THIS MORNING I awoke to a social media post by veteran journalist Marianne Thamm. One would expect a journalist whose social media campaigns, often on behalf of the Daily Maverick, suggest she is more than capable of checking her sources, to be a...
Category: Apartheid
Here is what they’re hiding from the public
Some of the pieces thrown out by Media24 People's Post: Almost 20 years with no justice, just corruption and lies by the ANC regime. SEE: Letter to Media24 tackling some of the above.
General Rudzani Maphwanya & the creeping coup orchestrated by Iran
IT WAS during the height of the sanctions campaign against apartheid South Africa that the country under PW Botha reached out to Iran in what became known as the 'Arms for Oil Deal': Initially, Iran under the Shah's regime had close economic and security ties with South Africa, including signific...
Piers Morgan calls out Sophie Mokoena, Corder throws jelly beans
WATCHING last nights Piers Morgan segment featuring Ernst Roets, Gareth Cliff, Dan Corder and Sophie Mokoena, was astonishing. Not only did Mokoena repeatedly interject, displaying to the world that she is little more than a propaganda commissar for the SABC, but like Dan Corder, she refused to a...
Anti-Semitism & its political adherents in Parliament
THERE is officially 'no antisemitism' in South Africa. No sooner had Justice Minister Ronald Lamola kicked up a storm after making bizarre statements on a BBC hardtalk interview, the country was being entertained by two incidents from inside the country's various legislatures. A tie-episode invo...
Opposition to War does not necessarily entail supporting either side to the Gaza-Israel conflict
SOUTH AFRICA has a long history of resistance to war. From objectors to the Anglo-Boer war during the 1900s to resistance to the SADF border war, the history of local pacifism and opposition to war is a rich and illustrious one. The first 'Stop the War' committee was an anti-war organization that...