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Continue reading →: Reinvent their livesFrom tribal lands to urban sprawl, South Africa’s rapid urbanization highlighted a skills crisis that hangs large over the future. Will Malema train them? Between 1850 and the granting of Union status in 1910, South Africa’s modern economy experienced a massive surge of urban development. As towns and villages complete…
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Continue reading →: Millions of struggling citizensWithout immediate community development initiatives, South Africa will descend into modern-day tribal warfare—one fought in concrete townships instead of open savannah. While South Africa’s GDP’s steady climb paints a picture of progress, reality for the majority of South Africans is different. At the “low” end, 55% subsist on or below…
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Continue reading →: Tough LoveIn a chaotic turn of events, deep in the Rhodesian bush, my boss was rushed to the hospital. His replacement was delayed, and I was given the job of Returning Officer for the General Elections. When the replacement arrived, I approached him with a few concerns. He listened and then…
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Continue reading →: HIV-AIDS: Was Dr. Beetroot Almost Right?Trump’s threat to cut off HIV aid might be the wake-up call we need. Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa’s Health Minister from 1999 to 2008, gained notoriety for promoting beetroot and other vegetables as treatments for HIV/AIDS. She was terribly misguided; millions suffered unnecessarily, but what if she’d advocated for…
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Continue reading →: USA, the Frightful BullyPresident Trump echoed what much of the world has been questioning for 50 years: “Why are we Americans involved in so many places? What is all this ‘Aid’ business about, and are we getting a fair return for our buck?” Maybe he is upset enough to build a wall that…
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Continue reading →: SANNA: South Africa’s New National ArmyTurn a dollar a day spent into a dollar a day contributed. What if the Republic of South Africa offered its millions of struggling citizens a place in a New National Army? It would not be a meaningless woke exercise involving the pouring in of trillions of rand of donations…
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Continue reading →: Expropriation: Trump, the IRR’s Terence Corrigan, and BizNewsTV Don’t Get ItThe so-called “African” attitude toward ownership has nothing to do with Marxism. This Expropriation Bill isn’t about abstract economic theories, and while if it is carried out it will “kick the economy in the teeth,” it isn’t being signed with evil intent. It is about the timeless social contract that…
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Continue reading →: Resisting the Training TrapTo get healthy again, I didn’t just exercise—I did resistance training. The distinction matters. Training automates. We train animals, people in jobs, people in sports, and young folk in ideologies. Well trained, your brain and body set you up to become that particular expert. It works—productivity and ease of doing…
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Continue reading →: SELL GOLD BUY CARBON DIOXIDEIt’s the gas of our life. How little I knew, how pitiful King Charles III’s comprehension remains. While managing his vast estates with net-zero ambitions, he seems to have forgotten his own wisdom—how the plants he sang to grew best. With each princely breath he exhaled, he sent those lucky…
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Continue reading →: Tipping PointChronically ill? That ‘preventative’ shot maybe isn’t for you. It’s for the healthy to walk on water. Six Pence, the circus clown, teetered on the high wire at the Boswell Wilkies Circus in, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. My sister and I buried our heads in our mother’s lap, screaming, “Mom, he’s…
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