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Indian shopper in Gauteng shot dead

A trip to Darrenwood Shopping Centre in Randburg, Gauteng, ended in a tragic death when an Indian man in his late 30s was shot dead during a robbery in the evening of 16 April. According to Linden Police Operations Manager Captain Alex Vermaak, six to eight men entered a bottle store and a café at

Second white victim of hammer attack dies

Louwrens de Lange is the second man to have lost his life after being attacked with a hammer in the Secunda CBD on Friday. De Lange and his pregnant life partner were walking near Standard Bank when a man (name still unknown) attacked them with a hammer. He sustained serious injuries to the head and

Suspects of xenophobic murder arrested

Three suspects have been arrested by the Gauteng police for the murder of a Mozambican national in Alexandra, while the manhunt for the fourth suspect continues. 35-year-old Emmanuel Sithole was stabbed on Saturday morning. Sithole was reportedly a street vendor. Witnesses say he was approached by the suspects who took his goods without paying and

Father blackmailed by blacks with torture pictures from his pregnant daughter’s own cellphone

South African crime and violence have taken an even more bizarre twist as a pregnant young woman, Leandi Venter, was hijacked in her car a week ago, assaulted and tortured, with pictures of the battered girl sent to her father from her own cellphone to extract money from him. Her mother, Olga Bosman Schoeman, a

Ilana Mercer: Boers need a Hannah Arendt to give voice to their genocide

April the 15th marked Holocaust Memorial Day. Nearly everyone knows about the industrial killing of 6 million Jews, for no other reason than that they were Jews. “Serious historiography” of the subject has ensured that The Shoah, Holocaust in Hebrew, is “consigned to posterity”; its lessons remembered and commemorated throughout the civilized world. Although she

University of Texas statue of Confederate president vandalised

A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis that sits as a centerpiece of the University of Texas’ Main Mall was vandalized sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday, reports statesman.com. It seems that the anti-white movement in Cape Town, South Africa, that succeeded in getting a statue of Cecil John Rhodes removed, is spreading to the

GLAAD fails Sony, Disney on gay films

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters may be showing up on American television with increasing regularity, but not enough, according to GLAAD. In its third annual report about LGBT representation on film, the gay advocacy group GLAAD, found that of the 114 releases from the major studios in 2014, only 20 of them, or 17.5

Russia bans Hollywood propaganda film

Russia on Wednesday cancelled the release of a Hollywood thriller set in the Stalin era on grounds it distorts history and would be shown as the country celebrates the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in WWII. The film, “Child 44”, starring Tom Hardy, Vincent Cassel and Gary Oldman, tells the story of a serial

Some 400 migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya

About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized. This is the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year. The boat, carrying about 550 migrants in total, flipped about 24 hours after leaving the Libyan coast, according to some of

Greece misses deficit target as bailout deadline looms

Cash-strapped Greece fell well short of its budget deficit reduction targets last year, official figures showed Wednesday in a development that’s likely to add pressure on the radical left-led government during tortuous talks with bailout creditors. The country’s statistical authority said the 2014 deficit was 3.5 percent of Greece’s annual GDP, considerably higher than the

AgangSA vows to protect Paul Kruger statue

AgangSA members plan to form a human chain around the statue of Paul Kruger in Krugersdorp to protest the recent defacing of statues around the country. A statue of Paul Kruger in the West Rand town of Krugersdorp was vandalised with red paint overnight on Tuesday. Agang spokesperson Andries Tlouama said, “The attacks on statues

Fresh xenophobic attacks haunt Joburg CBD

Foreigners sought refuge at the Primrose police station on Wednesday night saying they were terrified, Gauteng police confirmed. Attacks and vehicle stonings marked fresh xenophobic violence in Johannesburg. “The group of [20] foreign nationals went to the police station saying they are afraid for their lives,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini. Earlier, groups of people had

Foreigners targeted in Ledig violence

Irate residents of Ledig near the Sun City resort outside Rustenburg, refused to allow North West Local Government MEC Collen Maine to speak to them on Wednesday. “We could not allow the MEC to speak. We agreed yesterday (Tuesday) that all arrested people must be released by 10am (Wednesday), before the MEC address us,” said

Hope on the horizon and it comes from Greece

Washington in its arrogance, seeing itself as “indispensable,” poses a continuing threat to the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The extraordinary number of dead that Washington has murdered in the 21st century–”The American Century”–is dismissed as “collateral damage” in the “war on terror.” The war on terror is a hoax. It is a