Attie Heunis & Family

Ek het gisteraand nou werklikwaar ‘n Nuwe Suid-Afrika nagmerrie gehad. Ek droom ek is alleen by ‘n kermis van ‘n aard. Ek het by die een hek betaal en ingegaan en ‘n paar ritte gedoen, maar met die ryery het my oranje toegangsarmband opgeskuif tot onder my mou in. Toe ek wou uitgaan by ‘n [...]

Eergister is Wangari Maathai, stigter van die Green Belt Movement, oorlede aan kanker. Sy was 71. Mense wat my ken sal weet dat ek in die laaste 4 of 5 jaar min beïndruk is met Afrika en (kom ons wees eerlik) Swart leiers. Ek het in 2006 teruggekeer na Suid Afrika vanaf Engeland met ‘n liberale [...]

Ek is gevra om ‘n toespraak te lewer vir P J Olivier se reünie vanaand. Hierdie is waarmee ek vorendag gekom het: My naam is Attie Heunis en ek verteenwoordig die klas van 1991 vandag. Ek wil net sê dat is dit nie ooglopend hoe dat al die ander klasse skrikwekkend ouer geword het nie, [...]

The last couple of months I have been impressed with Afrikaans radio station Radio Sonder Grense. This morning they had a very topical discussion about the impact and costs of the FIFA World Cup now after it had finished. I was enjoying the discussion except for one of the panellist’s striking aversion to anything negative [...]

On Saturday I watched Louis Theroux’s Coalinga: A Place for Paedophiles, a documentary about the Coalinga State Hospital. This hospital houses 850 sex offenders who are thought to be too dangerous to release into general society. I am a big fan of Louis even though I know many people can’t stand him. This episode though [...]

BBC journalist Andrew Harding’s newest post has just got me worked up all over again. I did comment, but I’m not sure that the BBC with its notoriously politically correct outlook will publish it. In this light I have decided to recreate the comment as a post. Here it is: There is an old South-African [...]

Last night Eugene Terre’blance (literally meaning White Ground), leader of the AWB, was murdered. Two black suspects , 16 and 21 years old, have handed themselves in to the local police. According to reports they killed Terre’Blanche because of a wage dispute. The AWB though says that the murder was incited by Julius Malema’s notorious [...]

Like so many people (including American rock god Fred Durst, top-of-the-pops icon Katie Perry and Riviersonderend) I have been blown away by South-Africa’s new runaway band Die Antwoord. Everybody who is anybody is talking about this band – and most of the buzz isn’t even in South Africa! Some of their songs have had more [...]

Ek het vandag onwillig my lidmaatskap aan AfriForum opgesê. Dit was vir my ‘n moeilike besluit gewees. Ek is deur van my vriende gewaarsku dat Afriforum nog steeds die verkramptes is, net in ander gewaad. Ek het dit nie geglo nie en het lekker groot gepraat oor al Afriforum se indrukwekkende oorwinnings in die hof [...]

No no, nothing like that. Despite being an Afrikaner (who are a notoriously religious bunch), I am (like Dawkins) a “Level 6″ agnostic and completely accept evolution and that we and every other living thing share a common ancestor. In short, I am a huge fan of Dawkins and the brilliant job he is doing [...]