# ![@Martin_ASFL Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::64145306.png) @Martin_ASFL Martin van Staden

Martin van Staden posts on X about south africa, in the, israel, hamas the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[south africa](/topic/south-africa) #981, [in the](/topic/in-the), [israel](/topic/israel), [hamas](/topic/hamas), [money](/topic/money), [russia](/topic/russia), [countries](/topic/countries), [cape town](/topic/cape-town), [iran](/topic/iran), [united states](/topic/united-states)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Bunch of kids disallowed from entering a competition for no reason other than the fact that they were born looking a particular way. And this is called 'equity' and 'justice'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1674417080568016896)  2023-06-29T21:50Z [----] followers, 31.2K engagements


"A race law with a good intention does not make it any less of a race law. All Apartheid race laws had good intentions which the victims of those laws rightly saw as unjust and oppressive. Today is no exception. Race law is inherently evil and incompatible with legality itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1674491005779734549)  2023-06-29T21:41Z [----] followers, 123.6K engagements


"'Economic downturn' does not occur spontaneously. South Africa's 'economic downturn' is largely the result of the economic policies of Ramaphosa and his buddies. President Cyril Ramaphosa blamed the Covid-19 pandemic state capture and continued economic downturn for why the new dawn he promised when taking office at the Union Buildings has not materialised. @ZintleMahlati https://t.co/P7uloVhn6u President Cyril Ramaphosa blamed the Covid-19 pandemic state capture and continued economic downturn for why the new dawn he promised when taking office at the Union Buildings has not materialised."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1678372184274681856)  2023-07-10T11:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"'racist white boys in AfriForum in their cunningness and theft-ingrained DNA inherited from their ancestors' Imagine calling someone racist and then immediately arguing that anti-social behaviour is part of their racial DNA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1678671478798135296)  2023-07-11T07:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Make this real. Instruct opposition-controlled metro police departments to ensure blue light brigades stick to the rules of the road. More importantly instruct opposition-controlled metro police to protect and defend the public from any violence committed by these faux cops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1678755814293602307)  2023-07-11T14:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"And he thinks using 'magic' as a term of ridicule for MMT is inappropriate. When govt is done 'issuing' the rands it needs to gainfully employ [--] million people we will finally be able to use our currency as a substitute for toilet paper. (And his 'solution' will be tax.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1682810615461453826)  2023-07-23T06:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BuddyWells1 They get fired for poor work ethic though which you and I both know does not happen in the state. And what works elsewhere does not necessarily work here. Here the private sector keeps our heads above water while the state attempts to drag us down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1684819030635425793)  2023-07-28T06:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Imagine being this stupid. 'Africa is embracing revolutions against neo-colonialism' 'Hopefully China and Russia can guide them in these transformations' Pick one. And military juntas are not new in Africa. This was 'embraced' the second African states gained independence. What comes next in Niger Africa is embracing revolutions against neo-colonialism. Thats a good start but What happens next is critical. The military power that freed the country needs economic smartness. How to create jobs grow the economy boost trade educate people https://t.co/4BXddwREc2 What comes next in Niger Africa is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1686444390074433551)  2023-08-01T18:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It is time for everyone to appreciate that Thuli Madonsela's best years are behind her. This will happen to us all. We can never remain as good as we were at our height. Let us allow her to gracefully become irrelevant. Important that we stop taking her 'takes' seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1689965763740770305)  2023-08-11T11:43Z [----] followers, 63.3K engagements


"Not one bit of any economic recovery that may have taken place since [----] is attributable to anything this government has done. Whatever works in South Africa very much works in spite of government not because of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1690288970272321536)  2023-08-12T09:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"'Enabling corruption is the least of CRs sins. He has thus far presided over some of SAs toughest economic hardships all caused by the policies he/his cabinet have championed: threats of property confiscation/nationalisation of pvt healthcare/strict racial regimentation.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1691017738578247680)  2023-08-14T09:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Even Milei is keeping a bit too much but perfection is the enemy of good. I was disappointed that the DA's cabinet reform proposals also keep some truly pointless or harmful portfolios. This Javier Milei fellow in Argentina is not messing about. Love it. South Africa could use having two thirds of its ministries dissolved. https://t.co/FElg5LYZwk This Javier Milei fellow in Argentina is not messing about. Love it. South Africa could use having two thirds of its ministries dissolved. https://t.co/FElg5LYZwk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1693230744720576995)  2023-08-20T11:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@blakian [--]. What is this about a dictionary I gave you a link where I quoted experts in the field on what a federation is. It's time for you to provide a counter-argument if you disagree with me. [--]. I want reason not just rhetoric. [--]. That would be you: racialising/not reasoning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1693958912997773405)  2023-08-22T12:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RiebvJanbeeck It's better today but I remember when I did my renewal [--] years ago: yay I could make an online appointment made it for [--] AM huge line got in around [--] PM. Telling the staff that I had an appointment elicited nothing but shrugs. The very concept of 'renewing' is dumb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1694336877547933842)  2023-08-23T13:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This tweet by Mbalula should give South Africans pause. We know the Zimbabweans know and Mbalula knows that Zimbabwe's 'election' is hopelessly undemocratic. He calls it 'democracy' that we need to 'respect'. Be wary of ANC behaviour in [----] during our own elections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1695813174740603324)  2023-08-27T14:59Z [----] followers, 12K engagements


"Apparently all the National Party had to do back in the day was 'pull big rallies' and then the ANC would have accepted the unrepresentative nature of South Africa's elections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1696053743907696779)  2023-08-28T06:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Businesses should take their instructions from the market. Their mandate emanates from consumers. Tell 'regulators' to take a hike. Separate state and economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1697263472382455921)  2023-08-31T15:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Of course you are. You could have changed 'those conditions' in /fewer/ than [--] years. Many countries defeated poverty in less than a generation. The recipe is available: Limit government. Free the markets. Protect property. Don't stop people trying to empower themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1697546301745848453)  2023-09-01T09:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@uMarhobane What I mean by this is the example of the multiple commuter towns around Johannesburg stretching all the way to Vereeniging. Developers saw people wanted out of Joburg so they built there and the people came. Just let the market do its thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1698965566873022554)  2023-09-05T07:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"With friends like these who needs enemies The SA tax- and ratepayer is permanently bent over a barrel with only civil society on their side. Councillor pay (if any - unclear that they should be paid) should be pegged to the average municipal income"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1699425807947407863)  2023-09-06T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@proforlax Law is violence. This is why law exists apart from other types of 'rules' and 'recommendations' we might see from time to time. A fine yes but if you don't pay the fine people will eventually put you in cuffs. Law is not (and should not be) peaceful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1699739388874228005)  2023-09-07T11:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Our health ministers keep dropping like flies but Nicholas Crisp wants us to believe 'with the NHI it will be different.' No. No more power for this government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1700403468874232191)  2023-09-09T06:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Willing to bet several organs that it'll be illegal to build something like this today. You'll spend years getting 'approval.' Why did human beings stop building wonders We became obsessed with planning. #muh_zoning #muh_building_codes Let's revert and choose liberty instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1701557221165793401)  2023-09-12T11:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"AfriForum is starting its own disaster management unit. Excellent and worth supporting Let us relegate the South African state as we have known it to the trashheap it belongs in. KYK: AfriForum se rampbestuursafdeling https://t.co/zbmNhLTaw3 KYK: AfriForum se rampbestuursafdeling https://t.co/zbmNhLTaw3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1702210672954663018)  2023-09-14T06:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mulockdown @VivekGRamaswamy Conviction can be whittled down. You and I both know former libertarians who have gone full-authoritarian today and the biggest cause was relentless peer pressure/FOMO. It's not liberty's only defence but liberty must spread to be sustainable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1702724618551808241)  2023-09-15T16:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Good. Keep those dismissals coming. The arrogance of government employees and their union masters is sickening. All spheres of government should drastically downsize their workforces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1702951479911370872)  2023-09-16T07:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@heinwelman There is no doubt about it: the unions must be stared down. Compromising with them will be a fatal mistake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1702956068337221976)  2023-09-16T08:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"On cue. To nitwit here 'government employees' is synonymous with 'black workers'. And yes it is audacity. That is not money they are entitled to. That is tax money that is being criminally misallocated. Deep breaths Bruce. It's time for unproductive labour to be unemployed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1703107830935396797)  2023-09-16T18:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Liberals/libertarians aren't immune. Be aware. Check that your admiration for someone doesn't reach the level of uncritical worship. If you agree with basically everything someone says at least consider that they are manipulating you and telling you what you want to hear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1703798717935956165)  2023-09-18T15:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nativeAfri @ConCaracal The great thing is that those who don't want these kinds of structured towns don't have to live in them. Freedom is wonderful in that way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1704756893887947259)  2023-09-21T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Singapore ranked 1st in the @FraserInstitute economic freedom index this year meaning it's the most quantifiably capitalist and free-market society. Malema/EFF are Marxists-Leninists who admire Venezuela/Zimbabwe. These two ranked dead-last in the index out of [---] countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1705182477562618077)  2023-09-22T11:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Some guy is legitimately trying to say *whites* don't understand Marxism or Leninism 🤡 I think he's referring to Mfoniso Marx born in Lagos in [----] and Gakuru Lenin born in Nairobi in [----]. He's *definitely* not talking about the bourgeois pale white Karl and Vlad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1705193990130131204)  2023-09-22T12:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@drrvoetsek @FraserInstitute In principle yes. Utilitarianism is a very problematic basis for public policy - it can and does lead to incredible injustice. In practice I have to devote my time and energy where it would be most effective so probably not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1705208216823455900)  2023-09-22T13:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@southafricandoc @the_anni3 @FraserInstitute You keep going back to 'there is no absolutely free market' as if that is some awesome argument. Appealing to the mistakes that others make to buttress your argument does not work. If Singapore abolished /all/ state involvement it would still be number 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1705497713872077118)  2023-09-23T08:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The South African political elite that wants to cause a policy-induced humanitarian disaster on the Venezuelan/Zimbabwean model should take note of this. It's not the sAnCtIoNs. If anything the sanctions against the tyrants who caused these disasters are hopelessly inadequate.  It is PATHETIC how people who can't even find Venezuela on a map are trying to lecture me on the real causes of the crisis in Venezuela. ❌ No the crisis in the country was NOT caused by US sanctions. Unlike those communist Americans who have never left the US I was born https://t.co/gdk4pArnPa  It is PATHETIC how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1706280002562502923)  2023-09-25T12:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Key principle in public policy: Bad intentions are totally prohibited and good intentions are totally irrelevant. Your intentions are meant to always be good indeed they are assumed to be. You don't get brownie points for that. Intention only matters if it's a bad intention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1706337793255879066)  2023-09-25T16:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"For a moment I thought China was a serious (nonetheless authoritarian) entity that didn't play clown games. Honk. 🤡 Is THIS the geopolitical powerhouse people grovel to Would THEY appoint Becky as THEIR police minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1706656156821729335)  2023-09-26T13:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Huh who are these people around 'Mahlangu' wearing 1930s-1950s dress in the late 1970s That one guy is wearing a flat cap and a bowtie (This is my way of saying this photo was clearly and unequivocally sired in the United States.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1706961378244763732)  2023-09-27T09:18Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements


"If AfriForum is 'influencing UP's decisions' I'd have to seriously consider increasing my monthly membership contribution. By the way I hope AfriForum is collecting all the EFF tears. It's very dry in South Africa today and we need to water the crops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1706962175846129784)  2023-09-27T09:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The African National Congress is eagerly dedicated to the deindustrialisation of this low-to-middle income developing African country. This guy thinks he's in Denmark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1707484162024730857)  2023-09-28T19:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I really hope this is mere rumour. The ink on the Multi-Party Charter is still wet. Among the MPC ActionSA has tried the hardest to court a 'strongman' 'no-nonsense' image. If this announcement is true and they're the FIRST to capitulate to the unions that image is false"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1707488062413148622)  2023-09-28T20:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@IvoVegter By making a moral judgment ('no hero') you're clearly not appealing to South African law as it stands but to some normative code. I disagree with your code. Using violence even lethal violence against those who uninvitedly /force/ us to part with our property is apt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1707692967694135773)  2023-09-29T09:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The hysteria against privatisation bc it'll apparently be a 'bad deal' for the poor never ceases to amaze. Everything that the poor has plenty of is stuff provided by the private sector. The things the poor struggle to get are 'provided' by the state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1707724710165799114)  2023-09-29T11:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SAfmnews Minister who of what Who cares and of what relevance is her displeasure This is a constitutional state not a totalitarian one. Private people can do what they want in peace especially when invited by others with the rightful authority to so invite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1707832184977973407)  2023-09-29T18:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Feel free to go unite with them - you can fly from Johannesburg to Moscow or Beijing directly. Just leave the rest us of us out of it. WATCH "We have to unite internationally with Russia China and the new order. If we don't strengthen the anti-imperialist course they will be knocking on our door." Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils speaking during #AzizPahad's funeral. https://t.co/tQJt84alPA WATCH "We have to unite internationally with Russia China and the new order. If we don't strengthen the anti-imperialist course they will be knocking on our door." Former intelligence minister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1708055626398498910)  2023-09-30T09:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LibertarianZA '. loadshedding is pointless' being key. Our crisis is one of electricity shortage. History has produced two answers to shortages: Rationing (political) Price increases (economic) It seems clear to me which one would have worked best under these circumstances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1708927463542133104)  2023-10-02T19:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Never forget that about 40% of what South Africans pay for petrol goes into the pockets of politicians and state employees rather than to the suppliers of the product. (And this ignores the fact that the money you use to buy the petrol with has already been taxed.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1709520137089364037)  2023-10-04T10:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I am not even a Cape Independence supporter and I think this is extremely low for the DA. The DA is a huge political party - its logo is used every single day by thousands across the country in unauthorised fashion. This is targeted: against ppl who SHARE most of their values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1709882662297485811)  2023-10-05T10:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"We're not quite there yet but at some point South Africans will need to learn a new word: 'No.' VAT increase may be on the cards for South Africans https://t.co/Vdb6MNjki6 VAT increase may be on the cards for South Africans https://t.co/Vdb6MNjki6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1709883338331169110)  2023-10-05T10:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mulockdown We are a small minority of a minority of a minority and we've been advocating for decades. It's time for the 'doing' and if only the libertarians 'do' it there is actually enough room in our jails to put all of us. This needs to be a groundswell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1709976979158491218)  2023-10-05T17:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LibertarianZA @KPMG @KPMG_SA Pretty radical for him to suggest that the independent Western Cape apply to join the European Union. An interesting idea Perhaps one of the first bills in Parliament in the WC can be the 'Smith Musango (Application to Join the EU) Bill'. What an honour it would be for him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1709978061771301147)  2023-10-05T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@llebo_gang @LibertarianZA @KPMG @KPMG_SA Wonderful an independent Western Cape with a majority black population. Nothing wrong with that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1709990935231172836)  2023-10-05T17:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@llebo_gang @LibertarianZA @KPMG @KPMG_SA One moment the Western Cape will be black and the next it will only happen in my dreams. I guess the WC will be stuck in limbo in that case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1710032457418866948)  2023-10-05T20:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WellieM_ZA @LibertarianZA @KPMG @KPMG_SA So now the proposal is for the Western Cape to become a constituent part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. These are all very interesting ideas from constitutional scholars on this platform"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1710196150618255383)  2023-10-06T07:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Whenever the modern totalitarian left wants to dehumanise someone they declare them to be white. Somehow the millions of Jews and Arabs who make up and support Israel are now 'white'. Beware of those who racialise everything. Doesn't end well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1711107745011687645)  2023-10-08T19:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DJFlatWhite It will be hilarious if South Africa sides with China during World War III and the United States drops a nuke on Cape Town. 'but it wasn't us it was the ANC' is what people who think like you will be crying. This is pure evil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1712084448974389385)  2023-10-11T12:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Consistently ranking in the top-5 jurisdictions in the world for murder and rape rates South Africa has certainly had great success in 'conflict resolution'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1712805565263499609)  2023-10-13T12:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Jewish community knows better than most that it should never rely on the good faith of any government. Strong letter but I hope the JBD doesn't expect anything. It should carry on as usual by stateproofing and hedging against harm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1713507596961804693)  2023-10-15T10:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hamas was in Cape Town in [----]. I'm sure they've been there thereafter as well. Unlike others I liked it when Alan Winde threatened to arrest Putin if he comes to the Western Cape. Same should apply to any Hamas terrorist seen in that province"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1714686196025028786)  2023-10-18T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Can highly recommend the 'Techno-Optimism Manifesto'. There is almost nothing to disagree with here. https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1714959940857586172)  2023-10-19T11:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And then a group of so-called 'economists' feel confident enough to cowrite an article in @BDliveSA against austerity. South Africa needs radical spending cuts like yesterday. These people have shown beyond any doubt that they cannot spend taxpayer money wisely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1716017235292995816)  2023-10-22T09:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I work for the org through which Rupert (the pictured guy) is doing this. [--] It's not white/black. Entire project is nonracial. [--] We're not 'giving' anything - we're helping people who are already owners to acquire their title deeds. [--] Selling or renting out is perfectly fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1716035237866606975)  2023-10-22T10:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Replacing government or political institutions with value-creating capitalist institutions is always an improvement. The Union Buildings should be a shebeen or a mechanic shop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1717596854446096881)  2023-10-26T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is objectively good news so quit the despondency. This government has long spent beyond its means. Reality has caught up. Fiscal responsibility is a good thing to be celebrated. Get rid of [--] Cabinet portfolios cut the civil service abandon vanity projects. 👌👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1718610892764418089)  2023-10-29T12:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"wait I missed this he's /actually/ trying to take a piece of the credit We will really grow as a country if the next winning Springbok team chases whoever the 'president' is off the field. He has no business there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1718718809362612454)  2023-10-29T19:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Yet somehow Frankfort which is generating its own power and can suspend loadshedding entirely at certain times is not allowed to determine its own schedule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1719254953523302704)  2023-10-31T07:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Never fall for it again when the EFF pretends to care about the disadvantaged or blacks 'oWnInG tEh LeNd'. No. They - as in politicians - want to own the land so they can use it politically. It has nothing to do with race or poverty. It's exclusively about power and patronage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1719440299586383917)  2023-10-31T19:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"South Africans who can afford to have to start dismantling the South African government's remaining capacity. One important way when things like this is announced is to litigate on every little thing and ensure the government's wheels come to a grinding halt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1719652911980872127)  2023-11-01T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of the sad things is that the National Party the Herstigte National Party and the Conservative Party all extremist entities at various points in their histories never conducted themselves in this fashion. The EFF seems totally incapable of civilised behaviour. Have you ever seen an Econic Freedom Fighter actually win a fight https://t.co/6cag48BHO4 Have you ever seen an Econic Freedom Fighter actually win a fight https://t.co/6cag48BHO4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1719682723462197696)  2023-11-01T11:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@uMarhobane For constitutionalism to work we need to try to avoid excessive concept creep and allowing all manner of things to mean all manner of other things. And you know you're simply factually wrong to imply that orgs like the IRR have been 'blank' in the face of informal ANC politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1721977198616187314)  2023-11-07T19:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"We must find the strength and courage to simply say 'no' and to stick with it. This government has no capacity. What it gets away with is what we allow it to get away with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726130000586272940)  2023-11-19T06:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is an easily (EASILY) solvable problem. Repeat it with me now everyone: PRIVATISE the ports PRIVATISE the rails PRIVATISE the highways If government really wants to (and it shouldn't) it can regulate. It should however NEVER own or manage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726176858822127751)  2023-11-19T09:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@southafricandoc Wait until you find out how much more South Africa spends on this shit for very little return compared to other states where government services 'work'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726183370479264255)  2023-11-19T10:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"How does one respond to this 'No.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726187187476320722)  2023-11-19T10:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Nobody said the UK's abandonment of parliamentary sovereignity would be painless. Of course it will be. But it is necessary. Parliamentary sovereignity like the divine 'right' of kings is one of the most insidious political principles of human history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726191572214251876)  2023-11-19T10:51Z [----] followers, 38.7K engagements


"In all those examples the harm was limited. There is no harm limitation in nationalised sectors. It is the epitome of concentration risk. Yes the private sector misbehaves but there are built-in (rather than politically artificial) responsibility mechanisms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726214476045955340)  2023-11-19T12:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@WanjiruNjoya Nothing stops the British parliament from doing same if the South Africanisation of the world continues apace. And yes parliamentary sovereignity is preferable to the divine right of kings. It's not the end of that line however"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726217504073326835)  2023-11-19T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PillayKavi Hang on you're disputing that SAA was demonopolised Even with two laughing faces You're saying SAA is an airline monopoly in South Africa today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726218889640767632)  2023-11-19T12:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WanjiruNjoya I know. I have not said anything about the UK Supreme Court. I have said abandoning parliamentary sovereignity will be painful. It must be. It will be. However it is done. But government power at some point needs to be taken out of the clouds of total open ended discretion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726220872728355201)  2023-11-19T12:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@WanjiruNjoya And the House of Commons is quite like the SA parliament. It's more powerful but just happens to have significantly fewer clowns than we have at this specific moment in time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726222896631001520)  2023-11-19T12:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisWaldburger I have not said anything endorsing the current constitution of the UK Supreme Court. That is not the argument I am making here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726223296121975083)  2023-11-19T12:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ParticularityM That's my day job thanks for the advice. And South Africa finds itself in this shithole through conduct of its own yes but to which Britain has significantly and continuously contributed. You have been unable to mind your business in our affairs so please take a seat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726224335155626055)  2023-11-19T13:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MercianMenace @NewModelRight @Merciansaltmine Who's worried I think only you and Hitchens might be worried. I made an observation about the pain you're going through and going to go through on your way out of parliamentary sovereignity. I'm not worried - it's not my pain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726226126882934834)  2023-11-19T13:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SKatweasel It took me [--] seconds to discover that you a Swede has an X feed full of commentary on affairs outside of Sweden. At least make a small effort to be consistent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726234416652100044)  2023-11-19T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RAdmAubrey They might but I don't think they will. I might be wrong. And a supreme written constitution for the UK need not exactly replicate the current constitution of the UK Supreme Court. Constitutional design is a creative exercise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726235282758877295)  2023-11-19T13:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SKatweasel Nope. Even a totally retarded society can produce less harms with a less powerful government. You gave us powerful government and the constitutional theory to back it up. Don't therefore be surprised when some of us question the propriety of your ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1726249668680864141)  2023-11-19T14:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The Western Cape Provincial Parliament should adopt a resolution instructing the Provincial Government and inviting the Israeli government to continue diplomatic engagements through Israel's Cape Town consulate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1727211047353028913)  2023-11-22T06:22Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements


"@LiamCusack12 Please don't equate Muslims with terrorists on my wall. South Africa has a large moderate Muslim population that desires peace and harmony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1727307636235022557)  2023-11-22T12:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@zak_desai @vuxulu I'm not sure why you feel it necessary to introduce South African racial groupings particular a mixed white/black racial grouping into a discussion about a conflict across the world that involves none of South Africa's racial groupings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1727307858126188737)  2023-11-22T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LiamCusack12 Peaceful and moderate Muslims have no problem with Israel. You're confusing ordinary people with the neo-Nazi Hamas sympathisers in our government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1727309855466422711)  2023-11-22T12:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mulockdown Quebec does it and Flanders and Wallonia do it. There is plentiful scope inside the concept of a federation (which South Africa is) for subnational units having their own foreign policies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1727366776105685377)  2023-11-22T16:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I don't need a whole minister and a whole press briefing to explain why a state monopoly in South Africa is unable to do the one singular job it is expected to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1728091891546165355)  2023-11-24T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Companies that cannot serve their markets make losses. In the real world they close down as well. In the fantasy that is South Africa the failing Eskom will never close down. Privatisation is not an 'option.' It's an imperative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1728513528276062668)  2023-11-25T20:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Sunday Times treating racism as casual 'concerns'. Do we now wait for Nedbank to apologise or to explain that despite this grievous sin the bank is committed to the state's racist ideology Or will Nedbank surprise us and tell the racists to get fucked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1728784750351896639)  2023-11-26T14:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Simply transfer the shares to the employees. They can sell or abandon the shares if they want. But put the ball in their court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729440669448466805)  2023-11-28T10:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I really hope I'm not the only one who understands that this will never be allowed to happen right If you want to see judicial mental gymnastics bring the final case for liquidation to a court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729441308643570060)  2023-11-28T10:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Oh and there are ways to solve South Africa's housing crisis. Those ways make people who subscribe to safetyism uncomfortable and uneasy so they're not willing to even consider it. But the ways are there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729514396957765880)  2023-11-28T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Repeat after me: W H O C A R E S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729821602060144999)  2023-11-29T11:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Eagle66017981 If you don't want Starlink don't get Starlink. Nobody else should care to get your (or anyone's) permission though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729931438076596686)  2023-11-29T18:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@scootergobrrr Yes. Don't worry about what the ANC decides to label 'illegal' (a very big word for a criminal syndicate to throw around) - rather just try to find a way to get Starlink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729933043589095540)  2023-11-29T18:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Eagle66017981 I am not here to refute you. I don't care that Starlink has a relationship with the US government. I am saying that if Starlink worries you don't get Starlink. And you don't have access to the royal 'we'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729933252922679464)  2023-11-29T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Eagle66017981 I am not here to refute you. I don't care that Starlink has a relationship with the US government. I am saying that if Starlink worries you don't get Starlink. And you don't have access to the royal 'we'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1729933322468339809)  2023-11-29T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Eagle66017981 Cool. So don't get Starlink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1730106463543058494)  2023-11-30T06:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Private security firms are more 'police' than the so-called 'real' police. So rather tell SAPS to change their markings. Leave those who actually provide safety services alone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1730119709935170018)  2023-11-30T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My latest. The well-kept secret of South Africas regime of censorship and ideological gerrymandering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1730162940735545684)  2023-11-30T09:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Will there come a time when parents and teachers at South Africa's schools stop allowing political parties to turn school premises into political rallies or is everyone broadly happy with this continuing to happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1730203824302801075)  2023-11-30T12:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Private defence a right that exists in current South African common law applies even in Council chambers especially when those entrusted with ensuring safety do nothing. It's a brave new world in South African politics. The good guys need to equip themselves accordingly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1730313624416055550)  2023-11-30T19:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When it gets to our border any firm that wants to do business in or with South Africa before the parasites who represent us can say anything must open with: 'We are here to do business and we will not play any of your racist ideological games. Now step aside.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1730953154072621374)  2023-12-02T14:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Some people are asking this ironically but I'm sincere: Where's Alan Winde and his (ostensible) commendable desire to make the Western Cape a moral voice on the international stage Putin is arrestable (he is) but literal terrorists under our own and international law are not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1731194679725638029)  2023-12-03T06:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Look at the comments on this thread and stand astounded at how nave South Africa's wine-sipping Twitter class is in [----]. I guess state failure isn't felt in their Sandton penthouses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1732005077647241379)  2023-12-05T11:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Always_Eat_Ass @DavidDuhme @JoshEakle True story. Just ask the leaders of the Hong Kong protests from [----]. Democracy bigly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1732128276074668373)  2023-12-05T20:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This guy. If the Argentinians reject him in time he can come here to help us with our out of control rentseeking in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1732293651777134804)  2023-12-06T06:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The consistency with which the ANC (and their pets in the EFF) finds itself on the wrong side of almost every question is actually quite impressive. The enemy is already here. AL Qaeda is in South Africa. Hezbollah is in South Africa. Hamas is in South Africa. Boko Haram is in South Africa. ISIS is here in South Africa. All these terror groups are friends of the ANC government The enemy is already here. AL Qaeda is in South Africa. Hezbollah is in South Africa. Hamas is in South Africa. Boko Haram is in South Africa. ISIS is here in South Africa. All these terror groups are friends of the ANC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1732466939295912443)  2023-12-06T18:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@blakian You did not use 'exploit' in that sense which is a completely innocent and value-free sense. You wrote that employers 'therefore exploit' (extract surplus value in the Marxist sense) from unprotected workers. If you used it in the former sense then what are we debating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1732503057416532444)  2023-12-06T20:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Good. We can do the same here. South Africa's 31-member Cabinet can be turned into one of only [--] portfolios"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1734107850266333346)  2023-12-11T07:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@dongrobbb You're describing the rebel pretenders on the mainland not the Republic of China on Taiwan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1734929620607099242)  2023-12-13T13:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If you are a South African 'top income earner' and this gets implemented please emigrate. Show the eXpErTs that bad ideas have bad consequences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1735035403470594479)  2023-12-13T20:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Might be better simply to import it into another jurisdiction and meet the contractors at an unguarded part of the border and drive it in. Why play ANC games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1735236848048308493)  2023-12-14T09:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Sebitlo1 @IRR_SouthAfrica Watch me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1735574981336023514)  2023-12-15T08:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Some people embrace the pendulum swinging hard right. I think that's a mistake. We oppose the left's insanity for good reasons so why would we try to outdo them They have taken away liberty. The answer is simply to restore liberty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1735721275681575373)  2023-12-15T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DumoDenga @RealJermWarfare @ChrisWaldburger Here's the key"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1736031104593699307)  2023-12-16T14:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChrisWaldburger @DumoDenga @RealJermWarfare Awesome. Let me know how 'government punishing evil' has been working out for you and the things you hold dear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1736309028043591934)  2023-12-17T08:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"One of the more insidious myths that Marxism popularised (via 'surplus value' etc.) is that there is some wage out there that all people simply deserve. No. We get paid what our employers value our labour at. Value is subjective"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1736416919824024005)  2023-12-17T16:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ozoneblue67 @Itswengm I think you are reading too much into what federalism is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1736417029672804822)  2023-12-17T16:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ozoneblue67 @Itswengm The UK is not a federation. And even if it were the Scottish government would not simply be able to take over (without further ado) a university that the London government owned and sought to retain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1736475770053165209)  2023-12-17T19:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AmericanaEthos You'll love the videogame Bioshock Infinite. It's all of this in overload"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1736809505441427549)  2023-12-18T18:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Excellent sober interview on nuclear power in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1737427253166776651)  2023-12-20T10:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Any good liberal is in constant fear of the collapse of the institutions of liberty. Liberals' greatest mistake in South Africa and elsewhere was to assume that institutions would function appropriately on autopilot. We are not so blessed. Eternal vigilance is the price"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1737587152068759842)  2023-12-20T21:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The United Nations is a joke. Words alone cannot describe the navety of the people who set it up so that all states are formally treated equally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1737587904581357783)  2023-12-20T21:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"You mean to tell me that people are fleeing out of Cuba that bastion of socialist welfare statism rather than fleeing into it That cannot be for surely The Poor prefer to be babied by their govt No. The poor always flee in one direction: away from interfering govts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1737743539058946156)  2023-12-21T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"No the reason America does not have 'free healthcare' is because no such thing exists. Maintaining a proper military is unequivocally a core directive of the state. Rentseeking and providing freebies is not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1737751113632288786)  2023-12-21T08:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@CraigBBB1 Poor people are forced to be poor in countries like Argentina and South Africa. They are not helpless. If government stopped keeping them poor they would do something about 'the condition.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1738825476578169273)  2023-12-24T07:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"South Africa hasn't been a unitary state in [--] years. It's not difficult. Alan Winde and Panyaza Lesufi do not work for Cyril Ramaphosa. Geordin Hill-Lewis does not work for Winde and Cilliers Brink does not work for Lesufi. South Africa is a federation. Of course most of us are hence gifted in many talents instead of running useless campaigns such as Cape "Independence" in a UNITARY state. Where will you get a referendum as WHOLE country must vote the LAW is written in mostly English and Afrikaans so why cant you READ Of course most of us are hence gifted in many talents instead of running"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1739279357556732229)  2023-12-25T13:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"South Africa is a /centralised/ federation like the United Kingdom is a /decentralised/ unitary state. But we /are/ constitutionally a federation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1739279360341819649)  2023-12-25T13:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Germany and now the United Kingdom. I am fervently pro-Israel but the fact that some Western governments somehow think they should be allowed to arrest people for having a contrary view on this conflict is despicable. The West is in a state. [--] am Wednesday I was arrested by the Sussex Stasi for a Tweet in Support of the Palestinian Resistance to Genocide My bail conditions include not posting about Genocide in Gaza on Twitter - a direct attack on freedom of speech & therefore unlawful https://t.co/nYdz2PqQst https://t.co/XyA6NdV3Wf [--] am Wednesday I was arrested by the Sussex Stasi for a Tweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1739543600017396131)  2023-12-26T07:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ori0n7 People should be allowed to 'support' terrorist organisations all they want. Millions rightly 'supported' the ANC when it was designated as such. Providing material support is a different matter and threatening force is a different matter. Mere expression should be protected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1739561190185976134)  2023-12-26T08:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@proforlax I'm not sure why 'prescribed terrorist group' is being so much emphasis. I did a paper earlier this month on SA's terrorist laws under which a dizzying array of entities ridiculously qualify. I don't care what Hamas is designated as. People's mere expression should be protected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1739580598031659361)  2023-12-26T09:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If this guy keeps doing this stuff he might force me to learn Spanish and move to Argentina. What do we call that in South Africa 'self-imposed exile' Javier Milei just passed the most sensible law in world history - known as Articulo [---]. From now on governmental institutions can no longer use the word "free" to promote any state service or function in municipal provinces or on a national level. Milei considers the use of https://t.co/FroV1Fw9TW Javier Milei just passed the most sensible law in world history - known as Articulo [---]. From now on governmental institutions can no longer use the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740267450573389972)  2023-12-28T07:04Z [----] followers, 19.9K engagements


"@dongrobbb Food stamps and tax exemptions are not price controls. Price controls do not solve problems and they certainly do not solve starvation. The solution to starvation is the competition and production and capitalism has largely solved this problem where it has been allowed to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740282232080883750)  2023-12-28T08:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I have never heard of this person and I have no idea why she is using the City of Johannesburg's logo and resources to tell people that she misplaced her mobile phone. MEDIA STATEMENT: JOHANNESBURG SPEAKER OF COUNCIL CLLR. MARGARET ARNOLDS MOBILE DEVICE LOST 27th December [----] Speaker of Council in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality Cllr. Margaret Arnolds hereby wishes to immediately inform the public that her mobile https://t.co/mMav9UUCWG MEDIA STATEMENT: JOHANNESBURG SPEAKER OF COUNCIL CLLR. MARGARET ARNOLDS MOBILE DEVICE LOST 27th December [----] Speaker of Council in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740290715828252807)  2023-12-28T08:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Leshiba_M Which 'lot' Is there a Milei Fanclub in South Africa I don't know about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740311915245564381)  2023-12-28T10:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@remainza @LibertarianZA @philcraig2 @LetsFreeTheCape It's seriously impressive I've been to the Western Cape before many times and totally missed this overwhelming groundswell of support On their website the closest to 90% I could find is that 88% of white respondents say 'non-racialism is a core value of Cape Independence'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740369120485683396)  2023-12-28T13:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tefoLec And of course coal from South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740710499199992299)  2023-12-29T12:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I cannot wait until the world fully and absolutely stops taking South Africa seriously. Like even letters from our government to the International Court of Justice should simply be filed in the trash. This government needs to let the adults of international politics talk. South Africa today filed proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice after accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention. South Africa is a failed state unable of providing its citizens with electricity and security https://t.co/wQDH5cQ8pP South Africa today filed proceedings against Israel at the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740990375387627846)  2023-12-30T06:57Z [----] followers, 168.2K engagements


"@Mattzwolinski Yikes. This is really disappointing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1740992236471656779)  2023-12-30T07:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@southafricandoc Good luck with that 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741049771203121351)  2023-12-30T10:53Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Just another ordinary day in [----]. @Martin_ASFL Weak diversion attempt Jew shill. @Martin_ASFL Weak diversion attempt Jew shill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741049972953391203)  2023-12-30T10:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omri_Cassiem I agree. Israel must be held to a very standard. Not by the South African government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741050262192529430)  2023-12-30T10:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@CraigBBB1 Yes our government hasn't been taken very seriously in a decade. It's time for it to be taken even less seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741052146944970967)  2023-12-30T11:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omri_Cassiem The fact that nobody else has laid a complaint should have given the South African government pause. It is not on the ground and is woefully uninvolved. If South Africa wants to get involved send special forces to help annihilate Hamas so this war can end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741052487333736578)  2023-12-30T11:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Imagine thinking the raping terrorising Hamas is the 'right side' of anything. 🗑 Organisations and political parties in South Africa opposing a strong stance against Israels war crimes thinking that they are the adults in the international room is laughable. We all know who and what you are twerking for and you are the fools on the wrong side of https://t.co/a43FFIokyO Organisations and political parties in South Africa opposing a strong stance against Israels war crimes thinking that they are the adults in the international room is laughable. We all know who and what you are twerking for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741095913563582662)  2023-12-30T13:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Omri_Cassiem You're saying I have to stick with saying South Africa must get constructively involved in ending the war if it wants to be involved Why do you imply that I will not stick to that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741096188198244716)  2023-12-30T13:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@DJFlatWhite Anti-human"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741096502829715925)  2023-12-30T13:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@tontytrains @yusuf_vaid I despise anyone taking the side of Hamas in any conversation. Please have no doubt about that. Filth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741096690344460462)  2023-12-30T13:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I've made posts about Spain Chile and Israel in the last few weeks and each time a bunch of people who think they're the reincarnation of Steve Biko have tried to make it all about some academic racial tension in South Africa. Never a dull moment @Martin_ASFL Shame it must be so disappointing to realise that the rest of the world doesn't treat black South Africans with the seering disdain with which you do. @Martin_ASFL Shame it must be so disappointing to realise that the rest of the world doesn't treat black South Africans with the seering disdain with which you do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741158252597977506)  2023-12-30T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@tontytrains @yusuf_vaid Anyone on Hamas' side is filth. The ANC wined and dined Hamas just the other day in Cape Town. The ANC has taken Israel to the ICJ. Keep up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741160006660059611)  2023-12-30T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Zionist controlled media I wonder where the new camps for the 'Zionists' will be built. @Martin_ASFL Again. There was no proof of any Hamas rape. Like everything else you seem to believe Western zionist controlled media articles is not evidence.Think about it. They had minimal time to capture hostages to use to free their own kids in Israeli prisons but they would start raping @Martin_ASFL Again. There was no proof of any Hamas rape. Like everything else you seem to believe Western zionist controlled media articles is not evidence.Think about it. They had minimal time to capture hostages to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741160375691718664)  2023-12-30T18:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheViki49140376 He was a terrorist. He went to prison. He did his time like an adult. He came out of prison and ended up being one of the greatest statesmen South Africa has ever known"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741431539051712931)  2023-12-31T12:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It is now imperative that Pietermaritzburg be renamed to Ghandia. Seeing grifters like this squirm is one of the few pleasures of public life. It is high time Pietermaritzburg gets officially renamed to uMgungundlovu. We cannot continue keeping the memories of Dutch men Pieter Retief and Gert Maritz alive. The capital of KZN cannot continue being a symbol of Dutch conquest. Also Africans have got nothing to do with https://t.co/eLMgmvCBl1 It is high time Pietermaritzburg gets officially renamed to uMgungundlovu. We cannot continue keeping the memories of Dutch men Pieter Retief and Gert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741715318693585031)  2024-01-01T06:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I have had people in (my) pro-Israel camp trying to justify attacks on civilian targets and it is basically default and standard by now for the nominally 'pro-Palestinian' side to think that's a-okay as well. But targeting civilians is never ever justified. Hamas waited for midnight on New Years Eve to fire rockets on civilians targets in Israel Russia waited for midnight on NYE to launch suicide drones against apartment building in Odesa Ukraine. Terrorists cut from the same cloth Hamas waited for midnight on New Years Eve to fire rockets on civilians targets in Israel Russia waited for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741762115956883881)  2024-01-01T10:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@proforlax If Israel discovers evidence that the UN is cooperating with Hamas it should do significantly more than defund it. I don't want non-violence. Hamas deserves violence. But the violence can be and imperatively must be appropriately targeted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1741778693481984136)  2024-01-01T11:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I just realised that the people who constantly say that the DA has failed to do insert central government responsibility in the Western Cape are the same people who lose their minds when I say South Africa is a federation and insist that it is actually a unitary state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1742081987039379529)  2024-01-02T07:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Just your daily reminder that South Africa is a federal dispensation. If the DA is to be blamed for anything as a so-called federalist party it is that it has not done nearly enough to make our formal federalism a substantive reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742081989325279646)  2024-01-02T07:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The funniest part is not whether or not Malema could become president - that's something that could happen in a banana republic like ours that treats all ideologies as if they were equally valid - but that Cameron thinks Malema would sincerely swear to uphold the Constitution. ❤ In a matter of just mere months we will hear these words being uttered on INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION by CIC @Julius_S_Malema: "In the presence of everyone assembled here and in full realisation of the high calling I assume as President of the Republic of South Africa I https://t.co/AIBIHag64Y ❤ In a matter of just mere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742250388152287257)  2024-01-02T18:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisHatt11 Really cringe stuff. It's such nice academic stuff to ponder but when the rubber meets the road all these people would choose to rather live in the evil degenerate West than the free utopias of Russia Palestine or even India (which might not be such a bad place)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1742269409278738472)  2024-01-02T19:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@lemechantneolib Kevin used to have excellent content back when he was a liberal hawk. At some point I think he allowed his anecdotal experiences with the Canadian housing market to overwhelm his reason. This is the result"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1742440349824381430)  2024-01-03T06:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@malcusinstereo @CurtExplores @DrewPavlou Sorry didn't know 'Global South' was a synonym for 'black' like when the United States was briefly a part of the Global South during the tenure of Barack Obama. Stop sniffing glue. I live here. You more than likely do not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1742606597518393745)  2024-01-03T17:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think having regional parties is a good thing and could be one of the most important conduits for federalism. The DA shows that even theoretically 'federalist' parties that have national ambitions have a tough time focusing on political decentralisation. A Thread: How the IFP survived Buthelezi's disastrous leadership - the IFPs electoral record its decline under Buthelezi and small revival in [----] (with nice graphs). What follows are the key take aways. For the full piece please visit: https://t.co/uc41cUXOWm [--] A Thread: How the IFP survived Buthelezi's disastrous leadership - the IFPs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1742815493151416672)  2024-01-04T07:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@witogie1 I have serious doubts about the death penalty in principle. One of those is that it is an open invitation for killers to go wild and ensure there are no witnesses to their crimes. But there might be a debate to be had - just not in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1742837820073361774)  2024-01-04T09:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"And everyone interested in solving community problems without waiting around for saviour politicians should do exactly that: join AfriForum. Anyone can join AfriForum. Anyone can join AfriForum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743164804682973458)  2024-01-05T06:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BD4two1 Anyone including black people. The 'anti-black AfriForum' is a story sold by politicians who are butthurt about a successful civil society group"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743181836153450817)  2024-01-05T08:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bound2Liberty @NickolausBauer It's so cute that many of the people replying to you believe that the ANC ended apartheid. That is the first sign in South Africa that someone got their historical education from some community activist rather than an actual book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743197800966373428)  2024-01-05T09:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@theZAshowcase @Bound2Liberty @NickolausBauer Or dictionaries for that matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743202230180663589)  2024-01-05T09:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@BD4two1 @MaximusAdp This is a wonderful idea @ConCaracal this guy believes AfriForum should initiate more private prosecutions of land invaders and he believes the MK and EFF can help contribute funds to that effect This is real reconciliation. Thank you Mr Jones you are a great example"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743242194327044239)  2024-01-05T12:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Zanitus @HermanMashaba The best way to identify an uncommitted so-called 'liberal' (in fact social democrat) which includes the DA and unfortunately Mashaba too is that they like the rhetoric of free markets but have no confidence that free enterprise will in reality produce prosperity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743573546712911923)  2024-01-06T10:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Zanitus @HermanMashaba Which is why while saying they are for free markets they nonetheless continue to champion large unaffordable welfare states alongside nonsensical competition regulations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743573687175913716)  2024-01-06T10:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Zanitus @HermanMashaba I am happy to give the idea of vouchers a fair hearing but if that doesn't come with a sunset clause I immediately know the person I'm dealing with thinks that a free economy in South Africa will continue to produce huge poverty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743586327067607269)  2024-01-06T10:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Zanitus @HermanMashaba Too many of those already I think liberalism in South Africa will thrive outside of formal politics. Once that happens formal politics must and will follow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1743586881499996456)  2024-01-06T10:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The ANC casually admitting that they protected Zuma even when they knew he had done wrong making up nonsense to circumvent (their own) law. And yet the pristine theory of democracy allows a party like this to freely contest elections and participate in government. We defended Former President Zuma we even went to Parliament and said a swimming Pool is a fire Pool The Constitutional Court led by Mogoeng Mogoeng released a judgement against Jacob Zuma but the ANC stood by him today Zuma says he can't stand President Cyril Ramaphosa ANC https://t.co/IeWnYUGx0P We defended Former President Zuma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744064500943192466)  2024-01-07T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I don't often use the edgelord right's language but I think in this context it's appropriate:   . Just so we're all clear on where I stand with the guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744073089787244918)  2024-01-07T19:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Any bona fide actor on the international stage if they were concerned about Israel's treatment of Palestinians would have helped Israel to destroy Hamas and any other threats to their society. Because then Israel would have no further excuses. BREAKING: Israeli airstrikes hit a convoy of trucks in al-Bukamal on the border of Syria and Iraq. The trucks were full of rockets that the regime in Iran was trying to send to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Not this time https://t.co/tJswsmfpU7 BREAKING: Israeli airstrikes hit a convoy of trucks in al-Bukamal on the border of Syria and Iraq. The trucks were"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744092315193323943)  2024-01-07T20:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Rather than taking Israel to the ICJ South Africa could have deployed what's left of our special forces to help root out Hamas from Gaza. That would have brought a swifter end to the humanitarian crisis and given SA more solid foundation to launch a case if Israel carried on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744092319005958450)  2024-01-07T20:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I can't verify this but if true this is exactly what needs to start happening in South Africa. And these communities need to have access control: when 'inspectors' and 'civil servants' start coming to interfere they must be chased away. A village in Limpopo built with R0 from the government. When people know no one is coming to save them they get shit done. https://t.co/VzUO3bsOQN A village in Limpopo built with R0 from the government. When people know no one is coming to save them they get shit done. https://t.co/VzUO3bsOQN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744325760410665260)  2024-01-08T11:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I think there are important differences between (ultimate) communism and fascism but both are flavours of socialism. The fascists like to pretend they have some understanding of economics while the communists revel in their willful ignorance. Both are utterly despicable. This is outdated. They merged 30-40 years ago. The distinction is merely a historical point or an academic distraction at this point. This is outdated. They merged 30-40 years ago. The distinction is merely a historical point or an academic distraction at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744353214483320938)  2024-01-08T13:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Some might want to add that fascism has an ethnic nationalistic or racial spice to it but if that were so then we'd have to say the African National Congress in South Africa is a fascist rather than leftist movement. They'd object to that characterisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744353217700319735)  2024-01-08T13:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Taking these terms exclusively on their popular (not necessarily correct) meanings: 'Progressive': I do not tremble at the thought of immigrants. (neo)'Conservative': kaboom goes the foreign dictator's palace Libertarian: /Total/ separation of economy and state. My most progressive conservative and libertarian positions. Progressive: Pro-drug legalization Conservative: My stance on immigration and national sovereignty Libertarian: Free Market Capitalist decentralisationist Small government and pro-gun My most progressive conservative and libertarian positions. Progressive: Pro-drug"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744441466145919399)  2024-01-08T19:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Zanitus I do not mind nationalism. I myself have developed a stronger and strong affinity for my own national group the Afrikaner. When nationalism becomes married to statehood though sad things begin to happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744444572661354609)  2024-01-08T19:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This would have been great if only it were true. (Unfortunately) there is no mainstream political party in this country that has recommended completely gutting the welfare state. They should. But they haven't. NSFAS social grants likely to disappear should ANC lose power - Ramaphosa https://t.co/KfIQOSARBa https://t.co/Rh7d8Le8mS NSFAS social grants likely to disappear should ANC lose power - Ramaphosa https://t.co/KfIQOSARBa https://t.co/Rh7d8Le8mS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1744628464408313994)  2024-01-09T07:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"They claim to support the free market yet their clinging onto the welfare state reveals a significant lack of confidence in their own ideals. Poverty in South Africa is man-made and will likely disappear if the forces that make it (the regulatory state) are dislodged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744628466677317861)  2024-01-09T07:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I can already see this is a book I will have numerous deep disagreements with. Be that as it may this is an absolutely based paragraph. Henry R Pike A History of Communism in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744984536096682175)  2024-01-10T07:28Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"I want all of this and more from AI. Read the techo-optimist manifesto here: nobody wants to play AI games. nobody wants to read AI articles. nobody wants AI assistance. nobody wants AI artwork. nobody wants AI voiceovers or characters. nobody wants AI period. nobody wants to play AI games. nobody wants to read AI articles. nobody wants AI assistance. nobody wants AI artwork. nobody wants AI voiceovers or characters. nobody wants AI period"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745058231943090633)  2024-01-10T12:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@LibertarianZA One hopes not. Excessive compliance with arbitrary diktat is not a good character trait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745393552081723842)  2024-01-11T10:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"My latest. South Africas provinces should conduct their own foreign affairs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1745404367400759756)  2024-01-11T11:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"South Africa hosted Hamas in Cape Town after [--] October. As a jurist myself I am glad I was able to avoid falling into the trap of complete and total formalism where only 'tHe PaPeRs' are relevant. SA's 'concession' in court and SA's behaviour in reality are incongruent. @probsnotspam There is no dispute between South Africa and Israel concerning the nature of the acts by Hamas on Oct [--]. As South Africa counsel explained to #ICJ this a m the reason S. Africa is not seeking provisional measures against Hamas is that it isnt a state cant be brought to ICJ. @probsnotspam There is no dispute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1745526125982294101)  2024-01-11T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BigDaddyLiberty Israel /must/ make every reasonable effort to safeguard civilian lives but it should not stop until every vestige of Hamas and their nearby Hezbollah allies are gone. Can't keep playing this game every few years. It shouldn't be distracted by South Africa's sideshow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1745530729356841176)  2024-01-11T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@CraigBBB1 @KwazaUnathi Yes don't let the fact that other countries have already done this stand in the way of your endorsement of the incompetence of South Africa's opposition parties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1745756783631606122)  2024-01-12T10:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mulockdown Who brings a case is important. A court usually has to rely 99% on what is put before it by the parties. I think it's stupid but the courts hone in entirely on that. Would have been far better for a party without any prior connections to Hamas or anti-Israel rhetoric to do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1745773358862495927)  2024-01-12T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@IvoVegter If it does the ICJ deserves to be ignored with the contempt it deserves. It's a UN institution and the UN has never been shy about where it stands on this issue. This is a great opportunity for the ICJ to show that it retains the integrity of a real court of law. Let's hope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745791041104417050)  2024-01-12T12:53Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@DrewPavlou In all my many years of work in public policy in South Africa I cannot off the top of my head recall one foreign policy decision where this government hit the mark. The ruling party hosted Hamas for tea in Cape Town a month after [--] October"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Martin_ASFL/status/1745792037960511955)  2024-01-12T12:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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