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Either you are for racism, or you are not. If you object to racism then this is about as objectionable as it gets. Frankly I grow so disgusted with the leftist and smug narrative of so many people on these matters while the very existence of massive groups of people, who, quite frankly, have been the most benevolent group in the history of the world. One only needs look at the populations of countries that white people built to bear that out. This is truly awful. I hope indeed that some nation or powerful group will come to the aid...

Crony capitalism thrives in Alaska, center stage held by the Alaska Native Corporations (ANC). From the pending shakedown of taxpayers through a wholesale land grab (S.730 and H.R.1408) to recent arrests of four people in one of the "most brazen federal contracting scandals in our nation's history," there seems to be no end to the scams, a consequence of an ANC system run amok. It's not enough that over $29 billion of taxpayer money has been transferred to the ANCs under the 8(a) minority no-bid federal contracting scheme. The state's seemingly permanent political class has recently orchestrated sister bills in...

Opening credits clip from the 1997 South African film Panic Mechanic...  Fighting the rapid decay of the country under (USSR-communist-trained) ANC corruption and incompetence with humor, producer/comedian/actor/singer Leon Schuster is regarded a comedy genius both in and outside the Afrikaans community. With other satirical/slapstick comedies to his credit such as There's a Zulu on my Stoep! and Schuks Tshabalala's Survival Guide to South Africa, perhaps it helps them to laugh a bit while having to endure the mindless socialist destruction of the nation they love. Tragically, Americans can now say that we know the feeling... [YouTube] Video clip/more at Reaganite Republican _____________________________________NYT   IMDb   Wikipedia

In summer 2008, the U.S. military had a major problem. More than 2,400 service members had reported being sexually assaulted the previous year, and that number was rising. Congress wanted immediate action. The Army responded by reaching out to a tiny firm in Delaware. It was an unlikely choice for such a sensitive task. The year before, United Solutions and Services, known as US2, had just three employees and several small contracts for janitorial services and other work. It was based in a four-bedroom Colonial, where the founder worked out of his living room. But the firm had one quality...

<p>Many of us believe that President George W. Bush is not only a courageous leader, but also a man who works hard at his job. Most who toil in Washington know that working in the White House requires almost superhuman skills to avoid unnecessarily offending one or more voting groups.</p>

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Sunday extended birthday wishes to Nelson Mandela, hailing the former South African leader's "extraordinary vision, leadership, and spirit." "On behalf of the United States, I wish Nelson Mandela a very happy 92nd birthday. We are grateful to continue to be blessed with his extraordinary vision, leadership, and spirit," the US president said in a statement. "We strive," he said, "to build upon his example of tolerance, compassion and reconciliation."

Two South African farmers are attacked every day, and two killed each week, according to figures released by the country's largest agricultural union. Since 1991, there have been 11,785 attacks and 1,804 murders, and the problem is getting worse... Eugene Terreblanche...death inflamed South Africa's race tensions amid anger over a "shoot the Boer [farmer]" slogan sung by Julius Malema, the ANC Youth League leader.

Julius Malema, the firebrand South African youth leader who has been accused of inciting violence against white farmers, has received a hero's welcome in Zimbabwe. Mr Malema, head of the youth wing of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), touched down in Harare to be met with a loud chorus of "Shoot the Boer" – a refrain from an apartheid-era song which is now outlawed in South Africa. Julius Malema The 29-year-old, who has been accused of inciting violence against South Africa's white population with his repeated renditions of the song Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards are Scared), will meet President...

South Africa's ruling African National Congress has been accused of inciting the murder of white people after it urged the public to ignore a court ruling that an anti-apartheid song featuring the words “Kill the Boer” was “illegal hate speech”. The struggle song, entitled Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards are Scared), was sung at political rallies during the time of racial segregation but was recently resurrected by Julius Malema, the leader of the ANC’s youth league at a student meeting. Julius Malema addressing students in Johannesburg But with the word Boer meaning farmer in Afrikaans, the murder of white farmers in...

Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994. Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate. THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers. Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room. As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest. In his death...

South Africa's governing party says a leading member didn't mean it literally when he sang about killing whites. African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema ...led University of Johannesburg students in the song, "Shoot the boere, they are rapists." Boere is farmers in Afrikaans, the language of white South African descendants of early Dutch settlers. Afrikaners and others accuse Malema of inciting violence against whites.

By Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Johannesburg South Africa's ruling African National Congress is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to inspire a sense of "identity" in its members. Its latest venture? A range of leather jackets which fashion experts say should have never seen the light of day. The ANC colours of black, green and gold form the basis of the collection of 19 jackets for men and women. But the green and gold elements have been taken to neon extremes, which look as though they would glow in the dark.

The governing party in South Africa, the ANC, has condemned as "racist" a decision by Canada to grant a white South African man refugee status. Brandon Huntley, 31, had told officials in Canada he could not return to South Africa after seven different attacks.

Two big questions hang over President Obama's radical "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones. Is he still a communist? Is he a security threat? Many have assumed that Van Jones' committment to communism ended when the organization he helped to lead STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) dissolved in 2002. Yet a 2004 treatise Reclaiming Revolution: History, Summation, and Lessons from the Work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement written and endorsed by a majority of former STORM members makes it clear that most ex STORMers are still committed to the revolutionary movement; From page 49. When...

NOTE: This article was written in January, 2005. But it is actually more applicable and prophetic today than it was then. It is a little long but well worth your time. By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.) People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement). Today, however, South Africa may be the...

Washington - US President Barack Obama telephoned Jacob Zuma on Friday to congratulate him on becoming South African president and urged Zuma to take a leadership role on the African continent, the White House said. Obama praised South Africans for their "commitment to democracy" after more than three-quarters of the voting population took part in last month's elections, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said. The ANC won 65.9% of the vote, and Zuma was elected president on Wednesday by the National Assembly. He will be inaugurated on Saturday. Obama "encouraged president-elect Zuma to show strong regional leadership" and to help...

South Africa's next president chose to celebrate his sweeping election victory in familiar fashion. Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC), delighted thousands of revellers gathered outside the party's headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg by dancing and singing with an energy that belied his 67 years. Not for him the cerebral aloofness of Thabo Mbeki, whom he ousted as ANC leader, or the innate reserve of Nelson Mandela. Instead, Mr Zuma belted out his signature anthem, Bring Me My Machine Gun, for the umpteenth time. This song of his own composition, first performed during the anti-apartheid...

ASPIRANT African National Congress (ANC) MP and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said yesterday she would work tirelessly to serve the interests of the people. Speaking after casting her vote at Soweto’s Orlando West High School, she said the elections were special because people were starting to claim back the “lost vibrancy” within the ANC. “Today South Africans are claiming back the vibrancy of the organisation. So far, we have received countless wake-up calls from the people in areas such as Khutsong and Matatiele. We are ready to serve their interests.” Early yesterday more than 300 Alexandra residents boycotted the elections...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela Sunday reminded the ANC of its duty to eradicate poverty and urged unity in a surprise appearance at its final election rally. He set the tone for the theme of racial accord at the African National Congress gathering where chants of "Mandela! Mandela!" rang out from the crowd of more than 100,000 supporters at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg. "As we strive to secure a decisive victory for our organisation in the upcoming elections, we must remember our primary task. It is to eradicate poverty and ensure a better...

Imagine how you would react if Gordon Brown opened and closed his election rallies by bursting into a song called Bring Me My Machine Gun, swaying and jigging to the hypnotic chorus of this menacing ditty. And how would you feel if the Prime Minister were alleged to be taking campaign money from Colonel Gaddafi; faced 783 counts of fraud, racketeering, tax evasion and corruption which somehow never came to court; and had been acquitted of rape while his fearsome supporters mobbed the courthouse? Then ponder how you would despair if, despite all these things, Mr Brown's party was certain...

A ROW between South Africa’s press and politicians over President Kgalema Motlanthe’s love life has brought into the open a subject that many of the ruling elite would rather keep hidden: are their sometimes polygamous sex lives a matter of public interest? Motlanthe, 59, who is estranged from his wife, has a mistress, aged 45, and is also the lover of a 24-year-old, now heavily pregnant. The newspaper that broke the story asked: “Who is our first lady?” Carl Niehaus, a spokesman for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), insisted last week that the question was an invasion of privacy....

By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.) People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement). Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveal trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country. America's structures are Western. Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your...

The African National Congress's decision to sack President Thabo Mbeki has been described by some South African commentators as "regicide". Certainly it is unprecedented in South African history that a head of state is dismissed in this way. Nor is the ANC the kind of organisation that goes in for this humiliation of its leaders. So why did it happen? The immediate cause was Mr Mbeki's ongoing feud with his former deputy, the ANC party leader Jacob Zuma. But this was not just a personal vendetta between two men. Behind these events lie two major factors: one political, one personal....

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (AFP) - South Africa's ruling party head Jacob Zuma entered the dock Monday for a long-awaited graft trial which could make or break his chances to become the country's president next year. Thousands of supporters of the 66-year-old African National Congress leader gathered outside the courthouse, dancing before a stage equipped with a giant screen while denouncing the case against him as a political vendetta. Protesters had vowed to shut down the sleepy city of Pietermaritzburg, where the trial of the immensely popular politician -- a native of the region -- is being held. But despite the...

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma pledged on Thursday to address growing poverty among whites, trying to broaden his support ahead of next year's election. After winning leadership of the African National Congress last year, Zuma is the clear front-runner to succeed President Thabo Mbeki when he steps down in 2009 but faces a tougher battle to keep the ANC's sweeping parliamentary majority. Zuma, who already wields tremendous influence as the head of the ruling party, has lobbied the government to do more to fight poverty and unemployment. While blacks are the biggest beneficiaries of anti-poverty...

The secretary general of South Africa's governing ANC has called on party members to form local committees to combat violence against foreigners. Gwede Mantashe says that they should work to "take the streets back from criminals", whilst giving support to the police and help to the victims. The unrest has now spread to Cape Town, with people assaulted and shops looted. More than 40 people have died and some 15,000 people have sought shelter since the violence began two weeks ago. On Thursday, troops were deployed to quell attacks - the first time soldiers have been used to stamp out...

JOHANNESBURG — Violence against immigrants, like some windswept fire, spread across one neighborhood after another here in one of South Africa’s main cities this weekend, and the police said the mayhem left at least 12 people dead — beaten by mobs, shot, stabbed or burned alive. Thousands of panicked foreigners — many of them Zimbabweans who have fled their own country’s economic collapse — have now deserted their ramshackle dwellings and tin-walled squatter hovels to take refuge in churches and police stations. This latest outbreak of xenophobia began a week ago in the historic township of Alexandra and has since...

...Whether Mr. Odinga has ordered his men to commit murder and arson is unclear. But his own background does not exactly suggest enthusiasm for democracy and the rule of law. Mr. Odinga's father, Oginga Odinga, led the Communist opposition during the Cold War and Raila Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany. In 1982 he was implicated in a failed coup against the then president Daniel Arap Moi. His eldest son is named after Fidel Castro and his daughter after Winnie Mandela. Even more sinister has been Mr. Odinga's electoral pact with the National Muslim Leaders' Forum — a hardline...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Jacob Zuma, leader of the ruling ANC who could become president in 2009, told South Africa's Solidarity trade union on Thursday that the white minority should not feel threatened. Solidarity, traditionally a white-dominated union, has pushed for minority rights to be respected and is critical of the government's affirmative action policy. "Some perceive the efforts to remove white or male privilege as an assault on the rights of white South Africans or on the rights of male South Africans," Zuma said in a copy of a speech at the union's national congress released before delivery. "We need...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki can no longer govern effectively after losing the leadership of the country's ruling party, ANC leader Jacob Zuma was quoted as saying on Friday. Zuma defeated Mbeki at a party election in December and is likely to become state president when Mbeki must step down in 2009 if he defeats corruption charges in court. In an unusually strong and direct attack on Mbeki, Zuma said power was firmly concentrated in the hands of the African National Congress (ANC), suggesting the president's authority had slipped away. "... if he's not part of the...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 4 -- Within the Zulu culture of Jacob Zuma, the newly elected president of the African National Congress, few moments in a man's life are more celebrated than taking a wife -- even if he already has others. But news of Zuma's plans to marry a longtime girlfriend this weekend -- marking, by most counts, his sixth wedding -- sent waves of unease Friday through this polyglot nation where progressive notions of women's rights clash with deeply held convictions about respecting South Africa's varied cultural traditions. The development appeared particularly awkward for the ANC, which over nearly a...

POLOKWANE, South Africa - The newly elected leader of South Africa's ruling party rose to power on the backs of trade unionists, communists and the poor. The challenge now is to satisfy his supporters without sacrificing the nation's economy. Cynthia Tokwe, a maid in Cape Town, was typical of supporters of Jacob Zuma, the son of a maid. "He understands poverty," she said. "He understands us." Zuma, whose political career has survived sex and corruption scandals, routed President Thabo Mbeki to win the presidency of the African National Congress at a divisive party convention Tuesday. Zuma loyalists also won all...

POLOKWANE, South Africa - Jacob Zuma, a populist whose career survived rape and corruption charges, was elected leader of the governing African National Congress on Tuesday, putting him into position to become South Africa's next president. Zuma received 2,329 votes, ahead of incumbent Thabo Mbeki's 1,505 votes, following one of the most divisive campaigns the party has seen. Chaos erupted in the hall as the results were announced, then Mbeki and Zuma mounted the stage together and embraced. Zuma had rallied ANC members who wanted a change from Mbeki, who guided post-apartheid South Africa to sustained economic growth in recent...

Power struggle pushes ANC factions to naked hostility Jonathan Clayton in Polokwane A second day of ill-tempered chaos marred attempts by the African National Congress to elect a new leader and sparked warnings of “anarchy” if the populist Jacob Zuma won later today. Voting by 4,000 delegates was delayed again by arguments over procedure as party elders lamented the unprecedented mob-like scenes and bitterness that have dominated the party conference. Tensions between the factions of Mr Zuma and Thabo Mbeki, the South African President, burst to the surface as they were confirmed as the only two leadership candidates. With a...

Additional Titles CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT TO CONTROL HUMANITY Erica CarleJanuary 12, 2002NewsWithViews.comThere is nothing new about the idea of controlling the environment to control behavior. Pavlov used it on dogs. B. F. Skinner used it on birds. We use it on pets. Parents use it on children. Law enforcers use it on criminals. And we all establish suitable environments to fit the needs of our various activities. But one of the most chilling uses of environmental control is its use by dictators to keep their subjects in line, and in recent years by world shapers and managers to force...

Marian L. Tupy is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specializes in the study of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and is author of Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 557, December 6, 2005. Executive Summary Thirteen years ago, South Africa underwent a peaceful transition from white minority rule to majority rule. Today, the country is a stable multiparty democracy. It has the largest and the most sophisticated economy in Africa, which generates almost 40 percent of all the wealth produced on the African continent south...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Political rivals have hurled chairs at her, called her a racist, even accused her of undermining South Africa's plans to host the World Cup in 2010. But what really angers Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille is that after six bruising months in office, she may soon lose her job in what she calls, with characteristic bluntness, "a crude power grab" by the African National Congress. At stake, says Zille, 55, is not just Cape Town but the future of South Africa's 12-year-old democracy. For Zille is not just the mayor of one of the country's...

Corruption and neglect lead to township riots against ANC By David Blair in Khutsong (Filed: 02/03/2006) Riot police patrol the streets, mobs have burned down the homes of local councillors and government offices lie wrecked and abandoned. The streets of Khutsong township, strewn with broken glass and burnt tyres, bear vivid witness to the revolt against the African National Congress that is sweeping its former strongholds. Riot police were deployed in Knutsong township after a revolt against the African National Congress The movement that liberated South Africa from apartheid could once rely on the automatic support of places like Khutsong....

The U.S. is engaged in a bloody war in Iraq for the purpose of eliminating the remnants of a terrorist regime, foreign terrorists, and bringing democracy to Iraq and the region. It is a big gamble that has put radical Islam on the defensive around the world. But shocking evidence demonstrates that controversial former U.S. Marine and former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who now writes for the anti-American Arab "news" organization Al Jazeera, was involved in a controversial effort to stop the war by enlisting prominent personalities in a "peace" campaign.

ANC leader tainted by trial By Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg (Filed: 03/06/2005) South Africa's establishment was thrown into disarray yesterday after Jacob Zuma, an ANC leader tipped to succeed President Thabo Mbeki, was implicated in the corruption trial of a flamboyant businessman. A close friend and financial adviser to Mr Zuma was found guilty in Durban High Court of soliciting bribes from a French company to pay the deputy president to help win a contract for business with the South African navy. Judge Hilary Squires said he found "convincing and overwhelming evidence of a corrupt relationship" between the convicted man,...

Are Zimbabwean thug Robert Mugabe's increasingly brutal crackdowns on virtually every segment of society leading the country toward inevitable civil war? In a race against North Korea to claim the world's biggest basketcase title, the government recently attacked poor citydwellers and announced plans to nationalize all farmland, abolishing private land ownership.

American Friends? HardlyBy Gordon LambFrontPageMagazine.com | June 5, 2003 When the first Quakers arrived in America in the late 17th century, they were thought of as heretics, sometimes witches and routinely bizarre. Theirs was a religion based on the ideas the individual is supreme, that the relationship between God and man is a very private affair not to be regulated by government or society, that temperance ("all things in moderation") is a noble way to live one's life. Above all, it prized peace and stated that violence should be avoided if at all possible.The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has mastered...

Mandela announces son died of AIDS 01-06-2005, 14h06 Nicolas Asfouri - (AFP/Pool/File) JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela said Thursday that his son Makgatho had died of AIDS. "We have called you today to announce that my son has died of AIDS," Mandela told reporters gathered Thursday at his Johannesburg home just hours after his only surviving son passed away. Makgatho Mandela, 54, had been in intensive care for the past weeks, but no details were released about his condition.

NELSPRUIT, South Africa – Heidi Le Roux sat weeping in her spacious farmhouse on the South African veld as the leaves turned gold and saffron in the glorious autumn twilight. Blonde and pretty, boasting of three young, healthy children and a devoted, hard-working husband who runs a huge multi-million dollar sugar and macadamia farm, it would seem that Heidi's life is a page out of apartheid's "glorious" past. It is a not-too-distant past when farmers were the "lords of the manor" and the future seemed bountiful and perhaps even endless. In the "New South Africa," however, nothing is as is...

Mandela slams US, UK on Iraq PTI[ MONDAY, MAY 10, 2004 07:48:35 PM ] DURBAN: Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Monday slammed the United States and Britain for going to war in Iraq, saying "we watch with horror at the terrible abuses" of Iraqi prisoners by coalition troops. Addressing a joint sitting of the new South African Parliament 10 years to the day after he was sworn in as the country's first black President, Mandela said the "two leading democracies" went ahead with a war that had not been sanctioned by the United Nations. "We watch as two...

Top brass flew to Baghdad with publicity-shy empowerment businessman Mzilikazi Wa Afrika, Jessica Bezuidenhout and Andre Jurgens Two of the ANC's most powerful officials travelled to Iraq with a controversial Johannesburg businessman just weeks before he landed a R1.2-billion state oil deal. Sandi Majali is one of about 270 people around the world who have been named in an alleged sanctions-busting scam involving oil from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime. The names appeared in Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organisation documents found after the fall of Saddam. Majali, 41, who heads the media-shy empowerment company Imvume Resources, has for the...

NELSON Mandela's 85th birthday party on Saturday is set to be the bash of the year. Former US President Bill Clinton, his wife, Hillary, and daughter Chelsea, Oprah Winfrey and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will attend the banquet at the Sandton Convention Centre, part of which will be broadcast live on television. Also rumoured to be attending are actor Robert De Niro, supermodel Naomi Campbell and singing superstars Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Bono and Stevie Wonder. Irish pop band The Corrs head the entertainment line-up, which includes Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Sibongile Khumalo and P J Powers. Desmond Tutu, Basetsana...

The African National Congress pledged its "continued and unwavering" support for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela yesterday despite her conviction and five-year jail sentence for fraud and theft. Senior ANC officials were among the many callers at her lavish Soweto mansion at the weekend where she was, in characteristic fashion, defiantly holding court for influential supporters. The former wife of Nelson Mandela was released on bail pending an appeal against her conviction by a Pretoria magistrate last week. After sentencing she resigned as president of the ANC Women's League, as an ANC MP and from the ANC's executive committee. But Kgalema Motlanthe, the...

Parliament -- The African National Congress on Wednesday expressed its "shock and dismay at the deaths of scores of innocent civilians" in a Baghdad market place as a result of coalition bombardment. "This senseless act of cruel violence will only convince us, and all the people of South Africa, that the current aggression by the United States and Britain against the government and people of Iraq is both undesirable and counter to the goals of democracy and peace," the ANC said in a statement. Earlier on Wednesday, the ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe sent a message to Iraqi Deputy Prime...

South Africa's ruling African National Congress yesterday effectively gave its backing to President Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, cheering a speech by a Zanu-PF loyalist attacking "western imperialists". President Thabo Mbeki hugged Emmerson Mnangagwa after his speech even though the Zanu-PF administration secretary was once Mr Mugabe's state security chief and has been accused of gross human rights violations. Mr Mnangagwa described the crisis in Zimbabwe as stemming solely from Mr Mugabe's desire to right one of the wrongs of colonialism: white farmers owning a disproportionate amount of the country's farmland. "We cannot allow colour to be the basis for...