There is a lot of horrific crimes in South African over the past few years
that makes one think that our only solution to the rampant crime is capital
punishment, but with an inefficient and corrupt criminal justice system and
government, what can one expect?
South Africa is heading for a disastrous
future. The ANC are incompetent, short sighted and loaded with corruption. Crime
is everywhere, especially in the farming areas, as well as the low socio
economic areas where people get murdered on a daily basis. We need a more
efficient criminal justice system as convictions take ages. We need the death
penalty? Why because I know for a fact that crime/murder will decrease because
these murderers will think twice before killing somebody....at the moment they
don't think twice because IF they get caught they get 3 meals a day, room + bed,
tv etc all at our expense for a few years then get released on good behaviour
knowing that they are now hardened criminals and will stop at nothing to do what
they do best crime/murder.
I am a educated black person that knows
exactly how these people think- I have come across them and listened to the way
they speak and they are something out of a horror story. They murder farmers
because they dislike them because certain government leaders sing and chant hate
songs against white people. Dubula ibhulu is not a joke, it promotes these
crimes to the incompetent person in the poor areas. So instead of them going to
rob you and leave you unharmed, they know that the ANC and its comrades endorse
Dubula Ibhulu which means kill the white man/farmer...so, unfortunately they
will do what they have been told to do even though they might get a prison
sentence which means nothing to them They do it because they are looked up to in
their communities/gangs. I'm sorry to say this, but I warn you all to arm
yourselves especially if you are a farmer and defend yourselves because you
cannot rely on the cops or the courts! I feel very sorry for the farmers and all
the people that get murdered in South Africa. The government has failed on so
many levels. The ANC(African National Corruption) don't care about you and never
will. Either a new competent government takes over or we just live in fear and
misery!
Without the death penalty the only fear of committing a crime is
a jail sentence and that's if criminals get caught & convicted because our
courts are inefficient and backlogged! Considering how many crimes are committed
by repeat offenders this is not even a deterrent any more. Jail is simple not
scary enough. What scares anyone, including hardened murderers, is death. Having
this ultimate form of punishment in place shows that truly heinous crimes cannot
and will not be tolerated in civil society
There in an economical
benefit too for introducing the death penalty. The Department of Correctional
Services spends millions of tax rands on keeping these criminals in jails, money
that could be invested in other sectors like education. If most of these
barbarians were to be convicted and killed, we would not have to spend money on
them. South African is not a rich country and we have a lot of people still
living below the poverty line (i.e. not able to afford 3 meals a day like the
criminals in jails). So how about we take that money and do something useful
with it instead of wasting it on criminals who, after getting bailed out, commit
the same crimes again. This "correctional service" is not working and has been
nothing but an embarrassing money wasting exercise.
Our criminal
justice system/courts is another major problem. It favours more the wrongdoer
than the victim. The constitution also favours the rich in South Africa and that
is why organised crime has increased drastically in South Africa. If you have
money then you can obtain the best and highest paid legal team that will bend
backwards to ensure these organised criminals remain free to roam and commit
more crimes in South Africa. In actual fact the government has failed the South
African citizens by allowing the mafia into the country to set up shop to do
what they do best, organised crime! The unfortunate truth is that South African
white people are too complacent to do anything constructive about this. You all
moan and groan about problems in SA and the crimes which I agree is shocking,
but you never protest or do anything constructive to stop this madness. South
Africans in general are too materialistic and self centered to start a
revolution for a positive future!
You must be the change you want to see
in the world and that should be a psoitive one for all. The bottom line
is that, unless we have a better justice system, crime will keep on increasing
with criminals knowing there will be no consequences. One can just look at
Zimbabwe that was once the breadbasket of Africa. Such a shame to a once
beautiful and prosperous country. I just hope South Africa doesn't turn into
something similar with the current useless leaders & government, but I tend
to think that things are not looking bright for SA. Zimbabwe will now, out of
stupidity, bribes, & arrogance, get 'colonised' by China- a new era of
colonialism that's coming there way and the whole of Africa for that matter!
Times will be tough in Africa....most people are too oblivious for now!
We could also mention that our population, especially in poverty stricken
areas is increasing exponentially! With that happening, unemployment, poverty,
crime will only increase especially with our government not providing decent
education to the masses. The government needs to implement family planning
education, possibly free contraception. Otherwise the more unemployed,
uneducated people =problems create problems= it seems our government likes
chaos! Our unsustainable economy & corrupt government with their
materialistic and self centered lifestyles, coupled with our explosive
population growth in Africa, is a recipe for a well earned disaster!
Here is a link to prove that South Africa and
Southern Africa are probably the most murderous societies on earth, even with
the probable under-reporting. A very informative link that just shows how bad
things really are http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/gettingaway_withmurder.htm
http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Violent-and-Hate-Crime-20120510
Crime is Crime Corruption is Corruption Murder is Murder Rape is Rape Facts are Facts
Friday, May 11, 2012
De Klerk and Mandela
F.W. de Klerk, the last leader of white South Africa, who joined with Nelson Mandela to bring an end to apartheid and shared a Nobel Peace Prize for their achievement, was recently interviewed at a summit of Nobel Laureates in Chicago and appeared on Thursday’s Amanpour.
So I’m a Convert
It was noted that Mandela had once called de Klerk “a man of integrity” but had taken it back, regretting that de Klerk had never renounced the principle of apartheid.
De Klerk responded: “Well, let me first say I’m not aware that Mr. Mandela says I’ve never renounced apartheid.” He then said, “I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.”
But then he added: “What I haven’t apologized for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states (essentially creating two separate states, one black and one white).”
“But in South Africa it failed,” he said. “And by the end of the ‘70’s, we had to realize, and accept and admit to ourselves that it had failed. And that is when fundamental reform started.”
He was then asked if apartheid failed because it was unworkable, or because it was simply morally repugnant.
“There are three reasons it (apartheid) failed,” he said. “It failed because the whites wanted to keep too much land for themselves. It failed because we (whites and blacks) became economically integrated, and it failed because the majority of blacks said that is not how we want our rights.”
Still, De Klerk would not back off his belief in the validity of the original concept of “separate but equal” nation states.
“There is this picture that apartheid was…used to be compared to Nazism,” said de Klerk.
“It’s wrong, and on that, I don’t apologize for saying that what drove me as a young man, before I decided we need to embrace a new vision, was a quest to bring justice for black South Africans in a way which would not – that’s what I believed then – destroyed the justice to which my people were entitled.”
“That’s how I was brought up,” said de Klerk. “And it was in an era when also in America and elsewhere, and across the continent of Africa, there was still not this realization that we are trampling upon the human rights of people. So I’m a convert.”
Eleven official languages
Again, he was asked if he wanted to take the opportunity to say that apartheid was, in retrospect, morally repugnant.
“I can only say in a qualified way,” said de Klerk. “Inasmuch as it trampled human right, it was – and remains – and that I’ve said also publicly, morally reprehensible.” He added, “But the concept of giving as the Czechs have it and the Slovaks have it, of saying that ethnic unities with one culture, with one language, can be happy and can fulfill their democratic aspirations in an own state, that is not repugnant.”
“With the advantage of hindsight,” said de Klerk, “we should have started the reform much earlier…But the intention was to end at a point which would ensure justice for all. And the tipping point in my mind was when I realized… we need to abandon the concept of separateness. And we need to build a new nation with its eleven official languages, accommodating its diversity, but taking hands and moving forward together.”
We call each other on birthdays
Mandela, will turn ninety in July and de Klerk was asked if they were friends.
“Actually, we’re close friends,” said de Klerk. “Not the closest in the sense that we see each other once a week. Also, we live apart. But he’s been in my home as a guest; I’ve been in his home as a guest. When I go to Johannesburg, my wife and I have had tea with him and Graca, his wife.”
“We call each other on birthdays,” he said. “There is no animosity left between us.” But then he added: “Historically, there was.”
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/de-klerk-no-animosity-with-mandela/
So I’m a Convert
It was noted that Mandela had once called de Klerk “a man of integrity” but had taken it back, regretting that de Klerk had never renounced the principle of apartheid.
De Klerk responded: “Well, let me first say I’m not aware that Mr. Mandela says I’ve never renounced apartheid.” He then said, “I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.”
But then he added: “What I haven’t apologized for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states (essentially creating two separate states, one black and one white).”
“But in South Africa it failed,” he said. “And by the end of the ‘70’s, we had to realize, and accept and admit to ourselves that it had failed. And that is when fundamental reform started.”
He was then asked if apartheid failed because it was unworkable, or because it was simply morally repugnant.
“There are three reasons it (apartheid) failed,” he said. “It failed because the whites wanted to keep too much land for themselves. It failed because we (whites and blacks) became economically integrated, and it failed because the majority of blacks said that is not how we want our rights.”
Still, De Klerk would not back off his belief in the validity of the original concept of “separate but equal” nation states.
“There is this picture that apartheid was…used to be compared to Nazism,” said de Klerk.
“It’s wrong, and on that, I don’t apologize for saying that what drove me as a young man, before I decided we need to embrace a new vision, was a quest to bring justice for black South Africans in a way which would not – that’s what I believed then – destroyed the justice to which my people were entitled.”
“That’s how I was brought up,” said de Klerk. “And it was in an era when also in America and elsewhere, and across the continent of Africa, there was still not this realization that we are trampling upon the human rights of people. So I’m a convert.”
Eleven official languages
Again, he was asked if he wanted to take the opportunity to say that apartheid was, in retrospect, morally repugnant.
“I can only say in a qualified way,” said de Klerk. “Inasmuch as it trampled human right, it was – and remains – and that I’ve said also publicly, morally reprehensible.” He added, “But the concept of giving as the Czechs have it and the Slovaks have it, of saying that ethnic unities with one culture, with one language, can be happy and can fulfill their democratic aspirations in an own state, that is not repugnant.”
“With the advantage of hindsight,” said de Klerk, “we should have started the reform much earlier…But the intention was to end at a point which would ensure justice for all. And the tipping point in my mind was when I realized… we need to abandon the concept of separateness. And we need to build a new nation with its eleven official languages, accommodating its diversity, but taking hands and moving forward together.”
We call each other on birthdays
Mandela, will turn ninety in July and de Klerk was asked if they were friends.
“Actually, we’re close friends,” said de Klerk. “Not the closest in the sense that we see each other once a week. Also, we live apart. But he’s been in my home as a guest; I’ve been in his home as a guest. When I go to Johannesburg, my wife and I have had tea with him and Graca, his wife.”
“We call each other on birthdays,” he said. “There is no animosity left between us.” But then he added: “Historically, there was.”
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/de-klerk-no-animosity-with-mandela/
It's time to let our leaders know they've gone too far
Everyone who follows South African politics with any enthusiasm knew that 2012 would be an interesting year, but with seven months to go before Mangaung, "interesting" has taken on an oriental connotation.
Apparently, "may you live in interesting times" is not really a Chinese curse but, whoever is responsible, we do seem to have been so cursed this year.
Now, with the official laundering of Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli's record and reputation and the possibility that he may be in line to become the top cop, I fear we have moved from interesting to extremely dangerous.
Just about everyone who is privileged to have this sort of space to write in has tried to sound the alarm about Mdluli's return as crime intelligence chief after a long suspension on unresolved charges ranging from kidnapping and murder to corruption and fraud.
In a country where corruption, nepotism and political manipulation make the news almost every day, writers are running out of ways to signal the depth of their alarm at this development.
Business Day editor Peter Bruce took the rare step this week - a newspaperman's cris de coeur - of writing a front page editorial opinion on the topic.
Many newspapers have reported on Mdluli's alleged letter to President Jacob Zuma in November claiming the charges against him were the work of hostile conspirators and promising: "In the event that I come back to work, I will assist the president to succeed next year."
There was then and is now only one thing on Zuma's agenda this year, and that is to get himself re-elected as president of the ANC and guardian-in-chief of the feeding trough.
There is also a growing body of new evidence that, in addition to the charges against Mdluli, he abused previously unreported police funds for private purposes.
Glynnis Breytenbach, a deputy director of public prosecutions who had filed an extensive report on Mdluli's activities, has been suspended, allegedly on unrelated charges, and has been shot at.
As head of crime intelligence, Mdluli has the keys to the skeleton cupboard. He knows or can find out who among his friends and foes is seeing, talking to, sleeping with or giving business to which other of his friends and foes.
According to DA spokesman Dianne Kohler Barnard, his answer to one of her parliamentary questions revealed he is also the only person with the power to authorise phone taps, which means he can listen in on anyone, and no one can listen in on him.
Seen in isolation, the unexplained withdrawal of such a range of charges against him, his return to such a powerful position, his alleged crude pledge of a political payback and rumours he might become our commissioner of police, are cause for alarm and despondency.
But coming on top of the Zuma government's broad assault on the independence of our watchdog institutions and the abuse of the state's influence over business, they are nothing short of terrifying.
We have seen Willie Hofmeyr, the single most committed and successful corruption -buster in our history, fired as head of the Special Investigating Unit and replaced by a series of unsuitable successors.
We have seen the independence of the judiciary challenged and the credibility of the Judicial Service Commission dented by the rejection of many of the country's best jurists as candidates for the bench, and the politically assisted appointment of an inappropriate chief justice.
Provinces, cities and towns have been saddled with unqualified and often tainted administrators placed to tilt the political balance in Zuma's favour with no thought of the consequences of their inaction or incompetence in office.
The government has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of rands trying to impose flawed secrecy legislation that will undermine the free flow of information despite overwhelming evidence that it is popular only with the security establishment.
Business worth billions has been funnelled to friends and relatives of the president and his clique, sometimes, as in the case of the Aurora mine, at direct cost to the lives of the workers the government purports to serve.
We have reason to be very worried that the race for the power that will be decided in Mangaung will fatally damage the democratic state so carefully built by people, including many in the ANC, who are now silent.
But we do not have to accept what is happening. We are still a democratic state and a free nation.
The public response to the Protection of State Information Bill and to the imposition of punitive tolls on Gauteng highways shows South Africans are finding the voice that earned them their freedom.
Though often inappropriately destructive, the actions we call service delivery protests show South Africans have not given up hope for better things.
It is clear that Zuma and his inner circle feel only contempt for the people who do the work and pay the nation's bills and for those who wish they could.
It is time to drop the constraints of respect for authority and to let the ANC leaders who either lead or allow the pillaging of our state know they have gone too far.
We don't need to wait for 2014 when we next get to vote. We can do it as we have in our response to censorship and excessive taxation. We can shout our opposition and we should.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2012/05/10/it-s-time-to-let-our-leaders-know-they-ve-gone-too-far
Apparently, "may you live in interesting times" is not really a Chinese curse but, whoever is responsible, we do seem to have been so cursed this year.
Now, with the official laundering of Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli's record and reputation and the possibility that he may be in line to become the top cop, I fear we have moved from interesting to extremely dangerous.
Just about everyone who is privileged to have this sort of space to write in has tried to sound the alarm about Mdluli's return as crime intelligence chief after a long suspension on unresolved charges ranging from kidnapping and murder to corruption and fraud.
In a country where corruption, nepotism and political manipulation make the news almost every day, writers are running out of ways to signal the depth of their alarm at this development.
Business Day editor Peter Bruce took the rare step this week - a newspaperman's cris de coeur - of writing a front page editorial opinion on the topic.
Many newspapers have reported on Mdluli's alleged letter to President Jacob Zuma in November claiming the charges against him were the work of hostile conspirators and promising: "In the event that I come back to work, I will assist the president to succeed next year."
There was then and is now only one thing on Zuma's agenda this year, and that is to get himself re-elected as president of the ANC and guardian-in-chief of the feeding trough.
There is also a growing body of new evidence that, in addition to the charges against Mdluli, he abused previously unreported police funds for private purposes.
Glynnis Breytenbach, a deputy director of public prosecutions who had filed an extensive report on Mdluli's activities, has been suspended, allegedly on unrelated charges, and has been shot at.
As head of crime intelligence, Mdluli has the keys to the skeleton cupboard. He knows or can find out who among his friends and foes is seeing, talking to, sleeping with or giving business to which other of his friends and foes.
According to DA spokesman Dianne Kohler Barnard, his answer to one of her parliamentary questions revealed he is also the only person with the power to authorise phone taps, which means he can listen in on anyone, and no one can listen in on him.
Seen in isolation, the unexplained withdrawal of such a range of charges against him, his return to such a powerful position, his alleged crude pledge of a political payback and rumours he might become our commissioner of police, are cause for alarm and despondency.
But coming on top of the Zuma government's broad assault on the independence of our watchdog institutions and the abuse of the state's influence over business, they are nothing short of terrifying.
We have seen Willie Hofmeyr, the single most committed and successful corruption -buster in our history, fired as head of the Special Investigating Unit and replaced by a series of unsuitable successors.
We have seen the independence of the judiciary challenged and the credibility of the Judicial Service Commission dented by the rejection of many of the country's best jurists as candidates for the bench, and the politically assisted appointment of an inappropriate chief justice.
Provinces, cities and towns have been saddled with unqualified and often tainted administrators placed to tilt the political balance in Zuma's favour with no thought of the consequences of their inaction or incompetence in office.
The government has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of rands trying to impose flawed secrecy legislation that will undermine the free flow of information despite overwhelming evidence that it is popular only with the security establishment.
Business worth billions has been funnelled to friends and relatives of the president and his clique, sometimes, as in the case of the Aurora mine, at direct cost to the lives of the workers the government purports to serve.
We have reason to be very worried that the race for the power that will be decided in Mangaung will fatally damage the democratic state so carefully built by people, including many in the ANC, who are now silent.
But we do not have to accept what is happening. We are still a democratic state and a free nation.
The public response to the Protection of State Information Bill and to the imposition of punitive tolls on Gauteng highways shows South Africans are finding the voice that earned them their freedom.
Though often inappropriately destructive, the actions we call service delivery protests show South Africans have not given up hope for better things.
It is clear that Zuma and his inner circle feel only contempt for the people who do the work and pay the nation's bills and for those who wish they could.
It is time to drop the constraints of respect for authority and to let the ANC leaders who either lead or allow the pillaging of our state know they have gone too far.
We don't need to wait for 2014 when we next get to vote. We can do it as we have in our response to censorship and excessive taxation. We can shout our opposition and we should.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2012/05/10/it-s-time-to-let-our-leaders-know-they-ve-gone-too-far
Sunday, May 6, 2012
ANCYL’s Latest Village Idiot
By Mike
Smith
3rd of May 2012
Let me introduce you to the ANCYL’s latest village idiot, the new Malema. His name is Ronald Lamola …and he is on the warpath.
Last night at the ANCYL meeting at the University of Cape Town, he said that the ANC should unapologetically pursue the changing of the constitution so that mines can be nationalized and white owned property expropriated.
He continued his rhetoric against “White monopoly capital” and said that it is in the interest of Whites to redistribute their prosperity...”
In a direct attack against the billionaire entrepreneurial family, the Ruperts, he added that, “…otherwise we cannot be held responsible if the farms of the Ruperts are invaded.”He said that, “The ANCYL leaders will not abandon the struggle for economic freedom”.
Economic freedom in Communist Newspeak means the day they have stolen everything from whites.
He said that: “White people who own land are holding the ANC government at ransom.”
He also said that: “Universities should be transformed to further the ANC agenda.”
What exactly that agenda is, he did not say.
He said that: “the only way blacks are going to become part of the economy is through the nationalization of the mines and the expropriation of white owned farms.”
He added that the ANCYL were always allowed to be “naughty”.
“We should be allowed to do things that adults normally won’t do”…
Die Burger report: Share your wealth or we will take it by force
Several things out of his speech struck me. First he admitted what we have always known and said right here on this blog, that the ANC has an “agenda”.
That agenda includes the economic dispossession of whites and driving them either into abject poverty or out of the country through the nationalization of mines and the stealing of white owned farms.
Apart from that, this idiot made himself guilty of the vilest hate speech against whites, threats of violence and theft of their property, intimidation and a declaration of war. Why is he still allowed to walk free? Should he not be in prison?
Nobody in the ANC condemned him, so I take it they approve of everything he said. Just like they always approved of everything Julias Malema said.
Like I said yesterday, nothing keeps blacks from taking part in the economy. In fact they have all the laws of BEE and AA on their side. After eighteen years there is nothing holding them back to start businesses and become prosperous.
But I suppose it is easier to sit on your arse and blame whites for all the evils of the ANC.
I have said it before and I will say it again. The ANC is spoiling for a race war. Almost daily they spew their hatred in the faces of White South Africans. Below are just a few examples of their hate speech and declarations of war against the whites of South Africa.
"When Mandela dies we will kill you whites like flies" - Mzukisi Gaba (ANC councilor and politician at the Provincial government of the Western Cape.)
“Kill the Boer - Kill the Farmer” - Peter Mokaba (Murdered ANC populist)
“Stealing from whites is not a crime” – Faraday Nkoane, Leader of the Uhuru culture club.
“I have beaten the Colonials - and I am going to beat the children of the children of the Colonials” - Julius Malema (ANC youth leader)
“Kill them- Kill the Amaburu” - song by the ANC and Mandela
“All whites are racists” - Dept. Minister Fikile Mbalula
“Whites will be threatened with a revolution by black people if the racial quotas are not met” - Jimmy Manji (Black management forum leader)
“We are here today to declare war. We are against violence, but if this is what it takes to force a bad farmer in a direction, then they should be smashed (moered) in that direction. If farmers continue to violate the rights of our workers like mad dogs then we need to beat them until they stop. They are going to shit if they do not stop.” - Tony Ehrenreich – Cosatu leader in the Western Cape.
“There is already blood on the farm workers and unless it stops there will be blood on the farmers of these farms. We will grab the land and give it to the rightful owners.” - Tony Ehrenreich – Cosatu leader in the Western Cape.
http://mikesmithspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2012/05/anc-youth-league-acting-president-share.html
3rd of May 2012
Let me introduce you to the ANCYL’s latest village idiot, the new Malema. His name is Ronald Lamola …and he is on the warpath.
Last night at the ANCYL meeting at the University of Cape Town, he said that the ANC should unapologetically pursue the changing of the constitution so that mines can be nationalized and white owned property expropriated.
He continued his rhetoric against “White monopoly capital” and said that it is in the interest of Whites to redistribute their prosperity...”
In a direct attack against the billionaire entrepreneurial family, the Ruperts, he added that, “…otherwise we cannot be held responsible if the farms of the Ruperts are invaded.”He said that, “The ANCYL leaders will not abandon the struggle for economic freedom”.
Economic freedom in Communist Newspeak means the day they have stolen everything from whites.
He said that: “White people who own land are holding the ANC government at ransom.”
He also said that: “Universities should be transformed to further the ANC agenda.”
What exactly that agenda is, he did not say.
He said that: “the only way blacks are going to become part of the economy is through the nationalization of the mines and the expropriation of white owned farms.”
He added that the ANCYL were always allowed to be “naughty”.
“We should be allowed to do things that adults normally won’t do”…
Die Burger report: Share your wealth or we will take it by force
Several things out of his speech struck me. First he admitted what we have always known and said right here on this blog, that the ANC has an “agenda”.
That agenda includes the economic dispossession of whites and driving them either into abject poverty or out of the country through the nationalization of mines and the stealing of white owned farms.
Apart from that, this idiot made himself guilty of the vilest hate speech against whites, threats of violence and theft of their property, intimidation and a declaration of war. Why is he still allowed to walk free? Should he not be in prison?
Nobody in the ANC condemned him, so I take it they approve of everything he said. Just like they always approved of everything Julias Malema said.
Like I said yesterday, nothing keeps blacks from taking part in the economy. In fact they have all the laws of BEE and AA on their side. After eighteen years there is nothing holding them back to start businesses and become prosperous.
But I suppose it is easier to sit on your arse and blame whites for all the evils of the ANC.
I have said it before and I will say it again. The ANC is spoiling for a race war. Almost daily they spew their hatred in the faces of White South Africans. Below are just a few examples of their hate speech and declarations of war against the whites of South Africa.
"When Mandela dies we will kill you whites like flies" - Mzukisi Gaba (ANC councilor and politician at the Provincial government of the Western Cape.)
“Kill the Boer - Kill the Farmer” - Peter Mokaba (Murdered ANC populist)
“Stealing from whites is not a crime” – Faraday Nkoane, Leader of the Uhuru culture club.
“I have beaten the Colonials - and I am going to beat the children of the children of the Colonials” - Julius Malema (ANC youth leader)
“Kill them- Kill the Amaburu” - song by the ANC and Mandela
“All whites are racists” - Dept. Minister Fikile Mbalula
“Whites will be threatened with a revolution by black people if the racial quotas are not met” - Jimmy Manji (Black management forum leader)
“We are here today to declare war. We are against violence, but if this is what it takes to force a bad farmer in a direction, then they should be smashed (moered) in that direction. If farmers continue to violate the rights of our workers like mad dogs then we need to beat them until they stop. They are going to shit if they do not stop.” - Tony Ehrenreich – Cosatu leader in the Western Cape.
“There is already blood on the farm workers and unless it stops there will be blood on the farmers of these farms. We will grab the land and give it to the rightful owners.” - Tony Ehrenreich – Cosatu leader in the Western Cape.
http://mikesmithspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2012/05/anc-youth-league-acting-president-share.html
Cost of Zuma’s wives, children nearly doubles
CAPE TOWN — The cost to the taxpayer of support for President Jacob Zuma ’s wives and children almost doubled in 2009-10, soaring to more than R15m from R8m a year before, according to figures released by the Presidency yesterday.
Speculation has been rife since Zuma came to power over the cost of his extended family, both during his term and once he has left office, and whether this would include children born from extramarital relations.
Yesterday, in response to a question from Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Athol Trollip, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said that in 2008-09 the spousal office budget was R8,076m while the adjusted budget for 2009- 10 was R15,517m. The spousal office in the Presidency provides support and benefits to spouses and children of the president.
When Trollip asked what the expenses and benefits enjoyed by Zuma’s wives and children were, Chabane provided guidelines .
“Although the spouses have no constitutionally defined roles, obligations or responsibilities and as such are not remunerated by the state, they are, however, expected to provide support to the President in the execution of his duties, and specifically at state and official functions. In addition, the spouses may fulfil other official functions in support, and in the interest, of the Republic.
“The state provides all reasonable administrative, logistical and other support to the spouses to enable them to meet these responsibilities in a manner that permits them actively to pursue their own careers and interests if they so desire. The state also may provide reasonable logistical support to the spouses to assist with the day-to-day logistical arrangements of dependent school- going children in the household,” Chabane said.
He said that staff were allocated to spouses and these included a private secretary and a researcher. Administrative requirements were also met.
Chabane said: “Expenses covered for spouses by the Presidency therefore include the following: personal support staff — secretary and researcher; domestic air travel and accommodation and international air travel and accommodation for official visits abroad approved by the President; cellular phones for spouses and their secretaries; equipment such as laptops and printers; and special daily allowances for incidental expenses during official journeys.”
Dependent children of the president are defined as being under the age of 18, but under the age of 27 if studying full-time.
“The dependent children of the President may collectively utilise up to 60 single domestic economy class flights per annum to visit and reunite with their parents within the country at the cost of the Presidency. This figure is regardless of the total number of qualifying children. Travel costs beyond the allotted tickets are to be borne by the President.”
If a child minder has to accompany a child younger than eight, then the tickets come from the allocated 60.
Chabane said the policy applied to all the president’s children regardless of whether he was married to the mother.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=103788
| WYNDHAM HARTLEY |
Published:2010/03/17 06:32:04 AM
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CAPE TOWN — The cost to the taxpayer of support for President Jacob Zuma ’s wives and children almost doubled in 2009-10, soaring to more than R15m from R8m a year before, according to figures released by the Presidency yesterday.
Speculation has been rife since Zuma came to power over the cost of his extended family, both during his term and once he has left office, and whether this would include children born from extramarital relations.
Yesterday, in response to a question from Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Athol Trollip, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said that in 2008-09 the spousal office budget was R8,076m while the adjusted budget for 2009- 10 was R15,517m. The spousal office in the Presidency provides support and benefits to spouses and children of the president.
When Trollip asked what the expenses and benefits enjoyed by Zuma’s wives and children were, Chabane provided guidelines .
“Although the spouses have no constitutionally defined roles, obligations or responsibilities and as such are not remunerated by the state, they are, however, expected to provide support to the President in the execution of his duties, and specifically at state and official functions. In addition, the spouses may fulfil other official functions in support, and in the interest, of the Republic.
“The state provides all reasonable administrative, logistical and other support to the spouses to enable them to meet these responsibilities in a manner that permits them actively to pursue their own careers and interests if they so desire. The state also may provide reasonable logistical support to the spouses to assist with the day-to-day logistical arrangements of dependent school- going children in the household,” Chabane said.
He said that staff were allocated to spouses and these included a private secretary and a researcher. Administrative requirements were also met.
Chabane said: “Expenses covered for spouses by the Presidency therefore include the following: personal support staff — secretary and researcher; domestic air travel and accommodation and international air travel and accommodation for official visits abroad approved by the President; cellular phones for spouses and their secretaries; equipment such as laptops and printers; and special daily allowances for incidental expenses during official journeys.”
Dependent children of the president are defined as being under the age of 18, but under the age of 27 if studying full-time.
“The dependent children of the President may collectively utilise up to 60 single domestic economy class flights per annum to visit and reunite with their parents within the country at the cost of the Presidency. This figure is regardless of the total number of qualifying children. Travel costs beyond the allotted tickets are to be borne by the President.”
If a child minder has to accompany a child younger than eight, then the tickets come from the allocated 60.
Chabane said the policy applied to all the president’s children regardless of whether he was married to the mother.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=103788
Lightening is Racism
Nomsa Dube
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs Nomsa Dube called on the national department of science and technology to investigate the causes of lightning after seven people died in lightning strikes.
"We will do an investigation and talk to the department of science and technology on what is the cause of the lightning, and if it only happened to the previously disadvantaged as I have never seen any white people being struck by lightning." said Dube.
She was visiting Mpumazi in Eshowe where seven people from two families died after being struck by lightning on Sunday. "Scientists from the department could perhaps help us and come up with instruments that could help community members protect themselves against lightning. "The department has dealt with floods and fires, but lightning was new to us," said Dube.
Our country is clearly in excellent hands
Friday, April 27, 2012
Acting Police Commisioner to be Probed
Top cop to be probed for ‘abuse of power’
CAN'T ZUMA GET ANYTHING RIGHT?
Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
Acting police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi faces an
investigation into allegations of improper conduct and abuse of power. This
comes after Public Protector Thuli Madonsela agreed to look into a complaint
lodged by DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard last month.
In a letter to Kohler Barnard dated April 12, Madonsela
wrote that her preliminary assessment had determined “there is a prima facie
case of improper conduct and abuse of power which warrants an investigation”.
The case had been handed to her office’s good governance
and integrity unit for further action.
Mkhwanazi, appointed by President Jacob Zuma in October,
has now become the third police commissioner in a row to face serious
allegations of one form or another.
Disgraced former commissioner Jackie Selebi is serving 15
years in jail after he was convicted of receiving corrupt payments from
convicted drug trafficker Glen Agliotti.
His replacement, General Bheki Cele – appointed by Zuma
in 2009 – is now suspended, pending an inquiry into his fitness for office after
a public protector investigation implicated him in the police’s R1.7 billion
office leasing scandal.
The Mkhwanazi investigation is in response to the DA’s
claim that the general was an “accomplice to a murder case” and had obstructed
justice by “failing to co-operate in the (resulting) investigation”.
He allegedly also failed “to investigate the
misappropriation of millions of rands” from the police’s controversial crime
intelligence division (CID) slush fund.
Kohler Barnard claims to be in possession of nine
affidavits from police officers who attended a meeting addressed by Mkhwanazi on
March 5. There he is alleged to have told fellow officers that he once witnessed
a suspect being shot and killed by the police, but that such incidents were not
always reported.
In one sworn affidavit, an unidentified police officer
alleges: “He (Mkhwanazi) was also involved in a shooting incident, where an
innocent person was killed. He was requested to make a statement, but refused.
He said he’d go to his grave with the information,” unless called to testify
before a commission of inquiry.
Mkhwanazi has said through his spokesman, Lindela
Mashigo, that he would “account to the (public protector’s) probe” if it went
ahead. Mkhwanazi could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
However, the acting commissioner told MPs last week that
he planned to take his accusers to court.
The top cop went on to explain his version of the March 5
conversation with fellow officers.
As an “example”, he recounted how, during his time at the
police task force, his job was to “neutralise threats” posed by dangerous
criminals. He said he would be called to arrest dangerous suspects and would
hand them over – handcuffed – to detectives. “Now, when I walk away, the next
thing I hear gunshots. When I go back to investigate… the very same detective
will tell you this (suspect) was trying to shoot me and I was defending myself.
It’s a serious concern.”
But the police chief did not clarify whether he was
speaking metaphorically or had personally witnessed such shootings. This will
form part of Madonsela’s probe.
The slush fund allegations relate to an internal police
investigation which found that crime intelligence boss, Lieutenant-General
Richard Mdluli, may have plundered the police’s secret fund of up to R5 million
for his and his family’s benefit
Last week Mkhwanazi told MPs he had recently been told by
“powers beyond us” which matters he and his officers may or may not investigate.
He later said he was not implying political interference.
Siphoning off R40 billion
Public servants have illegally received more than R40.8 billion in fraudulent
social grant claims between August 2009 and December 2011.
This was revealed in an answer to a parliamentary question from the
Democratic Alliance (DA) by Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini on
Thursday.
The money lost through social grant fraud by public servants could have paid 145,875 child support grants.
The Department of Social Development confirmed last week that the Special Investigating Unit had found 25,255 cases of social grant fraud by public officials since the inception of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in 2005.
"It is clear that this type of corruption has become endemic and that we need urgent intervention by the Department," Mike Walters, DA spokesperson.
A reply to a DA parliamentary question received from the Department of Social Development in March this year confirmed that 80% of staff members employed by SASSA have not been properly vetted.
"We will continue to push for the names and positions of public servants involved in social grant fraud. It may very well be that the individuals involved are in senior positions and have significant influence over the system and databases," Walters said.
http://www.businesslive.co.za/southafrica/sa_markets/2012/04/26/public-servants-siphon-off-r40-billion-in-social-grants
The money lost through social grant fraud by public servants could have paid 145,875 child support grants.
The Department of Social Development confirmed last week that the Special Investigating Unit had found 25,255 cases of social grant fraud by public officials since the inception of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in 2005.
"It is clear that this type of corruption has become endemic and that we need urgent intervention by the Department," Mike Walters, DA spokesperson.
A reply to a DA parliamentary question received from the Department of Social Development in March this year confirmed that 80% of staff members employed by SASSA have not been properly vetted.
"We will continue to push for the names and positions of public servants involved in social grant fraud. It may very well be that the individuals involved are in senior positions and have significant influence over the system and databases," Walters said.
http://www.businesslive.co.za/southafrica/sa_markets/2012/04/26/public-servants-siphon-off-r40-billion-in-social-grants
Thursday, April 26, 2012
SA is The Crime Capital of the World
The Nedcore Project has concluded that: "South Africa and Southern Africa are probably the most murderous societies on earth, even with the probable under-reporting."
The Nedcore Project claims the results of their surveys "underscore the fact that crime has become South Africa's pre-eminent sociological problem. It now eclipses even unemployment in concerns of all South Africans."
The bizarre behaviour of the ANC government in, at one stage, imposing a moratorium on crime statistics is also questioned.
The report shows that in the first seven years of ANC rule, violence and crime in South Africa increased by 33 per cent, officially.
Worse Than War The UCA Report on Murder in South Africa reveals that according to the official statistics, in the 44 years from 1950 to 1993, there was an average of 7 036 murders per year.
This covered the turbulent strife of the apartheid years of warfare, conflict, terrorism, riots and repression.
However, in the first eight years (of peace) of the new democratic dispensation, under the ANC, an average of 24 206 murders were committed each year.
However, if the Interpol statistics are accepted, then the murder rate in South Africa during the ANC years has averaged 47 882 per year.
Official Cover Up Sharp discrepancies between official statistics and those of Interpol and the Medical Research Council are considered.
One observer is quoted as saying that the "easiest way for the police to reduce the crime rate is simply to do nothing but record only those crimes where a case number is absolutely mandatory".
Numerous experts are quoted as suspecting "serious under reporting"; "perhaps these figures are concealed for political reasons"; "the reason for this under reporting could be the desire to change the ongoing reputation of South Africa as the crime capital of the world."
Yours in conscience.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/benoni/benoni-your-voices?oid=5454915&sn=Detail&pid=null&The-tragedy-of-crime-ridden-SA
The Nedcore Project claims the results of their surveys "underscore the fact that crime has become South Africa's pre-eminent sociological problem. It now eclipses even unemployment in concerns of all South Africans."
The bizarre behaviour of the ANC government in, at one stage, imposing a moratorium on crime statistics is also questioned.
The report shows that in the first seven years of ANC rule, violence and crime in South Africa increased by 33 per cent, officially.
Worse Than War The UCA Report on Murder in South Africa reveals that according to the official statistics, in the 44 years from 1950 to 1993, there was an average of 7 036 murders per year.
This covered the turbulent strife of the apartheid years of warfare, conflict, terrorism, riots and repression.
However, in the first eight years (of peace) of the new democratic dispensation, under the ANC, an average of 24 206 murders were committed each year.
However, if the Interpol statistics are accepted, then the murder rate in South Africa during the ANC years has averaged 47 882 per year.
Official Cover Up Sharp discrepancies between official statistics and those of Interpol and the Medical Research Council are considered.
One observer is quoted as saying that the "easiest way for the police to reduce the crime rate is simply to do nothing but record only those crimes where a case number is absolutely mandatory".
Numerous experts are quoted as suspecting "serious under reporting"; "perhaps these figures are concealed for political reasons"; "the reason for this under reporting could be the desire to change the ongoing reputation of South Africa as the crime capital of the world."
Yours in conscience.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/benoni/benoni-your-voices?oid=5454915&sn=Detail&pid=null&The-tragedy-of-crime-ridden-SA
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