A new Federal Reserve paper concludes that the surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration contributed to higher housing costs, estimating roughly a 30% increase in home prices and a 20% increase in rents.
When demand rises faster than housing can be built, everyday Americans end up paying the price.
Fikile, you’ve spent years defending a government that has presided over rolling blackouts, collapsing infrastructure, rampant corruption, failing schools, soaring unemployment and one of the world’s highest violent crime rates. Spare us the lectures on patriotism.
Patriotism isn’t demanding that athletes keep quiet while politicians fail the country. Patriotism is wanting South Africa to be better.
Athletes wear the badge to represent 60 million South Africans, not to become mouthpieces for politicians. They don’t surrender their right to hold personal political views because they put on a national jersey.
If your biggest concern is what an athlete thinks instead of why so many South Africans are frustrated with political leadership, you’ve completely lost sight of what public service is supposed to be.
AfriForum has received a clean audit every year since the organisation's establishment 20 years ago – an achievement that only about 10% of South African municipalities have.
What squirrel really means,
“Dear Fellow South African,
As we mark 30 years since the adoption of our Constitution, we can indeed reflect on the political culture that has been built in South Africa.
A culture where corruption has become normalized.
A culture where cadres loot while millions live without dignity.
A culture where rolling blackouts, collapsing infrastructure, violent crime, unemployment, and institutional decay are treated as acceptable collateral.
We can reflect on Phala Phala.
On millions of undeclared dollars hidden in couches.
On theft concealed instead of transparently reported.
On endless explanations that insult the intelligence of ordinary South Africans.
We can reflect on a government where politicians enrich themselves while citizens barricade their homes, avoid walking at night, and watch roads, rail, policing, healthcare, and municipalities collapse around them.
We can reflect on the farce of being told we live in a “robust democracy” while corruption inquiries come and go with little accountability and almost no meaningful consequences for the politically connected.
We can reflect on a political culture where:
• the connected get richer,
• the poor get poorer,
• criminals operate freely,
• race is weaponized for political survival,
• and accountability remains selective.
South Africans are not angry because they hate democracy.
They are angry because they were promised one thing and delivered another.
The Constitution was supposed to protect the people from the state.
Instead, many feel abandoned by the very institutions meant to serve them.
The greatest threat to South Africa is no longer apartheid.
It is corruption, incompetence, lawlessness, and the systematic erosion of trust under ANC governance.
That is the real legacy many South Africans are living with today.”
Well done squirrel @CyrilRamaphosa
FM @RonaldLamola, you blame concerns about violence and failed governance on "MAGA politics." Ghana and Nigeria just airlifted their citizens out of your country. Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s Left-wing policies. Unemployment still remains at 33% while you and corrupt government elites get rich while promoting race-based laws and chanting "Kill the Boer." If caring about your own citizens is MAGA, South Africa might want to give it a try.
Charlie Kirk dies for speaking.
Lefties: “good! He deserved it!
Ayatollah dies for taking over 10 million lives since 1979.
Lefties: “You can’t just kill people you don’t like!”
🚨 GLOBALISM JUST DIED IN DAVOS
Howard Lutnick just walked into the lion’s den — and told the World Economic Forum exactly what they didn’t want to hear.
“Globalism has failed.”
Not whispered.
Not softened.
Declared — on their own stage.
He dismantled the entire WEF doctrine in minutes:
• Offshoring hollowed out the West
• Cheap labor destroyed innovation
• Net Zero made Europe dependent on China
• Sovereignty begins with borders
• Nations must control their industry, energy, and medicine
Then came the line that shook the room:
“Why would Europe agree to Net Zero when they don’t even make a battery?”
That’s the truth globalists can’t answer.
Green agendas without industry.
Climate pledges without sovereignty.
Moral posturing while outsourcing power to Beijing.
America First isn’t isolation.
It’s independence.
And Lutnick made it crystal clear:
The old model is finished.
The globalist experiment has failed.
And the future belongs to nations that put their people first.
Davos just heard the obituary — live.