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Ricardo Teixeira: "A naval alliance is only as strong as naval budgets allow them to be."
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Ivo Vegter: "Classical liberalism safeguards dissenting voices and minority groups by basing its policy positions exclusively upon individual rights, rather than group identity."
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Talya O'Haher: "Voting is the most valuable non-violent way to take part in politics and hold leaders accountable for their decisions."
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Peter Swanepoel: "A race that gradually closes itself off to newcomers would, over time, become something very different from the Comrades people are trying so hard to protect."
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Ofentse Donald Davhie: "Non-alignment that produces a Memorial on Gaza and an abstention on Ukraine is bloc allegiance by another name, with the allegiance running to Moscow."
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Steven Boykey Sidley: "Organoids bridge the gap by offering human-specific biological testing environments from day one, replacing predictive animal models with real human tissue responses."
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Martin van Staden: "Liberalism cannot and does not pick and choose which minorities may validly stand in line to have their liberty respected – but liberals routinely do so."
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Jonathan Katzenellenbogen: "Deep European political divisions and economic problems play right into the hands of Vladimir Putin, who is endlessly attempting to test European resolve."
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Chris Hattingh: "To be credible – and useable – non-alignment means that no single partner decides who comes to Simon’s Town."
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Michael Morris: "Good or bad ideas must be openly judged to be good or bad, an appraisal that’s only possible if there is a contest that we can all judge for ourselves. Anything less delivers only a 'fugitive and cloister’d vertue'."
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Ivo Vegter: "Shared infrastructure does not require state ownership. It merely requires rules that keep access open."
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Paul Hoffman: "The strongest shield and safeguard for all, especially for the masses against tyrants, is mistrust of those in power. If you value liberty then guard that mistrust, hold fast to it."
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Chris Patterson: "Foreigners are not taking South African jobs. There aren’t enough jobs being created, and that is due to a highly restricted economy that comes because of decades of ANC anti-growth policy."
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Fikile Mbalula collapses: Fear in the ANC nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1rxmqpyYy…
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Makone Maja: " BEE has corruption embedded into it as a feature rather than a bug, and corruption is the ultimate fate of any policy and institution that forfeits meritocracy."
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Simon Lincoln Reader: "Ngobese-Zuma did not appear in a vacuum... She is an expression of something nobody cares about, let alone bothers to explore.
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Shawn Hagedorn: "Heavy US commitments have led to its allies failing to develop meaningful military deterrence."
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Barry D. Wood: "When a country’s debt service exceeds its spending on defense, that nation is in decline. In 2024, for the first time in modern history, debt service in the US exceeded its defense budget."
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