Martin van Staden
@Martin_ASFL
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Head of Policy @FMFSouthAfrica | Columnist @DailyFriendSA | Policy Fellow @ConsumerChoiceC | LLM (𝘤𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦) LLD student @UPTuks. Tweets=own opinion. 🦅
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Joined August 2009
We have to stop pretending like we have the same mindset as these people. We find it flabbergasting that such a thing could happen. To the anti-civilisationists who govern this country, they are flabbergasted at our reaction. This is just normal to them. Happened when it was.
The presence of M23 representatives at the second annual African Peace and Security Dialogue in Magaliesburg, Gauteng, has puzzled the South African government. | @City_Press.
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RT @RockChartrand: “People over profit” sounds noble until you realize profit is people choosing what makes their lives better. You can’t s….
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Meanwhile, parents always seem to coast away from these events like innocent little angels. Society needs to learn to hold parents at least partly accountable for what their kids end up doing, even later in their lives. Parents have one job, and failing at that job is socially.
I was a public school teacher in the hood for 11 years, and I know this type of kid. The type that would smack the kid sitting in front of him, tell the teacher “IDGAF” when corrected, and ruin an entire year’s worth of learning for the entire class. His special education
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These people want to impoverish you. This headline alone represents the collapse of the social contract, but there are multiple other instances besides. Central banks aren't employment creators. If they aren't protecting the value of the currency, they're destroying economies.
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RT @ASZulu: It doesn't take too long to realise that the so-called "impartial" voices also have biases and their own agenda. What separat….
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RT @RockChartrand: Democracy doesn’t end force, it just puts it to a vote. Fifty-one percent bullying forty-nine isn’t freedom.
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Is it really any surprise that jurisdictions that recognise the agency, dignity, and choice of people will tend to perform better?.
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Evidence has been in for years:. The closer any society gets to "pure capitalism", the more prosperity and freedom inevitably results. The closer it gets to "pure communism," the more the bodybags pile up. This tells us plenty. The only reason "mixed economies" work is because.
Indeed, neither “pure” communism nor “pure” capitalism has ever existed. But the reasons matter. Pure communism has never existed because it can’t. Strip away all freedom, and people starve. Even the harshest communist regimes had to smuggle in scraps of markets just to survive.
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We should feel at ease to blame the judges, by name, who countenance this brazenly bad faith behaviour. They should all grant expedited eviction orders, not drag their feet for "humanitarian" reasons.
Residents in Erasmia, Tshwane are demanding urgent action after hundreds of shacks were erected along the R511. Locals say the structures are on private land and allege plots are being sold unlawfully. #eNCA #DStv403 #NewsLink
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Face of pure evil. Trying to find new and better ways to increase revenue whilst the state remains criminally and ideologically corrupt is unethical. He is no better than bookkeepers and accountants for the mob.
Taxman has a new tech-savvy target in South Africa. The South African Revenue Service has detailed how it plans to tax Internet influencers in the country.
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Only the pro-consumer choice side can be "conflicted" and "captured.". Those who seek to curb freedom of choice, of course, are always acting in the "public interest," regardless of the many real conflicts of interest they represent. 🤡.
Just more shenanigans. Meanwhile, it's noteworthy that on 1 June 2023, the Portfolio Committee on Health welcomed a briefing from the Department of Health, led by the Deputy Minister, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, who is now the chairperson of the Committee deliberating the bill.🤦♂️🙆♂️.
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Change a few cosmetics and you might as well be listening to South African government minister. This is real banana republic stuff. Americans can do better than this - get all the benefits of RFK but without /this/. There's enough exceptional conservatives in that country.
A reminder: RFK Jr. claimed COVID was “ethnically targeted” to attack Caucasians & Black people while sparing Jews and Chinese people. Every GOP senator who voted to confirm this Charlatan anti-vaxxer crank knew exactly what would happen. They didn’t care.
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RT @CommonSense_ZA: David Ansara: "With the right mindset and by making the correct choices, South Africa can get up off the canvas relativ….
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RT @SkyeZedA: Something that’s still bothering me is that the City was inflating our electricity costs by 17c per unit for “city-wide clean….
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When they come for your freedom, it is usually prefaced with, "But think of the children!". Don't fall for it. Oldest trick in the book. The answer is and always must be an unequivocal "no.".
Only one week remains to put pressure on European member states to oppose the EU's plan to break end-to-end encryption via chat control. my article summing up the opposition's case in @euronews .
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RT @FMFSouthAfrica: The FMF is proud to announce that our Policy Officer Zakhele Mthembu is featured in the very first publication of the G….
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RT @the_iatp: 🇿🇦🇪🇺 "The Brussels effect, far from benevolent, fosters a regulatory hierarchy, shielding European markets while dooming glob….
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