Cry, the Beloved Country

Investigative essay by Justine Isernhinke, Fellow and Head of Geopolitics and UAP Research, The Malone Institute

“Plaasmoorde” means farm murders in Afrikaans (the language spoken by Dutch descendants who arrived in southern Africa in the 1600s). Each white cross in the photo above represents a farmer who was murdered in his home by black attackers. Sometimes a wife was raped. A two-year old child slaughtered. A grandmother tortured or a grandfather bludgeoned to death. There are thousands of crosses. It is a quiet genocide (over 3,000 farmers and their family members have been killed) seldom making the news, carried out by the tacit approval of certain politicians and powerbrokers under the ANC-ruled country (African National Congress), now the majority party under the Government of National Unity (GNU) since 2024.

I was in South Africa when Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025 and that day largely passed unnoticed in South Africa.

Seemingly out of the blue, Trump fired off a Truth Social Post and has come out against this annihilation of the South African farmer in a way no other Western leader has had the guts to do. With Elon Musk at his side, and surrounded by several other South African friends and businessmen like Gary Player the famous South African golfer, Trump has thrown the gauntlet down against the ruling regime in South Africa and decided to withhold foreign aid. In short order Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the US will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa. Then this week, South Africa’’s ambassador to the US insinuated that Trump was a white supremacist. Rubio promptly threw the ambassador out of the USA.



How did we get to this situation? A country literally at the bottom of Africa has made its way to the bullseye of Trump’s ire.

What follows is an attempt to answer that question.

The Lies of “Ubuntu” and the Rainbow Nation

I am South African but have lived in the US since 2012. I call the United States my home, but my heart will always be in South Africa (“SA”). The similarities and issues that I saw unfolding in SA are eerily similar to those in recent history in the US, especially since Obama took over: race and identity becoming a rallying cry/excuse/reason for everything the government wanted to do or refused to do; economic growth taking a backseat to politics; health care deteriorating when expanded beyond those funding it; open borders allowing in millions of illegal migrants; the police neutered; the escalation of violent crime; the tearing down of historic statues. The list goes on.

Mirror images of each other in some ways - none of the good ways, mind you. But watching how my country has fallen into rack and ruin made me become far more conservative in American politics as the years rolled by.

In 1994, Apartheid ended when a new Constitution was created and elections were held in which all South Africans over the age of 18 could vote. Self-governing black homelands were dismantled, race-based laws scrapped and the “Rainbow Nation” was formed. A far more entertaining way to get a sense of the country at the time is to watch Invictus, where Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela.


Mandela handing over the Webb Ellis Cup to Springboks Captain Francois Pienaar after the Springboks won the World Cup Rugby in 1995. ©Getty Images

The flag was changed, the anthem of the country was modified. Mandela advocated for forgiveness. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was created. Foreign investment flooded the country. 1994 and the few years thereafter heralded hope, freedom for all, human rights and the rule of law. A new court was created called the Constitutional Court, which would have the same power as the US Supreme Court and hold the Executive and Legislative Branches of Government in check.

Mandela, the head of the ANC party, came into power promising jobs, housing, clean water and electricity to poor black communities living in squatter camps dotted around the country. Both black and white South Africans wanted these promises to be kept. We all wanted every man, woman and child to be better off. We voted the ANC into power with an overwhelming majority (over 60%) and gave it the opportunity to deliver basic services to its people and improve housing, development and generate economic growth. There was much excitement in the air. Everyone had hope in their heart. A new dawn in this country.

So high was the expectation then that the disappointment that followed the failure of the ANC to do any of that - and in fact worsen what services that were being delivered or destroy them entirely - has left a deep bitterness and anger in the majority of South Africans.

How did the Mandela and the ANC fail? And fail they did pretty much from the start.

Greed, corruption, abuse of power. In other words, a kleptocracy. And not just any kind of kleptocracy, but one incubated in the worst of all ideologies – communism.

The basic impulse of the ANC has always been to loot. Its animating ideology, the National Democratic Revolution, is one of "kleptocracism" - in essence the belief that power brings with it an entitlement to plunder. (Many have also called the ANC-led Government a kakistocracy, a government ruled by the least suitable, able or experienced people, but that omits the criminality from their rule, which is as relevant as their incompetence.)

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It's from a 1978 movie, but it is the most powerful, prophetic speech on what faced Africa I've ever heard.



Sadly, it came true.

Thanks, you fucking communists.

I watched a travel vlog of a cute little white girl vacationing in SA recently . Beautiful country but no place for a little white girl to run around unattended .

I just remember reading about the power grid in S Africa over the last 20 years. According to that article, everything went downhill and backwards. The electric grid is much less reliable, black and brownouts common.

They mentioned corruption, nepotism, and theft of critical components. Hiring qualified individuals wasn’t always at the forefront.

There's two CPD Officers, Brothers (read: Brothers, not "Brothas") from South Africa. Both are pretty solid people and excellent Range Instructors.
I was in SA back in 1991-1992, and things were "changing" back then, and have always been interested in the ebbs and flows of that region. Looking at what happened in Rhodesia / Angola way back when. The absolute horror stories these two told me about their family's decision to get out of there, and the things that happened before they left sounded like something out of a movie.

IIRC, "Executive Outcomes" was one of the first Global Private Military Companies, getting their start in Rhodesia / Angola.

I know who you are talking about. You are correct, both are solid dudes. The one that runs the training company said to me that America was his last stop. "If America falls, there is nowhere else to go". They are both hardcore conservatives and after seeing what happened in SA you can understand. He was worried that the same thing that happened to SA was going to happen here if Harris/Walz had won.

^^^ Yup, that's them!

Have a beer or two with them and ask them about their exit from SA. Bobbytraping their equeptment, the shoot-outs... Scary shit!
Rather oddball gun collection too!

A friend of mine loaned me a book about corruption in the SA government and the theft of white owned farms , businesses , etc. It was a hard read and I couldn't finish it . I got the jest of it . It's a totally fucked up place and it has plenty of enablers .

On my first trip to Africa we spent some time near Johannesburg in the suburb of Sanderton. In the few days we were there we quickly found out how bad things really were in Joburg.

Joburg was the financial capitol for the entire continent until the ANC came to power then slowly many of the large multi story building in downtown were taken over by “people” and turned into a shithole. Most of the financial institution moved to the suburb of Sanderton behind solid walls with razor wire on top. It was very depressing to see plaques of multi national companies poking out above razor wire.

While we were there we hired a guide (through our hotel) to show us around and the first thing he said was under no circumstances should the windows be rolled down. He then said he was going to show us the Good, Bad and Ugly side of Joburg.

The good side was where the wealthy lived, once again behind 15 foot wall with razor wire on top. At the driveway entrance to these homes were guard shacks with notices that deadly force was authorized should you be stupid enough to try to gain entrance. This neighborhood was where Nelson Mandela lived after he became president until his death.

The bad were neighborhoods that seemed to go on for miles with modest houses with tin shacks in the back yards. Apparently the government in an attempt to improve the “middle class” built these people clean modest homes with the understanding that they would remove their tin shanties but that’s not what happened. The owners of the properties still lived in the tin shacks and rented out their homes and made enough that none of them had to work…so an entire class of people have no idea of a true work ethic.

The ugly was downtown Joburg where thousands of people were milling about and graffiti and filth were everywhere. Goats stood on piles of garbage trying to find scraps of food and the stench was indescribable. Our driver, who was a local, said he never comes down here after dark as it’s too dangerous…

It’s very sad…

Sad to see what's happened there in the last few decades.
SA was once a reasonably well run country on a continent that had all the resources to be prosperous and self-sufficient. That just required good governance and it could have spread to improve the lives of about a billion and a half people.
Instead white guilt was used, not to improve the place, but to run off the people that kept it's operation above all the nearby countries.

Read Part 2 here where Somewhat overtly, yet with perhaps covert approval from the ANC, the leader of an opposition party, the EFF (Economic Freedom Front), Joseph Malema started shouting “Kill the Boer” (Boer meaning Farmer, specifically Afrikaans-speaking farmers) at public rallies - in stadiums of 100,000 people no less with Graphic Detail.


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In reading the article, I am struck by the contrast between the people who believed they needed the government to "make their lives better" versus the people in the video below who moved to a distant part of the country and created their own town, building it from nothing and not relying on the government. It is the same mindset that built South Africa, except this time they are refusing to use black labor, lest they be accused of having others build for them.

That was fascinating. Thanks for posting it