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
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Nadine Gordimer dies at 90
Nobel laureate and writer Nadine Gordimer has died at the age of 90, reports said on Monday.
She died peacefully in her sleep at her Johannesburg home on Sunday, law firm Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs said in a statement on behalf … Read the rest
Queen Georgina and the Holocaust card
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I must admit that I did not expect Georgina Guedes to do it. But then, maybe I underestimated the impact my column had on her. For her subsequent reaction speaks volumes about … Read the rest
Britten’s indifference
One very positive side-effect of the Red October protest was that it aired the stale house of the MSM in Mandelatopia. This breath of fresh air made the usual suspects, and a few newbies, cough convulsively, as expected.
The loudest … Read the rest
Joe Slovo and the roots of Afrikaner genocide
More and more, the term “genocide” is entering our everyday vocabulary. Many people, including columnists, have already explained that it is not the absolute number of people killed that defines a genocide, but the motives and … Read the rest
The Left wouldn’t mind seeing South Africa destroyed
by Dan Roodt
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In my last column, I went to the trouble of explaining what happened on 16 June 1976 and that none of the six rioting Soweto high
Apartheid protected us from Africa’s ‘dark eye’
by Dan Roodt
In response to my letter originally published in Business Day and available as a column here, Apartheid evil is hype, there has been at least three irate replies (see underneath) and one of support, Apartheid better … Read the rest
Nadine Gordimer describes South African education system as a ‘wreck’
Nobel literature prize winner Nadine Gordimer poured scorn on South Africa’s education system on Tuesday as “a wreck” over the failure to deliver textbooks to thousands of public schools.
The scandal has caused a national furore after leaving more than … Read the rest