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Nicholas Woode-Smith

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Free Markets and Geopolitics 🇿🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇷. Managing Editor of @RationalStand. Senior Associate of @FMFSouthAfrica. I write in my personal capacity.

Cape Town, South Africa
Joined March 2026
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
18 days
SA under @MYANC and @DIRCO_ZA wants to align with dictatorships - risking the lives and jobs of millions of South Africans as global conflict escalates. We need responsible officials to take over our foreign policy before its too late. https://t.co/6q9IiiYfc5
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Check this racism. Racialist Socialists can't justify their obsession with clinging to corrupt and inefficient systems, so they just spout delusional racism.
@Mara_Mbokodi
TheeGreat Kwedini 🇿🇦
12 hours
Sit down mlungu!…. stop creating the impression that you have a point. You’re too lazy to use your brain 🧠 and now you’re exposing your thinking capacity. “Digitisation employees, who digitise manual records (papers) to the system, are the ones being outsourced by the corrupt
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@m510691
Cozman
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@Mara_Mbokodi Who’s going to force you to use a bank instead of home affairs? Why are you guys so against people having choices? It’s retarded. If you want to deal with incompetence at home affairs you can go ahead no one will stop you
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Why? Why is keeping Home Affairs run by incompetent and corrupt cadres such a priority? What matters is that the job is done and that it is done well. Private companies outperform government departments EVERY time. Do you like long, agonising queues? Masochistic!
@Mara_Mbokodi
TheeGreat Kwedini 🇿🇦
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Stop the DA Minister of Privatisation from outsourcing DHA digitisation employees to a private company! #VoetsekDA #VoetsekLeon #DigitisationProject #DHA #NoToOutsourcing
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@Martin_ASFL
Martin van Staden
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* Tiny irrelevant Third World country: "PLEASE invest in our economy!" * Massive foreign conglomerates: "Ok, sure! Here we come." * 3W country: "Hand over 51% of your company to locals first." * Company: "Huh? Uh, no?" * 3W country: "GO AWAY imperalist! We're sovereign!"
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@PhumlaniMMajozi
Phumlani M. Majozi
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The South African supporters of Hamas and Iran say nothing about this. It’s been happening in Sudan for years. This is in their continent, Africa, yet they say nothing and choose to mourn the death of Iran’s Ayatollah. What a corrupt value system! #politics #geopolitics
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@Martin_ASFL
Martin van Staden
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@JacoKleynhans Saudi Arabia understands something the United States and the West does not: You cannot negotiate with religious Islamic extremists. The Islamic regime might pick Option 1 and agree to all sorts of nice things while it rebuilds its terror network, enabling future American leaders
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@PhumlaniMMajozi
Phumlani M. Majozi
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To my American and Israeli friends, here’s my message: Leaving the Iranian regime still standing will be the biggest blunder of the 21st century. The regime will definitely get a nuclear weapon. Don’t leave that cancerous regime standing. Don’t! #geopolitics #politics #middleeast
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@Martin_ASFL
Martin van Staden
1 day
Excellent victory by Sakeliga, SAAI, and Free State Agriculture over the centralist designs of John Steenhuisen. Steenhuisen's plan is still flawed, but a key concession has been made. The question remains: why is the DA tolerating (agreeing with???) this misconduct of its rep?
@Sakeliga
Sakeliga
2 days
🔴 BREAKING: The Pretoria High Court has ordered Agri Minister John Steenhuisen to finalise a scheme for unsupervised private foot-and-mouth vaccination by 17 April. The Minister was also ordered to pay costs. Here's the latest 🧵
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@StephenMeltz
Stephen Meltz
2 days
@Sentletse 83% of deaths in Gaza have been male of a fighting age. The definition of children includes 16-18 year olds who are armed
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
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The university officials who allowed this brutal propagandist to address students at taxpayers' expense should be fired and never be hired in academia again.
@Martin_ASFL
Martin van Staden
2 days
This guy told the students (sitting there on our taxpayer dime) that Islamic security forces are only allowed to use paintballs against protesters, and that the killings from January were by some third force "foreign agents". This is the insight being shared, and implicitly
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@RationalStand
Rational Standard
2 days
Renaming costs millions, and for what? @NWoodeSmith questions the real cost of renaming places in South Africa. Renaming may be symbolic, but it comes with real fiscal costs, running into millions for signage, administration, and implementation. Is this the best use of public
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@Martin_ASFL
Martin van Staden
2 days
I foresaw it the moment the possibility of an ANC-DA coalition started being talked about in serious terms. I warned in November 2022 for the first time that a coalition with the ANC would co-opt the DA. Today, a DA minister celebrates overruling farmers because he thinks they
@RenaldoGouws
Renaldo “Ngamla” Gouws 🇿🇦
2 days
I never thought I would see the day when a DA leader/Minister gloats about keeping things under state control.
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
2 days
South Africa should be doing this. Not hosting ambassadors of terrorist regimes at university lectures.
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@Martin_ASFL
Martin van Staden
3 days
Surely this can't be right? Surely, the university has a senior representative from the Israeli or American embassies as a follow-up speaker at least? I'd be curious to know what the ambassador is telling students mandatorily listening to him, on my taxpayer dime.
@SAzionfed
South African Zionist Federation
3 days
The SAZF has written to the Vice-Chancellor and Dean @UPTuks following reports that the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been invited to address students in a political science class today. Students were told: “It is important for you to attend this lecture.” We
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
2 days
How should the billions of descendants of victims of Genghis Khan treat Mongolia? How should the descendants of the victims of Shaka Zulu think about amaZulu?
@HermanMashaba
Herman Mashaba
3 days
Some people have the audacity to tell us to just move on. HOW?
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
2 days
When you cant deliver a future, you can only blame the past.
@ASZulu
uSakhile kaMkhulunyelwa
3 days
Is it only me or has he only been referring to the past in almost every address he's delivered recently?
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
2 days
Imagine forcing students to be addressed by an ambassador from Nazi Germany or Apartheid South Africa. The @UPTuks has chosen to help promote tyranny and terrorism.
@SAzionfed
South African Zionist Federation
3 days
The SAZF has written to the Vice-Chancellor and Dean @UPTuks following reports that the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been invited to address students in a political science class today. Students were told: “It is important for you to attend this lecture.” We
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
2 days
Iran previously promised to limit the range of its missiles to 2000km. This was a lie. How does anyone believe their lies? It's like a mugger promising only to use a knife. Iran is a threat to global peace and stability and the regime needs to be stopped.
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
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They're currently controlled by the biggest elite of all. The corrupt, political elite. Selling a utility from some dumbass corrupt cronies to a diverse array of commercial elites, which are actually going to do their job isn't a problem. It's the solution.
@BobTebz
Tebza Admirator Caesar
2 days
@NWoodeSmith So who will buy these localised businesses, last time i checked, only certain individuals have that kind of money, so you are promoting elite take over, handing over assests to a few.
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@NWoodeSmith
Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Education is fixed by all of these. Schools are victims of criminal gangs and failing infrastructure. And there is no point having decent education if there are no jobs. Solve those three and there will be more money for education and better education. Positive feedback loop.
@TheMac_attack_
UGot2BKidding!
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@NWoodeSmith @BigDaddyLiberty Education is more important than all three issues you list. Without education none of them happen.
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