Posts Tagged Helen Zille
Is the DA the racist old National Party in disguise? Is the ANC inexcusably arrogant?
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Political parties, South African politics on 26/07/2010
I could never bring myself to watch a DA congress because of the self-congratulatory, self-satisfied racial superiority complex of the majority of its members and the ritual denunciation by its Black members of “affirmative action”, ANC (read black) mediocrity. The DA leadership under Premier Helen Zille and strategist Ryan Coetzee promotes this arrogance. Of course [...]
Vuvuzelas, Racism and The World Cup
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 21/06/2010
A White critic of the vuvuzela writes: You know what vuvuzela stands for? Its the sound of the vacuum cleaner your african auntie is hearing each day all day long in her misserable [sic] job in Europe. After fleeing from vuvuzela sound through Sahara and Mediterenean [sic] Sea for 2 years. har har har har. [...]
‘There is nothing before my eyes’: Informal settlements and ‘land invasions’
Posted by Gavin Silber in Uncategorized on 10/06/2010
Premier Helen Zille’s argument about Black people “invading land” in the Western Cape is chilling. This argument reminds me of the way that the apartheid government looked at Black people and conducted forced removals. The Constitutional Court said this of the DA Cape Metro government in the Grootboom case. “18 May 1999, at the beginning [...]
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