South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s house of cards has finally collapsed, and this time, the coup de grace comes from within his own camp. His Foreign Minister, Ronald Lamola has openly confessed what we already knew: SANDF troops, under the guise of a SADC mission, are knowingly fighting alongside the tropical Nazis of the FDLR—citing vague “technical reasons.” With this stunning admission, Ramaphosa’s government has effectively escalated the DRC conflict to a full-blown regional crisis.
Let’s start with the truth Ramaphosa is so desperate to bury. FDLR isn’t just another armed group—it’s a band of génocidaires that has terrorized Rwanda for over two decades, launching at least 25 cross-border invasions since 2001. These genocidaires have long found refuge in both the DRC and Burundi, thanks to their unholy military alliance with the late dictator Nkurunziza, an agreement reaffirmed in 2020 by his successor, General Neva. And now, courtesy of Ramaphosa, they’re enjoying South African military support under the laughable pretence of a “peacekeeping mission.”
Then there’s the bald-faced lie Ramaphosa peddled with a straight face—that South African troops were deployed to fight all armed groups, including the FDLR. He must think the world is stupid. Even the UN acknowledges that the FDLR is deeply embedded within the Congolese army. For over 30 years, despite MONUSCO’s billion-dollar boondoggle, FARDC has refused to neutralize them. Is it a lack of resources? A lack of capability? No—the truth is far uglier: Tshisekedi and his enablers, including Ramaphosa, have no intention of dismantling their genocidal allies.
Third, Ramaphosa’s decision to send South African troops to fight alongside the tropical Nazis of the FDLR is rooted in a dangerous cocktail of pseudo-intellectual racial policies and prehistoric tribal politics. His government has swallowed a colonial conspiracy theory that seeks to unite so-called “Bantu solidarity” against an imaginary “Nilotic expansionist threat.” This racial fantasy is lifted straight from the same playbook as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the kind of lunacy that has, time and again, paved the way for mass murder.
In short, Ramaphosa has been caught with his pants down. By deploying South African troops to fight alongside the genocidal FDLR, he has likely overstepped a red line, as President Paul Kagame had previously warned. This mirrors the warning President Kagame issued to the Congolese tyrant Mobutu Sese Seko back in 1995—a warning that was dismissed, only for Mobutu to be toppled within a mere six months.
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