Anti-minority themes
[Source: Politicsweb by William Saunderson-Meyer.]
It’s not yet the full-blown stench that makes the stomach heave. It’s just an occasional malodorous whiff, subtly alerting us to something going off. In this case, it’s the first signals that the most important aspect of South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy, an evenhanded and independent judicial system, is under some toxic strain. A few rot spots are beginning to show. Read more
[Source: Business Day by Gareth van Onselen.]
This is not a column for the faint-hearted. It attempts, in general terms, to describe “witch-killings”, a brutally violent and primitive issue in SA, that enjoys no real attention, and yet which remains relatively ubiquitous. The details are too horrific properly to inculcate. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Ismail Lagardien.]
If Andrek “Panyaza” Lesufi knew the origins of Afrikaans, he might think twice. Then again, ‘non-African’ slaves and indentured labourers who were brought to the Cape during the Dutch era — which studies have confirmed as among the seminal originators of Afrikaans — are erased from the ANC’s ideological revolutionary training, and the cadre of Little Octoberists that today populate the ministries and public offices around the country. Read more
[Source: Politicsweb by James Myburgh.]
Despite its many failures in government the African National Congress has been extraordinarily successful in one respect at least; making its racial goals the goals of society as a whole. Read more
