Spurred on by an attempted US right-wing crackdown on Saying Bad Things About Charlie Kirk, South Africa’s self-proclaimed head boy, Ernst Roets, is warning local chatterboxes that he and his crew of library monitors will snitch if free speech gets out of bounds. Indeed, cancel culture — proclaimed dead at Trump’s second inauguration — is now an entrenched part of his presidency, and has advanced deep into the media space. What’s clear is that Kirk’s murder has driven the local white right insane. Can we tempt them back from the brink?