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Psigologiese disassosiasie. Graaff-Reinet. Robert Sobukwe Town.
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.

Frans Minnaar
6 hours ago4 min read


Rusland moet nie bewonder word nie
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

Frans Minnaar
2 days ago11 min read


John Steenhuisen, die DA en Dion George
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.

Frans Minnaar
6 days ago14 min read


Die probleem is beleid en implementering; nie net implementering nie
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.

Frans Minnaar
Feb 114 min read


Die tyd het aangebreek vir Afrikaners om hulself polities te speen van die DA
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

Frans Minnaar
Feb 47 min read


Is the Army in Ideological Resistance?
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.

Frans Minnaar
Jan 227 min read


Die Israeli chargé d’affaires
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.

Frans Minnaar
Jan 2110 min read


Die Firma: 'n Mafiastaat in Aksie
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.

Frans Minnaar
Jan 1415 min read


The Class of '94
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.

Frans Minnaar
Jan 87 min read


The ANC's Priorities: My Response
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...

Frans Minnaar
Dec 10, 20252 min read


The ANC's 5th National General Council
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.

Frans Minnaar
Dec 10, 20254 min read


Floyd Shivambu, and the big egos of South African politics
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.

Frans Minnaar
Sep 6, 20257 min read


Education in South Africa is chaotic
SETAs, SAQA, accreditation, NSFAS. The South African educational system has created bags full of money that have became cesspools of corruption and looting, while competencies and skills have deteriorated into the gutters.

Frans Minnaar
Aug 19, 20257 min read


Is the "suspended" ideological fight now on again?
What’s going on with Ramaphosa and Donald Trump’s behaviour towards South Africa? Why is the delegation Ramaphosa has promises to send to the United States to “provide accurate information” about the expropriation act and race laws of the country not getting off the ground?

Frans Minnaar
Apr 15, 20255 min read


"Redress": Level 1 BBBEE compliance is destroying the country
Level 1 BBBEE. Beautiful; it simply means you discriminate 100% against White South Africans.

Frans Minnaar
Apr 9, 20256 min read


Transformation
I don’t support transformation; not in the manner in which it is applied in South Africa.

Frans Minnaar
Apr 3, 20253 min read
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