Richard Wilkinson

“The fortunate position that I am in is that I am allowed to say things that are true even if they are unpopular or politically incorrect or likely to be howled down by some group or other.” Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray)

I’m very pleased that another 20 rivers and canals across the City now have new permanent waste interceptors. These have been installed in the last few weeks. We want to clean up our rivers, beaches and ocean! 🏞️ 🌊 Keep an eye out for these new waste interceptors popping up…

At its peak, manufacturing contributed nearly 25% of South Africa's GDP (1982). Under ANC rule, it has steadily declined, standing at only about 13% in 2025.

This is insanity. After failing to prove the much-publicised accusations of racism, the Gauteng Educatoon Dept charged and punished the principal because HER HUSBAND VOLUNTARILY LOOKED AFTER THE GARDENS and drove a school vehicle to purchase supplies. The Covid R 400 million…

I think it’s time for a crowdfunding campaign - in support of Mrs Erasmus - and to fund litigation against officials at the Gauteng Department of Education. Retweet if you agree.

The hounding of this poor woman. The lies against her, relentless smear campaign, and now this absolute absurdity of a suspension is a disgrace. Has the provincial education official who was deployed on this witchhunt paid the school fees he owes Pretoria Girls High School?

What have ActionSA and the ANC done to this city??!! It's being carried away. 😫😫😫

Today we held our annual Remembrance Service in honour of the City of Cape Town officers who have died in the line of duty. We gave thanks that no name has had to be added to our Wall of Remembrance this past year. It is a beautiful tradition in the @CityofCT that fallen…

When it comes to the trans madness, almost everyone can now see that the wokesters over-reached. But I see no equivalent realisation about the madness of racial politics, decolonisation, slavery reparations etc.

With every scientist who leaves or has to be fired due to research funding cuts, the median remaining university employee becomes woker.

The asymmetry in the gender wars is stark when it comes to what’s expected of each side. Those challenging sex and gender pseudoscience must be extremely precise. Any small error is seized upon and used to discredit us. Meanwhile, gender activists can get away with saying…

Hard sciences were already under siege—by university bureaucrats who gutted faculty autonomy, tied labs to soft-money treadmill grants, and used NIH funds to grow empires. The ideological rot isn’t just in the humanities. It’s in the grant model, the hiring, the admin ranks.…

I doubt anyone in the administration realizes it, but Trump's war on research universities will make them woker. At universities, wokeness is most concentrated where it began, in the humanities and social sciences. But the cuts to research funding mostly hurt the hard sciences.

👋 Hey, Laffer Curve, how've you been?

“ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile says, "Artificial intelligence and technology, if left unregulated, will create a new digital divide deeper than apartheid ever was."”, the SABC reports. Why compare everything to apartheid? We are led by clueless people. They should be…

We would be a far better country if the mainstream media used the same energy they reserve to scorn Afriforum specifically, to instead hold government accountable for repeated failures in actual governance.

"Elite overproduction occurs when a society produces too many people who feel entitled to high status...and try to form alliances with genuinely marginalized populations in order to depose existing elites and install themselves in their stead." press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

ActionSA MMC Kholofelo Morodi must account for why she gave Iranian officials a tour of the Tshwane City Hall and entertained such a bizarre proposal. R170 million worth of damage done to this place under the ANC and this is the best thinking they have. Braindead.

SA is facing sanctions from the USA on 1 Aug. In Tshwane, the USA has countless partnerships with city, sponsors TMPD training, libraries, development initiatives, many others. ActionSA MMC " Yes, we are proudly engaging with Iran on partnerships." God, this is stupid.

Free market economics works. That free market economics doesn’t work is a fabrication by the left. The left has been spreading this propaganda for decades. With his pro-market reforms in Argentina, Milei is challenging dogmas of the left that have spread all over the world.

Customers get mad at grocery store prices because they can't see the Fed. Investors get happy about rising stock prices because they can't see the Fed. And everyone is confused about housing prices because they can't see the Fed. But you can.