netherlands

Netherlands

The Fairtrade Façade

What are we to do, as consumers, if Fairtrade is little more than a marketing gimmick? Should we avoid products marked with its logo? Are we being conned?

Afrikaner Bloods

Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.

The Dutch Disease

The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.