My bad. I think it will be Cape Town for me to get the general South African experience.

I also definitely want to visit Orania so for that, I think I will take a connecting flight from Cape Town to Kimberly and drive down to Orania.

I just finished reading the whole thing. Fantastic! Thank you.

Also, I have a question. I’d like to visit South Africa sometime in the next few years. I’ve never bribed anyone before. If I ever run into any obstacle such as at the airport or in town, how should I handle it? What words should I say?

Good post! I read the whole thing. Btw, I know nothing happened but what were you doing during Malema’s day of rage yesterday? Did people irl talk about it? Did you see any of the marchers?

Hey, I remember this guy. He really influenced me about healthcare. I wrote about him here:

https://stupidpol.site/h/fatpeoplehate/post/92179/official-us-army-heightweight-requirements-uncle/2456829#context

After that, I talked to @sirpingsalot about it and he wrote up a blog post about his own thoughts on healthcare here: https://questioner.substack.com/p/godwins-healthcare

Edit:this reminds of an ancient blog called La Griffe Du Lion from the late 90s/early 2000s who did the same research and it’s more extensive: http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/

Pinging some of the commentators and voters who were victimized by disinformation for their benefit:

@Tomato @iStillMissEd @Fabrico @i_only_downvote_pizza

Pinging some of the commentators who were victimized by disinformation for their benefit: @Its_All_Good_Man @Tonberry @BoozeMESSIAH @Detroitvelvetsmooth @Adam-Friedland-Show

Pinging some of the commentators who were victimized by disinformation for their benefit: @TrappyKong @TariqNasheed @aqouta @Sasanka_of_Gauda @HetsAreFeds

Pinging some of the commentators who were victimized by disinformation for their benefit;

@August @peepeehands @garlicdoors @cynic @Albussy_Dumbledonger

Here is the actual text of the article as per the way back machine:

For single people, dating fatigue is a universal phenomenon. Hours of swiping left can lead to despair at the potential matches in your area. One city in Jiangxi, a province in eastern China, reckons that it has come up with a solution for the lovelorn or love-weary: a state-sponsored matchmaking service.

Guixi, a city of about 640,000 people, has launched an app that uses data on single residents to build a matchmaking platform. The app is known as “Palm Guixi” and includes a platform for organising blind dates, according to China Youth Daily, a state-run newspaper.

The app is part of a province-wide initiative to boost the marriage rate, which has been falling nationwide for the past decade. In 2021 there were 5.4 marriages per 1,000 people, compared with six in the US.

Elsewhere in Jiangxi, local governments are organising in-person events to get people mingling. In Gao’an city, about 100 young singles attended an event in Ruizhou Fuya park where they could dress up in traditional clothes, play games and “get closer” to each other as they felt “the profoundness of Chinese culture”.

One of the main pillars of the Jiangxi pilot is a campaign against high “bride prices”. In recent years the government has discouraged the traditional practice of a potential groom offering a bride’s family cash before marriage. The country’s civil code prohibits “the exaction of money or gifts in connection with marriage”. But in practice the tradition remains common, especially in rural areas. In 2022 Jiangxi topped an unofficial nationwide ranking of bride prices, with an average of 380,000 yuan (£45,000).

Through a combination of public awareness campaigns and limits on extravagant wedding ceremonies and banquets, Shicheng county claims to have virtually eliminated “betrothal gifts”.

Online reactions to the state-sponsored matchmaking service have been mixed. Many commenters on Weibo linked it to the government’s push to boost China’s rapidly falling birthrate. Chinese people are expected to “breed like pigs”, wrote one user.

Hey, could you elaborate on this or give a link to someone else explaining this? This being what the psychology-understanding of yesteryer versus now. I am genuinely interested.

You make good points, though I don’t agree with the spoilt bit. After all, you live there and you definitely have to be much more diplomatic than someone from the outside.

I think what gives the genocide statements more weight is that going by UN’s genocide risk factor list, South Africa has clearly hit factors 1-4.

Prominent leaders (Malema, Lesufi, etc.) including members in the ruling party (such as ANC members in your own post) have actively dehumanized and called for the murder of minority groups.

South Africa is also teetering on factor 5 and hasn’t yet tipped over only because paramilitary groups like Dudula have been targeting black foreigners so far.

I worry that you are downplaying these incidents only because you are used to the dehumanization but as someone looking at this from the outside, statements by people in power are beyond the pale.

What happened in Johanesburg 2019 and Durban 2022 are similar to some of the anti-Semitic progroms in 1930s.

The rhetoric of some members of the EFF and BLF resemble that of the Nazi SA.

Also, while white and indian murder rates are lower in the cities, it isn’t from a lack of trying. That anyone of means in the cities basically lives in fortified estates is very unusual to me.

The Boer (Dutch) whites are actually more indigenous to western South Africa then most black South Africans and basically all Bantu black South Africans. Only the San have an older claim and they are systematically oppressed by everyone including current African governments. Google Botswana’s forced relocations and reservations.

Sprate isn’t me.

If you are looking interesting places on KF to click around on, you should check out Null’s profile. He makes to sure to pop in on threads when things are heating up. He is also brings down the hammer in the same way that you do when people start doing things that would attract law enforcement attention.

Or you can listen to his weekly podcast in which he covers dramatic topics in a funny way. I usually listen to it while working.

HBDbros rise up!

So the Bongs giving immigrants the MDEfugee treatment.

You can’t stay.

You have to go back.

Out! Out! Out!

When I look this up, I see multiple options. What reputable program do you use?

Winnercel

You are still wrong. Kiwifarms is good. Also, don’t tar a group of thousands with one example.

I vaguely remember seeing this picture before. Can anyone tell me what was going on here or help me out with a link?

You know, Orania has already started to break free from Eskom. They’ve built their own solar farm and all to their new houses are being built for energy efficiency. See the news video below. Maybe other communities can follow their example.

Also, from reading more recent statements by their spokesman, they hope to start exporting energy once they are self-sufficient.

He’s not? I’ve always associated him with Tatcher and Reagon.

Now if you defined Mises as the basic right wing, then yeah, on that scale Milton Friedman would be center/center-left. Is that you meant?

What’s the context of this video?

Check out this great overview by @SmallNips

https://rdrama.net/post/135751/orania-the-town-that-has-been

or check out this slapfight on a South African subreddit where a pro-Orania meme is posted

https://old.reddit.com/r/RSA/comments/qan0k0/how_to_spend_r27_million/?sort=controversial

Who is the companion? Are you talking about Vivienne?