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Continue reading →: Jabulile’s HomeI was a boy whom Ngwenya—the crocodile—bid, “Sleep well. If you want to help Africa, wake up a man. We don’t need pansies.” From the verandah of the Mzingwane District government rest camp in 1968, I gazed across the outer reaches of the Matopos. Less than 100 miles from Rhodes’…
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Continue reading →: Jabulile’s HouseIn 1954 in a Bulawayo (Southern Rhodesia) backyard, three worlds collided. Jabulile Nyoni (black African) stood proudly in her crisp, blue-checked uniform and white apron. She had been so excited when my mother (white African) had come from work and presented the outfit that she insisted on changing from her…
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Continue reading →: When Ferrari Meets Father Time: A Carnivore’s Cautionary TaleThough the carnivore lifestyle gives Ferrari-level energy, it’s still your old chassis. “Uncle, you’ve done your bum,” he shrieked when I grabbed tight at the back of my leg. 8 seconds it took me to become a cautionary tale of energy abuse. Carnivore living supercharged my trillions of mitochondria to…
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Continue reading →: Colonialism made Africa’s PoorThe Luxury of the Poor: How Surplus Changed Humanity It’s the 1950s, in Bulawayo, now Zimbabwe’s second city. In the shade of the ancient marula tree, a cooling breeze drifting by, I’m at the feet of my aged mentors: Uncle Charles, a veteran of Cecil Rhodes’ pioneer column, and Muhle,…
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Continue reading →: Ramaphosa’s Land LieThe brutal truth of South Africa’s tribal past uncovered. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is spinning a yarn on the campaign trail: a pre-colonial golden age of black unity, complete with borders, customs unions, and officials—a paradise ripe for reclaiming. It’s a fairy tale so detached from reality it makes…
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Continue reading →: Showpiece to Failure: The ANC’s Reality CheckA harsh truth: when biological reality collides with political ideology, dysfunction results–but there’s a path forward. My Irish great-granny arrived in “darkest Africa” in the 1880s expecting chaos, only to find a land buzzing with promise. “Some towns had lights before London! It was a place that was going to…
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Continue reading →: South Africa’s Wasting MalemaIf you think Malema is a problem, your head is in the sand. Numbers don’t lie: South Africa’s crisis isn’t about race. A devastating brain drain leaves millions without economic leadership A question many are asking: Why hasn’t Malema, the small, Northern Sotho Economic Freedom Front (EFF) leader, been arrested…
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Continue reading →: Whites Had to Be All Colours to Get WhiteColour: painting by sunlight. Imagine the scene: about 6 million years ago, on the sun-drenched eastern beaches of Equatorial Africa, our earliest ancestors are soaking up the rays. These naked apes—our “grandparents,” if you will—sported jet-black skin, a perfect shield against the blazing sun. Unlike their chimpanzee cousins, who hid…
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Continue reading →: The RacistA toothbrush request refused exposes South Africa’s misplaced priorities. A common theme of South Africa’s ruling ANC and its breakaways is that whites—7% of the population—are racist and should leave. Yet, despite their exodus, the black elite pushes harder, forming a special judiciary division for hate speech crimes, where blacks…
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Continue reading →: Gender-based Violence? No! ANC Failure – YES!Gender-based violence isn’t just a social issue; it’s economic. The ANC’s failure to create jobs is the real culprit behind South Africa’s crisis. I spent nearly two decades working in Rhodesia’s black communities as a young man. Back then, a man attacking a woman—or a woman attacking a man—was so…
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