Suid-Afrika se ekonomies egroei voor 1994 was beter en meer volgehou as na 1994. Dit is nie 'n ideologiese stelling nie, maar 'n feitlike een. Ekonomiese groei gedurende die tydperk 2009 tot 2024 was slegs 0,15% beter as gedurende die tydperk (1984 tot 1994) toe Suid-Afrika feitlik totaal afgesny was van die internasionale ekonomie, en onder geweldige druk as gevolg van interne - en eksterne militêre konflikte.

Die verandering van die naam daarvan na Robert Sobukwe Town is suiwer ʼn daad van magsbewys, van opsetlike revolusionêre retoriek. As die kamerade dink hulle het ʼn stekie ingekry; o, wel, die werklikheid is dat dit al jare lank in die nuus was, en ek het geweet dit gaan kom. Ek lag daaroor. Onthou psigologiese disassosiasie.

Wat my kwaad gemaak het vir Rusland, was die flagrante, skaamtelose inval in die Oekraïne in 2022. Vir my was dit tipies aan die Russiese ingesteldheid: Vergeet van die lot, die lyding, die vrese van mense; as ons die Oekraïne wil hê, sal ons dit vat, ongeag dood en vernietiging. Weereens was dit alles die gevolg van ʼn verdomde psigopatiese sterkman wat wil held speel; in hierdie geval Putin. En Rusland verkies hierdie paradigma. Minagting vir mense en hul lewens, hul vrese e

John Steenhuisen het 'n Transformasie-agent geword. Hy is kwaad en ontnugter. In die proses (as 'n gevolg) het hy 'n risiko vir die DA geword; dit terwyl die DA self sit tussen die duiwel en die diep blou see; reageer hulle Regs, verloor hulle steun Links; reageer hulle Links, verloor hulle steun Regs. Dion George het die party se beeld van onkreukbaarheid laat kraak. Die twee faktore beperk die DA se politieke beweegruimte fundamenteel.

Suid-Afrika se beleidsrigtings is vernietigend, want is deurlopend geskoei op onwerkbare, ideologiese aannames en teorieë wat nog nêrens in die wêreld geslaagd was nie, en meestal die werklikhede van die jare 1970s en 80s weerspieël, en nie die jaar 2026 nie.

Watter voordeel trek u uit u ondersteuning vir “die sterkste opposisieparty”? U steun het vir hulle ʼn paar Ministers poste verseker, wat hulle nou nie gebruik om u omstandighede te verbeter nie, maar om die Blou Ligte te beskerm, om Afrikaans in onderwys te vernietig, om teen boere te diskrimineer op grond van ras, om skielik onteiening sonder vergoeding te regverdig. Dit lyk self vir my asof hulle deesdae geesdriftige ondersteuners is van die vernietiging en verwydering van

I don’t think a coup d’état is imminent in South Africa (but I may be wrong, who knows). However, something is cooking, boiling just below the surface. I do think that there is open revolt against civilian oversight in the military forces of the country. I also think the drivers of this revolt are ideology and the sense of a lost victory.

Die Kamerade irriteer my verskriklik, veral met tye. Nou het hulle weer gegaan en die chargé d’affaires van die Israeli ambassade in Suid-Afrika (Ariel Seidman) tot persona non-grata verklaar en hom 72 uur gegee om die land te verlaat.

Ek was absoluut verstom deur die besef dat die Suid-Afrikaanse regime glo in die ideologie van "Miljardisering " van die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie. Dit is die vreemde ekonomiese teorie gebaseer op die idee dat die sukses of mislukking van ekonomiese transformasie gemeet moet word in terme van die aantal swart miljardêrs. ʼn Mens sou dink dat ʼn self-verklaarde Sosialistiese regime die idee van miljardêrs afkeuringswaardig sou vind. Dit is egter nie die geval nie.

So, the US has breached international law by kidnapping Maduro. But who cares? Let me tell you, not the ANC. The ANC’s standard is their Cold War loyalties.  Anyway, who actually cares about “international law” anymore? What matters, is ideology, not law. Just considers the hypocritical South African government. It condemns the United States government for capturing Maduro, but is silent about Russia’s invasion of a sovereign state. How many people has dies during the US’s a

The ANC leadership, the generation of the 1994 transition, did not have an opportunity to grow into the responsibilities of governing a rather sophisticated and modern country, the richest and most powerful in Africa. It happened overnight. Their lives were transformed from oppression and struggle, from powerlessness, to total power. Poverty was replaced by overpowering richness. And all this happened overnight, in the scope of less than four years. 

The US National Security Strategy, published in November 2025, set out its geopolitical aims and strategies. It is in line with Trump’s expressed worldviews, made clear on numerous occasions during the last decade of his presence in United States politics. Under his leadership, the United States will act accordingly, regardless of whether he and his administration is blamed of breaking international law, or regardless of how reprehensible many may find it.

When the GDP growth figures for the United States in respect of the 3rd quarter of 2025 were published, a big issue was made by Republicans about the success of Trump’s economic policies, including his tariff initiatives. This growth rates were 4,3%; far exceeding even the most optimistic forecasts. The counter-response from the Left, and specifically Europe, was that the real state of an economy must be measured not in terms of GDP growth, but in terms of wage growth.

The ANC's lekgotla, held over the weekend, outlined specific tasks in the six priority areas identified by the ANC’s NGC: • Firstly, to fix local government and improve basic services • Secondly, to speed up economic transformation and to engender inclusive growth and job creation • Thirdly, to wage war on crime and corruption and tackle GBVF as a National Disaster • Fourthly, to build a South Africa that belongs to all through the National Dialogue...

The ANC cadres are not the excellent creators they believe themselves to be; they are destroyers. They contaminate everything they touch. They have turned South Africa into a mafia state, a failed state. And they are still at it.

I don’t think that the ANC and its allies must depend too much on support from Europe for an anti-American rebellion in the G20. Don’t look to Europe to support South African in a large-scale boycotting of the G20 in the United States until Trump agrees to the demands of the Comrades.

It is very dangerous to say "We don't need the United States"; "if they want to, let them sanction us." Let's look at three examples of countries that have been actively sanctioned by the USA in the post-WW2 history.

The South African government’s staff establishment consist of sixteen salary levels, or grades. The South African public sector is captured in the destructive results of political ideology, nepotism, cadre deployment and corruption. The results are clearly visible, including in the numbers.

The ANC is a mafia-type Firm, with the oligarchy inner-circle exercising power, and monopolizing wealth; controlling their "territory" (SA) through their gun-swigging gangsters (state and institutions power) to retain privilges.

The National Democratic Revolution means transforming the South African economy and society into a communist one. However, this is a special kind of communism, in which race plays an important role. The National Democratic Revolution is here to stay. It is linked to the Freedom Charter and it is an enormous and deadly risk to South Africa.

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The populist icons of South African politics have enormous egos; all believing that they are greater than the Ideas they are proposing. Some actually are; some not. However, none of them are bigger than perception.

Is South Africa heading to the Zimbabwe scenario? Probably. There are very few differences between the ANC and ZAPU PF. Both are, in essence, liberation movements, and not government.

The salaries and benefits of municipal councillors are determined by the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998; and then (currently) specifically the regulations titled Determination of upper limits of salaries, wages and benefits of different members of municipal councillors (the September 2023 version). Download an Excel spreadsheet below to do a quick analysis of the salaries of municipal councilors in your municipality.