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🎙️ From South Africa to Belfast: Immigration Anger Turns Violent

Join @Martin_ASFL, @NWoodeSmith and Zakhele Mthembu as they unpack some of the most pressing issues of the week.

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Rational Standard Podcast | 12 June 2026 https://t.co/J36xDCc1lx

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The DA needs better messaging.

@NWoodeSmith says South Africans don't want endless political attacks. They want to see results.

Jobs. Safer streets. Better services.

Instead of focusing on opponents, the DA should be showing voters what it has achieved and what it plans to fix next.

Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/CLgFF4OsDv

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This article is a salute to small scale farmers farming throughout the world and to a future for solid land reform solutions in South Africa.

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South Africans want answers, not political theatre.

@Joe_Emilio_ says the real question is what will be done about thousands of unaccounted-for parolees.

Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/rrhhNw7zCu

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The DA's criticism of Pieter Groenewald has sparked political debate.

But Zakhele Mthembu argues the real issue is being overlooked.

Thousands of parolees remain unaccounted for. Who is being held accountable?

Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/CLgFF4OsDv

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The Case of Arthur Vamva vs. Rhodes University. Who is allowed to police speech and belief?

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[Nicholas Woode-Smith @NWoodeSmith]

How about the communist slave labour camps? Or the mass graves of political dissidents? Or the millions dead of man-made famine?

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The ANC’s greatest fear is not poverty.

It governs poverty quite comfortably.

Its real fear is an independent, prosperous, educated middle class that no longer needs it.

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🎙️ DA Blunders, Political Opportunism, and the Henry Nowak Murder

Join the FMF’s @NWoodeSmith, Zakhele Mthembu and guest @Joe_Emilio_ on the @RationalStand Podcast as they unpack some of the most pressing issues of the week.

LINK: https://t.co/NZV2f4aCdv

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The purpose of policing is not to create the illusion of safety. It is to uphold the rule of law.

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South Africa does not need more “radical economic transformation.”

It needs electricity that works, police that protect, courts that function, property rights that mean something, and a government that stops punishing success.

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South Africa’s survival is not thanks to the ANC.

It is thanks to civil society, entrepreneurs, communities, families and ordinary people who keep holding the line against authoritarian incompetence.

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🎙️ DA Blunders, Political Opportunism, and the Henry Nowak Murder

Join @NWoodeSmith, Zakhele Mthembu and guest @Joe_Emilio_ as they unpack some of the most pressing issues of the week.

LINK: https://t.co/z2Y8NQhMyA

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Rational Standard Podcast | 5 June 2026 https://t.co/uH0MjB2PX0

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You are the parent, not the state.

@Martin_ASFL says protecting children is the responsibility of parents, not government, and warns against using children as a justification for expanding state control.

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Violence is not free speech.

@NWoodeSmith says free speech protects unpopular opinions, but threats, intimidation, and incitement to violence must be taken seriously.

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[Martin van Staden @Martin_ASFL]

It's because the DA (and presumably the PA) don't do vetting in any real sense. To their credit, GOOD does seem to take ideas and philosophy seriously - even if it is horrible, atrocious ideology.

Ideas matter /overridingly/ if you want to solve real problems in the real world.

It should ideally be next to impossible for someone from the ANC, EFF, or PA to simply join the DA (and, mark my words, Jacobs will have some kind of position sooner rather than later) without a true and obviously sincere attachment to a core of liberal values.