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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Roscoe Palm

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Roscoe Palm: The NED’s Victory Lap — South Africa at a Crossroads in a Multipolar World

This week that pressure will be ratcheted up several notches as a major civil society conference organized and funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will be held in Johannesburg from 20 to 22 November, writes Roscoe Palm.

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Death by podbro: How Zille, Gouws and Cabanac killed White English liberalism

By indulging illiberal protofascist tendencies in the Democratic Alliance, Helen Zille is leading her party and her country on a precarious path, writes Roscoe Palm

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Roscoe Palm: Our parlous mediascape part two: SANEF - a liberal cheese and whine club

SANEF's association with organisations and individuals who have proximity to the agenda of the US must be disclosed as a matter of public interest, writes Roscoe Palm

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Roscoe Palm: Our parlous mediascape part one — The Anton Harber Fatwa

Liberal actors, particularly the proxies of US influence, direct their attention and energy to countering the influence, real and perceived, of geopolitical opponents of Western unipolarity here in South Africa, writes Roscoe Palm.

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Renaldo Gouws support campaign removed from BackaBuddy as Elon Musk enters the Andile Mngxitama fray

Backabuddy CEO Patrick Schofield told IOL that the fundraising campaign in support of Gouws had been under active discussion throughout the day on Tuesday.

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Not Renaldo Gouws: Ian Cameron, DA MP’s racist past comes back to haunt him for blackface protest

DA head of communications Richard Newton has appeared on numerous media outlets painting Renaldo Gouws as someone who escaped the strict vetting process of the Democratic Alliance.

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Watch VideoWATCH: “Kill the k*ffirs, kill all the f**ing n*ggers!”: New racist video of DA MP Renaldo Gouws surfaces

A shocking new video has emerged of a Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament appearing to spew hate speech.

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Watch VideoWATCH: The Helen Zille Prophecy

Everybody knows about the Jacob Zuma prophecy. The one where he says that the ANC will rule until Jesus comes again. But there is another prophecy that is lost in the evanescence of the social media feed.

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Watch VideoRoscoe Palm: The Counter-revolutionary Cabal selling out the NDR

These counter-revolutionaries are selling out the National Democratic Revolution (NDR), long in the tooth and short on ideas to fix the country that they have played a role in first making

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Naspers’ donation to the ANC: Wishcasting a grand coalition between the ANC and the DA?

It’s clear what the motivation is behind Naspers’ R2 million donation to the ANC and the DA, writes Roscoe Palm.

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The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference

We must recognise the agenda of proxies of apartheid capital, US, and Nato interests, and their political and media collaborators, and reject their interference in African affairs, says the writer.

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SCA ruling exposes state security agency’s dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests

The leaked intelligence report, read together with the judgment of the SCA. brings into focus a snapshot of a time of fierce internal contestation within the ANC, and how the SSA is used to fight factional battles along the fault lines within South African intelligence structures

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SCA ruling exposes State Security Agency's dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests

The real value of the IOL, Independent Media, and Thabo Makwakwa’s legal victory at the SCA is to reveal the SSA be open to abuse to achieve political ends of individuals and groupings inside the ANC.

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