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Dutch party upset over Pretoria street names

A Dutch political party has demanded action from the Dutch Cabinet in support of the retention of Afrikaans street names in Pretoria. “The Netherlands Embassy situated in Queen Wilhelmina avenue should refuse to accept a new name,” the “De Partij voor de Vrijheid” (the Party for Freedom), PVV, said in a statement issued in The

PRAAG supports Dutch-Afrikaner cooperation in struggle for street names

PRAAG supports the call by the Dutch Freedom Party for Dutch and Afrikaner people to stand together in defending their shared cultural heritage as embodied in Pretoria’s street names. Queen Wilhelmina is remembered for her courageous support for the Boers during the Second War of Independence when colonial Britain destroyed our country and let our

‘Mandela reappointed me’: Basson

Cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson told a professional conduct committee on Tuesday that president Nelson Mandela had re-appointed him to the SA National Defence Force in 1995 because the United States and British governments regarded him as a threat. Basson was in the witness stand for a second day to fight charges of unethical and unprofessional

Racist T-shirt mocks Trayvon Martin’s killer

Expanding the definition of “cracker,” a t-shirt featuring the photo of the man who shot Trayvon Martin is now available for purchase. As seen at left, the shirt has a picture of George Zimmerman and the words “Pussy Ass Cracker.” Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic, killed Martin, 17, last month while acting as a neighborhood watch

Obama congratulates Macky Sall on Senegalese election win

US President Barack Obama congratulated Macky Sall on Monday for winning Senegal’s presidential poll, praising the west African nation as “a leading example of good governance and democracy at work.” Obama, who was in South Korea for a nuclear security summit, also paid tribute to outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade “for his leadership and friendship to

Xhosa-speaking magistrate refuses Afrikaner woman bail, citing racial issues

A Pretoria magistrate has said black people are having to pay more bail than whites, and are effectively receiving harsher punishments than whites who have committed the same offences. Magistrate Ndileka Ndamase made the statement in the Hatfield district court on Monday, during the bail application of Carol Smith, Beeld newspaper reported. She wrote on

South African police minister must stop summary executions

The minister of police must intervene when people take the law into their own hands, the Freedom Front Plus said on Monday. “The necklacing of alleged criminals in Khayelitsha the last two weeks by the community is a danger sign and creates anarchy,” FFPlus spokesman Pieter Groenewald said in a statement. A man was found

Riots in black area north of Johannesburg

by Meggan Saville and Jenni Evans Tear gas was fired at protesting residents of Kya Sand, north of Johannesburg, on Monday afternoon, Gauteng police said. Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said a small group of protesters started throwing stones at police escorting them back to the Inadan informal settlement. Police retaliated by firing gas canisters at those

A letter from South Africa

Partial view of the Afrikaans language monument at Paarl, Western Cape Dear PRAAG member/supporter abroad, Thank you very much for your support so far for the cause of saving South Africa’s white and Afrikaner people from extinction. I must apologise for not having communicated with you regularly in the past, but we have been,

‘Education system worse than under apartheid’ – black academic

South Africa’s education system is worse today than the “gutter education” the country had under the apartheid government, said an academic and struggle heroine Mamphela Ramphele, The Star reported on Friday. “Maths literacy… what is that? It’s worse than the arithmetic I did under Bantu education,” Ramphele was quoted saying. She was addressing the sixth

Crime and its reality in Africa

by Dan Roodt South Africa is the most interesting country in the world to live in. For almost eight years I lived in Paris and I could stroll to the Louvre, the Picasso Museum, buy cheap tickets at the Bastille Opera for what was then about R50, browse dozens of interesting little bookshops with names

Romney scores big win over Santorum in Illinois

(Reuters) – Republican Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory over top rival Rick Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, moving him one step closer to clinching the party’s volatile battle for the presidential nomination. Romney’s comfortable win gave him a fresh burst of momentum in the White House campaign and new ammunition for his argument

Blacks should compensate Whites for giving them South Africa

by Mike Smith Emeritus Arch Bishop of Cape Town is at it again and in the news for asking whites to pay a reparation tax or wealth tax because they all apparently benefitted from Apartheid. Along came his cheerleading constitutional expert and praise singer Piere de Vos from UCT and said, “The problem is, of

South African Jews shocked by French shooting

The Jewish community is shocked at the murder of four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Tuesday. “This tragedy has demonstrated how frighteningly vulnerable innocent people can be when pitiless killers driven by irrational hatred target them for attack,” national chairwoman Mary Kluk said. In