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Soft coups, self-coups, and pretend-democracy
To be fair, whether this fully constitutes a self-coup in the strict sense is debatable.
11 August 2026
To be fair, whether this fully constitutes a self-coup in the strict sense is debatable.
In that world, race-based legal discrimination was treated as ordinary and often productive statecraft.
In practice, the Blue Brigade has already begun visible work.
Afrikaners are not asking for privileges and have sacrificed all those our ancestors unduly once held.
The Constitutional Court is not an external arbiter of law, but an institutional carrier of official ideology.
Davis’s own intellectual and judicial record places him firmly in the latter camp, so that is hardly surprising.
Practically, the DA should abandon the language of “request” and “suggestion”.
The question for the rest of the West, including South Africa, is whether we will follow, or whether we will recover…
There are good ideas and there are bad ideas.
If Parliament rubber-stamps this approach, Ramaphosa’s “anti-illicit” crusade will be remembered not as disruption of criminal syndicates…