Rap and tweets to fight nationalisation

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(I think this is hilarious - libertarianism trying to beat nationalization with rap music and tweets)

THE Free Market Foundation is intensifying its campaign to press the African National Congress (ANC) into dropping the nationalisation idea the party is investigating.
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Following pressure from the youth league last year, the ANC national executive committee appointed a task team to investigate the modalities and desirability of state intervention in the mining industry. The findings of the task team are expected to be tabled at the ANC’s policy conference in June next year, before being presented at its national congress six months later.

Mr Louw said the foundation was capable of doing very sound, sophisticated and world-class analysis, but needed to establish how to tap into people’s emotions, as well as sell and package its findings.

"Something very big is happening within the foundation at the moment and the result is that our work is going to shift very dramatically from the technical analysis of the kind we do, to popularising and influencing the climate of opinion," said Mr Louw. "It includes things like a rap song and tweets."

Mr Louw said some "very important and powerful people were taking responsibility for raising substantial amounts of money" for the campaign. He singled out businessman Herman Mashaba for "taking the foundation under his wing".

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=157847

(I can guarantee that some of the "important and powerful people" are the Kochs)