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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · 20 h

Barry D Wood: “Schwab’s departure is more problematic and could be a disaster.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/27/rea…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. In many ways these two titans of finance and economics – Warren Buffett and Klaus Schwab – are a lot alike. The Oracle of Omaha

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · 21 h

Ivo Vegter: “The US is supposed to be a beacon of freedom and human rights in the world. Yet every day it slips further down the slippery slope to a fascist dictatorship.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/27/you…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. The US has adopted policies to screen visitors’ social media for anti-semitism (and only anti-semitism). Private profiles will have to be made public. As part

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 26

Elnieke Bronkhorst: “The goal of freedom, peace, and a better life for all stems from the common moral code all South Africans commit to, but which the government exploits for its own ends.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/26/thi…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. All South African parents have one problem in common – it is difficult to shield their children from hardship in a society like ours. Many

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 26

Captain Shongwe: “Recognizing and conscientizing the public on the dangers of fundamentalist Sharia law to our constitutional order, our children and our women is not Islamophobia but a deliberate act of patriotism.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/26/the…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. The recent decision by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to block the registration of a new political party named, “Islamic State of Africa” was not

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 25

The Daily Friend Show 25 July 2025 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 25

Ivo Vegter: “Leave law enforcement to the authorities, and don’t give a handful of outraged moralists the power to dictate content policy for the entire world.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/25/the…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. Governments are dangerous agents of censorship. Behind the scenes, however, there are far less accountable private censors, acting on behalf of self-appointed fringe moralists. Steam,

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 25

Leah Potgieter: “If the JPC is serious about optimisation, it should look inward, to the properties it has failed to develop, the buildings it has failed to protect and the leases it has failed to enforce.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/25/ali…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. Johannesburg residents − and DA councillors − are alarmed at the recent move by the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC) on well-used and functioning public infrastructure,

Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 25

Simon Lincoln Reader: “(P)eople in the UK need to stop watching porn and get back to work.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/25/the…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. I’m not usually one for people’s bedrooms, but a feature of Britain’s Online Safety Act (OSA) kicks in today, meaning that mandatory age verification is

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 24

SA's great debt crisis x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 24

Martin van Staden: “In reality, just because something is private does not mean it is not, in the very best sense, public.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/24/yes…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. Few things have gripped the social imagination so firmly as the notion that “public = government = good” and “private = insular = bad.” This

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 24

Marius Roodt: “(South Africa today) … is a far better country than the one which viewed people from north of the Limpopo as strange, dangerous, and volatile creatures, akin to Martians.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/24/it-…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. The oldest Springbok died this week. Des van Jaarsveldt died at the age of 96. He had been a stalwart of Rhodesian rugby and played

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 23

Corruption chickens coming home to roost? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 23

Jonathan Katzenellenbogen: “There is also the risk that the US posture might yet harden.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/23/nat…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office released the government’s National Security Strategy, or rather a cut down version of the full document on the subject

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 23

Steven Boykey Sidley: “The real question is whether there is any chance of protecting any intellectual property at all as AI sprints towards a world in which it is superintelligent and beyond both our ken and control.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/23/art…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. I have written previously about the hot war between creators of content and the “foundation” AI companies like ChatGPT, which hoovered up as much content

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 23

Reuben Coetzer: “Sooner or later, those individuals will vanish into remote villages or walk across dirt roads into KwaZulu-Natal or Mpumalanga and infiltrate our communities.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/23/sen…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. The saying goes that if the US sneezes, South Africa gets the flu. Well, in this case it appears to be the reality, Washington is

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 23

G C Papenfus: “NEASA cannot allow for this unconstitutional obligation and unacceptable burden to be placed upon employers.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/23/mr-…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. An open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of Employment and Labour Nomakhosazana Meth Dear Mr President and Minister Meth By this time, you

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 22

Ramaphosa blinks to save budget x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Daily Friend@DailyFriendSA · Jul 22

Ivo Vegter: “Our political leaders talk about “smart cities” and “bullet trains” to distract from their criminal failure to provide perfectly ordinary services.” dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/22/the…

DailyFriendSA's tweet card. Gauteng and Limpopo provinces are planning a high-speed rail connection. The jackpot question is: why, oh why? Feasibility studies and environmental impact assessments are underway

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