Commenting on the current conflict around Afrikaans-only schools in the Gauteng Province, Dr. Dan Roodt, leader of PRAAG, has called for seeing it in its historical context. “Issues around culture, language, identity and education go to the heart of the South African problem,” Roodt said. “Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain tried to suppress Dutch and/or
Solar panels can power the world says MIT study
An MIT report has found that regular solar panels like the ones used today could supply much of the world with power. They believe terawatts of energy could be produced by 2050 and say that investment, not technology, could be the biggest hurdle. The world’s population currently consumes 15 terawatts of power from various energy
Over 80% of Russians Against Same-Sex ‘Marriages’
The percentage of Russians who are positive about the law banning the propaganda of homosexuality is increasing and is now 77% against 67% in 2013, Levada Center told Interfax. Fifteen percent of the respondents do not support this law and 7% said they are not interested, a poll surveying 800 people conducted in 46 regions
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Getting rid of whites the Disney way
Republican senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio is backing a bill that would triple the number of guest workers businesses could hire every year, after hundreds of workers in his state were fired and literally replaced by foreign guest workers. Disney, Southern California Edison and most recently Fossil Group have together fired hundreds of American
China warns US surveillance plane
The Chinese navy issued warnings eight times as a U.S. surveillance plane on Wednesday swooped over islands that Beijing is using to extend its zone of influence. The series of man-made islands and the massive Chinese military build-up on them have alarmed the Pentagon, which is carrying out the surveillance flights in order to make
ISIS takes over UNESCO landmark
Islamic State militants have entered Syria’s historic city of Palmyra, a UNESCO landmark, after gaining full control over the city, a monitoring group said Thursday. The extremists now control more than 50 percent of Syrian territory, it adds. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP that overnight IS seized most of the city, including
California declares state of emergency after oil spill
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency over Tuesday’s oil spill off the Santa Barbara County coast. It follows news that up to 105,000 gallons of oil leaked out from the ruptured pipeline. “This emergency proclamation cuts red tape and helps the state quickly mobilize all available resources,” said Governor Brown in a
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Texas bloodbath may be start of all-out gang war
Predictably, experts see the hand of the Hells Angels behind Sunday’s Waco bloodbath. They say the Angels have been encouraging the Cossacks to challenge the Bandidos’ control of Texas. On Sunday, the Cossacks were helped by another gang, the Scimitars. US experts fear that this may well be the beginning of an all-out war between
ANC, DA want to scrub SA’s crime stats
The government intends to review the Criminal Procedure Act with a view to expunging the criminal records of some in order to give criminals “a second chance”. Criminal records had a “detrimental effect on successful social integration” the minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha told parliament during his budget vote. Although the act
Israel gives up on bus apartheid
The Israeli government has had to suspend a recently passed law that would have prevented Palestinians from travelling on the same buses as Israelis. The apartheid-style segregation law was introduced by Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon on Wednesday but provoked outrage from Israeli opposition. The segregation programme was however short-lived and within hours of being
Charlize and a Newer World Order
A new world order of warrior earth-mothers? Imperator Furiosa, Charlize Theron is the “strong woman” figure in the latest Mad Max reboot. Mad Max, Fury Road opened to a box office success, and is undeniably a feat of technical and choreographic brilliance, but there are also deeper messages being conveyed that should be elucidated, especially
Oz misled by fake evidence about MH-17?
Pointing the finger of blame at Russian President Putin for the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down last July, an Australian news show claims to have found the spot where the Russian BUK missile battery made its getaway, but the images don’t match, raising questions of journalistic fakery, writes Robert Parry. An Australian television show claims to have
Events in Macedonia orchestrated from outside
Moscow believes the events in Macedonia are being orchestrated from outside, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday. Lavrov said that outside pressure is being put on current Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for not agreeing to follow Western-backed sanctions against Russia and is being blamed for incompetency. Moscow is concerned over the situation in
Unprecedented security at Zim Pakistan clash
Thousands of police and paramilitaries have been deployed and helicopters will be buzzing over Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, which has been turned into a fortress for Friday’s Twenty20 cricket game against lowly Zimbabwe. Authorities have mounted an unprecedented operation to guard insurgency-hit Pakistan’s first home international in six years. The fixture is Pakistan’s first on home