JOUBERT CONRADIE, THE OTHER GEORGE FLOYD 

In October 2017, in Stellenbosch South Africa, farmer Joubert Conradie was murdered in his home by two intruders who fled the scene empty-handed. The case was one of countless farmer murders in the country and sparked a mobilisation of people that became known as Black Monday. The African National Congress condemned the protests in lieu of the killings of farmers and said the protests were led by a handful of racists, because photos emerged showing some of the protesters carrying the old Union of South Africa flag, which had special meaning for many whites until 1994. Some of these photos were not from the Black Monday march and were not taken in South Africa[1][2].

The fact that no one has heard about what happened to Joubert Conradie and that the case of George Floyd has become famous shows that the lives of both men are not worth the same to the establishment, even though they are both human beings and had families that have been torn apart by these events.

The attitude taken by the South African government is not surprising either, as it is the typical action of the leftist government in the face of such an event, to discriminate between victims and perpetrators, if the victim is someone of their interest they will repudiate the act, if on the other hand the perpetrator is of their importance they will reduce the magnitude of the act and possibly justify the aggressor’s attitude with some ideological explanation.

In Argentina, the leftist government and justice system base their criminal policy on the fact that the delinquent is part of the “proletariat”, because according to them he is “poor”, therefore, he must be defended by “social” justice no matter what he has done, given that every action committed by him is justified by his social position and the supposed “unjust acts” that led him to take that path and those behaviours. As far as the victim is concerned, as he surely belongs to the middle or working class with a desire for progress (petty bourgeois or bourgeois-minded) and as he is possibly an opponent of the left while his attacker is a sure voter, he can neither resist his aggressor’s actions nor complain about them, as he is a “beneficiary”, to whom life “was easy”, therefore, he has no right to interfere with the understandable behaviour of the perpetrator. Even the police are also limited in their attempt to prevent crime, since they must watch over the life of the criminal, and if they hurt him the law will fall on them, as if they were the criminal, which from the leftist perspective they are, remember that for this ideology the policeman is an “enemy of the people”.

To conclude, Joubert Conradie’s life mattered neither to the South African political establishment nor to leftism worldwide, since he was not among the “hard-living good guys” but among the “privileged-living bad guys”. This shows that as long as you live under a leftist government you can never get justice and equality before the law.

[1] Basson, A. (03 Nov 2017). Like Joubert Conradie, truth die don #Black Monday. News24. https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/adriaanbasson/like-joubert-conradie-truth-died-on-blackmonday-20171102

[2] Antoni, M.L. (05 November 2017). How Fake News was used to hijack Black Monday. Politicsweb. https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/how-fake-news-was-used-to-hijack-black-monday