Ernst Roets on South African Farm Murders and Kirk's Assassination

Showing 11 Ernst Roets videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Ernst Roets built his American media tour, including a Ben Shapiro appearance, around a specific comparison: South Africa's BEE racial-preference laws function, in his argument, much like America's DEI policies, both replacing merit with race-based allocation while producing worse outcomes for the people they claim to help, evidenced by unemployment exceeding Great Depression levels. His broader case for international attention rests on documented farm-murder statistics, a commercial-farmer murder rate he calculates at 80 to 90 per 100,000, and on the more than 140 explicitly race-based laws still on South Africa's books, which he's connected directly to the Trump administration's decision to grant Afrikaner farmers refugee status and expel South Africa's ambassador over comments calling Trump a white supremacist.

Kirk's assassination gave Roets a specific, personal data point rather than an abstract one: he documented South Africans, some with verifiable government positions, openly celebrating the killing and calling for further violence against conservatives, a pattern he says drew no mainstream domestic outcry despite genuine incitement. He's since folded that observation into his newer Pioneer Initiative, arguing decentralized self-governance and federalism, not further centralized appeals to a captured state, represent South Africa's actual path out of the crisis he's spent his career documenting.