This year’s Cannes Film Festival was greeted with consternation when a commonality was noticed across many of the festival’s in-competition selections: the Killer language, English. Though there are only two American filmmakers in competition for Cannes’ Palme d’Or and no British directors, this year’s festival is littered with Europe’s elite filmmakers working in a language
The end of the Republican Party
Former American presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, sees the end of the Republican Party: On immigration, Pat Buchanan campaigned on securing the border in 1991-92, when there were only 3 million illegal immigrants in the United States. But the Bush Republicans refused to seal the border. Now there are 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants
Sixty years of supporting terror with foreign funding
Founded exactly 60 years ago on Tuesday, the Black Sash celebrated its anniversary with the launch of a biography of one of its earlier members, Sheena Duncan. Duncan joined the organisation in 1978 and played a significant role in recruiting black terrorists to swell the ranks of the armed “People’s War” against moderate white and
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Church set alight out of spite
Officials at the Central Methodist Church in the Joburg city centre believe that the fire at the building was the work of disgruntled members. The church’s superintendent minister, Reverend Ndumiso Ncombo, said residents had set a room alight to spite church officials who gave them notice to move out. “I wasn’t surprised when the fire
SA ranks last in maths and science
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its Global Information Technology Report 2015, which ranked South Africa last in the quality of mathematics and science education. South Africa also finished close to last – 139 out of 143 countries – when looking at the overall quality of its education system. The WEF’s Global Information Technology
Marine le Pen: We must resist corporations
Leader of France’s National Front party, Marine Le Pen, has launched a month-long blitz against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – a proposed EU-US treaty, which has been criticized for secretiveness and lack of accountability. “It is vital that the French people know about TTIP’s content and its motivations in order to be
German cop probed for ‘immigrant abuse’
German prosecutors are investigating a police officer who allegedly abused two immigrants, strangling an Afghan man and forcing a Moroccan to eat pork off the floor. The police officer has been accused of bragging about the brutal assaults in text messages and photos he sent via instant messaging service WhatsApp to his colleagues in the
Destroying Libya for profit
While advising Mrs. Clinton on Libya, Mr. Sydney Blumenthal, who had been barred from a State Department job by aides to President Obama, was employed by her family’s philanthropy, the Clinton Foundation, to help with research, “message guidance” and the planning of commemorative events, according to foundation officials. During the same period, he also worked
EFF, DA fuming at PE’s new Coloured mayor
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is helping the DA by calling on the newly-appointed Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jordaan to resign from his SA Football Association presidency. The opposition party says serving both as mayor under the ruling ANC as well as the football association’s president will affect Jordaan’s “impartiality”. The EFF logic is
Minister wants to arrest white ‘mercenaries’ fighting Boko Haram
The South Africans going to help the Nigerian army against terror group Boko Haram should be arrested on their return, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said in Beeld on Thursday. She labelled them “mercenaries” in comments made to reporters on the eve of the African Union’s summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Beeld has reported that a
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Witchdoctor accused of abducting youths
An Mpumalanga initiation school owner is accused of abducting and circumcising youths in Machadodorp. Black initiation schools are run by witchdoctors, known as “traditional healers”. This is in contravention of the Mpumalanga Ingoma Act which states that no person may be forced to attend initiation school against their will. They use extreme intimidation on potential
Uhuru calls for open borders
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged African governments to open their borders. Speaking at the Pan African Parliament in Midrand, Kenyatta told members of the house that the continent’s potential could be realised only if African governments worked together and made it easier to trade with each other. “There cannot be a good reason why
‘Cultural Marxism has ruined the UK and South Africa’ (Part 2): interview with Jack Sen, suspended UKIP candidate
What is the real reason you were suddenly suspended from UKIP? I was suspended from UKIP simply because I refused to toe the party line when it came to discussing the genocide of the Western European people and minority South Africans, and the Marxist imposed double standards Westerners face on a daily basis. The moment
Turkish president wants focus on Jerusalem
Nothing in the western media covered what the Turkish Anadulu Agency released, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech this Friday. Erdogan called on all Turks to refocus on the Ottoman goal to re-conquer Jerusalem for Islam: “Unfortunately we the Muslims lost our aim to head towards Jerusalem. The water of our eyes