The Daily Maverick should rebaptise itself as “The Cute Conformist”, for that is really what it is, a bunch of people who sound like your average ANC propagandist on the SABC, except they think they are cute. One such very cute conformist writing for that cyber rag is a certain Justin MacCarthy. I had never
Read more: Nothing maverick about The Daily Maverick’s sucking up to Woolworths
by S.J. Oosthuizen, Helderkruin IT WAS expected there would be a rash of anti-apartheid, anti-Dan Roodt replies to his letter (Apartheid evil is hype, Business Day Letters, September 10). Saying a few positive words about apartheid is tantamount to eschewing Mom and apple pie: the politically correct righteously rush to judgment against anyone who dares
South African liberals were waging an “ideological offensive” at the tripartite alliance, SA Communist Party secretary-general Blade Nzimande said on Monday. “Here we see a very clear convergence between the liberal ideological offensive and what we have characterised as the new tendency,” he told the Congress of SA Trade Unions’ 11th national congress in Midrand.
Racism has been named the biggest sin in today’s society ranked even above ‘terrorism’, a new study has found. According to the research, binge-drinking, domestic violence, tax evasion, racism, terrorism, bullying and bigotry constitute seven deadly sins in today’s society. Racism has been named as the biggest sin of today, ranked even above ‘terrorism’ the
Read more: Racism is now the biggest of seven modern deadly sins, above terrorism
(Reuters) – Protesters in Afghanistan and Indonesia burnt U.S. flags and chanted “Death to America” on Monday in renewed demonstrations over a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad that has unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world. Indonesian police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who massed
Read more: Another round of protests over Prophet Mohammad movie
Do not underestimate “enemies” seeking to create divisions before the ANC’s December elective conference in Mangaung, Cosatu president Sidumo Dlamini said on Monday. “Comrades, we must not make a mistake and underestimate the enemy,” he told the Congress of SA Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) 11th national congress in Midrand. “The systematic attack we see today directed
Read more: ‘Radical phase of transition’ needs ‘radical and militant campaigning’ – Cosatu
The white Afrikaner victim of the latest shooting in Muldersdrift, André Jordaan (50), was taken to Baragwanath Hospital, but was not operated on, despite having seven bullets in his body. After having been shot on Thursday evening by a marauding gang of black robbers, the hospital in Soweto promised to do an emergency operation by
Read more: Was shooting victim André Jordaan left to die in Baragwanath Hospital?
Striking mineworkers who had gathered at Gold Fields’ KDC west mine near Carletonville on Saturday morning have dispersed, the company said. Spokesman Sven Lunsche said the area was calm and protesters had returned to their hostels. Wage talks between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and management] would get underway either on Sunday or Monday,
Police officers assigned to disperse protesting Lonmin mineworkers were accused of shooting residents of Nkaneng informal settlement in Marikana on Saturday morning. Several community members emerged with bleeding wounds, which they claimed were caused by police rubber bullets. Two women sat in a narrow path in the informal settlement, surrounded by sympathetic residents. One of
Read more: Marikana residents accuse police of shooting at them with rubber bullets
Washington said it was deploying forces to cope with violence in as many as 18 different locations as deadly Muslim anger spreads over a US-made movie that mocks Islam. Two US marines were killed in Afghanistan when insurgents armed with guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified air base late on Friday in an attack
Read more: US deploys forces in 18 countries against Muslim anger
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will sue the French magazine Closer for the publication of nude photographs of the Duchess, Clarence House said. The gossip magazine printed pictures of Kate taken during the couple’s private holiday in France. The scandal arrives arrived just as the two are visiting a mosque in the Malaysian capital
A Muldersdrift house robbery spree ended in a shoot-out with police and the arrest of three alleged robbers on Friday, Gauteng police said. Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said the first robbery happened shortly after 7pm on Thursday evening, and left a 55-year-old man shot and wounded. He was among a group of people outside their home
Read more: Three arrested after more armed attacks in Muldersdrift
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Several dozen protesters briefly stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Tunisia’s capital Friday, setting fire to cars and raising a flag with the Muslim profession of faith written on it as part of violent demonstrations in the region against an anti-Islam film. Outside the embassy, thousands of demonstrators gathered, including stone-throwing
Earlier today PRAAG reported on its Afrikaans website about a secret ANC youth militia being trained at South African military bases and deployed in black squatter camps. This afternoon it came to late that the murder last week on 13-year old Alyssa Botha was committed by a member of the secret militia, known as the
Read more: Alyssa Botha (13)’s killer was member of secret ANC militia, released by police
