Since the beginning of the year, some rather unusual changes have transpired between the Democratic Alliance and the United States. The public brochure on the trade deal in question lists a few items of interest. PepsiCo bought out Pioneer foods, so now Sasko, Weetbix and most of the pasta and pap in your local store, are now owned by America. Google’s $150m high speed fibre cable to Cape Town is on there, as is Amazon’s three new cloud data servers. There are some export-friendly deals too, in SA medical device manufacturing, and food supply.
Excellent essay. I occasionally follow your work & agree with some of your conclusions. But as someone who's views are a combination of socialism/libertarianism/anarchism (blame my background for this confluence) there are many times where I think we can respectfully disagree.
With that being said, I have questions.
1) how the hell is the DA gonna maintain/regain control of municipalities when more and more voters are growing wiser that when the DA talks of economic growth, it's growth only for those who live in (formerly white) suburbs and private estates? You can point to psyops but generating online content can only get you so far
2) do you really think independent candidates and Cape separatists are going to win council seats given the lengths some organisations will go to maintain control?
3) how do you picture this new dispensation? It's one thing to criticize the faults in our society, but it's entire different ballgame to come up with an alternative. If you don't have concrete vision of what things are supposed to look like, how are you gonna convince others to leave this paradigm behind?
"Taxation is aggressive." Compared to who? Finland?
Excellent essay. I occasionally follow your work & agree with some of your conclusions. But as someone who's views are a combination of socialism/libertarianism/anarchism (blame my background for this confluence) there are many times where I think we can respectfully disagree.
With that being said, I have questions.
1) how the hell is the DA gonna maintain/regain control of municipalities when more and more voters are growing wiser that when the DA talks of economic growth, it's growth only for those who live in (formerly white) suburbs and private estates? You can point to psyops but generating online content can only get you so far
2) do you really think independent candidates and Cape separatists are going to win council seats given the lengths some organisations will go to maintain control?
3) how do you picture this new dispensation? It's one thing to criticize the faults in our society, but it's entire different ballgame to come up with an alternative. If you don't have concrete vision of what things are supposed to look like, how are you gonna convince others to leave this paradigm behind?