Gareth Cliff

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[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

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[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

@_BellaM_ Ok I’m going to take this slowly.

You’re a black man in Soshanguve. You voted ANC until 2026.

Then in 2026 you voted ASA because you want change.

Then ASA allies with the ANC in Tshwane.

Your vote meant fokol.

This has nothing to do with the DA

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Good news @elonmusk

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴 BREAKING: Sakeliga takes internet regulator ICASA to court over race ownership quotas

We have applied to the Pretoria High Court to stop ICASA from imposing a 30% racial ownership quota on licence holders.

Here's the latest 🧵

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

In today’s Daily Briefing:

💬 The latest rumours from inside the ANC
🚫 Which parties in SA have internal elections? (You’ll be surprised)
👨‍🏭 The reasons we can’t win on unemployment
And
🖖 Online betting - let people do what they want with their money or ban it like Brazil just did?

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[Martin van Staden @Martin_ASFL]

Relish the destruction of the press, because the press seeks it voluntarily.

We will need to replace the press with something better, of course, but relish the end of this from our "betters":

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

If any company I interact with starts producing this kind of slop, whether in interviews, written material, communications of any kind or as a substitute for dealing with actual people, I’ll also take my shirt off, put a shoe on my head and troll the hell out of them. What an embarrassment 🙄

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Oh it was PISSED 😭😭😭

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

@rudz_16 😂

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

We've got some cool merch launching later this month. Who's your favourite courier company when it comes to deliveries?

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

In today’s Daily Briefing:

🗳️ Election horse-trading negotiations continue
⛽️ Will we get petrol price relief in December?
🇺🇦/🇷🇺 Ukraine/Russia peace talks, the hard decisions, and who isn't in the room

And more…

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[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Sartre could look through a keyhole with both eyes.

People like this earned the nickname "treacherous" almost from birth and through nominative determinism lived up to it.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, teenage Red Guards were beating their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards.

Meanwhile, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs.

Sartre swooned at this, calling it the people governing themselves. Why did a man this intelligent get it this wrong? Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will.

So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death. This is what economic illiteracy gets you.

Mises had already explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral, only a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

Look, if we’re going to ruin Jensen’s life over where he stuck his huang then I want to know why Bill Gates is still in charge of public health globally?

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Always get an ironclad prenup 💪🏼

[Valuetainment @valuetainment]

JUST IN: Jensen Huang reportedly has no prenup, meaning a divorce could cost him $81 billion, the most expensive divorce ever.

[Eyewitness News @ewnupdates]

Councillors who lost their seats in municipal councils will receive a once-off payment from government to adjust to life outside public office. https://t.co/BzWemp9ORn

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[CSIR 🇿🇦 @CSIR]

Celebrating excellence in geospatial science!

The American Geographical Society (AGS), on its 175th anniversary, has awarded #TeamCSIR’s Sives Govender the 2026 Paul P. Vouras Medal in recognition of his exemplary research and outstanding work in the field of regional geography.

The medal will be presented on 20 November 2026 in New York City during Geography 2050: Africa Shaping Tomorrow, a symposium held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Congratulations to Sives Govender on this outstanding achievement and well-deserved international recognition!
#GeospatialScience #Geography2050 #AfricaGIS #AfricanInnovation #ResearchExcellence

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

This woman is terrifying 🥹

[SABC News @SABCNews]

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Adv Annelene van der Heever argues the NPA breached its agreement by providing the Section 204 statement to the commission.

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Cousin (Consanguineous) Marriage % By Country

Data for all countries on map: https://t.co/25NvgXN0a2

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

What about the Wicked Witch of the West, Quasimodo and a re-animated Hermann Goering that were hanging around Toulouse 2 weekends ago?

The Russians have become such an obvious bogeyman and distraction for every threat the EU or America perceive against them.

Helen Keller could see through this, @vonderleyen

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters https://t.co/E9uIRt9ENv

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

@ValenteezyM I was skeptical of that too

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

So basically the people who used to vote for the ANC, voted for ActionSA, and got the ANC. There’s going to be so much buyer’s remorse.

Roman is right, if you can get government out of your life, you’ll survive. Thrive, even. If you can’t… then I’m afraid this election was rather a waste of your time

[Roman Cabanac @RomanCabanac]

Looks like ASA wants the status quo in Gauteng - an alliance with those that destroyed Gauteng.

To my fellow Gautengers, keep going off-grid.

The hubris won't last.

[Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff]

Have you got comprehension problems?

The people used to vote ANC and just boted ActionSA. I said it right here ⬆️ You must be really slow. I also don’t “keep saying it”. I said it once.

Do you know what language is for? So we can understand each other. To explain, make sense, for clarity. Were you a forceps birth?