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It's absurd that in a modern city, our buses crawl at less than 5 mph. We'll make them fast and free.

Apartheid South Africa was banned from the Olympics for 32 years. The same people who called Nelson Mandela a “terrorist” now say we can’t boycott apartheid Israel. They were on the wrong side of history then — and they’re on the wrong side of history now. You don’t have “normal relations” with genocide and apartheid. Boycott, divestment and sanctions until Palestine is free.

I notice this sort of comment a lot, but there really isn't anyone who actually thinks whites arrived in SA before anyone else The "empty land" thesis was never as strongly stated as the strawman we are usually exposed to The main serious contentions are that we arrived in the Cape to find Khoi peoples, struck deal with some of them for land and landsharing, and went to war with those who stuck to cattle raiding, often in very cruel ways We met Bantus only a century later, and set up settlements far from traditional Bantu settlements in what was a fairly sparsely populated landscape In the mid-19th century only around 2m people lived in what is now SA - plenty of place to settle. This was exacerbated by the Zulu/Mzilikazi wars of expansion, but the main factor was just the sheer size of the country and the slim population The way we conducted warfare was far more decisive than the constant tit-for-tat raids Africans were used to (Zulu wars of consolidation excepted), and we pacified and contained our neighbours to their core settlement regions These only became densely populated enough to threaten their agricultural autonomy in the early 20th century, and then only because of a lack of modernisation and access to capital They were formalised and segregated from 1913, followed by a poll tax to force them into the mines to undercut unionised white labour; the white workers revolted, were put down by aerial bombardment, and voted in a populist coalition of nationalists and socialists We got apartheid as a means of compromise between the mines and the voters, to try to have it both ways, and it was only sustainable for two and a half generations Eventually our settlements were overrun, and we just basically gave up Now we have stupid debates about who was more civilised instead of asking how we actually work out a sustainable political arrangement, because postponing radical decisions and pretending alles sal regkom is just what we do Partition would have worked 100 years ago, but we wanted cheap labour, so we let ourselves be overrun, and that's it really. Orania can't save everyone, but nobody wants to build Orania 2.0, because that would be difficult and risky. The Western Cape can't save SA, but everyone is too scared to head for the exit, so we let the DA drag us all into the gaping maw of the "liberation" movement. Worst part is how many people saw it coming from as early as 1947, and yet couldn't convince others to act. And we content ourselves with scoring petty points against people who are grasping at the slimmest straws of collective self-esteem in the face of a fading civilisation that was too grand to emulate but too weak to survive Pitiable behaviour on both sides

I welcome the news that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be permitted to watch the match at Aston Villa! Well done to all those that signed our petition!

South Africa commemorates Oct 7th. Dignity, prayer, gratitude.

South Africa's affection toward me is no doubt the reflex of their authentic unbreakable support to the Palestinian people. Yet as a European woman, the privilege is enormous.

In the past 48 hours, Hamas has executed nearly 50 Palestinians in Gaza. Mehdi Hasan? Not a word. Ana Kasparian? Not a word. Cenk Uygur? Not a word. The media? Not a word. The UN? Not a word.