“Cadre employment must stop and an effective civil service must be built up by appointing competent people. Officials and managers at all three levels of government should possess the correct financial and technical skills for the job.” So declared president … Read the rest
Category: TAU Bulletin
Opinion: South Africa is sleepwalking into disaster
The worm has turned and virtually every South African political commentator whose legacy was to encourage a one man one vote ANC takeover in South Africa is now tearing into the government and its alliance partners. The country is on … Read the rest
Communists play cat and mouse with South African farmers
Hundreds of South Africa’s commercial farmers have now gone home after TAU SA’s yearly congress in Pretoria. In the north of the country they wait for the summer rain: their soil is prepared, the seeds are planted and the days … Read the rest
Education is about values… not a commodity
by TAU Bulletin
And a school matriculation certificate is not a ticket to the corner office, the VIP lift and the executive washroom.
Education is holistic: it is not a voucher for a comfortable life, nor a ticket to the … Read the rest
Beware the Stockholm syndrome
by TAU Bulletin
“Adjusting” to the ANC and the consequences thereof.
Stockholm Syndrome: This syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons or groups in a captive or hostage situation. It is sometimes referred to … Read the rest
In defence of pale males
by TAU Bulletin
The state of the nation is no more ludicrously evident than Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane’s recent “warning” that “pale males” would return to government in Gauteng if SA’s opposition Democratic Alliance party wins next year’s provincial election.… Read the rest
The drum beat on SA land grab quickens
by TAU Bulletin
During the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the late nineties, the Commission declared in its findings that there were four different kinds of truth. The Commission “rejected the popular assumption” that there are only … Read the rest
Whose land is it anyway?
by TAU Bulletin
On 19 June 1913, the Native Land Act of 1913 became law in the recently-created Union of South Africa. The legislation was the culmination of centuries of land occupations, divisions and invasions; of treaties, conventions and agreements … Read the rest
Max du Preez’s fantasies on Zimbabwe
by TAU Bulletin
Anti-apartheid journalist and apologist for South Africa’s democratic dispensation Max du Preez has been caught short with his latest efforts to justify the unjustifiable. In a Natal Mercury piece (30.4.13), Du Preez tells us we can “learn … Read the rest