Gary van der Merwe

Dev, Opensource fanatic, Centrist Classical Liberal, Humanist

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@NicoletteBailey @CommonSense_ZA I'm extremely disappointed in JS. However I think your comparison is not fair. JS is guilty of poor performance and bad policy choices, unlike many in that ANC that are guilt of corruption.

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@DJSnM What is the thickness of the plate they drilling into?

[𝖱𝖤𝖢𝖮𝖭𝟣-San ®✞🇿🇦 @Recon1_ZA]

Age softens us...
As we get older, time passes more quickly.
Make the most of it.
We're not dead yet, boys.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Retards protested vehicle emissions, so a guy mass produced electric cars. The same retards now protest him for profiting by solving their issue.

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

This is the Government’s answer to illegal immigration - punish the middle class with fines for hiring people who provide value and are responsible for none of the violent crime in the country.

Also fining taxpayers isn’t going to solve the actual issue at play here.

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@RomanCabanac Then, I find a mistake or a place where it's lacking. 6 hrs later after finding good references I finally get the edit in. 😭

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@Martin_ASFL @KEdge23 Agree 100%. I think the data clearly shows social media is very harmful for children. I've gone to great lengths to prevent our son from accessing social media. I would recommend to other parents to do so to. But under no circumstances should the state force us to do so.

[Chris Hattingh 🇿🇦🌐🚢🏭📈 @ChrisHatt11]

"The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it." -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

[Yeah But Cyclists @but_cyclists]

It's unbelievable that we allow people to ride bicycles with no training. We should force them to take a test to obtain a licence like motorists have to:

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.

His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.

Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.

They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.

Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.

Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.

Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.

We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.

The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

I just don’t understand all the Elon Musk criticism.

He isn’t impoverishing anyone. He hasn’t got wealthy by making others poor.

Quite the opposite.

He made something people want. They paid for it because it gave them value. He created jobs, paid taxes and made people wealthy.

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@Recon1_ZA It's so bad. Constant water and electricity outages. Potholes take years to get fixed. Side walks get dug up and never restored. Infrastructure decay everywhere. 😢

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

A recent study found that some South African companies spend more on race law compliance than they earn in profit, with one firm paying 307% of its annual profit to achieve Level 2 BEE status.

Race laws are destroying the South African economy and jobs.
https://t.co/dzgTPwH1Cv

[Hitchslap @Hitchslap1]

Real.

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

This is why the DA can not be written off as some claim. Inside the DA are genuinely good people with strong morals and values who try to, and given more power would make the country a better place. These individuals act as a bulwark against those in the party who seek to be the ANC with better PR. It is not hyperbolic to say that it is in everyone’s interests that the Ians of the party ultimately win against the Ryans of the party.

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@johannesmollerh @jsteenhuisen I voted DA. I'm extremely disappointed in JS as he failed to follow DA policy at a critical moment. I can easily understand how other people are extremely upset. This affects everyone (well, maybe excluding vegans.)

[Saxon African @Saxon_African]

I found it really weird that there were no charts showing the deportation rates that date back further than 2019...

I guess now we know why, They want us to see total underperformance as success.

[Gary van der Merwe @GaryvdM]

@Jonathan_Witt Although I wish this was true, I don't believe it is so.

I think this guy knows more about it than me:
https://t.co/BLhabjj7cb

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

DISCLOSURE: Eskom finally hands over years of diesel and coal contracts to AfriForum after long transparency court battle.

AfriForum is now preparing to study these contracts in detail – with the help of a panel of handpicked experts 🔎

https://t.co/vw4hVTri0l

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸 “I was following GPS and wound up here”

A woman drove into the rail in Seattle. The incoming train had to be stopped and the stuck car removed with a crane.

But why lock the car? You can’t park there ma’am!