Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

Category: Politics

  • The column that got Bullard sacked

    Here, word for word, is the column that got respected journalist David Bullard sacked. It is available at its original location at The Sunday Times, but since he has already been sacked I’m not sure how long this column will still be available online. I think Bullard just got fed up with the “blame the…

  • Spare a thought for Charl Langeveldt

    Charl Langeveldt is another victim of South Africa’s disastrous sports Transformation policy. Strangely though, Charl Langeveldt is a player “of colour” and as such supposed to benefit from “Transformation”. As readers may know André Nel was very publicly dropped from South Africa’s cricket tour to India in favour of Charl Langeveldt. The reason for Nel’s…

  • Max takes the easy route

    Max du Preez is depressed. Read why. This is quite predictable from our Max. Our country is going to the dogs. Not because of an isolated incident at UFS (which is appaling, but isolated), but because all our government institutions are failing; one by one. But all Max can moan about is the easy one:…

  • NHBRC is a bureaucratic nightmare

    In November 2007 I submitted the relevant documents to enrol my house with the NHBRC (National Home Builders Registration Council). With these submissions I paid them R7,500 by bank transfer. I was told at this time that I should have my certificate in a couple of days. It is now more than 3 months later…

  • My bad experience with Bernie Habana & Don MacRobert

    I am a huge Blue Bulls fan so a couple of years ago when Bryan Habana joined the Bulls I was delighted; I instantly knew this kid was going to go places. This prompted me to register BryanHabana.com. I tried on several occasions to get Bryan Habana through Bernie (his dad also his agent) involved…

  • Is Hasim Amla a quota player?

    Its the old cliche: There are no quotas in South African cricket. And yet looking at Hasim Amla’s stats you could find plenty to challenge that. Our best batsmen of my generation, Jacques Kallis, has an average of the mid 50s. Behind him Graeme Smith & Herschelle Gibbs hover around the mid to high 40s,…

  • Front page for The Red Apple

    We had a curious incident at our shop a couple of weeks ago: Thandeka Mali, a Ndlambe (our local authority) official, threw a tantrum saying that we employ too many coloured people instead of black people (for overseas readers in South-Africa coloured and black are not the same; “coloureds” come from nomadic tribes who populated…

  • Review: Syriana

    I saw Syriana for the first time last night. An outstanding if disturbing movie. I thought the story was superb, although I think there is more truth than fiction in the movie. I don’t want to give away anything so all I will say is that I unreservedly recommend this movie. 4½ stars.

  • South Africa’s Border War by Willem Steenkamp

    I have always been fascinated by the South Africa’s involvement in Angola. Maybe it is because I was the 1st year that missed Diensplig (mandatory National Service), but I remember knowing every piece of military hardware as a kid. I used to win many arguments with adults about arms & weapons. Anyway my dad has…

  • Jeremy Clarkson goes too far

    Generally speaking I like liked Jeremy Clarkson. I thought the furore when he destroyed a very old tree a couple of years ago was justified but I thought that maybe he just made a mistake. I couldn’t give a toss if he calls a car “gay”. This week though he went too far. By ignoring…