Racism is rife at schools across the Free State and requires an investigation, the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Wednesday. “We call on the department of education to investigate acts of racism beyond the issue of Wilgehof Primary School, as these practices are still rife in most of the schools in the province,”
Bribe was a ‘gesture of goodwill’
An environment official was told that the money a Stellenbosch property developer gave him was not a bribe, but a token of goodwill, a Cape Town court heard on Wednesday. Luxolo Kula was testifying in the trial of Asrin Properties’ director Shiraz Hassan in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court. He told the court Hassan
‘Racism’, a religious concept?
by Dan Roodt Since the ANC takeover in South Africa, this country has become race-obsessed. Not only do we have a huge number of laws that favour blacks over whites, but not a day goes by without someone being publicly accused of “racism”. Whereas blasphemy, or denigrating Christians generally, is considered freedom of speech, merely
France attacks Amazon ‘destroyer of bookshops’
France’s culture minister has branded online retailer Amazon a “destroyer” of bookshops in the latest confrontation between the Socialist government in Paris and America’s giants of the digital economy. “Today, everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, by dumping, slashes prices to get a foothold in markets only to raise them once they have established
Why black is beautiful…
According to the Body Image Report 2013 by WhyFive, whites have the least healthy body self-image whereas blacks are the most comfortable with their physical appearance. The vainest are white women, according to the survey . About 1210 people, with an average monthly household income of about R10000, were asked to complete a 20-minute online
Top cops bust for huge heists
Crime intelligence policemen – some of whom have the country’s highest security clearances – have been arrested after being linked to deadly cash-in-transit heists involving millions. The arrests, including that of a senior officer said to be the mastermind behind the heists and bank robberies, have again cast the spotlight on the infamous police unit
Republicans are throwing their conservative white base under the bus
by Georgina Lee Propaganda is only effective if it tells people what they want to believe, or what they know to be true from their lives’ experiences. During the 1960s liberal Democrats told white blue-collar workers that the real problem was not crime in the streets but white racism. White blue-collar workers were often the
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‘Exiles in our own fatherland’ – Kleinfontein residents
There are no signs that say “Whites Only.” There are, though, men in military fatigues who log the license plates of vehicles approved to enter Kleinfontein, a rural enclave that is home to about 1,000 Afrikaner whites. And there is a bust of Hendrik Verwoerd, the former South African leader who spearheaded white racist rule.
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China benefits most from Iraq oil
China already buys nearly half the oil that Iraq produces, nearly 1.5 million barrels a day, and is angling for an even bigger share, bidding for a stake now owned by Exxon Mobil in one of Iraq’s largest oil fields. “The Chinese are the biggest beneficiary of this post-Saddam oil boom in Iraq,” said Denise
Germany drops its longest word
Germany’s longest word, Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz – a 63-letter long title of a law regulating the testing of beef, has officially ceased to exist. The word – which refers to the “law for the delegation of monitoring beef labelling”, has been repealed by a regional parliament after the EU lifted a recommendation to carry out BSE tests
South Africa needs federalism
There are two recent events clearly demonstrating that the South African constitution does not work to govern a highly complex, multiethnic and even multinational society. The first is the recent hullabaloo over the Afrikaner community of Kleinfontein, east of Pretoria, and the second is the consistent hostility towards Afrikaans-only schools displayed by the Gauteng education
White man from Pretoria sues police for wrongful arrest, rape by cell full of black detainees
A Pretoria man who claims that fellow detainees in police cells spent a night raping and assaulting him after he was unlawfully arrested, is suing the minister of police for more than R1 million, Beeld reported on Monday. According to documents handed in at the High Court in Pretoria, the victim was released unconditionally, but
Pink Floyd member urges Israel boycott
Roger Waters and Alice Walker have penned open letters asking singer Alicia Keys to call off a forthcoming concert in Tel Aviv. Walker, the author of The Color Purple, invited Keys to join a cultural boycott of Israel, visiting “the children in Gaza” instead of supporting “a system that is cruel, unjust and unbelievably evil”.
More xenophobic attacks in Kroonstad
The situation in Maokeng, Kroonstad, in the Free State was calm on Saturday after service delivery protests earlier in the week, police said. “It is still quiet, nothing is happening,” Sergeant Thabo Litabe said. On Thursday, he said local residents were angry. “They wanted to protest over services they got from the municipality. They then