“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: Columns
Dan Roodt: Afriforum and Ernst Roets’s betrayal
Recently, Ernst Roets sought to assure the world that Afriforum “rejects white nationalism”. Whatever he means by that is open to interpretation but he saw fit to characterise me as “white nationalists” in his statement.
I am the father … Read the rest
Ilana Mercer: Conservative’ media’s latest blonde ambition
In 2018, Lara Logan left her perch as foreign correspondent for CBS’ “highest-rated, most profitable and best-known program, ’60 Minutes.’”
She is currently doing the rounds, assuaging “conservative” media’s appetite for celebrity. The latter have a Uriah-Heep-like propensity to … Read the rest
Dan Roodt: #Plaasmoorde has again made South Africa a global topic
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
Ilana Mercer: Barcelona terror: How politicians play God with your life
No sooner do terrorists attack, than those who monopolize the conversation revert to abstractions: “terrorism returned,” “terror struck,” when, of course, not terrorism, but terrorists struck Barcelona, Spain, on August 17. Terrorists did the same days later, in Newcastle, England… Read the rest
John Derbyshire: Premature but true—my prediction of South Africa’s collapse
The big issue in Europe is the ongoing invasion from Africa and the Middle East. If G-20 protestors were going to take to the streets and throw Molotov cocktails last weekend, THAT should have been their target. THAT’S the existential … Read the rest
Ilana Mercer: Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America … Again
Bless Donald Trump. Inadvertently, by just being Donald, Mr. Trump has delivered more good news to liberty lovers.
In his bid for the presidency, Mr. Trump is not only threatening the Republican establishment, but is forcing a war with the … Read the rest
Ilana Mercer: Alas, Donald Trump is no cultural Marxist
Trump Walking The Culturally Conservative Talk
By Ilana mercer
WHEN IN THE US, SPEAK ENGLISH. Donald Trump’s retort to Jeb Bush’s rattling off in Spanish on the campaign trail conjures an old joke told in Israel of my youth. It … Read the rest
9/11 Fourteen Years Later
Millions of refugees from Washington’s wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington’s 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government’s official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst. Factual evidence and … Read the rest
Ilana Mercer: ‘Gun Violence’? No! Goon Violence
For a short while, the thing called “gun violence” was uppermost in the minds of the blabbering class. Two lovely young people, Alison Parker (news reporter) and Adam Ward (photojournalist), of Roanoke, Virginia, were gunned-down on live TV, is a … Read the rest
Insouciance Rules The West
Europe is being overrun by refugees from Washington’s, and Israel’s, hegemonic policies in the Middle East and North Africa that are resulting in the slaughter of massive numbers of civilians. The inflows are so heavy that European governments are squabbling … Read the rest
Ilana Mercer: Motormouth Megyn Kelly & The Mad Matriarchy
It’s “R & R for Megyn Kelly,” the Fox News channel announced last week on its website, followed by a gooey note from Kelly herself. Why was FNC broadcasting the vacation schedule of the Golden Goose that henpecked Donald Trump? … Read the rest
Ilana Mercer: Trump could send the system’s sycophants scattering
During the first prime-time Republican debate, in Cleveland, Ohio, Donald Trump delivered the same slogans and failed to flesh out positions. While the man is quick and engaging, he came unprepared.
Ideas have not solidified Trump’s success, but rather a … Read the rest