Steps and Changes Needed to Achieve Self-Determination in South Africa:

Background:

Lessons from America apply to us in South Africa just as they apply to every country in the world. Back to the basic principles of how things should work. Every citizen of our country must listen to the speech, take it in, and then we must work as a unit towards that point. If we, as all South Africans, can unite in our diversity, we can emerge as victors from the current destructive and devastating struggle.

 

The Speech:

Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was an influential American farmer, government official, and religious leader. He served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. Benson was also the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his death in 1994. This speech was delivered in October 1968.

Watch the entire video; the role of the government is critical to establishing a successful country.

Points of interest in the video:

  • Video – 5:30 The most important single function of the state is to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual citizens of the country – Thomas Paine explains that rights are not a gift from one to another, but all are equal to each other regardless of gender, race, class, or wealth. The freedoms and rights received by the citizens of the country are indeed a gift from GOD.

  • Video – 8:54 When citizens of a country realize that their rights are determined by politicians and bureaucrats, then the citizens no longer carry the proud heritage established and left to them by their ancestors, which is a GOD-given right.

  • Video – 10:00 The citizens of a country are elevated above the monster they themselves created (THE STATE); therefore, the citizens of the country should always be the master of the state and not the other way around.

  • Video – 11:15 Preamble to the US Constitution:
    1. We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

    2. Preamble to the South African Constitution: We, the people of South Africa, Recognize the injustices of our past; Honor those who suffered for justice and freedom in our land; Respect those who have worked to build and develop our country; And Believe that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity.

    3. Therefore, through our freely elected representatives, we adopt this Constitution as the supreme law of the Republic so as to Heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice, and fundamental human rights;

    4. Lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law;

    5. Improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person; and Build a united and democratic South Africa able to take its rightful place as a sovereign state in the family of nations.

 May God protect our people.

  • Video – 18:20 Citizens’ attitude towards the state can be simply expressed as: The sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property.

  • Video – 23:00 The majority of government work should be carried out at the local level. This is the only way self-determination and governance of communities can be made effective.

  • Video – 23:50 A person cannot be trusted to govern himself, how can he then be trusted to govern others? It is a principle that the lowest level that can undertake a task should do so. Article 235 in South Africa is the solution! The problem was created in 1996 with the centralization of municipalities in South Africa from a thousand small self-governed communities to 257 municipalities that have totally failed over the past 30 years.

  • Video – 26:00 What has destroyed the liberty and freedoms of every government under the sun is by centralizing and concentrating all powers into one body. The communities established the state. The state did not establish the communities.

  • Video – 27:00 There is one simple test: do I, as an individual, have the right to use force on my neighbor to accomplish my goals? If we permit the government to manufacture its own authority out of thin air to create self-proclaimed powers not delegated to it by the people, then the creature becomes the creator and becomes the master.

  • Video – 28:00 Where should we draw the line? The people support the government and not the government support the people! 28 million SASSA payments per month should be replaced with 280,000 entrepreneurs who provide jobs for 28 million citizens. No government should build houses for its people, but entrepreneurs and successful businesses should be supported and established so that every person in South Africa can proudly build and maintain their own house.

  • Video – 28:50 Betsy Ross pointed out 100 years ago (1868) – Once the government steps over this protective role by redistributing wealth and providing so-called benefits to some of its citizens, it becomes the means that is called legalized plunder.

  • Video – 32:00 No government in the history of the world has ever created wealth; people who work create wealth.

  • Video – 38:25 – to End: Economic security is not possible in any country without widespread abundance.
    Listen to all 8 points of warning for South Africa!

2024-12-11

Steps and Changes Needed to Achieve Self-Determination in South Africa:

Power must be taken out of the hands of incompetent and unqualified politicians and put back into the control of the communities. The politicians are in the service of the community! This is the first step towards South Africa’s salvation with the new Self-Determination Act that has been outstanding for 22 years.

Gabon’s new president is General Brice Oligui Nguema. He came into power on September 4, 2023, after a military coup that ousted the previous president, Ali Bongo Ondimba. Nguema was sworn in as the transitional head of state and has promised to organize free, transparent, and credible elections to return power to the people.

Listen to the video of Gabon’s new president, General Brice Oligui Nguema:

  • Video 0:40 – Communities must be empowered to generate their own power with generators during load shedding.

  • Video 1:20 – Just like in South Africa, it is the politicians who have been robbing the communities of our country for the past 30 years.

  • Video 3:20 – If you are a politician and are incompetent and do not know how to do your job, resign – South Africa urgently needs such a stance.

  • Video 5:00 – Politics has destroyed Africa and also South Africa. The only legal way to return power to the communities at the grassroots level is the national implementation of Article 235 of our Constitution.

  • Video 7:30 – You cannot provide people with water that is suitable for human consumption. Just like it is in South Africa.

  • Video 8:10 – How is Gabon going to solve our problem?

    1. Review politicians’ salaries and adjust them downwards accordingly.

    2. Politicians must resign if they are not happy.

    3. All benefits are limited to a fixed amount.

    4. No one in Gabon is paid more than the politicians. The same applies to South Africa.

    5. Appoint the military to enforce the salary scales.

    6. All transactions must be properly audited and reported to the president.

    7. Positive cash flow is required for Gabon by 2025. Interest on debt is currently RSA’s largest single expenditure of the state budget, 11% per year after interest.

    8. You politicians have 6 months to turn everything around.

    9. A complete rescue plan has been drawn up that must be implemented.

We need exactly the same in South Africa, and Article 235 in the Constitution makes such a change in our country possible without the politicians who have destroyed our country.

2025-02-06

Since 1994, the ANC has gradually destroyed South Africa’s committees over public funds.

Read about it here:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-03-17-zumas-wrecking-ball-the-parasitic-consumption-of-the-presidency-and-the-republic/

Just as it is happening in the USA, we in South Africa must look at where our tax money has gone over the last 30 years:

In the USA, the struggle to control public funds also lasted for 39 years. Some states managed well at the community level, but at the central level, it was also destroyed. South Africa, we must regain control of our tax money from the bottom up at all costs.