Martin van Staden (@martin_asfl) 's Twitter Profile
Martin van Staden

@martin_asfl

Head of Policy @FMFSouthAfrica | Columnist @DailyFriendSA | Policy Fellow @ConsumerChoiceC | LLM (𝘤𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦) LLD student @UPTuks. Tweets=own opinion. 🦅

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Disapproving Bach 🪦🎼 I’m not denying anyone the necessities of life. I’m denying that anyone has the right to take them by force from someone else. Food, water, housing — these don’t appear out of thin air. They exist because someone grows, builds, refines, and delivers them. To say people are

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🧵Columbia’s agreement with the federal government includes provisions to ensure non-discrimination in admissions and hiring. “Columbia shall not maintain programs that promote unlawful efforts to achieve race-based outcomes, quotas, diversity targets, or similar efforts.”

🧵Columbia’s agreement with the federal government includes provisions to ensure non-discrimination in admissions and hiring.

“Columbia shall not maintain programs that promote unlawful efforts to achieve race-based outcomes, quotas, diversity targets, or similar efforts.”
Iona Italia, PhD 🇦🇺 (@ionaitalia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was ambivalent about Israel and thought reports of antisemitism were exaggerated. Until 8 October 2023. Yes, *8* Oct. It's not the braindead rapists and kidnappers of Hamas who radicalised me but the massive support they received. Now, I'm a Zionist and I'm not even Jewish.

Youseef Kazembe (@kazembe_youseef) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In socialism, you must settle for what the state (the politicians) decide to give you. Socialism is slavery and servitude. In capitalism, you are the only one who decides what you want, what you need, and what you don't. Capitalism is freedom.

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Virtually the whole West and its satellites have lost backbone. Appeasement of tyranny is now again a firm principle of Western geopolitics.

Martin van Staden (@martin_asfl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Warning the wrong people. It's like taking Hitler aside and whispering, "Mein Fuhrer, if we're not careful we might hurt the Jews!" It's the point. Harm is the objective. The SA government is achieving its malicious aims. Act despite and independently of these cretins.

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My latest. "When you cast your eye across the most well-functioning suburbs and communities in South Africa, they share at least two characteristics: they are green, and they are private. And they are green because they are private." dailyfriend.co.za/2025/07/24/yes…

Ayanda Sakhile Zulu (@aszulu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Democracy was bound to produce serious issues in a context where political power is centralised in the hands of a clique of kleptocratic socialists in Pretoria. We should have listened then when some people said that the solution lies in a federal system because it provides

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A supposedly market liberal party has no business "countering" consumer preferences. It's long been a problem that the DA has not adopted a free market approach to economics (ie Chicago or Austrian), which has allowed nonsense like this to filter in:

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It's wild that a party can keep a seat with 38% of the vote. In a more sober system we'd have a run-off that eliminates the worst performers from the ballot, until an absolute majority is attained.

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Taxis can only be held accountable by the people who use them, and by the people whose loved ones perish in them daily. The police will never, under any circumstances, solve the chaos of the taxi industry. Only consumers can do that.

The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) 's Twitter Profile Photo

They went from “we don’t hate Jews we only hate Zionists” to “Jews deserved the Holocaust” in less than 2 years. This was never about land.

Joshua Meservey (@jmeservey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Opponents of the Ronny Jackson bill claim that the US should engage in diplomacy with South Africa rather than coercion. That presumes the US hasn't been trying diplomacy for 3 decades. In that time, SA grew bolder advertising and acting upon its preference for American

Aubrey Strobel (@aubreystrobel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People debate if AI is good or bad, for writing, tasks, whatever. I think it’s just good for starting. So many people have such an aversion to putting pen to paper. It’s best quality might just be a safe place to begin.

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We are apparently ("non-negotiably") committed to the ANC's conceptualisation of "democracy", "human rights", and "economic development", which ostensibly justifies South Africa taking hostile geopolitical action against Israel... But when other countries point out South