Why South Africa’s Budget Explains Its Stagnant Growth
South Africa’s economy is not growing because the national budget is structured against growth. For…
Why South Africa’s Budget Explains Its Stagnant Growth
South Africa’s economy is not growing because the national budget is structured against growth. For every R100 the government spends, the bulk goes to salaries, debt interest, day-to-day costs and grants — leaving only a thin slice for the investments that expand the productive base of the economy. According to recent National Treasury consolidated expenditure…
Springboks fall short in Australia
Australia 42–38 South Africa The Springboks suffered a dramatic 42-38 defeat to Australia in a chaotic Test match at Optus Stadium in Perth on Sunday, 27 September 2026. The Wallabies, under coach Les Kiss, built a commanding 42-17 lead with around 15 minutes remaining through tries from Len Ikitau (two), Ben Donaldson, Harry Wilson and…
ANC gets Washington wrong
President Cyril Ramaphosa wagered South Africa’s well-being on what he perceived to be President Donald Trump’s butterfly attention span. He lost the wager and the concern should be that he may now double down. There is more to that wager than a potentially ruinous misjudgment of an erratic American president. Drawing on the Marxist-Leninist concept…
Swiss Football Association Witch Hunts Covid Vaccine Heretics
John Leake Living in our current Age of the Tyrannical Weeny often takes the fun out of being human. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had long vaguely suspected that about 85% percent of humanity is incapable of free and independent thought, and merely conforms to prevailing doctrines, hysterias, and fashions. Nevertheless, I was still…
A direct message to the farm murder deniers: there is absolutely nothing “normal” about farm murders
Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦@ConCaracal Farm murders are the only violent crime encouraged and romanticised by politicians through chants like “Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer” – a chant the president refuses to condemn as hateful, wrong, and unacceptable, and even defends.Farm murders are the only violent crime the existence of is flat-out denied by the president…
Heritage day
Article by INFIL // EXFIL on X Heritage Day was designed as an act of inclusion. A democratic president’s job on 24 September is to make that inclusion audible to ALL people of our nation, their own recipes, and their own grandparents’ names. Since Cyril Ramaphosa turned his speech into an election campaign and can’t…
AI is a gatekeeper
Some of you might have already realised this, as your interactions with this new technology have increased. It was brought home to me forcibly last night when I wanted information on an organisation called Voice of Wales, who were taking part in an episode of the Lotus Eaters podcast. https://youtu.be/Y53hwEw30gY I did the mandatory search,…
Metro Police open fire during Sea Point abalone bust, five arrested
Cape Town – Cape Town Metro Police officers opened fire during a dramatic vehicle stop in Sea Point on Wednesday morning after a confrontation with suspected abalone poachers escalated into a short high-speed chase that ended with five arrests. Dramatic video footage circulating on social media shows officers boxing in a vehicle outside the Point…
Great white shark spotted in False Bay after eight-year absence
Bold as brass, a lone great white shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town on Wednesday, September 23, becoming the first of its species to be sighted and filmed in False Bay in nearly eight years. These sharks disappeared from False Bay, largely because of predation by killer whales with an…
SA Minister Ronald Lamola claims South Africa has more white people than Australia, Argentina, and Brazil
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, continues his StupidTM tour of the US, with the claim that South Africa has the highest number of white people outside the Northern Hemisphere. He shared this view during a panel discussion at the African Diaspora Forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on Friday, 18…
