Conscious Caracal

Giving my thoughts on politics and culture from southern Africa, as well as interviews with interesting thinkers and doers.

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Episodes

Monday Jan 08, 2024

In this epsiode I talk to Joost Strydom, the head of the Orania Movement and resident of Orania. We discuss solutions for South African communities through rolling up their sleeves and taking responsibility for themselves, who can live in Orania, the town and movement's philosophy, and more.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

In this episode I chat to Francois Rossouw, the CEO of the Southern Africa Agricultural initiative (Saai), about his organisation's legal battles to save the wine, hunting and tobacco industries of South Africa amidst draconian government lockdown bans and regulations.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I chat with South African tobacco farmer Herman Roos about his industry during the lockdown, the latest news on the tobacco ban, the BATSA v Minister of COGTA case, Saai, civil liberties and more.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

On this episode I chat with my friend Odin Moja about Bianca van Wyk accusing him of being a white guy masquerading as a black man on Twitter, how to win the banter war, more Wotanisms, Tswana pride, world history, and more.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I talk to Ernst Roets about AfriForum's mini-documentary about #FarmMurders in South Africa, with specific focus on the murder of 2-year-old Wilmien Potgieter & her parents. We also discuss the recent increase in farm murders.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I have a chat with Robert Duigan, otherwise known online as Marhobane. We discuss, inter alia, the reigning zeitgeist, cancel culture, why he is no longer a leftist, contrarianism, and more.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I talk to Ian Cameron, head of community safety at AfriForum, and Marnus Kamfer, firearms expert, lawyer, and head of Legal and Risk at AfriForum community safety. We discuss their new platform, firearms.co.za, which will help inform people about gun ownership and self defence.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I have a discussion with Phil Craig, co-founder of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group. We talk about the viability of such an idea, what has been done, what the plans are for the future, and other secession movements across the globe.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I have a discussion with Scott Tungay about how he thinks the state of the world can be fixed by young men.

Monday Jan 08, 2024

I interview Colonel William M. (Chris) Wyatt, the former Director of African Studies at the US Army War College. Chris is now retired, but accumulated 36 years of army service under his belt and has lived and served in Tunisia, Liberia, Botswana, Malawi, Niger, Mauritania, Uganda and Ethiopia. He has a particular interest in South Africa and the African continent at large, and I pick his brain about it.

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