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Criticism of Rand Water’s Zanzibar investment is misguided

AfriForum cannot, on one hand, criticise state-owned entities for their perpetual reliance on bailouts and on the other hand, also criticise them when they engage in secondary…

Brics and the wider multipolar shift have opened a new political field in world affairs. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / PR

Brics, the GNU and the erasure of African consciousness

The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They…

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Student wins institutional bullying battle after racism claim at private varsity

The student says that, after she was abused and belittled, instead of addressing the claims, the college launched disciplinary proceedings against her

Legal township establishment processes exist to ensure that urban development is safe, serviced and sustainable.

Behind Kleinfontein and other illegally established residential areas

Kleinfontein is just one of about 17 other illegally established housing developments in Tshwane

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa holding American flags arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The legal position of the 49 Afrikaner ‘refugees’: Sorts facts and misinformation

The FW de Klerk Foundation affirms that no South African citizen is being persecuted on the basis of race

Unlike most municipalities in the country, which are constitutionally mandated to serve every resident in their borders, irrespective of race, culture, or socio-economic status, Orania operates on a different premise: selective admission.

Orania’s segregated success versus the crushing weight of inequality on municipalities

Unlike Orania, municipalities have a far more complex mission of building inclusive communities where all residents have access to quality services and opportunities, regardless…

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa holding American flags arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The 49 that left and the 64,749,951 who stay

We debated the reasons the Afrikaners left their culture, friends and family – fear, uncertainty, disillusionment. But life in South Africa continued as usual

Right-wing Afrikaner movements seem to have forgotten that job reservation and other apartheid laws benefited white people at the expense of black people. Photo: Juda Ngwenya

Trade union Solidarity’s myth of Afrikaner suppression exposed

The apartheid state used job reservation, quotas, selective procurement, import controls and industrial policy to advance working class Afrikaners

Showmax’s ‘Sex in Afrikaans’ explores the continued taboo of representing sex in the Afrikaans language. (Showmax)

Sex and censor-bility

Showmax’s ‘Sex in Afrikaans’ explores the continued taboo of representing sex in the Afrikaans language

Whether the ANC can regain that trust will only be known after the next election.
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Why Afrikaner affirmative action was more effective than BEE

The National Party government used a collective effort — social, cultural, linguistic, political and financial — to prop up poor white people