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Giving my thoughts on politics and culture from southern Africa, as well as interviews with interesting thinkers and doers.
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I am joined by Penuel the Black Pen, a South African podcast host and commentator. We discuss his film crew’s 2024 visit to Orania, the power of robust discussions, propaganda and agendas, AfriForum, organising communities, Western hypocrisy, Apartheid, Afrikaners, integration vs separation, and more.
I have a discussion with professor Koos Malan about his latest piece which unpacks how the West is under siege on all fronts, in particular on its periphery.
I am joined by Duncan Reyburn, an Associate Professor and scholar with work mainly on René Girard, Marshall McLuhan, and GK Chesterton. In this episode we discuss technology, modern maladies, Progress™, our electrified world, loadshedding, and more.
Rory Duncan recalls his years manhunting on behalf of the Zimbabwean and Mozambican governments with a focus on a specific, extremely remote and mountainous area - the Chimanimani complex. There, he caught many dangerous fugitives. But one in particular stands out to him, Simon Kumbi, who Rory describes as "a man adapted to his environment and so lethal at his craft that he was almost a ghost."
I am joined by Robert Duigan to discuss the many political trends that have started in southern Africa before being exported to the Western world, why the world has been engrossed by the politics of South Africa on numerous occasions throughout history, how South Africa is in many ways the world in microcosm, and more.
I have a discussion with Gideon Joubert (Paratus), one of the leading responsible firearm ownership and rights lobbyists in South Africa. We cover South Africa's vast organised crime economy, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, private security, civilian security initiatives, and more.
In this episode, I speak with Adam "Akira the Don" Narkiewicz, a British musician and producer and the creator of the MeaningWave genre of music. We discuss music and meaning, the psychology of music, being productive, and more.
On this episode I explore matters of identity, respond to "Go back to Europe"-rhetoric from both the right and left, and unpack the mentality of "Building to stay".
I am joined by Dr Ernst Roets, the Head of Policy at the Solidarity Movement. We discuss how new realities and freedom are not created when they are demanded from the government, but rather that new realities are recognized when communities create them themselves. We also discuss Article 235 of the constitution, self-determination, and more.
Auron MacIntyre joins me to elaborate on his latest column for The Blaze about the relationship(s) between power, culture, institutions and politics. We also discuss the state of the culture war in America and the broader West, strategic victories (capturing castles), accumulating power, Chris Rufo and Harvard, and more.
2024 is upon us and as an introduction to the year ahead I discuss the themes that I think will define the new year, as well as some of the potential challenges that lie ahead.
I speak to János Jeney, a Hungarian cartographer, whose area of research is mapping ethnic groups in the Carpathian Basin. We discuss what the situation is like for the Hungarian minorities outside of Hungary, minority-majority politics, the value of his work, states changing place names, and more.
I provide feedback and answer questions on AfriForum's trip to Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the 16th session of the United Nations (UN) Forum on Minority Issues where I delivered a speech on the South African government's many pieces of racialist legislation, farm murders, as well as incitement of violence against minorities like the "Kill the Boer" chant.
AfriForum also delivered a presentation at the headquarters of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). This was accompanied by a detailed report on the South African government’s 116+ pieces of racial legislation that AfriForum submitted to CERD as well. In 2023 it was the South African government’s turn to have its record regarding discrimination reviewed by CERD at its 111th session.
I have a conversation with David Harris, an American from Tennessee, who spend a lot of time with the Afrikaner community in South Africa. David recently published a great thread on Twitter/X, documenting his experience, as well as unpacking his impressions of Afrikaner/Boer culture as an outsider.
To celebrate a major milestone for my channel, 10 000 subscribers, I will be reading and analysing another one of my favourite texts: Soviet dissent writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Live Not by Lies. On the day Solzhenitsyn was arrested, February 12, 1974, he released the text “Live Not by Lies.” The next day, he was exiled from the Soviet Union.
I am joined by Wanjiru Njoya, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Law School, UK and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. We discuss private property rights, the importance of identity, what history teaches us about the keys to prosperity, expropriation without compensation, "decolonization" and more.
I am joined by Chris Becker, Managing Executive: Enterprise Payments at TymeBank. We talk about why he is bullish on southern Africa, how voting harder is not going to fix our problems, the phasing out of the centralised state, what the future holds for South Africa and southern Africa, opportunities in the chaos, solutions as export product, and more.
I unpack and discuss the idea of the "idolaters of the Act", as first conceptualized by Afrikaner philosopher N.P. van Wyk Louw in his 1958 work, Liberale Nasionalisme.
I am joined by Gawie Snyman, the Orania Town Manager. We discuss the Orania Movement's latest City Building Conference, God-given identity rather than state-imposed identity, why it is of critical importance for Orania to grow into a city, housing, electricity supply upgrades, water supply upgrades, sewerage system upgrades, internet and roads, and more.
I have a conversation with Ferro, a cultural commentator and artist, about art as politics, speaking to people's hearts ("feelings don't care about the facts"), The Exhibition (2023), and proving what is possible through artistic endeavor.
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