I was warned about Huffington Post. I was told that they are the international liberal flag bearer.
I said judge them on their articles. And they did produce many good articles.
Just for the record, the Huffington Post is an American news site, and they established a franchise in SA, in conjunction and partnership with Naspers [News24]. Huffington Post ZA has its own team of SA journalists and bloggers with Verashni Pillay as editor, Pieter du Toit as deputy editor and Ferial Haffajee as an editor at large.
Yesterday and today, the Huffington Post let rip with blistering attacks on Afriforum.
First, it was Pieter du Toit with his article: “Afriforum and Solidarity’s parallel State”.
Then in quick succession followed blogger Johan Pienaar’s piece: “Gerrie -the Bulldog- Nel is barking up the wrong tree with his move to Afriforum”.
Reading these two pieces – biased, hysterical and one-sided as it was, and thinking of the warnings that I got about the dangers of libtardism at Huffington, I got the terrible picture in my head of Pieter and Johan Pienaar ambushing Afriforum, beating the crap out of Afriforum with their handbags, lipstiffie flying in all directions.
Note: These two gentlemen did not offer any solutions for the myriad problems that we face in this country. They did not offer any solutions for escalating crime, a runaway criminalized Guptament, and discrimination in the workplace against minorities. Not to mention municipalities and services falling apart. All issues that Afriforum is addressing through its structures. Nor did they mention that Afrikaans is being phased out at Universities. That was actually one of the founding reasons for Afriforum, to act as an institution trying to preserve the Afrikaans language, as they had a perfect right to do as the Constitution guarantees the status of Afrikaans and freedom of association. For the record, all South Africans are welcome to join Afriforum.
Afriforum also renders many services that benefit all South Africans. And how can an effort by Afriforum and Gerrie Nel to address impunity in this country not benefit EVERYBODY?
Johan Pienaar called Afriforum “ethnic entrepreneurs”. Pieter du Toit used terms such as “alt right”, he just had to import an American term. is this the USA? Not last time I looked.
Pieter du Toit also said: “Afriforum is dealing in the very nuanced but unmistaken currency of coded racism”. Again, Pieter said nothing of the farm murders, attacks on elderly people, the increasing demonizing of white people led by the Gupta brigade and the online threats against white people. It’s easier to let rip with that handbag of his against Afriforum it seems.
He did not say a word about the myriad exclusive black organizations like Black Management Forum, Black Lawyers Association and the openly black fascist groupings of Jimmy Manyi and Andile Mngxitama. Both Gupta mercenaries.
I found this biased articles unfair in the extreme. So I started to look for ulterior motives. And I found them.
As Pieter himself said, the Solidarity movement now has a media arm producing a free Afrikaans news site on the internet – Maroela Media.
You see, Solidarity is now competition for Naspers.
Naspers had the Afrikaans newspaper market captured since way back, and yes, we always supported their newspapers, because we love our language.
But it never came free. We had to pay, and we did. Naspers built its international empire from their humble beginnings as an Afrikaans newspaper group. Naspers did great things for Afrikaans, no doubt, but you had to pay. Their online Afrikaans news site- Netwerk24 – is not a free site, you have to pay.
Then the ulterior motives are only getting worse.
Naspers is the only significant player in the satellite TV market. Even there they had the Afrikaner consumer captured, because the Afrikaners love rugby, and DSTV got that market captured. Again, they did great things for Afrikaans with their Afrikaans TV channel – Kyknet- but we have to pay, and we did, and still do.
Naspers is making money out of the Afrikaner big time. And Johan Pienaar is calling Afriforum “ethnic entrepreneurs”?
You would think the ulterior motives can’t get worse?
It does.
Naspers is involved in State Capture. This was revealed in one of their own publications – City Press. The article was published on Naspers’s own website, News24, titled: How Hlaudi sold the SABC (2016- 12-11). Yes, one of their own publications revealed how MultiChoice was involved in State Capture.
Read that article again, but in short, MultiChoice paid the SABC R533 million for a five-year deal in which the SABC produce 2 channels for DSTV. Hlaudi was to receive R33 million as a bonus for this deal, he already received R11, 4 million.
This was actually a guise to bribe Hlaudi. Clause 7 in the deal that Hlaudi signed stipulates that the SABC must commit to unencrypted set top boxes for the digital migration program.
This matter was taken to Court by the likes of E-TV and it is currently awaiting a Constitutional Court judgment due in February.
Unencrypted set top boxes benefit MultiChoice because competitors of MultiChoice would need encrypted set-top boxes so that they can also charge customers, just like MultiChoice is doing.
The ulterior motives don’t end.
DSTV is providing the platform for the Gupta TV station ANN7. This openly Gupta propaganda spewing TV station can’t be cheap to run.
MultiChoice has never said if the Guptas pay MultiChoice to be on their platform, or if MultiChoice pay the Guptas. The deal is shrouded in secrecy.
My question.
Is Naspers giving free reign to the Huffpost attack squad, because Solidarity is elbowing in on their captured media market?
Remember Adriaan Basson of News24 also said that Gerrie Nel is making the mistake of his life.
I just want to ask this: Who will hold the State Capturing, money laundering Zupta mafia to account?
Will Pieter du Toit and Johan Pienaar do it for us?
I know Afriforum will try at least.
Opinion Piece by Daniel Sutherland
South Africa Today – South Africa News
