The squat with a view

 07 August, 2011

A group of vagrants are enjoying one of South Africa's best views after invading a R12-million mansion in Camps Bay in Cape Town.

And they're not alone. At least a dozen other empty multimillion-rand homes have been taken over by squatters in the area.

The six-bedroom mansion, in Victoria Road, has been stripped of windows and fittings, and the walls have been blackened by the squatters' fires.

The homeless moved in while the owners of the property and the city battled over plans to demolish the house.

"Resident" Smiley Bonfus, 40, a homeless man from Burundi, this week said he had recently summoned the police to chase off a fellow squatter - who had built fires so large that the fire brigade had to be called in.

"You cannot just have any guy staying in this nice place," Bonfus said.

Byron Herbert, owner of Herbert Properties in Camps Bay, said the price of similar properties in the neighbourhood ranged from R10- to R35-million.

Gavin Oliver, head of Cape Town's Problem Buildings Unit, said other luxury homes taken over by squatters included two in up-market Bishopscourt, one overlooking Fourth Beach in Clifton, and a total of four in Gordon's Bay and Somerset West.

Oliver said the unit had "cleaned up" almost 40 buildings declared health hazards or drug dens since November, and had evicted illegal squatters from 93 flats in the Senator Park block last month.

He said the Victoria Road house "is a health risk and is rodent infested", and the city would issue its owners with a notice demanding that they "clean up this mess" or face having the property attached.

Herbert said that, had the house been in good condition, Bonfus would have been expected to pay up to R5000 a day for the flat he uses in the house.

Instead, baths, geysers and the plumbing have been stolen, the floors covered with sand and rubbish, and the walls adorned with religious-themed graffiti.

Herbert said: "That property has been an ongoing battle between the ratepayers' association, the owners, SAPS and the city council."

The house was bought five years ago for R8.3-million by a group of partners including Johannesburg businessman Khalil Sayed.

The businessman has blamed the problems on the authorities "for needlessly holding up our (development) plans".

He wants to demolish the house and build luxury apartments in its place.

He said the house was invaded after security systems "fell into neglect" - and admitted the neighbours had complained.

"The property is an eyesore, so I sympathise with ratepayers there - but really, this is the city's doing," he said.

"We are prepared to assist the city in getting these people out. We have contracted South Africa's top architect for our development and we want to get going with it."

However, Oliver said the owners were trying to make their problems the city's: "It's entirely the owner's responsibility."

Bonfus, who works occasionally as a car guard, lives in the mansion's flat with his wife, Julie de Leeuw, 36, and her 18-year-old son.

He said: "No one was here so I am helping myself. If I want the toilet I go in the bushes by the beach. I like the view."

Bonfus said, however, he would move out if he was instructed to do so. "I know this is not my place."

By contrast, the city has had to go to court to evict squatters who have taken over an eight-bedroom home in Maclear Road, Bishopscourt.

Oliver said the house had become "a drug den, with suspected stolen vehicles on site", and that residents had 60 days to vacate the premises.

A generator could be heard running at the house this week as squatters peered at Oliver's team. They refused to open the gate.

Less than 1km down the road, vagrants have moved into an unfinished suburban home which was abandoned when developers ran out of money.

House rules like "pour water after using toilet (sic)" are scribbled on the walls, while one bedroom contains a TV and DVD player, a hi-fi and an illegal electricity connection.

Oliver said: "Vagrants first visit a few times to make sure a house is not occupied. Then everything of value is stolen and then people move in. Owners must be responsible for maintaining their own properties."

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/08/07/the-squat-with-a-view

The tale of the two horses

By Mike Smith
4th of August 2011

Once there was a wealthy, but greedy man who had a young racehorse, a beautiful white stallion. The racehorse use to bring in some good money when it ran, but not enough to satisfy the greed of its owner, because the racehorse was still young and not at its peak yet.

Then when the racehorse finally got to his peak and brought in the REAL money and made the owner exceptionally rich, the greedy owner started to think ahead…long term…

Soon his prize racehorse would be getting past its peak, get older and start bringing in less and less money and costing more to maintain. It was time to invest in a new racehorse.

So he found a new racehorse owned by a shrewd horse dealer; a stunning black stallion, full of vigor. This would be his next money maker, the greedy man thought, so he bought the black racehorse from the dealer at a very high price.

At first the owner put the two horses on the same farm, but in different camps where each had its own stable and they were happy. The owner was however so happy with his new buy that he spoiled the black horse with some extra hay and water.

The next day he was eager to see how his new black stallion would perform against the white stallion so he put the two in a race against each other. The result was that the white stallion won the race by ten lengths.

Obviously the owner was a bit perturbed. He expected his new black horse to win. It cost a lot of money after all.

Not willing to admit that he bought a cat in a bag, the owner decided he would invest in some training for the black horse, so he got some fancy horse trainers in, but the more they trained the black horse to worse the results became. The horse would run wild, run in the wrong directions, do crazy things, but still the owner would not admit that he made a bad investment. Not only was his money at stake but also his reputation as a prize racehorse owner and breeder amongst his friends who were by now all laughing at him.

One day the owner decided to speak to the black stallion. He asked him, “Why are you not winning any races? Why do you do all these crazy things and run wild? I give you the best food, the best training, but you still do not perform. Unless you start winning races and winning them soon I am going to have to get rid of you…So please, work with me here”
The black horse could not answer, because he did not even understand what a race was.

Nevertheless, one night the shrewd horse dealer sneaked onto the farm and whispered in the ear of the Black Stallion… Telling him all sorts of lies…, “Look at the White Stallion”, he said. “He gets more hay than you.

His water is cleaner. His stable is nicer. That is why you are losing all the races and he is winning all the time. What you need to do is kick down your stable, turn over your water trough, trample your hay into the mud and then demand that the owner puts you in the same stable as the white horse, then you eat all his food and take all his water and then you will see that you will run just as fast as him.”

So, the next day when the racehorse owner arrived, the black horse had destroyed his stable. It was just chaos everywhere and the black horse was running wild as usual. When he tried to calm the black stallion down, the black horse demanded to live in the same stable as the white stallion.

The owner thought for a while and decided that it might not be a bad idea after all. Maybe if the two lived so closely together the black horse would learn from the white horse and soon he would be just as good as or even better than the white horse.

No sooner had he put them together, than the black horse started stealing all the food and water and claiming all the best parts of the stable for himself.

Every day the owner would put the two horses in a race against each other, and every day the results would be the same. The white horse would win every time, the black horse running wild, doing crazy things and running in the opposite directions.

But the racehorse owner refused to admit defeat. He simply refused to believe that such a clever and successful racehorse owner as himself could be duped into buying a crazy donkey instead of a prize black stallion.

Desperate to prove himself right, and see some results he hung some heavy weights on the white horse and put the worst jockey on his back.

The black horse got the best jockey and the lightest saddle, but despite all of this, the white horse still won.

So one of his friends said to him, “Why do you not send him to that brilliant racehorse training center overseas? I have heard that they can turn a donkey into a race horse.”

So again the owner invested a huge sum of money and he sent the black stallion across the water to a far away land to be trained to win races. In the mean time the white horse still had to keep on winning races to keep the owner wealthy.

The black horse stayed away a long time, but when he came back the results were amazing. For the first time he understood what a horse race was and at least ran in the right direction. The owner was beside himself with joy. All his friends who have laughed at him and told him he had made a bad investment would soon see. He would show them all that his black stallion is not only as good as the white stallion, but better.

The day of the big race came closer and the racehorse owners from all over the world were getting ready.

Finally the big day arrived and the owner arrived with his two horses, the black stallion and the white stallion. There were some other fine horses as well, of different colours.

The race started and first out of the blocks was the white horse, keeping and maintaining the lead with the other horses. The black horse returned to disaster. He again had forgotten what a race was. He ran wild into the people, causing untold damage. Despite all the countless hours of training he again ran in the opposite direction. As usual it was chaos everywhere.

The owner saw all of this…His black racehorse was an embarrassment. His face was red as all his friends were pointing fingers at him and laughing their heads off, saying, “We told you so…didn’t we?”

As usual the race was won by the White racehorse.

The marshals eventually calmed the black horse down and returned him back to the owner, who returned back to his farm with his two horses.

On the way back to the farm, the owner thought a lot. Finally the truth started to dawn on him…maybe he did make a bad investment after all. Maybe he should admit it to himself, cut his losses and let the black horse go into pasture in some secluded reserve for crazy horses. The white horse was his stalwart all along. The white horse was the one who brought him his bread and butter and kept him afloat. The black horse only ever cost him money.

The owner set the two horses into their shared stable and went into the house. He poured himself a whisky and contemplated some more about what he had to do. Eventually without finding a solution he went to bed and fell asleep quite quickly.

In the middle of the night, the owner was woken up by a terrible racket. When he went outside, the black horse was running amok. He had kicked down and destroyed all the out buildings; he had killed all the sheep and the chickens. The pigs were scrambling to escape his hoofs.

The prize black stallion that he bought at a high price, trained at an even higher cost was busy destroying everything he owned. Alone he was powerless, he did not have the strength to subdue the black beast, so he saddled up his trusty white horse, grabbed his rifle and out they rode to confront the black stallion before he could destroy the entire farm.

When the black beast saw them, he turned…with his nostrils flaring and his eyes red he stormed at them. The owner tried to pull off a shot, but missed horribly. The two horses met each other and stood up, front hooves beating away at each other, but then, with one powerful blow, the white horse knocked the black stallion against the temple and he fell to the ground unconscious. The owner saw his chance and put the rifle against the black stallion’s head and pulled the trigger. As the last convulsions went through the black horse the owner released a sigh of relief. Finally it was over, but at what a cost…almost the entire farm was destroyed and had to be rebuilt.

http://mspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2011/08/tale-of-two-horses.html

Kenya: Jill Biden to visit famine refugees

2011-08-08

The wife of US Vice President Joe Biden is in Kenya to focus attention on the famine in East Africa.

Jill Biden on Monday is visiting the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab, where tens of thousands of Somali famine refugees have arrived in recent weeks.

Biden's trip is the highest-profile US visit to drought-stricken East Africa since the numbers of refugees began dramatically increasing in June.

The US says that more than 29 000 Somali children under the age of 5 have died from the famine in the last three months.

She must make sure she takes crates and crates of condoms with her and give them instructions on how to use them. Take note: It's all the children dying so why have more?


http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Kenya-Jill-Biden-to-visit-famine-refugees-20110808

Julius Malema pulls tender strings

Aug 05 2011

Julius Malema is doling out state tenders to his pals through a company that is part-owned by his family trust.
The Ratanang Family Trust, founded by Malema, the ANC Youth League leader, holds shares in On-Point Engineering, which administers a large part of the multibillion-rand budget of Limpopo's roads and transport department.

This means that Malema has at least indirect influence over who is awarded tenders from a three-year budget allocation of reportedly R4.6-billion -- although he, On-Point and the department deny it.

In 2009, the department set up a programme management unit (PMU) to take over many of the department's functions in planning, contracting for and overseeing road works.

In a twist at odds with Malema's stance on nationalisation, it outsourced the running of the unit to On-Point for three years at a fee of R52-million.

Since then, companies linked to Malema, his business partner in On-Point, Lesiba Gwangwa, and his friend and political ally, Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale, have shared in some of the contracts administered by the unit.
While there is no evidence of bribery, these revelations come in the wake of City Press allegations about a businessman who allegedly paid a tender kickback into the Ratanang Family Trust. Malema has flatly denied taking kickbacks.

Anatomy of a scam?
On-Point, which is headed by Gwangwa, is a sister company of SGL, which started out as Segwalo Consulting Engineers in 2002. Segwalo Consulting, SGL and On-Point overlap -- they have used the same address and telephone numbers in Polokwane, and Gwangwa has been a director or member of each of the entities over the years.

Malema was a director of SGL in 2009 and 2010, but resigned around the time the public protector investigated the company to see if he had unduly influenced the many tenders awarded to it.
While the public protector, Thuli Madonsela, found no evidence that he had manipulated the tender process, she reported that much of the required paper trail could not be found.
Malema's association with the SGL surfaced again this year when his opponents bemoaned what they called the "SGL-isation" of politics when they tried to prevent him from getting a second term as the head of the youth league.

Although he continues to deny any involvement with SGL he now admits he is a shareholder in On-Point through the trust, but he refuses to disclose the value of the shareholding and denies any involvement in company operations.

However, the following web of tenders, exposed in the PMU's records in the Mail & Guardian's possession, raises a number of questions:

• Late last year, Segwalo Consulting, which was then headed by Gwangwa but which has since been deregistered, was appointed as consultant on a road maintenance contract worth R5.2-million administered by the PMU.
  
  Gwangwa denies any wrong-doing. Speaking through his lawyer, Mpoyana Ledwaba (who also administers Malema's family trust), he said: "We are made to believe that the contract was awarded during 2008 by the Roads Agency of Limpopo, but was later transferred with many others to [the roads and transport department]" -- when the PMU came into effect. Gwangwa said the conflict of interest was then flagged "in writing".
• Another of On-Point's directors, Arthur Mpotseng Phetla, who is listed as the sole owner of Mpotseng Infrastructure, was awarded six tenders towards the end of 2010 with a total value of R5.2-million.
  
  But Phetla claimed he was never a director of Gwangwa's firm. "I don’t know how my name appeared there," he said. "I was never a director of On-Point, neither then or now."
• A Malema family member has also benefited. Earlier this year his younger cousin, Tshepo Malema, was paid just over R1-million to fix potholes in a local road. The younger Malema said that, although it was true, the PMU did not award the contract.
Malema's friend Tebadi Collins Foromo was paid R917 000 about the same time as Tshepo Malema and also for fixing potholes. Although he confirmed this, he denied he was a friend of Malema's and denied allegations that until recently he was Malema's Polokwane driver. "He's my leader. He's not my friend. And if they thought I used to drive him in 2004, 2005 and 2006, it's because I had a car," he said.
• Mathale also appears to be just a step away from the PMU's tendering process. Helen Moreroa is reportedly the romantic partner of Selby Manthata, who Mathale said in an interview earlier this year was his business partner. Moreroa is also the business partner of Mokgadi Kgohloane, the premier's wife, in a string of companies.
  
  A company Moreroa owns, Oceansite Trading, won a R6.2-million tender for roads maintenance last year. There is no evidence to suggest that she is a player in the construction industry. Rather, local business people say she is both politically connected and a "friend" of On-Point.
  
  Again, Gwangwa denied any "conflict of interest" or knowledge of a relationship with Oceansite that would lead to one.
  
  Moreroa refused to respond to questions of a possible conflict and Mathale also distanced himself from any such suggestion. The premier's spokesperson said: "If people do business, it is not the premier's business."
  
  His wife could not be reached. Manthata also went to ground.
• Manthata's company, Selby Construction, has been awarded at least two tenders: one for R7.7-million, the other for R11.7-million. The first was awarded on May 17 2010, the same day Oceansite won its bid.

It appears that On-Point is effectively doling out deals to friends and allies through the PMU. According to insiders, some of the tender adjudication meetings take place at The Ranch hotel on the outskirts of Polokwane, and Gwangwa, or other representatives of the PMU, frequently attend.

Gwanga was adamant that he had "no authority" to award tenders -- which was echoed by the provincial minister for roads and transport, Pinky Kekana. She said that was not the case, -- "our procurement processes are watertight" -- and, if any representative of the PMU attended those meetings, it was only to "render technical support".

Deconstructing RAL
Until 2009 the bulk of the work that is carried out today by the PMU was done by the Roads Agency of Limpopo (RAL).

According to industry leaders, the parastatal performed well and was widely regarded as efficient, though its critics say they favoured only a handful of companies.

Soon after Mathale's administration was sworn in half way through that year, the parastatal came under the whip of the roads and transport department -- a significant chunk of the agency's budget and some of its core functions were transferred to the department, Pricewaterhouse Coopers was called in to investigate allegations of corruption (as yet unproven), and the PMU was established.

The tender to administer the unit was advertised in September 2009, the same month On-Point was created as a company in its current form and just days before bids were due to be submitted.

Gwangwa was appointed to the company's board on September 16, an address was registered on the 24th, the company was named on the 25th and bids were due to be submitted on October 1.

In the following weeks the contract was awarded to On-Point, which by then, was only weeks old and with no track record, despite the terms of reference stating that technical experience and capacity was "a minimum requirement" for a successful bid.

The winning team should have included "architects, quantity surveyors, civil engineers, structural engineers and project managers" with experience in "the design and construction of roads", which were among other requirements specified in the tender document.

Gwangwa's team was apparently lacking in capacity and, although he listed engineers among them, none had road experience.
Charles Kawanga was one of the engineers presented as an experienced and skilled engineer as part of On-Point's bid.

But he was a former director of SGL who had long since resigned. He later lodged a complaint with civil engineering authorities about the fact that his name was being improperly used by On-Point.
It is not clear why the On-Point team won the tender. There were 16 bidders and the M&G asked the department to reveal the shortlist. It agreed to do so but the list had not arrived before going to print.

"Yes, we are close to On-Point"

Julius Malema has admitted that he is behind On-Point Engineers, the firm that runs the programme management unit in Limpopo's roads and transport department.

"Yes, we are close to On-Point," he said. "We are shareholders as a family" through "the [Ratanang Family] Trust".

His words put an end to nearly two years of speculation about his links to the company, which has been associated with a string of government tenders.
But Malema insisted that he did not "participate actively" in the day-to-day running of On-Point and did not influence the tenders the company had won or was awarded.

"At On-Point I've never done that. I do not know what happens at On-Point. I just queue when the dividends are due." Then he quickly corrected this: "And not me, the trust does that."
The Ratanang Family Trust is named after Malema's son, who is its only named beneficiary.

Malema played his hand in an interview last week during research for an upcoming book about his life and his politics. He was aware that part of the interview could be published in the M&G.

The interview took place in the wake of an allegation in City Press newspaper that Malema had demanded that a businessman pay R200 000 to the trust as a kickback for a tender -- an allegation Malema denied.

Malema refused to reveal the extent of the trust's shareholding in On-Point or the amount the trust earns in dividends.

"I'm not going to tell you anything about that," he said. "I'm a participant. That is what is important." -- Fiona Forde

Fiona Forde is the author of the soon-to-be released An Inconvenient Youth: Julius Malema and the "new" ANC

Responses from the various interested parties

Julius Malema
The ANC Youth League president denied he was able to influence tender awards through the Ratanang Family Trust's shareholding in On-Point.

"You are talking to the wrong person. Being a shareholder does not mean we know what is going on in the company. I am not involved in the running of the company and I can't respond to what I don't know. I am just a shareholder … the trust is a shareholder."

Limpopo department of roads and transport

Spokesperson Thesan Moodley said: "We were not aware, nor were we interested [in Malema's interest in On-Point], as the information would have been irrelevant to the prescribed supply-chain management process."

Questioned about On-Point's competence at the time of the bid, he said: "Based on the evaluation criteria they were recommended for appointment, having met the requirements as contained in the tender or bid documents."

That On-Point was formed days before the bid was not a problem, he said: "It is not unusual for companies to establish vehicles to respond to opportunities as they arise."

Commenting on certain contracted companies' ties to Malema, Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale and On-Point staff members Lesiba Gwangwa and Arthur Mpotseng Phetla, Moodley said: "[The programme management unit] only participates on invitation to render technical support during once-off evaluation processes convened in the context of a bid evaluation.

"[It] does not serve in the bid adjudication [committee] and therefore under no circumstances shall [the unit] award contracts on behalf of the [department]. Our procurement processes are watertight as they comprise several officials from different directorates and sometimes … external support.

"All committees are required in terms of the law to declare any possible or potential conflict of interest. If necessary, an appointed member has to recuse himself or herself from the process."

On the transfer of duties from the Roads Agency of Limpopo to the department at the time the unit was formed, Moodley said: "In fact, [the agency] remains with the huge responsibility of building or upgrading roads in the province. The department took the decision to consolidate the split maintenance functions to make it easier to manage them and also to build on unified support to the programme."

On-Point

On-Point's lawyer, Mpoyana Ledwaba, said that as a shareholder Malema did not participate in the company's day-to-day to activities. He was adamant that On-Point and the programme management unit did not "have any authority whatsoever to award tenders and has never awarded any tender".

But the terms of reference for the bid stated that On-Point's responsibilities would include "evaluating" and "selecting" successful bidders.

Ledwaba dismissed allegations that the company did not have the technical capacity for the contract at the time of the bid.

He said On-Point had partnered with "reputable institutions in preparation of [the] bid [and] both national and international partners in executing the project" and supplied a list of partners, including architects, engineers and IT experts. Apart from the civil engineers, it is unclear which of them were part of On-Point's bid in October 2009.

Ledwaba added: "Contrary to your views, the team has turned around a previously underperforming department, which is now able to meet and exceed its set targets."

Although company records indicate that On-Point was only activated from a differently named shelf company days before the bid, Ledwaba said it "was established long before the tender was advertised, to pursue various potential business opportunities".

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-05-how-julius-malema-pulls-tender-strings

SA loans billions to Mswati's kingdom

03 Aug 2011

2.5 billion rand to be exact

South Africa has agreed to a 2.5 billion rand ($368-million, 259-million-euro) loan to neighbouring Swaziland, which is suffering a crippling financial crisis, the Reserve Bank said Wednesday.

Spokesman Hlengani Mathebula confirmed the deal but declined to give details on the loan.

“The South African Reserve Bank is just a facilitating mechanism,” he said.

The loan amounts to just one-quarter of the request reportedly made by Swazi King Mswati III.

South Africa’s powerful labour unions, key allies of the ruling African National Congress, have joined Swazi activists in pressing for Pretoria to demand democratic reforms in exchange for the loan.

Mswati is Africa’s last absolute monarch and the financial crisis has sparked a series of demonstrations since April demanding reforms.

“We are thankful” to South Africa, Mswati said at a palace briefing late Tuesday.

“This shows that they are good neighbours.

“We hope that the financial assistance we have received will assist in alleviating the country from the fiscal problems,” he added, according to the independent daily Times of Swaziland.

The king sought to deflect accusations of financial mismanagement, saying Swaziland is “not the only country faced with fiscal crisis, but the world over”.

“But it must be stressed that this is not a gift but a loan, which naturally should be repaid.

“This is why every Swazi must play his or her role by working hard wherever he is to ensure that the country gets back to its feet the soonest,” he said, according to the royal-owned Observer newspaper.

• Swaziland has been battling to stay solvent after losing 60 percent of its revenues from a regional customs union, the government’s main source of income, last year.

The government froze public-sector salaries and asked unions to accept pay cuts, leading to mass protests that were violently put down by security forces.


http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/08/03/sa-loans-billions-to-mswati-s-kingdom

The signs of the brewing South African Race-War

By Mike Smith
1st of August 2011

Matthew 24:32-35
32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34...Bible-NKJV

There are certain things happening lately in South Africa that should be of great concern to its entire people.
For a long time now the ANC and its leaders like President Zuma and Julias Malema of the youth league have been singing songs about killing whites, such as “Kill the Boers; Kill the farmers” and “Bring me my machine gun”. They keep on trying to convince us that these are harmless struggle songs and part of their culture despite the court ruling that it is not only hate-speech, but also enticing violence and calling for genocide of the white people in South Africa.

Despite the ongoing violent crime in South Africa there is also the mass protest of ANC supporters against the ANC and the police. There are also strikes by taxi drivers cutting off all roads to major cities such as Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. How does one make sense of all of this?

These so called mass demo’s are training exercises for mass mobilization and the taxis blocking off the roads are part of it.

Remember that the ANC’s real soldiers are not the police and military. Their powers are limited as according to international law. Civilians on the other hand have a free run to do what they want, as it Rwanda.

It is called “People’s War”, originally founded by Mao Tze Tung and later perfected in Vietnam by general Vo Nguyen Giap. Recently Dr. Anthea Jeffrey wrote a book about how the ANC employed these techniques after visiting Vietnam in 1979 to learn from General Giap.

The use of civilian dressed women and children in attacks against real soldiers has several benefits. It basically gives them a free reign to do what they want, because if the soldiers strike back they will be acting against the Geneva Convention and the opposition will use every dead child and woman for propaganda purposes to recruit ten more.

The atrocities committed by such civilian dressed “Freedom Fighters” cannot be classed as military actions, but rather ordinary crime committed by rowdy civilian mobs.

During the 1980’s we have seen how these ANC civilian mobs killed thousands of blacks by the horrific necklace method.

In “People’s War” the role of the army and the police is to smooth the way for the civilian forces. They are to block escape routes, surround the enemy, but the actual killing will be done by so called civilians, that way nobody in the army or the government can later be held accountable for what civilian mobs have done.

Later on the police and army will claim that they tried to help and prevent the massacres that they aided in.
This same technique was used by the Israeli soldiers in 1982 at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps when they surrounded the refugee camps and the Lebanese Phalangists went in to rape and massacre the inhabitants.

When the ANC Youth League president Julias Malema travelled to Zimbabwe to personally learn from Mugabe how land evasions of white farms should be done, people started to pay attention.

Earlier this year he has started calling for the confiscating of white owned farms without compensation, whilst not a peep from his seniors in the ANC.

The same thing happened when he started calling for the nationalization of the mines. He traveled to Venezuela to learn this trick from Hugo Chavez.

The whole time people waited in vain for the ANC to discipline this out of control rambling idiot, because quietly the ANC supports him 100%. Now it has emerged that the ANC in North West as well as The ANC in Limpopo has now officially backed the ANC Youth League to nationalize mines and other sectors of the economy.

At the same time, 8000 members of the ANC Youth League and the Young Communist League will be trained at Saldanha and Bloemfontein (De Brug) military bases. The ANC denies that they will be receiving military training, instead they will be receiving training in “Life Skills”, “Artisanship”, “Patriotism” and “Discipline”…

This military training for the ANC youth has been planned from the very top of the ANC and it has the backing of the Minister Of Defense, Lindiwe Sisulu . These are the Mugabe Green Bombers all over again.

It is illegal to have private armies in South Africa and illegal for any political party to military train its members with taxpayer’s money.

As this is not enough, The ANC has allocated more funds to train the National Rural Youth Service Corps (NARYSEC).

The training starts with seven weeks basic training at a military base, Bloemfontein and is two years long (national service?). They are also paid R1320 a month…

“Besides the soft skills, NARYSEC recruits, who supposed to be from rural wards and minimum requirements is Grade 10, also receive hard skills training – for careers as bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, welders, etc. Throughout the two years' intensive training, recruits get a stipend of R1 320 per month.” Government source

Training bricklayers, carpenters, electricians…? At a Military base…?

These youths will be deployed into wards in rural areas.

Excuse me, but this sounds a lot like Mao Tse Tung when he first proposed “People’s War”. He said that cells should be started in the country side from where the people soldiers would go out and carries out their terror campaign and forced recruiting. Eventually the cells would grow into each other and surround entire towns or cities which will then eventually fall to the people’s army. It was General Giap who also used this tactic in cities itself.

Now Julias Malema wants to send a team to neighboring Botswana to consolidate the opposition in order to topple the “puppet government” of President Ian Khama whom he sees as a puppet of the big “imperialist” mining bosses. Source

In an article in Times Live Malema said the "willing buyer, willing seller" concept had to be thrown out of the window.

"They [white people] must pay for making us slaves. We must punish them. And now they must pay. If we don't, we are paying them for calling us k*****s," he said. [Kaffirs]

"They must appreciate the fact that we have forgiven them, but must know we will never forget."

Apart from destabilizing the neighboring country and toppling it, it will serve two more purposes, namely provide a buffer against possible white refugees wanting to flee there and serve as a base for insurgents into South Africa.

It has also come to my attention that secret FEMA style military concentration camps identical to that in the USA are being erected in Kimberley South Africa all while The US marines are engaged in a large scale (biggest ever) military exercise together with the SA army

It seems as if we are in for some interesting times in South Africa.

 

 

http://mspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2011/08/signs-of-brewing-south-african-race-war.html

The shocking Parallels between Mugabe’s ”NYS Green Bombers” and Zuma’s NARYSEC youth brigade

By Mike Smith
2nd of August 2011

Since 1994 when the Marxist Terrorist regime came to power in South Africa, the public were split on a certain issue, that of us becoming a second Zimbabwe.

There was always a tiny minority pointing out the obvious signs and parallels with what happened in Zimbabwe and on the other hand a vast majority saying that it would never happen in South Africa.

Today the question is not anymore if it can happen in South Africa, but how far are we away from it?

There will still be the deniers, making it off as scaremongering, sensationalism or conspiracy theories...

When the 140 km Berlin Wall was erected around West Berlin by the East German GDR it did not happen instantaneously. The inner German fence separating East from West Germany started in the 1950’s. On the 15th of June 1961 a reporter asked General Secretary Walter Ulbricht if the fence would run past the Brandenburg Gate. Ulbricht told him; “Nobody has the intention to build any wall”…A month and a half later the fence came up.

The first concrete blocks were put down four days later, but the wall was only completed much later.

The reason was to stop the defections and brain drain from East Germany to West Germany, but according to the Communist GDR it was an “Anti Fascists Protection Wall” that protected the poor East Germans from the evil fascist West… And some people believed this junk…

In the beginning many people could defect to the West across the main “Inner German Border”. In Berlin in 1961 it was only a barbed wire barricade that could easily be overrun by an angry mob. Yet people stayed. 17 million Germans would eventually be trapped in a Communist prison where all freedom would disappear in a secret police state run by the Stasi.

Every third person became a Stasi informer. The GDR was a real life hell-hole with no privacy, disappearances of thousands of people without a trace, restrictions on every conceivable freedom from the freedom to move around to the freedom to speak or even to think. Everybody just wanted to get away, but anybody trying to escape was summarily shot dead.

Why would the people stay and not try to escape, especially in the beginning when they could? It is a mindset I struggle to understand.

When the bricks were laid one on top of the other and people saw the wall get higher and higher, why did they not escape? When Ida Siekmann fell to her death trying to escape by jumping out of her apartment, when Günter Litfin was shot dead swimming across the Spree River to escape, why did the people not see the writing on the wall? Why do people seem to live in denial of evil even when it knocks them directly in the face?

In South Africa, despite thousands of white farmers killed since 1994 and many more whites raped, barbarically tortured and executed by blacks, many whites are still in denial that this is a murderous war and slow genocide waged on whites by blacks. Despite all the evidence rubbed under their noses and shoved in their faces, they simply refuse to believe the truth.

So how far are we from Zimbabwe style invasions of white farms by black paramilitary forces? Not far if one looks at the evidence and the parallels.

In Zimbabwe (2001), Robert Mugabe trained youth soldiers between 10 and 30 years old. Giving military training to anybody younger than 18 years is prohibited by the Geneva Convention and considered a child soldier.

Nevertheless, these youth soldiers became known as the National Youth Services, dubbed “The Green Bombers” because of the military uniforms they wore.

The Solidarity Peace Trust (SPT) reported back then that the Zimbabwe government told the press that the training of the youths was “allegedly aimed at skills enhancement, patriotism and moral education”

It started with voluntary basic training and Mugabe then made it unofficial compulsory national service of two years.

Further, the SPT reported “In contradiction of claims that the training would not aim at imparting military skills, military drills including weapons training are shown to have been major elements of youth training since the first youth intakes during 2001.”
These youths were guilty of murder, torture, rape, voter intimidation, destruction of property, attacks on businesses, disruption of opposition MDC rallies and ultimately invasions of white owned farms, killing farmers and their families and chasing them off their land.

The SPT further reported that the youths had the protection of the police and military to do what they wanted…

“The militia have an ambivalent relationship with law enforcing agencies including the army and police. On the whole, the youth militia have impunity, often working under the direction of war veterans and alongside government agencies in their illegal activities. They are seldom arrested or prevented from breaking the law.”

There were also reports of large scale sexual abuse inside these training camps; Youngsters raping each other as well as the instructors raping the youngsters.

Just like Mugabe founded the National Youth Services to aid with “Land Reform” in rural areas, the ANC founded the National Rural Youth Service Corps (NARYSEC) under the guidance of the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Defense.

Look at the names…it is almost identical to what Mugabe has.

Just like Mugabe, it started with voluntary basic training of seven weeks and then advanced training up to two years.

As I said in a previous report 8000 members of the ANC Youth League and the Young Communist League will be trained at Saldanha and Bloemfontein (De Brug) military bases. The ANC denied that they will be receiving military training; instead they will be receiving training in “Life Skills”, “Artisanship”, “Patriotism” and “Discipline”…

This is exactly what Mugabe said of the NYS or “Green Bombers” in 2001.

Recently, a Green Bomber was quoted in the local papers as saying, “We’re ZANU PF’s ‘B’ team. The army is the ‘A’ team, and we do the things government does not want the ‘A’ team to do.”
This is exactly what I said in my previous post. The army and police will not do the fighting so much. They will assist and protect the youths to viciously slaughter the whites.

Let there be no doubt or any illusions as to what the ANC’s plans are with the 8000 Narysec youths they are currently training. They are training them to steal white farms, to chase the white owners off or brutally rape, torture and kill them.

Those who have said Zimbabwe will never happen to South Africa should now take note of what the ANC Marxist scum are doing.

Remember that the ANC moves by deception and when these deceptions are exposed their plans become half as effective.

The time has come to put defense structures in place. The time has come to train every man, woman, child and dog alike. The time has come to plan and put contingencies in place. The time has come to warn others, to organize, to talk, to spread the word, to stock up…The time for the whites’ last stand on the African continent has arrived…

Stay strong. Remember there was a time when we were also youths…


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NYS - Wikipedia
Mugabe inspecting the Green Bombers at a Passing out parade

Zuma’s time has come

The Black Family: Zuma’s time has come

Denzil Taylor

For me, it doesn’t really matter that this is Jacob Zuma’s first term as president. Previously, he served as deputy president.

Zuma came to power on the wave of a party unhappy with former president Thabo Mbeki’s leadership style. And many will argue it was a lot more than mere leadership issues that got him fired. Mbeki’s time had come.

I will now argue that Zuma’s time has come.

Never in its modern history has the party been so weakened and divided. Never has it been so vulnerable as it has become under Zuma’s leadership. Never has the ruling party been so ineffective as a government.
The secretary-general reports have over the years spoken about the weaknesses in the organisation – about the infighting, weak branches and careerism. They have dealt with nondelivery and its reasons, and even corruption. They have even spoken about the tensions in the alliance.

But never, I think, have the reports dealt with the issue and the extent of the divided and weak leadership (top six) as we have now. Or even the alliance, and its dysfunctional nature, torn apart, as is the case today.

Present events are of the extreme.

There is the ANC Youth League that runs roughshod over everything and everyone it disagrees with, or who disagree with it.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe came under fire for daring to question the Youth League. Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor was told that her accent was not “African” and she was ridiculed publicly.

Zuma himself has had to sit on a podium with these young comrades while they ridicule both him and his lifestyle.

Today’s headlines around ANCYL president Julius Malema are about his so-called “secret” trust fund, from ill-gotten tenders.

It’s what pays for the parties, the now famous wrist watch, the vehicles, the homes and expensive alcohol, they say. But the issue here is not Julius.

Consider the public protector.

A brave individual who should have government’s full support for the work she does. Yes, they issued a statement to this effect. A statement! That’s all.

Consider the past few months of her work and the individuals involved.

Senior police officials and a minister who are all implicated in a deal that suggests that everything is not above board. It’s a deal that defies logic. And if it were not this serious we would all be laughing and rolling on the floor. Someone really tried to pull this off – at the taxpayer’s expense. It is always at the taxpayer’s expense.
Closer to home for Zuma is the so-called plot to oust him. His comrades want him removed. Does the plot really exist? Does the list of individuals exist? My guess is it does. I would go further to suggest that Zuma knows this. Sufficient numbers of ANC NEC members have suggested publicly that it does. Enough reason for Zuma to take it seriously.

But is this enough reason to ask that he serve one term? Probably not.

What is extremely worrying, though, is what is being allowed to happen on the ground. The devastating effect of a local government strategy gone wrong and a government increasing unconcerned about the funds that are meant for local government, and in particular, service delivery.
This, while individuals and their close family members become millionaires overnight.
Just what will we have to show when we celebrate 20 years of democracy? More importantly, let’s not celebrate 100 years of existence as a party next year knowing what we know. That had we done what was needed to be done, with the funds available, our poor would be in a better place today.

And when we reflect on those 100 years, let’s be brutally honest with ourselves and say what needs to be said.

That we have kept the poor impoverished because of the greed of some individuals and a party that will not face up to this reality.

Let’s not merely throw a party, or several, invite a band, a chommie, shout a few slogans and party through the night.

The sad truth is that funds meant for local government expenditure is at risk from this government. At risk from the get-rich-quick schemes that deprive the poorest of the poor.

Reports of corruption and maladministration have never been on this scale or frequency. Even more disturbing is the scale of theft. Mind-boggling! One hundred million here, 500 million there.

I doubt Zuma has the capacity to stop the rot. I doubt he has the capacity to deliver on that promise of “A better life for all”.

The ANC has many a cadre who can step up to the plate and take on this responsibility. Please won’t someone do just that? For the sake of this country!

Denzil Taylor is managing editor of news and sport at Jacaranda 94.2FM. He writes in his personal capacity.

http://www.thenewage.co.za/blogdetail.aspx?mid=186&blog_id=%201003

If You Think You Know South Africa

Professor Johnny Molefe's invalid qualification

August 1 2011

Professor Johnny Molefe

The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has appointed Professor Johnny Molefe as vice-chancellor of the institution despite his being in possession of an invalid qualification, claiming he was the victim of an unaccredited institution.

Molefe, who has been acting vice-chancellor of TUT since last year, was appointed permanently to the position on Friday despite the controversy caused by the allegations over his unrecognised doctorate.

His appointment has raised eyebrows since it was established that the Doctor of Business Administration qualification he has was obtained from an unaccredited institution.

It has also resulted in the resignation of two university council members who were concerned about how the matter was handled.

The DA has written to Parliament’s higher education and training portfolio committee to summon the university’s council chairman to explain the appointment to Parliament.

The SA Qualifications Authority (Saqa) first wrote to the former vice-chancellor, Professor Errol Tyobeka, in 2007 informing him that Molefe’s qualification was not legitimate.

It was obtained from St George University International, a West Indies institution known for selling doctorates and other qualifications online.

These revelations were also brought to the attention of the university by the Ministry of Higher Education and Training, and subsequently led to an investigation by the university council.

But the council has defended Molefe, saying he was a victim of the fraudulent institution and would not have known that the university was unaccredited.

“Neither the employer nor Professor Molefe knew or could have known the ‘adverse status’ of the university.

“He could not have known that St George University International was not accredited because chances are his employers may have verified its status as well.

“Had he been fraudulent, he would not have voluntarily subjected his doctoral degree for evaluation,” said the council.

Council chairman Malesela Motlatla confirmed that Technikon North West (later merged to become TUT) had paid the fees for Molefe to obtain the doctorate from St George University International as the “institution” had misrepresented itself to the university and to Molefe.

According to Motlatla, Molefe had opted to study for his doctorate with an international university as there was no other university in South Africa that offered a doctorate in Business Administration in 2000.

He said he had no reason to lie about the doctorate as he already had enough qualifications to apply for the position.

Motlatla has also slammed Saqa for releasing an “unsolicited” report as part of an investigation that was never commissioned by the council, and of which they have no knowledge.

“Initially, the Saqa had previously issued verification for Professor Molefe’s qualifications in 2002 and 2007 respectively.

“Subsequent to that, they had since issued an unsolicited report on 31 May 2011 which states that neither St George University nor St George University International is an accredited higher education institution in the West Indies or in any other country.

“In dealing with the matter, Saqa violated its own rules and guidelines for confidentiality, fairness, integrity, honesty, and consistency,” said Motlatla.

Dr Junita Kloppers-Lourens MP, DA shadow minister of higher education and training, said the appointment of Molefe was “absolutely unacceptable” and she accused Molefe of having been involved in a criminal act.

She confirmed that she had sent a letter to portfolio committee chairman Motswane Malale that the TUT Council chairman should be summoned to give an explanation of the “bizarre” decision.

“The man is guilty of fraud because he actually solicited a fake qualification and passed it off as legitimate in his CV despite knowing very well that it is not.

“He is guilty of a criminal act and it is unacceptable that external members of the council have pushed for him to be appointed regardless of the evidence that he was involved in fraud,” said Kloppers-Lourens.

She said it was very concerning that TUT was in the business of rewarding students with qualification for their hard work, yet they had appointed a vice-chancellor who had obtained his qualifications fraudulently.

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) said it would only comment on the matter after the union had met today.

TUT Central SRC president Nkululeko Maphanga said the SRC would only communicate its official position on the matter on Monday.

Molefe said he was not yet in a position to comment on the university council’s decision to appoint him.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/row-over-top-tut-post-1.1109272