Max du Preez

Resist racism

2012-02-01 13:10

White South Africans should really resist the temptation to make racist remarks when they’re faced with what they perceive as black racism, says Max du Preez.

Info bill: Shame on the ANC

2011-11-23 09:10 66 comments | 13721 views

The ANC’s steamrolling of the Protection of Information Bill through Parliament is a firm step towards a very slippery slope towards a more authoritarian state, says Max du Preez.

Tutu's outburst a political turning point?

2011-10-05 10:05 92 comments | 387 views

Desmond Tutu’s extraordinary outburst against the ANC could prove to be a turning point of sorts in our politics , says Max du Preez.

Free speech is never absolute

2011-08-03 11:00 71 comments | 106 views

The public discourse in South Africa is a bit like a bus without brakes: frantic and close to being out of control, writes Max du Preez.

The sickening smell of 'revolution'

2011-07-06 08:15 362 comments | 400 views

Max du Preez is beginning to smell revolution, but it isn’t the exciting, promising smell of the 1980s. It’s the sickening smell of hatred, greed and revenge.

Malema back on a pedestal

2011-04-13 08:25 127 comments | 71 views

I hope the Equality Court is going to tell the ANC Youth League’s Julius Malema to stop singing "Shoot the Boer" in public, writes Max du Preez.

Land of the Absurd

2011-02-09 12:15 193 comments | 264 views

Max du Preez lists the things that makes South Africa the Land of the Absurd.

Racism sells

2010-12-08 11:19 337 comments | 230 views

Sex sells? I’m not so sure any longer. But I do know that racism sells if you choose your brand of racism and your market well, writes Max du Preez.

AfriForum's angry crusade

2010-10-06 13:11 101 comments | 45 views

Solidarity and AfriForum have made a grave error of judgement with their hysterical campaign against Absa’s encouragement of transformation in rugby, writes Max du Preez.

'Don't be too hard on Selebi'

2010-08-04 12:10 133 comments | 55 views

People shouldn’t be too hard on Jackie Selebi. He is actually just a metaphor of what has become of the ANC, writes Max du Preez.

The dream is not dead

2010-06-02 12:00 42 comments | 23 views

It is not my imagination. The deep national depression is actually lifting as we get closer to the World Cup, writes Max du Preez.

Irresponsible leadership

2010-04-07 12:05 176 comments | 62 views

The leadership of the ANC was grossly irresponsible to allow Malema to systematically insult and scare white South Africans over the past year, writes Max du Preez.

Long live the NDR!

2010-02-03 09:03 49 comments | 43 views

I agree with the comrades of the ANC. We really do need a revolution in South Africa, and we need it now, writes Max du Preez.

Vision, imagination, boldness

2009-12-09 08:00 64 comments | 20 views

We have a unique opportunity right now to do something real about two of our big problems, writes Max du Preez.

Purveyors of hate

2009-10-07 08:45 80 comments | 38 views

Censorship on the internet is virtually impossible so it is is the absolutely ideal vehicle for bigots, fascists and extremists, says Max du Preez.

 
Political commentator and journalist Max du Preez is a Fellow in Applied Leadership Values at the University of Fort Hare and an Honorary Research Associate with the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the 2008 recipient of the SA National Editors Forum and Print Media SA’s prestigious Nat Nakasa Award for integrity and courage in journalism and was the 2006 Yale Globalist International Journalist of the Year.

The powerful poor

2011-05-11 14:04 49 comments | 115 views

All the parties contesting the upcoming local elections are bragging how much they care about the poor and how much they are going to do for them, says Max du Preez.

Are we all 'coloured'?

2011-03-09 12:40 173 comments | 691 views

If "coloured" means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of people born in South Africa are coloureds, myself included, says Max du Preez.

The good and evil of the internet

2011-01-19 13:35 52 comments | 339 views

Our society urgently needs to be educated about what is good and what is evil about the internet, writes Max du Preez.

Protests 'important to a democracy'

2010-11-01 12:40 57 comments | 37 views

It is legitimate in a democracy for a Christian lobby to threaten a boycott of a supermarket chain because they decided to stop selling Christian magazines, says Max du Preez.

'Where is the centre?'

2010-09-15 11:20 31 comments | 43 views

The Tripartite Alliance of the ANC, Cosatu and the South African Communist Party The Tripartite Alliance, writes Max du Preez

Distorting history

2010-07-07 09:25 73 comments | 265 views

A distorted understanding of history always leads to a distorted view of the present and hinders a nation's capacity to understand itself, writes Max du Preez.

Threat to democracy

2010-05-05 13:00 64 comments | 34 views

The ruling party’'s continuing blurring of the line between state and party is becoming a really dangerous threat to our democracy, writes Max du Preez.

What has become of the ANC?

2010-03-03 11:35 295 comments | 94 views

The ANC has become an insult to all those who carry its membership cards and those who voted for it last April, writes Max du Preez.

Homeland 'a pipe dream'

2010-01-20 14:26 76 comments | 69 views

How can so many people believe that a separate state for Afrikaners/whites inside the borders of present-day SA is even a remote possibility, wonders Max du Preez.

Catch the bastards!

2009-11-18 08:49 56 comments | 61 views

Max du Preez has discovered it is very tempting to shout "shoot the bastards" if you had just been a victim of a violent crime.

 
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