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Another snippet of footage from my last visit to Sol-Tech, an Afrikaner funded learning institution. "Here are my two hands, and I'll do the best that I can with them." - Paul van Deventer

T.S. Eliot, in 1948, said:

Think 🤔…

The implementation of free market and capitalism in Eastern Europe made them not only much wealthier, but also significantly improved life expectancy. The only people in favor of socialism are those who have never experienced socialist misery by themselves. Don’t listen to them.

“Socialism always attacks 3 basic social institutions: religion, the family, & private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; & property, because it means material independence of the state”

We must not profess the Christian faith and go to church simply because we want social reform and benefits, or a better standard of behaviour, but because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom, and the supreme sacrifice of Christ.

Easter celebrations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They propagandized the nation into accepting a fake world where businessmen are villains, criminals are the good-guys, small towns are sinister, military officers are proto-fascists, and work barely exists.

I hosted a virtual panel discussion last week that discussed Zimbabwe’s ugly history of land invasions, the current state of the compensation saga, and the various approaches the US is considering for its Zimbabwe policy. My major takeaways: --It is useful to remember how violent and unjust the land invasions were. One panelist had multiple farms—which he’d acquired post-independence—stolen, and one of his workers killed by the police. --The Zim government has repeatedly refused to live up to its compensation commitments, including ignoring a 2008 SADC tribunal ruling. --Zimbabwe is in deep debt, with likely a significant amount of undeclared debt as well. That greatly complicates the land compensation discussion. --There are other problems in the US-Zim relationship beyond the land compensation issue. If, however, Zim engages in a good faith process to compensate the farmers, it will be a useful signal that it might be willing and capable of addressing other US concerns, something that is currently highly doubtful.

They just took R2 Trillion from hardworking South Africans that they will loot and then blame Apartheid. “Racism” keeps them in power, they do this every election cycle. Turns out blaming apartheid and racism for your own theft is a R2 trillion per annum industry in South Africa, no wonder they send their goons to us for speaking out.

Last night the @afriforum Neighbourhood Watches in Victoria Bay and De Rust succeeded in locating a missing 13 year old. She was safely reunited with her family. Thank you to Community in Blue, SAPS and everyone else who assisted.

The apple fell right next to the tree. So cute 🥰 And it could have been worse for young thugress Katleho Mokonyane: she could have been charged with fraud, corruption & stuff. Luckily, our Constitution is clear: if you are ANC-linked & you somehow get caught looting without any restraint, you simply pay back the money & move on with your life☺️😋😛

Good morning 🇿🇦, We should focus more on investing in the education and skills of our citizens, I said in an interview with Gareth Cliff and Phumi Mashigo the other day. #economy #markets #politics #MajoziInterviews

Communism is intrinsically anti-freedom.

Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy. That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks. She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed. She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed. The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality. It doesn’t add up. Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication. Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?

South Africa - eaten alive by its own inhabitants.

“In engineering, you are peer reviewed by reality”. From Rory Sutherland, in this week’s Spectator.

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"A society that has secured abundant energy, industrial production, and physical safety creates the conditions in which political attention can migrate upward into questions of identity, moral positioning, and self-actualization." 1/6