This week's articles

Most of my writing has been on the Cape Independent, and so I thought I'd catch you all up.

The DA is dead silent on the coming wealth tax

The Treasury recently announced its intention to tax people directly on their property values, and to implement a global tax regime. The DA has offered no meaningful criticism, and as far as I know, neither has the VF+ or any of the major civic organisations. I still need to have a look at whether any other countries have managed to resist this particular wave of globalist tax reform, but for now, I just looked at a particular coordination of G20 and South African tax policy as it relates to “dekulakisation” type policies.

As I understand it, the value of these policies is to break the back of the property-owning classes not directly plugged into the Trans-Atlantic elite. I briefly mention some structural trends and international examples near the end of the article.

I also did an article on how the SARB is pushing cashless society through private-sector acquisitions in the payments sector.

DA's culture of unaccountability deepens

I cover three stories of DA corruption, which have been handles with hostile coverups. They protected Raybin Figland from accountability for a sex-for-jobs scandal after delaying the investigation for several years, attacked the speaker of Swellendam for trying to hold financial oversight accountable, and for failing to take their side in a case where the DA allegedly attempted to bribe an ANC councillor to stand down.

Plus, a leaked email from earlier this year from Hilton Stroebel in the Garden Route trying in vain to get Zille and Londt to hold Memory Booysen to account for his decade of corrupt governance.

Minister of Fisheries holds his nose around fishing grounds

Dion George has prioritised the implementation of deluded carbon reduction strategies instead of focusing on the core issues of his department - licensing and conservation.

Basically, I focus on the strange obsession Dion George has with CO2 bollocks, while neglecting the major issue of racial quotas in fishing licenses. He is also focusing on issues of offshore drilling, but neglecting mine dumping activities which have permanently destroyed kreef breeding grounds.

Did Eskom know about the fire risk at Kriel Power Station?

Hugo Kruger shows how the state-owned enterprise was already aware of the risks, and asks why they did nothing to prevent the accident from occurring. There’s a link to his substack in the article itself, and he is generally rather worth it.

I will be running an Afrikaans article of his later today on post-Soviet “decolonisation” of language policies.

I also ran our second Afrikaans-medium article, on Orania’s policing actions in their geographical periphery. They caught a few career copper-thieves together with AfriForum.

AfriForum to take Stellenbosch to the regulators over pollution coverup

Recent tests indicate hazardous levels of pollution. However, the municipality refuses to release records, and AfriForum has now commissioned its own independent tests. This has been building for a while, and hopefully will start to poke a few well-deserved holes in the DA’s reputation.

Supreme Court of Appeal rules municipal officials responsible for waste

Until now, municipal officials have been immune from liability for wasteful expenditure. That has come to an end, after a court case in the Eastern Cape.

Whether this actually increases accountability, or creates greater pressure to protect insiders and destroy scapegoats, is anyone’s guess. Could be good, but as with all things, the proof is in the eating.

My impression from covering local corruption in the WC is that officials are often protected by keeping them from being investigated in the first place, so anything could happen.