Someone on Facebook asked me to say something about how I got to the current fighting, Naspers got

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September 1, 2013 - Dan Roodt, Columnists - Tagged: African, Africans, André Brink, Anne-Marie Mischke, image, boycott, Clifford Rawstorne, culture war, The Citizen, Enoch Powell, George Orwell, Jan-Jan Joubert, Kayla Rawstorne Koos Bekker, culture war, Leopold Scholtz, Mandy Rossouw, Max du Preez, Naspers, report, shirt folder The Star, Tim du Plessis, Van Wyk Louw - 89 comments
In America they use the term "culture shirt folder war" shirt folder for the kind of bitter disputes which often controversial issues surrounding race, gender and religion in particular on U.S. campuses erupt. In recent weeks it seemed to me that there is a culture war in Afrikaans shirt folder unleashed.
The current boycott of the Naspers Group is part of the culture war that is currently raging. Whether it's an information war waged for the mental control of the Afrikaner population in this country. On the one hand there are those who have the status quo as good and beautiful experience as Naspers, shirt folder the politically correct academics who regularly a witch hunt in the name of racism shirt folder out and such businessmen with corruption for love, and mirth of dishonest business practices participating . On the other hand, there is a critical or opposition group not with the sadistic "new South Africa" with its lawlessness, violence, shirt folder corruption and misappropriation of public funds is not served. They consist of a loose group of writers, artists, intellectuals, philosophers and ordinary people such as farmers, teachers, and employees of large enterprises or the state, which will based on their race and language discrimination. Also small business shirt folder people who increasingly shirt folder BEE and the big companies are crushed.
Something of the ancient left-right division is similarly busy atawisties in Afrikaans return, decades after the Berlin Wall collapsed. The Afrikaner elite that "together to create" shirt folder out of the corrupt system, he opportunistically positioned left. In contrast remains the nation or ordinary people, mostly shirt folder conservative and slow to the (neo-) Marxist doctrines of race, gender and religion to accept. shirt folder It creates tremendous tension that we are experiencing, and counter accusations of "racism," "hate speech", "treason" and "fascism" that is thrown.
Someone on Facebook asked me to say something about how I got to the current fighting, Naspers got involved. I'd just soon have a short ebook about Naspers write, but I will try to summarize it here.
It's also about to explain why I ended a few years ago to the step was taken to Naspers, specifically Die Burger, for defamation to sue after the company for many years attempted to me to label, stigmatize and to crack.
The relationship between me and Naspers goes far back. When I was about 22, I freelance for reviews written report. So I took one day for Andre P. Brink on my mind because he does not know as much as he makes out. It was about the interpretation of a French thinker that I was doing a master's thesis writing. Today I would like constructive criticism of a young student appreciated. Brink was touchy and write a poisonous thing back. Suddenly I was no longer so popular with Rapport.
When I was overseas shirt folder and my 7 year immersed in French, half vereuropees. Also immensely learned. South Africa - Naspers - have since left increasingly affected, but I was with other things as politically shirt folder engaged. So around about 1998, a few years after my return,