Max du Preez

Free speech is never absolute

2011-08-03 11:00

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'

Max du Preez 2011-07-06 08:15 360 comments

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.

The powerful poor

Max du Preez 2011-05-11 14:04 49 comments

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.

Malema back on a pedestal

Max du Preez 2011-04-13 08:25 127 comments

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.

Are we all 'coloured'?

Max du Preez 2011-03-09 12:40 171 comments

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

Max du Preez 2011-01-19 13:35 52 comments

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'

Max du Preez 2010-11-01 12:40 57 comments

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?'

Max du Preez 2010-09-15 11:20 31 comments

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

Distorting history

Max du Preez 2010-07-07 09:25 73 comments

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

Max du Preez 2010-05-05 13:00 64 comments

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?

Max du Preez 2010-03-03 11:35 295 comments

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'

Max du Preez 2010-01-20 14:26 76 comments

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!

Max du Preez 2009-11-18 08:49 56 comments

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.

The race debate

Max du Preez 2009-09-02 08:59 82 comments

Our nation is riddled with bigotry and it stands in the way of us being more successful and of being a happier society, says Max du Preez.

Proud of the Boks

Max du Preez 2009-07-08 13:27 69 comments

Max du Preez was proud of the way the Springbok rugby players protested against the injustice perpetrated against one of their own.

 
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.

Land of the Absurd

Max du Preez 2011-02-09 12:15 193 comments

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

Racism sells

Max du Preez 2010-12-08 11:19 337 comments

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

Max du Preez 2010-10-06 13:11 101 comments

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'

Max du Preez 2010-08-04 12:10 134 comments

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

Max du Preez 2010-06-02 12:00 42 comments

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

Max du Preez 2010-04-07 12:05 176 comments

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!

Max du Preez 2010-02-03 09:03 49 comments

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

Max du Preez 2009-12-09 08:00 64 comments

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

Purveyors of hate

Max du Preez 2009-10-07 08:45 80 comments

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

Non-racial country? Non-sense.

Max du Preez 2009-08-05 09:23 213 comments

SA is multi-racial, not non-racial. Non-racial is supposed to mean race doesn't count. In SA it does, says Max du Preez.

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