Draaiboek van skrywer François Bloemhof word Hollywood-fliek

Hy het nie besef dat dit sy droom is nie totdat dit gebeur het. ’n Rolprent gaan aanstaande jaar in Hollywood van ’n draaiboek van die skrywer François Bloemhof gemaak word.

Sy voorstel vir ’n rolprent wat hy ses maande gelede aan ’n Amerikaanse rolprentvervaardiger voorgelê het, is pas aanvaar.

“Dis een van daai dinge wat so onrealisties is dat ek glad nie op daardie skaal gedink het nie. Hier in Suid-Afrika moet jy iemand ken voordat jy ’n voet in die deur kry, of iemand ken wat íemand ken. En ek ken niemand nie! Nog minder in Hollywood. Dit was dit dus nooit ’n opsie nie.”

Bloemhof se draaiboek The Night Visitor, ’n wetenskapfiksieriller handel oor ’n model wie se suster vermoor is. Met haar terugkeer na haar tuisdorp besef sy dat haar suster nie die enigste slagoffer is nie en dat sy dalk ook in gevaar verkeer.

Sy enigste verfilmde vollengte-draaiboek is Double Echo wat onlangs voltooi is. Dit is gegrond op sy spanningsroman Doods

Expats in the USA aim to secure our future as ethnic group in South Africa

The wheels are rolling to take the ANC government to task in the USA, through a two-phased action. Through expats in the USA, Front National’s adv Jurg Prinsloo and FN international liaison officer Catryn Bosman will collaborate with an USA law firm and two Republican Congresswomen.

The newest is that our statements and information have found their way through the corridors of power in the USA.

The action is supported by FN to gain:

The international right to self-determination through USA intervention;
and the discriminatory laws, practices and ordinances as concern farm murders, general attacks on “whites”, racial slurs on social media and video clips by “blacks” and politicians such as Zuma, Maimane and Malema. These will hinge on racial incitement, Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment, emigration figures for whites, quotas in sport teams and university applications, land grabs and more than 100 discriminatory laws to be tested in a USA

Two stellar South African movies coming to Showmax – a must-watch for South Africans living abroad

Both of these thought-provoking tear-jerkers are a must-watch for South Africans living abroad, and they’re both coming to Showmax. Raising important issues currently facing South African society, the Afrikaans films Uitvlucht, from the director of Faith Like Potatoes, and Treurgrond, starring Steve Hofmeyr, are coming to Showmax for overseas viewers. Add them to your diaries – and have the tissues handy!

Darrell Roodt’s film Treurgrond, landing on Showmax on Monday, 31 July, deals with a controversial subject. It is a close look at the issue of farm murders in South Africa. The outspoken actor, musician and activist Steve Hofmeyr plays Lukas, the soft-hearted farmer at the centre of the story. Lukas tries desperately to protect his family, farm and community when the area is plagued by farm attacks.

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Apart from the violence on the farms, there’s also a land claim hanging again

South African Racer to compete at the Must See Racing Sprint Car Series in America

Vaal Triangle resident, Jacques Roos, will represent South Africa at the Must See Racing Sprint Car Series in America this Saturday.

Roos, who is well-known among racing enthusiasts in the Vaal, will make his debut at the Midvale Speedway in Ohio. Roos was offered the opportunity by the McCune family, who have in recent years travelled to South Africa to compete in sprint car events. According to local media, the connection between the Roos family and the McCune family goes back some eight years when two-time defending series champion Jimmy McCune first travelled to South Africa and raced for Roos’ father, Johan.

Now, Roos will have the opportunity to race alongside his long-time friend at the Midvale Oval. Roos is a former winner of the United States vs. South Africa sprint car Invitational as well as the current championship leader in the winged sprint car division at Ultimate Raceway this season. Roos said that Saturday’s race at Midvale may be his toughes

Prominente advokaat in VSA gesels oor sy liefde vir Afrikaans

Afrikaans is ʼn ryk en unieke taal. Suid-Afrika sal intellektueel armer wees as daar nie plek vir die taal in sy akademie en hoër onderwysinstellings is nie.

So het Robert O’Brien, ʼn prominente advokaat van Los Angeles, Kalifornië, in ’n eksklusiewe onderhoud met Forum Nuus gesê.

O’Brien het al verskeie topposisies binne die Bush-administrasie beklee en was voorheen bekendes soos die ruimtevaarder Buzz Aldrin se regsverteenwoordiger.

O’Brien was ook destyds een van die topstudente van die Universiteit van Kalifornië se Los Angeles kampus (UCLA) wat deur ʼn internasionale beursfonds gekies is om in 1986 as uitruilstudent in Suid-Afrika te kom studeer.

Hy praat vandag nog Afrikaans en sy vrou voer maandeliks vir hom kopieë van De Kat en Huisgenoot in om te lees.

O’Brien is ʼn oudstudent van prof. Jacques du Plessis, ʼn voormalige dosent in Afrikaans aan die Universiteit van Wisconsin en UCLA, wat hom beywer vir die navorsing en ontwikkeling

100,000 Whites flee anti-white South Africa as over ten times more Africans arrive from Africa, DESPITE “xenophobia”

An estimated total of 95,158 whites have left South Africa since 2011, according to a new Statistics SA report released on Thursday.

According to the 2015 mid-year population estimates, in the same period 1,067,937 Africans and 40,929 Asians migrated to South Africa.

The figures took into account total departures and total arrivals over the period.

Statistician-general Pali Lehohla, speaking at the release of the 2015 mid-year population estimates in Pretoria, suggested that while Stats SA had not done any migration studies, it could be assumed the estimates were influenced by employment opportunities.

“It can be assumed and working from theory, migrants tend to go where there is employment and looking at the age structure of Gauteng, you can conclude reasonably well it’s because of the supposed job opportunities that are there, that migrants are coming in,” he said.

Touching on white migration, Lehohla said there was a trend among white children,