Save the Planet by Preventing African Births

By: Brendan O’Neill
At my old Catholic school, religious do-gooders used to ask us for a penny to “sponsor a black baby.” Now eco-do-gooders want our pennies to prevent black babies from being born.
Rushing to the front of the race for the prize of Most Vomit-Inducing Environmental Initiative Ever Devised, the UK’s Optimum Population Trusth — [...]

Hiding Africa’s Looted Funds: The Silence of Western Media

Quite often when you read newspapers, listen to radio and watch television in the West you learn how poor Africans are and how corrupt African leaders are. But you will never watch, read or hear anything in these media outlets about the role being played by Western banking institutions; property development and estate companies; the [...]

Let’s talk about the tapes that got JZ off the hook

Brief background
Our airports have become the centre of criminal activities which amounts between 200 million 300 million a year this is just at OR Tambo airport alone. In 2001 Paul O’Sullivan was appointed as Group Executive – Aviation Security, Employed by Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) his role was to ensure such criminal activities as [...]

We cannot make good news out of BAD PRACTICE

It’s a Monday morning you log in to your computer expecting email of course otherwise you wouldn’t be checking your inbox and guess what I get an email from my childhood friend I haven’t seen or emailed in months who’s a reporter for one of Avusa’s (a giant media company which owns EP Herald, Dispatch, [...]

Our leaders instilled Xenophobic ideas into our citizens

It is with great sadness that my reason for blogging about Xenophobia before “the SABC saga” as I promised on my previous blog comes from a deep sadness and embarrassment to me as a South African.
Today I’m not proud to say I’m a South African not because I’m short, poor or dark in complexion no, [...]

560 killed on SA roads

I can’t believe that in one month so many people have died on our roads, how many more deaths should there be before our people realise the importance of the lives they carrying as well as of those they passing.
I cannot believe that someone would drive a track 17 times more than the limit, isn’t [...]

Actors shot dead on set by Angolan police

Two actors were shot dead and another three wounded while filming a crime drama in the Angolan capital Luanda on Monday when police mistook them as armed robbers, their director said.
According to Radical Ribeiro, a director for the Banda Mulundi production company, the tragedy happened as a crowd of onlookers were watching a scene being [...]