Gérard Rudolf

I just returned from filming multiple documentaries in South Africa… I can assure you: no one in South Africa sleeps with their doors unlocked. That illusion of safety is reserved for the 1%—people like Cyril Ramaphosa and Johann Rupert—whose wealth is rooted in ANC corruption. Living in mansions protected by 24/7 armed security, motion detectors, cameras, electric fences, biometric gates, and private patrol units does not count as “sleeping with your door unlocked”. Meanwhile, the average South African installs burglar bars, panic buttons, razor wire, and sleeps with a gun next to the bed praying that they will live to see another day. You think people like @CyrilRamaphosa have to organize community protection groups on WhatsApp with his neighbors to stay safe? Decades of state looting & capture have gutted the energy grid, collapsed/corrupted law enforcement & the judicial system, destroyed the once thriving economy, and unleashed a crime wave so horrifying you’d think you were in a movie. The ultra rich aren’t safe—they’re just hiding in fortresses, while the rest of the population are left to survive in what can only be described as a war zone.