, able to constitute a society out of this?
00:20:19.400 So, so the situation in South Africa is definitely getting worse, uh, in terms of the friction,
00:20:25.360 the political climate, the economy, virtually every indicator, crime levels, everything, trust in the
00:20:31.100 government, all of those are getting worse. Um, what, what is getting better is I would say two
00:20:36.480 things. There might be more, but two things especially stand out. One is the resolve of
00:20:42.420 the Afrikaner people to find a future in South Africa. So, um, many have left the country.
00:20:47.320 How many are there?
00:20:48.700 2.7 million.
00:20:49.820 Okay.
00:20:50.460 Yeah. So, so many have left and, and many will continue to leave. We've seen
00:20:54.340 2.7 million still there. Does that count the diaspora?
00:20:56.620 No, that's without the diaspora. So it's could be closer to 5 million, uh, if you include the
00:21:01.620 diaspora. So, um, especially with this, this talk of, of refugee status and so forth, um,
00:21:09.160 that by the way has helped to put a lot of international focus on South Africa. So, so the
00:21:13.740 one.
00:21:13.940 But it's not what you want. I mean, I, I, we're going to get to the policy prescriptions,
00:21:17.720 but like, I don't want anyone watching this discussion to say, well, like the answer is we have
00:21:23.480 to allow these people to escape this circumstance. You have, you have a very different vision
00:21:27.880 than that, but, but the need for that escape is driven by the politics of an individual
00:21:31.800 named, uh, named Malema, Julia, Julius Malema. And I think we've got a clip of some of his
00:21:38.360 political activity. Well, let's go ahead and roll that.
00:21:41.360 Shoot to kill Hamaza. Kill the poor, the farmer. Kill the poor, the farmer. Brr, pa, pa, brr, pa, pa.
00:22:01.080 So who is that? And what is he doing?
00:22:04.880 So that is Julius Malema. He used to be the president of the youth league of the ANC, which
00:22:10.660 is the governing party in South Africa. He left the governing party because of internal
00:22:15.560 faction fighting, not because of policy differences. And then he started his own movement, which
00:22:20.520 is ironically called the economic freedom fighters, although they believe economic freedom
00:22:24.720 lies through race-based redistribution and not through production. And he's chanting a chant
00:22:32.040 that became very well known in South Africa called kill the poor, kill the farmer. The
00:22:36.140 word poor is more or less a synonym for Afrikaner. Uh, especially historically, we were known as
00:22:41.700 the boers like during the Anglo-Boer war. Um, and then of course kill the poor, kill the
00:22:46.220 farmer. In Afrikaans, the word poor literally translates to being to, to the word farmer. Um, and he's
00:22:52.600 chanting this at a political rally after making a speech and the speeches would always be along
00:22:57.780 the lines of, this is a direct quote from him. All white people are criminals and should
00:23:02.220 be treated as such. Um, and we need to slit the throat of whiteness. And he would say things
00:23:07.200 like, if you see a beautiful piece of land, go and take it, it's yours. And he would make
00:23:11.860 all these extremely, the other comment he made was, was, um, I'm not calling for the slaughter
00:23:16.520 of white people, at least for now. And then he explained later that he might one day do
00:23:20.700 that. And then after making these speeches, he would then burst into this chant, kill the
00:23:25.460 boer, kill the farmer, um, impersonate, you know, making the sounds of imitating the sounds
00:23:30.520 of a machine gun or a firearm, and then, you know, making these gestures. And, and what
00:23:34.900 is quite really concerning or alarming is that it's not a metaphor. So people in the media would
00:23:41.200 say, well, that's just a metaphor. It's just commemorating the struggle and commemorating
00:23:46.100 the revolution, but the farmers are literally being killed and they are literally being killed
00:23:50.800 while he's chanting, go out and kill them. And we've seen that slogan used during some
00:23:56.140 of these farm attacks in, in the worst case we know of, um, an elderly, two elderly women
00:24:01.580 who was a mother and a daughter were attacked on a farm and tortured. And the victims then
00:24:06.100 used their blood to write the words, kill the boer on the wall, uh, the, the farmhouse
00:24:11.800 wall. And there are other, it sounds like they knew the chant. Exactly. They, they know
00:24:16.180 the chant and there has been reported cases of murderers testifying that they were influenced
00:24:20.980 by this chant. And, and then people in the media, also the South African courts, the justice
00:24:26.780 system and the South African government, including the president would keep defending it, keep
00:24:31.740 saying that there's nothing wrong with, with make, with this chant.
00:24:35.500 Vish, what scares us the most that Malema is at least tangentially a part of the
00:24:41.800 political coalition of the majority government, or that he is able to inspire that type of
00:24:50.100 a crowd and this type of violent conduct.
00:24:52.360 Well, I mean, all aspects of that is just scary as hell. The fact that this guy has already
00:24:57.900 managed to be part of a governing coalition and the fact that he has all this leeway to
00:25:04.420 be able to say stuff like that. But also the thing is, is that especially in our world of
00:25:09.520 this globalized media and content, you know, being globalized, this guy is not just inspiring
00:25:15.900 people in South Africa, but all over the world to pursue this kind of race-based redistributivism
00:25:22.080 and race-based grievance on, you know, what people, you know, should believe that, that they
00:25:28.200 deserve it. You know, that, like you said, that it's become synonymous, that poor and black
00:25:32.920 mean the same thing and rich and white mean the same thing. We see that here everywhere,
00:25:36.880 right? We see that in America. We see that in Western European countries. We even see
00:25:42.660 that dynamic being applied to Israel as a white colonial project, right? And that's why
00:25:48.820 Palestinians are dealing with the problems that they're dealing with. So you see this
00:25:54.380 being solidified and distributed everywhere across earth. But, you know, the funny part
00:25:59.720 about that, and Ernst, maybe you can speak to this and clarify it for our audience, is that
00:26:05.260 the grievance is also a revision of history itself, right? In that the Boer is actually
00:26:13.580 in certain ways indigenous to South Africa, that they were there before the demographic
00:26:20.580 groups that Malema and a lot of these groups that make up the ANC, you know, and their presence
00:26:28.280 in South Africa, that the Boers came before them, right? Can you kind of break that down
00:26:33.140 for us? Yeah. So I think there are two clarifications. One, you're absolutely right to talk about Malema
00:26:38.560 being part of this coalition. I know some people would say that's not true, and I would like
00:26:43.280 to explain why it is true. The reason why people would say it's not true is because he's not
00:26:47.300 part of what we have in South Africa today as a government of national unity that includes
00:26:51.520 several of the opposition parties. He's not part of that. But he is part of what you might
00:26:55.940 call the political elite in South Africa because it's his party, him as an individual and his party
00:27:01.100 are in many ways the tail wagging the dog. They are ideologically aligned with the ruling party
00:27:06.260 and they are putting forth, they want to prove that they are the more radical party.
00:27:10.640 He sounds like the Steve Bannon of South Africa.
00:27:12.780 I'm sure Steve will love that clip.
00:27:18.040 Just in terms of like, you know...
00:27:20.160 Pushing the Overton window.
00:27:21.960 Yeah, that's exactly right. So his party and him as a person are the ones who've been pushing
00:27:26.580 this expropriation of private property and so forth. And then the government or the ruling party
00:27:31.580 would then follow suit and vote their policies into power. But so that's the thing about the history is,
00:27:38.420 I mean, I'm fascinated by American history also and the founding fathers. And if you read the
00:27:43.700 Federalist papers, John Jay writes in Federalist No. 2 about why America would be, could be united
00:27:50.240 because it shares a history, it shares a culture, it speaks the same language. And there are many
00:27:55.960 things on which Americans in the different states agree, which means that there could be a federation.
00:28:01.740 South Africa doesn't have that. It doesn't have a shared conception of history. It doesn't have a
00:28:05.840 shared culture, and it doesn't have a shared language, and it doesn't have a shared philosophy.
00:28:10.820 And so the Boers have been in South Africa. So my family, we've worked it out. The roots
00:28:18.720 sort of from whom I descend directly was about, it was just a little bit older than George Washington
00:28:25.060 when he came to, he moved to South Africa from Europe. So my personal family has been in South
00:28:32.160 Africa since before the Declaration of Independence. And as a people, we've been for more than a century
00:28:37.840 since before that. So we've been in that country for hundreds of years, almost 400 years. And we
00:28:43.220 became a unique people there. We're not Dutch, we're not Germans, we're not French. We even named
00:28:48.420 ourselves after the continent, we are the Afrikaners. We developed our own language, we have a unique
00:28:53.580 culture, we have a rich treasure chest of literature and philosophy and arts and everything. And all of that,
00:29:00.240 we developed there, which is why we want a solution in South Africa.
00:29:04.160 Say something in Afrikaner for us.
00:29:07.300 What do you want me to say?
00:29:10.140 Okay, all right. That sounded more European than African to me. I don't know. I don't know if I'd
00:29:17.000 sell the language as the leadoff hitter. But it is important to know the history. I doubt that you'll
00:29:22.720 be recognized by any indigenous peoples advocacy groups. Yeah. Answer this question. And I ask it
00:29:29.600 rhetorically. You obviously know I care. I've been covering it all in my program. But why should
00:29:33.080 anyone in America care about any of this?
00:29:35.140 So I think, firstly, the most important reason is just the basic fundamental principles of justice and
00:29:41.540 fairness. And it really is an...
00:29:43.280 Those are violated everywhere. We can't care about everywhere the principles of justice.
00:29:47.500 Yeah. So it is an injustice. But I think if the question is, what is sort of the American
00:29:52.660 interest perspective? I think, firstly, what Vish mentioned already is that America should know
00:29:58.700 that South Africa is not behind but ahead. And what's happening in South Africa today could very
00:30:05.160 well be the future of America if people in America don't learn from what's happening in South Africa.
00:30:10.880 There are also some practical reasons, more practical reasons, such as the fact that the
00:30:16.140 South African government is working very hard against American interest and Western interest
00:30:21.460 in the international arena through BRICS and so forth. Also, because the Afrikaners are a Western
00:30:26.440 community. We're a pro-American. We're a pro-Western nation that lives in South Africa that is being
00:30:31.340 persecuted for precisely that reason. And then also, I think there's also a strong American interest
00:30:36.440 angle in the fact that if South Africa collapses, it will certainly destabilize Africa. Because what's
00:30:41.980 happening at the moment, South Africa is a strong economy for now, and people are actually immigrating
00:30:46.780 south towards the south of Africa. And if that collapses, the immigration will go in the other
00:30:51.280 direction. And it will open the door for China and adversaries of the US to step in and strengthen its grip
00:30:57.200 on the African continent. But I would say, for me, the most important of that is we're a Western nation.
00:31:04.140 We're the last Western outpost on the African continent. And we're indigenous. We're not British
00:31:09.460 people living in South Africa. And we are friends of America. We're friends of Europe. We're friends
00:31:14.820 of the West. We are Westerners. And that's the reason why we are targeted. And what we also see
00:31:19.640 happening recently, for which the fact that I met the club at Budapest, in Budapest is an example of
00:31:25.660 this, that I'm very happy to see that in the Western world or the conservative movement, that people are
00:31:30.680 sort of finding each other and recognizing that even though we have unique problems and threats,
00:31:36.260 we are all Westerners. And we are being targeted because of that fact. And there's this pursuit
00:31:40.840 to destroy Western civilization. And we should support each other where that is under threat.
00:31:46.380 Well, I buy it. But I've heard a very similar argument expressed when I don't buy it, right? I mean,
00:31:52.680 that sounds a lot like something Vladimir Zelensky could have said. Like,
00:31:56.780 I am a Westerner. I am for Western civilization. You should care about me. We were here. Somebody
00:32:03.680 else started picking on us. Send your guns and your weapons. Are you buying the unique societal case
00:32:12.740 that Ernst made as unique to America's interests?
00:32:15.720 Yes. But that's what Ernst is saying is not what Zelensky is saying. He's not saying,
00:32:21.860 send me your weapons, send me your money, send me everything you got. In fact,
00:32:25.700 that they're going out of their way to build their own. They take it, though.
00:32:29.520 They take it. Of course, they take it, but they're not asking, right?
00:32:33.480 Ernst, would you take the HIMARS if we offered them? I'm guessing the answer is yes.
00:32:36.940 Well, we are actually a well-armed nation. What's the strongest weaponry you have?
00:32:41.720 Well, no, it's firearms. It's not. We don't have artillery and things like that.
00:32:46.600 Zelensky would never settle for that.
00:32:47.820 But the point being that actually the mentality that attracts me to the Afrikaner and their plight
00:32:56.100 is that they didn't wait for anyone to come save them, right? They're doing their best to take
00:33:02.500 matters into their own hands and address these problems head on, whether that's addressing them
00:33:08.080 directly or addressing them in a parallel way, creating their own systems, their own institutions.
00:33:13.020 That, I think, is very admirable, very Western, very American, quite frankly.
00:33:18.960 And so I think, obviously, there is this support where, you know, allowing refugees from South
00:33:26.820 Africa, white refugees from South Africa coming here, that allows to put some pressure on the
00:33:32.520 South African government, right? And those kinds of tactics are probably welcome.
00:33:37.020 Well, that was just a showcase.
00:33:38.200 That was just a showcase.
00:33:38.700 Right. But I think that that is more welcome than it's like, I don't think we're going to be
00:33:44.600 invading Pretoria anytime soon, you know?
00:33:47.840 Sounds like they've already been invaded, is kind of the problem.
00:33:51.340 Yeah, no, but you are asking for international recognition. And tell us what that looks like in
00:33:58.720 the most productive lens.
00:33:59.780 So, we have this philosophy, and it's sort of historically part of our culture, this slogan
00:34:04.880 that says, a nation saves itself. Or in Afrikaans, it would be, a folk rett omself.
00:34:10.340 Work in as much Afrikaner language from this point forward as you feel necessary.
00:34:14.860 And so, we don't want other countries to save us. We don't want America to, you know, take...
00:34:22.280 What do you want?
00:34:22.920 What we want is, the first thing is very easy. And it's recognition that our pursuit is a legitimate
00:34:29.460 pursuit.
00:34:30.920 That you aren't some radical, separatist, terrorist group that the South African government
00:34:36.300 is portraying you to be.
00:34:37.480 Exactly that. And also, I mean, we've been vilified for decades now. And that's why we are so grateful
00:34:43.640 for the remarks by President Trump. And work that, like you're doing, and what the club is doing,
00:34:48.340 the Young Republicans Club, is recognizing that there's something worth talking about.
00:34:52.680 Because for decades, we were, you know, we were the apartheid guys. And, you know, we're just sort
00:34:56.940 of two degrees away from Nazis. And so, we want recognition that what we are working for is
00:35:02.960 legitimate. And I also think, with the tariffs and the interest that the President has in South
00:35:08.200 Africa, I really think the United States could, through very little effort, contribute to a more
00:35:13.980 sustainable situation in South Africa.
00:35:16.420 Anytime someone says contribute to a more sustainable situation, our wallets get lighter. So, tell us,
00:35:21.960 be as granular as you feel is necessary. But tell us what the heck that means.
00:35:26.340 Okay. So, you mean what would more sustainable look like?
00:35:29.920 Well, that was just like, I didn't understand. That's like corporatist talk.
00:35:33.560 Okay. Let's make it very practical. So, in terms of the problem in South Africa that we need to get
00:35:38.200 to is we need to get a more decentralized political system. That's the goal that we want to achieve.
00:35:43.780 And the way we see that happening is it's a very big country. It's a very diverse country.
00:35:47.340 And the different nations that live there should be able to govern themselves.
00:35:51.160 So, regional autonomy is, in two words, what you see as the end use here.
00:35:58.480 It could be regional autonomy, yes. There are other forms of self-governance, whether it's a
00:36:02.540 federation, whether it's cultural autonomy like they have in countries like Estonia and Finland and
00:36:08.780 so forth.
00:36:09.060 And what do you think would be the South African government's strongest argument in response to
00:36:15.120 federalizing the system and decentralizing?
00:36:17.520 They would say, I think in terms of international law, they would frame it as they have territorial
00:36:22.460 autonomy over South Africa and they decide. They would then argue that South Africa is a democracy
00:36:27.760 and they are the people. The state represents the people and what they decide is what the people want.
00:36:33.720 Those would all be true arguments.
00:36:36.400 Well, except for what is not considered is South Africa is very far from homogenous.
00:36:40.940 It's something that's the equivalent of saying that what the European Union decides is what the
00:36:45.420 Hungarians want because South Africa is big and diverse and it's inhabitable.
00:36:49.760 Or it's like saying what the country wants in representing Donald Trump might not necessarily be what
00:36:57.480 some components of the Chaz want in Seattle.
00:37:01.560 Well, you know, that's interesting that you say regional autonomy is kind of what's the desired
00:37:06.440 end goal here. My understanding, South Africa being a very interesting country is, doesn't it have
00:37:12.160 three capitals that was meant to kind of give it this regional autonomous sort of structure to its
00:37:19.740 government? And if that's the case, how did it become centralized if in its original outlay,
00:37:25.680 it's literally got three capitals for three different regions?
00:37:28.200 Yeah. So the three capitals are the seats of the executive branch, which is Pretoria,
00:37:33.380 the legislative branch, which is Cape Town and the judicial branch, which is Plumfontein with the free
00:37:38.880 state. Theoretically, you could read the South African constitution as providing for a decentralized
00:37:44.180 system. But and that is one of the catches. And again, one of the important lessons for America and for
00:37:50.140 the rest of the world is that especially when you deal with a country that is as diverse as South Africa,
00:37:54.740 people have completely different outlooks on matters of constitutionalism and how to interpret
00:37:59.960 very basic phrases in the South African constitution. So when the constitution says
00:38:04.960 the government can expropriate your property when it's in public interest, someone has to interpret
00:38:10.320 that and say, when is it in public interest for the government to do that? And the classical Western
00:38:16.480 line would be something like, you know, there's a highway to be built and there's a house in the middle.
00:38:20.780 They're not going to do this with a highway or there's a war and they need to build a military
00:38:24.020 base or something like that. But the South African line, because it's a it's a race,
00:38:28.040 nationalist, socialist government, their line would be it's not in public interest for white people to
00:38:32.980 earn property or to earn as much property as they do. And so in the name of public interest,
00:38:37.780 that's how we interpret the constitution. Therefore, we're going to do that.
00:38:42.320 Wow. Well, is there a compensation when people's property is taken away?
00:38:46.220 So to date, there has been. And it's an interesting fact, there was a process of land
00:38:52.600 claims in South Africa as a result of peoples or communities who've had land dispossessed from
00:38:58.500 them in the past. And that has been settled, like almost all of those cases have been settled already.
00:39:03.100 But what happened then was the vast majority and I mean, like more than 90 percent of the people
00:39:07.840 who filed such claims actually said they don't really want the land, they want money. So they would
00:39:12.860 prefer financial compensation. And the reason why that's a big deal is because those in power
00:39:17.720 in South Africa, they don't like that outcome because they want 80 percent of land to be owned
00:39:22.560 by by black people. But then the black people who are filing the land claims actually say,
00:39:27.040 actually, I don't want the land, I want the money. And so this new process, that's why they signed
00:39:31.620 this new expropriation bill, which says that they want the power to be able to take people's
00:39:36.260 stuff without compensation. Again, when it's in the public interest and they determine when it's public
00:39:41.840 interest. That is remarkable that actually that actually the compensation is what they've got
00:39:49.200 to get rid of to make sure there's an actual transmitting of the of the real property interest.
00:39:55.480 Well, because I mean, it's farmland too, right? What do you grow on it? Like, tell us a little
00:40:00.000 bit about the land itself. Like what? How should Americans think about this? South Africa, again,
00:40:04.560 it's very big and also sort of from a climate perspective. So South Africa is big on wheat,
00:40:13.520 you know, corn is big on where I grew up as a more subtropical area where people farm with bananas
00:40:18.600 and avocados and it's and there's cattle. So there's farming in everything in South Africa
00:40:25.520 and it's all over the country.
00:40:26.600 I'm so excited when we get our Meriwether Farms shipments and you get a beautiful piece of ribeye.
00:40:32.680 Look, look at that marbling. Now I take it out of the package, let it get down to room temperature.
00:40:37.840 All I've got on here is a little salt, a little pepper, and then a little avocado oil.
00:40:42.080 And then I've had my pan preheating with a little oil.
00:40:44.820 Head to meriwetherfarms.com and enter promo code Matt G for 15% off your first order.
00:40:58.200 Well, that's what makes it so this situation, as you stated, because it's not just any land,
00:41:04.500 it's farmland, right? And if you have this land claims plot process in place and these people
00:41:10.060 come and say, yeah, I claimed that land, but I'm just claiming it so I could actually sell it off for
00:41:14.520 the cash that I get from it, right? And then who does that farmland go to at the end, right?
00:41:20.820 And it's not going back to the farmer. It's not going to the person who's making the clay.
00:41:26.440 Is it still productive? I wonder when they take the land, are they still growing weed and feeding people?
00:41:30.920 Actually, the South African government have said, according to their own statistics,
00:41:36.340 more than 90% of those farms fail. So that's their own program.
00:41:40.840 And then what happens is the commercial farms become subsistence farms.
00:41:45.060 And subsistence farms become squatter camps. And so even though, according to their own
00:41:49.340 statistics, more than 90% fail, the response-
00:41:52.780 Is that the goal, to turn productive, beautiful farms into squatter camps?
00:41:56.440 That's what it seems like. I think they don't care about that. But their response to that is,
00:42:01.200 actually, we should just try this policy a little bit harder. We should make it a bit more radical
00:42:05.360 and sort of double down on the policy that has resulted in this and be more aggressive.
00:42:10.000 And then we're going to reach the utopia someday. Just wait.
00:42:13.020 Well, you don't have to look that far to see where that went. I mean, Zimbabwe, or, you know,
00:42:18.000 as Rhodesia, as we say, we say Rhodesia, don't we?
00:42:22.000 Just like we say Judea.
00:42:24.020 That's right. So just look at Rhodesia. It was the breadbasket of Africa at its time.
00:42:31.920 And then as soon as Mugabe comes in and this revolution happens, it's now the hyperinflation
00:42:38.680 through the roof and the land is not productive. You don't even need to go that far to see where
00:42:43.580 that road takes you. And somehow these people that are running South Africa, they see it fit
00:42:48.920 to do it to themselves. So we've gone over the diagnosis of what's happening. I think Ernst has
00:42:53.840 laid out the trajectory. He has identified where you want to go, which is more of a federalist type
00:43:00.960 system, less centralized power. Maybe it's autonomous republics or semi-autonomous republics.
00:43:06.740 Let's spend some time now on the strategy to get there because you've pointed out you can't vote
00:43:11.360 your way to this outcome. So how are you going to get there?
00:43:15.360 So I need to re-emphasize that we need to get there ourselves. I'm not here in America to ask
00:43:21.900 America to make that happen or people in America.
00:43:23.920 We couldn't anyway. We couldn't beat goat herders in Afghanistan. So I wouldn't pick us, honestly.
00:43:30.340 So I think one of our biggest challenges currently is that as Afrikaners, we are spread out all over
00:43:37.120 the country. So we're sort of a minority everywhere, even though 2.7 million people are a lot of people.
00:43:41.800 But if you're spread out over a territory twice the size of Texas, it makes it quite difficult.
00:43:48.280 So we need to, and we are doing that, is sort of identify certain areas where we become a
00:43:53.380 majority, where we create some de facto realities just through self-governance. And so that is
00:44:01.880 something that we need to work on.
00:44:03.080 Yeah, I worked for the Somalis in Minnesota.
00:44:05.980 Basically.
00:44:06.740 Yeah, create your own ethnic blocks, essentially.
00:44:09.880 Yeah. I mean, well, then you get representation. You get to like kind of see some mayoral posts,
00:44:15.940 maybe. So you go full Minnesota Somali. Do you think there's an interest in Afrikaners to have
00:44:22.020 that type of concentration?
00:44:22.900 Yes. Yeah, it's partly happening more in the west of the country. So there's a lot of talk
00:44:30.100 recently about Western Cape independence, which is, you know, the area where Cape Town is
00:44:34.380 settled. It's sort of different than the rest of the country. And some surveys...
00:44:38.160 You guys are trying to not look like white people and you went to the beach? I mean, I don't
00:44:43.700 know. You picked the one place you were going to concentrate and it was the most beautiful
00:44:48.120 part of the country.
00:44:49.940 No, no. But then there's the Warania movement up north in the Northern Cape, which is sort
00:44:54.360 of a semi-desert area. It's 30% of the territory of the country, but it's 2% of the population
00:45:01.060 that live there. So it's sort of the west of the country is not nearly as inhabited as the
00:45:05.760 east. Sort of the more, the better climate is on the east. But there's this movement to
00:45:10.240 build sort of an autonomous community in the north, in the Northern Cape.
00:45:13.300 Yeah. Go like Arizona Mormon.
00:45:15.040 Yeah.
00:45:15.220 You know, they went out to Utah and Arizona because it was the last place the army wouldn't
00:45:19.040 chase them.
00:45:19.680 Yeah.
00:45:20.260 And then they concentrated power and now they basically run...
00:45:23.580 It's comparable to Utah.
00:45:24.220 Yeah.
00:45:24.540 Yeah.
00:45:25.160 Okay. So there's the, yeah, there's the Utah strategy.
00:45:27.720 Wow.
00:45:28.200 And, and what do you think the timeline is, Ernst, for trying to pull together people for
00:45:32.520 that kind of vision?
00:45:33.180 We need to do that quicker. But what I should stress that when we talk about something like
00:45:38.700 this, we cannot say that therefore it's acceptable for the government to be doing what it is doing
00:45:44.300 currently. So we need to sort of fight this on two levels. We need to fight these very destructive
00:45:48.700 policies that are applicable everywhere in the country. And I think America can, can do
00:45:53.020 a lot in helping with that. So for example, with the tariffs to say that there are certain
00:45:57.520 preconditions that should be, should be set to trade agreements with the South African
00:46:00.680 government, such as that property rights have to be protected, that the race laws should
00:46:05.140 be done away with.
00:46:05.820 Will that work? Like, will the elites that run the government ultimately choose the GDP
00:46:11.780 of South Africa over their racist impulses?
00:46:14.420 No, they wouldn't.
00:46:16.280 Lovely.
00:46:17.240 Yeah. But, but they are very desperate for money because it's sort of a house of cards
00:46:23.060 in South Africa at the moment with the social grant system. So if you add up the social grants
00:46:27.680 payouts with government salaries, with government debt, it's already more than 80% of government,
00:46:33.800 government expenditures. And that's just growing. So they can't, they can't fund this project
00:46:39.340 anymore. And so they're very desperate for money. And we saw that.
00:46:42.240 And they rely on U.S. trade to fill the coffees.
00:46:45.620 Especially U.S. trade.
00:46:46.600 So you think that's a real leverage point?
00:46:48.560 We're getting somewhere.
00:46:49.580 It is.
00:46:49.860 That's the real leverage point.
00:46:50.400 It is a real leverage point. Yes, yes.
00:46:51.720 Because Trump would totally do that.
00:46:54.000 Well, there are some other practical things that I think would be very symbolic, I think also
00:46:57.620 for America. South Africa is in a way DEI capital of the world. We call it BEE, what you
00:47:03.440 call DEI. BEE is Black Economic Empowerment, but it's not empowerment at all. It's just
00:47:09.840 socialist policies. And so one thing that the American government could do through this
00:47:14.820 process of ethically sourced goods, like, you know, not importing stuff that was built
00:47:20.140 through child labor and so forth, to say, but products that have been produced as a result
00:47:26.580 of this policy is not ethical. And so we're going to exempt companies that don't participate
00:47:31.800 in that process from tariffs. Something like that would have a massive impact in South
00:47:36.980 Africa. And I think it's a practical...
00:47:38.200 Well, it would certainly have a massive impact in any autonomous republic that then could
00:47:43.640 disclaim those activities.
00:47:45.660 Well, I mean, that's... You get into that territory, but I mean, what else can we do to help?
00:47:53.040 You know, I think that there is some point to that, like, oh, if this was made with DEI,
00:47:58.520 we're not importing it. Or if this wasn't made with DEI, it'll skip the tariff, right?
00:48:03.440 Something like that. I mean, aside from, like I said, invading Pretoria.
00:48:09.960 That is values-based trade, right?
00:48:11.960 Yes.
00:48:12.280 And there is a component of our trade paradigm that is getting to, like, more interest-based
00:48:17.060 and less values-based. But I think this, you can make a real argument that it's interest-based
00:48:23.260 trade policy as well, because of what you mentioned earlier about BRICS. I think that's a huge
00:48:29.400 component of all this. South Africa really moving toward Russia and China and an alternate
00:48:35.160 economic system. And if they're going to do that, I think there have to be some consequences.
00:48:40.920 I learned in politics early, if you treat your friends and enemies the same way, there's no
00:48:44.660 point in being your friend.
00:48:45.440 That's right. And President Trump already said he's coming after anybody who's talking
00:48:50.080 about BRICS, right? And so if that's the case, then this is kind of a prime example,
00:48:54.920 right? We don't want this, like you said, the last Western outpost in Africa to go down
00:49:02.020 because of all these bad actors now trying to destroy this beautiful community through racist
00:49:11.520 policy.
00:49:12.080 Other than the United States, what's the most important country to really understand this
00:49:17.940 and share a vision of more autonomized regional power in South Africa?
00:49:23.140 What do you mean? Do you mean other countries?
00:49:24.640 Like other countries outside, other global entity. Is it, you know, is it Russia? Is it China?
00:49:31.940 For South Africa?
00:49:32.980 Yeah. Well, who would you want? Like in your corner, you would obviously take the United
00:49:38.980 States as your number one draft pick.
00:49:40.400 Yeah, yeah.
00:49:40.780 Who would be number two?
00:49:41.420 Well, it would be the West.
00:49:43.820 Yeah, but you got to pick a country.
00:49:44.740 I think for symbolic reasons, the Dutch. I think it's very sad. And obviously, this is
00:49:53.180 not applicable to everyone, but everyone in the Netherlands, but it's very sad how the
00:49:56.860 Dutch have sort of abandoned the Africana people and the Dutch government in particular.
00:50:00.720 But we have very good friends in the Netherlands. And the fact that we dissent predominantly from
00:50:07.060 the Dutch, I think, I think the Dutch, I would, I would go as far as say that they have a
00:50:11.720 responsibility, but even if they don't want, if that's a too strong word, I think, I think
00:50:16.220 it would be very appropriate for the Dutch to take a stance at, at what is happening.
00:50:19.620 But you're not satisfied or pleased with the trajectory of that right now?
00:50:23.900 No, I think it's going to happen because of the, the winds of change happening in Europe
00:50:28.700 in general.
00:50:29.700 Yeah.
00:50:30.000 With countries becoming increasingly conservative. I think we're going to get, there's a lot
00:50:34.660 of support from countries like Hungary, which we never expected. Um, and some from countries
00:50:39.340 like England and so forth, but, but I think, I think it would be important for, for us,
00:50:43.820 for the Dutch to take a firmer stance about what's happening in South Africa.
00:50:47.700 Well, Ernst, it has been a thoroughly enjoyable and informative discussion. Vish, do you feel,
00:50:53.220 did you know all of this already? Or have you, have you learned a little along the way too?
00:50:56.680 I just, I can't wait to visit South Africa because I've been learning so much about it and I want
00:51:01.360 to see this place for myself. I hear it's absolutely beautiful.
00:51:03.520 Well, when we, when we can stand in solidarity with the Afrikaners, we're, uh, we're not sure
00:51:09.740 if it'd be the safest place for you these days, especially after this podcast. But again,
00:51:14.020 very much appreciate it. We, we wish you well, if folks want to follow this movement,
00:51:17.740 get involved, where do they go?
00:51:19.560 Yeah. So, so they can look us up on social media. I represent a, a think tank and an advocacy
00:51:24.680 group that is working that you mentioned. We're working towards a better political system.
00:51:28.300 It's called Lex Libertas, which is Latin for law and freedom. Um, and our website is
00:51:33.160 so indigenously African to go with the Latin, by the way, just quite the chef's case.
00:51:37.980 I don't hate it. Yeah. Um, and our website is org.za. So it's Lex Libertas.org.za and people
00:51:45.560 can follow us there and support us also through the website.
00:51:48.300 Really a great treatise you have out now that lays out this plan, reclaiming freedom published
00:51:54.180 this month by Lex Libertas. And, uh, we enjoyed going through it and really understanding what the
00:51:59.740 path forward is. And we hope it's a productive one. Thank you very much. It was a pleasure to
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