The Affirmative Action Lie

Useless article, it's historical accuracy has as many holes in it as a swiss cheese. The author of the article focused more on pleasing both sides of the fence, rather than representing the historicity of the subject matter in an accurate and true form.
 
I reckon its his "blog"... Going on about Naspers ruling the world and blah blah blah blah

*yawn*
 
I must admit I designed the site, I give people free blogs off my server... but it's owned and run by someone else. I won't say I agree with all of what is said, but I suspect having read the comments that the intention is to provoke dialog... dunno. btw I must say that the Naspers thing would be something I would say, but it is not really a unique I idea it's a pretty widely spread story.
 
Yup, the Naspers things is very unique I reckon... You are the first person I've ever heard mention something like that.
 
Its not a compliment in the slightest....

Some conspiracy theories have a ring of truth, or COULD be true but aren't...
Your one about Naspers is just bananas and sounds like it as well.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Its not a compliment in the slightest....

Some conspiracy theories have a ring of truth, or COULD be true but aren't...
Your one about Naspers is just bananas and sounds like it as well.
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Naspers was founded as De Nasionale Pers (The National Press) on 12 May 1915 with the aim of furthering the cause of the Afrikaner people. At first it only published a newspaper, De Burger, but soon expanded and in 1916 published its first magazine De Huisgenoot. In 1918 the company took a further step towards expansion when its book publishing operations were founded as De Burger Boekhandel.

In 1985, Nasionale Pers and a number of other South African media companies formed an electronic pay-television media business, M-Net, which was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in 1990. In 1993, M-Net was divided into two companies - M-Net itself became a pure pay-television station while the company's subscriber management, signal distribution and cellular telephone activities were formed into a new company called MultiChoice Limited (later renamed MIH Holdings Limited).

Nasionale Pers itself listed on JSE on 12 September 1994 and in 1998 the group's name changed to Naspers.
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from Wiki

That's after a quick search. I wonder what those 'causes' were that needed furthering? I have a copy of Die Huisgenoot here from the 1930's or so in which Apartheid was promoted to the masses... I implore you to go to a local library or Die Huigenoot themselves and ask them an old copy to see what the content was like... I promise you, you will get a moerse shock.

And before you continue read the following:

Naspers journalists submit apology

CAPE TOWN -- A total of 127 journalists from Nasionale Pers newspapers and magazines, including one editor and at least three deputy editors, yesterday made a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission apologising for their role in the apartheid years.

Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu described the document as an ''extraordinarily powerful statement'', and welcomed it on behalf of the commission and of victims of apartheid.

He said the submission had been endorsed by journalists, in their individual capacities, from the newspapers Beeld, Die Burger, Rapport and Volksblad, and the magazines Insig, Huisgenoot, Sarie, You and Fair Lady, as well as a number of former Naspers journalists. More were expected to sign.

''While I understand they are not acting under threat of losing their jobs, I want to commend the journalists warmly for following their consciences in the face of very considerable opposition,'' Archbishop Tutu said.

The journalists include Fair Lady editor Ms Roz Wrottesley, Beeld's two deputy editors, Mr Tim du Plessis and Mr Arrie Rossouw, five other senior Beeld editorial staffers, and a deputy editor of Huisgenoot, Ms Julia Viljoen.

Some 60 journalists from Beeld and 26 from Die Burger are understood to have signed the document.

Archbishop Tutu said: '''Theirs is a very significant contribution to reconciliation and the process of healing our land.''

The journalists said they were making the submission as individuals, and not on behalf of Naspers or any of its publications.

They believed reconciliation between, and the just treatment of, different groups of people in South Africa were essential to nation-building, and that disclosure of the past was an essential part of this.

Since early this century a close relationship had developed between Naspers and the National Party, with Naspers newspapers acting as NP mouthpieces.

They said Naspers newspapers had formed an integral part of the power structure which implemented and maintained apartheid through, for instance, supporting the NP in elections and referendums.

The efforts Naspers had made to change and oppose apartheid should be acknowledged, as should its efforts to prepare whites for and persuade them to change and reform.

This, however, did not diminish or neutralise support for apartheid.

The journalists said although they had not been personally or directly involved in gross human rights abuses, they regarded themselves as morally co-responsible for what happened in the name of apartheid because they helped maintain a system in which these abuses could occur.

They said they had been blind and deaf to the political aspirations, anger and suffering of their fellow South Africans.

''I, like many others...did not properly inform readers of the injustices of apartheid,'' each of the 127 said.

''(I) did not oppose these injustices vigorously enough and, where I had knowledge of these injustices, too readily accepted the National Party government's denials and reassurances. To all those who suffered as a result of this, I offer my sincerest apology and fully commit myself to prevent the past from being repeated.'' -- Sapa
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from an old forgotten site.http://www.dispatch.co.za/1997/09/27/page 9.htm
 
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