The announcement last week that Cuban military personnel would be sent to South Africa to train the ANC’s army has caused grave concern among the Afrikaner minority in South Africa. Not only have Afrikaners been placed in category six by …
Category Archives: Columns
Race-based admissions to South African universities
Currently the newspapers in South Africa are publishing stories about the miraculous achievements of last year’s matriculants who completed their school careers with six, seven, eight, nine and even ten distinctions. In American terms, these would be the proverbial “straight-A …
Vote white, vote VF+
by Dan Roodt
Standing on a ladder, putting up a few last-minute posters here in Johannesburg, it struck me that the Freedom Front Plus was the last white party left in this country. Apart from a few pasty-faced, white liberal …
DA outs itself as ANC Lite
On the eve of South African local elections, the DA has finally outed itself as the “lite” version of the ANC. The party’s leader Helen Zille stated that “we subscribe …
Open letter to Professor Martha Nussbaum
Dear Professor Nussbaum,
This morning I downloaded a lecture that you gave at the British Academy in which you refer to the discredited model of development pursued by South Africa in the twentieth century, implying that this country only invested …
On the new South African flag
I hate the new South African flag. Even from the first moment I set eyes on the design in the newspaper it looked incredibly ugly and the Y-front underpants association or being “Winnie Mandela se kopdoek” as it …
Jeffrey Imm’s Race Fundamentalism
An open letter
Dear Mr. Imm,
You probably know as little about me as I do about you, living on different sides of the planet. However, I was one of the invited speakers to the American Renaissance conference that had …
Are English-speaking whites Afrikaners too?
At the start of this fateful year of 2010, with a lot of foreign soccer fans about to get their first taste of South African crime, violence and mayhem, politics is moving at a breath-taking pace. Only two weeks ago …
Sandile Memela on black matric failure
Everyone has been commenting the South African matric results lately, including the fact that whites outscore blacks in marks and distinctions.
One black columnist doing some soul-searching is The Sowetan’s Sandile Memela. He writes:
…A FEW days ago I had
South Africans are born to kowtow
Fortunately I am an Afrikaner and not a South African. So I do not have to feel bad about my countrymen being fanatical rapists, robbers, murderers, as well as having the worst soccer team in the world.
Apart from their …