Max Du Preez

[Angelo]

Found an interesting article by Max, what do you think of him and his views?

Deafened by white whining

January 12, 2006 Edition 1

Max du Preez

I'm still waiting for black people to launch an emotive campaign against farm murders, calling it a politically motivated genocide, writes Max du Preez

I am sick of white people's incessant whining. Isn't it the turn for black people to whine? I'm surprised I haven't yet heard black people whine about how incompetent white people can be.

Like the incompetent middle-aged white men in charge of South Africa's fuel industry.

Their incompetence had a lot of us stranded last month and cost our economy dearly. Strangely, I only heard white people blame the (black) government for it.

I haven't yet heard one black person complaining about the incompetent middle-aged white men who planned, built and still run the Koeberg nuclear power station.

The Cape has been plagued with power cuts for many months now because of problems at Koeberg. I have only heard white people moan about South Africa becoming a "typical African state" where power outages are common.

I'm still waiting for black people to launch an emotive campaign against farm murders, calling it a politically motivated genocide.

Last year we had a murder of a black farm worker virtually every fortnight in the Philippi area of the Cape.

A suspect was only arrested in December. The very vocal white agricultural community and right wing activists who regularly remind us of the assault on farmers were strangely quiet. Because this time the victims were black.

The same is true about attacks on black and Indian farmers in KwaZulu/Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

No word of complaint yet from black South Africa about how white South African expatriates in Australia chanted typically South African racial insults, "******" and "****** boetie", at our cricketers playing against Australia.

Instead, the badmouthing and verbal assault on our democracy by white expatriates continue unabated in internet chat rooms and the letters pages of newspapers. We are race-obsessed and discriminate against whites, most of them say.

The same whites who never allow us to forget their human rights are undermined by the high crime rate, will also tell you that they won't ever go into a township because the crime is even worse.

Where are the black Dan Roodts to complain about the low quality of life because of crime?

In fact, where are the black Dan Roodts and Hermann Giliomees to tell us that the state's neglect of Sesotho, isi Zulu and other local languages is a sinister ANC plot to destroy our culture?

Where is the campaign to secure an own university for each of the black languages, like the vigorous campaign to keep Stellenbosch exclusively Afrikaans?

I'm still waiting for a black grouping to send a deputation to the president of the country, like the Afrikaners have done several times in the last two, three years, to complain that their members feel alienated because their language is disrespected and because they can't get jobs or promotions.

Surveys tell us there is virtually no white unemployment and that white matriculants and graduates have a much greater chance to find jobs than their black counterparts.

The drone of the incessant white whining is so strong it has drowned out all sounds of other groups expressing unhappiness.

Whenever there is a flooding or an urban fire anywhere in the country, you can be sure that 99% of the victims are poor black people.

But over the roar of the water and fire you hear the white complaints that we are becoming a badly run banana republic.

The truth is that millions of black people have been complaining for years: about unemployment, the lack of housing, the state of the townships and squatter camps, the lack of electricity, clean water, sanitation and refuse removal, the sorry state of state hospitals and township schools.

But we only take notice of these people's complaints when they gather in large groups and block roads and burn tyres.

Most of the country's poor - and we're talking about close to half of our population here - are illiterate or barely literate and are wholly occupied by the battle to just feed themselves and their children every day.

They don't write letters to newspapers; they don't phone in to radio talk shows; they don't have lobby groups to put their plight on the national agenda.

The liberation movement that promised to champion their cause has largely abandoned them after they came into power and is now concentrating on looking after the middle classes and the elite - and the whites.

The media, even the ones who campaigned for human rights before 1994, don't find their stories as interesting as the stories of those who can afford to buy newspapers or have time to listen to radio all day.

Advertisers don't like poor people; their buying power is too small.

So here we are in January 2006, less than two months away from a local government election. Suddenly the politicians love the poor people again.

Time to haul out the big promises. This time we'd better keep those promises. Otherwise the droning of white whining will at last be drowned out by the sounds of conflict in the townships and squatter camps.

 

[supersunbird]

Black people dont whine, they take action...

 

[Darth Garth]

And they also don't post their "plight" to myadsl .

 

[love56k]

Found an interesting article by Max, what do you think of him and his views?

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[TonyA]

Irony

 

[surface]

url?

http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q=Deafened+by+white+whining+max+du+preez&meta=


http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3062920

 

[Kommedoor]

Ag ou Angelo'tjie - jy probeer altyd so hard om om 'n reaksie uit te lok.

Klein bietjie sad as jy my vra...

 

[Creed]

I I believe that one day the whites will be tired of "whining" and start acting and that when the action starts he and others like him will wish that they listened.

I agree that the white way of voicing our concerns isn't especially effective when those who we are trying to reach consider the modern and civilized way of voicing ones concerns to be "whining".

Maybe if we REGRESS to black/barbaric methods we will see some action.Maybe if we gather in large groups and burn tires/vandalize universities and sing songs about killing blacks then we will get through to those that we are trying to reach.

Maybe if we gather in large groups and squat on land that someone else owns and live there for many years without forming decent communities while claiming incompetence because we want handouts they will listen to us.

Maybe if we believed everything that a corrupt and broken govt told us we wouldn't be "whining" at all.

But wait that's not the way I was raised, I do not damage other peoples goods to make my point.I do not believe in hate speech and I will not sing about killing others while in large groups.

Maybe if they even pretended to listen to us instead of mocking us we would "whine" less.

Maybe Max du Preez wrote this article simply because it is the popular opinion of the uninformed/gullible masses and he wanted to make headlines.

 

[Creed]

I honestly don't know a lot about the guy, from a quick google search it seems that he has a chip on his shoulder and he likes to judge others.

 

[Vatniek]

The article is poorley researched.

I haven't yet heard one black person complaining about the incompetent middle-aged white men who planned, built and still run the Koeberg nuclear power station.

In fact, Koeberg is run by unskilled traineees because all the competent skilled ones have left. That's why it always falls over. If the same people were still running it, there wouldn't be as many problems there. Besides, how much does the government actually spend on maintenance? Not a lot is my guess.

Surveys tell us there is virtually no white unemployment and that white matriculants and graduates have a much greater chance to find jobs than their black counterparts.

Again a bit of k*k. What he doesn't say is that white young people CANNOT get the jobs they WANT to get because of BEE.

They don't write letters to newspapers; they don't phone in to radio talk shows; they don't have lobby groups to put their plight on the national agenda.

The liberation movement that promised to champion their cause has largely abandoned them after they came into power and is now concentrating on looking after the middle classes and the elite - and the whites.

More k*k.
Radio 702 is full of black people phoning in to complain and air their views. The newspapers are full of ANC supporters SMSing their views.

So the liberation movement is looking after whites are they?? Yet a cabinet minister is telling them to leave if they want to complain about crime!!!!!!!

 

[kingmonty]

Ok. Seeing that all of us are now suddenly whingers (us whites that is), wtf are we supposedly whinging about?

The out of control crime problem?
The mass corruption in the government?
The sad state of the infrastructure in the country?
The terrible way in which the health ministry dealt with AIDS?
The apalling way Banks rip off the people in the country?
The even worse way telecoms is being handled by the government?

Well then. I guess we are whingers. So ****ing what? At least something is starting to happen on most of the abovementioned fronts thanks to a minority whinging about the problems the majority is too ****ing blind to see.

Max du Preez whinges in an article about whingers. Ironic isn't it,? Someone should tell him the Bowtie has been out of fashion for more than 20 years, and next time he decides to put such crud to print, he should consider that at least we're ****ing trying.

 

[DigitalSoldier]

I love how black people always assume white people are bitching about the government cos the government is black but that only happens in south africa. Look at America where there is a white president yet the white people still moan and bitch about their president its NOT about race but about government actually delivering.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Well he's in the Argus every week.

But he is quite balanced.. not much agenda, im sure you can find all his coloums on um.. iol.co.za or wherever the Argus is

 

[Jongi]

It's interesting how white people assume that black people don't bitch and moan about how things are in this country. I'm quite sure all those masses of unemployed blacks everyday thank the government for yet another day without a job.

 

[RichardP]

LOL!!! what a waste of bandwidth. The most inane drivel I have read in a long time.

How much on SA's population in White? .. going on 7%? so there is a 93% chance that a black person is involved when something goes right or wrong... even more BS statistics.

 

[Chatmaster]

Personally I think that Max needs to get a life and grow up a little. I just wonder what his motives is... In his lifetime he has created more racial divide than ET...

 

[surface]

Personally I think that Max needs to get a life and grow up a little. I just wonder what his motives is... In his lifetime he has created more racial divide than ET...

What a pity about this comment! I suppose one has to pay the price for NOT being Politically correct, apartheid era or affirmative era. Guess you cant please them all.

"A brilliant Afrikaner dissident journalist under apartheid (harassed, intimidated and on a number of hit lists), Max du Preez found himself “too hot” to handle -- and “too white” -- under the new dispensation, writes Anthony Egan

http://server.mg.co.za/art/2004/2004jan/040109-rubber.html

In 1999, Max Du Preez was fired by SABC for "alleged" insubordination. His legendary status as the exposer of some of apartheid's most evil deeds did not save him. He warned then "If this isn't stopped, I think the public broadcaster in South Africa is going to become in a few months the voice of the ANC,"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/349599.stm