kameraad mhambi

In the last two days we’ve been treated to such ill informed, bad and reductionist journalism about the Dutch and their relationship to Afrikaners and culpability for colonialism and apartheid, that I just had to quickly write this blog post. So what exactly is the relationship?
Fact 1
The Dutch state, the Netherlands, never decided to colonise [...]

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Kameraad Mhambi has a lot of time for Gwede Mantashe the secreatary general of the ANC. But his assertion that the song Dubul’ ibhunu has an anti-apartheid legacy within the ANC seems to be wrong.

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This excellent article sets out where it comes from, the PAC, who renounced it, only for it to be [...]

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Following on from Breyten Breytenbach’s remarkable piece in Rapport, where he lambasted the current South African regime and called for another, ex-foreign minister Pik Botha has responded to Breytenbach.
Here is an extract of what Pik Botha’s said:
“Die wit mense en in besonder die Afrikaners staan voor strawwe uitdagings.
Eerstens moet die onderskeid tussen “wit” [...]

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Today I read about a Canadian couple that was attacked near Hermanus. This attack could be significant. Canada will soon pronounce on an landmark asylum case of a white South African that claimed asylum on the basis that whites are not safe in South Africa.
The truth is of course that all South Africans are not [...]

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The BBC recently featured Bishop Tutu in a Tutu-for-Dummies style documentary. I got wind of it because Tom, a friend  saw me in it. Gerrie, another friend captured the bit about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which I feature (see if can spot me around 20 seconds), and here it is below.

One thing struck [...]

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After Gavin Evan’s close escape he gets call ups. His low profile ended. Their ANC unit was broken up, and he worked individually from Harare, where he visited Brett Myrdal, and smuggled stuff back to SA. Gavin deals with the question of whether the ECC was an ANC organisation.
This was also the time of [...]

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Gavin Evans tells more about the launch of the ECC and it’s predecessor COSG. He talks about the tension between the Christian pacifist objectors and the young student radicals. He also talks about spy Rob Whitecross and the arrest of Carl Niehaus for plotting to blow up the Johannesburg gas works, and his own short [...]

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