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@Martin_ASFL "South Africans are always too quick to crown people our new golden boys (Mashaba Ramamphara De Ruyter Ramokgopa) without waiting to really get to know them first"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-17T07:31Z 8645 followers, 5456 engagements

"If a kid is told repeatedly that they have a "human right" and "entitlement" to Shoprite's service and products - that Shoprite is meant to serve them and the "public interest" - then it will be perfectly understandable and unsurprising if Shoprite's business decisions start being seen as injustice and inequity rather than mere preference. By seeking to force democracy into absolutely everything you create real expectations which if not met must necessarily become fertile ground for resentment and violence"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-08T20:32Z 8643 followers, XXX engagements

"The anti-rent crowd never ceases to amuse me. The premise of the worldview is so utterly warped and ridiculous which makes it all the more horrifying when you realise this worldview leads to practical law like South Africa's PIE Act among others"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-15T09:12Z 8642 followers, 1752 engagements

"This is absolutely well-deserved and I feel a sense of unearned achievement for having worked with a Nobel Peace Prize winner In 2018 Machado warned against the South African policy of expropriation without compensation at an @FMFSouthAfrica conference (link below)"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-10T10:44Z 8644 followers, 5502 engagements

"I work with a lot of people around the world and I am often asked whether I think it's a good idea for them to bring their families on holiday to South Africa. The answer is always no. That pains me. But we as South Africans need to do a bit better first"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-13T07:14Z 8644 followers, 8009 engagements

"1 The British didn't invent or force racial segregation on South Africa. This is a modern historical revision that would make Afrikaner nationalist historians circa 1910s-1980s chuckle heartily. The British almost entirely followed South Africa's lead during the process of Union formation. X Where Britain did fuck up royally was Rhodesia. This was a dispensation that destined for (non-racial) greatness where the ruling minority openly admitted and to a degree embraced eventual majority rule provided it wasn't communist or otherwise totalitarian. Britain could have played a valuable role in"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-16T14:19Z 8644 followers, XX engagements

"You're saying the FMF should have realised some time ago that voter mandates do not matter The only reason it "hasn't" is because parties like the DA still try to convince us that they need mandates before they can do necessary things. You're telling us something different now. This is progress"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-17T08:15Z 8645 followers, XX engagements

"Nobody sets fire to Shoprite stores over governance safety and representation. Why Because there is no "right to groceries" and we haven't let activists convince us to "democratise groceries." The extension of democracy ever-onwards means the possibility of violence follows in its wake and increases with every inch. If you want to stop seeing schools and universities being burned down say it loud say it clear and say it with me: "
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-08T20:20Z 8644 followers, 18.3K engagements

"@uMarhobane Oh Steers chips are better than most. Would put them on par with KFC. McD has great chips but the tiny burgers are a deal breaker"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-16T16:03Z 8645 followers, XX engagements

"@weetmosals @pete_carswell Have done this a few times. Two relevant examples:"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-17T11:42Z 8645 followers, XXX engagements

"Private sector primarily. If the WC asked many would pitch in to purchase whatever expensive equipment a forensic lab might for example need. The DA will also need to get a bit serious about its own budget allocation. Less rent-seeking wealth transfers (which Cape Town has been bragging about this week) and more of that money devoted to the biggest crisis in the country: violent crime. Other things will be costless. I guarantee there's thousands of people in the Western Cape who would voluntarily donate their time (for free) to sign up as police reservists or auxiliaries"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-17T12:10Z 8645 followers, XX engagements

"Leave the Institute of Race Relations to focus (as it has done since 1929) on laws affecting race and ask the Commission for Gender Equality to make your gender law index. A worthy endeavour - since as you say it's not okay - looking forward to the output"
X Link @Martin_ASFL 2025-10-17T14:26Z 8645 followers, 5989 engagements