Cape Town — Former AfriForum deputy chief executive Ernst Roet claims that certain individuals have issued death threats against him following his provocative appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show in the US.
During the interview, Roets shared alarming insights about South African universities, claiming they are teaching students about ‘white genocide’ and promoting the belief that white people are regarded as ‘sub-human’ because they supposedly lack the concept of Ubuntu.
“There is an African term called ‘Ubuntu’, which means brotherlyness or about your internal humanity, and the theory goes that white people are incapable of having Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is the essence of humanity, so if you don’t have it, you are not truly human,” he told Carlson during the interview.
Ernst Roets tells Tucker Carlson South African universities teaching theory that ‘justifies extermination of White minority’
It says white people lack ‘Ubuntu’— the ‘essence of humanity’
Not widely believed but taught at universities — Roets pic.twitter.com/Glie9BHRsI
— RT (@RT_com) March 3, 2025
Since his controversial interview, Roets has had to deal with many critics who believe he is spreading false truths about South Africa and is pushing an Afrikaner agenda.
He revealed in an X post that he has received death threats since he did the interview and posted a screenshot of another X post, which read: Ernst Roets must be given a beautiful necklace for saying WInne was a terrorist.”
“Some people threatening to murder me because of my interview with Tucker Carlson. In South Africa, a ‘necklace” is a brutal method of murdering someone,” Roets said.
Some people are threatening to murder me because of my interview with @TuckerCarlson.
In South Africa, a “necklace” is a brutal method of murdering someone. pic.twitter.com/4loavynJT0
— Ernst Roets (@ErnstRoets) March 5, 2025
According to IOL, this came after Carlson had questioned Roets about Nelson Mandela and his former wife, Winne Madikizela-Mandela. Carlson called her a murderer and asked him about the people she allegedly burned to death.
“Yes, and she famously said at a political rally – with our necklaces and our matches, we will liberate this country – which of course is a reference to the necklace murders which were very popular in South Africa, and still happen in South Africa,” Roets said.
He explained that Madikizela-Mandela had encouraged necklacing and said it had been recorded when she denied it.
“Should note that I grew up as English South African, not Afrikaans, and consider myself to be simply an American. No hyphen. That said, what’s happening in South Africa is deeply wrong. Not what Mandela intended at all,” Musk said.
Should note that I grew up as English South African, not Afrikaans, and consider myself to be simply an American.
No hyphen.
That said, what’s happening in South Africa is deeply wrong. Not what Mandela intended at all. https://t.co/6Tqb8NS9vl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 4, 2025
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
