TOM EATON | Let’s get to the Roet of it: is it money? Making black people poorer? A persecution kink?
Nobody is flying to the US and staying in DC hotels on his own dime, writes Tom Eaton
07 March 2025 - 04:30
It now seems likely that the likes of Kallie Kriel and Ernst Roets will keep their Great White Wail roadshow running for a while yet, hawking their snowflake fantasies of white victimhood and begging Donald Trump to impose sanctions on South Africa. Which is why it’s important to keep asking why they’re doing it...
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