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[Rieb van Janbeeck @RiebvJanbeeck]

My advice to young White South Africans:

Go work abroad. See the world. Gain experience and skills where you aren’t held back for being White. Make some money. Get a second citizenship.

Then if you choose to go back to South Africa you do so from a position of strength and aren’t stuck there if things deteriorate further.

[INFIL // EXFIL 🇿🇦 @InfilExfil]

This has to be the best speech that has come out of South Africa in at least the last decade.

To be frank, I don't think many South Africans have the capacity to understand what @ErnstRoets is really saying. Not because it's complicated, but because it's difficult to envision something you've never experienced. And when an idea challenges the political framework you've grown up with, it's far easier to dismiss it than to genuinely listen.

It's easy to complain. Much harder to suggest solutions to immediate problems.

The delivery is extremely clear and unbiased.
Ernst acknowledges diversity.
He acknowledges strength in diversity.
He acknowledges the problem of central power not just post-94, but also pre-94.

The argument isn't leveled against a party, nor a race.
Ernst isn't attacking people.
He's challenging a system.
Not to take from anyone, but to provide for more.

All economic factors, crime, corruption, maladministration, etc., support everything he says.

Unfortunately...
People will hear a name, pick a side, hear the politics...
BEFORE THEY EVER HEARD THE QUESTION.

Few...

[Handre @Handre]

In 1949, roughly two million Kuomintang soldiers, officials, and civilians fled to Taiwan carrying almost nothing. Within thirty years, Taiwan posted GDP growth averaging close to 9 percent annually, built one of Asia's most competitive electronics industries, and gave ordinary workers real wage gains that mainland China, sealed under Mao Zedong's collectivism, would not match for decades. This contrast is a controlled experiment in political economy.

The refugees who landed on Taiwan had little choice but to produce. Chiang Kai-shek's government, chastened by losing the mainland, implemented a genuine land reform in 1953 that broke up absentee landlordism and handed title to the farmers who actually worked the soil. Secure property rights created the incentive to invest and improve. Farmers grew more because the harvest belonged to them, not to a committee in Beijing.

From the 1950s onward, Taiwan's planners (and they were imperfect, nobody denies that) kept currency relatively sound, maintained contract enforcement, and allowed private capital to accumulate. Small and medium enterprises multiplied without seeking permission from a central plan. By 1980, Taiwan's per capita income exceeded mainland China's by a factor of roughly fifteen. You cannot attribute that gap to geography, ethnicity, or culture; both populations share the same civilization.

Mainland China, meanwhile, destroyed capital through collectivization, killed somewhere between 15 and 55 million people in the Great Leap Forward famine of 1959 to 1961, and then wrecked whatever remained of voluntary exchange during the Cultural Revolution. Central planning actively consumes the human and physical capital required to produce anything at all.

Taiwan's prosperity emerged from treating property as inviolable, prices as information, and individuals as agents rather than resources to be allocated. The island proved that even desperate, stateless refugees accumulate wealth rapidly when government protects exchange rather than directing it.

[Wayne Duvenage @wayneduv]

If it looks like a pig, walks like a pig and smells like it pig… This spending stinks of corruption and / or gross maladministration. Aaron Motsoaledi has a lot to answer for here. https://t.co/HyscYqlhqG

[Martin van Staden @Martin_ASFL]

The Common Sense is the only notable English language press outlet in South Africa that has been on the side of good on the White Cross Project. This is wonderful, balanced coverage. TCS deserves your support.

[Essie @Essiex2a]

The truth about apartheid and why it was implemented in the first place,
The world refused to listen to us in the 1980's....you will soon understand the full picture when you are faced with the exact same problems we had to deal with,Israel already got a glimpse off the kind off propaganda war we got confronted with,its about to get far worse,we know cause we had to face it 40 years ago.@WanjiruNjoya @Will_Tanner_1 @EndWokeness @visegrad24 @europa @USUN @elonmusk The ANC was never about human rights ,it was to turn SA in a communist state with a two stage revolution

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

Why we KNOW fossil fuels played a completely negligible role in the rise of atmospheric CO₂

in plain English

1. Carbon has a fingerprint.
Carbon atoms come in two stable kinds. One is a little heavier than the other. Every source of carbon on Earth has its own mix of heavy and light atoms, and scientists measure that mix as a single number. Think of it as a fingerprint. Coal, oil, and gas have a fingerprint of minus 28. Carbon dioxide bubbling out of the ocean has a fingerprint of minus 8. Volcanoes are minus 5. Dissolving limestone is 0. A lower number means lighter carbon. These fingerprints are measured facts, and the IPCC uses the same numbers.

2. You can read the fingerprint of whatever is being added to the air.
When carbon is added to the atmosphere, the atmosphere's fingerprint drifts toward the fingerprint of what was added. In 1958 Charles Keeling showed a simple way to read off the fingerprint of the added carbon directly from the air measurements. It is a graph. Plot the air's fingerprint against the amount of CO₂ in the air in a certain way and you get a straight line. Where that line meets the edge of the graph is the fingerprint of the net addition. This is not a computer model. It is bookkeeping. You count the heavy atoms, you count the light atoms, and the answer follows. Nothing about oceans, forests, or weather goes into it.

3. The fingerprint of the added carbon is minus 13.
Koutsoyiannis (2024) did this with the four Scripps monitoring stations in Alaska, California, Hawaii, and the South Pole, using records from about 1978 to today. Every station gives the same answer: minus 13.2, give or take 0.2. These are the same records the IPCC relies on. Two completely separate measurements say the same thing. A Caribbean sponge that grows in yearly layers, like tree rings, records ocean carbon back to about the year 1500. Its fingerprint is about minus 13 for all five centuries, with no drift. Air trapped in Antarctic ice at Law Dome, analyzed by Köhler et al. (2006), also gives minus 13. Three different materials, three different laboratories, five hundred years, one number.

4. Simple mixing math sets the range from the modern data alone.
Every carbon atom added to the air came either from fossil-fuel combustion or from some non-fossil-fuel source: the ocean, volcanoes, rock weathering, plants and soil. The fingerprint of the mix tells you how much came from each. It works like mixing paint. If you mix black and white and get a very light gray, you know there was very little black. Fossil-fuel carbon is the black, at minus 28. The ocean is the white, at minus 8. The measured mix is minus 13, much closer to the ocean than to fossil fuel.

The modern record from 1978 to today does not by itself pin down the exact fingerprint of the non-fossil-fuel carbon. It could be anywhere from minus 8 (pure ocean) down to minus 13 (matching the mix exactly). Run the mixing math across that whole range and the fossil-fuel share comes out somewhere between zero and 26 percent. That is what we know from the modern data alone: not more than 26 percent, possibly zero. The exact answer comes in step 6.

5. The official claim is impossible under any assumption.
The IPCC, NASA, NOAA, EPA, and Engelbeen, Hannon, and Burton (2024) say fossil-fuel combustion caused essentially all of the rise. That is close to 100 percent. "Dominant" by any normal meaning is at least 80 percent. Run the mixing math backwards and ask what the non-fossil-fuel carbon would have to look like for each of those claims to be true:

- For fossil fuel to be even a bare 50 percent, the non-fossil-fuel carbon would need a fingerprint of plus 1.6. No carbon source on Earth is that heavy.
- For 80 percent, it would need a fingerprint of plus 46. That is more than 20 times heavier than the heaviest source that exists.
- For 90 percent, it would need plus 120, about 60 times heavier than anything on Earth.
- For 100 percent, it would need to be infinitely heavy.

The official claims do not fall a little short. They require carbon sources that do not exist.

6. Five hundred years of no change gives the exact answer: essentially ZERO (0% fossil-fuel sources).
The modern data left one unknown: the fingerprint of the non-fossil-fuel carbon. The sponge and ice-core records supply it. In the year 1500 there was essentially no fossil-fuel burning, so the fingerprint of the added carbon then, minus 13, came entirely from non-fossil-fuel sources. That fixes the unknown at minus 13. Since 1500, fossil-fuel burning has grown about ten thousand times over. If fossil-fuel carbon were any real part of the added carbon, the fingerprint would have slid toward minus 28 as burning grew. It did not move. It is still minus 13 today. Put minus 13 for the non-fossil-fuel carbon and minus 13.2 for the modern mix into the mixing math and fossil fuel's share of the added carbon comes out at about 1 percent, which is zero within the measurement error. The range of zero to 26 percent from step 4 collapses to a single answer: essentially zero.

7. Why this is knowledge, not opinion.
The conclusion rests on three things only:
- counting atoms,
- the standard measured fingerprints of fossil-fuel carbon and the other sources, and
- the Scripps, sponge, and ice-core records.

The IPCC uses all three. Anyone who accepts all three and rejects the conclusion is refusing to do arithmetic. The only way out is to throw away one of the three, and each one is a foundation of the IPCC's own work, and nobody has done so anywhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

8. What is actually happening.
Burning fossil fuel does put CO₂ into the air. That is measured at the smokestack. But a CO₂ molecule stays in the air only about four years on average before the ocean or plants take it back. So fossil-fuel CO₂ never piles up. Add up all fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 with that four-year turnover and only about 4 percent of the carbon in today's air came from fossil fuel. The growth in atmospheric CO₂ since the industrial revolution came from non-fossil-fuel sources.

Fossil fuel's share of that growth is essentially zero.

[Maverick @MaxPatricius]

The highest court in South Africa just declared Race Based Legislation unconstitutional and therefore not enforceable.
The same Race Based Legislation that the ruling elite is denying. Now how is it possible that it doesn't exist if the Concourt ruled on it's illegality? 🧐🧐🧐🧐
Heartburn, Hypertension and Anxiety loading. 😂😂
@POTUS , @SecRubio and @elonmusk was right all along......again.
https://t.co/eaNlowuFKp
https://t.co/8xQDXVUBQ1

[Rob @Pietsebroer]

@DominarMac @wayneduv Shithole if Africa

[Pookie's Polls & Opinions @pookiepolls]

The ANC has failed the people of South Africa, and children will carry the consequences longest.

Gauteng has reportedly built just 202 public schools in 32 years, roughly six a year, while spending more than R1.4 billion on temporary classrooms over five years.

Yet, according to Gauteng legislature member Sergio Isa Dos Santos, numerous schools inherited from the pre-1994 government stand abandoned and unused. He has called for viable buildings to be assessed, renovated and reopened to help address overcrowding. Source

How can a government defend chronic school shortages while existing school properties stand neglected? Where is the urgency to restore those that could serve children again?

Do they even care? No, they do not. All they care about is stealing taxpayers money, getting fat, drunk and shopping at Gucci.

Every abandoned school that could be restored represents an opportunity being squandered. Every year of inadequate education narrows a child’s prospects, with consequences that can follow their family for generations.

The ANC’s legacy of gross corruption, incompetence and neglect reaches far beyond public money. It has stolen opportunities, diminished lives and robbed children of futures they should have had a fair chance to build.

Even if the money is recovered and the schools are eventually rebuilt, those kids are as good as doomed.

How the hell are they supposed to offer anything but the most basic of manual labour without an education.

Repairing this damage will take generations, and that is even if it can ever be fully repaired.

The children paying the price had no part in creating it, but those who continued to vote for the ANC (especially along racial lines) are just as culpable.

They knew that the ANC were corrupt, but as long as whitey was being punished they simply did not care.

The alternative, is that they are too stupid to know the difference. Both scenarios can not be true at the same time.

GFY, @MYANC and GFY each and every one of you that continue to blame white people for the mess that you created.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Earth's climate has always been in a state of steady, endless imbalance, flux, and readjustment. This is almost entirely due to the constantly flowing, tidal vastness of the oceans.

The world's five interconnected oceans loom as a source of mystery. While scientists have mapped the surface of Mars and the Moon, 80% of the oceans are unmapped, and are among the greatest unknowns on Earth. A majority of people can only gaze out at the ocean horizons stretching around the globe or walk in the shallows along the coast.

That is all most people ever see or experience.

The ponderous, orderly, ceaseless, and silent underworld movements of deep ocean waters are built upon the planetary memories of a 4.6-billion-year history. Almost nothing in this ocean world changes quickly.

The melting of vast glacial ice caps over the northern landmasses as the planet warmed after 19,000 years ago took the best part of 9,000 years. Oceans rose 120 meters globally, with sea levels climbing at an average rate of approximately 13.3 millimeters—about 1.33 centimeters—each year (or half an inch).

This was the warming phase into today's 11,700-year-long warm interglacial, the Holocene, merely one cycle in a global glacial reign that has lasted 2.58 million years. Our planet rebalanced itself from icehouse conditions without our permission or help. This planetary-scale de-icing has defined more than 40 similar shifts from an icehouse world to the warm, habitable, and fluctuating environments that characterise much of the Age of Mammals.

The world's five interconnected oceans are the overwhelming measure of Earth's capacity to retain heat and offset perpetual ice ages. It's pure physics. Because water covers nearly three-quarters of the planet (72%), the world is shielded from extreme temperature swings. Land heats and cools rapidly, but the massive, deep mass of the ocean acts as the ultimate planetary buffer zone.

Oceans contain roughly 90% of all the world's retained heat, while the atmosphere retains less than 1%. Water has an exceptionally high specific heat capacity, meaning it can absorb massive amounts of thermal energy with only a slight increase in temperature.

The movement of tropical warm waters to the Northern Hemisphere is driven by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of a global ocean conveyor belt circulating on thousand-year cycles. Warm surface waters work their way north, releasing heat into the atmosphere as they reach places like Western Europe.

As a result, the UK and Scandinavia are significantly warmer and more habitable than other areas at the exact same latitude, such as Canada or Siberia—homes to endless tundra, peat bogs, icy, frosted biomes, and ghostly, empty treescapes.

Waters deeper than 200 meters cover 66% to 90% of the total ocean environment, spreading across most of the non-land surface area. The average ocean depth is 2.3 miles, and the deepest point—the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench—reaches nearly 11,000 meters, deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

These great ocean waters combine with water vapor, clouds, storms, winds, and solar cycles to ceaselessly redistribute heat. It isn't just a water blanket—it's a massive, continuous phase-change engine that moves heat from surface to sky through evaporation, condensation, and cloud cover, reflecting sunlight back into space before it ever hits the deck.

The top three meters of the ocean hold as much heat energy as the entire atmosphere above it. Yet we think we understand the fine machinery of the world's climate.
The oceans are so vast that their sheer mass prevents the atmosphere from warming at a runaway pace.

The misconception is that thermal transport is primarily atmospheric. If that were true, global air temperatures would be drastically higher than they are today.

Meanwhile, CO₂ makes up roughly four-hundredths of one percent of the atmosphere, playing its vital, priceless role in photosynthesis and the green web of life.

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

Yesterday my daughter, who is studying in the United States, attended the Springboks versus All Blacks match in Baltimore.

She spent five years of her life in that city before moving to Cleveland. At the stadium she bumped into an old school mate from Dainfern College who now lives in Florida. Two South Africans, far from home, finding each other in a crowd of more than 68,000. It was already an emotional moment.

What neither of them expected was how deeply they would be moved by our national anthem. Standing there, thousands of kilometres from home, singing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika. Pride in our roots. Pride in our diversity. Pride in excellence. And faith - watching the circle and the kneeling that followed the final whistle.

That image stayed with me.

There is a well known observation in India, popularised by Gurcharan Das, that “India grows at night while the government sleeps.” It captures a country whose people and enterprises often advance despite, rather than because of, the state. South Africa has that same untapped potential. We see it in the Springboks. World-class performance is not confined to the rugby field. It exists across our people, our businesses, our communities. We have what it takes.

What we still need is simple, and it is hard:
Create a genuinely business-friendly environment.
Confront crime with seriousness and consistency.
Appoint leaders in both the private and public sectors on merit.

Those three interventions would allow this country to occupy the place it deserves among the winning nations of the world.

We are a resilient people. Our character has been forged in difficulty. In a volatile world, that character is not a weakness. It is an advantage.

The Springboks keep showing us what is possible when talent, discipline, purpose and belief come together. The rest of the country can do the same.

We have the people. We have the potential. Now we must get our act together and grow during the day as well.

#Springboks #RugbysGreatestRivalry #BetOnSouthAfrica #Leadership #Merit #SouthAfrica #ProudlySA

[Willem Petzer @willempet]

Five months ago SAPS begged the public for healthy working dogs.

The public donated 40. Fourteen went to the same kennel where Sky was already being kept.

Sky spent 18 hours a day in a dark box, smashed herself trying to escape, and this week — at five years old — was put down.

They beg for your dogs. Then the dogs die of neglect.

https://t.co/Yhrnay7CIJ

[Faan Geyser @Formentco]

Goeie vraag. Baie goeie vraag

[Pieter @pieterplats2628]

@ConCaracal Wonder waar kom die uitskot soos Max Pieter dT Adriaan Charlize Prof Piet en de Vos Ruda et al. vandaan?

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

'Ons voorouers was nie boos nie.’

Splinternuwe dokumentêr vertel die ware storie van die Afrikaners wat voor ons geveg en gebou het, en vat politici se bogstories oor die verlede aan.
https://t.co/LYuLeaMoMe

[Sir Lebona Cabonena @LCabonena]

UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT THE ANC!!!!!!

As president of the African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa is nominally in charge of what could be the largest criminal syndicate in the history of South Africa, Under the custodianship of the ANC regime, billions upon billions of Tax-payers money, destined to improve the lives of citizens, has been stolen and embezzled.

But, people seem to forget, or are ignorant of the fact, that no president in post-apartheid South Africa had the autonomy to make any decisions on their own. Those who try, will be removed. In reality, the power in South Africa is vested in the members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC – dictating to Parliament and the President. This means that all South African policy is controlled by an 80-strong cabal ostensibly “elected” by ANC members. It has been clearly demonstrated, over and over again, by the fact the interests of the ANC will always be served to the detriment of South Africa and it’s citizens.

Over the past three decades, the ANC single-handedly destroyed South Africa, its fiscus, its civil service, its health care, its education system, its infrastructure, its rule of law, its international reputation, its economy and its people.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

The Rhodesian belief that "white supervision" was mandatory was pure racism.

But the tragedy is that liberation patronage spent 45 years proving that racist assumption right.

Ian Smith and white Rhodesians didn't have divine foresight or superpowers.

They just accurately read the room.

They knew the incoming elites didn't want to build a nation; they just wanted to occupy the kitchen and eat.

Mugabe and his cronies never cared about the black majority, morals, or salvation. Power wasn't a tool for liberation; it was an ego trip and a cash cow.

The promise of "freedom" was a multi-generational heist. They inherited a fully functional machine, stripped it for parts, and ran the entire country's infrastructure, industry, and economy into the dirt.

They didn't liberate the people. They just nationalised the looting.

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Frederick Douglas: "Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!"

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

I first met Charlie Kirk more than ten years ago. At that time, he was very young, and possessed an evangelical naivety that was relatively foreign to a Canadian.

He was truly and somewhat amusingly shocked, for example, at the pervasive smell of marijuana on the streets of Toronto.

It was obvious, however—despite that sheltered mien—that Charlie was someone deeply and singularly committed to a unique mission, and that he would be driven to learn everything necessary to its success.

I met him in person another dozen times after that, and was asked to speak at a number of Turning Point events.

I enjoyed the events. It was a very good thing to see thousands of enthusiastic young people trying to make things better in their somehow endearing conservative American way.

It was also fascinating to watch Charlie develop in sophistication over the years. The bravery he showed in presenting a truly conservative viewpoint on university campuses was part of that development, as was the ferocious skill he developed at debating contentious issues, under trying conditions, for years.

My wife, Tammy, and I met his lovely wife Erika with him on several private dinners. They made a truly admirable and mutually respectful couple. We had plans to make such meetings a regular occurrence—but life, and death, got in the way.

I was not informed about Charlie's murder for several months after it occurred, in consequence of my recent illness. It came as a terrible shock.

It is also truly awful to see what a spectacle has been made of his demise by pathological actors across the political spectrum.

He was a solid, decent, hard-working, truthful, brave person.

We are all—right and left alike—lesser without him.

On the right: because he was an example and a leader.

On the left: because he would willingly talk across the aisle, and in good faith.

There will come a day—and too soon, I am afraid—when even those who vilify his memory will long for the days when people such as Charlie existed, and made such civilized talk a priority.

I had the privilege to sit down with Charlie and talk with him about his life and the world not so many months before that was no longer possible: https://t.co/1b3U5MxGB1

RIP Mr. Kirk. I write that in true sorrow.

[Faan Geyser @Formentco]

Long, long time ago. Even amusement tax….. collected by cinemas as part of the ticket. Today we have our amusement free gratis and for free watching the antics of the cadres. But below the surface, deep down, a Gulf Stream of money being stolen from all of us.

[Rory Duncan @RoryDuncan1966]

I remember having a dog license, bicycle license, Ham Radio license, fishing license, among many others. We bought them at the Post Office. I also remember that it was illegal to hang laundry from your balcony and municipal police who would inspect and fine. But that was long ago