Support is pouring in for the University of Witwatersrand’s expelled SRC president. Mcebo Dlamini’s Facebook post that mentioned Hitler has sparked outrage from the South African Union of Jewish Students. Students from the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and activist group, Open Stellenbosch, are marching in support of Mcebo Dlamini. The Higher Education Transformation Network also
Read more: Black students rally in support of expelled Wits SRC president
Ministers from South Africa and Zimbabwe have discussed mutual issues of defence and security. They’ve pledged to strengthen the fight against cross-border crime, using intelligence agencies from both countries. Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been quick to dismiss claims that migrants are responsible for most crimes. “It is not just foreign nationals who are involved
Political Analyst Ebrahim Fakir says sixth Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Congress is going to be a battle for the identity and leadership of the party. The DA is all set to hold its sixth federal congress this weekend in Port Elizabeth. The congress is the highest decision-making body of the party. This weekend the congress
Protesters burned a man alive in Burundi’s capital yesterday, saying he was a member of the ruling party’s youth wing, which had attacked them during their demonstrations against the president’s bid for a third term, a witness said. Protesters have been on Bujumbura’s streets for almost two weeks, often hurling stones at the police, whom
South Africa’s industrial policy will focus on platinum group metal (PGM) beneficiation, oil and gas from shale and neighbouring countries like Mozambique, and the manufacture of electric cars, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Thursday. These key areas will be the focus for the next three years, he said at the launch of
Dear Dan Roodt, I am a Canadian who married a Boere Meisie. I have three Afrikaans-speaking children. I read your Volkstaat article from 2010: “Volkstaat is inevitable (sorry to the naysayers)”. The gap that the White South Africans live in where they can still live a decent life and get employment and enjoy their culture
Opponents to a proposed asylum center in the Swedish town of Gullberg came up with a plan to deter Muslim immigrants from coming. Residents in the Swedish town of Gullberg opposed to controversial plans to build a center to house asylum seekers in the town, sent a letter to the Swedish Migration Board threatening to
The EU’s trade chief has unveiled plans to set up a global court to decide on disputes between investors and governments in a bid to defuse one of the main controversies in the ongoing EU-US trade talks. A “concept paper” published on Tuesday (May 5), drafted for trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, stated that the EU
Music mockumentary Stone Cold Jane Austen will be one of eight South African films screening at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. The films form part of the Marche Du Film programme which takes place from May 12 to 21, the film market business side of the Cannes Film Festival. Writer/director Jon Savage is
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Unless South African businesses hand over large chunks of equity to black shareholders, they will no longer be awarded so-called “BEE points” by government, which means that they could be forced out of business. According to the Johannesburg financial newspaper, Business Day, “the Department of Trade and Industry sprung a surprise on business, issuing an
Read more: South African business ‘schocked’ by new black ownership rules
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has announced that there will be no municipality which will be allowed to sell land to the private sector for development which does not fit government’s plans. Speaking at the launch of the Vaal River City in Sedibeng‚ Makhura said provincial government wanted development to take place at a large scale
It has been at least a month since I visited that cauldron of leftist platitudes, The Daily Maverick. Talking of platitudes, the other day I discovered HL Mencken’s definition which everyone in this country should memorise as it is singularly apposite in this colonial society that is slowly slouching towards its Zimbabwe: “Platitude: an idea
Read more: Dan Roodt: On two ex-spies’ tirade against ‘the white Afrikaner’
I am honestly just a little bit tired of being told day after day and week after week how to think and act as a white person (or Afrikaner) – especially by white liberal journalists. Almost every article being churned out in the media lately has been an attack on whites or Afrikaners and this
Read more: J. Smith: The media try to make us whites feel guilty
One of the safest Labour seats in Britain is its most non-white one, East Ham. It has been in Labour hands since it was formed in 1997 and will vote Labour again tomorrow in Britain’s general election. Its MP, Stephen Timms, was once stabbed by one of his constituents, Roshonara Choudhry, a 21-year-old student, who
Read more: 87% of British blacks vote Labour and other ethnic facts
