Amid dis- and malinformation, the majority of South Africa’s beautiful people have decided to improve and build and reimagine our broken country together. It is impossible to stay silent in the presence of a blatant lie. More so in the face of a set of blatant lies.
It is the end of another year. In my 52, I have never experienced anything like this one, mostly because of the prevalence of dis- and malinformation. Information presented in certain ways.
Propaganda. More lies. In 2025, they found a landing patch quite close to home.
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There was the Oval Office meeting adorned with the morbid sadness of white crosses depicting one kind of South African murder. There was the nauseating, inflammatory and divisive rhetoric of a white genocide in South Africa against the backdrop of several actual (and a tad more real) humanitarian disasters (remember Gaza, Sudan, Nigeria, Ukraine and others?). There was the embarrassment of a novel phenomenon: the Afrikaner refugee.
Who on God’s dear earth would have thought that THIS would be a thing in 2025? Of all the people on the planet living in discomfort and fear, this one group would become the chosen to enter the US of A. Unbelievable, yet true.
Then came the end of the year with its exams and graduations. My daughter pointed me to a well-known Afrikaner’s daughter being sworn in as a medical doctor after having qualified from the University of Pretoria’s department of health sciences. I was thankful for them and silently (amid my confusion and disbelief) wished her and her family well.
A few days later came a picture of the 2025 final-year MBChB class from said university. A beautiful group. A diverse group.
But with many white faces. What a lie that white kids can’t study medicine in South Africa.
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