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ANC delegates end conference in a fist fight

North West ANC delegates had a physical fight on the last day of the party’s national policy conference, spokesman Jackson Mthembu says. A North West African National Congress member was addressing the plenary session on Friday when another delegate tried to stop him, Mthembu said. “One of the delegates grabbed the [microphone] from that person

Separate development afforded blacks their own identity

by Jacques du Toit In yesterday’s City Press, Alistair McKay claimed that “Apartheid desensitised white South Africans to human suffering and filled most of them with an unthinking sense of superiority and fear”. Mr. McKay, Separate Development (SD) was above all an attempt to provide black South Africans with an opportunity to develop their own

Simon Kuper, we will never integrate

by Hannelie van der Westhuizen Simon, the true Afrikaner/Boer will never integrate with the English. Obviously you have very little or no knowledge of our heritage and our love for our language, history and culture. I never voted “yes” for the ANC to take over our country. And you know why not? I saw first

Afrikaner Church Rejects Apartheid, Confesses Role in Segregation – historical article

TOM COHEN , Associated Press, Nov. 9, 1990 RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) – The white Dutch Reformed Church joined other Christian denominations Friday in rejecting apartheid as a sin and confessed the church’s role in implementing it. The main church of the Dutch-descended Afrikaners who dominate the government had argued for decades that the Bible

ANC must take ‘bold decisions’ on economy – Mantashe

JOHANNESBURG – “If we have a weak resolution on the economy it would be flying in the face of what is intended in the second transition document, which is the second phase of our transition,” he said in an interview on SAFM. “Then we will go strong… which means taking bold actions. [The] time has

Kentucky Fried Nkosi Sikelel’, ANC wants racism probe

Johannesburg – An urgent investigation is needed into abuse of the national anthem by artists and businesses, the Western Cape ANC said on Thursday. Provincial secretary Songezo Mjongile was responding to reports that a Cape Town man buying chicken at take-away outlet KFC was shocked when a “vulgar, profane” version of the national anthem blasted

Inkatha Freedom Party protests against compulsory labelling of Israeli products in South Africa

by Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi The Inkatha Freedom Party joins this march with a clear and unambiguous message. We oppose our Government taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly in an atmosphere of escalating tension that threatens to boil over into violence. The IFP supports the two-state solution. We believe that both Israel and Palestine have

Hefty fines for ‘racist’ Spanish and Russian soccer fans

The Spanish and Russian football associations have been fined 20,000 and 30,000 euros respectively after racist incidents among their fans at Euro 2012 matches, UEFA said in a statement on Thursday. The 20,000 euro sanction on the Spanish has been imposed after fans sang racist chants and engaged in other racist behaviour during the Group

ANC to continue intervening in Swaziland

The ANC resolved that it will continue to be in solidarity with the people struggling in Swaziland, international relations committee member Lindiwe Zulu said on Thursday. “We support the democratisation of Swaziland,” Zulu told reporters at the ANC’s national policy conference in Midrand, Johannesburg. This was an outcome of the ANC’s policy discussions on international

Limpopo textbook saga ‘unfortunate’ – ANC

It was “unfortunate” that Limpopo pupils did not have textbooks in the first half of the year, the ANC said on Thursday. “We are saying, it’s very unfortunate,” African National Congress spokesman Jackson Mthembu told SAfm. “Six months into an education year, kids have no books.” Mthembu did not want to comment on reports that

U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Affirmative Action today

In addition to a ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare law ( Obamacare) law today, the United States Supreme Court is also set to hand down a ruling on an Affirmative Action case which may impact parents with teens heading to college in the near future. An Anglo-Saxon white female student who was

Obesity affected by surrounding race groups

The racial and ethnic composition of a community is associated with the obesity risk of individuals living within the community, according to a study led by researchers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings, published in the June 14 edition of the

The ANC’s second revolution (okay, ‘transition’) against whites

by Dan Roodt South Africa, like Cuba, is the last outpost of communism. Elsewhere in the world, experiments in collective farming and nationalisation have been abandoned as the grim mistakes of nineteenth-century radicalism, issuing forth from the bearded Karl Marx, scribbling away in the British Library. However, behind Karl Marx there was a capitalist, Friedrich

Zuma wants to socialise land ownership, move away from ‘will buyer, willing seller model’

Johannesburg – In terms of the Constitution, the state has to ensure that citizens are able to obtain land rights, President Jacob Zuma said at the ANC’s policy conference on Tuesday. “Our position is that the current willing buyer, willing seller model must be reviewed,” Zuma, who is also the ANC’s president, told delegates at