Ek werk hard, ek speel hard, en ek geniet elke oomblik. Love my wife and kids. Born and bred South African.
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And we all wonder why...
In 1994, millions of South Africans believed that political freedom would open the door to economic emancipation. More than three decades later, that second part of the promise remains largely unfulfilled. Unemployment is still above 30%. Youth unemployment sits close to 50%. South Africa ranks as the most unequal country in the world. The material conditions of the majority have not been fundamentally transformed. This gap between political rights and economic reality has created a dangerous vacuum, one that populism, anger, and scapegoating are now rushing to fill. I wrote this piece because the consequences of that broken promise are huge!
Read the full article below.
— Pieter Kriel
Funny how you guys do all these podcasts but don't have the right people to defend their stance. This is what stupid looks like.
ICYMI: Max Boqwana on #AfricanRenaissancePodcast
How the AfriForum & Solidarity Movement sought help from Trump to “resettle Afrikaners in a concentrated manner” in South Africa.
How the USA & Trump himself have been pursuing Affirmative Action & BEE in the USA for over a century. Yet seek to oppose it in South Africa.
Must Watch: youtu.be/hce-man1WNw?si=iXUJ…
I think you must start unpacking your own stupidity, and ask the questions your own people want answered, like, why after 32 years, has the Country not gone forward in any way. Why after 32 years, do we not have one SOE that works. Try that for unpacking.
This week, everyday at 15h00 we unpack US - South African Relations and the Question of Afrikaners.
-What do white South Africans want?
- Are they so scared of equality that they are willing to dismember South Africa to keep their racial privilege?
- Does AfriSol represent the hegemonic ideology in the white community?
- How far is Trump willing to go to protect & advance their racially exclusive interests?
- How can Trump advocate for Black Economic Empowerment in the US, but oppose it in South Africa?
- How can USA pursue Affirmative Action since late 18h00, but oppose it in SA?
Tune in everyday at 15h00 to hear as we unpack these questions and many more.
#AfricanRenaissancePodcast
Well said
Oh he sent me an email, I think I’ll respond.
So yes, actually you did do something wrong President Trump, let’s first start with your broken campaign promises.
You protected your pedophile rapists friends instead of women who were raped when they were just teenage girls and you STILL REFUSE to release the Epstein files.
You started an unprovoked war with Iran that the vast majority of Americans do NOT support. You killed hundreds of children at a school in Iran and innocent people and are responsible for 21 U.S. service members deaths and 865 wounded. Your stupid war that you claim you have won like 50 times has destroyed our bases in the Middle East and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment and weapons, while depleting our weapons and ammunitions.
You are supporting, funding, and aiding genocide in Gaza that has resulted in approximately 22,000 children murdered, thousands of children with amputations, and over 70,000 orphans. And your so called Board of “Peace” has done nothing to stop war and is planning to oversee the very profitable reconstruction and take over of Gaza. One can only guess who all will get those blood money contracts, the Epstein class and associates.
And let’s talk about the basics that every single US president is supposed to guarantee to its citizens. Affordable cost of living and affordable fuel in which you have 100% failed to deliver and actually driven inflation and irresponsibly driven the cost of gasoline and diesel to record high levels.
So did you do something wrong?
Yes in summary, YOU are the snake that you warned us all about in the poem you read over and over.
You never cared about putting America first or making America great again.
You are the deep state, the Epstein class, and America last.
And my mistake was supporting you in the first place.
Fuckup at it again...
The Boks just weren’t relevant in the 90s & 00s compared to the Wallabies. They Suzie’d the ‘95 final, but after the ‘96 series belting they were irrelevant. Australia was the BIG fish. The Bledisloe was the ultimate prize. Gregan, Larkham, Flatley, Rogers, Tuqiri, Sailor, Latham, superstars everywhere. When Rassie played for the Boks in this era they were wooden spooners!
Fuckup at it again...
Two of the great nations, forged together by Super Rugby, resume rugby’s most esteemed rivalry this weekend: the Bledisloe Cup.
Let’s not forget that the world number one Springboks, who have not lost yet in this cycle to any European nation, have suffered multiple defeats to Super Rugby nations, Australia and New Zealand and Argentina.
So which league is really the strongest?!
So what was your involvement, and what are you doing about it.
In South Africa, we are seeing a wave of white people denying their involvement in, or refusing to acknowledge, the reality of apartheid.
Matter of fact, the excuses are:
“I was young.”
“I didn’t know what was happening.”
“I didn’t understand the political climate at the time.”
“We never supported apartheid.”
But when you look at their lives today, the system still carries many of them financially.
So I have a simple question:
“We never supported apartheid.”
Then why did it exist?
How did it exist?
An 18-year-old schoolboy used a racial slur in 2012. He was charged, found guilty, dropped from Craven Week, given a ban, and required to complete a life-skills course. That process happened 14 years ago. There has been no repeat as a professional. He has since captained one of the most diverse franchises in the country.
Calling that “unaddressed” is dishonest. It was addressed. What you actually want is a second, permanent punishment — and for SARU to perform public atonement on demand whenever the clip is recirculated.
If the test for leadership is “has this person ever said something racist as a teenager,” apply it consistently. Government officials, party leaders, and public figures have repeated “Kill the Boer,” framed land and farm violence in racial terms, and treated entire communities as legitimate targets — not 14 years ago, but recently and repeatedly. That rhetoric is not a closed schoolboy disciplinary file. It is current, official, and largely unrebuked.
SARU’s job is to pick and manage a rugby team. They already ran the process that existed at the time. Demanding they reopen a 2012 school case every time a player is promoted, while ignoring far louder and more current racial incitement from people with actual power, is not a serious standard for “addressing racism.” It is selective outrage.
If the concern is current racism in South African rugby and society, start with the statements and policies that are happening now — not a punished teenage incident used as a political veto over a captaincy. Get over yourself.
Read it and weep — especially the moaners.
In practice:
• NZ and Aus have been the most active reformers. Many ideas later made global law (faster rucks, 50/22 kicks, fewer stoppages, SH protection, shot clocks) were first trialled in Super Rugby. They push more BIP and less set-piece time.
• SA, FR and ENG often defend traditional scrums and mauls, resisting “depowering.”
• IRE carries extra weight (WR HQ in Dublin; consistent high performer).
• ARG and ITA gained full 3-vote status as established HP nations.
Smaller unions can propose ideas and sit on committees but rarely swing big votes.
Major law changes since ~2011
Pace increased after 2020, mixing welfare and “fan-focused” goals.
Early 2010s – scrum and safety
• Scrum sequence changed to CBS to cut collapses and neck injuries.
• Tactical replacements to 8 (2014).
• High-tackle directives and concussion/HIA protocols grew.
Late 2010s – trials and welfare
• Earlier ELVs refined.
• Community/age-grade tackle-height trials began (esp. NZ).
2021 onward – speed and restarts
• Goal-line/try-line dropout replaced some 22m dropouts.
• Ongoing offside, breakdown and kicking tweaks.
2024 – “fan-focused” package (May approval, July effect)
• Offside players in front of a kicker must retreat (no automatic onside via 5m run/pass — “Dupont law”).
• No scrum option from a FK (tap or kick only).
• “Crocodile roll” banned for welfare.
2025 – global trials
• Conversions cut from 90s to 60s.
• 30s lineout formation limit (matches scrum timing).
• Greater SH protection at scrum, ruck and maul base.
• Play-on if uncontested lineout throw not straight.
• 20-min RC replacement trial in elite rugby (player off; replace after 20 min except serious foul play).
2026 – several trials made permanent
• Scrum “brake foot” becomes full law.
• Community tackle height permanent (unions choose waist or sternum base).
• 20-min RC replacement full elite law.
• TMO protocol and water-carrier limits formalised.
• Some in-goal restart scenarios aligned.
Other shifts: crackdowns on “escort” runners after kicks and ongoing Super Rugby Pacific trials that feed global talks.
The north-south dynamic
Southern nations (esp. NZ/Aus) want a faster, more open game with fewer resets. Northern powers plus SA prioritise physical set-piece identity. Shape of the Game meetings still show these camps.
The process is slower and more political than fans like — critics call the big unions an “oligarchy.” Welfare changes (tackle height, scrum safety, RC tweaks) have generally moved faster than entertainment-only ones.
In short, the 11 HP unions with three votes have shaped most of the last 15 years, led by NZ and Aus, with SA, FR, ENG and IRE as the other major voices that can block or reshape proposals. The rest of rugby participates but has less voting weight.
#RugbyScoop |
@WorldRugby’s expectation of players to be 100% perfect during games is probably the biggest issue.
Our game is riddled by unnecessary cards & penalties. The number of penalties in International Rugby is roughly the same number you’ll see in an u/14 game refereed by a teacher.
100% correct.
I think we're confusing depth with having an entirely different @Springboks team.
Our depth is having quality players ready to step in when injuries hit. And I genuinely believe we've got that in most positions.
But 13 changes against Australia? That's not proving we've got the best depth in the world.
That's asking a completely different team to do a job your best team struggles to do.
I'm proud of the depth we've built, but it's depth in positions, not necessarily a second team that can beat anyone.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I see it.
#Springboks #Rugby @WorldRugby @wallabies
They forget easily... he who laughs last. Please don't delete your account Ben.
11 man Wallabies beat the world champions. What a wild game of Rugby.
Next up. The Bledisloe 👀
#Wallabies #Springboks #Rugby
Oh Ben, Mate, you can’t drop “equality feels like oppression when you are used to privilege” and then pretend New Zealand rugby’s own history doesn’t exist.
NZ Rugby spent decades leaving Māori legends at home so the All Blacks could tour apartheid South Africa. George Nēpia and others were excluded in 1928, 1949 and 1960 because Pākehā administrators chose access to the Springboks over their own players. “No Māoris – No Tour” was a mass protest for a reason. That wasn’t some abstract theory. That was institutional choice.
You want to lecture South Africa about SuperSport feeds and home-town TMO angles? Fine. Officiating should be clean everywhere, including Perth. But don’t dress it up as some unique moral awakening while skating past the fact that New Zealand rugby once treated its own Māori players as inconvenient when privilege demanded it.
The All Blacks side of today is majority Māori and Pasifika. That didn’t happen because the old structures suddenly discovered fairness. It happened after the country was forced to confront what it had done. If “equality feels like oppression” is the line, apply it at home first.
Tom Wright’s try being reviewed is not colonial oppression. Leaving your best Māori players off the plane so you could keep playing the Boks under apartheid was. Different scale. Different history. Don’t mix them up just because the scoreboard in Perth stung.
The way Tom Wright’s intercept try was scrubbed off would have never happened to the Springboks in South Africa if they had scored.
The SuperSport TV director would have not fed the footage to the TMO. Delayed, wrong footage, anything to stop the review.
That happened all throughout the RGR series, but living in SuperSport’s curated world won’t help them in 2027.
Equality feels like oppression when you are used to privilege.