The South African government called for the urgent removal of the latest Zapiro cartoon on President Jacob Zuma in the Mail & Guardian on Friday. “Government calls on Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) to withdraw his cartoon, and urges the Mail & Guardian to remove it from its website,” government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said in a statement.
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by Timothy Spangler When the Socialist Francois Hollande took over the French presidency this spring, many French voters hoped that his new government would bring about a distinct change in direction from the “bling-bling” administration of his predecessor, Nicholas Sarkozy. By filling his Cabinet with many fresh faces, Hollande seems committed to looking at complex
South African liberal opposition leader laments few blacks in white-coloured majority province. The Western Cape’s “tragic” history is to blame for its small black middle class, premier Helen Zille has reportedly told a skills colloquium. According to The Cape Times, she said border wars and colonial administrations had played a part in keeping black people
Farm attacks should be viewed within the context of the country’s high crime statistics, and not as racially motivated, President Jacob Zuma has told Beeld newspaper. Many attacks took place on the farms of white commercial farmers, and had the appearance of being racially motivated, but this was not the case, Zuma told the newspaper
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The Labour Court ruled in Solidarity’s favour yesterday by ordering Denel Dynamics to permanently appoint a member of the union retroactively as of 10 February 2011 following 24 months of service as a contract worker. Solidarity cautioned companies to stop denying white employees permanent appointments while they are waiting to appoint affirmative action candidates. Ansie
Much patience is needed for South Africa to develop social cohesion, black church leader Reverend Frank Chikane said in Kliptown, Soweto on Thursday. “We need to be ready to listen to each other,” he said during a report back from commissions at the national social cohesion summit. “To build social cohesion and a common nation,
Read more: ‘Black aspiration and white fear causing tension in South Africa’
(Reuters) – Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond suddenly quit on Tuesday over an interest rate-rigging scandal that threatens to drag in a dozen more major lenders but suggested the Bank of England had encouraged his bank to manipulate the figures. “The external pressure placed on Barclays has reached a level that risks damaging the franchise
If South Africa is to achieve social cohesion some people cannot continue feeling superior to others, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Wednesday. “It is very divisive when a minority wants to be treated separately to the majority,” she told the national social cohesion summit in Soweto, Johannesburg. For real social cohesion, equality must
Read more: White minority still feels racially superior – ANC minister
South Africa is considering ways of strengthening bilateral economic relations with Belgium, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Wednesday. She told reporters in Pretoria that a visiting Belgian delegation would meet South African ministers to explore the possible co-operation. Belgian deputy prime minister Didier Reynders is on his first official state visit to South
According to the Daily Maverick, a Johannesburg website, expelled ANC Youth leader Julius Malema is still campaigning hard in his home province of Limpopo. Greg Nicolson writes that Malema gave whites a lashing over their continued ownership of farmland. “We don’t owe them fuck,” Malema added, assumingly referring to expropriating land from white people without
Read more: ‘We won’t kill whites, just take their land without compensation’ – Julius Malema
The ANC Youth League forced the Thaba Chweu Municipality regrouping Sabie and Graskop in Mpumalanga to close their offices and prevented municipal workers from doing their jobs. Officials were allegedly threatened with the words: “I am telling you to switch off your computer and go home, this is going to get serious.” The municipal manager
Read more: ANC Youth League takes over town by threat of force
Richard Falk says the peace process is a trick, claims Israel’s treatment of PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria is apartheid. By Elad Benari, Arutz Sheva The UN’s rapporteur for PA human rights launched a blistering attack on the international community on Monday. According to an AFP report, Richard Falk accused the world of “conspiring
Read more: UN ‘Human Rights’ Official Attacks Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Policy
By Mike Smith “Dog bites man” is not news, but “Man bites dog” is. It also applies to spotting bullshit in the news. Stabbing someone to death is just not a white thing in South Africa. It is a black or coloured move. It is what they do, not we. Now if you hear of
Read more: The bullshit vilification of whites in South Africa
Partial view of the Afrikaans language monument at Paarl, Western Cape Everyone knows the cliché about the frog being heated up slowly in water. Instead of jumping out of the pot, he becomes so used to it that he eventually boils to death. So many people have already used this metaphor for South Africa’s whites
