Surviving South Africa: A Boer's Take on the South African Situation Pt. 2
Surviving South Africa: A Boer's Take on the South African Situation Pt. 2
What Americans Must Learn from the Collapse of the Rainbow Nation
South Africa has been in the news recently. It’s hard to log onto X without seeing another video of disaster striking South Africa. Its infrastructure is collapsing. Gangs of thugs are looting trucks, robbing pedestrians, or robbing the last few inhabited homes in Johannesburg. State-sanctioned farm attackers murder white families for no reason other than their wealth and skin color. It’s horrifying.
But, more than being horrifying, the disaster in Mandela’s “Rainbow Nation” is a warning for Americans. It is where DEI and grievance politics lead.1 Not with prosperity and kumbaya, but with farm murders and necklacing, Winnie Mandela’s favorite way of torturing political enemies to death.2 The Boers3 appear to be on the verge of extinction, and it is weaponized DEI and anarcho-tyranny that have put them in that position.
With that in mind, we thought it would be helpful to do another interview with k9_reaper, the community responder in South Africa who helps protect his community from the violent criminals turning his country into a living hell. Particularly, we interviewed him with a mind toward asking questions that an American might find helpful in considering as they prepare for the disaster headed America’s way: what must one know to survive South Africa? Hopefully, you find this information useful. Where references or notes were helpful, they have been added as footnotes rather than parentheticals to not impede the flow of the interview.
This is our second interview with k9_reaper. Check out the first interview with him here. Also read our articles on how the US supported genocide in Rhodesia and Southern Africa generally and our article on how South Africa is the “DEI nation” in the disastrous footsteps of which America is following.
What Americans Must Learn from the South African Disaster
1. So, as a bit of background before we jump into more specific aspects of what you do, could you describe the state of the crime situation in South Africa? Last time, we talked about the farm murders and the zama zamas,4 but are those an issue everywhere, or just in certain regions? And are the farm murders more like the terrorist attacks on Rhodesian farms during the Bush War,5 where organized units are attacking the farms and farmers for an ideological end, or are they just particularly brutal criminal attacks?
The zama zamas are a problem everywhere in the country. Just very east in terms of numbers they can muster at single points that they are working on. So you find that they are more active in parts of the western end on Johannesburg, parts of Johannesburg central, some parts of the eastern end, some parts of Johannesburg south. Sort of over in those areas.
Farm attacks now are very similar to what we were seeing in Rhodesia. Not every farm attack, obviously. But there are a lot of them that were planned and executed with military precision. They are using jammers and such things during farm attacks.6 And there are stories of farmers having thousands upon thousands of AK rounds fired through their windows and them having to fire back and try to respond. So, some of the attacks really are organized and carried out in a way that requires a much higher level of thinking than your average criminal is going to try to do.
2. How involved is the EFF,7 the group wearing red and chanting “Kill the Boer,”8 in that? Do they carry out those attacks? Or are they just providing ideological cover to the criminals committing the murders?
As far as I understand, there is no actual, concrete evidence of the EFF being involved in farm attacks. There is no actual concrete evidence. But they do partake in the song “kill the Boer, kill the farmer.” They do sing it and wear the song almost as a badge of honor. And there have been some houses where “Kill the Boer” was written on the wall in the blood of the dying people.9 There was also a farm report where the ones who were tortured said that the one attacker said that the EFF of Julius “sends their regards.”10
3. As a community responder, what do you do to fight back against that crime situation? It might sound like a dumb question, but that’s not really a role that exists in America, so it might help our American readers to hear your perspective on what you do and how you’re able to reduce crime.
So as community safety dudes, we are not the police. We do not pretend to be. We understand the law. But, at the same time, one has a willingness and capability to protect his country . . . and we do that within the confines of the law. So that is what we do. We assist the police on the ground. We assist . . . the traffic police here, on the ground. We assist everyone. Even the SANDF.11 If they need assistance in an operation, and they request it, then you join it, and you help.
So what it entails is a support role, and an active role of pursuing criminals and ensuring that they are held accountable for their various actions. Obviously, and I cannot emphasize this enough, it must be within the confines of the law. We are not vigilantes, just people who want a better country at the end of the day.
4. Regarding crime and community response, where do law enforcement and the justice system stand on what you do? In America, as we saw with Kyle Rittenhouse and others, the ruling regime is very much against any private citizens getting involved in trying to stem the crime wave. So do you have the same problem there? Or is the police force on the side of what you do? Or is it just too weak and ineffectual to do much about it?
In most cases, 90 percent of the time, law enforcement officers have got no problems with us assisting and helping as long as we follow … prescribed protocols that every group should follow to distinguish themselves away from vigilanteism. That includes things such as wearing any form of identification, such as a high visibility vest of the type you would see at a construction site, literally, to note yourself as a first responder. And it also includes taking and listening to their instructions, and then helping and assisting them actively. So most people do not mind.
They are very undermanned and undersupplied. They often don’t have vehicles, experience, or ammunition. Hell, some of them don’t have boots, for crying out loud. So, any bit of help that they can get, most units are very appreciative of, and they will work with you so long as you follow their instruction and you don’t step out of line.
5. In your role as a community responder, is there any particular gear or training that has given you a significant edge over the criminals? I would expect that if the farm murderers are using signal jammers and similar tech for their attacks, you would need, at the very least, things like a plate carrier with bulletproof plates, an individual first aid kit, radios, and night or thermal vision. Is that the case?
Yes, in terms of training, I did ten years of anti-poaching before entering the civilian market. So, on my side of things, I’ve been grateful and blessed enough to train with some of the best. Some of them in various parts of Africa, some of them came back down to South Africa. So yeah, I go every year…I redo my first aid course. I do the level three first aid course, which is the highest a civilian can do in this country without becoming an EMT. I go to the range to train with some of the best as well. I have also trained with ex-special forces members. I stay in touch with them.
So what I try to do is I try to stay in touch with people I have trained with. I try to at least go on another course with them at a minimum of every two years, but generally every year, I try to do something. It’s also, a lot of it is proper understanding stations from proper prior planning at the end of the day. Because planning correctly, alongside proper training, saves lives.
6. Similarly, what do you not have access to that would be helpful as a community responder? Drones? Night vision goggles? And are there restrictions on owning “paramilitary” type equipment like night vision and body armor as a civilian in South Africa?
At the top of that list of things that would be helpful but that we can’t really access are drones. The laws pertaining to the use of them are highly restrictive. As far as I understand, you need sort of a pilot’s license to get approval to get one and use it. Basically, as far as I understand, and I could be wrong, you can’t fly within 50 meters of roads, built-up areas, or people and crowds.12
So drone usage, in terms of pursuing suspects, would be incredible. South Africa, the way it is built, you have all these cities built up, and then surrounding them, you have all this land, of plots and farms. So when they disappear, they disappear into the bush, and then they lie down, or whatever.
So one of the other things that would be really handy for us would be a quality, decent thermal camera. If we could get our hands on something like that, then that would be an absolute game-changer in terms of what we’re trying to do.
7. Moving back to the situation more generally, are there any signs of things getting better for the Boers? Or is the situation continuing to degrade? And that can be from whatever angle or fusion of angles you think is most appropriate - security, economy, politically, etc.
The Boers, in general, some of them are doing really well for themselves. You’ll see that they have various institutions, universities, all these different things that they are currently working towards their greater future as a whole. They’ve obviously got Orania,13 they’ve got Sol-Tech,14 which is an Afrikaans medium, university or trade school or whatever. And for the most part they’re doing relatively ok.
Obviously, farm attacks continue. They will never stop in South Africa. And the Boer, or the Afrikaner, will always be a group that is stigmatized in this country by some people, just because of previous events in this country, such as apartheid.
But I think that the situation in terms of focus on skin color, in terms of being a Boer or Afrikaner and being associated as white, it is degrading in that regard. Because there are individuals who are actively wanting to target Boers. So the situation in terms of that will degrade, yeah.
8. Orania appears, at least to an outsider, to be successful as a way for Boers to get out of a failing, dangerous society. First, is that impression accurate? Second, is there any prospect of there being more Oranias or something similar to give a much larger number of Boers a way to escape the disaster?
Orania . . . I wouldn’t necessarily put it down as a way for Boers to escape a dying society and dangerous society. Orania is more of a cultural creation by a bunch of dedicated individuals who had enough of where South Africa was heading, and they decided to focus on their own sustainable, happy future amongst their own people.
I don’t see Afrikaners and Boers flooding into Orania any time soon to escape what’s happening in South Africa, and I don’t see there ever being other versions of Orania popping up. As far as I understand it, Orania has a certain history with regard to how they formed. You’ll have to look it up, but from what I understand, they pretty much created it as a business or a trust, or whatever, and pried it out of government hands for an indefinite period.15
9. Relatedly, do you think Cape Independence16 is an achievable objective? Or is it too unlikely to occur to be worth pursuing?
Cape Independence, on paper, looks amazing. Then it’s also important to understand, in terms of full Cape Independence, as much as it would be amazing to take the Western Cape and let it do its own thing, it won’t happen.
And even if it would happen, the government would obviously re-invade it with their own troops, the individuals inside who side with the government would constantly riot, and those outside the Cape would flood in and cause chaos.
So, no, I don’t see Cape Independence as ever actually happening, though it would be nice, obviously.
10. As a young, white male in South Africa, how do you navigate the DEI regime? We think we have it bad here, in America, but researching an article I wrote a few weeks ago on South Africa’s DEI regime,17 it sounds like y’all have it far worse. So how do you navigate that? Is there a way to “exit” it by building your own business or working for like-minded people, or is it just too stifling and omnipresent to escape?
As every South African, we just look at it and we ignore it. What can you actually do as a citizen, on your own? South Africans never stand together, they never will, so you’ll never get anything done apart from institutions that are fighting for you and trying to help you be better off.
So, yes, it is bad. We’ve got the BEE, which is Black Economic Empowerment,18 and I believe that there is something like a hundred and fifty or a hundred and forty-odd race-based laws that are aimed at black economic empowerment. So, it is what it is, and you just continue on.
11. Is there anything else you think it is important for Americans to understand as they look at what has happened to South Africa over the past few decades and think that something similar could be coming to their country?
Americans, they need to watch South Africa and see what is happening. Because it is definitely, definitely coming to their side of the world one of these days. That said, America is still an absolute powerhouse when it comes to financial income and things like that. And they’ve still got a ton of people paying taxes, whereas in South Africa, we’ve got almost no taxpayers left,19 and we’re just staring into the abyss at this stage.
So, for the Americans, I would honestly say that if they want to ride out the storm, they have to form their own little communities now, of their own people who want to succeed and thrive in a world gone crazy. But then, you know, for them, it’ll be a case of “Oh, you’re talking about a militia,” and you get labeled a nutcase even though, no, that’s not what you’re talking about. So how they work around that will depend on their local environment and situation.
As I say, if they want to right out the storm, they need to start working together toward the common goal of self-sustainability.
The Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the Dutch settlers who arrived in South Africa in the 17th century. They were a group of people who spoke Afrikaans, which is a language that evolved from Dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boers
The EFF is an anti-white, Marxist-Leninist political party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters#:~:text=The%20Economic%20Freedom%20Fighters%20(EFF,and%20his%20allies%2C%20in%202013.
Note: Julius Malema is the leader of the EFF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Malema
The SANDF is the post-apartheid South African military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_National_Defence_Force
South African drone laws are indeed as strict as K9 describes: https://www.starliteaviation.com/drones/drone-regulations-in-south-africa/#:~:text=You%20may%20not%20fly%20a,within%20the%20line%20of%20sight.
https://sol-tech.co.za/
Orania is indeed organized as a corporate entity. Its existence was also secured as part of South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution, which allows for the seld-determination of ethnic groups, and negotiations with the early post-apartheid government secured its future.