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Andreas de Montaigne retweeted
Geloof is geen houvast om het leven te verzachten, maar een geschenk dat het mooier en rijker maakt.
Andreas de Montaigne retweeted
Last week I published a major paper on the law around self-determination and its application in the South African constitutional framework
Its essence is that when it comes to self-determination, the Constitution is subordinate to international law, and communities wishing to legitimately assert their right to self-determination must be accommodated by the South African State
This has far-reaching consequences, including in the fight for devolved policing powers in the Western Cape, control of single-medium schools, and fiscal autonomy
No community can be prevented from acting in its own best interest, by the national majority, providing that in doing so, it does not infringe upon the rights of others
If you would like a copy of the paper you can download it in the links in the comments, via the CIAG website, or via @SSRN/@ResearchGate
Constructive debate and feedback will be welcomed
Andreas de Montaigne retweeted
This is good news.
34 might even be on the too short side.
Law is codified violence, and if you accept that it can be "made", should be made extremely rarely.
Parliament should primarily represent the people, not tie them up in legalistic red tape.
It now takes 34 months to pass a law in SA - from only 6 months in 2004
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I hate to break it to you guys, but it’s literally just a game.
If your team losing a game of sports has a meaningful negative impact on your life, or causes you deep concern about societal conflict, then I would be very worried about your life priorities.
A Springboks loss this weekend is going to be bad. We’ve already seen what one defeat has done across social media this week. I’ve got friends who genuinely sound depressed about it and have already written the tour off.
People outside South Africa underestimate just how much the Springboks mean to the country. For a lot of people, their happiness genuinely is affected by how well the Boks are doing. They give people hope, pride and something to rally around.
Another loss this weekend, especially after everything that’s happened over the past week, will be devastating for a lot of South Africans.
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There are only three entities in South Africa with true rebel potential
The Afrikaners, the Zulu, and the Cape
The latter has a narrow window that it may well miss, though the formula is simple.
The former merely has to marshall resources within existing insitutions.
The Zulu must engineer new forms of social organisation, but benefit from a form of social centralisation which could accelerate the process if Royal assent is given.
Any of these could create conditions for the renegotiation of the entire Constitutional order, by threatening its dissolution.
The alternative is managed decline and looting for the benefit of existing wealthy corporations and individuals, and the eventual succession of just two of these parties - the Zulu and the Afrikaner, amid a sea of chaos, poverty and organised crime.
Timelines are difficult to determine, but it is within the next 10-15 years that these questions must be settled.
There are two things that absolutely terrify the South African establishment:
1. Afrikaner and Zulu cooperation on a foundation of mutual recognition and respect.
2. Organisations that find effective ways to bring about change outside of party politics and who reject government dependency.
AfriForum and March and March's meeting this week trigger both alarms, as the commentariat and EFF meltdowns demonstrates.
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I don't think anyone who's ever said "I'll have to check that out" has in fact gone and checked that out
I dont under how people work in an office with all the endless small talk. it's like an asylum of amiability
Andreas de Montaigne retweeted
It's worth being calumniated, cancelled, jobless, and marginalised to protect the faith
Protecting the Faith against heretics is the best job in the world
Salvation of souls. Nothing else matters
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"The world has never seen a government more radically libertarian than @JMilei's. But the amazing thing is not that it is working economically—Adam Smith would say, 'I told you so.' The true miracle is that Milei’s shock therapy is working politically."
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"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5
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My late wife Rhonda with an MIT engineering degree used to say, “what they’re doing in DC isn’t 3D chess, they’re chewing on the checkers and arguing which tastes better, red or black.”
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When the people who govern you, regulate you, and police you are chronically implicated in serious and violent organised crime, gun control is no longer about public safety but rather for protecting criminals from their intended victims.
Question for those criticizing the people who are either leaving or have left SA: How much worse do the murder rates,instances of rape,cases of GBV,levels of corruption, and race-based laws have to get before it's acceptable to exit a state that hates you b/c of your skin colour?
Don’t fall into the trap of interpreting, analysing, or contextualising the Church & the election of Pope Leo XIV through the lens of politics (especially nationalistic and identitarian ones) or ideological binaries. The papacy (traceable to St. Peter) predates your ideology.
