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 …
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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 …
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 …
Race rears its ugly head
Doer uit die Oos-Kaapse Engelse vesting, Rhodes, beskuddig Robert Brand, broer van die ewe polities korrekte joernalis Gerrit Brand, my van rassisme.
Because I had written elsewhere on this blog that “it is certainly admissable that races, too, may differ …
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
Gedwonge integrasie kan ook tot rassehaat lei
Ek sien dit word nou allerweë betreur dat die reënboognasie skipbreuk gely het. Maar die hoop word op Jonathan Jansen en diesulkes geplaas wat die jonger geslag gaan dwing om in mekaar se geselskap te verkeer en so “nasie te …
Ras en taal volgens prof. Jansen
Prof. Jonathan Jansen, wie se omstrede uitlatings dat hy nie na “kak oor kultuurverskille” gaan luister nie en Kovsies summier gaan transformeer onlangs in die nuus was, het reeds in 2005 by die Afrikaanse Taalberaad op Stellenbosch sy anti-Afrikaner-houding op …
Die Burger kry ‘n bondgenoot
Toevallig sien ek nou die dag ‘n woernaal van ene Robert Brand raak. Of hy familie is van Gerrit Brand, weet ek nie. Robert Brand is egter ‘n Engelse Brand. In elk geval is daar iets onthullends aangaande die titel …
Harald Pakendorf ontken die werklikheid
In vandag se Rapport meen Harald Pakendorf dat die land ‘n “gesprek oor ras” nodig het, want sien, blankes en Afrikaners word mos toenemend soos vreemdelinge in die land behandel. Soos Pakendorf dit stel, Hlope, Malema en ander wil hê …
Adapt and die – South Africa’s new motto
Have another look at this, my classic article from late 2004; it is still as valid as ever.
During the time of National Party reforms in the seventies and eighties, the cliché “adapt or die” used to do the rounds. …