Or maybe apartheid reproduced the spatial legacy of urban sprawl? So the new urban sprawl looks just like the old from the 1930s and 40s.
Also check out Detroit, going from 84% white in 1950 to 83% black today as …
Or maybe apartheid reproduced the spatial legacy of urban sprawl? So the new urban sprawl looks just like the old from the 1930s and 40s.
Also check out Detroit, going from 84% white in 1950 to 83% black today as …
If a white person had to write this, it would be deemed “racist”. Yet as a black man Prince Mashele reflects here on the painful reality that blacks simply do not take much of an interest in books. They prefer …
I suppose every culture has its dark side. The dark side of Afrikaans culture would be a kind of weird quasi-religious “Boer” politics whereby a small group of sectarian individuals consider themselves to be the chosen people, even the “true …
Gee, thanks, Stephen Grootes, I feel really grateful after reading this. Afrikaners will be allowed to keep a few statues but Comrade Steven Friedman, that leading Marxist intellectual (a “real thinker” no less), will decide for us which ones …
I have just read another of those propaganda articles glorifying so-called “land reform” in South Africa, which means taking away the property of middle-class farmers and committing it to grandiose agricultural schemes that all seem to fail. This is just …
Joel Pollak’s article on Breitbart is just way off the mark in every respect. What Obama’s executive decree on immigration has got to do with South Africa is a complete mystery. If anything, Obama’s actions are a lot closer to …
Although one may differ from Tokelo Nhlapo’s assessment of blacks who are always victims and, of course, his view of Steve Hofmeyr, he is right in that SA blacks are essentially “extras” in the cinematographic sense in the umpteenth Anglo-Boer …
This Conrad Koch is just a parasite trying to generate attention for himself on Steve’s back. Would thousands of people come to concerts where he and his puppet enjoy each other’s caricatures? Obviously not.
The metaphor of the puppet is …
History repeats itself. Heidelberg Volkskool was one of the first schools started after the Anglo-Boer war when Afrikaners were humiliated by the British occupier into accepting English as the only medium of instruction in schools. That was after 30 000 …
In reply to Sarah Brittan’s latest blog, I think white South Africans generally suffer from an overdose of guilt, which has been exploited by our adversaries. I thought it was only an Afrikaner issue, given our Calvinist heritage, but …