In this article, The Wall Street Journal looks at the rise in black-on-black crime in the United States. Whereas the media focus on killings of blacks by other races, such as in the Trayvon Martin case, the reality is that most blacks are killed by other blacks. Communities Struggle to Break a Grim Cycle of
Read more: Black-on-black murders in the USA rising, reports the Wall Street Journal
Former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema asked police on Saturday to distance themselves from the crowds at the Wonderkop village near Rustenburg. The negotiations between Malema and the police came after complaints from Lonmin workers and residents that they felt uncomfortable engaging with Malema with the police there. Around three police nyalas were parked
Read more: Malema asks police to retreat from crowds at Marikana
Following on the Marikana massacre where 36 black miners were killed yesterday, shot by the ANC’s police service, the usual nauseating comments about apartheid and Afrikaner racism are being made by the BBC and other British media. As if we have any control over the behaviour of mine workers at, in this instance, a British-owned
“Britain is a nation of 62 million complete and utter bastards”, according to Jeremy Clarkson. The Mirror reports that he does not have a high opinion of his countrymen, the British. The Top Gear presenter also says that Brits invented torture and slavery and sent the White Russians to be slaughtered by Stalin. Jeremy Clarkson
Read more: ‘We are the country that invented the concentration camp’ – Jeremy Clarkson
The legal fraternity has blamed a breakdown in conflict resolution in the mining industry for Thursday’s shooting near Lonmin’s Marikana mine, in North West. “These workers have been the victims of an escalating breakdown in conflict resolution, particularly in the mining industry,” the Law Society of SA (LSSA) said on Friday. It said in a
Read more: ‘Warning signs of a failing state’ at Marikana – Law society of South Africa
Families and friends continued to arrive at Lonmin’s Marikana mine on Friday in the hope of tracking down people who went missing, after 34 people were killed in a clash with police. “I have been trying to call my brother since yesterday and his phone is off,” said Vuyani Feni outside the Andrew Saffy Memorial
Read more: ‘I understand miners’ frustration’ – farmer near Marikana
The bloodbath that claimed the lives of over 30 people in Marikana in the North West has made international headlines. The Guardian, New York Times, Sky News, Denver Post, BBC, Washington Post, CNN, and several other media reported on the massacre. Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia, put up a detailed one-page entry on it with references
Cadet pilot training course applications from white men are no longer being accepted by the SA Airways (SAA), it was reported on Friday. SAA spokesman Kabelo Ledwaba told Beeld that the cadet programme was being advertised online as an initiative to bring pilot demographics in line with the country’s broader demographics. “Only 15 percent of
Read more: South African Airways no longer wants white pilots
by Ilana Mercer Even-tempered, tall, dark, handsome and heterosexual: If these qualities were still in demand in Tinseltown’s leading men, the Romney-Ryan Republican presidential ticket would be described as the stuff of Hollywood. As goes Hollywood, so go D.C. and the country. None of the constituents the Republicans are told to appease – if they
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An attempt by the police on Thursday to disperse striking workers at Marikana’s troubled Lonmin mine ended in a shootout between the two groups. A Sapa reporter at the scene said he counted 18 bodies lying next to the nearby Wonderkop squatter camp. The shooting lasted about three minutes. Police had tried to intercept a
Read also: 18 dead in Lonmin shootout South African police opened fire on Thursday against thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, leaving several bloodied corpses lying on the ground. A Reuters cameraman said he saw at least seven bodies after the shooting, which occurred when police laying
Read more: South African police shoot and kill striking Lonmin miners
The SACP commends the cancelation of a trip of various leaders of different sectors to visit Israel. Furthermore we welcome the statements of government as articulated by the Deputy Minister of International Relations, cde Ebrahim Ebrahim. The SACP has witnessed attempts by the South African Zionist Federation, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and
Read more: South African Communist Party supports boycotts of ‘apartheid Israel’
This article was writen by Denis Herbstein and published in the Observer Review on Sunday 5th May 1991. In it the author boasts of how the Anglican Church fomented revolution in South Africa by funding political trials and insurrection against a sovereign state, supposedly on friendly terms with Great Britain. Many of the people Herbstein
Read more: How Canon Collins and friends smuggled £100,000,000 to South Africa
