Sout Africa to be ruled by new Stasi – author warns

“The Stasi Bill will bring the Secret Service, National Intelligence Agency, the Office of Interception Services among several others – under one Big Brother bureau… ” warns Brent Meersman – SA author of ‘Primary Coloured’ and ‘Reports Before Daybreak’: Brent Meersman on why we should be concerned by the Intelligence General Laws Amendment Bill.. ‘Boss, [...]

South Africa loses scarce skills to Africa

South Africa stands to lose scarce skilled resources to other African countries as massive foreign direct investment projects in energy, mining, transport, telecommunications and water supply get underway on the African continent. “SA is a favoured hunting ground for skills,” says Sandra Burmeister, CEO of Landelahni, Africa partner of the global Amrop executive search group. [...]

South African’s Overcharged for Medicines

South African consumers are paying more for their medicine than they could be, says Paul Anley, CEO of Pharma Dynamics. He was speaking at the annual International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance (IGPA) conference that took place in Cape Town this month. He claims that originator pharmaceutical companies (patent holding drug developers) produce their own “pseudo generics” [...]

Scorched-earth campaign against Boer farms, smallholdings

By Nov 16 2011, more than 393,600 hectares of farm-land have burned down in the massive series of 430+ seperate veld-fires which have raged since August. At least 5 people were killed in mostly white-owned farming- and smallholdings regions of South Africa. This week in the Eastern Cape, the Air Force rushed in helicopters to [...]

I once had a farm in South Africa

“I once had a farm in South Africa: but it was destroyed by the black-racist African National Congress-government.” The ANC government’s shocking neglect of the more than 65,000 commercial farms it has already confiscated since 1994 can best be illustrated with ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures. Even more ominous is the fact that the regime has [...]

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