Activism
South Africa
Lockdown
Nothing burger: Chairman of the South African Medical Association denounces unnecessary hype over omicron
Angelique Coetzee, the South African Medical Association chair, denounced the overreaction to the new “omicron variant.” After weeks of study, they have yet to identify one person who contracted the omicron variant and had symptoms […]
Lockdown
Chair of South African Medical Association again confirms that Omicron produces only mild symptoms
Note: Wikipedia has locked down both pages related Omicron so no one can add any of Coetzee’s remarks. Most “mainstream” media outlets are only reporting sensationalist hyperbole without any of Coetzee’s comments. Angelique Coetzee, chair […]
False Narratives
Western Cape: Huge support for secession among Whites & Coloureds, while nearly half of all Blacks oppose multi-racial society
27 years after the end of Apartheid, large numbers of South Africans, at least those in the Western Cape, still want to break up the country. A poll in Western Cape found 41.6% of all […]
Mob Violence
Genocidal rhetoric against South Africa’s Indian community grows
From Renaissance Horizon The African Transformation Party [ATP], a small political party based around the South African Council of Messianic Churches of Christ [SACMCC] is now among those fueling genocidal rhetoric against the Indian community […]
South Africa
South African government places riot death toll at 337
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, the South African Minister of Small Business Development, held a press conference about the Zulu riots today. She started the meeting by giving an updated death toll. There were 79 deaths in Gauteng […]
South Africa
South Africa
“Taxi Wars” return. Tens of thousands stranded as gun battle rages at a Cape Town bus terminal
In the late 1980s and 1990s, thousands of people were killed in the South African “Tax Wars.” The wars were fought between rival taxi driver associations. Often the violence had a cross-over with tribal and […]
South Africa
Durban suburb founded by Mahatma Gandhi accused of “racist massacre” during Zulu riots
Early last week, conspiratorial messages began appearing on Twitter claiming the Indian community in Durban, South Africa, were “murdering Blacks in the streets.” While people of all races took up guns and banded together to protect […]
South Africa
An estimated fifty looters died in a burning hardware store in South African
Between 10-18 looters died while trampling each other in a shopping mall in Soweto Township outside of Johannesburg. That incident was widely reported during the past week. However, a much more significant single loss of life occurred […]