Having grown up and matured in the unsafe area of Witpoortjie, Vincent Willray Janse van Rensburg quickly learned how to navigate the streets of his world with the assistance of his fellow Mzansies. He was welcomed into their own world to escape his inharmonious home-life, sharing with him a story he never thought possible. Being born white in a somewhat broken country, that owing to its history of discrimination because of skin-colour, Vince grew up to be an activist against racism and supremacy, removing the coloured glasses through which most people prefer to look at him. While the country may look like it is in a democratic state, only a select few are free in the ways that matter: adequate service-delivery, economic opportunity, a life free of crime, and freedom of expression as one becomes themselves.
Allow him to take you on an eye-opening journey into the depths of some of South Africa’s most debated topics; land, laws, politics, corruption, white capital, white privilege, black billionaires, cadre deployment, a crumbling infrastructure, a corrupt government and more. He set out to research these hot topics and illustrate the results from the perspective of what most black South Africans like to call “privileged”, but truly isn’t. His unapologetic writing
of stories, statistics and facts aim to give you a glimpse of what life has actually been in Mzanzi, and continues to be; in a frank, as-God-is-my-witness manner.
Vincent Willray Janse Van Rensburg
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