South African businessman Rob Hersov has a bold message for all South Africans: It’s time to take action!
In the first video on his new YouTube channel Rob Hersov – The Unvarnished Truth, Hersov issues a nearly nine-minute long message to South Africans, urging them to take action against the ANC government.
Hersov, who in the video confirms that he’s now on X, describes himself as an ‘Entrepreneur, Investor, Libertarian. Free Markets. Free Speech Activist. Speaks the Truth. Loves South Africa and Despises Woke and Leftist Ideology’ in his bio.
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‘Good morning ladies and gentlemen – or should I say good morning to the brave few who still have the backbone to think for themselves in a world drowning in a sea of mediocrity, corruption, and let’s be honest, utter stupidity.
‘You see, I have a few things to say about our beloved South Africa, and if you’re easily offended, well that’s too bad.
‘You’ve had 30 years to cry about it while the country burns.
‘Our South Africa is one of the wealthiest, most resource-rich nations in the world.
‘We sit on gold, platinum and diamonds.
‘We should be the Switzerland of Africa and yet, here we are, a bankrupt, crime-infested, socialist experiment gone horribly wrong.
‘Sound familiar?
‘Well, it should, because Argentina was in the same boat, a once great economy obliterated by government incompetence, rampant corruption and that irresistible siren song of socialism: Redistribute wealth, hand out freebies, punish the productive and celebrate the lazy.
‘And just like Argentina, South Africa has spent decades getting it all wrong – three decades primarily.
‘We’ve built nothing, fixed nothing and now the lights barely work.
‘And here’s the kicker, just like Argentina’s new President Javier Milei pointed out to the world, we did this to ourselves.
‘Now in Argentina, Milei came in a mere year and a bit ago and wiped out the deficit.
‘Inflation is dropping, they’re clawing back their economy from the abyss.
‘And here in South Africa? We’re still listening to Marxist relics in government who couldn’t run a spaza shop, let alone an economy, let alone a country.
‘We have the ANC, a bunch of corrupt, thieving, economy-destroying imbeciles whose only qualification is their ability to say ‘APARTHEID’ in every speech.
‘They’ve turned the country into a buffet of incompetence.
‘Load shedding, crime, unemployment: ‘Don’t worry!’
‘The ANC’s answer to everything is ‘more government’ and the worst part, they sell it to you under the warm, fuzzy, blanket of transformation, social justice and equity.
‘Sound familiar?
‘It’s the same nonsense Milei ripped apart at Davos when he called out the west’s obsession with wokeism.
‘The cancer that destroyed Argentina and is eating away at the west, is the same disease killing South Africa.
‘It’s called woke socialism and it comes in many forms.
‘Let’s just run through a few of them.
‘Radical feminism that tells women they’re perpetual victims while ignoring that most crime victims here in South Africa are men.
‘Climate lunacy that forces us to sit in the dark while we export coal to China.
‘Diversity and inclusion madness that replaces merit with quotas because God-forbid we hire competent people to run Transnet our rail service.
‘And race-based policies that make doing business here impossible because we’re too busy ticking transformation boxes instead of building an economy – and we’re massively overregulated.
‘Milei was right when he called out wokeism as a poison, a convenient excuse to expand the power of the state, regulate everything, kill productivity and punish those who actually create jobs and wealth.
‘The west has built a bureaucratic monster to enforce these ridiculous policies.
‘And here in South Africa we didn’t even need an external force to do this – we did it to ourselves!
‘Our ANC government’s entire business model is incompetence, wrapped in victimhood, enforced by race baiting populists.
‘And Argentina is not alone in watching mass immigration become an open wound.
‘Europe is being invaded by people who have no intention of integrating.
‘And here in South Africa we don’t even have a border anymore.
‘Millions flood into our country unchecked, overwhelming our hospitals, our schools and our cities and instead of enforcing immigration laws, the government celebrates it.
‘Ubuntu they say. Pan-Africanism.
‘It’s not Ubuntu, it’s economic suicide and when South Africans, black, white, coloured, Indian, different shapes and sizes, dare to complain that their jobs are being taken, that crime is spiraling, that services are collapsing under the weight, what does the ANC government say?
‘You’re xenophobic. Crime isn’t a problem in South Africa.
‘No crime is an industry. If you’re not being robbed, hijacked or murdered, are you even a South African?
‘And the police?
‘HA, what police?
‘Half of them are criminals, the other half – and I’m taking out the small minority doing a job – the other half are too busy taking bribes or sleeping in their cars.
‘And the ANC loves it because it keeps people too scared, too desperate and too dependent on their fake promises every election cycle.
‘And while criminals roam free, law-abiding business owners trying to protect themselves with firearms, are treated like the problem.
‘The ANC government would rather disarm citizens than deal with the real threat themselves.
‘While Argentina’s clawing its way out of the grave, Javier Milei has slashed government waste, embraced free markets and told the socialists to shove it.
‘South Africa should do the same, but we won’t because, here’s the truth.
‘Our ANC government doesn’t want the country to work.
‘If South Africa was functional, the ANC couldn’t steal anymore.
‘If Transnet was fixed, the ANC couldn’t award another BEEE contract to their cousins shell company.
‘If we had real leadership the whole of the ANC would be in jail.
‘So let’s be honest about our options.
‘ONE: wait for the ANC to fix itself. I mean that’s hilarious.
‘TWO: Vote them out. It’s possible, but it could take another 10 years and they’ve rigged the system.
‘THREE: Leave the country. Many people I know have, but very few can afford to.
‘FOUR: Build a parallel economy, private security, private electricity, private education, because the state has failed us and this is state proofing.
‘Or here is a radical thought, what if we fought back?
‘What if we stopped apologising for demanding competence?
‘What if we rejected every single ounce of woke socialist corrupt nonsense spewed at us?
‘What if we embraced meritocracy capitalism and the raw unfiltered truth?
‘Milei told the world to wake up.
‘Will South Africa?
‘Probably not, because let’s face it, we are the Titanic and the ANC is playing the violin while stealing from the lifeboats.
‘But to those of you still awake, still fighting, still refusing to go down with a ship, the battle isn’t over yet.
‘And that my friends is the only reason I haven’t packed my bags and left.
‘I’m staying here to fight for South Africa.
‘Long live freedom, long live capitalism and let’s fight for a South Africa that actually works.
‘So I’m not on social media. I’ve never been on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn a mere month or so ago I opened an X account – respect to Elon Musk.
‘And I don’t post very regularly on it, I post rarely the interviews that I do, but I’ve decided I am going to launch a YouTube channel and I’m going to post comments and I’d like a ‘thumbs up’ and ‘subscribe’.
‘It’s free just give us a thumbs up and please subscribe and let’s get the numbers up because I need to speak to the international audience and I need more of you to stand up and do the same, let’s save South Africa.
‘Let’s make South Africa great for once.’
WHO IS ROB HERSOV?
Robert Basil Hersov, born on 9 October 1960 in Johannesburg, is a business executive and entrepreneur.
His grandfather, Bob Hersov, was the founder of AngloVaal, one of Southern Africa’s largest mining and industrial companies.
His father, Basil Hersov, ran the company from 1973 to 2001.
The family sold AngloVaal in the 1990s.
Rob Hersov serves as chairman and CEO (and founder) of Invest Africa, Chairman and Partner (and founder) of African Capital Investments, and Chairman of the VistaJet Advisory Board.
Life course
His parents are Basil Edward Hersov and Antoinette.
Hersov matriculated from Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands.
In 1982 he studied at the University of Cape Town and obtained a B.Bus.Sci degree. In 1989 he obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School.
He began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York and then became head of the European media investment banking team at Morgan Stanley in London.
From 1989 to 1991 he was business development manager at News Corporation in New York for chairman Rupert Murdoch.
After this he became a board member of the luxury goods company Richemont SA, and also managed FilmNet.
He then became CEO of Telepiu Srl in Milan, Italy’s largest pay-TV company, belonging to the Mediaset media group, where he was also a member of the board of directors, until August 1997.
In 1999, he started his own business as an investor and entrepreneur. In September 1999, he co-founded Antfactory; in November 1999, he helped found Peoplenews.com.
Cape Winelands Airport
In 2021, he acquired Fisantekraal Airport, west of Durbanville, and renamed it “Cape Winelands Airport”.
He aims to develop it into a vibrant airport and secondary hub for Cape Town.
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