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So here goes, the complete thread on "The Tyranny of Pretty Things" 88kilosofsunshine.bandcamp.c…
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In 1993, Donald Trump & Jeffrey Epstein approached Beatrice Keul at the Plaza Hotel and told her their friend Paolo Zampolli would take care of her Visa for her.
Donald Trump later invited her upstairs where he raped her.
He told her to keep quiet because “The show must go on.”
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There's a rather eerie honesty about Eugene de Kock. I followed his trial religiously and remember what he said then: 'Everyone wants to eat the chops, but none want blood and guts in their hands.'
Everything he said does not only expose the cruelty of apartheid, but it also demonstrates the complicity and deceitfulness of ANC leaders as well as the treachery and callousness of Inkatha.
The phrase I referenced highlights a central theme often raised by critics and historians: that while state agents like de Kock carried out the direct violence, entire political systems, military structures, and opposing factions operated within an environment of strategic compromises, covert agreements, and shifting alliances.
He was known as “Prime Evil.” Now he says he knows who gave the orders. Eugene de Kock, former commander of apartheid South Africa’s notorious Vlakplaas death squad, testified today before the Khampepe Commission. He claims prosecutors never approached him for evidence that could expose senior officials behind apartheid-era killings. Before becoming commander of Vlakplaas, De Kock served in Rhodesia with South Africa's security forces. De Kock was sentenced to two life terms plus 212 years in 1996 but was released on parole in 2015.
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Now we learn that Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie has a financial interest in Ticketpro which has exclusivity with CSA and SAFA. The conflict of interest is blindingly obvious. Well done to SA20 organisers for terminating its relationship with Ticketpro.
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Due to the Islamification of South African food & drink, I will be selling non-Halaal water (for home and business use). I use a patented system where we play the water Hillsong until it starts vibrating, so you know the Inshallah has been vibrated out. DM for enquiries.
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The Springbok Women have climbed to 9th in the world...their highest ranking yet! 💚💛🇿🇦💚💛
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My article on our so-called "race-based laws", as a standalone read
conflict-conversations.co.za…
The halaal moral panic reminds me of the words of the great philosopher Michael McDonald in the Book of the Doobies.
"What a fool believes, he sees
No wise man has the power, to reason away
What seems to be"
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Read my whole Business Day column here: businessday.co.za/opinion/20…
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IF SOUTH AFRICA WERE EXCLUDED FROM AGOA, the country would face an additional Most Favoured Nation tariff of around 3.4% on top of the existing tariffs the current U.S. Administration added to various countries.
Currently, some South African products enter the U.S. market at 12.5% tariffs (Liberation Day tariff). Without AGOA, these tariffs would rise to 15.9%, slightly reducing the competitiveness of South African agricultural products in the U.S. market.
Still, one could argue that while this would be a challenging path, IT WOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE AS CATASTROPHIC as we have faced in the past, when it faced much higher U.S. tariffs and still managed to compete.
For example, in 2025, those of us in the South African farming sector faced tariffs of around 30%. Still, exports to the U.S. were strong. South Africa’s agricultural exports to the U.S. in 2025 totalled US$504 million, down 3% from the previous year.
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A perspective on AGOA from an industry expert. Sober, pragmatic and instructive! Read this 👇🏾
IF SOUTH AFRICA WERE EXCLUDED FROM AGOA, the country would face an additional Most Favoured Nation tariff of around 3.4% on top of the existing tariffs the current U.S. Administration added to various countries.
Currently, some South African products enter the U.S. market at 12.5% tariffs (Liberation Day tariff). Without AGOA, these tariffs would rise to 15.9%, slightly reducing the competitiveness of South African agricultural products in the U.S. market.
Still, one could argue that while this would be a challenging path, IT WOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE AS CATASTROPHIC as we have faced in the past, when it faced much higher U.S. tariffs and still managed to compete.
For example, in 2025, those of us in the South African farming sector faced tariffs of around 30%. Still, exports to the U.S. were strong. South Africa’s agricultural exports to the U.S. in 2025 totalled US$504 million, down 3% from the previous year.
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One of the men who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year was a Palestinian-American, Omar Yaghi.
Racist POS.
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South African road-running star Gerda Steyn says she’s lost hope of ever receiving her R90 000 prize money from the Soweto Marathon, nearly a year after finishing third in the race.
✍️🏽 SABC Sport's @CharlesBaloyi_
#SABCSportAthletics
sabcsport.com/news/gerda-ste…
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DA ward candidate Yola Minnaar survived two petrol-bomb attacks on her home and a safehouse within 30 minutes of each other on Sunday night. Helen Zille called the incidents “intimidation of the worst kind”. The bombs narrowly missed rooms where children were sleeping, but Minnaar says she won’t be scared off the ballot.
news24.com/southafrica/news/…
It is embarrassing how eager some of the press is to believe any garbage as long as it is critical of South Africa.
The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA) has issued an urgent warning to the South African government that the country faces a credible risk of losing its preferential trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), despite the recent extension of the program until December 2028.
SACCUSA President Mr Neil Diamond has called on the South African government to make the preservation of AGOA eligibility and the strengthening of US–South Africa trade relations an immediate national economic priority.
#sabcnews
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Dear newsrooms, let's bring back basic research into our profession. SACCUSA is a discredited private NPO run by Neil Diamond (🇿🇦 expat)—a simple search lists his past controversies like municipal land-swap probes to bitter property grab disputes with vulnerable widows. He recently reportedly fabricated a fictitious list of "67,000 Afrikaner refugees" to harvest data, only to be humiliated & publicly bypassed by the US Gov. Please speak to legit business organisations in the USA & SA to get informed, credible & reliable views/data on 🇺🇲🇿🇦 bilateral matters.
The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA) has issued an urgent warning to the South African government that the country faces a credible risk of losing its preferential trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), despite the recent extension of the program until December 2028.
SACCUSA President Mr Neil Diamond has called on the South African government to make the preservation of AGOA eligibility and the strengthening of US–South Africa trade relations an immediate national economic priority.
#sabcnews
Die Orania Paradoks - n Kwantitatiewe ontleding deur die Universiteit van die Lewe
uvdl.co.za/uvdl_view_study.p…
