The New York Times recently carried an article stating that Zimbabwe’s “land reform”, confiscating the land of white farmers, was a “success”. Now this report from the United Nations World Food Programme shows the true picture: a country where one in five people receives food hand-outs. Famine has raised its head in Zimbabwe again, as
South Africa – STILL Practising Apartheid
by Rolene Marks During the Apartheid years, South Africa was seen as the world’s number 1 pariah state. Officially excluded from the family of nations, South Africa was subjected to harsh policies of academic, economic, sporting and other boycotts. Many, including poster-child for the BDS movement against Israel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have claimed that thanks
Threats to independence of SA judiciary will be ‘confronted’ – Chief Justice
Anybody who went beyond talk or criticism to actually threaten the judiciary’s independence would definitely be confronted, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng told a meeting of editors in Durban on Saturday. “Every South African who is aggrieved about something has the right to say what he wants ..that’s also politicians… but I will not hesitate to
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Why no scholarships for white people?
by Alex Urbina Favela Why is it that there are no scholarships that specifically target white people? I mean, there are plenty of scholarships out there that are designed for people of certain ethnicities, such as the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, but
Slumdog Olympics
A celebration of free healthcare, the trade union struggle, the battle for women’s rights and a fleeting lesbian kiss: the Olympics opening ceremony Friday did not shy away from weighty social issues. Unsurprisingly, the show devised by Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle drew accusations from the British political right that it had strayed into “leftie”
South African Communist Party calls FW de Klerk an ‘apartheid dinosaur’
Iafrica.com reports that SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande lashed out at FW de Klerk on Thursday, branding the former president an “apartheid political dinosaur”. On Wednesday, De Klerk spoke at a briefing discussing the outcomes of the ANC’s policy conference. De Klerk said the spirit of inclusiveness and reconciliation embodied by former president Nelson Mandela
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FW de Klerk attacked for ‘defending the white man’
A black South African columnist has just published the following article in the London Guardian, blaming whites for blacks’ continuing poverty under a black government. FW de Klerk: defender of the white man South Africa is trying to move on from apartheid. It’s a shame its former president is not by Justice Malala The last
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Life sentences for black farm murderer
A KwaZulu-Natal man was given three life sentences on Friday 27 July for killing a Mooi River farmer’s wife, a helper, and a gardener. The Pietermaritzburg High Court earlier convicted Mzwandile Magubane, 21, a gang member who started a fire in July 2010 to draw people from a farmhouse. Acting Judge Muzi Thom Ncube said
No extradition of murderers from South Africa unless assurances on death penalty
A Botswana national wanted for murder may not be extradited unless that country gives assurances he would not face the death penalty, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. Justice Edwin Cameron said it would be a breach of the statutory values of the South African Constitution to hand him over to Botswana without this guarantee.
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South African police helicopters ‘grounded’
Nearly half of the SA Police Service’s fleet of 37 helicopters are grounded, awaiting “routine” inspection, the DA said on Tuesday. “The Democratic Alliance is receiving reports that helicopters belonging to the SA Police Service [SAPS] Air Wing have been grounded for months,” DA MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard said in a statement. She said 15 of
De Klerk, Russian professor on ANC’s revolutionary doctrine
Former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday he would have fired Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga if he had found wrongdoing on her part in the Limpopo textbook saga. “If I was president, I would have asked the minister of education to fully investigate and brief me,” he told reporters in Johannesburg. “And if
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How far will Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood go in imposing Islamic law?
In decades of furtive meetings in tea houses, mosques and universities, members of Egypt’s underground Muslim Brotherhood spoke ardently of a country governed by Islamic law. Now that their debates take place in parliament and the presidential palace, they must decide how far to go in bringing it about. Elections held since the fall of
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Two blacks drowned white child in boiling water
Two young black males gagged a crying 12-year old white boy and afterwards drowned him in a bath filled with boiling water. The accused yesterday admitted guilt to the murder with smiles as they appeared in the Vereeniging regional court, reports the Johannesburg Afrikaans daily, Beeld. In a typical South African black-on-white atrocity, the boy
‘Kaffir’ leads to killing white man
Cape Town – A fight sparked by a racist remarks preceded the death of a Cape Town man in a prison cell, the Bellville District Court heard on Monday. This was the testimony of a prisoner accused of the murder of airport freight clerk Eben Meyer, 47, in a cell at the Durbanville police station.