The situation in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg was calm on Saturday following reports of shop lootings and public violence during the last week, police said. “It has been quiet, there were no incidents reported,” said Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said. On Monday police arrested 45 people for public violence, housebreaking, and possession of unlicensed firearms. The
Read more: Diepsloot calm yesterday after reports of xenophobic violence
by Dave Steward, FW de Klerk Foundation Perhaps one of the most unpalatable truths of our time is that our government is planning a multi-pronged assault on the property rights of white South Africans. The assault includes proposals in the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform; Tokyo Sexwale’s announcement last week regarding the “deracialisation of
Read more: ‘Multi-pronged assault on the property rights of white South Africans’
“Nearly twenty years after the 1994 government change, the land debate is still one of the most emotional debates in South Africa,” Dr. Pieter Mulder, leader of the Freedom Front Plus and deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries says. Dr. Mulder addressed the Ad Hoc Group for the Protection of Property Rights’ conference about
Read more: Debate on land continues unabated in South Africa
by TAU Bulletin On 19 June 1913, the Native Land Act of 1913 became law in the recently-created Union of South Africa. The legislation was the culmination of centuries of land occupations, divisions and invasions; of treaties, conventions and agreements signed, and sometimes ignored; of squatting, a population explosion on a finite land area, tribal
Most Americans assume that the U.S. military is so vastly superior to everyone else that no other nation would ever dream of fighting a full-scale war against us. Unfortunately, that assumption is dead wrong. In recent years, the once mammoth technological gap between the U.S. military and the Chinese military has been closing at a
For years now, the collapse of the dollar has been in the cards. Recent developments show mounting pressure on the dollar’s reserve currency status. With a major international deflation going on, the threat of inflation through money printing is unreal. However, should the dollar’s reserve currency status end, the repatriation of trillions of petro- and
A woman who was “badly tormented by her ancestors” had to be reinstated in her post, even if she took a month’s leave without her employer’s permission, the Labour Appeal Court has ruled. Three judges from the Labour Appeals Court delivered their verdict, saying the judgment was “something new”, Beeld reported. Johannah Mmelodi,
Read more: Sick note from witchdocter is valid, South African Labour Court finds
The Afrikaner settlement of Kleinfontein was invaded by a posse of black politicians, mostly driving black taxpayer-funded BMWs today. They also brought a fire truck and an ambulance. The last time an “outing” like this to Kleinfontein from the Gauteng legislature came with a budget of R270 000. Wonder if they have Louis Roederer Cristal
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The AU will establish a new military force following a suggestion from South Africa, the international relations department has said. “On Monday … the African Union summit [in Ethiopia] adopted a historic decision to establish the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises [ACIR], at the initiative of South Africa,” said spokesperson Clayson Monyela on Tuesday. The
Read more: SA plan for new African military force adopted by AU
The land claims process closed 14 years ago will be reopened. The Star newspaper reported that according to the draft Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill published last week the new deadline for claims would be December 31, 2018. The previous deadline was December 31, 1998. If the bill became law, it would allow those
A murder trial began in a Nelspruit court this week that resembles the script of a horror movie. Four men appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit High Court for the muti murder of Mr Clarance Brown (25) on Monday. Family and community members wore T-shirts branded with Brown’s photo to court. Businessman Mr Floyd Mokoena (63),
So-called Tshwane or Greater Pretoria mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa will visit the Afrikaners-only community of Kleinfontein outside Rayton, east of Pretoria, on Wednesday. “The visit is not a law enforcement exercise, but is aimed at fact-finding, reaching out to the community, and understanding their concerns,” Ramokgopa’s office said in a statement on Tuesday. Members of the
Read more: Mayor of Greater Pretoria to inspect Afrikaner community of Kleinfontein
Automobiles were torched and police confronted stone-wielding youths in Stockholm’s suburbs early Sunday as riots, which erupted following reports that police had killed an elderly immigrant, enter their first week. Pockets of violence and vandalism continue to pose a challenge to police in Stockholm, the Swedish capital that is home to an increasingly diverse
New Zealand—Seeking to help its exporters, New Zealand is negotiating with China to make their currencies directly convertible, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister John Key said. Most of New Zealand’s exports to China are agricultural products—particularly milk powder, meat and wool—while most of its imports from there are computers, mobile phones and clothes. Above, sheep
