Scrap BEE, says new initiative
21 June 2021 - Polling shows that most South Africans do not believe that soft Apartheid-style race-based policy such as BEE is the best way to improve their lives.
21 June 2021 - I vividly remember poring over the first reports of the events of June 16 1976 in the Rand Daily Mail the day after.
20 June 2021 - North Korea – the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to use its formal name – is a perennial issue in global politics, and major foreign policy challenge for some of the world’s leading powers.
19 June 2021 - SA is a racist country in only three respects: its history of institutionalised discrimination; the racial policies of its current government; and its often not-very-brave elites, who replicate that discrimination in the institutions they control. But in a fourth respect — its people, and therefore the most important — SA is not a racist society at all.
17 June 2021 - The North West Provincial government "dispatched a team" to persuade Clover against moving its production facility from Lichtenburg to Durban. The damage the move will do to the province would be immense and politically unpalatable.
15 June 2021 - Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC seems almost to welcome recent ANC and EFF proposals for state custodianship over all land, as reflected in the most recent version of the expropriation-without-compensation (EWC) Constitutional Amendment Bill put forward on 31 May 2021.
14 June 2021 - In the recent report on the draft amendment to the Firearms Control Act, 'Proposed gun amendment slammed', June 9 , the director of Gun Free South Africa, Adele Kirsten, is quoted as saying "The available evidence shows that reducing access to firearms helps make our homes, communities and country safer".
New initiative to tackle ‘race hustlers’, and the myth that racism is a major problem in SA
14 June 2021 - A new initiative has been launched to expose the myth that racism is a major problem in South Africa, and to counter race hustlers, politicians and private actors who exploit and profit from exaggerated claims about racism.
13 June 2021 - Earlier this month English football fans took again to widespread booing when teams on the field performed the ritual of “taking the knee” popularised by Black Lives Matter. While the English team’s manager condemned the booing, as did the Labour Party, spiked-online called for more of this “working-class revolt against wokeness”.
12 June 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations IRR believes that proposed changes to SAs gun laws will place women at greater risk of gender-based violence.
11 June 2021 - In a shock announcement yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the cap for private power generation without a licence would be raised from 1MW to 100MW. This is great news.
11 June 2021 - ‘Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.’
