Genocide
Raphael Lemkin American Scholar, Volume 15, no. 2 (April 1946), p. 227-230 This article is can also be read in the author’s French version or in Spanish translation I: “A crime without a name.”II: The…
Think again before you call yourself a supporter of the ‘New’ South Africa
February 21, 2015 In 1988, a German book published how the White giant of Africa actually was. Below are some of the facts referencing 1988 unless otherwise indicated): In 1972, SA blacks owned 360,000 vehicles….
Slip, sliding away
Jacob’s amazing multi-coloured dreamcoat Imagine you are an analyst for one of the credit-rating agencies. What do you make of the events of the last few weeks? Privatization by stealth You have been watching with…
Finally, a solution to the land question?
The Ratcatcher on how to operationalise BDay editor-in-chief Peter Bruce’s plan to give every South African the right to half a ha of arable land In his column on 16 October Business Day and Financial…
The ‘land question’ from the point of view of the land
Garry Paterson explains why, although South Africa is such a large country, there is so little usable arable land The question of “land” in South Africa as determined by the natural resources Land is an…
WHO ARE THE BOERS ?
Dedicated to the 24,000 Boer Children and 3,000 Boer women who died in the Great Boer Holocaust of 1900-1902. THE cries of the dying children have been scattered by time, but the message of sacrifice…
Reflections on white righteousness
C.J. Driver….The Man with the Suitcase. The Life, Execution and rehabilitation of John Harris, Liberal Terrorist (Crane River, Cape Town) 2015. 89pp. R170. ISBN 978-0-620-66852-1. On 24 July 1964 a young South African white liberal,…
Maybe That Wasn’t Such a Good Idea After All
The Aryans of India; Bodhidharma, the red-bearded teacher of the Shaolin in China; Quetzalcoatl, the fair-skinned god who brought agriculture to the peoples of Mesoamerica; legends of non-white races the world over speak of white…
A new addition to SA’s oppressive laws list
POLITICS A new addition to SA’s oppressive laws list State quietly processing legislation allowing for expropriation of copyrights on the death of their owner JOHN KANE-BERMAN 21 SEPTEMBER 2015 PICTURE: THINKSTOCK Largely unnoticed, the Department…
Hard statistics show how government is failing at employment
New statistics published by South Africa’s government shows just how dire the country’s employment position has become. The government’s employment agency, the Public Employment Service (PES), has placed as few as 2.3% of those registered…