Has Danny Cohen finally got his man? BBC television chief Cohen appears determined to go down in history as The Man Who Sacked Jeremy Clarkson.
If he succeeds he’ll be the toast of fashionable Shoreditch salons, a folk hero to … Read the rest
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BBC discovers Afrikaans is spoken in Orania!
In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa’s Northern Cape, the spirit of Afrikaner independence lives on.
I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live.
I was … Read the rest
In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa’s Northern Cape, the spirit of Afrikaner independence lives on.
I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live.
I was … Read the rest
A truly awful British BBC presenter
Jimmy Savile sounds like a prison guard from the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War where Afrikaner women and children were subjected to extreme abuse.
Investigators were given “macabre accounts” of disgraced British BBC presenter Jimmy Savile “acting unacceptably” with … Read the rest
BBC embroiled in further child abuse scandal
Reportedly, a BBC executive sexually abused boys at his home in Amsterdam.
According to the Sunday Express, in the 1980s, the BBC executive reportedly –
1. Had a known British child abuser staying at his home.
2. Made child porn … 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
BBC host arrested on sex offenses
Veteran BBC TV and radio presenter Paul Gambaccini was arrested on suspicion of sexual offenses, the broadcaster said Friday.
Gambaccini, 64, has worked at the BBC for four decades and is one of Britain’s best-known music presenters. The BBC said … Read the rest
British DJ in court on sex assault charges
British radio presenter Dave Lee Travis, who counts Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, appeared in court Friday charged with committing 11 indecent assaults and one sexual assault.
The 68-year-old former BBC star, wearing a suit and a colourful … Read the rest
BBC to cut Israel ‘apartheid’ comments from Nigel Kennedy broadcast
The BBC is due to cut comments made by violinist Nigel Kennedy about “apartheid” in Israel when it broadcasts his concert, performed with Palestinian artists as part of the Proms musical festival, on British television channels next week.
The concert, … Read the rest
Complaint to the BBC – media release by PRAAG
COMPLAINT FILED ONLINE WITH THE BBC
At the beginning of the programme and also on the BBC’s website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/m
Dan Roodt: Britain’s hatred of Afrikaners
Following on the Marikana massacre where 36 black miners were killed yesterday, shot by the ANC’s police service, the usual nauseating comments about apartheid and Afrikaner racism are being made by the BBC and other British media. As if we … Read the rest