Lavish Wedding....

Lavish wedding for Zuma’s daughter

2011-04-24

President Jacob Zuma's daughter Duduzile married Lonwabo Sambudla on Saturday in "a Parisian-theme ceremony" described as South Africa's wedding of the year.

I see she comes complete with skank stamp on the shoulder - really cheesy.......

The Sunday Times reported that an army of private security guards, police and the presidential protection unit watched over the venue, Inkwenkwezi Game Reserve near East London in the Eastern Cape, where a giant white marquee had been erected.

 The bride, 28, wore a white off-the-shoulder wedding gown encrusted with Swarovski crystals, and a pair of silver Christian Louboutin shoes.

She was accompanied by her father and four bridesmaids dressed in red gowns.

Duduzile wore a custom-made diamond necklace worth R1.5m. She and her bridesmaids were collectively decked out in more than 1000 diamonds worth R4.5m.

SOMETHING BORROWED: Duduzile Zuma dazzled yesterday in a diamond necklace worth more than R1.5 million. She is flanked by her father, President Jacob Zuma, and Gavin Brown, from Browns Jewellers, which loaned diamond jewellery worth millions to the bridal party.

Members of the SA Police Service were on hand to guard Duduzile's diamond jewellery - on loan from a top jewellery store and delivered to her shortly before midday.

Duduzile and her father drove in a minibus from nearby Prana Lodge, where she was staying, to the wedding venue, before hopping onto a white rickshaw.

The rickshaw was accompanied by women singing traditional Xhosa wedding songs.

Guests - who earlier snacked on salmon, chicken, lamb and an assortment of fruit - were waiting to greet the bride as the rickshaw came to a stop outside the marquee.

The wedding venue was decorated in white linen with a burst of colour in the form of red roses.

The tables for the 650 invited guests were named for landmarks in France and French fashion designers. Names included Louis Vuitton , Jean-Paul Gaultier, Notre Dame and Moulin Rouge.

Centrepieces on the tables included glass replicas of the Eiffel Tower, and a pair of 2m-high wire Eiffel Tower statues draped in fairy lights stood in the marquee. The decor included chandeliers, draping, flowers and white Tiffany chairs.

The three-tiered wedding cake, transported by road from Johannesburg, boasted its own tiny Eiffel Tower.

The menu, a combination of South African and French dishes, included starters of butternut soup, beef soup, shrimp cocktail, and ostrich liver with cream. The main course comprised roast beef and leg of lamb, lavender honey and Dijon glazed petit poussin roast chicken, and duck portions.

Desserts included crème brûlée, cheese cake, caramel tart, fruit salad and malva pudding with hot custard.

A media contingent, which had been told that Duduzile would leave the premises in a white Bentley, was camped at the gate.

Host of cabinet ministers

Near the entrance, a framed photograph of Duduzile's mother, Kate Mantsho, stood on a stand in front of a burning candle. Mantsho committed suicide in 2000.

The service was conducted by Pastor Alph Lukau, from Alleluia Ministries International, and guests were entertained by Nigerian gospel artist Uche Agu.

The groom, 31, wore a cream suit and matching bow tie. Elephants roamed the grounds in the background as the couple exchanged vows. The guest list included some of the country's wealthiest empowerment dealmakers and business executives.

In attendance were businessman Vivian Reddy, who attended the wedding with his TV actress wife Sorisha, presidential spokesperson  Zizi Kodwa, Nelson Mandela's grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela, socialite Khanyi Mbau, former Miss South Africa Tansey Coetzee, comedian David Kau, dancer Somizi Mhlongo and ramp models Miriam Ngomani and Mpumi Gwinya.

Also at the wedding were a host of cabinet ministers, including Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, Mining Minister Susan Shabangu, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe and Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor.

Instead of gifts, the bridal couple requested gift vouchers from a variety of high-end stores.

The couple sold the rights to the wedding to a local magazine, which helped to foot the massive bill.

Fortune said the couple chose a Parisian-theme wedding because Duduzile "really loves Paris".

The couple met three years ago when Duduzile was on the board of Gupta-owned Sahara Computers.  The puzzle pieces start falling into place. 25 years old and she served on the board of the now infamous Gupta family business.

The president's daughter first hit the social spotlight after throwing a lavish R400 000 birthday bash for 600 of her closest friends two years ago, the Sunday Times reported.

Marrying a man that's been pointed as a businessman with shady underhanded dealings with the ANCYL. She gets married in a dress "encrusted with Swarovski crystals". 

Yep, and that ladies and gentleman is the perfect example of the government taking care of the poor...

What a shame and dishonour to the customs of the Zulu nation. No oxen being slaughtered, salmon I ask you. She should have been bear breasted like a Zulu maiden is supposed to dress out of respect for her husband and elders.

The media is out there to let the people know about the blatant vulgar opulance whilst so many of their people don't even have water or electricity.

 http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Lavish-wedding-for-Zumas-daughter-20110424

Zuma's Daughter's Wedding

Zuma wedding - Lamborghinis at the fore

2011-04-22

South Africa's first family is preparing for the "mother of all parties" when President Jacob Zuma's daughter ties the knot over the weekend. 

                                                     Jacob Zuma with Duduzile Zuma

She will be marrying businessman Lonwabo Sambudla, aged 31.
Dirty Money Deals. 

Security has been beefed up across the Eastern Cape police Colonel Mzukisi Fatyela said, to welcome the president and ministers who would be attending the wedding as thousands of socialites, businessmen, politicians and members of royal families are expected to descend on the region.

 A convoy of 12 Lamborghinis is set to roar their way into Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve, 25km outside East London, just off the southern coast for the wedding on Saturday morning.

The supercars will carry the first daughter, her groom, Lonwabo Sambudla, and people in their entourage.

Details of the highly anticipated nuptials have been kept under wraps, but it is believed that a marquee has been erected at the lodge to host VIP guests and close family.

They will tie the knot in a special Hollywood-style wedding organised by Farah Fortune.
The formal ceremony would be preceded by a pre-party and topped with a traditional wedding at Fairfield Trust Farm, Sambudla’s home village, and an after-party at the Walter Sisulu University’s sports grounds.

Duduzile, who runs the Duduzile Zuma Foundation for Children and Destitute Women, will wear a gown thought to have been bought at the Paris Fashion Week. 

http://dzf.co.za/  (still under construction) hmmmm......!!!

The after-party is being organised by Kenny Kunene, according to daily paper The Mercury.

Kunene became famous as the "Sushi King" for allowing customers at his restaurant to eat sushi off scantily clad women.

Though Kunene has promised "the mother of all parties," he said the bride and groom have asked that the raw fish dish be left off the menu.

The after-party would feature Durban Kwaito group Big Nuz, DJ Fisherman, DJ Fistaz Lvovo, Winnie Khumalo and DJ Tumza in a mini-festival organised by “Sushi King” Kenny Kunene.

At the groom’s home at Fairfield, a group of women were sieving samp yesterday, while others were baking in the Sambundlas’ kitchen.

Finishing touches were being put to a newly built thatched rondavel, which was being prepared for the groom and bride.

Tractors flattened the entrance to Fairfield while men cut grass in preparation for a tent to be put up for a traditional ceremony. 

Bottom line is....... they are still going to have samp and beans and sleep in a grass hut......

E I S H !!!!

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Zuma-wedding-Lamborghinis-lead-the-way-20110422 

http://www.iol.co.za/news/special-features/the-zuma-era/mother-of-all-parties-for-zuma-wedding-1.1060484 

South Africa - Fighting Corruption

2011-04-22

Pretoria - South Africa lacks a coherent and comprehensive approach to fighting corruption, former National Prosecuting Authority boss Vusi Pikoli said on Thursday.

Speaking at a seminar at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, he said that according to the latest figures he was aware of, less than 15% of allegations of corruption were being investigated.

Pikoli, who is now involved with the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution (Casac), said the recent majority judgment of the Constitutional Court proved that there was no dispute over the need for an independent agency to fight crime.

The question was rather one about the level of independence such an agency would have.

On March 17, the Constitutional Court ruled that current legislation left the Hawks unit vulnerable to political interference.

Pikoli said that the record of the Scorpions - which was disbanded in January 2009 - spoke for itself.

"We need to have a dedicated independent agency."

He said there were at least eight government institutions to investigate corruption as a part of their mandates.

The "overlapping mandates" proved that there was no clear strategy to fight corruption.

"They do not have as a primary mandate the investigation of corruption. This reflects the absence of a coherent and comprehensive approach to the fight against corruption."

Pikoli said it was "no surprise" that South Africa was "falling down the ladder" on indices monitoring corruption.

He recommended there be a statutory body to monitor what became of investigations into corruption by such a corruption fighting agency.

Without such monitoring investigations could lapse.

"We know what happened to the arms deal investigation. It fizzled out."

Change in tactics

He advocated that parliament's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) have "more teeth".

He lamented the fact that there was no institution that dealt with education in the fight against corruption.

"Despite these (eight) institutions that we have, none of them actually has got a mandate to deal with the issues of education on corruption."

The problem with any corruption investigation was that it would "attain a high level of political attention" and possible political interference.

The fight against corruption needed to go beyond making political statements.

Referring to the recent protests in Ficksburg where protester Andries Tatane was beaten and shot last week, Pikoli said: "Andries Tatane's right to dignity was clearly violated."

Casac had lodged a formal complaint with the Human Rights Commission.

"He paid the ulitimate price for his rights. We failed Andries."

It was "quite astonishing that given this time in our history that we are still witnessing police brutality as in the apartheid time".

Pikoli said police would have to change their tactics in dealing with crowd control.

Eight policemen have been charged in connection with Tatane's death.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Corruption-fight-incoherent-Pikoli-20110421 

Julius Not Aggressive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13151267

The head of South Africa's ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, has taken the witness stand in Johannesburg in a high-profile hate speech trial.
An Afrikaans community is seeking a ban on Mr Malema singing a controversial apartheid-era song with the words "shoot the Boer".
"Boer" means farmer in Afrikaans and they say its use incites racial hatred.
Mr Malema began his testimony insisting he is not an aggressive man, and that the song should not be taken literally.
Karen Allen reports.

Hate Speech Song

A song about the struggle, which may destroy it

Asaph Madimetja Chuene

21 April 2011

Asaph Madimetja Chuene says Malema should be honest about why he sings ‘dubula ibhunu'

I honestly don't get it! Or maybe I do, in a different perspective from what the ANC and its cheer supporters would like to have us believe. Unfortunately we are not little impotent children, who are somehow, due to the law of human development, unable to distinguish a Goose from Gander. The employment of heritage, culture and struggle credentials on the singing of ‘dubula ibhunu' chant is misleading to say the least.

There is an ongoing attempt by the ANC to defend the song at all costs, perhaps taking this issue as the battle between the minority right wingers and the ‘mighty' ANC. What I fail to identify in this debate is the objectivity on the side of those who defend the singing of the song.

The apostles of pro-dubula ibhunu are, like I said, quick to claim the struggle, heritage, and culture on the account of singing a song which is purely and clearly divisive, racist and inflammatory in a post racist era. 

Truly, I wouldn't have not said the above during the struggle era, because I understand that the song was a necessary means to an end. To mobilize support against the apartheid system that was represented by the Boers. The song was therefore intended to produce a desired effect, to incite anger, and thus intensify the struggle against apartheid to the bloody end.

Indeed, it is because of these songs and many others that the struggle was victorious. The purpose, which was to destroy the apartheid system, has been achieved. The Boer is no longer in the Union Buildings calling for racially venomous policies anymore.

The question is, why and for what, in this age and era, should a leader of a youth league sings a song which was purely meant for the struggle purpose? This country is bound to enumerable national challenges which affect the youth the most.

Logically one will expect a national youth leader to tackle and engage in the struggle against those challenges. What of a desired effect will the singing of the Anti-Boer song achieve for the ‘national democratic revolution'?

I have also observed that all those who defend the song alienate it to the agenda of the organization (ANCYL) and the personality of the person called Malema and the potentially dangerous implications it has for this country should they have their way to the Union Buildings.

ANCYL aka Malema and his shadow backers have rightly pronounced that political freedom without economic liberation is a fallacy. What is rather disturbing with their agenda of "economic liberation in our lifetime" is their means in which they intend achieving that goal. There is a saying which goes: It isn't about what you do or want but how you intent to do it.

By all probabilities, I stand to support the agenda of black economic emancipation by any means possible except for that which is purely guided by opportunism laced with demagoguery at the expense of the masses of our people.

In this struggle, Malema and his backers have appropriated to themselves a mandate of achieving black economic liberation with them as the aristocratic beneficiaries. Of much concern is that, in this struggle, they see the white section of our society as their prime enemies.

Malema reiterated this stance during a ‘Hard Talk' interview with the BBC recently.

It is within this context that the singing of ‘dubula ibhunu' must be understood. It has nothing to do with all the momentary justification we are showered with. I was very active during my student years at the University of Limpopo; never did it occur that any of the student political formations there to sing ‘dubula ibhunu' simply because it was not in context. The songs which were sung then where specifically linked to the cause of student politics directly and indirectly.

Under no circumstance did we imagine singing ‘shoot the Boer' when what we were concerned about had nothing to do with the Boers. Instead, we sang ‘Shoot Mokgalong' (the Vice Chancellor) because we rebelled against the administrative system which was represented by him and this way we were able to incite students into demonstrations, anti-management sentiments and sometimes into violent behavior.

When now, people who see the ‘white males' as the prime obstacle of their agenda and thus sing dangerous song to incite racist sentiments to galvanize us into Zimbabwe style anti-white rapture, they must equally have the bravery to say so instead of taking cover under our culture, struggle and heritage.

And see if we support such an agenda. As for me, I despise with the contempt it deserves, any demagoguery leadership in all purpose. Africa has long suffered from poverty of leadership. We should not stand idle as the menace of demagoguery is confronting us. We should say No to ill-devised approaches to our economic struggle.  

The song must be banned, for it is a song about the struggle which may destroy the struggle.

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=232622&sn=Detail&pid=71616 

Attorney Out of Control

April 21 2011

                                                              Koobashan Naicker

Attorney Koobashan Naicker was on Wednesday portrayed as a man out of control - not only facing murder charges relating to last month’s fatal accident on Athlone Bridge, but a host of others involving alleged drunk and reckless driving, malicious damage to property, assault and robbery in various incidents over the past two years. 

The charge sheet before the Durban Regional Court, where Naicker is making a bail application, is 25 pages long. 

And, according to an affidavit in opposition to bail by the investigating officer, Captain Kassavan Pillay, Naicker is also being sought by police for at least two other alleged drunk-driving charges and a culpable homicide matter relating to the death of a motorist in another accident. 

Naicker was arrested recently following the deaths of Gillian Bell, her son Connor, 8, and dance teacher Carmen Hunter, 19, in an accident on Northway on March 26. 

He has now been charged with three counts of murder, driving under the influence, and reckless and negligent driving in that he drove into oncoming traffic, causing the multiple car pile-up in which two young girls were also seriously injured.

Naicker was himself injured and is under police guard at Addington Hospital, receiving treatment. 

In total, including the Athlone Bridge incident, there were seven cases of drunk, reckless and negligent driving against Naicker, said Pillay. It is also alleged that he assaulted a barman and stole money and liquor in another incident in Tongaat. 

In reply, defence advocate Jay Naidoo accused the State of “pulling old cases out of the archives” to bolster its bail position. 

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/bridge-lawyer-unstable-man-1.1060004 

ANC Freedom Charter

JULIUS MALEMA CAN YOU READ???THIS IS SUCH A FARCE AND WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT!!!

 

The Freedom Charter

As adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955


We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:

that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people; that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on injustice and inequality; that our country will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying equal rights and opportunities; that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief; And therefore, we, the people of South Africa, black and white together equals, countrymen and brothers adopt this Freedom Charter; And we pledge ourselves to strive together, sparing neither strength nor courage, until the democratic changes here set out have been won.

The People Shall Govern!

Every man and woman shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take part in the administration of the country; The rights of the people shall be the same, regardless of race, colour or sex; All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities shall be replaced by democratic organs of self-government .

All National Groups Shall have Equal Rights!

There shall be equal status in the bodies of state, in the courts and in the schools for all national groups and races; All people shall have equal right to use their own languages, and to develop their own folk culture and customs; All national groups shall be protected by law against insults to their race and national pride; The preaching and practice of national, race or colour discrimination and contempt shall be a punishable crime; All apartheid laws and practices shall be set aside.

The People Shall Share in the Country`s Wealth!

The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people; The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole; All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the wellbeing of the people; All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.

The Land Shall be Shared Among Those Who Work It!

Restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended, and all the land re-divided amongst those who work it to banish famine and land hunger; The state shall help the peasants with implements, seed, tractors and dams to save the soil and assist the tillers; Freedom of movement shall be guaranteed to all who work on the land; All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose; People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced labour and farm prisons shall be abolished.

All Shall be Equal Before the Law!

No-one shall be imprisoned, deported or restricted without a fair trial; No-one shall be condemned by the order of any Government official; The courts shall be representative of all the people; Imprisonment shall be only for serious crimes against the people, and shall aim at re-education, not vengeance; The police force and army shall be open to all on an equal basis and shall be the helpers and protectors of the people; All laws which discriminate on grounds of race, colour or belief shall be repealed.

All Shall Enjoy Equal Human Rights!

The law shall guarantee to all their right to speak, to organise, to meet together, to publish, to preach, to worship and to educate their children; The privacy of the house from police raids shall be protected by law; All shall be free to travel without restriction from countryside to town, from province to province, and from South Africa abroad; Pass Laws, permits and all other laws restricting these freedoms shall be abolished.

There Shall be Work and Security!

All who work shall be free to form trade unions, to elect their officers and to make wage agreements with their employers; The state shall recognise the right and duty of all to work, and to draw full unemployment benefits; Men and women of all races shall receive equal pay for equal work; There shall be a forty-hour working week, a national minimum wage, paid annual leave, and sick leave for all workers, and maternity leave on full pay for all working mothers; Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who work; Child labour, compound labour, the tot system and contract labour shall be abolished.

The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened!

The government shall discover, develop and encourage national talent for the enhancement of our cultural life; All the cultural treasures of mankind shall be open to all, by free exchange of books, ideas and contact with other lands; The aim of education shall be to teach the youth to love their people and their culture, to honour human brotherhood, liberty and peace; Education shall be free, compulsory, universal and equal for all children; Higher education and technical training shall be opened to all by means of state allowances and scholarships awarded on the basis of merit; Adult illiteracy shall be ended by a mass state education plan; Teachers shall have all the rights of other citizens; The colour bar in cultural life, in sport and in education shall be abolished.

There Shall be Houses, Security and Comfort!

All people shall have the right to live where they choose, be decently housed, and to bring up their families in comfort and security; Unused housing space to be made available to the people; Rent and prices shall be lowered, food plentiful and no-one shall go hungry; A preventive health scheme shall be run by the state; Free medical care and hospitalisation shall be provided for all, with special care for mothers and young children; Slums shall be demolished, and new suburbs built where all have transport, roads, lighting, playing fields, creches and social centres; The aged, the orphans, the disabled and the sick shall be cared for by the state; Rest, leisure and recreation shall be the right of all: Fenced locations and ghettoes shall be abolished, and laws which break up families shall be repealed.

There Shall be Peace and Friendship!

South Africa shall be a fully independent state which respects the rights and sovereignty of all nations; South Africa shall strive to maintain world peace and the settlement of all international disputes by negotiation - not war; Peace and friendship amongst all our people shall be secured by upholding the equal rights, opportunities and status of all; The people of the protectorates Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland shall be free to decide for themselves their own future; The right of all peoples of Africa to independence and self-government shall be recognised, and shall be the basis of close co-operation. Let all people who love their people and their country now say, as we say here:

THESE FREEDOMS WE WILL FIGHT FOR, SIDE BY SIDE, THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES, UNTIL WE HAVE WON OUR LIBERTY

Pikitup Workers Trash Johannesburg

Angry Pikitup employees trash the streets during a protest in Johannesburg. The ANC in Gauteng says it is concerned about the strike by refuse workers, and believes it is intended to sabotage the party's election campaign. "It is the timing of the strike during elections that make us to conclude that the strike is orchestrated to sabotage the ANC campaign," spokesman Dumisa Ntuli. He said the matter was raised with the SA Municipal Workers' Union. "Our message to Samwu is that the trashing and vandalism is in complete violation of the 2007 Polokwane conference resolution on defending the democratic state. Samwu's trashing of streets, destruction of property and attacks on non-strikers were of "grave concern", he said. 

A police officer arrests a young boy who was allegedly caught stealing during the pandemonium that was caused by the Pikitup workers strike in Joburg. 

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/pikitup-workers-trashing-spree-in-pictures-1.1059752?image=8 

Why we're Targeting White Farmers - ANC

Radio Freedom

20 April 2011

Transcript of Radio Freedom broadcast on MK's landmine campaign, October 24 1986

Transcript of ANC Radio Freedom broadcast, Addis Ababa, October 24 1986

Compatriots: For some time now, areas around the northern borders of our country have experienced a spate of landmine explosions in which quite a number of racist farmers have either been killed or seriously injured.

The inability of the regime to provide enough protection for its arch-supporters in these areas has been clearly exposed in the process. Instructions and precautionary measures that the enemy has introduced fall far short of providing any protection.

The vanguard liberation movement of our people, the ANC, has long declared these areas war zones. This is because the farmers in these areas have been fully integrated in the enemy's so-called security and defence network.

White men, women and youths are part and parcel of the military and paramilitary units (of the SADF). They are part of the local police force. They participate enthusiastically in Malan's so-called area defence system. They are the people who are planted there by the regime to assist the murderous racist army (containing) what they call insurgency. They work tirelessly to detect any movement by fugitives of the freedom [using] sophisticated communication equipment especially meant for this secret work. Clearly, the enemy has also long ago regarded these areas as war zones.

At the same time, these racist farmers are notorious for their brutal oppression and exploitation of African labour. Our people employed by these farmers go to the fields under the shadow of the whip and the gun. They work under slave conditions for slave wages.

In these areas, our people are forced to work between 10 and 12 hours a day with very little or no break at all. They work 52 weeks a year and take 16 days off. Child labour is rife. Our young ones are picked up in open lorries and transported daily to the fields or they are taken out of school so that the labour needs of these racist farmers can be met at the least cost to them.

To these brutal oppressors, the future and education of our children is far less important than the profits they reap from our expertise. These children and women, so-called casual workers, are repaid in tomatoes, cabbages, or as little as 80 cents or one rand each.

This white farmer community is (?of) exploiters with a slave-owner mentality. They treat their chickens and cows, their tractors and trucks with greater respect than they treat black farm workers.

And, of course, they monopolise the land claiming it as their own. They naively believe that they, as whites and as farm owners, have exclusive rights to all our fertile land. On the farms and within their racist community, they feel the idea that black people are there only with the permission of the white farmers is held up as a God-made law.

Black farm workers know from their bitter experience that the Boers impose their presence and their rule with cold-blooded brutality. They do not think twice before beating a farm worker to death. They see nothing wrong in taking our children on nightmare joyrides or sexually assaulting black women farm workers: And this is all in the name of white civilisation, white power, super profits and free enterprise.

While these racist farm owners live in comfort [word indistinct], their black farm workers the real producers of the wealth, the very people who made that comfor table life possible are living in poverty and misery. Hunger and malnutrition are the order of the day. Family life is disrupted. That is why we need to change all this.

Let farm workers understand and accept that such a situation cannot be allowed to continue like that any longer. That is why they have also joined their township compatriots in confronting the racist regime. In areas like Leabua, bantustan farm owners know now that they cannot expect to get any co-operation from their employees. They are beginning to feel the pinch of our offensive.

Because of the [word indistinct] (?position) to fight by our people in these areas and because of the active involvement of racist farm owners in the defence of the apartheid system, we have declared these areas war zones. That is because we understand the need to crack this false sense of property, power and pride which the white community [word indistinct].

That is why the people's army, Umkhonto we Sizwe, continues to escalate its activities in these areas. That is why landmines are becoming the way of life. We are intent on escalating armed action in support of the [word indistinct] and many grievances of farm workers and indeed of all the black working people.

Therefore, the mining of roads which are used by racist farm owners and the murderous (?farmers) is part of this action. These mines are aimed at the paramilitary and military forces of the enemy, all those who defend the so-called white countryside.

Black farm workers know that they are not the targets of Umkhonto. They are part of the oppressed majority who are struggling as working people to establish justice in the country of their birth. To ensure that they and their children will know a life of peace, security and comfort in a unitary non-racial South Africa.

Black farmers must always remember that the future is in their hands. They are and can become part of Umkhonto, because it is their army, the army of the people. That is why when by accident farm workers are injured or killed by mines, they know that they are not the target. That is why we say: Farm workers take care.

Because of the growing intensity of our armed offensive in these farming areas, farm owners are now placing some of their workers in managerial positions to do their dirty work whilst they ran away from these war zones to seek refuge in the urban areas and only to come occasionally to collect profits.

Farm workers must take (?a hard course) at work. Farm workers must also be careful not to drive on or walk along a route that they know are [as heard] used by farmers and (?SADF). They must refuse to be used as sweepers by the Boers, who send them out in tractors to see if the way is clear.

They want to use you as a shield to protect them from Umkhonto actions, because they know they are the targets. Therefore, you must demand that they ensure that the roads and fields are safe for you to work on. The white farmer must go out and check that all is safe. This [word indistinct] is your basic right as a worker. And if he refuses to do this, then, you must refuse to work.

It is your lives that the Boers are putting at risk. Of course, you must also not agree to be used by farmers as their informers. As a worker, you are told to do the work you are paid for. You owe the Boers nothing. In fact it is they that owe you everything because they have grown fat and wealthy on your poverty and labour.

Sabotage his farming operations. Destroy his crops. Sabotage his implements and machinery. Daring actions of Umkhonto we Sizwe are not the only way of confronting the enemy. Sabotage operations are part of the people's war. And actions of the people are: Do not allow the Boers to arm you against the people. Take the guns and communication equipment [word indistinct] and everything you can lay your hands on and turn them on the exploitative farmers.

These are the actions we have to take to end this state of tyranny which occupies our land. Let us all unite and fight for a new South Africa where the land shall not be the property of white farmers only but shall be shared among all those who [word indistinct]. Let us fight to abolish the hated (?plot) system and child labour once and for all. The whole of South Africa is ours. So, let us fight for our rights to own land wherever we want. We must fight for a system where people shall not be robbed of their cattle, where forced labour and farm prisons shall be abolished. This fight has begun.

 The landmines that are harassing farmers (?and) [word indistinct] are part of it. Therefore, farm workers, take care, and [do] not be victims of mines which are aimed against our oppressors. Let us make the countryside safe for us and a hell for the enemy. Forward to the people's war.

Source: BBC Monitoring, October 28 1986

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=232412&sn=Detail&pid=71656 

An apology to Blacks from a White South African

June 15, 2004

We apologize for giving you doctors and free medical care, as a result of which you have been able to survive plagues and catastrophes and grow in numbers;

We apologize for teaching you to read and write, and for building you thousands of schools which we have repaired after you vandalized them and burned them down, After all, if you could not read how could you have learned the words of Karl Marx, Mao Tse-tung, and others who taught you how evil we are and how oppressed you are?

We apologize for building factories and highways and buildings that gave you employment;

We apologize for developing farms that to this day feed the bulk of Africa;

We apologize for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric instead of leaving you wearing the animal skins that you wore before our arrival;

We apologize for taking minerals from the earth, which you neither used, nor wanted, nor even knew, were there;

We apologize for those among us who have established welfare organizations and have devoted their entire life towards making life richer and better for your people;

We apologize that we have built roads and railroad tracks between towns and cities which you now use every day without thinking;

We apologize for paying the lion's share of taxation while spending less on ourselves than on you;

We apologize for giving you law and order and a strong central government that prevented your own warrior nations like the Zulu and the Matabele from slaughtering black people by the hundreds of thousands as they did year in and year out before we came;

We apologize for teaching you the English language which has opened to you the entire world of European thought, culture, and commerce;

For all these sins we humbly beg forgiveness, and if you will only accept our apology we will be happy to take back all of the above evil and horrible things we have done to you and return to our European homeland.


A Warning for Americans: A Message from a South African

People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement).

Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveals trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country.

America's structures are of "Western Culture". Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your free speech, and the way ordinary Americans either get involved or ignore politics are peculiarly your "Western Culture", not the way most of the world operates. But the fact that only about a third of Americans deem it important to vote is horrifying in light of how close you are to losing your Western character.

Writing letters to the press, manning stands at county fairs, hosting fund-raising dinners, attending rallies, setting up conferences, writing your Congressman -- that is what you know, and what you are comfortable with. Those are the political methods you've created for yourselves to keep your country on track and to ensure political accountability,with freedom and justice for all.

But woe to you if -- or more likely, when -- the rules change. Americans may soon find themselves unable or unwilling to stand up to challenge the new political methods that will be the inevitable result of the ethnic metamorphosis now taking place in America. Unable to cope with the new rules of the game -- violence, mob riots, intimidation through accusations of racism, demands for proportionality based on racial numbers, and all the other social and political weapons used by the have-nots to bludgeon treasure and power from the haves -- Americans, like others before them, will no doubt cave in. They will compromise away their independence and ultimately their way of life.

That is exactly what happened in South Africa. I know, because I was there and I saw it happen. 

http://www.eaglesup.com/warning.html  (deleted but see http://www.captaincynic.com/thread/25062/10-years-after-apartheid-south-africa-in-a-crisis.htm )