LADYBRAND. – An American farm manager has been attacked with a machete by blacks in South Africa. Allen Rodgers was attacked on the farem Geluk, owned by the American company SBH Farms. The 61-year old was rushed to the Mediclinic private hospital in Bloemfontein with slashes and cuts after having been attacke by three black
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The situation at the Lonmin’s Marikana mine in the North West was stable on Tuesday morning following the deaths of nine people, police said. Captain Dennis Adriao said police had been monitoring the situation at the mine where violence had erupted from Friday. “At this stage no other incidents were reported throughout Monday night.” Nine
Read more: Nine dead in clashes between black unions at Lonmin mine
The country’s museums needed to decolonise and transform urgently, President Jacob Zuma said in the Northern Cape on Sunday. “Our museums must be transformed to become centres of heritage and expertise which respect all peoples and cultures,” Zuma said in a speech prepared for delivery at the reburial of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar in Kuruman.
Read more: Zuma wants to ‘decolonise museums’, remove Eurocentric artefacts
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy from the West Rand has been moved to a place of safety after allegedly having been sodomised by his father, reports the black newspaper, The Sowetan. The 32-year-old father, a Zimbabwean who lives in Rietvallei near Kagiso, made a brief appearance in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Friday. He was arrested last
Read more: New South African morals: father sodomises his 10-year old son
South Africa’s fleet of attack submarines, which cost an estimated R8-billion in the infamous arms deal, are all in dry dock after the only operational vessel crashed into the seabed, reports the Sunday Times. The SAS Queen Modjadji, named after a trival rain queen who lived in Limpopo province, struck the ocean floor while conducting
Read more: South Africa’s fleet of submarines ‘out of action’
Sarah Formato cuddled the whiny three-year-old on her lap and cast her thoughts back to 2008, when she had voted for Barack Obama. “Politicians are in the pockets of big companies,” she said. “Obama understood the problem. He wasn’t going for that.” Today, Formato’s enthusiasm has waned. “He hasn’t changed anything,” she complained. Nonetheless, she
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Appearing for the first time as Mitt Romney’s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is attacking President Barack Obama for what he calls a “record of failure.” The seven-term congressman says Obama has led the “worst economic recovery in 70 years.” He notes that unemployment has been above 8 percent for
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Dear PRAAG supporter overseas, Hillary Clinton has just visited South Africa. Her message was: Just follow Nelson Mandela. If that were even possible, for the 94-year old is reputed to be hardly functional anymore and living in a remote rural hamlet called Qunu in the old tribal homeland of the Transkei. It also happens to
Read more: Finally the blinkers are coming off in South Africa
by Claudia Meades Ex British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said anybody who thought the ANC could govern country was living in cloud-cuckoo-land. Could anybody, at the time she said it, have imagined that nobody would deliver a more vivid demonstration of her claim, than the ANC itself. In fact, delivering an account of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat “Hispanic” as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term “Negro” and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners. The recommendations released Wednesday stem from new
Read more: US census to change its racial classification system
The creators of a racist Aboriginal Memes Facebook page – described as a potential breach of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act – have removed all of the controversial images. All of the page’s content was removed earlier today after repeated complaints to Facebook and after confirmation that the Australian Communications and Media Authority was investigating. Race
Read more: Australian hullabaloo over ‘racist Facebook page’
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday signed a new deal supporting efforts to fight AIDS in South Africa, which has the world’s biggest population of people with HIV. “South Africa and the entire region has a brighter and healthier and more secure future,” she said while visiting a clinic in the Cape Town
Read more: USA has spent $3.2 billion on South Africa’s AIDS programme
Coal India, the world’s biggest coal miner, moved ahead on Wednesday with plans to acquire mines abroad by beginning the process of forming a subsidiary in South Africa. The development follows state-run Coal India Ltd (CIL) signing a pact with the Limpopo province of South Africa to identify and develop coal mines as the Indian
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged South Africa to build on icon Nelson Mandela’s legacy and flex its growing influence on the global sticking points of Syria, Iran and Zimbabwe. “The man who did so much to shape the history of a free South Africa has never stopped thinking about the future of South
