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

  • Afrikaans op SA TV

    Tans is daar ongelukkig meer sleg as goeie Afrikaanse programme op Suid-Afrikaanse TV. Die SABC se Afrikaanse dekking sou snaaks gewees het as dit nie so ernstig was nie. Hulle verkrag eenvoudig ons taal. Kim Cloete kan NIE Afrikaans praat nie en tog gee sy verslag op omtrent elke 2de item op die Afrikaanse nuus.…

  • Bravo Barney Mthombothi!

    Thanks to David Fisher for pointing me to this brilliant article by Barney Mthombothi. I urge all South-Africans – in or out of the country – to read this. You have to make your own judgements on this, but I found it encouraging. To hear Barney Mthombothi, a black author, uttering these words makes me…

  • Sadist Christopher Lees gets off lightly

    18 year old Christopher Lees was “detained” for animal cruelty today after repeatedly throwing a cat from a fifth storey. Whilst I’m glad this piece of shit has been caught I can’t help but wonder what “detained” actually means. I doubt it means jail (else they would have said so) so I wonder why not.…

  • No sympathy for Pamplona casualties

    I am sorry but I have no sympathy for anyone who gets hurt in the Pamplona bull run. If you want to play with fire then you will get burned. I do feel very sorry for the bulls though. Yet again the Spanish have found a way to exploit animals to provide them with entertainment…

  • German idiots kill their only wild bear

    I am absolutely disgusted that the Bavarian authorities allowed Bruno the Bear to be shot. I have always thought that Germany was one of the more responsible nations when it came to environmental issues, but this has certainly brought down Germany in my estimation. So many people were delighted about the first wild bear in…

  • Policemen make ultimate sacrifice

    South-Africa’s biggest problem – crime – came to the fore in a brutal way today. 4 policemen & 8 suspected criminals were killed today in a bloody shootout in Jeppestown. The criminals were part of a 20 member gang that tried to hide out after holding up a Pick-and-Pay. The gang was suspected to have…

  • Internet sales recognized in South Africa

    As someone who is “in computers” I am very frustrated by SA’s lack of technological progress. It is astounding that business has not seized the ‘net like in the 1st world. But this Property 24 article suggests that some recognition is occurring. I hope this will awaken more businesses to the potential of a usable…

  • FW de Klerk: forgotten hero

    With FW de Klerk being in a very serious condition at present, I felt I have to write something about this remarkable man. Because of FW’s “side” in a racially divided South-Africa many people don’t realise that FW played an immeasurable role in bringing about democracy in South Africa. Put simply; without FW there would…

  • Testing on Apes "needed" says Top Scientist

    The head of the Medical Research Council (MRC), Professor Colin Blakemore has said that the UK might “need” to test on Apes. The government said in 1997 that it wouldn’t approve testing on Apes because they were too similar too humans. This is partly Blakemore’s argument as well. He says that is exactly why you…

  • A dose of their own medicine.

    To put it mildly, the British media have never really warmed to Afrikaners. More often than not when an Afrikaner is featured on British television it is an AWB supporter from the far Northern-Transvaal. It really pisses me of no end because, as anyone who has been to South-Africa knows, these people are not representative…