Donald Brown sat down with me to chat about Afrikaner identity, the failure of democracy, foreign destabilisation of South Africa, and why everything, politics included, is downstream from culture.
I enjoy the social commentary of filmmaker and self-described Afrikaner nationalist and Burkean conservative Donald Brown, and, realising that he lives near me, I invited him to join me for coffee on my weekly livestream.
The fundamental problem with Afrikaners is stubbornness. It's an unwillingness to accept that they're losing.
— Donald Brown
For clarity, an Afrikaner nationalist is someone who advocates for the cultural, political, and economic self-determination of the Afrikaner people.
And then, a Burkean conservative is someone who follows the political philosophy of Edmund Burke (1729 to 1797), an Irish statesman and political thinker widely regarded as the father of modern conservatism.
We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies.
It’s an information war.
What is true?
I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out.
A deep dive into Cape Independence, from its history and cultural roots to the fight for anti-globalist autonomy in South Africa's Western Cape, and the case for grassroots politics and communities governing themselves.
How the West armed, bankrolled and defended apartheid South Africa, and called it freedom. The US, UK and Israel supported apartheid, then opposed it, because they were interested in the resources underground, not the domestic politics.
The Kiwi couple had a profoundly positive impact on my views around contagious diseases and virology in general. But a mysterious incident led them to break off our friendship, and to this day I still don't understand exactly what happened.
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