When she arrived at the Brussels summit on Thursday, German chancellor Angela Merkel’s face bore the signs of the sleepless nights she has endured in the past week in a prodigious quest for a settlement of the Ukraine crisis. But despite the deep rings around her eyes, there was no rest in sight for Europe’s
Read more: Sleep-deprived Merkel at centre of Ukraine peace deal
The Union of French Muslim Democrats (UDMF) has said it hopes to field candidates in eight cities in French elections next month, a modest objective for a young party with big ambitions. The UDMF this week filed applications to run two candidates in the Parisian suburb of Bobigny as part of local elections in March,
Read more: Famous author Houellebecq says Muslims are dangerously underrepresented
DA spokesperson Marius Redelinghuys and Cape metro chairman Shaun August were arrested by riot police on Thursday ahead of the eighth state-of-the-nation address, the party said. “These are people who wanted make their voices heard about the electricity crisis facing our nation, the DA said and called for their immediate release and that of the
The MSM had been buzzing about their latest pompous American acronym, SONA, for weeks, but it seems that parliamentarians under the influence of High Tea, celebrated a rather classless opening of the once august institution. Proceedings got off to a rocky start with MPs demanding to know why the cellphone signals were jammed in the
An agreement has been brokered in Minsk to stop hostilities in Ukraine from Sunday. The deal was reached after marathon talks between the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, and signed by the Ukrainian rebels. “I believe we agreed on a big deal. We agreed to a ceasefire starting at 00:00 on February 15,”
President Jacob Zuma met with special guests for a regal and lofty “high tea”, a British meal, ahead of Thursday’s state-of-the-nation address (Sona), the presidency said on Wednesday. The choice of the meal highlighted South Africa’s return to the Commonwealth, subservience to colonial power Great Britain – despite being a Republic – and the latest
Read more: Zuma invites struggle heroes to very colonial affair
China has suggested arming Hawaii’s independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and recently threatened to challenge American sovereignty by making legal claims to the Pacific islands as its territory. Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists who want to restore the islands’ constitutional monarchy, ousted in a U.S.-backed
The University of Cape Town’s College of Accounting, concerned by high drop-out rates, has developed English, Xhosa, and Zulu videos to teach financial and accounting concepts to second-language black students. Adding up numbers, it seems, is much easier in your home language. The videos are between four and 10 minutes long and are available free
Read more: UCT discovers that English is a barrier to black students
Dear libtards, Every other week, someone of your persuasion, either a feminist or antiracist or a professor of whiteness studies or cultural Marxist writes an open letter starting with “Dear white people”, containing a blast of inanities. This seems to be some kind of fashion or trend, probably copied from someone in the USA or
Russia is set to ratify an agreement on the creation of a bank for the BRICS bloc of large emerging economies this month or in March, the country’s finance minister said. The establishment of the development bank, aimed at providing funds for infrastructure projects, has been slow in coming with prolonged disagreement over funding and
All German universities are now free to Americans and all other international students. The last German state to charge tuition at its universities struck down the fees this week. Why are they offering such a generous plan? In explaining why Germany made this move, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a Hamburg senator, called tuition fees “unjust” and added
Read more: All German universities are free to international students
The auditor-general’s office has called Johannesburg’s bluff. The City of Johannesburg gave a glowing account of the metro’s financial health, claiming increased capital expenditure and improved revenue, but it was a lie. The office uncovered huge revenue losses, corruption, flawed procurement processes and weak internal controls – leaving city manager Trevor Fowler with no place
Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “jewed”, “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The College Fix in an email the campaign aims to “address campus climate by helping
Supporters of the PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of Europe) movement in Germany’s eastern city of Leipzig, where the movement is called LEGIDA, had once again planned to take to the streets on Monday. But the city called off the protest, saying police do not have enough officers to provide security and prevent violence.
