SA is a country that is singularly lacking in real debate: it only knows slogans and monochrome distinctions between good and evil. Nelson Mandela was a saint and Verwoerd a disciple of the devil. Nadine Gordimer, who the zealous Swedes
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Dan Roodt was born in Springs, east of Johannesburg. He studied Afrikaans, French and Comparative Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as Philosopy at the University of Paris VIII under the famous French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard. He published a short novel and book of poetry at the age of 23. Since then he has written a total of 8 books, as well as numerous articles in the press and on the internet. In 2000 he founded PRAAG, an NGO in South Africa, as well as a publishing company by the same name. He is currently president of Pretoria PEN, affiliated to the international writers’ organisation. Dan Roodt has also been active in the movement for racial and linguistic equality in South Africa and regularly protests against anti-white violence in South Africa. According to prof. Jaap Steyn and Hennie van Coller of the Free State University in Bloemfontein, he has been one of the three most influential Afrikaans language activists of the twentieth century.
Dan Roodt: Anglicising Afrikaans schools will speed up the country’s decline
It is astonishing that Mary Metcalfe, whose educational legacy in Gauteng was characterised by one foolish, abandoned experiment after the other, should pontificate on the issue of Afrikaans schools (“War talk won’t end language row”, June 5). The … Read the rest
Dan Roodt: Open letter to Nigel Farage from a disappointed South African
Dear Mr. Farage,
We here in South Africa, locked into an undemocratic system of ethnic majority tyranny whereby 90% of taxpayers have no say in government, have watched your rise to prominence in the United Kingdom with interest and even … Read the rest
Is City Press in favour of race war? Reply to Assata Shakur
Publishing a radical exhortation to sedition by a convicted black extremist like Assata Shakur in City Press (Listen up! The European is not your friend) is not only irresponsible, but demonstrates the double standards at work when it comes to … Read the rest
Rhodes statue debacle demonstrates South African extremism
The aggressive rejection of British colonialism as in the Rhodes statue debacle is only surprising in that it has taken so long to appear. While Verwoerd was vilified for his mild phrase on separate but equal education, Rhodes’s money, talking … Read the rest
PRAAG campaign for an international hard-news site
Dear reader,
Everyone complains about just how biased and politically correct the mainstream media are. Not only are they slavishly in favour of multiculturalism and more or less free immigration to Western countries, but they also selectively report the facts.… Read the rest
Dear libtards, aren’t you attracted by Zimbabwe?
Dear libtards,
Every other week, someone of your persuasion, either a feminist or antiracist or a professor of whiteness studies or cultural Marxist writes an open letter starting with “Dear white people”, containing a blast of inanities.
This seems to … Read the rest
Why are we so ‘backward’, Allister Sparks?
Allister Sparks is one of those raving left-liberal journalists for whom nothing in South Africa will ever detract from the utopia of being ruled by the ANC and South African Communist Party. Together with his protégé, Helen Zille, current leader … Read the rest
Apartheid will never die because the Left needs it
On New Year’s eve, the acrimonious tone of South African public debate seems to have become even more pronounced. Just yesterday another stereotypical cultural-Marxist piece by Professor Anton van Niekerk appeared in Afrikaans on the Netwerk24 site and already conservatives … Read the rest
Forget the maths, South Africa needs more Marxism at school
Over the last few days, South Africa’s “minister of basic education” – yes, we have such a thing – announced a few statistics that people found alternately shocking or “hilarious”. Everything in South Africa is “hilarious”: even the vicious murders … Read the rest
Over the last few days, South Africa’s “minister of basic education” – yes, we have such a thing – announced a few statistics that people found alternately shocking or “hilarious”. Everything in South Africa is “hilarious”: even the vicious murders … Read the rest
The 3 codes of political correctness
South Africa has arguably become the most politically correct country in the world where even the most innocuous statement may invoke hysterical denunciations, complaints to the South African Human Rights Commission or terminate an academic career.
For example, saying that … Read the rest
Steve Hofmeyr in Pierre de Vos’s kangaroo court
Just the other day a gigantic coal silo collapsed, creating Eskom, our state electricity utility’s latest crisis, plunging parts of the country into the dark. Photographs of cracks appearing in the edifice had already been published in January, yet nothing … Read the rest
Reply to Rebecca Davis, the Anglo-supremacist genius
Ms. Davis, or perhaps I should address you as “Your Majesty”, given that you have already assured us of your elect status as a member of the planetary cognitive elite by modestly stating on Twitter:
.@DeonJansevanRen @danroodt “Genius” is
On Oscar Pistorius, singularity and libtards
Regarding convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius, almost everyone has had “an egg to lay”, as the Afrikaans expression goes. I purposefully tried to avoid his trial and its attendant hype, as it displayed once more the painful and colonial stupidity of … Read the rest