Why Africa Has Gone To Hell

by James Jackson

White Zimbabweans used to tell a joke—what is the difference between a tourist and a racist? The answer—about a week.

Few seem to joke any more. Indeed, the last time anyone laughed out there was over the memorable headline “BANANA CHARGED WITH SODOMY” (relating to the Reverend Canaan Banana and his alleged proclivities). Zimbabwe was just the latest African state to squander its potential, to swap civil society for civil strife and pile high its corpses. Then the wrecking virus moves on and a fresh spasm of violence erupts elsewhere. Congo, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, even Kenya. Take your pick, for it is the essence of Africa, the recurring A-Z of horror. And as surely as Nelson Mandela took those steps from captivity to freedom, his own country will doubtless shuffle into chaos and ruin.

Mark my words. One day it will be the turn of South Africa to revert to type, its farms that lie wasted and its towns that are battle zones, its dreams and expectations that lie rotting on the veldt. That is the way of things. Africa rarely surprises, it simply continues to appal.

When interviewed on BBC Radio, the legendary South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela spoke of the 350-year struggle for freedom by blacks in South Africa. The man might play his trumpet like a dream, but he talks arrant nonsense. What he has bought into is a false narrative that rewrites history and plays upon post-colonial liberal angst. The construct is as follows: white, inglorious and bad; black, noble and good; empire, bad; independence, good; the west, bad; the African, good. Forgotten in all this is that while Europeans were settling and spreading from the Cape, the psychopathic Shaka Zulu was employing his impi to crush everyone—including the Xhosa—in his path, and the Xhosa were themselves busy slaughtering Bushmen and Hottentots. Yet it is the whites who take the rap, for it was they who won the skirmishes along the Fish and Blood Rivers and who eventually gained the prize.

What suffers is the truth, and—of course—Africa. We are so cowed by the moist-eyed mantras of the left and the oath-laden platitudes of Bono and Geldof, we are forced to accept collective responsibility for the bloody mess that is now Africa. It paralyses us while excusing the black continent and its rulers.

Whenever I hear people agitate for the freezing of Third World debt, I want to shout aloud for the freezing of those myriad overseas bank accounts held by black African leaders (President Mobutu of Zaire alone is believed to have squirreled away well over $10 billion).

Whenever apartheid is held up as a blueprint for evil, I want to mention Bokassa snacking on human remains, Amin clogging a hydro-electric dam with floating corpses, the President of Equatorial Guinea crucifying victims along the roadway from his airport.

Whenever slavery is dredged up, I want to remind everyone the Arabs were there before us, the native Ashanti and others were no slouches at the game, and it remains extant in places like the Ivory Coast.

Whenever I hear the Aids pandemic somehow blamed on western indifference, I want to point to the African native practice of dry sex, the hobby-like prevalence of rape and the clumps of despotic black leaders who deny a link between the disease and HIV and who block the provision of antiretrovirals.

And whenever Africans bleat of imperialism and colonialism, I want to campaign for the demolition of every road, college, and hospital we ever built to let them start again. It is time they governed themselves. Yet few play the victim card quite so expertly as black Africans; few are quite so gullible as the white liberal-left.

“On the eve of this millennium, Nelson Mandela and friends lit candles mapping the shape of their continent and declared the Twenty-first Century would belong to Africa. A pity that for every one Mandela there are over a hundred Robert Mugabes.”
So Britain had an empire and Britain did slavery. Boo hoo. Deal with it. Move on. Slavery ended here over two hundred years ago. More recently, there were tens of millions of innocents enslaved or killed in Europe by the twin industrialised evils of Nazism and Stalinism. My own first cousins—twin brothers aged sixteen—died down a Soviet salt mine. I need no lecture on eggplants and neck-irons. Most of us are descendents of both oppressors and oppressed; most of us get over it. Mind you, I am tempted by thoughts of compensation from Scandinavia for the wickedness of its Viking raids and its slaving-hub on the Liffe. As for the 1066 invasion of England by William the Bastard…

The white man’s burden is guilt over Africa (the black man’s is sentimentality), and we are blind for it. We have tipped hundreds of billions of aid-dollars into Africa without first ensuring proper governance. We encourage NGOs and food-parcels and have built a culture of dependency. We shy away from making criticism, tiptoe around the crassness of the African Union and flinch at every anti-western jibe. The result is a free-for-all for every syphilitic black despot and his coterie of family functionaries.

Africa casts a long and toxic shadow across our consciousness. It is patronised and allowed to underperform, so too its distant black diaspora. A black London pupil is excluded from his school, not because he is lazy, stupid or disruptive, but because that school is apparently racist; a black youth is pulled over by the police, not because black males commit over eighty percent of street crime, but because the authorities are somehow corrupted by prejudice.

Thus the tale continues. Excuse is everywhere and a sense of responsibility nowhere. You will rarely find either a black national leader in Africa or a black community leader in the west prepared to put up his hands and say It is our problem, our fault. Those who look to Africa for their roots, role-models and inspiration are worshipping false gods. And like all false gods, the feet are of clay, the snouts long and designed for the trough, and the torture-cells generally well-equipped.

I once met the son of a Liberian government minister and asked if he had seen video-footage of his former president Samuel Doe being tortured to death. ‘Of course’, he replied with a smile. ‘Everyone has’. They cut off the ears of Doe and force-fed them to him. His successor, the warlord Charles Taylor, was elected in a landslide result using the campaign slogan He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him. Nice people. Liberia was founded and colonised by black Americans to demonstrate what slave stock could achieve. They certainly showed us. Forgive my heretical belief that had a black instead of a white tribe earlier come to dominate South Africa, its opponents would not have been banished to Robben island. They would have been butchered and buried there.

When asked about the problem of Africa, Harold Macmillan suggested building a high wall around the continent and every century or so removing a brick to check on progress. I suspect that over entire millennia, the view would prove bleak and unvarying.

On the eve of this millennium, Nelson Mandela and friends lit candles mapping the shape of their continent and declared the Twenty-first Century would belong to Africa. Whatever. Meantime, the vast natural resources have been frittered and agricultural production since independence has halved. A pity that for every one Mandela there are over a hundred Robert Mugabes.

Visiting a state in west Africa a few years ago, I wandered onto a beach and marvelled at the golden sands and at the sunlight catching on the Atlantic surf. It allowed me to forget for a moment the local news that day of soldiers seizing a schoolboy and pitching him head-first into an operating cement-machine. Almost forget. Then I spotted a group of villagers beating a stray dog to death for their sport. A metaphor of sorts for all that is wrong, another link in a word-association chain that goes something like Famine… Drought… Overpopulation… Deforestation… Conflict… Barbarism… Cruelty… Machetes… Child Soldiers… Massacres… Diamonds… Warlords…Tyranny… Corruption… Despair… Disease… Aids… Africa.

Africa remains the heart of darkness.

Africa is hell.




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ANC Centenery,The Good, the Bad and the Great

The ANC is 100 years old today. From a struggle against power, to wielding it, we take a look at the past presidents of the ANC.

THE REVEREND JOHN LANGALIBALELE DUBE (1912-1917)

John Langalibalele Dube

DUBE was elected in absentia as the founding president of the South African Native National Council, which later became known as the African National Congress, in 1912.

Educated in the United States, Dube was one of the pioneering African leaders during the missionary era in the then Natal.

He was deeply influenced by Booker T Washington, by then the most prominent moderate African-American intellectual and leader in North America.

The success of Washington's Tuskegee Institute inspired Dube, on his return to South Africa, to form his own industrial school in Ohlange, near Durban - which is still in operation. He also established Ilanga lase Natal, a Zulu-language newspaper still in existence.

As ANC president, Dube mounted a stiff resistance campaign against the enactment of the Land Act of 1913 that severely limited land ownership by Africans. His contemporaries, however, felt he had compromised heavily on the principle of segregation when he led a delegation to London to protest against the draconian legislation.

Though he opposed the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, he was later perceived as having betrayed the struggle when, in 1930, he openly toyed with the idea of supporting the then government's discriminatory bills in the hope that this would result in more funding for development projects.

He had already been ousted in 1917.

SEFAKO MAKGATHO (1917-1924)

Sefako Makgatho

NELSON Mandela named his son after Makgatho, a teacher educated in England, who was also a blood relative of the famed chief Sekhukhune of the Bapedi tribe.

He was president of the Transvaal Native Congress, which merged with other organisations to form the ANC. He was also a founder member of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association.

During his tenure the movement adopted many of its insignia and slogans. These include the black, green and gold colours, Mayibuye iAfrika (Africa must come back) as a slogan and Nkosi Sikelel'iAfrica as its anthem.

The ANC under Makgatho was viewed as mainly passive and characterised by petitions rather than resistance. But these should not negate Makgatho's own involvement in resistance campaigns. He led a successful campaign in Pretoria against a government regulation that banned Africans from walking on city pavements and confined them to tarred roads with passing vehicles a constant danger.

He also led resistance to the extension of pass laws to African women.

ZACHARIA MAHABANE (1924-1930 and 1937-1940)

Zacharia Mahabane

IT is difficult to understand why Mahabane served twice as ANC president, given his backward views on the right to universal franchise.

His official biography says he was called back to rescue a movement that had declined in membership under Pixley ka Isaka Seme. But Mahabane's willingness to compromise on the demand for Africans to be included in the common voters roll ultimately defined the crisis of the ANC at the time: a party led by missionary-educated, aristocratic Africans who were willing to accept the idea of a qualified franchise. Such an approach would not have resonated with the masses. Mahabane believed that a separate voters roll for Africans would have been acceptable if whites found the idea of a common voters roll too menacing.

JOSIAH GUMEDE (1927-1930)

Joshua Gumede

HIS stay in office was short-lived, largely because of his attempt to turn the ANC into a socialist party soon after visiting the Soviet Union.

"I have seen the world to come, where it has already begun. I have been to the new Jerusalem," he declared on his return from the communist country. This angered ANC aristocrats, who included chiefs and kings who were suspicious of communists and their opposition to monarchy. They conspired to oust him in 1930 and replace him with Seme.

PIXLEY KA ISAKA SEME (1930-1937)

PIXLEY KA ISAKA SEME

ONE of the founding leaders of the ANC, he had served as the movement's first secretary in 1912.

His ultra-conservative and traditionalist views made him, in the eyes of chiefs and other party leaders, a perfect replacement for Gumede. But his attempts to turn the organisation into economic self-help units and to revive the House of Chiefs failed spectacularly.

In fact Seme so alienated the broader masses that Mahabane had to be brought back to revive an organisation in steady decline.

DR ALFRED B XUMA (1940-1949)

DR ALFRED B XUMA

HE is often remembered in the ANC as the first party president to be ousted by the ANC Youth League, but what often gets left out is that it was under his leadership that the organisation began its march to becoming a mass-based liberation, as opposed to a club of the educated elite.

It was during his tenure as president that the ANC entered into a pact with the Natal and Transvaal Indian congresses - setting the foundation for non-racial struggles as well as the ANC's involvement in alliance politics.

The one-time school teacher, who later became a European-trained gynaecologist, was also at the helm of the ANC when the decision to form the youth league was taken.

But Mandela, Oliver Tambo and other youth league leaders later turned against him when Xuma refused to lead the organisation's disobedience campaign against racist laws.

DR JAMES MOROKA (1949-1952)

DR JAMES MOROKA

PROBABLY one of the worst ANC presidents, Moroka came to power on a youth league ticket - having been fetched from home by Mandela's group after they failed to find a suitable challenger to Xuma.

Arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act and with the prospect of a lengthy jail term looming, Moroka denounced the principles of non-racialism. He was summarily expelled from the ANC.

CHIEF ALBERT LUTHULI (1952- 1967)

CHIEF ALBERT LUTHULI

ANC headquarters in downtown Johannesburg are named after Luthuli and it is easy to understand why. A great thinker and a selfless leader, Luthuli's sacrifices and commitment to peace earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.

However, he angered some of the more militant members of the ANC with his insistence to adhere to non-violent protests. It was also on his watch that the Pan Africanists, led by Robert Sobukwe, broke away to form the Pan-African Congress.

OLIVER TAMBO (1967-1990)

Oliver Tambo

TAMBO's greatest achievement was to keep the ANC intact during its most trying period in history when it was banned and forced to operate from exile. Not many liberation movements re-emerge out of such an experience united.

In exile, Tambo had to deal with a number of serious challenges, including mutinies by members of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe as well as an attempt by eight of its former senior leaders to form a breakaway party. Over and above this, the party had to deal with regular infiltration by apartheid state agents.

There were also countless arrests and murders of political activists, the June 1976 student uprisings and impatient calls for the ANC to take a more hardline stance to bring about freedom. But Tambo, a shrewd thinker, also had the foresight to realise when the time had arrived to begin talking to the ruling National Party to pave the way for democracy.

NELSON MANDELA (1990-1997)

Nelson Mandela

THE most famous and most decorated of ANC presidents, Mandela is a trained lawyer who spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid. He later became South Africa's first democratically elected president.

He was instrumental in setting up the ANC Youth League with Walter Sisulu and Anton Lembede when they grew impatient of the ANC's soft stance in the face of growing state aggression. He was arrested along with other political prisoners and charged in the famous Rivonia Trial, before being shipped off to Robben Island.

When the ANC was unbanned and he was released from prison, he adopted a more nonracial approach. Mandela had the difficult task of allaying minority fears of a black government and maintaining the ANC intact. He also initiated a massive reconstruction and development programme aimed at uplifting poor black communities.

He later delegated many of his executive duties to his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded him both in the ANC and as head of state.

THABO MBEKI (1997-2007)

Thabo Mbeki

THE son of Rivonia trialist Govan Mbeki was educated at Sussex University during his more than three decades in exile. Highly intelligent, Mbeki was groomed for leadership from a young age. Tambo took him under his wing and passed on to Mbeki the traits necessary for running a successful political organisation.

When he became president in 1999, Mbeki pushed through more conservative macroeconomic policies and encouraged the accumulation of wealth by blacks through the policy of black economic empowerment. He surrounded himself with loyalists and flirted with controversial ideas, especially in respect of HIV/Aids.

Although the ANC grew during his tenure, Mbeki failed to read the initial signs of discontent among the rank and file. It would cost him dearly. It was also under his leadership that the rot that has set in in the ANC - the scramble for tenders and government contracts - began at local level.

In his second term, Mbeki alienated the ANC's alliance partners who criticised his leadership style and the economic policies of his government. But it was his treatment of his deputy, Jacob Zuma, that resulted in an uprising against him, with the youth league at the forefront. Zuma ousted him as ANC leader in Polokwane in 2007 and a year later the ANC removed him as president of the country following a court judgement in favour of Zuma, who was facing corruption charges.

JACOB ZUMA (2007-)

Jacob Zuma

ZUMA, who has no formal schooling, grew up as a herdboy in rural KwaZulu-Natal. He later joined the ANC and was imprisoned on Robben Island for 10 years. Zuma left the country after being released and went on to head ANC intelligence in Swaziland. Upon returning to the country he worked closely with Mbeki during negotiations that paved the way for democracy.

Zuma then led the organisation in KwaZulu-Natal, where he was instrumental in brokering peace between warring ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party members. He was elected deputy president of the ANC in 1997. Mbeki fired him as deputy president of the country in 2005 following the conviction of his former financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, for fraud. Zuma spectacularly toppled Mbeki two years later and took over as president in 2009.

In his four-year tenure as ANC president and in the two years that he has ruled the country, Zuma as alienated the youth league, some Cosatu leaders and powerful ANC figures. He has reshuffled his cabinet twice and has had some of his appointments successfully challenged in courts. Zuma will deliver the centenary address of a party highly divided, crippled by the sins of incumbency.

Under him the ANC also has to deal with a more disillusioned electorate and the growth of the Democratic Alliance, especially in traditional ANC areas.

ANC Celebrates 100-Year History With Animal Sacrifice

7th January 2012

A bull bellowed in sacrifice on Saturday as South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) paid tribute to its ancestors and founding leaders, who 100 years ago paved the way for Nelson Mandela's rainbow nation.

President Jacob Zuma led the slaughter of a black bull in a ceremony on the second day of the African National Congress centenary festivities to celebrate its rich anti-apartheid legacy now tarnished by scandals and challenges.

'Today our leaders, traditional leaders and traditional healers, had to perform certain rituals before we get into serious business of celebration,' said Mr Zuma after the sacrifice at the church site where the ANC was founded in 1912.

'In other words, to remember our ancestors, to remember our own gods in a traditional way.' Overlooked by giant portraits of former leaders such as Mr Mandela, healers and cultural groups dressed in beads, porcupine head-dresses and animal skins sang, danced and prepared food as politics gave way to African drums and tradition.

Men run away from a cow ahead of its slaughtering at the traditional Cleansing and Thanksgiving ceremony at the historic Waaihoek Church in Bloemfontein on Jan 7, 2012.

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (left) holds a spear, as US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson (right) looks on, after a black bull was sacrificed as part of a cleansing ceremony ahead of the upcoming African National Congress (ANC) centenary celebration in Bloemfontein Jan 7, 2012

Women wearing traditional attire dance ahead of the upcoming African National Congress (ANC) centenary celebration in Bloemfontein Jan 7, 2012

Woman of the Pedi tribe dance during the Cleansing and Thanksgiving ceremony at the historic Waaihoek Church in Bloemfontein on Jan 7, 2012

A traditional healer performs a Cleansing and Thanksgiving ceremony in Bloemfontein on Jan 7, 2012.

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Juju At It Again!

Johan PB Prinsloo

The centenary celebrations of the ANC must be viewed for what it is, the trigger for much worse to come.

 Reading what Julius has been saying over the past few days is most disconcerting to say the least. He is being ignored by most, just as was the case a year or two ago, when he was regarded as just a stupid kid. Now he is being disregarded because he was dispelled from the ANCYL. White South Africans truly are stupid themselves.

 He is busy stirring the pot like never before with statements like : "domestic workers get raped in the bedrooms of the baas & the madam. They're silent because they'll loose their job." and "We don't want to drive whites into the sea. In 10 years we want white domestic workers." He is urging the maids to rise up to their white employers and suggesting that in ten years from now the white women may be raped by their black employers." He is urging blacks to take up arms against the whites with statements like "Mandela said letters to the Queen doesn't help. Take up the weapon.

Ideas Is not gonna bring economic freedom." 

 This is blatant hate speech and he is openly urging blacks to take up arms against the whites. He is breeding hatred against whites by playing on the emotions of the

ignorant black masses suggesting the the black maids are suffering at the hands of their white masters, being raped and silenced.
In so doing he is, like the white liberal dogs, warranting the rape and murder of whites.

 Has anyone silenced him about these statements? Has any f*(7$%$ church in this country said anything about it? Has any human rights ass-licking spineless appeaser said anything about it? Even if Afriforum was to take him to court afterwards for having said it, would it make any difference to those ignorant uneducated blacks who took it to heart?

 The Rev. Keno Waters said on Twitter this morning "For the life me I never could understood why Malema's rhetoric found a home in many hearts... Till I moved to the racist Cape Town...", "It's sad that the only time a black man is taken seriously is when he calls for blood... Racism isn't important till the victim gets mad" and then just a few minutes ago he said "Just like Malcolm X, I do not advocate for killing. However, freedom from racism should be prioritized and sought 'by any means necessary'" So what is he saying other than that killing is the only way.

 I said in December 2010 that by June this year people would be shooting at each other in the streets, and I have been doubting my own interpretation of the future, based on what I knew then, versus what I know now, and if things continue along these lines I have no doubt that blood is going to flow very soon in this god-forsaken white liberal sold out wasteland called the New SA.

 I am finding it difficult to convey white South Africans of the danger that lies ahead, because I'm often accused, even by the &)(*& right wing volkstaters, that I'm a prophet of doom, but so be it. As long as I can reach only a few I'll be satisfied, I do not care for volkstaters anyway, because they do not care for anyone but themselves. But for the rest we need to take stock and we need to be awake, aware, and alert.

 Malema, Sexwale, white liberal trash and others have been manipulating people's perceptions of the past to control their thinking and drive it in a direction they want.

 ALWAYS REMEMBER that a white liberal is the same as any black radical, because they will always warrant the actions of the black radical in the name of so-called freedom and liberation. Malema is manipulating the perceptions of blacks, by painting a picture in their minds that black maids are being raped on a daily basis by their white employers, that whites have been stealing from the blacks, that talking is not good enough and that blacks should take up arms against the whites. Sexwale has been manipulating the minds of blacks by telling them that the white farmers have been driving the blacks from the farms and that is why we now have almost 3000 squatter camps in the country. Slowly but surely they have been building a case to hate whites to the extreme.

 There is now a million times more racial friction in this country than at any time in history, thanks to liberals, appeasers, the Malemas and Sexwales and others, deliberately instilling hatred in the hearts of the black masses. They want war, they want mass genocide against the whites, and it will happen, fortunately even the white liberals will experience it first hand.

 They are also manipulating the white right-wing, hoping that they would start it for them, because then they know the whole world and the local white liberal scum would support them when they move in and wipe out the whites. If they could get the whites to start the fight they would have won their greatest victory, because in the eyes of the world they would be warranted to stop the white revolt and they would be allowed and supported in wiping us all out.

 Hell is about to descend upon this country, the whites in particular and we had better realise it.

 The white liberals would try to convince you that there is no danger, no chance of genocide or civil war and that we have a great future ahead of us.

 The Volkstaters would try to convince you that there is no immediate danger, no chance of civil war and that there is sufficient time (another 20 to 30 years) for them to lead you to their Canaan so you should relax and leave your life and the life of your children in their capable trustworthy hands.

 But heed my words today if you want, I've been concerned for a long time, but I've never been as concerned as I am now.
We should not be sitting back, we should not be depending on politicians, liberals and idealists, we should not be allowing others to blindfold us as to the reality of the threat ahead, we should be planning and preparing ourselves in accordance with the realities of what is happening right in-front of our own eyes.

 Life in SA has changed, it is changing now and it is going to change for the worst, much worse than we could ever imagine. There is no time left for dreams, there is no time left to sit back and think it would all go away, it is time to get ready and prepare for that which everyone has been telling us would never happen. This is Africa, this is not the west where people negotiate and make deals, here they take what they ant, based on what their hearts and emotions tell them and those hearts are more filled with hate against the whites today than ever before.

 Heed the words of the Rev Keno Waters this morning "The only way to end racism is to kill a material number of whites."

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Criminal Admiral teaches youth about ethics and morals

Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala

By Mike Smith
5th of January 2012

In 2004 liberals all over the world and especially the feminists were drooling all over Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala when she became South Africa’s first female Admiral in the Navy.

A women just doesn’t get appointed like that overnight. She must have rendered some services during the 1980’s when she was an ANC commander at the Quatro training camp in Angola where the ANC tortured raped and killed their own people. Word is that she was the communist mattress for the ANC top brass at Quatro.
Be it as it may, it did not take long for her true low class colours to come out. She slapped a navy guard who wanted to search her vehicle, she defrauded the state by fraudulently claiming for a stolen laptop worth R15,000 that was not stolen at all and in Durban she claimed for a stay in a guest house that she never stayed in.
This is a woman who apparently has a masters degree in criminology.
After being convicted of fraud by a military court, she resigned, but withdrew her resignation to rather take a more lucrative golden handshake. She eventually left the Navy in 2008 in disgrace.

But she soon got another job as a “reservist” in the Department of Defence in Pretoria in 2010. This is in full contradiction of the law that states that no person appointed in a military reservist position should have a criminal record.
As we know. There are laws for the rest of us in SA and then there are laws for the ANC, who are actually above the law or a law onto themselves.
Now the Beeld Newspaper reported on 3rd of January 2012 that the darling of the feminists with her criminal record has been appointed as chief of the SANDF’s project to teach morals and ethics to younger citizens.
The report states that amongst other things, she teaches the youth discipline, not to commit crime and how to be a good role model.

With a degree in criminology and being a criminal herself, I am sure she has a lot to teach the youth about crime...or how not to get caught doing it.

Personally I cannot think of a worse role model for SA’s youth than Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, but this is the reality of the role models and leaders of the ANC government...

 

Criminals in charge as politicians

 

Criminals in charge of the Defence Force

 

Criminals in charge of the police

 

...and people ask why it is going so bad with South Africa.

 

Admirals shock SANDF return

Criminal Record

 

 

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White Women Lose Out

This is a victory for the black business lobby, which has been fighting to exclude white women from the job market’… writes ANC’s own newspaper....

White women would be the biggest losers once the broad-based black economic empowerment amendment bill was enacted as expected early next year, BEE specialist Andile Tlhoaele said on Monday. The proposed changes meant they would no longer be entitled to benefit from empowerment programmes as has been the case till now. This represents a victory for the black business lobby, which has been fighting for their exclusion.

White women would no longer be regarded as legitimate beneficiaries of black economic empowerment once imminent new laws come into effect, a member of a subcommittee of the presidential BEE advisory committee, Andile Tlhoaele, said in an interview.

The Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Amendment Bill eliminates all white people including the disabled.

“The definition of black people is now clear and aligned with the Constitution,” Tlhoaele said.

There has been widespread criticism that white women were benefitting disproportionately from black economic empowerment with their black counterparts relegated to the bottom rung of the drive to redress societal inequalities. The Black Management Forum has been leading the calls for white women to be excluded after it came to light that they were the fastest rising category of people in terms of employment equity.

Tlhoaele said the inclusion of white women had been abused. This had defeated the aim of true inclusivity.

Now that the B-BBEE Act would take precedence over other legislation relating empowerment, enterprises would no longer be able to claim employment equity points for white women. Employment equity is a key element of the B-BBEE scorecard used to rate empowerment credentials.

The Employment Equity Act still has white women as a designated group for affirmative action purposes.

Tlhoaele said proposed changes to BEE legislation would go a long in ensuring that growing numbers of previously disadvantaged South Africans were drawn into the mainstream economy.

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies gazetted the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Amendment Bill two weeks ago and gave members of the public 60 days to make submissions. Another highlight of the amendments has been the criminalisation of the practice of misrepresenting BEE credentials, known as fronting.

In terms of the proposed amendments, those involved in fronting could face jail terms of up to 10 years or be fined 2%-10% of annual turnover depending on the seriousness of the incident. In addition, contracts awarded to guilty companies could be cancelled.

Further, the amended law requires the government and its agencies to comply. The auditor-general will audit and report on BEE compliance for government departments.

Stock exchange-listed companies will be required to submit annual reports to the B-BBEE Commission, which the amendments propose. The commission’s function would include supervising adherence to the act.

It would further receive and investigate complaints relating to B-BBEE, and maintain a registry of major empowerment transactions. “The proposals are a bold move and demonstrate government’s commitment to ensure successful implementation of BEE,” Tlhoaele said. “The Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Bill closes many loopholes in the current BEE Act – a move that is long overdue.”

Gordon Woods

Oh yes - and of course this is NOT racist at all - it is not racist to refuse a man or a woman a job based on the colour of their skin, no not at all - it is not discrimination at all if the best man or woman cannot be appointed based on the colour of their skin, NO NOT AT ALL - at least not in the new south africa, where are all those who fought so bravely to forcefully install this regime upon this country? Why are they SO QUIET now?

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A Year Long Party - ANC Style.

The ANC Governmunt party expects 46 heads of state to attend the three days of celebrations that start Friday, with 100 000 supporters expected to flood into the normally placid central city of Bloemfontein.

Events include a golf tournament - fair enough , a ritual cleansing ceremony and animal sacrifice at the church where the party was founded in 1912.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Heads-of-state-flocking-to-ANC-bash-20120104

 

A religious row has erupted on the eve of the ANC’s centenary celebrations over the party’s plans to slaughter a cow and commune with the ancestors this weekend.

African Christian Democratic Party leader Rev Kenneth Meshoe has turned down his invitation as an opposition party leader to attend the festivities in the belief that invoking the spirits of dead leaders will have “devastating consequences for the country”.

Instead he planned to join other Christian groups outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria today for a 5pm prayer and worship ceremony to “dedicate South Africa to the living God, Jesus Christ”.

ANC chaplain-general Vukile Mehana said he was asking Meshoe to “pray deeply and reflect correctly so that he may reconsider his decision and be part of this historic event of the celebration of the liberation of our people”.

“If the good reverend is not going to honour the invitation simply because of his fundamentalist Christian beliefs, that will show that he is practising religious intolerance – a behaviour which is totally unacceptable and a direct contravention of our constitution as well as the fundamental values and principles of Christianity,” Mehana said.

The centenary celebrations were not about “worshipping ancestors”. and it was “mischievous and misleading” to suggest the ANC favoured one particular faith over others.

“What Reverend Meshoe must learn and understand is that the centenary celebrations are not about worshipping ancestors.

“However, through the ceremonies and services which form part of the centenary programme, the ANC will venerate the spirit of those who were part of its history… there is nothing wrong with the inclusion of African religious beliefs and practices.”

But Meshoe was not persuaded. “Because I love my country I cannot associate with dedicating it to dead people.”

He urged all Christians and other South Africans “who love the country” to join in prayer “to do what is right, because what the ANC is doing is wrong”.

He noted that ANC chairwoman Baleka Mbete had said they would invoke the spirits of the ancestors to come help the country. “My only concern is that it will have devastating consequences for South Africa.”

Meshoe claimed the quake in Haiti showed the dangers of invoking spirits and that Nigeria was suffering economically because the country was “dedicated to the ancestors”.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/anc-acdp-lock-horns-over-slaughtering-1.1208303

 

2011 - By News 24

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN 2011 AS DEPICTED BY NEWS 24

ANCYL Julius Malema was suspended for five years, meaning he must step down as president of the ANC's youth wing, a party disciplinary committee ruled. The charges against him referred to calling for regime change in neighbouring Botswana, unfavourably comparing president Jacob Zuma to his predecessor Thabo Mbeki and storming into a meeting of top ANC officials.

Andries Tatane was killed allegedly by a group of policemen during a protest in Ficksburg, Bloemfontein. He had challenged the officers to spray him with a water cannon during the protest march. Six public order policemen have been charged in connection with the death of Tatane.

 

 

National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele was suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into "unlawful" police lease agreements. This came after the Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found that Cele's actions involving the procurement of two building leases for new police headquarters, valued at R1.6bn, were unlawful and amounted to maladministration.

 

 

Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde was axed after the probe of the controversial building lease. Her decision to allow two controversial building leases valued at R1.6bn to go ahead, despite tender procedures not being followed and legal advice to the contrary, amounted to maladministration, according to a finding by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela.

 

 

Sheryl Cwele, the wife of the state security minister, and her Nigerian co-accused Frank Nabolisa were sentenced to 12 years for drug dealing by the Pietermaritzburg High Court. They had pleaded not guilty of dealing or conspiring to deal in drugs, procuring a woman, Charmaine Moss, to collect drugs in Turkey, and procuring another woman, Tessa Beetge, to smuggle cocaine from South America.

 

 

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Parliament, Cape Town, in protest of the passing of the Information Bill.

 

 

The Protection of Information Bil was passed and it could see whistle blowers and journalists who publish "classified" information jailed for up to 25 years.

 

A South African woman was executed in China by lethal injection for drug smuggling after rejecting last-minute pleas for clemency. Linden, 35, was convicted of trying to sneak three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of methamphetamine into the country in her luggage through the southern city of Guangzhou in 2008.

 

 

Hundreds of people were left homeless, when a tornado tore through the Duduza township near Nigel, east of Johannesburg. Several people were also injured.

 

The 17th United Nations Conference of Parties (Cop17) was held in Durban. The conference focused on efforts to move toward a future agreement to legally bind all nations to emissions targets, including China and the United States.

 

 

Protesters gathered outside the JSE in Johannesburg to march against alleged corporate greed. The protests began in Canada and spread to cities across the US, Asia, South Africa and Europe.

 

 

23-year-old Nolubabalo "Babsi" Nobanda, from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, was caught by Thai authorities for trying to smuggle 1,5 kg of cocaine matted in her dreadlocked hair. She is set to appear in court in three months' time.

 

 

Democratic Alliance member Lindiwe Mazibuko was elected as the leader of the DA group in South African Parliament. At 31, she is the country's fourth youngest parliamentarian.

 

 

Supporters of the Dalai Lama protested outside Parliament in Cape Town, to push for a visa to be granted to the spiritual leader. The visa was never approved and the Dalai Lama couldn't visit the country to celebrate Archbishop Tutu's birthday.

 

 

Prince Albert II of Monaco married Charlene Whittstock from South Africa

 

Table Mountain was provisionally named a New 7 Wonder of Nature following a three-year global race to choose the world's seven most wonderful natural sites.

IF THIS IS HOW NEWS 24 PORTRAYS US TO THE WORLD - WE AS SOUTH AFRICAN'S ARE DOOMED!!

 

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2012

Never in our lifetime has the future been in a more uncertain state.

Obviously, neither Chantell Ilbury nor I experienced the horrors of the two world wars of the last century. So the phrase that change has become more extreme is simply not valid. However, the potential for major upsets is huge; and it is against that backdrop that we offer our list of events, trends or issues that could make headlines in 2012:
1) Red Flags Rising
In terms of the global economy, we have upped the probability on the “forked Lightning” scenario of a double dip, where the second crash is even bigger than the one of 2008, to 20% (from 10).

The reason is that one of the flags for this scenario has always been a sovereign default of note. Italy and Spain are candidates, the crucial thing to watch being the interest rate on their 10 year bonds. If it jumps above 7% for a prolonged time, the servicing of the bonds becomes problematic given the challenge of reducing the overall deficit.

The hike in interest payments will overshadow the cuts in government expenditure affected elsewhere to improve solvency. The deficit will thereby worsen creating a vicious circle of even higher interest rates. Greece has already entered this downward spiral.

In regard to South Africa, we have raised the probability on the “Failed State” scenario from 10 to 15% following the passing of the Secrecy Bill. While the main flag for the scenario remains the level of violence which is certainly nowhere near what is happening in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, a subsidiary flag was the gagging of the press.

The latter could cause a massive leap in corruption as there will no longer be the counterbalancing fear of exposure. Critical factors to watch now will be the scope of topics defined as secret and the magnitude of punishment meted out to journalists found guilty of breaking the law.

Both scenarios are still outsiders, but have become more heavily tipped to challenge the favourites.
2) Dances with Wolves
The recent climate change conference in Durban has only revealed the deep divisions that still exist between nations on how to handle the issues. The upshot was to kick the can into convocation in two years time.

Accordingly we attach a 90% probability to one scenario “Dances with Wolves” in which the super-emitters like China and America carry on their dirty dancing act regardless. Alas, “Strictly Ballroom” – a tight agreement forcing nations to waltz together towards clearly set reductions in carbon emissions – is given a wild card probability of 10%
3) Fragile China
Last year we showcased “Ultraviolet”, a scenario where advanced economies were caught in a U-shaped trap of lacklustre growth while emerging economies were enjoying a V-shaped recovery, as our favourite to win the race over the next five years.

We have now switched back to “Hard Times” for everybody, the flag being China’s future GDP growth rate. We are less convinced that China can contain or exceed 8% per annum for two reasons: exports are 38% of China’s GDP and exporting into a flat Europe is taking its toll; and there are two indications of an imminent bursting of the property bubble which could lead to defaults on loans provided to municipalities by Chinese banks. If China dips below 5% economic growth, all the countries which supply resources to China will feel the heat too. We are now 60:40 on China having a soft or hard landing versus a continuing boom.
4) American Civil war (Part 2)
Relations between Democrats and Republicans have taken to an all-time low, just when co-operation between the two parties is essential to get America’s finances back in order. The focus has been on Europe; but it could easily switch to America if inflation picks up unexpectedly and interest rates rise.

Nevertheless, its economy is in better shape; and it is a unitary state capable of fixing things in a way that Europe – without establishing closer fiscal ties between its members – cannot do. It remains to be seen whether the presidential election will degenerate into an all-out war between the candidates.
Given the widening gap between the rich and the middle class and the poor caused by the recession; social unrest cannot be rules out. Meanwhile, it is unlikely during an election year that any meaningful solution will be found to the escalatory cost of government health and welfare programmes.

Democracy and austerity are uneasy bedfellows. But if anyone can find a way through, the Americans can. Never count them out.
5) Syrian Showdown / Russian Spring
2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring which toppled regimes in some countries and continues to be a revolutionary influence in others.

The jury is still out on whether genuine democracy and a better life for all will result from what has happened so far. The situation in Syria with its ties to Iran and its proximity to Israel could have far more complex and explosive repercussions.

The surprise is that the Russians seem to have caught the bug too with all kinds of implications for the nation possessing the second biggest nuclear armoury on Earth. Rightly, Time magazine has named the protester as its person of the year.
6) The Age of Intelligence
We have through the Age of Industrialisation and more recently through the Age of Knowledge, and currently stand at the dawn of the Age of Intelligence.

With all the tools and machinery of the first era and all the information at our fingertips from the second era, we now face challenges of much higher complexity demanding a huge leap in the quality education, skills, creativity, and all-round intelligence. Nations that understand this will do better than nations which remain blissfully ignorant.

Companies that apply their intelligence to engaging new producers and services which offer value for money in the “Hard Times” scenario will continue to grow and flourish. Unintelligent companies will go to the wall. Individuals who demonstrate versatility of skills and flexibility of mind will make a good living. Those that fail to adapt will limit their chances.
7) The Dutch Disease
Last year we talked about more smacks from Mother Nature. Sure enough, she duly delivered those smacks in Japan, New Zealand and several other countries.

This year is the risk that deadly strain of bird flu – a genetic mutation of H5N1 into a highly infectious influenza transmittable through coughing and sneezing – could escape from the laboratory that created it in Rotterdam. H5N1 kills 60 percent of the people it has infected.

The knowledge of how to manufacture the new strain could also be leaked to terrorist groups. With seven billion inhabitants on this planet, with the concentration of a large portion in megacities and increased mobility offered by travel by air, sea, rail or road, the danger of a global epidemic always lurks in the background.
8) The Year of the Bull
Our mainframe scenarios for South Africa are “Premier League” to which we assign a 50% probability and “Second Division” which we give a 35% probability.

If you take into account the 15% probability for “failed state”, we are now at a 50:50 ratio between good and bad scenarios. In other words, we are at a second tipping point, the first one being in the early 1990s when we could have tipped into civil war. Fortunately, Codesa 1 and 2 produced a new constitution and a free and fair election in 1994.

The real issue at the current tipping point is no longer political freedom but economic freedom. South Africa still has a highly exclusive, lopsided economy plagued by an unacceptably high unemployment rate.

At the same time, 2012 is a year of note for the ANC starting with centenary celebrations through a debate on national economic strategy and ending up with a leadership contest. Will the young, radical bulls in the kraal push through their nationalisation and land expropriation agenda: or will the older, more experienced bulls prevail?

We would prefer 2012 to have another forum for creating a new economic blueprint: a Codesa 3 involving all the major economic actors. Only a joint approach will succeed.

Otherwise, it could be all bull.
http://www.news24.com/Columnists/ClemSunter/Breaking-futures-2012-20120103