Pandora's Box 1

Mike Smith's Political Commentary

Where the truth hurts

Friday, April 23, 2010

Time to open Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 1

By Mike Smith
22nd of April 2010

When we were children. We could never understand what the church minister meant when he said that all sins are sins and all sins are equally bad. It did not make sense to us, because telling a lie is not as bad as murdering someone...or is it?

Personally I believe that lying is far more dangerous than murder. Lying can kill entire civilisations.

You see...Lying is an art. There are many facets to it, but basically successful lying works like this:

You start with a massive lie. Some idiots will believe it, some will be mildly sceptic and a few intelligent ones will dismiss it as hogwash. Then you tone the lie down a bit, and those mildly sceptic ones becomes believers and the few intelligent ones who thought they knew the truth start doubting themselves and think, “OK, some of it might be true, but it is mostly bullshit”.

And so it carries on...you tone the lie down a little bit more until everyone accepts it as the truth.

See, people do not believe lies, because they have to, but , because they want to...But there are lies and then there are statistics...and then there is the truth. And that is what I profess to.

And so the lie of Apartheid and everything about it was started as a massive lie until Apartheid was accepted as a crime against humanity on the 30th of November 1973.
The Crime of Apartheid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_apartheid
Was it a Crime? A Crime against humanity?...or was it the fairest system ever created for multicultural societies?

These are the questions I want to explore in a series of articles.
“Why”, you ask?

This so called “Crime of Apartheid” is a daemon released from Pandora’s Box. It has far reaching consequences that were previously not considered. It has consequences and it is making people nervous...everyone from international corporations, international church organisations to sovereign nations are currently biting their nails...

What is the motivation to open Pandora’s Box? Does common sense not tell you to rather keep it shut? Do you really want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes?
When it comes to “The Crime of Apartheid”, the only motivation is GREED.
So who are these greedy people brave enough to open Pandora’s Apartheid Box? They are called

The Khulumani support group
Khulumani means “To speak out” in the Zulu Language.

So let us speak out. Let us not hold back anymore. Let us not pay 20,000 blacks R30,000 “restitution for suffering under Apartheid” like the ANC did after the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission”).

To understand it better I have to take you back a while to when us whites willingly handed power over to the Blacks in 1994...

We thought we had an honest deal. The deal was actually simple. We wanted the international community to lift all economic and sport sanctions against us so we could play Rugby and take part in the Olympics. In exchange we asked the ANC to stop planting bombs in shopping centres and landmines on farm roads, we told the international community that we were willing to bury the hatchet with the ANC, provided they do the same.

We wanted to bury Apartheid and build a fantastic country all working together to make the country even stronger than what it was. We thought it was achievable, because we always got on well with our Black domestics in our homes or our black colleagues at work.

We knew nothing about the communist agitations happening in the townships. Most of us, were political dunces at the time. Our political beliefs were very liberal after we left (brainwashing) school and entered the realm of Liberal activist student politics.

The reality was that when we buried the hatchet, the ANC continued the struggle. They have not at the time, neither now achieved their ultimate goal, which is a total communist South Africa...and therefore will continue the struggle until there is not a single white person left in South Africa.

How did I realise that the ANC was continuing the struggle?

I saw it with the TRC, I saw it with the introduction of Affirmative Action and Black Economic Empowerment. I saw that the ANC was not willing to let it all go. They were not interested in burying the hatchet. The ANC was not interested in “A better life for all”.

The ANC was only interested in making as much money for themselves and screw the rest of all South Africans, Black or White.

The ANC equals Greed. Nothing will ever be enough. You cannot bargain or deal with them, because they will take everything you put on the table and demand more. It is futile to deal with these Marxist terrorists. Dealing with them will mean you will lose everything you have and they will not give up a single thing they have. You will keep on giving until you have nothing more to give, at which point you become expendable. That is when they will kill you. We as ordinary whites in South Africa are fast approaching that stage.

Along came the TRC who paid blacks in South Africa R30.000 each for their bullshit stories about how Apartheid oppressed them. The oppression and benefits will be dealt with in another article, but as far as I am concerned, when someone offers me R30,000 then I can also suck a brilliant story of oppression out of my thumb.
Make the sum people. R30,000 paid out to about 20 thousand black??? R600,million...is that enough?

So to take stock. We thought it was enough to hand over our country that we built with our money and our expertise. We thought it was enough to give them a first world country with a nuclear and space program. We identified every single black who supposedly suffered under Apartheid, we believed all their lies all 20,000 who came forward, we paid them restitution of R30,000 each...

But let me tell you, it was not enough, It will never be enough with these Marxist terrorist scum. No, they want blood. They want us to pay in blood...to the very last drop...more on that later.

They have started a court case in the USA against international companies who benefited from Apartheid. They name Land Rover (Leyland) and Mercedes who supplied vehicles to patrol the townships, they mention Oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell who ironically donated their headquarters in SA to the ANC that is now called Luthuli House. They name Barclays Bank who withdrew from SA and at the same time changed their name to First National Bank and continued to fund the ANC.
These same ANC scum now turns against their international masters and demands restitution...

But what about countries that supported the previous National Party?
We immediately think of Taiwan and Israel? Surely if you can claim restitution from international corporations who supported Apartheid then you can also claim restitution from countries who supported the Apartheid government at the time.
See, what I mean about opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box? The ANC should have left sleeping dogs lying, but no, greed has no brakes...

So let us see where this journey takes us. Let us see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
At the end of this series you will see that we never had any friends, nobody had any friends. Nobody is friends currently and nobody will ever be friends with anybody. Everybody lies about everyone else.

The biggest lie is the one that everyone believes about Apartheid.
These scavenges are all in it for the money and the power.

It is a dog eat dog world out there my friends, and we as White South Africans chose to be the EPOL biscuits.

.../to be continued.

7 comments:

Andrea Muhrrteyn said...

As Always Mr. Smith; I love the way you call a spade a spade.

April 24, 2010 5:16 AM

Anonymous said...

Rather, a spade is once again a F^&%$ing shovel!! Excellent article!

April 27, 2010 12:53 PM

Anonymous said...

Even the ANC praise-singer, Max du Preez said "whites in the NSA are like turkeys waiting on Christmas"

May 19, 2010 4:32 AM

Anonymous said...

This is the best article concerning "Apartheid" I have ever read! EXCELLENT!!!

May 19, 2010 10:19 PM

Darkie said...

Just started reading this and I'm gripped by it, have to read the rest.

June 8, 2010 12:53 PM

Anonymous said...

Reading this article opens a new perspective and beside reveals the personal pain that you must have experienced.

June 11, 2010 5:50 AM

Anonymous said...

Definitely agree - and would like to read all of the posts. Are there any recent ones? I hope Mike carries on telling and writing the truth! Are you still out there?

February 17, 2011 1:46 AM

Pandora's Box 10

Mike Smith's Political Commentary

Where the truth hurts

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 10 – District Six, A case study in forced removals. 

When one today thinks about Apartheid forced removals, immediately Sophia Town in Johannesburg (blacks) and District Six in Cape Town (coloureds) springs to mind. We will take District Six as a case study.

Today one is up against a mind set of people who wants to believe that District Six was a Multicultural paradise where, mostly coloureds, some Indians, some whites and also a few blacks all lived in harmony and perpetual bliss.

They believe that the evil white government destroyed a happy go lucky community and forced them onto the Cape Flats, mainly where Mitchels Plain is today.

To tell the truth about District Six today will be a revolutionary act.

Firstly a bit of history...

Where is or was District Six?...Well if you stand with your two legs in the water of Table Bay and you look towards Table Mountain, District Six would be on your left side at the slope of Table Mountain, just above “The Castle”. Today the Cape University of Technology (Zonnebloem campus) stands on part of the area.

The origins of District Six is like this.

Many moons ago during the Dutch and later British rule, it uses to be a farm called Zonnebloem. After the abolishment of slavery throughout the British Empire (1833) coloured people started squatting on the outskirts of Cape Town against the foot of Table Mountain, because they still wanted to work for the whites, but when they were slaves they were housed by whites, but as free people they now had to find their own houses.

Two areas of freed slaves developed in Cape Town in what is called, “The Bo-Kaap” and “District Six”.

The Bo-Kaap was mainly a higher classed Muslim area and District Six, although also having a lot of Muslims, was made up from other coloureds of lower social standing.

Now it has to be remembered that the Cape Colony only introduced official building regulations in 1861. By that time, 28 years of indiscriminate building by coloureds, resulted in a slum area developing in Cape Town’s District Six that was getting worse with every day passing. There was no proper sewage or running water infrastructure in those days. In no time, District Six became an overcrowded slum, with narrow alleyways between jumbled together structures.

Here one has to consider that building rules are largely there for safety and health reasons. Windows need to be of a certain size to allow fresh air and natural light in. Rooms need to be a certain height...Every human being needs a certain amount of breathing space to prevent diseases such as Typhoid, Tuberculosis, etc from breaking out (as is the case in overcrowded concentration camps). Streets need to be a certain width so that ambulances and fire trucks can reach emergency situations.

The coloured people from District Six knew nothing of such “trivialities”. They just kept on adding more structures made from wood and corrugated iron sheets.

This phenomenon can still be observed when one visit coloured areas today. No sooner have they received a house from the government for free, or they start building a “hok” (shack) in the backyard. Some have even multiple shacks or what is called “Wendy Houses”, low quality wooden dwellings. These shacks and Wendy Houses are rented out and provide the owner with an income. Some even set up shebeens (illegal, informal drinking bars) in their backyard.

In the case of District Six it was exactly like that. Some of these people had several such shack dwellings that they would rent out and became what is referred to as the “Slumlords” of District Six. Most houses were small, some consisting of only one room housing as many as 20 people. The toilet was in the back yard and washing comprised turns in the bath tub in the kitchen or washing oneself in a “kom”, a plastic bowl filled with some hot water. Once a week was enough.

Further, In District Six started what is today referred to as the “Skolly gangs”...coloured hooligans, who preferred a life of crime, drinking and drugs over honest hard work.

By the 1930’s District Six was a rat infested hellhole full of shebeens, “smokkelhuise” (smuggling houses) and brothels, where, alcohol and drugs flowed freely and sparked more and more social ills.

The government realised that something had to be done about District Six before an epidemic of bubonic plague or cholera could break out that would have killed thousands.

The government knew the history of the three smallpox epidemics of 1713, 1755 and 1767. The smallpox epidemic of 1713 killed about 90% of the KhoiKhoi (Hottentots) and about 25% of the whites of Cape Town.

The University of Cape Town has all the archives in their library. It is called THE DENIS VERSCHOYLE PAPERS

Denis Verschoyle, an Irish immigrant, was a City Engineer and Town Planner in Cape Town. From 1961 to 1972, he lectured on the history of town planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town. He died in 1997.

The information is today freely available to anyone who wants to know the truth about Cape Town planning and in particular, District Six.

Basically Mr. W.S.Lunn who was city engineer in the 1930’s had a plan. He wanted to transform District Six. He wanted to build proper houses with proper infrastructure and so, started building houses... by the beginning of the Second World War, a total of 1127 homes had been built. But the coloureds did not want to move into the new houses. They claimed the rent was too high, but the rent was actually subsidised by the government (i.e.) White taxpayer money and very affordable.

This a coloured culture for you. They always seem to have money for drugs and alcohol, but never for rent or utilities. Why pay rent and electricity when you can live for free in a shack and burn candles and have more money for alcohol?

Eventually some did move into these houses, but as usual the backyards started being filled with illegally erected structures.

Today the coloureds that lived in District Six have very fond memories of a period when alcohol flowed freely, Dagga was smoked and every second person could play a musical instrument. Their memories of District Six are basically...party every night...I do not dispute that they were very happy there.

Like I said, in reality the place was a nest of social ills, it was dirty and it was a health risk...a ticking time bomb in actual fact.

But how does one convince a pig that wallowing around in shit all day is bad for him, when he is so happy at doing it? When one takes the pig away from his shit puddle, washes him off and let him live in a clean orderly place, he will be most distraught and upset with you. He will forever have fond memories of his shit puddle, where he was happy. No amount of explaining will ever convince him of anything else.

So how did these memories of such a harmless and convivial District Six take root in the minds of coloureds over the years?

Basically the newspaper called “The Cape Times”, in an attempt to save District Six, ran some articles in the 1950’s focussing on the music and culture of the people, painting everything rosy and saying nothing about the social ills, the gangs, the brothels, the alcohol and drug abuse...or the rats.

In 1966 the National Party declared District Six to be a 'White Group Area' so enabling them to destroy all buildings, except religious ones, on the grounds of 'slum clearance'.

The government moved about 60,000 people from District Six to the Cape Flats at a cost of 30 million Rand including compensation. In 1970, the government renamed the area Zonnebloem after the original Dutch farm.

They offered the land to investors to rebuild it, but no investors showed interest to rebuild the area, so the Government built the Cape Technikon Zonnebloem campus there.

In District Six, there is a museum today that documents this period in an extremely biased and subjective way.

It says that about 60,000 coloureds were forcibly removed from District Six to the Cape Flats because of the colour of their skin.

It fails to mention that the coloureds of the Bo-Kaap are still living there and so are the ones from Observatory. If the government wanted to remove the coloureds from District Six, because of the colour of their skin or to take their “prime” land, why did they not also move the Bo-Kaap coloureds? The Bo-Kaap is situated in the centre of Cape Town on prime property and worth billions. Why did the government not build millionaires villas in District Six, but instead chose to build a learning institution?

The simple truth is that District Six was everything from an eyesore, to a filthy slum, to a gang and rat infested hellhole.

The government in those days employed highly qualified health inspectors. One of them who were involved with the destruction of District Six told me how they went in there, saw rats the size of cats and millions of cockroaches half a foot long...how they had to board up these building structures first, fumigate them before they could destroy them, because they feared the plague would spread to the rest of Cape Town.

Today the ex residents of “District Six” are a dime a dozen. Although only 60,000 were moved today the “survivors” are probably double that if not more.

The “victim mentality” has fully taken hold of these “ex residents of District Six”, but what they forget is about 40,000 whites were also forcibly removed from their land to make place for the Black Homelands.

These whites have never been properly compensated for losing their farms that they had to sell way below market value to the government at the time, but they simply got on with life and made a living somewhere else.

District Six was a case study in this issue, but the same can be said for places like Sophia Town where Blacks were also removed. Large concentrations of people from whatever race, who overcrowd and indiscriminately build with no planning, will always, pose a health risk not only to themselves, but also to their neighbouring communities.

Today they complain about forcibly being removed, but what was the alternative... Death by epidemic proportions? They should be thankful that they are still alive today to yarn swap about their times in District Six, because if they carried on the way they did, disease would have wiped them out for sure.

The irony is that they cannot see the truth. They see the NP government as a bunch of racists who wanted to exterminate them, but if that was the goal of the NP, they could simply have done nothing and waited for the bomb of disease to explode.

No, the NP did everything in their power to avoid it. They actually saved thousands of coloured lives and entire future generations, along with their music and culture in District Six with their removal to the Cape Flats.

Today it is easy to reminisce about the banjo playing, alcohol and dagga clouded times of District Six, but when you are a professional government with a job to do...to protect all your citizens...the picture is rather different.

.../ to be continued

Posted by Mike Smith at 10:13 AM

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am forwarding this to all my friends, it's time everyone know the truth

May 9, 2010 12:18 AM 

Charles Brettan said...

Hello Mike. I referenced your series of articles on our blog. http://ncoal.com/blog/?p=2371 May I have your permission to fully reproduce all of your series on our blog, rather than simply reference it? It is excellent material, and as I've seen in the past, sometimes good blogs go down and I'd hate to see your writings disappear. I'd like to preserve your series on our ncoal blog. Please comment here or comment on my blog entry granting or denying me permission. Thanks and excellent writing!

May 10, 2010 2:15 AM 

Mike Smith said...

Thanks Charles. Yes you can reproduce it on your blog. Kindly just link back or put the original source at the bottom. regards Mike

May 10, 2010 3:12 AM 

Charles said...

Mike, Will do that, sir. Thanks. Regarding the rancid smell of blacks you mentioned in one of your articles, I read once in a book called Race, by John R. Baker, that the Negro excretes an entirely different set of chemicals from their axillary sweat glands than Whites. In the animal world, such odors work towards keeping subspecies reproducing within their own subspecies. It's easy to see the same forces at work with blacks; at least, the smell definitely keeps everyone else at bay. I try to stay upwind of black people whenever possible. Fortunately, I now live somewhere which doesn't require me to hold my breath for too long as we have only a few blacks in town. In Africa, I think I would need a self-contained breathing apparatus. Best of luck, Charles

May 10, 2010 6:21 AM 

Anonymous said...

It's absolutely disgusting that people cannot understand that we are all the same but we are not all given the same chances in life because of racist ideologies. This article is not even worth arguing about it is so grossly written and twisted that it would be laughable if it wasn’t so very sad.

November 28, 2010 8:29 AM 

Anonymous said...

after the last comment i made I have reported this blog to the blogger administration team as their legal statement is: material that promotes hatred toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity is not allowed on Blogger. That is you. This is hate in its worst form, a casual blog carrying the worst message which school children can read and be influenced by.

November 28, 2010 8:32 AM 

Mike Smith said...

Ah, yes...the tollerance of the Liberal to free speech. Why do you not try and dispute any of the facts in here? Because you can't. The only "Hate" I see is coming from YOU. You hate the truth. You hate this blog for exposing your lies. You hate me for not towing the liberal PC line. Go on...report all you want. Shut down the blogs you do not agree with. All you do is make the message stronger. Creating martyrs...Face it. You cannot silence the truth.

November 28, 2010 11:50 PM 

Anonymous said...

If you had backed up any of your so called "truths" with credible academic sources they may have been worth arguing. What you are "reporting" is completley twisted BS. You are weak and your message is weak. People like you will never be martyrs because, first of all, you would never die for your cause because you are an idiotic person hiding behind a computer and secondly, luckily your cause is almost dead itself. With every new generation you, and people like you become obsolete. Deal with that truth. Get with the times.

November 30, 2010 1:23 PM 

Mike Smith said...

My sources are supplied throughout this series. read further. You will see they are from people like Klaus Vaqué, Les de Villiers, Dr Eschel Rhoodie and many more... Which "credible academic sources " are you refering to? Ah I know...all the sources that YOU agree with. All the sources that peddle your bullshit Liberal and Marxist wanker lies. Go fuck yourself you cunt. Don't come on here and tell me what I must write. Who the fuck do you think you are? You squeel here like a prostituted pig, also known as, "Your Mother" ..."you are an idiotic person hiding behind a computer ..." Says you with an Anonymous addy???? You say "With every new generation you, and people like you become obsolete..." No you stupid Kaffir Cunt...People like me are waking the rest of my people up. People like you ARE the obsolete ones. Everyday I see more and more people coming over to MY cause...When last have you read a White Afrikaans Newspaper...Almiost no-one is Liberal anymore. They are all on the side of my thinking. Not that I take all the credit for it. The uselessness, coruptness and criminality of your beloved Kaffir Ilk are enough to shock anyone into reality. Go Fuck Yourself !

December 1, 2010 4:01 AM 

Anonymous said...

And viola! Above people, you have the amazing "intelligence" that is involved in a movement like this; not that you couldn't already tell by reading what he has been writing. I sincerely hope that the only people this guy is waking up are people like me who live in a country where this kind of thing is not tolerated and had to stumble upon a senseless, racist blog to realize that there are still people out there like this. People who are blinded by skin color, eye shape, hair texture, and so many other trivial things and that are unable to recognize that everyone is a person. There are people, like our self proclaimed genius Mr. Mike Smith, who are so thick in the head that they still cannot understand that paternalistic notions resonating from colonial times have caused terrible wealth and education disparities, along with several other terrible injustices among different skin toned people. People like Mike Smith, who don't understand that we all have people, black and white and whatever color, in our society who can not afford to eat, or bathe, or who have not had many chances in life to live up to idealistic notions and end up making terrible decisions because of it and further, have the misfortune of having these situations labeled as "choices". Mr. Smith you have no idea what color, what gender, or what political persuasion I am and throwing out your "credible sources" was pretty funny too. I can quote crack pots too, and they may even have gone to university at one point but it doesn't make them right. You call me out for being anonymous but I'm sorry if I'm not going to tell someone as deranged as you my name and address. Besides Mike Smith is a very generic name and your picture is of a pit bull, know doubt showing us your "strong side" rather than your real, weak, face. Did you need a little pointy white hat to take a real picture of yourself? Find a new cause, this ones dead.

December 1, 2010 5:43 AM 

Mike Smith said...

Ah…now I see….it is “Colonialism”, “education disparities”, “Several other terrible injustices”, “people who cannot eat or bathe(sic)”, “who had nochance in life”…yadda,yadda bullshit…that is the reason for all the ANC theft, corruption, and mismanagement from everything such as schools to sewage plants…It is the reason for all the crime and ills in South Africa. What planet are you from you stupid dunce? You say you can “quote crackpots too”…then do. I am waiting…Fact is you have not ready any of the books or the authors I have mentioned, but you know they are “crackpots”…why is that? Because what they have to say does not fit your preconceived bullshit liberal ideas, biases and bigotry? You call this a “senseless Racist blog”…define “Racist”… The rest of your crap is childish, schoolyard name-calling and mud throwing. Not worthy to respond to. Get a life.

December 1, 2010 9:40 PM 

Anonymous said...

Mike, I appreciate your Commentary and have learnt a lot from it. However, I find I can only read a little at a time. The reason is that I feel you are hurting, and I am familiar with it. I too have been on the receiving end of "betrayal". I love the truth, but we should "speak the truth with Love". Hurt leads to bitterness, and hatred. I think we should inform but first deal with our feelings so as to inform without bitterness. The world needs to know the truth. It is the KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH that sets us free. But I feel you should firt deal with the truth of your feelings. Yes the majority of blacks are as you discribe, but there are exceptions as in all races. Forgive and move on with the experience you have learnt. Reconcilliation is a good thing IF we can accomplish it. Remember, no one is perfect - except Jesus and they crucified Him! Life is not fair! But God is Gracious and "if we confess our sins, He is just to forgive us." Regards. IB.

February 8, 2011 10:13 PM

 

Pandora's Box 2

 Mike Smith's Political Commentary

Where the truth hurts

 Time to open Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part II

By Mike Smith, MS Political Commentary
22nd of April 2010

Nobody can understand Apartheid unless they understand the diversity of the people of South Africa.

Let us start with the whites.

In South Africa there are several groups of whites. The two main groups are the Afrikaans speaking and the English speaking ones.

The Afrikaners are the descendants from mainly Dutch, Flemish, French, German and some other Western European backgrounds. The Afrikaners have a unique culture, their own language and they are mostly protestant.

The English speaking whites of South Africa are from mostly British background. They are made up of English, Scots, Welsh and Irish descendants...as well as a large contingent of ex Rhodesians. These English speaking Whites of South Africa can today not be referred to as British anymore. Very few hold British passports. They developed a unique accent and culture in South Africa and are fully South African today. Their forefathers came to South Africa long before there were any Whites in Australia or New Zealand.

South Africa also has other large white communities such as the Portuguese (300,000), the Greek (+/- 100,000) and the Jewish communities (70,000). They all have their own religions and cultures. The Portuguese are mostly Catholic, the Greeks are orthodox Christians and the Jews are mostly orthodox Jewish.

Further, South Africa has a Chinese population who arrived around 1870 to work in the gold mines until Chinese immigration was stopped by an exclusion act in 1904. The South African Chinese community is about 300,000 strong.

The Cape coloureds are also diverse and complex from a wide variety of backgrounds. Today there are the two main groups, Christians and Muslims. There is about 4 million coloureds in total.

It is commonly understood by most foreigners and also amongst many South Africans, that the coloureds are a mixture of Black and White ancestors. This is false. The coloureds as a group existed long before the Whites saw any Blacks for the first time around 1770 in the Eastern Cape about 1000km from Cape Town. This was 120 years after the Dutch settled at the Cape (1652).

The indigenous people of the Cape were the Khoi Khoi(Hottentots). They were almost 90% annihilated by a smallpox epidemic at the Cape (1703).

The Dutch also imported artisans such as bricklayers, carpenters, etc from Malaysia and Indonesia. These were the Muslims or Cape Malay people. The KhoiKhoi and the Cape Malay also intermarried and interbred. A small percentage of Whites also married coloureds, but it was actually very rare. A large amount of the passing sailors frequented coloured prostitutes. Today the Cape Coloured features vary from dark brown to almost White or yellow and their hair vary from peppercorn curly to straight black. Some have KhoiKhoi features and some Arabic or Malaysian. Today the Muslim and Christian coloureds have distinct and different cultures. Some speak a dialect of Afrikaans and some English.

In Natal we find most of South Africa’s Indian population. They total about one million and are descendants of indentured labourers (for the sugar cane plantations) and traders from India and Sri Lanka. They speak mostly English, but many still speak Tamil, Hindi or Urdu. Their religion is mostly Hindu but many are Muslim.

So far I have not even started with the blacks yet.

Most foreigners believe that South Africa has one group of Blacks that speak one language and have one culture. Nothing could be further from the truth.

South Africa’s Black population is not homogenous. There are several different tribes who all speak different languages and who have distinct and hugely different cultures.

There are main tribes such as the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Venda, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi and the Shangaan/Tsonga people. But it does not stop there, because these main tribes consist of smaller tribes. For instance the Xhosas are made up of Mpondo, Fingo, Thembu, Bhaca, Nhlangwini and Xesibe tribes. The Sothos are made up of North Sotho (Bapedi) and South Sotho (Basotho) tribes. The Tswanas are only a part of the main tribe known as the West Sotho. Other tribes that make up the West Sotho are the Kwena, Kgatla, Tlhaping, Tlharo, Rolong and Ngwato.

The Venda tribe is made up of mainly the Mphephu and the Lemba, but in total the Vavenda can be bordered off into 27 clearly distinguishable tribes.

The Zulus are made up of about 200 smaller tribes

The Swazis are made up from the Nkosi, Shongwe, Khumalo and Hhlatyawako tribes. The Northern Sothos are made up from the Pedi, Koni, Phalaborwa, Lobedu and Kutswe tribes....

And so I can go on...All in all South Africa has nine official Black languages, with 23 sub categories and innumerable dialects.

Yes, these different tribes of South Africa all have different languages, cultures and belief systems. The Vendas for instance have a special affinity to crocodiles. The Zulus consider themselves as a warrior tribe and they do not circumcise their boys when they are initiated into manhood, they have to kill a bull with their bare hands. The Xhosas on the other hand do circumcise their boys and therefore Xhosas consider Zulus as mere boys regardless of their age.

When a Xhosa and a Zulu work together and they have words, the Xhosa will first and always accuse a Zulu of being a boy, thus not a man.

Another remarkable piece of information that very few people know about is that the Lemba people who form part of the Venda tribe are JEWISH.

No. They did not convert to Judaism after meeting some Jewish immigrants to South Africa. President Kruger found them already with their Jewish belief system going back more than two thousand years. They migrated from the Kenya or Ethiopian regions. South Africa’s black Jews

I hope that the reader can see that South Africa is a palette of people, cultures and religions, but also note that I started with the white people who were leading in the atomic age into Africa and I ended with Blacks who are for all intents and purposes still nomadic Negro tribes stuck in the stone-age.

With this background, is it really so unimaginable and difficult to understand that the way of “Separate development” (Apartheid) was the best and fairest solution for the problems of South Africa?

.../ To be continued

2 comments:

Andrea Muhrrteyn said...

Can't wait for the rest of the series!

April 24, 2010 5:26 AM 

Anonymous said...

Wow, I was going to say something about it, I don't think that people realise the Lemba have some Jewish genes. But it's true. I read about this quite a long time ago, as far as I remember, they're related to the Cohen line, and share a haplotype with Jewish people.

August 18, 2010 7:31 AM 

http://mspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2010/04/opening-pandoras-apartheid-box-part-2.html 

2 comments:

Andrea Muhrrteyn said...

Can't wait for the rest of the series!

April 24, 2010 5:26 AM 

Anonymous said...

Wow, I was going to say something about it, I don't think that people realise the Lemba have some Jewish genes. But it's true. I read about this quite a long time ago, as far as I remember, they're related to the Cohen line, and share a haplotype with Jewish people.

August 18, 2010 7:31 AM

 

R24m spent on premier’s home

March 17 2011 

The Gauteng government has spent about R24-million on the premier’s official residence in just seven years.

The house, in Bryanston, was bought in March 2004 for R11.5m.

But the province has spent R12.2m – more than the original purchase price – in renovations, refurbishments and repairs even though the house was only a few years old when Gauteng bought it.

The Sandton property is managed by the provincial Department of Infrastructure Development.

The original house, in Eccleston Crescent, was demolished by previous owners and replaced with a new house, based on plans drawn up in 1999.

These show a 1 150m2 double-storey building, complete with a rimflow pool built over a playroom, several reception rooms, four bedrooms upstairs and a guest suite downstairs.

The property was bought for Gauteng while Mbhazima Shilowa was premier. Premier Nomvula Mokonyane uses it now.

The amount spent since the purchase was revealed when DA MPL Jack Bloom asked questions in the Gauteng Legislature.

“It’s all quite obscene when ordinary people struggle in difficult economic circumstances,” said Bloom.

Infrastructure Development MEC Bheki Nkosi told the legislature that when the house was initially bought, renovations and alterations were done to the main house, the conference facilities and parking area.

These had cost R8.4m.

Then, in December 2008, structural damage in the form of cracks in the house were found.

“The cracks led to water damage (carpets, window frames, paint flaking etc) in the house, which needed to be repaired,” said Nkosi.

These repairs, based on a report by consulting engineers, cost R1.7m.

“The department is not in possession of the report,” Nkosi said.

He said Motheo Tau Pride was appointed as managing agent for the structural repairs contract. It, in turn, “outsourced” the repairs to Rekgonne Business Enterprise. Motheo was paid R464 615 of the R1.7m.

Nkosi said this work involved repainting the outside of the house and rooms where renovations were done, replacing stained carpets, removing tiles and re-screeding the floors, waterproofing the roof, repairing and painting ceilings, renovating the wooden front door, and renovating the conference centre.

The work did not go to a Gauteng business. The Star found that Rekgonne is based in Mafikeng, North West.

According to the Construction Industry Development Board, Rekgonne has a grade 1 listing that allows it to handle government contracts up to R200 000. For a contract worth more than R1m, Rekgonne needed a grade 3 listing.

The department spent another R2m refurbishing the house for Mokonyane.

Last year, then MEC Faith Mazibuko told the legislature in response to a question by Bloom that this work ran from September 2009 to January 2010. It included refurbishing the main bedroom and en-suite bathroom, dressing room, kitchen, laundry, painting, and curtains, bedding and furniture. 

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/r24m-spent-on-premier-s-home-1.1043291 

Mayor and city boss to be probed

Mar 17, 2011 

Durban mayor Obed Mlaba and city manager Mike Sutcliffe are to be investigated as part of a wider probe into alleged fraud and corruption in the eThekwini Municipality. 

KwaZulu-Natal co-operative governance MEC Nomusa Dube said yesterday: "There is something wrong in this municipality and we believe that we need to investigate.

"We have been monitoring the latest developments in the municipality with keen interest and utmost concern."

The ANC called on Dube to order a forensic investigation after the auditor-general found that the city had irregularly spent R535-million and the Ngubane audit implicated Sutcliffe and three officials in irregular housing contracts of R3.5-billion over the past 10 years.

Mlaba allegedly had shares in a company that nearly landed a R3-billion tender to convert the city's waste to energy.

Dube said yesterday the investigation would cover:

�Irregular expenditure resulting from inadequate controls over the budget and payment processes;

�Non-disclosure of interests by councillors and officials;

�Irregularities in the awarding of contracts, payments and performance management of telecommunications;

�The alleged illegal rental and sale of RDP houses;

�Irregularities in travel and overtime allowances and appointment of staff; and

�Alleged fraudulent practices in the metro police.

The outcome of the investigation would compel the municipality to take decisive action and corrective measures and would lead to criminal and civil prosecutions if unlawful activities were unearthed, Dube said.

The forensic probe would begin immediately.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article973466.ece/Mayor-and-city-boss-to-be-probed

E'Thekweni suffers from poor service delivery and has been rated the second worst metro in SA - after Pretoria.

What will be done if the graft is exposed? Nothing at all since the matter would be handled by the incompetent Budgies - whose main aim is to protect corrupt cadres.

 

SA not dysfunctional, says Chabane

March 17, 2011 

Government has slammed a constitutional watchdog for claiming the country is on the brink of becoming a dysfunctional state

Collins Chabane, Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation based at the Presidency, told journalists in Cape Town yesterday that the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution's intentions were not about building democracy.

Casac is a civil society watchdog body chaired by Sipho Pityana and has "progressive people" such as former ANC MP Kader Asmal and former national assembly speaker Frene Ginwala as members and advisers.

Former national director of public prosecutions Vusi Pikoli is also a member.

On Wednesday, Pityana said corruption and patronage were so pervasive in the country that "we are on the verge of being deemed a dysfunctional state".

He urged government to establish a new state-funded statutory body to fight corruption.

But Chabane said government rejected any insinuations that the country is nearing becoming a dysfunctional state.

"Government believes that Casac's intentions are not that of trying to build a democracy we all live by," Chabane said.

He said while government was prepared to discuss the issue of corruption with Casac, Pityana's "rhetoric" was not helpful.

He went on to say that Pityana's "emotive language" did little to take forward the debate on how government should be tackling corruption.

Chabane pointed out that in the last two years, the Zuma administration has "reinvigorated its efforts to deal more effectively with corruption".

He cited the finance ministry's overhaul of government's procurement systems and the establishment of a ministerial committee on corruption as some of the steps being taken to fight corruption.

Pityana last night stood his ground, saying steps pursued by Zuma's cabinet did not go far enough in tackling corruption.

Pityana said several anti-corruption laws, like the Protected Disclosures Act, also needed to be tightened.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/Politics/article973472.ece/SA-not-dysfunctional-says-Chabane

 

Cop Brutality Cases Investigated

ICD wades through cop brutality cases

2011-03-17 

Johannesburg - The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) on Thursday said it was investigating reports of brutality on civilians by special police units.

"We are ready to investigate and help bring the culprits to book," spokesperson Francois Beukman said in a statement.

Police officers recently allegedly assaulted civilians at a pub and restaurant in Johannesburg.

On February 26, police allegedly stormed the Catz Pyjamas restaurant in Melville and beat up patrons.

Several days later members of a special police unit allegedly assaulted, intimidated and threatened patrons at CJ's bar in Hillbrow.

The ICD was also investigating cases in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.

Elite team charged with torture

In November last year, fifteen tactical response team and crime intelligence members were arrested for murder in KwaZulu-Natal.

"In the past year, the ICD arrested and brought before court more than 20 officers from various Organised Crime Units for torture," Beukman said.

The tactical response team, an elite team personally commissioned by police commissioner General Bheki Cele, had mostly been fingered as culprits in allegations ranging from assault and torture to murder, Beukman said.

"These acts cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy. Policing in 2011 should be totally different from the apartheid past that we come from."

The ICD urged victims and witnesses to make statements at a police station so that criminal cases could be opened against perpetrators.

Beukman said information provided would be treated with discretion, with no risk of interference by any police officers.
 http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ICD-wades-through-cop-brutality-cases-20110317

Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele

Zuma to decide on Cele matter

2011-03-17

Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma will decide what action to take against police commissioner General Bheki Cele once he's received all outstanding information from Justice Minister Jeff Radebe and Cabinet Secretary Vusi Mavimbela regarding the matter.

"I've received the public protector's report and I am studying it. I am awaiting reports from the minister of justice and constitutional development and the secretary of Cabinet.

"Once I've received all outstanding reports I shall decide what steps, if any, need to be taken," said Zuma.

He was responding to a question from the Democratic Alliance in the National Assembly as to whether Cele's conduct, in light of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's finding, was improper, unlawful and amounted to maladministration, and whether Cele was fit to serve the country in his current capacity.

Madonsela announced in February that Cele was guilty of improper conduct and maladministration when the police authorised a R500m lease for the Sanlam Middestad Building in Pretoria, to be used as their new headquarters.

She said Cele's conduct breached the Constitution, the Public Finance Management Act, Treasury regulations and supply chain management rules and policies.

Radebe and Mavimbela had met Madonsela over her findings and would submit a report on the meeting soon.

Zuma said he was not in a position to "fully" answer the question at this stage, as "it would be tantamount to pre-judging".

The government would co-operate with the public protector and take the matter to its "conclusion".

"If a person is found guilty, you convict. If the person is not found guilty, you can't convict," said Zuma.

"Depending on the gravity of the crime committed, [it will] describe or determine what type of action you take."

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Zuma-to-decide-on-Cele-matter-20110317-3 

Premier Mokonyane's Official Residence Costs

DA asks protector to probe Mokonyane's house

March 17, 2011 

The Gauteng DA has asked the Public Protector to investigate allegedly expensive refurbishments to premier Nomvula Mokonyane's official residence, says spokesman Jack Bloom. 

"I have today requested the Public Protector to investigate the apparent excessive amount spent on refurbishment of the official residence of the Gauteng premier which is in the northern Johannesburg suburb of Bryanston," Bloom said in a statement on Thursday
The Star newspaper reported that the house had been bought for R11.5 million in 2004 when it was only a few years old.
Since then about R12.2 million had allegedly been spent on refurbishments and repairs.
Bloom said the appointment of some of the contractors might have contravened the Public Finance Management Act, and the Gauteng government might have over-paid for renovations and been ripped off by contractors.
"I will also request that members of the Gauteng Legislature's Infrastructure Development Committee conduct a site inspection of the renovations that have been done to this house.
"We cannot afford to waste money on luxuries when ordinary people suffer with the cost of living," Bloom said.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article972014.ece/DA-asks-protector-to-probe-Mokonyanes-house