The SAPS have water cannoned downtrodden and destitute people queuing for their SASSA grants in Bellville today. Their crime? Allegedly not social distancing enough. Many of these people reportedly…
The present COVID hysteria has resulted in a great many regrettable and downright atrocious decisions. Opinions and evidence dissenting from the supposed zeitgeist of panic and fear are censored…
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Our government has treated smokers and alcohol consumers like second-class citizens for months. And they had zero recourse – the government just trampled their rights and privileges underfoot. There…
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We Made Our Own Economic Apocalypse. Aren’t You Proud?
August 4, 2020 5 Comments
My fellow South Africans, This isn’t a “I-told-you-so” post. As much fun as I can have by indulging in the limitless schadenfreude of vindication, the world-shattering scale of the…
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We like to throw terms around. It’s probably inherent to human nature. We love abbreviations, contractions, and other nonsense words. They are little parcels of meaning that escape the…
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Lance Sergeants Otto and James hardly ever worked together. These were the days when even a couple of full Sergeants (what the military called a Staff Sergeant) on a…