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A few weeks ago Murray Hunter emailed me. How hard would it be to set up a tool to combat corruption he asked. Well I said, lets meet. It is something I have been thinking about for some time.
Over a few beer we discussed the issue with Adriaan Pelzer. I was very much in the [...]

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Beebop, who often comments on this blog has regularly put the question to me, why don’t whities stop whining and do something positive?
That is a very good question.
Last Sunday Esebius Mackaiser took on this theme, after a debate between Antjie Krog and Rian Malan.
Their respective takes on the phenomenology of whiteness differ sharply. In [...]

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So hardly a week went by after I did my interview with Dan Roodt and I’ve changed my mind. I’ve been watching Mr. Roodt on Facebook. I’ve been watching what he writes and the comments he receives from others.
Not only is he a suurgat (sourpuss), he is venynig (he enjoys causing pain), and he is [...]

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This week I saw on Twitter that Dan Roodt was visiting London. I tweeted it and was Retweeted by Murray Hunter:
RT @wildebees SA right organising, Dan Roodt now in London after Belgian visit.

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…three things happen that puts things in perspective and makes you think its not all that bad in South Africa.
Firstly and most trivially, there a huge rucus in New Zealand because Andy Hadden claimed that the Canturbury Crusaders have a maximum qouta of non-white players or rather ‘darkies’, that they allow in their squad, and [...]

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This week both the UK Guardian (Video) and SA Mail & Guardian reported on claims of threats of xenophobic violence – directed at mostly African foreigners – that would supposedly start when the Football World Cup finishes.
Tara Polzer, a researcher in Wits University’s forced-migration studies programme, said that she has seen little evidence of centralised [...]

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The last few days saw British politicians haggling in trying to put together a stable government in the midst of a European debt crisis. The unease is palpable. Commentators glance furtively at the markets for signs of disapproval. The pound has fallen in value and the prices of UK government debt has gone up.
Hung parliaments [...]

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