Archive - Marhobane

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 •

Cape Independence update

CIAG issues ultimatum, DA sues for memes

Oct 5, 2023 •

August 2023

Cape to NATO pt. 2: After BRICS

More like go than chess

Aug 31, 2023 •

Recent articles on Cape Independence

My recent writing for the Cape Youth Front website

Aug 7, 2023 •

June 2023

Ethnodemocracy Part 5: Zulu Blues

How the ANC has drowned opposition with municipal demarcation and infiltration

Jun 14, 2023 •

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