THREE days from now, on Thursday May 7, is the 70th anniversary of the surrender of the forces of the Third Reich in Europe. South Africans, white and black, men and women, played their part on land, in the air, and at sea. They should not be forgotten as Europe celebrates Victory in Europe Day on Friday.
Frans Cronje's address to the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, United States of America, April 29 2015.
The Expropriation Bill of 2015 does not bode well for some Johannesburg suburbs such as Orange Grove.
Frans Cronjé's interview with Mmusi Maimane in Rapport. This is an English translation.
Dit lyk asof Mmusi Maimane vir seker die volgende leier van die opposisie sal wees. Baie mense kritiseer sy gebrek aan politieke ervaring, maar die DA het oorgenoeg bekwame strategiese leiers wat hom kan help. Wat belangrik is, is waarheen mnr Maimane die DA beleidsgewys sal lei. Ek het mnr Maimane gevra om in sy eie woorde hierop te antwoord met die volgende vyf vrae.
As the 21st anniversary of SA’s first all-race election approaches on April 27, the country "still boils with white racism".
The current Expropriation Act contradicts the Constitution and needs to be changed, but the Government’s proposed Expropriation Bill is equally unconstitutional.
Die #RhodesMustFall-beweging gaan nie oor ’n standbeeld nie. Inteendeel. Die kommentaar van talle ondersteuners wys dit is eerder ’n poging om Westerse invloede van Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite te verwyder.
Party kritici sê ons ontleding is verkeerd en daar word geen poging aangewend om Suid-Afrika na sosialisme te lei nie. Maar die huidige beleidsrigting is duidelik sosialisties van aard en word deur die toenemende invloed van die SAKP gedryf. 40% van die kabinet is inderdaad lede van dié party en nie een van hulle ontken dat ons ontleding reg is nie.
Earlier this month, President Jacob Zuma made an impassioned plea for the country’s traditional leaders to organise, raise money, instruct lawyers, and lodge claims to land under the re-opened land claims process before the current window shuts in June 2019.
Until a "throw poo at your peril" invention comes along, the Rhodes statue will remain vulnerable to attack. Even so, it should remain where it is for the simple reason that moving it would be to capitulate to vandalism and intolerance. No university, least of all one espousing the ideals of academic freedom, can afford to give in to such forces without compromising its very ethos.
Speech by John Kane-Berman at the launch of African Students for Liberty, University of Pretoria, March 16 2015: Rebirth of the liberal tradition on the campuses of South Africa's universities.
