When I read about the passing of the 'secrecy bill', I realised what most of you probably already have.

In a welfare state, too many people asking what their country can do for them is creating a disaster that WILL reach a tipping point sooner or later

Apartheid was, in fact, the very best thing that could possibly happen to the ANC.

I've noticed here on News24 that many South Africans who can't afford to emigrate, yet are fearful about their future in the country seem to believe that they can't be refugees.

Next time you bring up wage disparities, make sure you look at skill disparities at the same time.

When I read the ANC's panties in a bunch response to FNB's ad, I realized once again that they are nothing more than a party of dictators masquerading as a government.

I was just reading a post on another site, where the question of who is to blame for the 14,000 people who will be losing their jobs in the Amplats retrenchment.

I'm sure most of the people who post here have seen Invictus.

What's the biggest impediment to South Africa today? Money? Jobs? Education? Race relations? All of the above? Probably.

Reading the stories on News24, it's easy to see that we need a new dictionary to understand what the ANC is trying to say when it makes a comment.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am sick and tired of being told how white people in South Africa today should give up their land.

I've recently become interested, once again, about the causes of inequality in South Africa.

According to old showerhead, inequality between white and black people is fuelling tension in South Africa.

It's one of the reasons I decided to leave SA, but was it the right choice? Nearly six months on, in spite of the snow, I think so.

When the current ANC government looks in the mirror, how can they not see the ghosts of Botha, Verwoerd and company looking back at them?

Every time I read anything on News24, whether it's a speech by an ANC member, a post by a racist, or a racist comment by a twenty year old 'struggle veteran', someone is demanding to be repaid.

When I read the stories about farmworkers threatening more rampages, and farmers having to hire private security to protect their farms from their own workers, I realised something.

If any one of you has been watching the mounting chaos in the Cape, you HAVE to realise that South Africa is not only on a downward spiral, it's circling the drain.

Monday, the 12th of November 2012 is Remembrance day here in Canada. A day that Canadians everywhere celebrate.

Respect starts with self-respect. Having a high enough regard for yourself that you are always striving to better yourself and your circumstances.

Once upon a time in Africa, there was a failing government. Instead of acknowledging their failure, and admitting that they were incapable of proper governing, the government chose to blame some of their citizens.

I don't know how many of you know this, but there's a month long event called NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month.

If this is what SASCOC has to say about other races (including African immigrants) then it's clear that SA is even more of a ticking race time bomb than it was under apartheid.

According to Census 2011, the average white Saffa earns 6 times more than the average black Saffa! Alert the equality police!

South Africa needs governing or managing party.

I don't know about all of you, but for the past ten or so years, I've been viewing the country as divided.

Don't get me wrong - I know the system was wrong. It's just that I had no hand in it, and no way to stop it. Why should I beat myself up for it, or allow other people to?

I have seen snow from a distance before, on the mountains in the Cape, but I've never actually interacted with the stuff.

There have been several articles on here lately that hint, or openly accuse this or that of threatening organised religion.

Nearly every time I write here, someone accuses me of focusing on problems, but not offering solutions to SA's problems. We all know what the solution is: replacing the ANC.

Davies continues to wax lyrical about the almost mystical power of BEE to get the masses out of their shacks and into the boardroom.

Calling someone of another race stupid does not make you racist!

The miners are hitting Lonmin where any company feels it most - in their wallet.

According to the SACPYL and the ANCYL, the fact that only black miners were shot at Lonmin is a part of some big race conspiracy.

Over the past few months and years, I've got a lot of flak for my comments and posts on News24. Even more so now that I am no longer in South Africa.

Over the past few weeks, there have been a slew of stories from both sides of the stay / go fence.

Because I am white, there's a good chance that even if I finish top of the class, I might not get a job right away, or at all.

I am angry because as much as the Nats failed, and the ANC are failing, YOU, my fellow South Africans, are failing.

Why is it that not one genius in SA government has considered building housing out of vibracrete?

Judge me if you like, but as the mother of a preschooler, staying in SA was simply no longer an option, for many reasons.

There appears to be rather a high proportion of South African commentators on News24 who are either internet trolls, or completely and utterly clueless.

I am posting about something that is mostly insignificant – although if you asked them, they’d probably wax lyrical about being a legend in their own lunchtime.

I have harboured secret homicidal fantasies about one or two of my previous employers.

Blaming apartheid for their screw ups is the ANC's stock explanation for everything, isn't it?

It's got to the point where I think we're really all just wasting time and effort calling the ANC out on anything.

You may start out free when you begin participating in the economy, but you soon become the slave of the banks, the finance companies, your landlord and the grocery store owner.

There's a lot of talk these days about the failures in the ANC, and in their policies and governance.

The scene: London. The year: 2012. The event: the Olympics... oh. No. Wait. The Malema and Floyd show. The cast: the gruesome twosome and some British investors.

Now that I've left the shores of our tiny, insignificant country, and done some travelling in the first world, I've come to realise two things

I've noticed something here on news24 - that is, when I insult someone's intelligence, they generally come back at me with an ism or an ist. Racism, sexist blah blah blah.

That point is that even though I was born during the apartheid era, I don't really remember much about it at all.

In order for these youths to move forward, and stop focusing on a past that is long dead and buried, their forgiveness must be bought.

Even I have now got fed up with the religion versus science argument. The simple fact is that both sides believe what they believe, and that's not likely to change.

Yesterday, I watched an Indian father and white mother push their child on a swing. I was the only person who even looked twice.

I now understand what the News24 expat haters mean when they say patriotism. It's all based on the DDL principle: deny, deny, lie.

I've taken a lot of flak for posting about moving to a first world country, and how much I am enjoying it.

So. Most of the News24 regulars know that I've been in the process of moving to the first world. I can't say that it was a move that was without trepidation.

As I logged in to write this, I realized that it's going to have a barrage of commentary, and that I will probably be called all sorts of names.

This post is a direct response to Dear White South Africans by Thuletho, and something that needs to be said regardless.

So, here on News24, we get plenty of racist comments, don't we? The 'go back to Europe brigade', who are usually joined by the 'white therefore oppressor' team.

It's all happening a lot faster than I'd ever imagined possible, and it looks like I'll be commenting from halfway around the world by mid June.

I will carry my Africa with me. I will take the sun, the warm water, the friendly people and the potential with me. I will leave the violence, the racist hatred and the despondence behind.

I just saw the headline about the ANC demanding the boycott of the City Press, and I actually COULD not bring myself to read it.

When BEE first came into being, most of us thought it was probably a reasonably good idea.

For a long time, we've all been talking about the corruption, scandals and the sheer scale of managerial failure within the ANC.

I have to admit, I only started to panic about South Africa's future a few years ago. I think that all started around the same time as Juju started mouthing off.

Over the past few weeks, I've been venting a bit about the questions I have about the christian faith in particular, but about religion in general.

Up till now, I've been keeping my religion versus science posts fairly simple on News24. Years of writing for the web has lead me to write for the audience I expect to have.

How many of us, here on this forum, have been insulted or even threatened by Christians? How many of us would categorise the behaviour of those Christians as 'Christian' at all?

Every time I comment on any political article on this site, or read through the comments, I see someone who can't spell very well saying something about the "white" dream.

The events at yesterday's DA led march were abhorrent and totally against anything any civilised person would do.

Very often, on this forum, politics devolves into a racial slanging match.

Are you saying that your god created the ENTIRE universe, with all those stars and planets JUST so that humans would have somewhere to live?

If there is a divine being is the notion of us base, selfish creatures being created in it's image (per the major religions) not slightly insulting?

As some of you know, myself and a couple of other people have started a new organisation, that we hope will eventually address the inequalities facing minority groups in South Africa today.

I have to ask myself why there seems to be an overwhelming double standard when it comes to racism in South Africa.

It's abundantly clear that BEE, AA and other policies that are designed to limit minorities opportunities in South Africa aren't going anywhere.

The ANC have taken the NP stereotype that kept the notion of apartheid alive for so long, and made it a reality, for the whole world to see.

I just read a piece on this site, about multi-racial children. It was a positive piece, but it got me thinking about a few terms that should really be obsolete in the new millennium.

You can't believe everything that you read, so I did what I usually do when I read anything about the ANCYL. I consulted their website.

I know you’re already expecting another one of my sarcastic observances about your faith. If you are, you can stop reading. This post isn’t about that.

While I looked at that mountain, it struck me that that's the only way most of us get to see our country - from a distance, behind high walls.

In future, why don't you judge people based on what they say, and how they say it, when you judge their intellectual capacity or integrity?

Up until now, everyone who has read any of my religion based posts has been assuming that I am an atheist. Except that I am not.

One of the benefits of being predisposed to abrasiveness is that my low threshold for bullshit tolerance tends not to be tested too often.

Most of the arguments centered on religion on News24 focus on the creation myth versus evolutionary science.

Reading more unscientific straw grabbing by a creationist this morning, I decided to pose another question I've been pondering to the god squad.

The ANC, by spending government money on 16 million social grants per year, and by telling those grant recipients that they won't get their money if anyone else is in power, are buying votes.

It seems as though the endless posts about religion, creation, god and evolution will never cease on News24.

The ANC genuinely does seem to think that having our streets renamed deals us a mortal blow. As though it were a fate worse than death or something.

The news about Julius Malema's suspension once again put everyone's favourite woodworker in the public eye - and like most of his recent public spotlight moments, he didn't come off well.

It seems as though there are at least a dozen ads for every kind of diet pill, potion or miracle diet in every magazine you read. The thing is though - it's all a LIE.

I'm a whitey. Born in the eighties, saw the tail end of apartheid, went to a model c school...As you would expect, I don't vote for the ANC.

This article will attribute blame for incidents like this, BUT those left behind will never share that blame, and they don't deserve that kind of pain.

We all have an opinion one way or another, but to all those who think nationalisation is a good idea, I'd like to invite you to take a closer look at parastatals.