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Thomas Sowell: “One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians’ answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. … Having someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.”
If this were a fairer system of democracy based purely on who won the most votes, the DA should lead all three Gauteng metros, with Cilliers Brink back as mayor of Tshwane and Helen Zille as mayor of Johannesburg. In that scenario, Herman Mashaba's pride would die.
Mashaba wants to play kingmaker. The DA can simply partner with the ANC, take Joburg and Tshwane, and hand Ekurhuleni over. That would humble him.
Thomas Sowell: “There is a fundamental difference between reducing costs and simply shifting costs around, like a pea in a shell game at a carnival. Costs are not reduced simply because you don’t pay them. It just means that we refuse to pay the costs. Instead, we pay the consequences. There is no free lunch.”
Prince Mashele: "Parties like ActionSA will have to swallow a bitter pill and negotiate with the DA. Helen Zille will be the mayor of Johannesburg."
A lot of people are saying ActionSA is trying to keep Helen Zille away from the levers of power in Johannesburg because of the corruption she would uncover.
Far from it. Herman Mashaba hates her and wants to humiliate her. It would make him extremely bitter to see her as mayor. He’s nursing a personal grudge because he sees her as an enemy.
Yasmine Mohammed: “I still can’t get over the fact the people who have colonized a quarter of the planet have convinced Ivy League kids in the West that they are anti-colonialists.”
Thomas Sowell: “Providing free lunches to people who go to hospital emergency rooms is one of the reasons for the current high costs of medical care for others.”
Black professionals are leaving the country. Afrikaners are going to America. Now, even top-tier athletic swimmers don't want to represent our flag. Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC have been a total disgrace!
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
South African Four-Time Olympic Medallist Tatjana Smith Switches Allegiance To The Netherlands Ahead Of LA 2028
South African swimming star and four-time Olympic medallist Tatjana Smith has announced that she will represent the Netherlands in international competitions, including the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
The 29-year-old confirmed the decision in a social media statement today, Tuesday, 10 November 2026, saying the move would allow her to explore her Dutch heritage while benefiting from a different high-performance environment.
Smith, who holds both South African and Dutch citizenship, has had her change of sporting nationality approved by World Aquatics.
She won gold in the 200m breaststroke and silver in the 100m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics before claiming gold in the 100m and silver in the 200m at Paris 2024.
Her four Olympic medals make her one of South Africa's most decorated Olympians, alongside swimmer Chad le Clos, who also has four medals.
After retiring following the Paris Games, Smith returned to competitive swimming in September 2026, focusing on the 50m breaststroke, which will feature at the 2028 Olympics.
Her first competition representing the Netherlands is expected to be the World Aquatics Swimming Championships in Beijing from 1 to 6 December 2026.
Despite the switch, Smith will remain based in South Africa and continue training with her existing team, joining the Dutch squad for major competitions and training camps.
The decision follows tensions with Swimming South Africa (SSA), including a dispute over prize money earned at the 2023 World Championships. Smith has also previously spoken about the financial pressures facing South African swimmers.
In her statement, she emphasised that her decision did not diminish her achievements or pride in representing South Africa.
“Choosing this path doesn't take away from the first. It doesn't diminish the medals I've won, the pride I've felt singing the South African national anthem or everything I've achieved,” she said.
Smith added that she would always be grateful to the South African swimming community, her coaches and supporters.
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Milton Friedman once said, “A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.”
He also said, “A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
Thomas Sowell on school vouchers: Low-income & minority communities have the most at stake. Public schools are a monopoly that treats them with contempt.
In 1850, most free blacks were literate despite being barred from public schools—and in parts of the South, forbidden from any school. Private education did the work.
Milton Friedman taught Thomas Sowell at the University of Chicago and spoke very highly of him:
“The word ‘genius’ is thrown around so much that it’s becoming meaningless, but nevertheless I think Tom Sowell is close to being one.”
Milton Friedman: “I am in favor of reducing taxes under any circumstances, for any excuse, with any reason whatsoever, because that’s the only way you are ever going to get effective control of government spending.”
Thomas Sowell: "I'm afraid that I haven't even looked for the causes of poverty. I regard poverty is just simply the absence of wealth. So what I look for are the things that cause wealth to occur."
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Jensen Huang is one of the most incredible businessmen in history. His company represents somewhere between 6-8% of the entire value of the S&P 500. And his zipper may have just undone capitalism.
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Khaled Hassan: “I was never a practising, observant Muslim. Yet even I wanted Islam to take over Europe and the West until I was a teenager.
We are taught that Islam’s greatest achievements are conquest and colonialism.
We are taught that the greatest thing we could ever do is enable the invasion and conquest of non-Muslim countries.
This is a fact that only a former Muslim would tell you.”
