Andy Warhol thought that everybody would have their 15 minutes of fame, even a feminist sim writing on the South African Huffington Post. Her or its name—sims are of dubious gender—is Shelley Garland.
I don’t really play computer games—or perhaps …
Category Archives: Columns
Reply to Frère Jacques Rousseau
Let me briefly put you on the right track. This entire papsak diatribe against our noble Afrikaner people who have suffered for so long under foreign (Uitlander) domination is based on the simplistic, biased views of one Dan O’Meara who …
The euro will remain the world’s favourite tradeable currency
by Horace Lewis-Roberts
With the rise of Bitcoin and general hostility towards so-called fiat currencies, notwithstanding the euroskeptic animosity towards the euro, many people are speculating about the ultimate demise of the euro. However, as French politician Marine Le Pen …
We need to reinvent Western identities
These are very interesting comments. I think many societies decline because of a loss of identity. Or they have conflicting identities, which in England may be traced back to the Norman invasion as you suggest.
In South Africa, we …
On The Economist’s ‘Over the rainbow’ article on South Africa
I find this article so amusing, bitterly so. After intervening for decades in our internal affairs and prescribing to us, British journalists such as these from the Economist, are exasperated at the outcome of external intervention in South Africa. Without …
These Stellenbosch students should rather wash my feet
How nauseating, another “uitbraak van voetewassery” (Maties residence offers apology for apartheid wrongs) in Stalinbos. The incident in 1939 took place in response to harassment of white female students.
These contrite students, who are apparently responding to ex-minister …
Britain’s hatred of Afrikaners
Following on the Marikana massacre where 36 black miners were killed yesterday, shot by the ANC’s police service, the usual nauseating comments about apartheid and Afrikaner racism are being made by the BBC and other British media. As if we …
Who are the ‘South Africans’?
After posting an article on News24.com yesterday, reproduced also on Praag.org, I mostly got favourable comments. However, there are two species of local critics who are always ready to accuse one of being racist or backward for not agreeing …
Have racists and fascists taken over the internet?
Yesterday a lot of American websites were blacked out in protest against the new legislation in that country aiming to give more control over the internet to major corporate copyright holders. In fact, not since Gutenberg invented the printing press, …
Crime and its reality in Africa
South Africa is the most interesting country in the world to live in. For almost eight years I lived in Paris and I could stroll to the Louvre, the Picasso Museum, buy cheap tickets at the Bastille Opera for what …