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Apartheid evil is hype

by Dan Roodt South Africa is listed in Samuel Huntington’s book as a country prone to a “clash of civilisations”. Hence the acrimonious exchanges that characterise South African discussions of politics and history. The South African left scored a major propaganda victory some time in the 1980s when reformist National Party policies were vilified as

Woolworths responds with ads as boycott gains momentum

After PRAAG and other organisations had initiated a boycott against retailer Woolworths because of its discriminatory employment policy, the company responded with newspaper advertisements in major Sunday newspapers yesterday. Woolworths placed such advertisements in Rapport, the Sunday Times and City Press. Woolworths also placed similar messages to the one published in the press in its

Artist sentenced to two years’ probation and $1,6m for Obama poster

Acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey has been sentenced to two years’ probation and asked to pay a $25,000 fine after being found guilty of criminal contempt in a case involving his now iconic “HOPE” image adopted by Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Fairey, 42, pleaded guilty back in February to one count of criminal contempt for

Zimbabwe wants to borrow billions of rand from South Africa

Zimbabwe will seek funds from southern Africa to help finance its budget as the country battles effects of a nearly decade-long downturn, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Thursday. “I am appealing to our colleagues in the SADC (Southern African Development Community) countries,” Biti said in an address on the state of the economy. “I have

FBI installs ‘Big Brother’ face recognition system all over America

Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification

ANC minister praises Woolworths

Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant on Friday lauded retailer Woolworths’ stance on employment equity. “As [the] government of South Africa and those that seek genuine transformation, we shall continue to encourage companies like Woolworths to continue with the transformation and integration of the society,” she said in a statement. PRAAG, followed by labour union Solidarity this

Aikona Woolworths! petition | petisie

I hereby express support for PRAAG’s WAR (Whites Against Racism) campaign to persuade Woolworths and other companies that they must stop discrimating against white South Africans. Hiermee ondersteun ek PRAAG se BTR (Blankes Teen Rassisme)-veldtog om Woolworths en ander maatskappye te oorreed om diskriminasie teen blanke Suid-Afrikaners te staak. [emailpetition id=”2″] [signaturelist id=”2″]

PRAAG plans charging Woolworths with apartheid

PRAAG, the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, has given Woolworths until midnight on 7 September 2012 to stop discrimination against Afrikaners, Afrikaans and the white race (see email underneath), otherwise the action group will lay a charge of apartheid against Woolworths. Apartheid is a punishable offence in terms of several international conventions and therefore the management of

FW de Klerk pontificates on inequality and our ‘catastrophic education system’

The outcome of the ANC’s elective conference in Mangaung at the end of the year could have a big effect on South Africa’s future, former president FW de Klerk said on Thursday. “I do think the choice of leadership in this December can positively or negatively effect our future in the short and the medium

You can’t have your banana and eat it

“In his ‘Wrath of dethroned white males’ (see underneath), Professor Malegapuru Makgoba has dared to offer a biological explanation for the power structure that prevails in the new South Africa. Makgoba is perhaps the leading theoretical Africanist in our country today. I am sorry, therefore, to bother him with Eurocentric logic, but his argument represents

Racist, Racist South Africa

In this article Jane Duncan of Rhodes University argues that South Africa remains the most racist society in the world and that racism will only end once whites hand over their remaining assets to blacks. In the wake of the Marikana massacre, information is trickling into the public domain, which suggests that the police killing

‘Apartheid made maths difficult for blacks’ and other myths – historian Hermann Giliomee defends Bantu Education

By Hermann Giliomee Bantu Education: Destructive intervention or part reform? As the crisis of education in black schools has worsened, or rather become more evident, so the tendency to “Blame Verwoerd” has intensified. Senzo Mchunu, MEC for Education in Kwazulu-Natal, declared in late July: “One of the points we found was a problem in Maths

Persisting Divides in Global Competitiveness as Switzerland, Singapore and Finland Top Competitiveness Rankings in 2012

Competitiveness gap widening among European countries US remains world’s innovation powerhouse despite decline in overall ranking People’s Republic of China most competitive among large emerging markets; India, Russia fall Download the full report profiling 144 economies, highlights, rankings and more at http://www.weforum.org/gcr Watch the video interviews on the results of the report Geneva, Switzerland, 5 September 2012 –