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"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, 'Mother, what was war?'" Eve Merriam
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Johannes Kerkorrel
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12 November 2002 | Johannes Kerkorrel is op hierdie dag in die ouderdom van 42 jaar op Kleinmond oorlede. Die sanger en liedjieskrywer, gebore as Ralph John Rabie, was ’n voorbok van die alternatiewe Afrikaanse musiekbeweging wat in die laat 1980’s jong Afrikaners se politieke en kulturele wêreldbeskouing uitgedaag het.
Rabie is op 27 Maart 1960 in Johannesburg gebore, een van vier kinders. Sy pa se werk het die gesin gereeld laat verhuis. Musiek was van kleins af deel van sy lewe: Hy het as jong seun klavier en orrel gespeel en op elfjarige ouderdom die troumars op troues gespeel. Op hoërskool op Sasolburg het hy kitaar vir ’n groep vriende gespeel en vertel dat hy eendag ’n bekende sanger wou word.
Ná skool het hy joernalistiek aan die Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys studeer. Hy het as verslaggewer vir Afrikaanse koerante gewerk, onder meer Die Burger en Rapport. In 1980 is hy met Anne Grobler getroud; hulle het ’n seun, Reuben, gehad. Die huwelik het later verbrokkel namate Rabie se musiekloopbaan en nagwerk al meer van sy tyd in beslag geneem het.
In 1986 het hy saam met joernalistieke vriende ’n politieke kabaret opgevoer. Kort daarna het hy na Johannesburg verhuis, waar hy saam met André Letoit, later Koos Kombuis, by die Black Sun-teater opgetree het. Hy het uiteindelik die joernalistiek verlaat en die Gereformeerde Blues Band gestig. Die naam Johannes Kerkorrel was ’n satiriese verwysing na die kerk en Afrikanertradisie. Die groep se album Eet Kreef! en liedjies soos “Sit dit af” en “Wat ’n vriend het ons in PW” het die regering en die gevestigde Afrikanerorde bespot. Die SAUK het sy musiek verbied.
In 1989 het Kerkorrel, Koos Kombuis, James Phillips en ander kunstenaars op die Voëlvry-toer deur universiteitskampusse en kunsfeeste opgetree. Die toer het ’n generasie se ontevredenheid met apartheid en diensplig ’n verhoog gegee. Kerkorrel het dikwels met die media gepraat en is deur die veiligheidsmagte dopgehou. Ná Voëlvry het hy as solokunstenaar voortgegaan, nuwe klankrigtings ondersoek en onder meer Bloudruk, Cyanide in die Beefcake en Ge-Trans-For-Meer uitgereik. Hy het ook in België en Nederland opgetree en in 1999 by Thabo Mbeki se inhuldiging gesing.
Sy latere werk het ’n rustiger kabaretstyl ingesluit, maar hy het steeds met vorm en klank geëksperimenteer. “Hillbrow”, ’n meer deernisvolle lied oor die middestad, het hom ’n gehoor in België besorg. Hy het ook die album Sing Koos du Plessis opgeneem en saam met die Vlaamse sanger Stef Bos opgetree. Hoewel sy openbare beeld uitdagend was, het vriende hom as ’n komplekse en teruggetrokke mens beskryf. Hy het ook in België en Nederland aanhangers opgebou.
Kerkorrel is op 12 November 2002 by ’n vakansieoord naby Kleinmond dood aangetref; die polisie het sy dood as selfdood beskryf. Hy is oorleef deur sy eksvrou en hul seun. Ná sy dood is herdenkingsgeleenthede in Johannesburg en Kaapstad gehou, en ’n uitstalling oor sy werk is in 2003 by die Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees aangebied.
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🇿🇦ANC REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON INVOLVED IN A CASH-IN-TRANSIT HEIST ON R25 HIGHWAY HAS BEEN ARRESTED‼️
We've all known that CIT robberies are ANC cash ATM's... The money to pay salaries had to come from somewhere. Drastic time calls for drastic measures!!
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For your Wednesday and your soul 💖
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The ANC’s old guard is set to step down.
Ramaphosa reportedly suggested the entire top leadership resign after the party’s worst election result ever. Thabo Mbeki has publicly called for them to go.
Mbeki’s line: “The outcome of the elections now liberates the ANC to a very good extent from the task of governing.”
After three decades of looting, the struggle generation is finally tired of governing
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🚨BREAKING: President Trump just HIT A HOME RUN when a reporter asked him to define what a woman is:
"A woman is somebody that can have a baby... A woman is a person who's much smarter than a man."
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A struggling Black man is useful to the Democrats.
He needs a program. He needs a grant. He needs a saviour. He needs them. And as long as he needs them, he will vote for them.
That is not compassion. That is control.
What they are truly afraid of is a Black man who does not need them at all.
A man like Byron Donalds.
Byron did not come up through their system. He did not get famous by apologizing for being American, or by blaming America for his problems, or by asking the government to fix his life.
He built a family. He built a career. He built a faith. He did it in Florida, in the open, without a victim card in his hand.
And now he wants to run Florida.
That is why they panic.
Because if Byron Donalds can become Governor of Florida without them, without DEI, without race guilt, without the Democratic Party holding his hand, then their whole story collapses.
Their story is: You cannot make it in America without us. America is racist. The system is rigged. You need us to protect you.
Byron is living proof that story is a lie.
A Black man who answers to God, not to government. A Black man who thinks for himself, not for a party. A Black man who needs nothing from Washington.
You cannot threaten that man with losing his benefits, because he never asked for them.
You cannot shame that man with being called a sellout, because he never sold out.
You cannot control that man, because he is already free.
And to a party that survives by controlling Black people, a free Black man is the most dangerous thing in America.
That is why they don't just disagree with Byron Donalds. They hate him.
Because he proves freedom works.
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