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S. African blacks attack white mountain biker

A road safety website has issued a warning to South African cyclists after a white mountain biker was attacked by two blacks armed with knives. The mountain biker, Filip Rafalski, said he “was glad to be alive” after the knife attack. He needed 18 stitches to his face. The incident occurred in Blue Hills next

2014: The year of living racially

My man Richard Sherman said something that kicked off the 2014, year-round, banal, racial back-and-forth that parades as debate in the U.S. Other than that the Seattle Seahawks are my team, on account that they’re from my neck of the woods; what I know about American football is dangerous. So naturally, I was rooting for,

S. African school maths goes down even further

Matriculants who wrote maths, maths literacy and physical science did much worse than their peers in 2013, said monitoring body Umalusi on Wednesday. Speaking from Pretoria today, Umalusi council chairperson John Volmink said the drop in mathematics results was due to major changes in the content of the subject. This year, pupils had to study

Apartheid will never die because the Left needs it

On New Year’s eve, the acrimonious tone of South African public debate seems to have become even more pronounced. Just yesterday another stereotypical cultural-Marxist piece by Professor Anton van Niekerk appeared in Afrikaans on the Netwerk24 site and already conservatives are up in arms regarding his defence of permanent affirmative action and half-truths about “apartheid”,

Repeat ‘I love black people’ robbers tell Afrikaner farmer

A wheelchair-bound farmer and his family were assaulted and robbed by blacks on their farm in Mpumalanga, Beeld reported on Tuesday. “They forced my father to repeat ‘I love black people’,” 70-year-old Johan Lange’s daughter Monique was quoted as saying. Five armed men jumped over a fence, attacked Lange, from Kiepersol, threw him out of

Magic growth numbers from the US Government

Everyone wants good news, so the government makes it up. The latest fiction is that US real GDP grew 4.6% in the second quarter and 5% in the third. Where did this growth come from? Not from rising real consumer incomes. Not from rising consumer credit. Not from rising real retail sales. Not from the

China starts payments with Russia in national currencies

China will start swaps and forwards between the yuan and the national currencies of Russia, Malaysia and New Zealand on December 29, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) reported Friday. Earlier in December, China’s Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng claimed that China could increase the usage of yuan in trade with Russia amid the

Cyber attack on Merkel’s aide

The German chancellor’s office has fallen victim to a hacking attack, according to a German newspaper. The Regin malware in question has been linked to British and US spy agencies. The complex spying malware arrived via a USB stick to the work computer of the unit head in the Department for European Policy, where it

Fracking, climate change, solar in the security mix

The global oil market is going through an upheaval, with non-OPEC production led by North American producers surging while OPEC’s traditional price-setting role changes. First, US oil production and proven oil reserve growth over the past several years is astonishing. Despite the current oil price decline, US oil production growth in 2015 is expected to

US warship leaves after Iran’s warning

A US warship has left the area where Iran is performing major military exercises following a warning issued by an Iranian naval patrol aircraft. The patrol aircraft belonging to the Airborne Division of Iran’s Navy warned the vessel, along with warships from other extra-regional countries, to leave the area during a reconnaissance flight on Sunday.

Chinese blogger predicted AirAsia’s disappearance

A mysterious Chinese blogger has provoked a storm of speculation online over claims he predicted the disappearance of an AirAsia flight thirteen days before one vanished. In a series of posts which have gone viral, the man appears to warn that the airline would be targeted by a shadowy group he calls the ‘Black Hand’

Where is the United States of Pindostan?

If you talk to a Russian about the international political situation, sooner or later you will be informed that there is a country in North America that you’ve never heard of. Its name is ‘Pindosia,’ ‘Pindostan’ or, more officially, ‘United States of Pindostan,’ and you will be told that one part of it, called Alaska,

Under black rule, 200 000 South Africans die violently every year

South Africa has no civil war but violence is one of the top five causes of death in the country, according to a study published by The Lancet, the Sunday Times reported. According to the report, South Africa was the only country outside the Latin American and Caribbean region to make this claim. People most

Thousands of US policemen turn their backs on NY mayor De Blasio

Tens of thousands of police from cities across the United States filled a New York City church and nearby streets on Saturday for the funeral of one of two policemen shot by a man who said he was avenging the killing of unarmed black men by police. The service for Rafael Ramos was one of