1. South Africa's implementation of uber-WOKE DEI policies in schools: the government signed a new education act into law which would allow sex education to children in schools at a young age and for the state to dictate language policies which would mainly affect Afrikaans schools - the state prefers English as the universal for of instruction even though the country has 11 official languages:
2. Shortly after that it signed the Expropriation Without Compensation act into law just after the leader returned with his agricultural minister from Davos ("You will own nothing and be happy?"). This act makes provision for the state to confiscate any property, not only land as widely reported, and give NIL (zero) compensation - which is unconstitutional:
3. Trump has taken an anti-globalist stance and has stated that South Africa is planning to push a globalist agenda at the G20 later in the year, which is why the USA would boycott it:
“South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Rubio railed on social media."
4. The EU has responded in defence of South Africa (and it's policies) stating that it fully supports it in the face of its fallout with Washington:
"The EU’s deputy ambassador to Pretoria, Pencho Garrido Ruiz, said the bloc and his host country shared a belief in solidarity, equality and sustainability — values that underpin South Africa’s agenda for its year-long G20 presidency."
So what seems to unfolding is a "mini cold war" between the EU and Trump in terms of being pro-globalist vs anti-globalist. South Africa is clearly in the pro-globalist camp, which then raises the question of why is it in BRICS? Or is the BRICS-group aligned with WEF policies as a whole? It seems many pundits claim BRICS is an antidote to globalism, but that's clearly not true for all its members - South Africa in particular.
There are several issues converging here:
1. South Africa's implementation of uber-WOKE DEI policies in schools: the government signed a new education act into law which would allow sex education to children in schools at a young age and for the state to dictate language policies which would mainly affect Afrikaans schools - the state prefers English as the universal for of instruction even though the country has 11 official languages:
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2024/12/24/bela-how-it-happened/
2. Shortly after that it signed the Expropriation Without Compensation act into law just after the leader returned with his agricultural minister from Davos ("You will own nothing and be happy?"). This act makes provision for the state to confiscate any property, not only land as widely reported, and give NIL (zero) compensation - which is unconstitutional:
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2025/02/13/challenging-pierre-de-voss-ewc-pseudo-jurisprudence-part-1/
3. Trump has taken an anti-globalist stance and has stated that South Africa is planning to push a globalist agenda at the G20 later in the year, which is why the USA would boycott it:
“South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Rubio railed on social media."
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-marco-rubio-skip-g20-donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-south-africa/
4. The EU has responded in defence of South Africa (and it's policies) stating that it fully supports it in the face of its fallout with Washington:
"The EU’s deputy ambassador to Pretoria, Pencho Garrido Ruiz, said the bloc and his host country shared a belief in solidarity, equality and sustainability — values that underpin South Africa’s agenda for its year-long G20 presidency."
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-marco-rubio-skip-g20-donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-south-africa/
So what seems to unfolding is a "mini cold war" between the EU and Trump in terms of being pro-globalist vs anti-globalist. South Africa is clearly in the pro-globalist camp, which then raises the question of why is it in BRICS? Or is the BRICS-group aligned with WEF policies as a whole? It seems many pundits claim BRICS is an antidote to globalism, but that's clearly not true for all its members - South Africa in particular.