With debris of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 still covering the crash site in eastern Ukraine, the investigation of the July 17, 2014 tragedy is surrounded by secrecy. RT talked to international experts and the victims’ families, still waiting for answers. “We want the facts, we don’t want propaganda,” Malaysian engineer Azahar Zanudin told RTD. “I’d
Policeman caught in farm attack
Two black men, one an employee of the South African Police Service (SAPS), were arrested for a farm attack after a farmer was left for dead on his Kareebosbult farm in Coligny, North West police said on Thursday. Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone said four black men entered the farm and found the white owner with his
Zim to hand back land to some white farmers
Zimbabwe’s government has for the first time suggested it may give official permission for some white farmers to stay on their land, 15 years after it sanctioned widespread land grabs that plummeted the country into an economic crisis. Douglas Mombeshora, the Zanu-PF Lands Minister, said provincial leaders had been asked to draw up a list
Ilana Mercer: Rachel Dolezal: A Racially Abused Girl—Really
Not so fast, Rachel Dolezal. The country is not finished with you yet. It merely got distracted. We scampered in other directions: onto the “genocidal” Confederate flag and the depraved-heart murders of Freddy Gray (black) and Kathryn Steinle. More “Black Lives Matter” riots took place. Not one “White Lives Matter” march was held. (And as
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Vrede farm attack: Couple in critical condition
Rita Kritzinger, who was shot three times during a farm attack in Vrede, remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital and will likely remain that way for some time. This is according to Ruan Combrink, family spokesperson and local minister at the Afrikaans Protestant Church. Rita and her husband Johannes Kritzinger were attacked
Carthage must be destroyed
The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently
AFFH a lever to racially re-engineer America
HUD Secretary Julian Castro has announced the finalization of the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule. A front-page article preemptively defending the move appears in today’s Washington Post. The final rule is 377 pages, vastly longer than the preliminary version of the rule promulgated in 2013. AFFH is easily one of President Obama’s most
Thief dies in hail of stones
The mood turned violent as someone cast the first stone. A barrage followed and the suspected thief died in the hail. These scenes, the latest incident of mob justice, unfolded in Protea South in Soweto on Wednesday when irate residents assaulted four men they accused of stealing from them, among other crimes. An enraged mob
One shot, bricks fly at ANC meeting
Bricks were thrown and a branch member was shot during a general meeting of a Limpopo ANC branch on Saturday. The incident took place apparently because there were differing opinions on who should be nominated as treasurer after the position was left vacant by the late Education MEC Thembi Nwendamutswu. Branch member Bigboy Nkuna was
Teen convicted of raping toddler
A 15-year-old black boy was convicted of the brutal rape of a 3-year-old girl and sentenced to 10 years behind bars in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The violent rape of the toddler played out in the Thokoza informal settlement near Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in May. The girl’s mother watched helplessly through
Ancyl: Table Mountain to become initiation spot
The ANC Youth League in the Western Cape claims it has the support of traditional leaders in its proposal to make a portion of Table Mountain National Park available for young men undergoing initiation. “We have engaged in a very extensive engagement with traditional leaders. We did this because we thought maybe our view might
China detains South Africans for ‘propaganda videos’
A total of 20 people sent to China by a religiously inspired charity have been detained, most of them British or South African, the organisation said, adding some had been accused of watching “propaganda videos”. Gift of the Givers, a disaster relief charity based in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, said 20 of its associates were
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Moscow hopes US will abandon AMD plans for Europe
Moscow hopes the US will fulfill its promise not to develop a system of missile defense in Europe after a deal with Iran has been reached, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Vienna on Tuesday. “We all probably remember that in April 2009 in Prague [US] President [Barack] Obama said that if the Iran
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Historic nuclear deal reached with Iran
Iran and six leading world powers signed a comprehensive plan for ending international sanctions against Iran in exchange for putting restrictions on its controversial nuclear program. RT takes a look at the groundbreaking document. The deal signed in Vienna on Tuesday is meant to break a 12-year standoff over Iran’s nuclear activities, which some nations