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 forgotten Wild West: what Africa can learn

    To me America’s greatest period was when it was wild. I suppose it reminds me somewhat of us Afrikaners participating in the Great Trek. As someone who subscribes to the Darwinian themes of survival of the fittest and natural selection, I believe both the Great Trek and the conquering of the West were the last…

  • More Western naivete on Africa

    The West doesn’t have a clue about Africa. I make this bold statement after having just seen The Constant Gardener. Not a bad movie, but I have some serious issues about the political angle. The movie is about how the West, in this case through big pharmaceutical companies, abuses Africa. I’m certainly no fan of…

  • Pathetic Austria disgusts me : Schande Oesterreich!

    My previous post was written as a response to the Muslim Cartoon issue, but lo and behold now this very issue has cropped up in Austria. Today David Irving was JAILED for denying the Holocaust. So let me just get this straight: you can print some very offensive cartoons of Muhammed and everyone (me included)…

  • European Hypocrisy: Free speech but not against Jews

    In a recent post I commended the press across Europe for not bowing to censorship when they published the caricatures of Muhammad. I still applaud this decision. Not because I’m going after Muslims – I have some good Muslim friends, but because in a free democracy there are very few things as precious as free…

  • England also bans public smoking, at last

    English MPs did a brave and good thing yesterday by voting for a full ban on smoking in all public places. Subject to an expected acceptance by The House of Lords, it means that from 2007 if anyone is caught smoking in a public place they could be fined up to £2500-00. Readers of this…

  • My 2 cents on the Muhammad cartoons

    I hope this post doesn’t offend some of my Muslim friends, but I do believe that freedom of speech is one of the cornerstones of a free society. No country – be that the US, China, South Africa, Denmark or Saudi Arabia – can ever claim to endorse real freedom for their people if they…

  • Blair will squirm out of this one… again

    Tefal Tony is taking a lot of criticism for his rebate compromise to the EU, but I’m certain he’s going to squirm out of this one as well. I don’t think what the UK is doing is wrong. The problem is that this compromise was made as part of a deal with the King of…

  • Afrikaner support for new SA – what you won’t hear from the BBC

    I’m on the Afrikaner issue again! Looking back at my recent posts you’d think that I’m a flag-bearer for Afrikaner Nationalism, which I am not. I am an Afrikaner yes and proud of it too, but I’m very much a South-African and (as Roland Schoeman recently said ironically) an African as well. With this in…

  • “No punches pulled” perspective on the Afrikaner and English

    I have just discovered this fascinating blog post titled Why the Afrikaners hate the British. Admittedly it was written by someone who calls himself a born again Redneck, but the post is very well researched. There are some disturbing photos as well. He also covers some Apartheid facts which wont be popular in the UK…

  • Will Roland Schoeman defect to Qatar?

    I have just read in an Australian newspaper that Roland Schoeman, world record holder and one of South Africa’s top swimmers, has been offered Millions of Dollars to defect to and subsequently represent The Kingdom of Qatar. Qatar is an oil-rich Middle Eastern country that has no swimming history whatsoever. Here in my comfy armchair,…