ILANA MERCER: There’s an elephant in the courtroom in which Oscar Pistorius is being tried for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. It is the unidirectional, black-on-black and black-on-white violent crime in South Africa. The fear of being butchered
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South African Communist Party should not prevent Clive Derby-Lewis’s release
Jeremy Cronin’s opinions on the release of Clive Derby-Lewis as reported in Business Day not so long ago reflect the extraodinary powers of the South African Communist Party that endure almost 25 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.… Read the rest
Nadine Gordimer and kronor for our Red Terror
For a while now, I have been interested in the “Swedish connection”. The intriguing question for me is: What role did Nadine Gordimer play in securing the Swedish funding for the ANC and South African Communist Party? Without the Swedish … Read the rest
Red Terror and the killing in South Africa
I came across this interesting quote from the Mengistu era in Ethiopia yesterday, whose communist-style party, the Derg, said the following in 1976:
“We are ready to unleash red terror on the EPRP fascists. Their blood shall serve as the … Read the rest
Why I hate South Africa, part 1
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South Africa is a land of great natural beauty. Its unique flora and fauna attract tourists from all over the world. Due to geological accident, we also have buried beneath our soil and rock … Read the rest
South African sports policy tends toward ethnically separate teams
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The recent remarks by South African sports minister Fikile Mbalula were typically contradictory: on the one hand he will not impose quotas on sports like rugby and cricket, but on the other … Read the rest
No hatred in the old South Africa
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Steven Friedman’s protestations about “apartheid denial” notwithstanding, it is true that many people are reassessing South Africa’s past in the light of the present, which is in various ways more brutal, more … Read the rest
Mandela’s legacy: the Shell House massacre
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Twenty years ago, on 28 March 1994, the ANC’s militia massacred a crowd of protesting Zulus in downtown Johannesburg, using automatic weapons against men armed only with symbolic “cultural weapons”, such as … Read the rest
The shambles we’re in
by Dan Roodt
The two responses to my letter alerting people to the destructive influence of Marxism and liberalism in South Africa do not really respond to the core of my argument. (See Speak for yourself and Move on, Mr … Read the rest
Land reform and ‘Boerehaat’
by Dan Roodt
Proletarian internationalism has never really inspired the so-called “silent majority” in South Africa, so it must count as one of the failures of the Left that they never actually persuaded “the masses” to wave hammer-and-sickle flags and … Read the rest
Boerehaat and South Africa’s Khmer Rouge 1
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Few outsiders understand the ethnic dynamics of South Africa. Foreign journalists come here and imagine that we are some kind of remake of the USA, transposing American ethnic categories (and Hollywood movies) onto us. Of course, … Read the rest
Can South Africa properly be called a ‘democracy’?
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I find it interesting that professor Anthony Butler of UCT should point out potential tribal schisms within the ANC in Business Day. According to Stephen Ellis in his book External Mission: the ANC in exile … Read the rest
South Africa’s war of perspectives and the whites’ dwindling fortunes
by Dan Roodt dan[at]praag.org
Ever since Britain started getting seriously interested in South Africa after the discovery of diamonds at Kimberley in 1866, there have been at least two conflicting views of the country. Throughout the twentieth century too, South … Read the rest
Mandela: muti for white guilt
by Dan Roodt
Ever since Nelson Mandela died, but even before, one was utterly flabbergasted before the intensity of media fervour pouring out en hommage to the Big Man. In Africa, of course, there are all kinds of theories about … Read the rest