AVAILABILITY of electricity in South Africa is now at its worst in living memory. Prices are skyrocketing, tariffs are set to increase by a whopping 18.65% and the ruling party is hamstrung by its inability to unbundle Eskom into separate units. This at the same time as government insists on main...
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Holocaust denialist Whoopi Goldberg regales us once more, with her platitudes on race
HOLOCAUST DENIALIST Whoopi Goldberg has doubled down on her bizarre assertion that the event which reduced a pre-War population of 11 million Jews living in areas controlled by the Nazis to 5 million, was merely 'white on white violence'. After issuing an apology for similar statements made on a...
EXPOSED: Did ‘ou krokodil’ Ton Vosloo just wake up to the fact that his company continues to mock the TRC report?
TON VOSLOO, the former Naspers chairman, appears to have suddenly realised that he is 'living in a different country'. A piece published by Tammy Petersen of News24 carries details of his sudden change of heart, in which he selectively refers to events effecting the company's standing in relation...
Hank’s olde tyme apartheid pub, stuck in the racist past
THE OWNERS of Hank's Olde Irish Pub, appears stuck in South Africa's past. The drinking establishment have literally come out with their fists swinging, procuring a well-known criminal attorney William Booth to aggressively pursue all and sundry. "Hank's Old Irish Pub issued instructions to proce...
Watchdog guest Andile ‘bites’ open discussion on Fish Hoek Students
THE WATCHDOG is a regular SABC panel discussion hosted by Vuyo Mvoko. A recent episode on the Fish Hoek High 'diversity intervention' saga turned into a political platform for race supremo Andile Mngxitama, who attacked fellow panelist Sara Gon's right to exist as a human being and citizen. It do...
Liesbeek micro-nation versus Amazon.com
IN THE end, the campaign to halt the development of Amazon's campus in Cape Town seems to have come down to one man versus a very large corporation. It is a great pity that Tauriq Jenkins went out on a limb, in the process turning the legal saga into a minor disaster involving a micro-nation, […]
