How Rupert fought with PW & Verwoerd over Apartheid
Dr Ebbe Dommisse author of Anton Rupert: The Life of a Business Icon reveals what Dr Rupert would have made of SA’s current leaders.
Hendrik Verwoerd
NP beat ANC hands down on reform – John Kane-Berman
“The NP showed what serious reform entails. President Ramaphosa and the ANC are a long way from even beginning to admit that reform is necessary.”
Ramaphosa’s challenge; pulling a ‘De Klerk’ on ideology
The ANC has not really deviated from official policy and ideology, except, during Zuptoid rule, to abuse them to plunder State coffers.
ANC condemnation of independent media: So like the Nats. So doomed to fail.
Propaganda is counter-productive and only hastens the demise of evil when a multitude of other voices exist. Strip away the ANC’s good news filters and it’s clear this is happening today in SA.
Herbst: ANC’s Kohler Barnard treatment – more ‘Verwoerdian’ than ‘Bothaian’
Ed Herbst says given the way in which the ANC is hunting down Dianne Kohler Barnard, it finds Hendrik Verwoerd more to their liking than P W Botha.
Tim Crowe: Phantom-racism tackles academic excellence at UCT
The time is ripe at UCT and elsewhere for transparent, democratic, intimidation-free, and unbiased investigation to identify problems and shared goals.
Maimane: Like Apartheid’s architect Verwoerd, Zuma thinks blacks are thick
An angry Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane, has lashed out at President Jacob Zuma for some of his campaign messages.
In Depth: The South African conundrum – and why glass is still half full
Here’s an ideal Freedom Day in-depth read for you. Brilliantly researched and objectively written, Dr John Swart traces how South Africa got to where it is today and where the Zumafication of the nation will take it to.
Here’s Andrew Kenny’s “Orania” column The Citizen doesn’t want you to read
The engineer and part-time columnist’s curiosity took him to Orania, an Afrikaner-only town. What he found was too sensitive to share with newspaper readers
Maggie Thatcher’s view on Apartheid: the truth
From Politicsweb: In June 1984 Margaret Thatcher welcomed South Africa’s P. W. Botha to Chequers. It was the first time a British Prime Minister had received a South African leader since Hendrik Verwoerd’s visit in 1961, when he led the country out of the Commonwealth. Mrs Thatcher did so in the face of fierce opposition … Read more