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So here goes, the complete thread on "The Tyranny of Pretty Things" 88kilosofsunshine.bandcamp.c…
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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
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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.
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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
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Good Morning Jozi!! 05:20am joining residents of Joburg as they make their way to various commitments.
4 November 2026 #VoteAmaselaOut
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"University researchers built a satellite that tracks people from low Earth orbit and dispatches a 5 kg payload to within .1 meter of their position, traveling at Mach 25 to anywhere on Earth in under 5 minutes. They suggest it could be used to deliver greeting cards."
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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So the third-largest company on the planet is willing to cut 27% of its workforce due to AI, its stock rises on the news, and I’m supposed to believe this technology is great for the future of humanity?
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🚨Out of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, 5 of them—Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe—have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct physical presence:
• Beatrice Keul credibly alleges that Trump violently raped her at a November 1993 pageant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and that Epstein, Trump, and others used this pageant as a “hunting ground” to prey on vulnerable young women and girls;
• Stacey Williams, who offered a detailed and corroborated account of Trump
sexually assaulting her in the early 1990s while she was alone with him and Epstein in an office at Trump Tower;
• Jill Harth, who has also publicly detailed Trump aggressively pursuing and violently sexually assaulting her and another woman in 1994 at a Mar-a-Lago party where Epstein and Trump were the only men present;
• Katie Johnson, who gave FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape at the hands of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor;
• A Jane Doe, who offered FBI a graphic account of Trump assaulting her when she was a minor in the mid-1980s in New York by forcibly pushing her head down to his exposed penis.
Beyond these direct allegations of physical assault, three survivors speak of encounters with Trump whose circumstances indicate that he was a participant in Epstein’s crimes, as shown by how Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to make (or
made) these women available for sex.
•Two Epstein survivors, “Jane” and “Kate”, told FBI that either Epstein or Maxwell seemingly offered them up to Trump for the purposes of sex or indicated their availability.
Jane and Kate were deemed so credible that federal prosecutors called them to testify as government witnesses, subject to probing cross- examination, against Ghislaine Maxwell at her criminal trial.
• Another survivor, Maria Farmer, described how Epstein had to actively prevent Trump from preying on her late at night after Trump confused her with a teenage girl potentially victimized by Epstein.
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin released a new Committee staff report detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in Jeffrey Epstein’s close company or presence.
The report concludes that, based on the available evidence and witness testimony, Trump and Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump Administration official and diplomat, may have been co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s.
These stories are united by time, place, and the distinct factual similarities in how Trump and Epstein pursued, manipulated, and abused these women.
With one exception, these accounts
of sexual assault and conspiracy involve episodes that took place between 1992 and 1997 in New York City and Palm Beach, at a time when Trump and Epstein were “close friends” and participated in a shadowy subculture organized around young female modeling.
Witnesses speak consistently of modeling pageants and parties where young women and girls were forced into predatory situations and routinely taken advantage of, abused, and raped.
They give similar accounts of the competitive and sinister relationship between Epstein and Trump and how it was channeled into their shared pursuit of young women.
