Archive - Marhobane

Infinite deadlock: how the ANC will win again

The DA has been successfully neutered, the EFF are facing jail, and Zuma is both irreplaceable, and facing old age. The ANC will soon have no…

Jul 13 •

A trimtab intervention for fixing the state of South Africa's transport infrastructure

Roads and rail have both been declining, not just since the ANC took power, but to some extent since 1977. But the policy which started this trend can…

Jul 13 •

May 2024

The significance of the Afrikanerverklaring

While apparently nebulous, it is a vital step toward autonomy

May 6 •

April 2024

Fixing South Africa

Post-colonialism from a right-wing perspective

Apr 26 •

December 2023

The Gods are Probably Not Entirely Crazy

I watched The Gods Must Be Crazy tonight for the first time since I was a child. It made me surprisingly emotional, but not so much for the explicit…

Dec 8, 2023 •

November 2023

The first month of the Cape Independent

Stats and plans

Nov 29, 2023 •

The Cape Independent: a new independent news site

I’ve had a number of frustrated conversations with various members of the independence movement for the past year or two, mostly centred on the…

Nov 2, 2023 •

The Mail & Guardian’s fiscal analysis: “Money don’t real”

The dangers of "austerity" are a shibboleth for the reality-deprived

Nov 1, 2023 •

The Curse of Makhanda

An ironic nemesis

Nov 1, 2023 •

October 2023

A short comment on political chess

Oct 17, 2023 •

South African Rubicon

A complimentary response to Professor Koos Malan

Oct 10, 2023 •

The Nature of Violence vs the Violence of Nature

Hamas invaded Israel recently. It wasn’t pretty. It sparked the usual debates, the usual diatribe - whose land is whose, who is the crueler, who the…

Oct 10, 2023 •

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