So lyk die telling tot dusver in die titaniese stryd om ‘n gepaste Afrikaanse weergawe van die naam "Tshwane" te vind. Komaan, Bobbejaanburgers en Tshwanese, opskud en begin stem hieronder regs voordat die Apenaars (As inwoners van Kaapstad Kapenaars is, moet inwoners van Aapstad seker Apenaars wees?) julle die loef afsteek! Onthou ook: op 24
Snow Black, a transformed fairytale
Once upon a time, long, long ago, just as colonialist exploiters and fascist pigs were ruining the rich, idyllic, peaceful society and its advanced technical civilization in their path, a queen was pounding millet while staring at the chickens scratching in the baked earth around her hut.
It was because of her distracted state that she crushed her finger with a careless stroke while pounding the millet, and a drop of blood fell on the earth. As she looked at the blood she said to herself, "Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as black as coal, and tightly curled hair, all of which can be sorted out by a little hydroquinone-based skin lightener and hair relaxant." Soon after that, the queen gave birth to a baby girl. Unfortunately she didn’t know who the father was, but at least she could claim a R180 child grant. They named her Princess Snow Black. The queen died soon after giving birth because she was denied proper care by the imperialist oppressors who reserved the best doctors and medical care for themselves. Other members of her tribe were admittedly trained as doctors, but they could not be relied upon not to kill their patients, seeing that they had been admitted to medical school on the basis of a quota system.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, just as colonialist exploiters and fascist pigs were ruining the rich, idyllic, peaceful society and its advanced technical civilization in their path, a queen was pounding millet while staring at the chickens scratching in the baked earth around her hut.
It was because of her distracted state that she crushed her finger with a careless stroke while pounding the millet, and a drop of blood fell on the earth. As she looked at the blood she said to herself, "Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as black as coal, and tightly curled hair, all of which can be sorted out by a little hydroquinone-based skin lightener and hair relaxant." Soon after that, the queen gave birth to a baby girl. Unfortunately she didn’t know who the father was, but at least she could claim a R180 child grant. They named her Princess Snow Black. The queen died soon after giving birth because she was denied proper care by the imperialist oppressors who reserved the best doctors and medical care for themselves. Other members of her tribe were admittedly trained as doctors, but they could not be relied upon not to kill their patients, seeing that they had been admitted to medical school on the basis of a quota system.
Alan Paton se nalatenskap
Êrens op die web sirkuleer ‘n brief wat taamlik ongemak veroorsaak. Die brief is reeds 9 jaar gelede geskryf, was vergete, en het nou weer skielik begin sirkuleer. Dit is onderaangeheg vir diegene wat dit nog nie gelees het nie.
Aan die woord is Anne Paton, die weduwee van Alan Paton, wat wêreldwyd bekend is vir sy boek “Cry the Beloved Country”. Alan Paton was die leier van die South African Liberal Party wat eerstens gekwalifiseerde stemreg vir swart mense voorgestaan het, en later deur die Progessiewe Party vervang is. Paton se liberale getuigskrifte is onberispelik. Hy is in Natal gebore, die seun van ‘n staatsamptenaar, is geskool in Maritzburg College en University of Natal, waarna hy as ‘n onderwyser opgelei is. Paton was eers onderwyser by Ixopo High School (vir wit studente), maar word later ‘n onderwyser aan ‘n skool vir swart studente in Pietermaritzburg. In 1928 trou hy met Dorrie Francis Lusted, en sy sterf in 1967. In 1969 trou hy met sy sekretaresse, Anne Hopkins.
Êrens op die web sirkuleer ‘n brief wat taamlik ongemak veroorsaak. Die brief is reeds 9 jaar gelede geskryf, was vergete, en het nou weer skielik begin sirkuleer. Dit is onderaangeheg vir diegene wat dit nog nie gelees het nie.
Aan die woord is Anne Paton, die weduwee van Alan Paton, wat wêreldwyd bekend is vir sy boek “Cry the Beloved Country”. Alan Paton was die leier van die South African Liberal Party wat eerstens gekwalifiseerde stemreg vir swart mense voorgestaan het, en later deur die Progessiewe Party vervang is. Paton se liberale getuigskrifte is onberispelik. Hy is in Natal gebore, die seun van ‘n staatsamptenaar, is geskool in Maritzburg College en University of Natal, waarna hy as ‘n onderwyser opgelei is. Paton was eers onderwyser by Ixopo High School (vir wit studente), maar word later ‘n onderwyser aan ‘n skool vir swart studente in Pietermaritzburg. In 1928 trou hy met Dorrie Francis Lusted, en sy sterf in 1967. In 1969 trou hy met sy sekretaresse, Anne Hopkins.
US threatens to abandon NATO RRF
The United States has drastically scaled down its military engagement in the NATO rapid reaction force and has threatened to abandon the elite troops of the western defense pact, the business daily Handelsblatt quoted NATO circles as saying Monday. The ‘NATO Response Force’ is no longer fully operational, NATO’s commander-in-chief John Craddock warned in his
Zimbabwiese landbouskou
Te koop
"Hier is niks vir ons nie. Nie kunsmis nie, nie saad nie… Dis baie teleurstellend." So praat Mildred Chitada wat suikerriet en mielies verbou en vrees dat landbouers wat die landbouskou in Harare bywoon hierdie week met leë hande huistoe sal gaan.
"Die regering moes ten minste probeer het om kunsmis in die hande te kry vir ons, die nuwe boere. Die nuwe boere moet gehelp word want ons het niks," het sy bygevoeg. Die landbouskou is ‘n skadu van wat dit voorheen was nadat 4000 wit boere van hulle plase verwyder is.
Duisende Zimbabwiese boere het in Harare bymekaar gekom vir die landbouskou wat Vrydag amptelik deur Teodoro Obiang Nguema van Ekwatoriaal-Guinee geopen sal word.
Te koop
"Hier is niks vir ons nie. Nie kunsmis nie, nie saad nie… Dis baie teleurstellend." So praat Mildred Chitada wat suikerriet en mielies verbou en vrees dat landbouers wat die landbouskou in Harare bywoon hierdie week met leë hande huistoe sal gaan.
"Die regering moes ten minste probeer het om kunsmis in die hande te kry vir ons, die nuwe boere. Die nuwe boere moet gehelp word want ons het niks," het sy bygevoeg. Die landbouskou is ‘n skadu van wat dit voorheen was nadat 4000 wit boere van hulle plase verwyder is.
Duisende Zimbabwiese boere het in Harare bymekaar gekom vir die landbouskou wat Vrydag amptelik deur Teodoro Obiang Nguema van Ekwatoriaal-Guinee geopen sal word.
Welkome terugslag vir hoof-Tshwene
Hoofman “Tshwene”
Welgedaan aan die VF+ en Afriforum wat daarin geslaag het om die Afro-fasciste van die Pretoriase stadsraad tydelik te stuit om Pretoria se naamborde te vervang met naamborde wat na ’n imaginêre stamhoof, ene Tshwane – iemand wat nooit bestaan het nie – verwys. Min Afrikaners is egter so naïef om ons te verbeel dat hierdie oorwinning enigsins meer is as ’n tydelike uitstel van die onvermydelike.
Te oordeel aan die uitsprake van die persoon in beheer van die stadsraad, burgemeesteres (of is dit hoof-Tshwene?) Gwen Ramokgopa, gáán die ANC egter sy kultuurmoord op Afrikaners pleeg, bloot omdat hy kan. Pretoria gaan uiteindelik Tshwane word. So ook gaan Louis Trichardt en Potchefstroom se name verander. Wat staan ons te doen, gegewe bogenoemde realiteite?
Hoofman “Tshwene”
Welgedaan aan die VF+ en Afriforum wat daarin geslaag het om die Afro-fasciste van die Pretoriase stadsraad tydelik te stuit om Pretoria se naamborde te vervang met naamborde wat na ’n imaginêre stamhoof, ene Tshwane – iemand wat nooit bestaan het nie – verwys. Min Afrikaners is egter so naïef om ons te verbeel dat hierdie oorwinning enigsins meer is as ’n tydelike uitstel van die onvermydelike.
Te oordeel aan die uitsprake van die persoon in beheer van die stadsraad, burgemeesteres (of is dit hoof-Tshwene?) Gwen Ramokgopa, gáán die ANC egter sy kultuurmoord op Afrikaners pleeg, bloot omdat hy kan. Pretoria gaan uiteindelik Tshwane word. So ook gaan Louis Trichardt en Potchefstroom se name verander. Wat staan ons te doen, gegewe bogenoemde realiteite?
The RNA revolution
Nature is full of surprises. When atoms were first proved to exist (and that was a mere century ago), they were thought to be made only of electrons and protons. That explained a lot, but it did not quite square with other observations. Then, in 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron. Suddenly everything made sense—so
Pro-Pretoria-groepe wen in hof
‘Gaan terug Europa toe!’
Die dringende hofaansoek wat vanmôre deur verskillende Pro-Pretoriagroepe, onder andere die Vryheidsfront Plus in die Pretoriase Hooggeregshof gebring is, het geslaag en die stadsraad mag geen verdere naamborde verander totdat uitsluitsel in die naamstryd verkry is nie.
Die verrigtinge vooraf is gekenmerk deur spanning tussen pro- en anti-Pretoriabetogers. Terwyl die anti-Pretoria-faksie getoitoi het en liedjies soos "Ons gaan Tshwane toe" gesing het, het die ander groep spontaan Die Stem en Die Lied van Jong Suid-Afrika begin sing.
‘Gaan terug Europa toe!’
Die dringende hofaansoek wat vanmôre deur verskillende Pro-Pretoriagroepe, onder andere die Vryheidsfront Plus in die Pretoriase Hooggeregshof gebring is, het geslaag en die stadsraad mag geen verdere naamborde verander totdat uitsluitsel in die naamstryd verkry is nie.
Die verrigtinge vooraf is gekenmerk deur spanning tussen pro- en anti-Pretoriabetogers. Terwyl die anti-Pretoria-faksie getoitoi het en liedjies soos "Ons gaan Tshwane toe" gesing het, het die ander groep spontaan Die Stem en Die Lied van Jong Suid-Afrika begin sing.
Let?s Not Cower From The Hard Truth About Race And IQ
The debate over racial differences in IQ represents perhaps the greatest scientific controversy of the past half-century. The facts are not in serious dispute: blacks score, on average, significantly lower than whites in IQ tests in the United States, Britain and beyond. Some argue that the only plausible response is to accept that blacks are
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Sarkozy wants SA in G8
A proposal by France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy that South Africa and four other emerging economies be included in the influential Group of Eight (G8) has met with mixed response from local commentators. Goolam Ballim, the group economist at Standard Bank, said the inclusion would be a constructive gesture. "There is increasing recognition that, in their