Johannesburg – The number of bodies from violent deaths in Gauteng mortuaries is higher than the official police murder count. Even making allowance for unintentional violent deaths and suicides in the mortuary count, the discrepancies…
The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 whenXhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed intermittently for nearly a hundred years. This was largely due to colonial expansion…
The shifting frontiers of the Eastern Cape, was to be the setting for a truly epochal collision between two worlds – white and European, black and African” – Noel Mostert “FRONTIERS Artist’s depiction of ‘Insurgents…
By Terry Bell The whole question of colonialism has come to the fore again, courtesy of the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) and its vehement objection to the introduction of the Chinese Mandarin dialect to…
The issue of South Africa is of concern to everyone, not just South Africans. Indeed, according to former British Foreign Secretary David Owen, it is over this issue “that the world faces its greatest challenge.”…
From Racial to Class Apartheid: South Africa’s Frustrating Decade of Freedom by Patrick Bond Patrick Bond teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, is visiting professor at York University Department of Political Science,…
The continuing saga of South Africa’s dwindling gun owners provides a case study of what gun-banners want to do in the United States. By Dave Kopel America’s 1st Freedom, March 2010 More by Kopel on…
The recent uproar in South Africa over the claims by ANC president Jacob Zuma that the 1913 Land Act dispossessed blacks is a blatant lie, and forms part of four core lies about South African…
The government’s inability to address critical socio-economic and political rights issues such as unemployment, corruption, and threats to freedom of expression remains a concern for many South Africans. In May 2014, President Jacob Zuma and…
White South Africans are in grave danger; there may be a solution. Things are very bad in South Africa. When the scourge of apartheid was finally smashed to pieces in 1994, the country seemed to…
