Afrikaners are a lost cause, Dan Roodt

By English-speaking Patriot Dear Dan Roodt, congratulations on your letter about apartheid in Business Day and here on praag.org. And did you see the knee jerk reaction from the liberals, the Afrikaans jingoes and the “others” in Business Day? Always guaranteed to defend the shambles, as you put it. I’ll never understand these people. They

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Vast crowds in Catalonia demand independence from Spain

(Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona on Tuesday in an unprecedented show of mass support for autonomy from Madrid, blaming Spain’s economic crisis for dragging their wealthy region down. Surging unemployment and financial disarray have stoked a fever of separatism in Catalonia, a comparatively prosperous part of Spain

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South African army placed on high alert over Malema

South African military bases were placed on high alert last night. The status – the first of its kind since the ANC’s takeover of the country in 1994 – comes as axed ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is expected to meet soldiers near a military base in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, today. Defence Minister

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Australia to deal with its boatpeople this week

Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen on Monday said he hoped to begin sending asylum-seekers who arrive by boat to the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru later this week. With Australia facing a record influx of asylum-seekers arriving by sea, Canberra last month announced plans to send them to Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island

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Afrikaans becomes a campaign issue in Dutch election

Shutting the Netherlands down on Sundays, protecting Afrikaans and living a work-free life are some of the more offbeat policies being put forward by Dutch parties ahead of Wednesday’s vote. A whopping 21 parties are contesting parliament’s 150 seats in the election, the second in just over two years after government collapsed in April over

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Towson White Student Union to host Jared Taylor

Towson University, Maryland — The new student-run organization, the Towson White Student Union, has arranged for Jared Taylor to speak on campus on October 2, 2012 at 8pm in the Chesapeake 3 room of the University Union.  At the public and free event, attendees will hear Mr. Taylor discuss the political and cultural interests of

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Brics brings new dynamic to world system – South African minister

The Brics bloc has introduced a new dynamic to the world’s political and economic systems, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Monday. “We [Brics] also envision and work to realise a more equitable global political and economic system,” she said at a business breakfast in Johannesburg hosted by The New Age newspaper. Brics refers

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South African Deputy Foreign Minister to visit Cuba, Panama

International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Marius Fransman is scheduled to arrive in the Republic of Panama today, 09 September 2012, ahead of his two-nation visit to Panama and Cuba. Deputy Minister Fransman visits Panama at the invitation of his Panamanian counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Alvarez de Soto. Deputy Minister Alvarez de Soto visited

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Bobby Godsell says Marikana violence ‘outrageous’

The violence at Marikana was “outrageous” and the killers needed to be held accountable, Business Unity SA chairman Bobby Godsell said on Monday. “In an apartheid South Africa with no (democratic) constitution you can say that violence was regrettable and understandable,” he said during a discussion at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg.

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Act now… or say goodbye to the Britain we know

By Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, Daily Mail (London), September 7, 2012 The public are fed up with mass immigration. That was the message of the public petition on the Downing Street website launched last autumn. Only 11 of the 36,000 petitions on that site have reached the 100,000 signatures required to trigger a House

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The (white) elephant in the room

By Libratwin Today I ask a question, because I do not know the answer. I was born 10 years and 3 months before the end of Apartheid in the province we now call Limpopo. I was born one of twins to loving and caring parents.  I grew up in the midst of a changing landscape,

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U.S. groups also sponsor Geert Wilders of Dutch Freedom Party

(Reuters) – Anti-Islam groups in America have provided financial support to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration campaigner who is seeking re-election to the Dutch parliament this week. While this is not illegal in the Netherlands, it sheds light on the international connections of Wilders, whose Freedom Party is the least transparent Dutch parliamentary group

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After Woolworths, Australians call for sanctions against SA

The new South African government’s racist policies and affirmative action has led to calls for sanctions against SA. The National Chairman of the Australian Protectionist Party, Andrew Phillips called upon both the Federal Labor government and the Opposition to unanimously support the re-introduction of sanctions upon South Africa. “It is becoming increasingly clear the situation

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