28/07/2025
🔴To Every Black South African: The Time Has Come to Let Go of the Chains You Now Place on Yourselves🔴
This is not an insult. This is not hatred. This is not “anti-black.” This is truth – direct, unfiltered, and long overdue.
You were handed the keys to your future in 1994. The system of apartheid, evil and unjust as it was, was broken. A new government, with global goodwill and enormous support, took over. You were the majority. You had the power. You had the numbers, the votes, the voices, the moral high ground. The world believed in you. We all hoped.
And yet, here we are – thirty years later – and the country is falling apart.
Not because of apartheid.
Not because of white people.
But because of what you’ve done with the freedom you were given.
Let’s stop pretending. The destruction of South Africa is not due to history anymore – it’s due to the choices of today.
🟥 You Can’t Move Forward if You Keep Looking Back
You still cry “apartheid” when schools are burned.
You still scream “colonialism” when power stations explode from neglect.
You still say “Jan van Riebeeck” when your councillors steal from your own people.
You still sing struggle songs as if you're fighting a ghost, when the real enemy is in the mirror.
You worship your ancestors. You call on the dead for guidance. You hold ceremonies, speak to spirits, ask the bones to show the way. But while you dance around the fire, your children go hungry. While you pour beer on graves, your water taps run dry. The world of the dead has become more important than the world of the living. You are stuck – spiritually, mentally, emotionally – in a cycle of looking backwards. You honour your ancestors, but you do not honour your children.
🟥 The Culture of Blame is a Poison
You’ve been taught to see yourself as a victim. Always. No matter what happens, it’s someone else’s fault.
A white farmer succeeds? It’s because of land theft.
A coloured person gets a job? It’s because they’re not “black enough.”
A black politician is caught stealing? It’s “racist targeting.”
No one is ever held accountable. You protect your own, not because they’re honest, but because they’re “one of us.” That’s not solidarity. That’s national su***de.
You call any criticism “racism,” even when it's your own people crying out for help. You scream “transformation” and “decolonisation” while your universities fall apart, your municipalities die, and your economy bleeds. The word “racism” is now a weapon – not of justice, but of silence. A shield used to protect corruption, failure, and laziness.
🟥 You Break Everything You Touch
When was the last time something was built? Truly built?
Look at your cities. Look at your roads. Your hospitals. Your schools.
You don’t build. You burn.
You don’t maintain. You loot.
You don’t lead. You parade.
You don’t improve. You destroy.
You don’t serve. You steal.
Everything is falling, because those who are supposed to hold it up are either clueless, corrupt, or both. Cadre deployment – placing loyal friends instead of competent workers – has infected every level of government. Every ministry, every department, every town is rotting from the inside out because jobs go to comrades, not capable citizens.
And those who do speak up – honest black South Africans who cry out for real change – are labelled as sellouts. “Coconuts.” “Colonised minds.” “Uncle Toms.”
So what do you have left? A government of thieves. A nation of silence. And a culture of destruction.
🟥 The Struggle Mentality Has Become a Crutch
You keep referencing “The Struggle.” The struggle for freedom. The struggle against apartheid. The pain of the past. Yes, it was real. Yes, it was horrific. But it’s over.
Yet, the ANC still speaks like it’s 1985. The EFF plays dress-up like it’s 1960. MK marches like ghosts from the bush war. Why? Because they have no vision for tomorrow, so they keep you chained to yesterday.
The struggle has become your identity. Not progress. Not responsibility. Not excellence. Just eternal victimhood.
You have turned the past into a sacred idol, and sacrificed the future at its feet.
🟥 There Is No Long-Term Thinking – Only Immediate Gain
Instead of building for your grandchildren, you steal for yourself today.
Instead of laying foundations, you dig holes.
Instead of planning decades ahead, you plan how to milk the system for five years.
The idea of legacy is gone. The idea of stewardship – gone. The idea of building something greater than yourself – vanished.
What matters now is “my tender,” “my bonus,” “my car,” “my benefit.” The nation can rot, as long as you get yours. This is not how great nations rise. This is how empires collapse.
🟥 Leadership Is Dead – Replaced by Elitism and Entitlement
Today’s black elite – the so-called “struggle royalty” – have no idea how to lead.
They demand loyalty, not excellence.
They punish brilliance and reward obedience.
They keep the poor angry, so they can stay powerful.
They speak of justice, while building mansions.
They promise land, while owning foreign bank accounts.
You are led by people who despise you. And you cheer for them.
Why? Because you’ve been taught that being black and powerful is enough. That it doesn’t matter what someone does, as long as they look like you.
That’s not unity. That’s blindness.
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🟥 And Yet… You Still Have a Choice
You can keep blaming the past. You can keep chanting slogans. You can keep crying racism every time the truth stings.
Or…
You can wake up.
You can rise.
You can say: “Enough.”
Enough of the thieves.
Enough of the liars.
Enough of the decay.
Enough of the ancestor-worship, victimhood, and destruction.
Your children are not born to be revolutionaries. They’re born to be builders.
They don’t need another liberation song. They need a future.
The time for blame is over.
The time for building has come.
But it starts with the courage to look inward – and change.
If you are ready, South Africa can rise.
But if you’re not – then it will fall, and the world will not weep. Because the truth will be clear:
You were free. And you chose to fail.
Petrus, number one activist
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