Melanie Labuschagne

[Vusi Sambo @VusiSambo]

Same as that 35%–45% taxation on our performance bonuses. I’ve so far failed to come up with a logical & fair reason why government thugs deserve a generous share of such a personal reward & incentive I’ve earned from my hard-work, dedication & for achieving certain KPIs😵‍💫

[Tim Modise @TimModise]

What is the cause of mass migration including illegal immigration in South Africa and other parts of the continent and into Europe? Why is that never made the main issue when African leaders meet to discuss African unity?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

30 June: I took the bus this morning, and it was business as usual. We are keeping Cape Town working today. Our Metro Police and Law Enforcement are out across the city monitoring for any disruption attempts.

Cape Town is the only working city in SA. Today we will keep it that way and uphold law and order 🇿🇦

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Socialism is like a parasite. It needs a healthy capitalist host to survive.

It doesn't create much new wealth on its own. It mostly feeds off the productivity, innovation, and surplus that free markets generate. History keeps proving it.

[TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod]

“We love death, you love life. We win.”

Melanie Phillips argues the West is failing to deter Iran and Islamist adversaries because it is unwilling to endure long-term sacrifice, undermining its own security in the process.

@MelanieLatest warns that if the West refuses to take pain, it loses, pointing out that Islamist movements are willing to endure endless suffering and loss, while the West recoils from pain. And that mismatch, she argues, is shaping the outcome of the conflict.

[Gideon Joubert @Paratus2014]

Great piece of writing from @ChrisHatt11 here:

"When people stop expecting or trusting the state to protect them, they organise their own protection, often along community, ethnic or political lines. This is the mechanism, slow and steady, by which a state’s monopoly on force disappears."

https://t.co/JJsvk5NshF

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

Imagine strapping an 8-kilo explosive vest on your 14yo son, promising him Islamic paradise for bravely blowing up Jews.

Then you watch IDF soldiers spot the threat, clear civilians, and calmly talk the boy into letting the bomb squad remove it — because jail is better than death.

Now imagine his family having the audacity to launch a global campaign, outraged that the ‘evil Jewish supremacists’ imprisoned their ‘sweet boy’ under ‘apartheid.’

You don’t have to imagine it. This is the Israeli experience, with far too many variations of it happening to absurd degrees.

[NW Morrow @morrow_nw]

It strikes one that the very country that took Israel to the ICJ for its attacks on Palestinians, is yet again indulging in violence and intimidation of foreigners in their own country.
Ja nee….

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

Voice your support for AfriForum's common sense proposal to make the fuel levy cut permanent 👇🏻

[Jacques Maree @JacquesMaree73]

If you're interested in the technical nitpicking of the AG that resulted in Cape Town's audit findings, as opposed to bleating with the herd on social media.

It's irrational NOT to take historic non-delivery into account when adjudicating a tender bid. Of course CT disputes it.

[Werner Human @WernerHuman18]

AfriForum fights Joburg’s R107 water levy in court.

In the @SundayTimesZA. https://t.co/DKPAdoO5Ok

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

MILTON FRIEDMAN:

“KEEP YOUR EYE ON ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY: HOW MUCH GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING, BECAUSE THAT’S THE TRUE TAX.”

“IF YOU’RE NOT PAYING FOR IT IN THE FORM OF EXPLICIT TAXES, YOU’RE PAYING FOR IT INDIRECTLY IN THE FORM OF INFLATION OR BORROWING.”

LEGENDARY WORDS.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.

When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.

However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.

Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."

Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.

For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.

Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.

[South African Institute of Race Relations @IRR_SouthAfrica]

The broken promise was transformation that reaches ordinary South Africans. The reality was a small circle of cadres, crooks and cronies collecting billions each from BEE mining deals, while millions of community members received almost nothing. This is what race-rigged empowerment produced.

Watch the Growth and Employment in Mining webinar: https://t.co/gCc1Y2KX13

[Martin van Staden @Martin_ASFL]

@Rdl_Cllr_PSwart He had no political mandate, legal mandate, or international mandate to fight a war against farmers. From the go, he should have decentralised vaccine processes and kept the department in an oversight role, helping those farmers who couldn't help themselves.

[Martin van Staden @Martin_ASFL]

I hope the Steenhuisen thing is a wake up call to the many good, well-meaning people in the DA who reflexively took his side just because he's "their guy" and assumed malice from the rest of us.

Very few of us criticise or call out the DA because we want to see the party fail. Rather assume that when we do it, we have a good reason that deserves some attention.

[Mat Nuclear @MatNuclear]

Israel made peace with Egypt in 1979, and hasn’t attacked it since.

Israel made peace with Jordan in 1994, and hasn’t attacked it since.

Saudi Arabia never attacked Israel, and Israel hasn’t attacked Saudi.

Maybe Israel just defends itself against enemy belligerents.

[Gareth van Onselen @GvanOnselen]

I wonder who all the immigrant hate mongers will turn to next, once they have chased every immigrant out the country and realise nothing has changed?

[uSakhile kaMkhulunyelwa @ASZulu]

Very important video.