Here is an offer: If any media house would like a briefing to its reporters on polls, how to read them and understand them, I would be happy to do it. No media house I am aware of, has ever asked for such a thing. Which tells you everything really.

“You simply cannot be Afrikaners, you can’t be. You disagree with me, so you can’t be. So I don’t care about what you wrote, I will devote every ounce of energy to proving you are not ‘real’ Afrikaners, because ‘real’ Afrikaners believe what I believe.” #mentalbreakdown

ANC does this all the time, ‘clever blacks’, ‘house negros’, ‘coconuts’. Simply cannot comprehend any black person having ideas that do not align with the archetype it believes it controls and represents. That’s why Afriforum=ANC. Absolute nationalistic twins.

A lovely set of colourful sound bites on what seems like a once in a life time set of restaurants. Amazing. Worth a read!

Q: Have created a series of shape files for JHB for 2011/14/16/19/21/24. They are maps of JHB by ward. Example below. Exciting! Can show anything: party%, turnout, top wards, difference between elections, etc. I’ll do them for all metros. What would you most like to see on them?

As a fun experiment, happy to illustrate here on Twitter, choose a year, choose what you would like to see mapped in JHB, and I'll respond with a map that shows that! One map though, not going to do comparative maps, will save that for blog. x.com/GvanOnselen/st…

My early Christmas wish is that South Africans stop basing their personalities around election results in the United States

Remember the way in which Hlophe was celebrated by MK, on his appointment/election? Now effortlessly tossed aside, like so many others. You are a brave person indeed to assume any position in MK. Zuma is a lot like Stalin, the moment you stop clapping, he will come for you.

Anyone for a late lunch? New review out on capefoodie.co.za

To the 5 people who are waiting for Buffalo City, all graphs done and I’ll write up and upload this coming week. That will be 7/8 metros done. Just Cape Town to go. Then we can move onto mapping things, super excited about that. Here the six essays so far: inside-politics.org/election-2025-…

Don’t worry, Afriforum - who care deeply about facts and truth and evidence - will soon go to social media war on this lie and condemn it with a statement. Because they are absolute consistent when it comes to calling out untruths. Just watch.

New Review at capefoodie.co.za - Beyond, Buitenverwachting. Quite a surprise.

Does that include Trump’s genocidal tweets? Or nah? Cause yet to see an Afriforum statement slamming Trump? Hey, maybe you could do a banner on them?

Guys, can you help explain something: When employment goes up, ASA tweets a lot about how rubbish the GNU is. But, when it goes down, it says nothing. Surely, if ASA has no economic analysis and reacts fundamentally to every stat, they should say something when it goes down?

There are plenty of savings to be achieved by eliminating unnecessary and duplicative public entities - like the RTIA. #mtbps Time to scrap ‘unworkable Aarto’ - Moneyweb share.google/5KuhR7WKLNVSJp…

This is what was described in the late totalitarianism in Eastern Europe as the requirement to 'live the lie'. Ordinary people are required by the regime to submit to incompatible obligations. Firstly, they must accept that it is a moral imperative for there to be a plethora of

If Fikile Mbalula isn’t running the official government Twitter handle, then we are now officially living in 1984.