By Mike Smith
26 June 2010
Genocide is not just the killing of a people belonging to a certain group, it is also destruction of their language, their culture, their monuments and history.
The Satanic Marxist scum has never and will never build or produce anything in their miserable lives. All they can do is destroy and consume.
What Marx could not be or could not have he wanted to destroy. A pathetic laughable creature who was perpetually poor, supported by his friend Friedrich Engels, from whom he begged money on a daily basis. Whatever money Marx, the Great Economist, did not drink or gamble away he lost on the stock market.
Marx wrote in his poem, “Menschenstoltz” (Human Pride)
With Disdain I will throw my gauntlet
Full in the face of the world,
And see the collapse of this pigmy giant
Whose fall will not stifle my adour.
Then will I wander godlike and victorious
Through the ruins of the world
And, giving my words an active force,
I will feel equal to the Creator.
(„Mit Verachtung werf ich der Welt
den Fehdehandschuh voll ins Gesicht,
und beobachte den Zusammenbruch dieses Zwergriesen,
dessen Fall meinen Hass nicht ersticken wird.
Götter ähnlich darf ich wandeln
Siegreich ziehen durch ihr Ruinenreich.
Jedes Wort ist Glut und Handel,
Meine Brust dem Schöpferbusen gleich“)
DAS ANDERE GESICHT DES KARL MARX – RICHARD WURMBRAND
This is the Destroyer Marx who after destroying the world feels himself equal to the Creator. Only a sick, twisted, narcistic and satanic mind could think up such drivel.
Yet Marx does not seem to have a shortage of followers. We see his followers still destroying everything they cannot be or cannot own.
It must be horrible when you have nothing to be proud of; when you have no heroes and no monuments you can erect. It must be horrible when your only icons and idols are cowardly Marxist terrorist scum who rape torture and kill the elderly, women and children.
Therefore they have to destroy everything that belongs and was built by the pious Boers, including the monuments they erected to their fallen heroes. By denigrating the Boers they can feel themselves equal to God.
And their diabolic siblings in the press cover it up as ordinary crime. Poor, black people looking for treasure they call it, almost invoking sympathy for the destroyers of our heritage. We should feel sorry for the ones committing genocide against us.
There have been several revolutions in history all with a goal. The American Revolution had freedom as its goal and the French Revolution democracy. But Marx’s revolution carries on forever. It will never stop until the entire world is lying in ruins. In South Africa the Marxists have the same goal. They will not stop until every single Boer, his history his language, his culture and his monuments are destroyed.
That is why appeasement will never work with the spawn of Satan. Death to the self or total annihilation of the forces of Hell is the only solution. You either perish or you start fighting back!
Crime is Crime Corruption is Corruption Murder is Murder Rape is Rape Facts are Facts
Monday, April 11, 2011
SANDF Unveils Shock Aids Data
(Posted on August 2, 2004) 7 years ago!!
The combat readiness of the South African National Defence Force is under threat, with the latest results of an Aids project showing that an overwhelming 89 percent of those soldiers who volunteered for testing were HIV-positive.
The SANDF is also losing at least 400 000 working days a year because of the disease.
This was disclosed at a five-day conference held in Richards Bay this week. Sixteen African countries attended the conference, which was a collaboration between the SANDF and the United States. The aim is to establish the rate of infection and the effects of anti-retroviral treatment on South Africa’s military forces.
In the first six months of the project 1 089 soldiers volunteered to be tested, of whom 947 were found to be HIV-positive. The average age of the sample was 34, and 60 percent of volunteers were married.
Rear-Admiral JG Engelbrecht said infected soldiers in the early stages of the disease were absent for an average of 20 days a year. This increased to 45 days for soldiers displaying symptoms, and a minimum of 120 days for those with full-blown Aids. Conservatively, 18 940 days will be lost by the 947 soldiers identified on the programme.
The SANDF’s official figure for HIV/Aids-infected soldiers stands at 23 percent, but Aids specialists have set a more realistic figure of 40 percent, or about 28 000, infected.
With the figure of 23 percent infection, 338 000 days are lost. However, if the figure is closer to 40 percent then the number of working days lost each year rises to a staggering 560 000 days.
With the SANDF in the process of downgrading its troop levels—the army has reduced its complement from 100 000 to 70 000—its future looks bleak.
Engelbrecht said the government had to decide whether to remove the infected soldiers from combat roles, or whether to remove them when they became too ill to function.
South Africa cannot test soldiers without their permission, except those who accept postings to United Nations missions.
The SANDF expects 50 000 soldiers to be tested for HIV during the next five years. Those who test positive will be able to enrol in a programme called Project Phidisa at six army sites around the country.
The first tests were carried out on January 19 at No 1 Military Hospital, Pretoria, and at the military base in Mtubatuba.
SANDF members infected with HIV/Aids received their ARV drugs for the first time on February 2. Four additional sites will be opened at No 2 and No 3 Military Hospitals, in Phalaborwa and Umtata, before the end of this year.
The Phidisa project was partly prompted by the cabinet’s decision on August 8 last year to provide comprehensive health care for people with HIV and Aids.
The project’s medication budget for this year alone is more than R2-million and it covers only members on the programme.
According to Phidisa’s data management co-ordination and operations centre director, Colonel Jabulani Msimang, the project’s budget for the rest of the year is more than R4 million.
While the Phidisa project will be used in researching the effects and effectiveness of anti-retroviral drugs, it also paints a clearer, if stark, picture of the extent of Aids in the armed forces.
With South Africa increasingly becoming involved in peacekeeping efforts in the rest of Africa, the risk of exposure to the disease is also increasing. There are 3 000 South Africans doing duty in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of Africa.
The UN requires soldiers to be tested before they are deployed on UN missions, effectively sending only healthy soldiers out of the country.
This week’s conference painted a very bleak picture of the fighting fitness of the SANDF and highlighted the urgent need for intervention before the army itself succumbs to the country’s greatest enemy—Aids.
Reporting a Crime
'If you don't know the street name I can't open this case'
WHAT do you do after you've been a victim of crime? You go to the police, right? That's what I did after I was stabbed and robbed in Rhodes Park two weeks ago.
I found Jeppe SAPS relatively empty with only about two police personnel taking statements from aggrieved citizens. On seeing the blood on my shirt the first policeman to address me gave me a form and told me to take it to a hospital to be filled in and then come back to report whatever it is I wanted to reported.
I told him I had come to report a robbery, not an assault."Why should I go and get this form filled?"
"So you don't want my help, huh?"
"I never said that."
"But you say you don't want to fill in the form. You don't want help!"
"I just asked you."
"I'm done with you. You don't want help!"
Another policeman joined in from a distance.
"Are you drunk?"
"No."
"We don't take statements from drunk people."
I stood there patiently and silently swore that I wasn't going anywhere without laying a charge.
A man who said he was Lieutenant Colonel Shingange then came and pointed me to some other policeman in a nearby cubicle. This new policeman looked drunk. Not only did he appear drunk, he seemed to be a habitual heavy drinker.
"What happened," he asked.
"I was robbed."
"Where?"
"In Rhodes Park."
"Which street?"
"How many Rhodes Parks do you have around here?"
"If you don't know the street I can't open this case."
"Really?"
A policewoman in the next cubicle leaned across and confirmed what the drunk looking cop said to me.
When I tried to ask more questions she called the Lieutenant Colonel, who proceeded to reiterate what they had said.
"Let me get this straight. Lieutenant Colonel, are you saying that if I got shot in the head and somehow survived and stumbled in here to report the incident and I didn't remember the street where I was shot you would not be able to open a case?"
"Yes," said the Lieutenant Colonel. "We cannot open a case without a street name."
With that he left, which meant that I too had to leave without laying a charge.
To verify what Jeppe SAPS had said I decided to take the matter up with Divisional Police Commissioner Gary Kruzer. Within an hour I had a Regional Police Commissioner, who had handed the matter to a Brigadier who had passed it on to another lower ranking officer who, within a day, had sent a detective and his assistant to come to me to take a statement, open a case and assured me that the Lieutenant Colonel at Jeppe SAPS would be asked to explain himself.
What took these many bodies, hours and aggravation to accomplish can and should have been done within 20 minutes by one police officer sitting at his or her desk. What a waste of resources! Incredible!
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/columnists/2011/04/11/if-you-don-t-know-the-street-name-i-can-t-open-this-case
Radebe Defends SA’s Arms Sales
April 11 2011
Justice Minister Jeff Radebe, who chairs the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), has defended South Africa’s track-record on sale of conventional arms, saying the country would not authorise sales if “there are grounds to believe that such arms may be used in conflict areas or by governments to commit atrocities against their own people”.
This followed Independent Newspapers’ revelation on Sunday that, according to the NCACC’s 2010 annual report, South Africa sold arms estimated at more than R35-billion to 78 countries, including some of the world’s most repressive regimes, last year.
Included on the list are Libya (R68.9 million), where forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi are fighting an uprising, but also Syria (R7.7m), Yemen (R239.4m), Egypt (R96.9m), where Hosni Mubarak was deposed after non-violent protests, and Thailand (R5.7m), where government troops last year used force against the Red Shirt protesters who brought Bangkok to a standstill for days.
The DA on Sunday called on Radebe to appear before the joint standing committee on defence to explain these exports.
Justice ministry spokesman Tlali Tlali said the transactions with Libya were concluded at a time when there was no evidence of possible unrest. The decision to go ahead with the sales was made following investigations by NCACC sub-committees, in line with South Africa’s international obligations and “in a responsible manner”.
He added that the NCACC had never refused to appear before any committee of Parliament. An invitation to the NCACC to appear before that committee on May 12 last year, was withdrawn at the last minute.
“The NCACC is ready to and remains available to appear before any committee of Parliament to account for its affairs,” Tlali added.
But DA MP David Maynier on Sunday was adamant that Radebe had questions to answer.
“He owes us an explanation. I don’t see why they should not disclose the categories (of conventional weapons),” Maynier told Independent Newspapers.
The categories range from items like night-vision goggles to fighter jets, missiles, artillery guns and bombs.
As only broad categories are stated, further details on the alleged sale of more than 100 sniper rifles and 50 000 rounds of ammunition to Libya will depend on the outcome of the Public Protector’s investigation.
The probe was started after Maynier was asked to leave the National Assembly last month for unparliamentary language after asking Radebe whether he could confirm the sale, and how it felt “to have blood on his hands”.
Radebe declined to answer the question as the MP who asked it was no longer in the house. The Speaker did not permit another DA MP to press for an answer.
Earlier Radebe told Parliament that South Africa had exported conventional weapons worth R80,9m to Libya between 2003 and 2009.
The last time Radebe appeared before the committee was in September 2009 to brief the members on the 2008 NCACC annual report. The reasons for this remain unclear.
However, it appears that the release of the NCACC’s 2010 annual report, albeit eight days late, was a fluke. According to Maynier, the report was only tabled after an attempt by the Department of Defence to classify it and submit it as a confidential document.
He added that he was surprised to find Syria and Yemen, two repressive regimes with an unsavoury human rights record, among the list of countries that received conventional weapons.
The governments of both countries have faced pro-democracy protests recently.
“The NCACC now appears to be above the law, routinely authorising conventional arms sales to repressive regimes, and operating beyond proper scrutiny and oversight by Parliament,” Maynier said.
Attempts to reach justice and defence ministry spokesmen yesterday proved unsuccessful as their cellphones were switched off.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/radebe-defends-sa-s-arms-sales-1.1054850
ANC Wins as Miners Starve
Worker kills himself over unpaid salary - then Zuma's nephew promises R1m to ruling party.....
Apr 10, 2011
President Jacob Zuma's nephew, Khulubuse, who owes 100 miners more than R4.5-million in wages, pledged R1-million to the ANC at a fund-raising dinner in Durban on Friday.
Khulubuse Zuma
Khulubuse, who co-owns mining group Aurora Empowerment Systems with former president Nelson Mandela's grandson, Zondwa, made the pledge on the same day as trade union Solidarity revealed that a miner had committed suicide by drinking ant poison because the company had failed to pay him.
Zondwa Mandela
The fundraiser, held at the five-star Fairmont Hotel & Resort in Zimbali, north of Durban, was attended by ANC leaders, empowerment beneficiaries and other corporate executives.
Those present ate fish, roast lamb and beef. Dessert included tiramisu, poached pears and an assortment of cakes. The most popular beverage was Hennessy cognac.
Khulubuse confirmed that he had pledged R1-million to the ruling party.
"If there are any means to support the ANC, we will do so, no matter what," he said.
However, he refused to comment on the shambles at the company's Grootvlei Mine in Gauteng and at Orkney in North West.
"I was doing a favour by phoning you about the donation. You can write anything you want about Aurora. I don't want to comment about that
.
"There are so many other things that I am busy with. So you want to write that Khula pledged R1-million, but there are unpaid workers at Aurora. You're dirty, my brother," he said.
The provincial spokesman for the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, Makhosi Khoza, yesterday declined to say how much was raised at the dinner.
"The good news is that we want to confirm that we did have a good fundraising dinner ... and that all those present pledged their support to the ANC beyond just their financial pledges."
Those at the lavish dinner said that more than R5-million was raised, with the Minister of Human Settlements, Tokyo Sexwale, promising R1-million.
Several privates companies are said to have pledged between R100000 and R2-million.
One of those, RGZ Projects, promised to give the ANC R100000. The firm has been linked to an investigation into alleged financial irregularities and tender fraud in the eThekwini (DURBAN) municipality.
But it was the high-flying Khulubuse's pledge that attracted much interest. His company is in trouble for failing to pay its workers at Grootvlei and Orkney.
Aurora is due to appear before parliament's portfolio committee on mineral resources on Wednesday regarding the problems at the two mines, which include failing to pay workers, alleged asset-stripping and environmental problems. Aurora Mines Stripped of Assets
In October last year, the Sunday Times reported that Zuma's nephew owned some of the world's most desirable cars in his personal fleet of 19 vehicles, including two BMW 750i sedans worth about R1.1-million each.
He also turned heads when he drove a R2.5-million red gull-winged Mercedes-Benz SLS 63 AMG to the lavish wedding of national police commissioner Bheki Cele last year.
Like father like son........ the apple does not fall far from the tree of corruption.....
http://www.timeslive.co.za/specialreports/elections2011/article1010876.ece/ANC-wins-as-miners-starve
A Real Election
At long last, a real election....
This one might even be worth staying awake for!
Apr 10, 2011
Justice Malala: There was a time, not too long ago, when many of us political animals slept through elections. We could blather on as much as we liked, but the results of elections were certain: overwhelming ANC victories almost everywhere.
All that is changing, and it is not only the chattering classes saying so. The ANC itself is saying so. The local government elections on May 18 have suddenly become, well, elections. Power might be lost.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe went on an election walkabout in ANC strongholds in Worcester, Western Cape, last week, and realised what everyone has been telling the ANC all along: "The city of Cape Town is not there for the taking now, but I think the ANC has it within itself to prepare to win the province [in 2014]."
This statement would have been inconceivable from an ANC leader in the past. Today, there is virtually no one in the party, apart from those living in cloud-cuckoo-land, who would dispute it.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe was told in no uncertain terms in Polokong on Thursday that the party had imposed a candidate on its members and voters would be going for an independent candidate. In many parts of the country, ANC members are canvassing for independent candidates after a surging feeling that provincial elites had imposed cronies on communities. In these areas, there is an election to be fought.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi put it eloquently last week: "We [the ANC] are going into elections with our tails between our legs, with our backs to the wall, because we have lost 1.17million jobs and 5.8million families are plunged into poverty."
For the first time, the ANC is going into an election having lost the moral high ground. The party of Nelson Mandela and Albert Luthuli now resembles something more like a corrupt, inept entity leading us towards a police state.
The ANC's leader, Jacob Zuma, is turning into its former leader, Thabo Mbeki: he is never here.
Zuma pronounces ineffectually from African Union meetings while his security cluster is on fire.
When he does pitch up in the country, as he did on Friday, he has nothing new to offer the ANC but fatuous comparisons between the ANC and God.
The Star reported that Zuma told three women at a home in Helenvale that the ANC and God were of the "same church". Is that supposed to be a vote puller?
Truth is, the ANC is rattled. This week the party brought out its big guns to campaign in Midvaal, a Gauteng municipality run by the DA.
Midvaal irks the ANC no end because, according to the Gauteng planning commission's quality of life survey, it is the province's top municipality. Its finances - 80% of its bills are paid versus 58% in Johannesburg - are in better order than those of ANC-led, municipalities.
Unemployment is at 26% whereas Johannesburg is at 41%. It is run by 29-year-old DA mayor, Timothy Nast.
This is a municipality the DA is refusing to let anyone forget. The party uses it constantly to drive home its message that the ANC is incompetent. The ANC argues that it lost Midvaal because of infighting between local leaders. The bottom line, though, is that the figures presented by the DA are irrefutable. And the ANC is rattled by them.
Another area that the ANC is rattled about is Tshwane, where the party achieved a mere 56% compared with the DA's 31% in the last election. This might seem a wide margin, but if one adds the rest of the opposition to the DA's tally the difference becomes even smaller.
Tshwane is interesting because the ANC would have lost it 10 years ago had it not ensured that huge chunks of the ANC-voting North West province were incorporated into Tshwane. This sort of gerrymandering is happening again: the Metsweding district municipality is now part of Tshwane, delivering new voting fodder.
What now? Things are dicey in Eastern Cape, where the ANC is facing internal revolt over candidates' lists. Things are so bad that violence has been visited on provincial ANC leaders, some ANC members are in court accused of plotting murder and party members are taking it to court.
This opens the door for the opposition, the DA in particular, to make headway. Hence the irrational attacks of Julius Malema on Helen Zille. He made "monkey" references because he fears her. He, like his party, is rattled.
This makes for an interesting election indeed.
ANC bills don't add up
Offices fail to account for all funds....
Apr 10, 2011
The ANC is struggling to account for R1.5-million in petty cash payments and outreach funds at its constituency offices around the country.
According to a report presented at its caucus meeting last month, more than R1.3-million in outreach funds and R193000 in petty cash could not be accounted for.
The ruling party has now warned its MPs that failure to account properly for constituency funds could lead to parliament withholding them.
Parliament funds constituency offices through political parties and the parties must account to the national legislature for every cent transferred.
Outreach funds are used to put MPs in contact with the communities they represent.
A brief financial report recently presented to MPs by ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga shows that R2.8-million was disbursed to ANC constituency offices around the country for this purpose.
But, by February, constituency offices could account for only R1.5-million.
The party's constituency offices in Eastern Cape received the largest share of the allocation, the Free State got the smallest.
ANC constituency offices were also unable to account for R193000 of R353000 claimed as petty cash payments.
Constituency offices in Western Cape and Eastern Cape spent most petty cash; offices in Gauteng did not claim any petty cash expenses.
Motshekga urged MPs to ensure that their constituency offices were able to account for the expenditure by the end of the 2010-2011 financial year.
He warned of the consequences of failing to account for funds derived from parliament: "We are currently conducting our financial year-end audit and failure to account for our expenses will result in a qualified audit, which would jeopardise our eligibility to receive funds from parliament," he said.
ANC caucus spokesman Moloto Mothapo played down Motshekga's warning, saying the chief whip was merely encouraging MPs to remain vigilant with regular accounting for allocated constituency funds.
"There was absolutely no suggestion or suspicion of laxity in the administration of constituency funds, and none of the MPs was blamed," he said.
Parliament places stringent conditions on how constituency allowances are spent.
It exercised its powers against COPE after it failed to account satisfactorily for millions in constituency allowances.
This was exacerbated by revelations that COPE had diverted about R2-million from its constituency allowance to pay for an aborted elective conference.
Parties also receive an allowance to run their administration in parliament.
Parliamentary spokesman Luzuko Jacobs said the national legislature kept a close watch on how parties spent their constituency allocations and would question them about their spending if it was thought that expenditure was irregular.
"If parliament has difficulties with any aspect of the financial statements it receives, it alerts the political party concerned and asks for explanations," said Jacobs.
Opposition parties contacted by The Times said their financial records in respect of the constituency allocations they had received were in order.
But they refused to give The Times access to their books.
Municipal poll to cost R1.2bn
Apr 10, 2011
The May 18 municipal election will cost R1.2-billion.
Independent Electoral Commission CEO Pansy Tlakula told the Sunday Times last week that there had been an increase of nearly 20000 in the number of candidates.
In 2006, the commission registered 36000 municipal candidates around the country. This year, the number has shot up to 55000.
Tlakula said a huge amount would be spent to ensure a seamless election.
"It's a lot of money. We don't have a budget that is set aside for the elections. It's a budget for the financial year, the bulk of the preparations took place in the last financial year and the election will take place in this financial year.
"We're talking about maybe R1.2-billion," said Tlakula.
The commission chief said most of the money was used to improve security features of the ballot paper, to prevent electoral fraud, and on contingency planning.
Unlike in previous elections, it would not be possible for anyone to duplicate ballot papers.
"We have adequate security arrangements for that. The ballot papers have security features. They cannot be photocopied. That's a new feature. In the past, we haven't had a ballot paper with security features for a local government election."
Tlakula said the IEC had made provision for bad weather, as predicted by the National Weather Service, during the polls. There were indications that there would be torrential rain in most parts of the country.
"We have to foresee almost everything and have contingency plans for almost everything, not only the weather.
"There are people trained whom we have appointed as electoral staff but who might not be available on May 18. They might have a death in their family. They themselves might be deceased at that time, so we have to have contingency plans to replace them at very short notice."
The electoral commission will begin sifting through all the election candidates tomorrow to weed out those who do not meet the criteria or whose credentials have not been accepted .
There are 55684 hopefuls linked to political parties or standing as private candidates, all hoping that the commission endorses them.
"I think what is outstanding is the ballot paper. We'll only print the ballot paper after we have confirmed the list of candidates. We will do that on Tuesday," Tlakula said.
"On Wednesday, we will have a ceremony at Gallagher Estate, where political parties contesting two or more provinces will sign the code of conduct. At that event, we'll also do the ballot-paper draw. Whoever is drawn, their name will be the first on the ballot paper."
Residents Take Over Municipalities
Residents 'take over' three ANC-run towns
Twenty municipalities under administration
Apr 10, 2011
Three ANC-run municipalities have been "taken over" by their ratepayers to ensure service delivery.
FED UP WITH FAT CATS. A DA poster on a shack in Phelindaba township, in Sannieshof, North West. Community members are enraged by poor service delivery and the slow pace of development.
Ratepayer groups in Sannieshof, in North West, and in Ngwathe and Mafube, in the Free State, have taken over control of basic services such as disposal of sewage and waste removal.
The ratepayers' rebellion has a backdrop of growing citizen activism across South Africa - 30 other ratepayers' associations have refused to pay up to R10-million in rates and taxes.
Twenty municipalities have gone bankrupt and have been put into administration.
It is service-delivery issues such as these that the DA is exploiting in the run-up to the May 18 local government elections.
The party's campaign is highlighting the ANC-led municipalities' poor service delivery records - contrasting them to those of the DA-run Midvaal and Cape Town.
As the ANC prepares to announce its councillors and mayoral candidates, it is battling to stop members standing as independent candidates in the elections.
The chairman of the Sannieshof Residents and Ratepayers' Association, Carin Visser, said residents took over the delivery of services in 2008 when they realised that the town, which does not have waste-removal trucks, was "collapsing".
"We [the ratepayers association] clean the streets . we maintain the graveyards, we repair street lights and supply bulbs. We repair pumps and do all the essential things. Retired engineers help us," she said.
Visser said the water in the town was dirty and they encouraged residents to use bleach to purify it.
"People don't have a problem with paying. They have a problem with paying into a bottomless pit. This town had completely collapsed."
Visser said the waste-water treatment plant stopped working "a long time ago" and raw sewage could soon spill into the Harts River, which is about 500m from the plant.
But Sannieshof, which falls under the ANC-led Tswaing municipality, has an administrator, Tiro Mose, who earns about R150000 a month. Acting town manager Sonwabo Ngcobo, who also "earns in that region" and claims a monthly travelling allowance of about R26000, has not produced an annual report, financial statements or tabled this year's budget.
According to section 139 of the constitution, an administrator's duties include stabilising water and electricity supply, refuse collection, sewage disposal, implementing housing policies, delivering health services and establishing sound financial management.
But Visser said the town was worse off than when it was without an administrator.
The town's mayor, Manketsi Tlhape, said the withholding of rates by residents was adding to the town's many problems.
"It's a poor municipality and many people cannot afford services. We do have a problem with the septic tanks. We have very old infrastructure and pipes are leaking. We have old trucks and no graders," she said.
Tlhape blamed Mose and Ngcobo for failing to prepare annual reports, financial statements and table the budget in January.
Mose could not be reached for comment.
Ngcobo said the municipality had taken over the administration - despite Visser showing The Times an invoice for R35000, which she recently paid for the municipality's tractors to be fixed.
The budget, Ngcobo said, would be tabled today.
Resident Alfred Solwane vowed to vote DA in the coming local elections.
He wants "basics like toilets, water, roads and houses".
In Mafube municipality, which runs Frankfort, Villiers, Cornelia and Tweeling, in the Free State, the residents also provide essential services.
"In December, we spent three days non-stop repairing water pumps," said local residents' association chairman Pieter van der Westhuizen.
"We also assist with filling potholes and cleaning the cemetery. We do waste removals ourselves. This municipality is technically bankrupt," he said, adding that residents started helping last year when they realised that delivery of services had broken down.
Mafube owes the Department of Water Affairs about R29-million and Eskom R20-million for electricity.
Residents of the Ngwathe municipality - responsible for Heilbron, Parys and Vredefort, Koppies and Edenville - said they have started to take over delivery of essential services.
Parys Public Municipal Watch acting chairman Sanette Kruger said they opened a trust account three months ago and then started helping with essential services.
"We are moving in that direction. We will attempt to take over services if they don't improve," Kruger said, adding that the town often goes without water.
The association recently took the municipality to court for cutting off electricity and dumping raw sewage into the Vaal River.
But Co-operative Governance spokesman Nkanyiso Ndadane said withholding rates was illegal.
"Such action is illegal but the department has taken the route of engaging with the associations to find common ground and get them to pay into the municipal coffers," he said.
He said the department was negotiating with the ratepayers associations to reclaim the services, to "allow the municipalities to fulfil their constitutional mandate", and to hand over to the local authorities the money in the trust accounts.
ANC Voting Investigations
ANC to investigate election list process....
2011-04-10
Fikile Mbalula
Party National Organiser and Head of Campaigns and also
Sport and Recreation MinisterThe investigations would only take place after the local government elections on May 18.
This followed allegations that the ANC in the North West "ignored or removed candidates that were preferred by communities, and also those of its alliance partners", the SABC reported.
Mbalula, also sport and recreation minister, addressed an election rally at Letlhabile township near Brits.
"Mbalula warned of action against the alleged fraudsters in the ANC's list process and those who use the organisation for personal gain," the SABC reported.
Any ANC investigation means nothing and is just a time-buyer for them to carry on in their wreckess normal fashion. This "investigation" means even less so since it will be after the event and nothing will come of it.
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