South Africa’s Collapse Finally Exposed | Rob Hersov

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Rob Hersov about the political and economic crisis in South Africa; how corruption and mismanagement under the ruling African National Congress (ANC) have led to the country's infrastructure and economic decline; the impact of racial laws like "expropriation without compensation" targeting white South Africans; the need for international intervention, particularly from the U.S. and Donald Trump; the resilience and entrepreneurial spirit of South Africans; and the importance of global support to help the country rebuild; and much more. #RubinReport #SouthAfrica #southafricapolitics #africannationalcongress #southafricans #expropriation #RobHersov #ARC #daverubin ----------------------------------------------- Reserve your 1st edition copy of our new book, The Best of Our Inheritance. Pre-Order open until March 14, 2025: Link to book: https://www.arcforum.com/store/p/the-best-of-our-inheritance-arc-research YouTube - @arc_conference Twitter - @arc_forum IG - @arc_forum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	But for 30 years, if you look at every single metric, health, education, employment, the country
0:36.5	has gone backwards.
0:40.3	Every state-owned enterprise has been bankrupted.
0:43.9	South African Airways used to be the best airline in Africa, bankrupt.
0:46.4	S-com, electricity supply commission.
0:48.0	We don't have enough electricity.
0:51.3	We have load shedding, which means four, five, six hours a day.
0:52.1	We have no electricity.
0:53.9	The rail network's destroyed. The ANC has
0:55.3	destroyed our country, and it is a racist, kleptocratic and ineptocratic government.
1:08.1	Rob Herzog of South Africa, you know, one of the beautiful things of coming to this conference is you meet people from all over the world.
1:15.5	Everyone is going through their own experience kind of personally and politically in their own countries.
1:22.4	South Africa suddenly has gotten on the American map a little bit in the last week or so. But before we get to that,
1:29.0	maybe if you could just give me a kind of one-minute bio on who you are, how you sort of got
1:33.3	into public life and then we can hit the issues. Sure. I'm 64 years old. I'm fifth generation
1:38.1	South African, and I was born into real wealth in South Africa. My grandfather founded a big
1:43.9	mining industrial business, and I spent my wealth in South Africa. My grandfather founded a big mining industrial business
1:45.2	and I spent my education in South Africa. I did university there and I spent two years as an
1:51.3	infantry officer in the South African Defence Force in the old days. Then I went to America,
1:56.4	Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, and then I worked as Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man for three years in
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