Gerhard Papenfus, the chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA), has written an open letter to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant
Dear Minister
Since I am “white”, I take note when you talk so boldly about “whites” being the stumbling block in terms of your transformation agenda. I write this letter to you in order to get clarity.
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The deputy principal of the Jeppe Boys High School in Johannesburg delivered a speech to the pupils last week in which he addressed the issue of “white privilege.”
Amongst other things, mr Kevin Leathem said:
“Imagine playing a video game where the save function was disabled and you were unable to accumulate experience points. That’s what it was like being black during apartheid. No matter how hard you worked, or how much money you earned, you couldn’t own land, businesses, or homes. You couldn’t buy your kids a safer suburb to grow up in or buy them a better education. Every generation started back at zero. Being white was like being the only one with a save function.
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will on Thursday release the ministerial task team report into the possibility of introducing history as a compulsory subject in grades 10‚ 11 and 12.
At present‚ pupils take history to grade 9 and are permitted to drop it in grade 10.
The plan has been criticised in some quarters‚ with some fearing that history will be abused as a political propaganda tool‚ as in Zimbabwe‚ where the history syllabus in government schools is reportedly biased in favour of the ruling Zanu-PF.
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Speaking in Parliament during the presidency budget debate, Malema said he had initially told supporters to scale down land occupations after the ANC supported a move to expropriate land without compensation to end South Africa’s skewed land ownership patterns. The opposition leader said Ramaphosa had since made “wishy-washy” statements on the matter.
“Our people must continue to occupy land. This land belongs to us and if the ANC wants to kill our people for rightfully claiming their land, do so
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Remember Zebediela Citrus Estate? Here’s what happened to it:
From 1918 to 1926, more than 565 000 citrus trees were planted on 2 260 ha of this estate’s land. For the twenty five years before the estate was sold to the South African government in 1974, it showed a profit of millions of rands every year. After the sale, Zebediela grew to become “the diamond of agricultural projects”.
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The offensive remarks by the ANC’s Kgalema Motlanthe regarding traditional leaders was to be expected, taken into account that who and what the ANC was when De Klerk and his henchman handed over South Africa and the ten self-governing indigenous states to the ANC in 1994.
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Presdent Cyril Ramaphosa has once again outlined the purpose behind the resolution taken by the African National Congress’ (ANC) in their most recent elective conference, to move on land expropriation without compensation.
The ruling party held its inaugural Land Summit in Boksburg on Saturday, with Ramaphosa one of the key speakers.
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A combined committee of ANC members of KZN and the Free State recently declared that white people in the country are becoming increasingly arrogant.
Webster’s Dictionary defines arrogance as “an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter and superior. An overbearing manner in presumptuous claims or assumptions.”
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A fight broke out in parliament on Wednesday during a Labour Portfolio Committee meeting to discuss‚ in detail‚ the National Minimum Wage Bill.
The committee chair‚ Sharome van Schalkwyk‚ described the incident as “unfortunate” and said it was not an indication of how South Africans should resolve differences of opinion.
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Moeletsi Mbeki has labelled Julius Malema ‘a black racist’ and advised white South Africans not to worry about the land issue.
Moeletsi Mbeki has labelled Julius Malema a “black racist”, and advised South Africa’s white population to ignore the “noise” around land expropriation without compensation.
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The African National Congress is its own worst enemy. Presented by the breakthrough in December with a chance to rescue itself from decline‚ it chooses to engage in internal civil war and squander the chances to renew itself.
Given the gift of an inspirational and clear-eyed new leader in Cyril Ramaphosa‚ it chooses to try and collapse his new government.
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ANC MP and former deputy minister of higher education, Mduduzi Manana is going to be charged with corruption, bribery and intimidation after a soundclip became public in which he promised to pay his domestic assistant R100 000 if she does not press charges of assault against him. He allegedly used violence towards her.
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A group of businessmen from Belgium visited South Africa this past week in order to learn more about white poverty and farm murders that eat at the country like a cancer.
This group, which is not a political organisation in Belgium, decided of their own accord to launch an awareness campaign in Europe so as to inform the people of Europe of what is actually happening to the minorities in South Africa, for instance, that Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and other racist legislation plunged white South Africans into poverty over the last 24 years and how farmers are attacked and murdered.
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The National Freedom Party (NFP) has called on King Goodwill Zwelithini to intervene in political killings and for President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare a state of emergency in Kwazulu Natal.
The NFP was commenting on the murders of ANC former councillor Msawenkosi Mchunu and IFP councillor Sibuyiselo Dlamini
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The FF Plus agrees with the assertion made by the director general of the Treasury, Mr Dondo Mogojane, that South Africa is not yet a failed state, but that it will soon end up being one if state capture is not brought to an end at once.
Economic growth is hampered even further by the unnecessary fragmenting of departments and it would only be to the country’s benefit if departments like trade and industry, small business development and even finance and energy were combined in order to promote cohesion.
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