Hermann Pretorius 🇿🇦
@Meneer_Mann
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Gladstonian classical liberal | Life, liberty, property | As He died to make men holy | Head of Strategic Communications @IRR_SouthAfrica
Joined June 2020
Keep an eye out for my first book, 'Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever'. Hitting bookshelves within next few days.
John Endres's very kind foreword to my first book, 'Rule Breakers: How the 2024 elections changed SA forever'. Off to the printers this week, my editor tells me. On sale within the next few weeks. Exciting and terrifying in equal measure.
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It takes quite a bit of guts to criticise a non-racial policy as a continuation of apartheid whilst defending a policy based on the racial classification of the Population Registration Act of 1950 - the cornerstone law of the entire apartheid system.
The Black Business Council, a lobby group that represents the interests of black businesses and professionals, has slammed the gazetted bill of the DA aimed at replacing B-BBEE, labeling it a continuation of apartheid. https://t.co/nm71Lp2Isj
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"I wouldn’t be surprised if they [the @MYANC] become a 15% party by 2035, I wouldn’t have said that five years ago," said @Meneer_Mann. Read more:
A policy meant to empower poorer Black South Africans has instead enriched elites connected to the ruling African National Congress, critics say, as support for the party dwindles
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Used to think this man a sensible classical liberal. Oh, dear. "Use your brain," he says whilst showing 0 grasp of the socio-economic mobility of a merit-based, free-market society. The baby-bathwater line of identity-based empowerment is provably absurd:
dailyfriend.co.za
“Broad-Based” Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) reduces being economically excluded to being black. Even if this unsupported and contentious position were true, B-BBEE would still be an inherently...
@Our_DA Use your brain. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater....watch this fot eduction.... https://t.co/vejmtIbhF7
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Poplap is such an annoying creature. Imagine being so trapped in your own little luvvy anti-intellectual bubble that you've smugly missed the free-market criticisms on Trump's control-economy idiocy. And worse, thinking you're making some edgy point... https://t.co/WLn8bfJOMI
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He wears red, he speaks maniacally about racial discord, he brandishes weapons on stage, and he lives like a pimp. Most importantly, he wants to nationalise everything from your breakfast cereal to...
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Boy, people really don't understand freedom of speech.
@DanielJHannan Wrong kind of freedom of speech, eh?
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The cognitive dissonance is astonishing.
So moving to visit the ‘Speak Their Name’ exhibition in Parliament. The beautiful quilts are created by families & friends in loving memory of someone they’ve lost to suicide. A powerful reminder of the need for continued work on suicide prevention: https://t.co/XvzgTadokI
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Yeesh. Out of touch, much?
I think you're derranged when things don't go right politicians must be blamed even though most of the time they take responsibility even for things wich are not of their making (and is called accountability) , When is time to celebrate politicians must be isolated is that not
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The fact is that all race-based empowerment policies like B-BBEE are conceptually misaligned with the real barriers to and engines of economic upliftment, argues @Meneer_Mann. Read more on @BizNewsCOM:
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Key topics:B-BBEE enriches elites, failing to uplift South Africa’s poorest citizens.Race-based empowerment ignores real barriers: education, health, housing.Tr
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My nuutste vir @RapportSA: ‘Skrik wakker – ons krisis met korrupsie strek veel wyer as ’n paar vrot appels’
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Suid-Afrikaners moet ophou om hulself aan die slaap te sus met die gevaarlike fabel dat die land se korrupsie-krisis deur blote strenger wetstoepassing opgelos kan word, skryf Hermann Pretorius.
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My latest for @DailyFriendSA: "B-BBEE operates less as a ladder for the poor than as an elevator for an elite already on the inside." https://t.co/ygZ5arYHbf
dailyfriend.co.za
“Broad-Based” Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) reduces being economically excluded to being black. Even if this unsupported and contentious position were true, B-BBEE would still be an inherently...
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Grow up. Move on. Focus on what matters. The Nobel Peace Prize has been mostly a joke for a while now. This has been clear since at least 2009 when Obama won it over Morgan Tsvangirai.
White House slams Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump
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Imagine SA has a constitutional right to free expression. Oh, wait. Not necessary to imagine it. You're free to spin rubbish about besmirchment, weird simping, and to pretend people are responsible for things they had nothing to do with. And I'm free to call you a dolt. Dolt.
Imagine thinking you can besmirch the legacy of a man who fought against the crime against humanity that your forefathers designed and implemented, and which your ilk sill simp for. Tone done and absolute cuntish behaviour.
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It's like there's a massive scarecrow business going on here. Strawmen being constructed with blistering speed.
Yet you people like to tell us, the victims of apartheid to forget and move on
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I see the bots are out in full swing. The only thing the ANC and their minions have left is apartheid. This is what desperation looks like.
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Ah, shame. It must be a very unhappy mental state to view the world and other people this way. Foeitog, julle.
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All the information on the sample in the report. Feel free to take a look:
irr.org.za
Recent polling by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), conducted in March/April 2025, reveals shifting voter sentiment amid debates over a proposed VAT hike and the uneasy dynamics...
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The interesting thing is that this is the first IRR poll ever to find a DA lead - and a very, very, very small one at that. DA 30,3%, ANC 29,7%. People really should read more before opining. Here's the full report:
irr.org.za
Recent polling by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), conducted in March/April 2025, reveals shifting voter sentiment amid debates over a proposed VAT hike and the uneasy dynamics...
@Martin_Nel_99 @ScholtzSusan @Our_DA @MYANC We know IRR is manned by former DA officials and sympathizers. Every election they always release these polls to try campaign for the DA, khohlwa
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Fake transformation isn't working.
The SIU confirms an operation at a Sandhurst home connected to our #TembisaHospitalCapture investigation, part of implementing investigation outcomes and managing consequences. Further updates will follow once legal processes are complete.
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Imagine thinking you have the right to tell a person what they can say or think about a famous politician because of who the person's ancestors were or what they did. It's a bit of race essentialist arrogance that is becoming a popular refrain in racist circles around the world.
Mandela was not a brand. Keep his name out of your mouth if you are not going to bother acquainting yourself with his politics. The people whose ancestors imprisoned him, harassed his wife and children LOVE to design their cuddly granpa Mandela as if he was without unequivocal
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