The United Nations (UN), self-proclaimed guardian of human rights and architect of the 1948 Genocide Convention, has mastered the art of selective outrage, condemning genocides in Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia (1995) with resolutions and tribunals while maintaining a deafening silence on South Africa’s systematic persecution of its white minority.
This hypocrisy is not mere oversight; it is a deliberate calculus of geopolitics, where condemning the African National Congress (ANC) regime would disrupt the narrative of a “post-apartheid success story” and alienate the Global South bloc that views South Africa as a champion against “Western imperialism.”
As of 2025, the UN Human Rights Council, chaired by South Africa in 2025, has issued zero special rapporteur reports on the thousands of farm murders since 1994 or the 142 race-based laws excluding whites, despite ample evidence fitting Lemkin’s and Stanton’s frameworks (87–94% genocide progression).
Instead, the UN praises South Africa’s “progress on racial equality” in its 2025 Universal Periodic Review, ignoring the Expropriation Act’s 15 land grabs in 2025 and the BELA Act’s closure of 20% of Afrikaans schools since 2020.
This blind spot contrasts sharply with the UN’s swift action on other crises: a 2025 fact-finding mission to Gaza after South Africa’s ICJ case accused Israel of genocide, or the 2024 special session on Uyghur persecution in China.
The UN’s silence on South Africa despite farm murders involving torture and 60% white youth unemployment in key sectors under B-BBEE, reveals a racial hierarchy in human rights; Black-led governments get a pass, while White minorities are expendable footnotes in the “decolonization” narrative.
Pandor’s jihadist rhetoric, as in her August 23, 2025, call for “jihad when necessary,” goes unchallenged, while Sooliman’s Sharia supremacy (“Islamic law overrides any other,” October 7, 2024) aligns with UN tolerance for Islamic advocacy.
This hypocrisy perpetuates Mandela’s divisions, allowing South Africa’s slow genocide to boil unchecked, as the UN prioritizes optics over lives.
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