Robert Mugabe Would Not Have Been Humiliated Like Cyril Ramaphosa
When Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, said “Accuse the other of that which you are guilty,” he was laying out the formula for how to lie, distract, and confuse with impunity. That strategy is not history, it’s in full use today, and South Africa has just walked into the middle of it.
Right now, Israel is carrying out a brutal, open ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza. It is a textbook genocide. Entire families are being wiped out, homes demolished, hospitals bombed, and essential aid blocked. The world sees it. The global South sees it. But when this truth begins to reach wider audiences, the powerful West needs a distraction. So, once again, they dust off their Goebbels playbook: turn the accuser into the accused.
This time, they chose South Africa. After South Africa dared to take Israel to the International Court of Justice for genocide, the full weight of Western propaganda kicked in. Suddenly, false claims of “white genocide” in South Africa resurfaced. Elon Musk, an apartheid beneficiary and a key mouthpiece of Western elite interests, went online to push this lie once again, framing white South Africans as victims of “racial violence,” when no such campaign exists. Afriforum, a white nationalist pressure group, cheered him on. The Democratic Alliance (DA) quietly backed this narrative, too. All of them have one purpose: to undermine Black-led land reform in South Africa, to protect white economic dominance, and to distract the world from Israel’s crimes in Palestine.
When colonisers stole land with bullets, they called it “civilisation.” When Africans demand their land back through legal channels, suddenly it becomes “racism” or even “genocide.” This double standard is not just hypocritical; it’s weaponised racism. Zimbabwe experienced the same backlash. The moment Mugabe reclaimed land from white settlers, the West punished the whole nation with sanctions so severe that they crippled the economy for decades. The West didn’t care about “democracy” or “human rights”, they cared that white people lost power over African land.
Fast forward to today. Ibrahim Traoré in Burkina Faso is refusing this neocolonial playbook. He declined Trump’s invitation and is busy tearing down the colonial structures left in place after independence. He is nationalizing resources, rejecting French control, and speaking the language of African self-rule. Meanwhile, South Africa, under Ramaphosa, appears to be doing the opposite.
Ramaphosa recently appeared at the White House with Donald Trump. What happened there was not diplomacy, it was a public humiliation. Trump, a man known for lying and manipulating, held up out-of-context photos and claimed there was a genocide against white farmers. Instead of defending his country, Ramaphosa stood silent. He failed to speak on Marikana, where striking Black miners were gunned down under his watch. He failed to reject the lie of white genocide. He disowned struggle songs that are a part of South Africa’s liberation history just to please a Western audience.
Why? Because Ramaphosa is not leading a free country. He is protecting the interests of white capital that still controls South Africa’s economy. He is a project of the Oppenheimer family, one of the most powerful white capitalist dynasties in Africa. His entire political career has been tied to their wealth and agenda. When pushed, he defends their stake in the country, not the people’s right to dignity, land, or justice.
Meanwhile, Julius Malema and the EFF are rising in popularity because they speak the truth many are too afraid to say. Malema has consistently pushed for land expropriation without compensation, a policy rooted in real justice, not revenge. The global North, with its banks and sanctions, wants to block this. But Malema refuses to compromise. That is why the media calls him “radical”, not because he is extreme, but because he threatens the colonial status quo.
Once again, the EFF has been vindicated. The closed-door meeting between Ramaphosa, Trump, and Johann Rupert was not just political optics, it exposed a deeper agenda. The narrative of “white genocide” is being used as a smokescreen to push Elon Musk’s Starlink project into South Africa under the guise of investment. But South Africans are not fools. The EFF has made it clear: Starlink will not operate on our soil unless 30% ownership is ceded to Black South Africans under a real Black Economic Empowerment framework. We will not sit idle while foreign billionaires extract profits from our land, using fake crises and state capture to bypass national interests.
It gets worse. Rupert is now openly pushing Ronald Lamola as his presidential puppet, a clear indication that the ANC is no longer a liberation movement but a captured vessel for white monopoly capital. Ramaphosa’s behavior on the international stage only confirms this. His silence before Trump, his failure to defend Palestine with real conviction, and his refusal to confront the false genocide narrative are symptoms of a deeper disease: a political class that has lost its pride and purpose.
The so-called promise of Starlink is another Trojan horse. South Africans are being misled into thinking it will create jobs and bridge the digital divide, but the truth is, Starlink brings no real infrastructure, no sustainable employment, and no ownership. It is a closed system operated from the United States, with all hardware imported, data routed through foreign servers, and profits extracted offshore. Unlike broadband rollouts that require local technicians, engineers, and investment in national infrastructure, Starlink creates dependency and surveillance risks. It is not a developmental tool, it is a high-tech form of recolonisation. Letting Starlink operate unchecked is handing over our skies, data, and digital future to Elon Musk and U.S. military interests. Africans must reject this digital land grab just as fiercely as we fought against physical colonisation.
The whole situation highlights a bigger problem. Africa remains trapped in systems created to serve foreign interests. We are told democracy means freedom, but our elections often produce leaders more loyal to Western donors than to their own people. That is not freedom, that is occupation in disguise. Elections become popularity contests, not vehicles for real liberation. Traoré is showing that Africa needs bold leadership, not polished politicians.
Elon Musk, who fled South Africa during the transition from apartheid, is now using his platform to slander the country. Alongside his fellow “PayPal Mafia” South Africans like Peter Thiel, they serve the agenda of the same Western elite that profited from apartheid. They are not neutral actors. Their goal is to protect white wealth, not to defend democracy or human rights.
The idea that South Africa is committing genocide against white people is absurd. It is a lie designed to kill two birds with one stone: undermine South Africa’s land reform, and distract from Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Ramaphosa, by failing to push back, gave that lie oxygen.
Africa must stop playing defense on these issues. We must stop apologising for wanting land, dignity, and self-determination. If we don’t reclaim the narrative, the West will always define us, either as corrupt dictators or dangerous radicals. The only way out is full decolonisation, not just of land, but of our minds, economies, and politics.
This is not just about Ramaphosa. It’s about the direction Africa chooses. Do we keep playing the game designed by those who stole our land and exploited our people, or do we start writing our own rules, like Traoré is doing? Until we do, we will keep being accused of the crimes our enemies are committing. Goebbels taught them well.
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