Category: South Africa

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Trevor Manual, spare us the BS

Trevor Manual, spare us the BS

BEING HALF-RIGHT, often means being half-wrong. Former finance minister Trevor Manual, the man who seemingly quit politics to take-up a lucrative job at NM Rothchilds, a company in bed with the Rupert-Remgro-Kagiso-Naspers cabal, is no stranger to scandals. Often vocal in support of 'Coloured ide...

Dear Mmusi Maimane

Dear Mmusi Maimane

Dear Mmusi Maimane, Your recent comments about race in particular your statement about 'multiracialism' refers. It was PW Botha, the arch proponent of multiracialism, who advocated three separate houses of parliament for 'whites', 'Indians' and 'coloureds' at the same time as endorsing bantustans...

Living in the Heart of Kakness

Living in the Heart of Kakness

THE JOKE about apartheid was that 'if you were white you could be reclassified coloured, and if you were coloured you could be reclassified black', but 'no blacks became white and no whites became black'. Apartheid race classification never worked, precisely because many people fell through the g...