Robert Hersov, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Murdoch ally, argues the ANC has destroyed South Africa through 30 years of kleptocratic rule, citing 140 race-based laws and "expropriation without compensation" as evidence of a regime boiling white citizens. He highlights catastrophic metrics like 40% unemployment, 1% growth, and bankrupt state enterprises like Eskom, blaming an "evil woke mind virus" for stagnation. Hersov urges Donald Trump to apply maximum US pressure via sanctions and terrorist listings against figures like Julius Malema to prevent total economic collapse, asserting that while the people remain South Africa's greatest asset, current policies threaten a socialist abyss. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, one of the beautiful things of coming to this conference is you meet people from all over the world.
Everyone is going through their own experience kind of personally and politically in their own countries.
South Africa suddenly has gotten on the American map a little bit in the last week or so.
But before we get to that, maybe if you could just give me a kind of one-minute bio on who you are, how you sort of got into public life, and then we can hit the issues.
So let's talk about the racist part, because obviously that's still unfortunately the word of the day.
It's a little hard, I think, from an American perspective for people to realize that a government could truly govern, I guess it's not that hard in some sense, but that could govern in an actual racist manner when it comes to who's getting what services and what land, etc., etc.
So when you saw over the last couple of years in America, wokeness infecting our systems, and suddenly we were focused on race, and we were putting it into, it was this very people who said we were systemically racist that were putting racism into the system in a systemic way, must have given you a little concern about the direction we're going, as much as that's now been rolled back.
Well, we've been infected in South Africa with the evil woke mind virus.
Way more than in America.
We've got it times two.
And there's no momentum in South Africa to reverse it.
In fact, it's quite the opposite.
So it's been like a miracle that Trump got elected and he's making these decisions to reverse this wokeness because, you know, South Africa needs a big wake-up call and it isn't going to come internally.
He needs to, and I'm very grateful he's focused on us, and I want to thank all the Americans for this, he needs to force the ANC government to reverse these racial laws.
Do you know that most African countries have Starlink?
Elon Musk's Starlink.
We don't because we have a law that every business in South Africa has to have 30% black ownership.
And Elon Musk said, I'm not handing over 30% because I have to.
So every piece of pressure America and Trump can put on South Africa, I think they need to do, but need to go way further than tariffs and cancelling AGOA agreements.
They need to focus on sanctions and please put...
All the bad guys, the leaders of the ANC EFF, which is very bad news, and MK parties, put them on the terrorist list, put them on the no-travel list, ban their bank accounts, put maximum pressure on South Africa, because China won't come to the rescue of the ANC. China is not going to pick a fight with America over South Africa.
Had it been bribed by Iran to file the case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, paid by Iran.
So, our ANC government has poked America in the eye for the last 15 years, voted against America on every issue in the United Nations, and it's payback time.