Conscious Caracal

Conscious Caracal

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

Episodes

July 22, 2026 70 mins

I am joined by Will Tanner, an American writer and co-founder of the American Tribune. We discuss Accelerationism and the flaws in accelerationist thinking about how change comes about, the fact that there are still liberals in South Africa, the phenomenon of South Africanization, effective ways to channel political energy and momentum, and more.

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I sit down top chat to Jacques Broodryk, spokesperson for AfriForum Community Safety, hostile environment awareness instructor, close protection officer, security consultant, and documentary filmmaker. We discuss the situation on South Africa's borders, illegal immigration, March and March, 30 June's protest action, and what AfriForum is doing to make border communities and farmers safer.

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I am joined by Burger Lambrechts, the Orania Town Council's Head of Information, to discuss the recent poll they did amongst the inhabitants of this Afrikaner-only town in South Africa. The results may surprise you.

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To celebrate another major milestone, my channel turning 10 years old, I read and analyse another one of my favourite essays: 'The disintegration of the South African order' by Professor Koos Malan.

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I am joined by American political and cultural commentator and host of the J. Burden Show, J. Burden, to tackle the topic of how much influence the internet has on real life, elections, and human behaviour and organisation.

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Rory Duncan returns to tell another story about his experiences in Africa, this time it's the story of how he was abducted and imprisoned by state security forces during Zimbabwean dictator, and hero of the ANC, Robert Mugabe's violent landgrabs in the early 2000s.

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I sit down with the legendary Advocate Gerrie Nel, the Head of AfriForum's private prosecution unit, to discuss the growing power of private prosecution, the Mbalula Dossier, televised justice, the future of holding corrupt politicians accountable, and more.

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I am joined by Jeremy Carl, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, former Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and author of The Unprotected Class. We discuss racially discriminatory policies and anti-white rhetoric in the United States and South Africa, as he investigated in his book.

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I am joined by Renaldo Gouws to discuss his intellectual journey from attacking and criticising AfriForum and downplaying the issue of farm murders as "just normal crime" and debating me on it, to supporting AfriForum and spreading awareness about the severity of the farm attacks crisis in South Africa. What changed?

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I am joined by Sama Sambit, a South African political commentator, to discuss the underlying, embedded moral failings of communities in South Africa and how it fuels the crime crisis.

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I am joined by Mike Sham, an entrepreneur, political analyst and host of the State of the Nation podcast. We discuss how the different ANC presidents (Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa) shaped post-Apartheid South Africa in the 21st century, Ramaphosa's "New Dawn" that never was, and the impact of ANC factionalism.

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I am joined by French political and historical analyst Leo Caesaris to discuss the alliance in the 20th century between the French Charles de Gaulle government (1959 - 1969) and South Africa. We touch on France's role in nuclear technology projects in SA such as the Koeberg nuclear reactor, South Africa's atomic weapons program, military technology such as the Eland armoured car, geopolitical positioning, and more.

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I interview Callum Darragh, a British travel YouTuber that visits some of the most dangerous, strange, and chaotic countries in the world. In his latest documentary, he visited South Africa to document the country's de-development and how communities, in particular the Afrikaners, are responding. He visited AfriForum, Orania, the Voortrekker Monument, the Apartheid museum, and more. DOCUMENTARY: Tourism in South Africa - The De-Dev...

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I talk to Dr. Christoph von Ach, the Founder and Honourary President of the Südtiroler Freundeskreis der Afrikaaner (The South Tyrolean Friends of the Afrikaners). We discuss his organisation's efforts to bring awareness to causes relating to Afrikaners, the history of South Tyrol, the parallels between the Boers and the South Tyroleans, and more.

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I am joined by Hobambles, a YouTuber who loves the history of South African bush warfare technology and weaponry. He has done videos on the Eland light armoured car, the Ratel IFV, the Rooikat armoured vehicle, SADF bike squads, and the Hippo armoured personnel carrier (APC). We discuss his fascination with this genre of military technology, some Bush War history, and more.

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The Head of the Orania Movement, Joost Strydom, joins me again to discuss this Afrikaner town's fundamental philosophy of own labour, recent international visitors to Orania, the new Paul Kruger statue, population growth, who can live in Orania, home ownership, cost of living, and more.

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To celebrate another major milestone, 1 000 000 total views, I read and analyse another one of my favourite essays: 'After Empire' by Theodore Dalrymple (Published in States and Cities).

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I am joined by Joshua Meservey, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute with a focus on great power competition in Africa, African geopolitics and policy, and counterterrorism. We discuss the strained relationship between the South African government and Washington, who is to blame, where the trouble started, AGOA, tariffs, what the future of the relationship looks like, and more.

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I am joined by American political commentator, writer and podcaster, Dave Greene (The Distributist), to discuss how young men should act and organise in order to deal with the tough, chaotic realities of the 21st century as civilization buckles and shakes around them.

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I am joined by author and political analyst Alex Newman to discuss the phenomenon where an increasing amount of left-wing politicians in the United States and other Western countries are taking inspiration from the ANC's policies in South Africa. The most recent example wat the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, who said in his swearing in address that he takes inspiration from the ANCs ideological document, the Freedom Charter...

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