Werner Smit

Where are the campus protests for these three young men?

The ANC, Ramaphosa downwards, has knives out for Prof William Gumede over his demolition of the BEE scam. Latest bombshell: secret mining research found 46 politically connected people secured 60% of BEE deals, becoming millionaires or billionaires overnight. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/willia…

"The real question before Parliament should not only be what happens next in Tehran, but how South Africa ended up so deeply entangled with one of the world’s most repressive regimes." dailyfriend.co.za/2026/03/19/why…

Um Michael...... R32 million was paid to a company last year, 2025, to a company for water tankers, except the company didnt have water tankers. Catch up chap.

Another reason to vote for Helen Zille.

“What we urgently need, for both economic stability and growth, is a reduction of government intervention, not an increase.” — Milton Friedman

This is what economic suicide looks like;

This is the frustration that many people are latching onto, but the answer is not racial. This is a recognition that Apartheid was immoral and had to end, but what we allowed and created afterwards was not a viable answer. Thankfully, the answer is still available: Freedom. Free markets. Federalism.

Did massive damage to her country and then leaves to avoid the consequences of her own actions. What a role model for little girls.

.@JMilei: “Socialism is a piece of shit.” “When it was applied in its pure form, it was an economic failure, a social failure, and a cultural failure. It also took the lives of 150 million human beings.”

The hypocrisy of these men: “Through shell companies, Khamenei owns luxury houses in the UK worth more than $138 million, including 11 properties in The Bishop’s Avenue, the north London street nicknamed Billionaire’s Row, a Bloomberg investigation found. His investment empire extends to Tehran, Dubai and Frankfurt, and he has reportedly channelled funds into Western markets including property and Swiss bank accounts.” Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.” — Friedrich Hayek

He was called Terror because of his football skills — nothing to do with his political activism. Youngsters like Mbaks were still in nappies back then.

It was just reported a few days ago that a convoy of vehicles aggressively drove through a security gate on private property with heavily-armed thugs as escorts. This convoy was the Portfolio Committee on Labour roleplaying as immigration enforcement officials. But GOOD is going after an MP with a firearm licence who used his firearm in the direct, immediate defence of himself and colleagues. GOOD is quite the bad actor in South African politics.

🚨THIS IS WHY SOCIALISTS DESPISE JAVIER MILEI - State downsized 20% - State staff reduced by 20% - Senior State Staff reduced by 40% - Saved $2 Billion a year NO DROP IN QUALITY OF SERVICE ECONOMY IS BOOMING CAPITALISM WINS AGAIN

@r0ck3t23 Superb! The road to constant innovation.

A guy with a YouTube channel just accidentally redesigned the most complex machine in human history. Not an aerospace engineer. Not a SpaceX executive. A guy with a camera who asked one obvious question. Tim Dodd was walking around Starbase when Musk proudly explained how the Super Heavy booster eliminated its entire cold gas thruster system. Instead of a separate, heavy, complex mechanism, it just vents hot gas directly from the propellant tanks. Elegant. Zero added mass. Zero extra failure points. Dodd asked one question. “But this is only for the booster, right?” Musk stopped. Not to defend. Not to explain. Not to reframe the question so it didn’t threaten what he had just said. He stopped because something clicked. Musk: “Yes. Although arguably, now you mention it… we might be wise to do this for the ship, too. Now that… we’re going to fix that.” Mid-sentence. In real time. On camera. No pause to protect his pride. No deflection. No “good point, let me circle back on that.” Just the immediate, unfiltered acknowledgment that a better path existed and they were going to take it. Seven months later, Musk confirmed it was one of the biggest improvements ever made to the vehicle. Think about what just happened. To change a fundamental flight system at a legacy aerospace company requires years of environmental reviews, safety committees, and budget approvals. Musk deprecated an entire subsystem in 15 seconds because a podcaster asked the obvious question that nobody inside had dared to ask. In a traditional corporation, that cold gas system gets built anyway. Because admitting the architecture is flawed is politically expensive. The VP doesn’t want to lose the headcount. The engineers don’t want to scrap the work. The manager doesn’t want to explain the pivot to their director. And so the mistake gets a budget. Gets a timeline. Gets a team assigned to it. The machine gets heavier. The flaw becomes load-bearing. And eventually the flaw becomes so embedded in the structure that fixing it would require tearing down everything built around it. So nobody fixes it. Now think about the last time someone pointed out a flaw in something you built. Something you were proud of. Something you had already explained to twelve people without anyone questioning it. Did you stop the way Musk stopped? Or did you feel that heat in your chest. That reflexive need to explain why they were missing the point. Why the context was more complicated than they understood. Why the question, though interesting, didn’t really apply here. That heat is the most expensive thing most organizations will ever pay for. A failed launch at least tells you the truth. A defended mistake just compounds. This is the organizational architecture required to win the AI arms race. The ultimate moat isn’t compute. It isn’t capital. It is the velocity of error correction. The geopolitical AI race will not be won by whoever starts with the best blueprint. It will be won by whoever can feel that heat in their chest and choose the truth anyway. A journalist asked a question. The best answer won. The rocket got lighter. Most egos don’t.

"You can tell which side is the good side and which side is the bad side by which side wishes to restrict freedom of speech."

Iran fired a faulty missile which fell back to the ground and hit a school. Then they claimed it was one of Israel’s missiles even though there’s video evidence of the failed strike. More concerning is that they launched it from a base that is directly next to a school. Meaning Iran was using the school as cover for their missile launches and using the kids as human shields for the inevitable retaliation. Meanwhile Redi Thabi… x.com/chayasclan/sta…

And even for South Africa too. Just do it.