30 May 2019 - The ANC’s (African National Congress) violent intolerance of the Black Consciousness (BC) movement found its grimmest expression during the ‘people’s war’ it waged from 1984 to 1994. The key aim of the people’s war was to weaken the BC movement and other black rivals, so as to give the ANC the hegemony needed to implement its National Democratic Revolution (NDR).
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30 May 2019 - While the legal status of the 2018 mining charter is being resolved before the courts – a process likely to take some time – the mining industry could take the bull by the horns and embark on a pilot study to explore what the benefits of shifting from BEE to ‘EED’ in mining would be.
28 May 2019 - And should South Africa manage to finally win this elusive trophy at Lords in London on 14 July, only the most race-obsessed South Africans will give a second’s thought to the colour of the hands raising the trophy aloft.
28 May 2019 - The North West High Court has made another scandalous ruling.
27 May 2019 - The DA has to do some soul searching and move back to the middle. Otherwise its best role will remain legal challenges to the ruling, immoderate elite. And that role will become irrelevant if it doesn’t grow.
27 May 2019 - An updated and abridged edition of People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa by Dr Anthea Jeffery, Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), is to be launched in Johannesburg on 4 June, in Pretoria on 6 June and in Cape Town on 13 June.
27 May 2019 - Perpetuating the white privilege/black victimhood dichotomy is anachronistic. By scapegoating whites, it exonerates the ANC. It legitimates policies that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. Worst of all, it creates the impression that the path to success is simply to reverse the privilege, ignoring all the other more important ingredients. That will do great damage to the people it is supposedly designed to help.
27 May 2019 - Land reform addresses some profound moral wrongs, and, properly handled, offers some useful economic gains. But it is unlikely to be the foundation of a solution to SA’s unemployment and poverty malaise. And, mishandled, it will inflict great damage, undermining the country’s prospects all round.
23 May 2019 - Mr Ramaphosa is just as bound by the Nasrec resolutions as any other ANC member, but his appointed role is currently to keep on with the empty reassurances.
22 May 2019 - Nampo is a good place to talk business. It is billed as the ‘largest agricultural fair in the Southern Hemisphere’ and its GDP must surely reach into the billions.
22 May 2019 - The people’s war that gave the ANC the ‘state power’ it needed to implement its Soviet-inspired national democratic revolution (NDR) is analysed in an updated and abridged edition of People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa by Dr Anthea Jeffery, Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
22 May 2019 - It isn’t going to end well, unless someone puts their foot down. And that is necessary because, as Van Damme herself says, in the end, she is going to destroy herself.