How Liberals' Denialism Bred A Culture of Entitlement Among SA Blacks

The Tshwane Metro is paying too much for goods in order to benefit certain providers. They pay R4,320 for a 40mm galvanised pipe that could be purchased for R439.

Well someone has to take care of the poor blacks who were given Black Economic Empowerment companies with huge Government contracts to get them started.

Did you know that according to liberals this is how it worked in the days of the NP, pre-1994?

According to liberals whites were given such preferential treatment, while blacks were not.

Remember that according to liberals white South Africans kept blacks locked up in cages and we are said to have gone hunting blacks on Sundays just for the hell of it. That is what liberals have always been telling the outside world.

According to liberals blacks were denied opportunities in SA. Blacks, according to them, were denied jobs, blacks were even denied school education and were not allowed to attend universities.

According to liberals whites were all made rich by the NP government, we were given houses for free together with free water and electricity.

According to liberals our children went to school and universities for free and all white school leavers were allowed into university, even if they did not graduate with a matric.

Yes that is what the liberals have been telling the world over the decades.

It is for this reason that blacks today feel it is their turn and they are entitled to enjoy what the whites supposedly enjoyed, because the liberals told them it is the right thing to do.

Liberals have been telling blacks that whites made school standards so high, because they wanted to make it extra difficult for blacks to pass, while quietly passing the whites to give them the edge above blacks and to make the blacks look stupid. Apparently all the world-renowned white engineers, scientists, doctors and academics that were produced in South Africa were just given their qualifications, because they were white. That is the message liberals having passing along to blacks and the outside world.

So to get back at whites for the nasty things they did to blacks according to liberals, blacks under the guidance and advice of liberals, have placed a total ban on white employment, access to tertiary education, business ownership, land ownership, government contracts, etc.

Liberals bred this culture of entitlement. Because of what liberals taught blacks and told the outside world, whites are now being forced to give their land, their businesses and everything else they "were given by the NP" to blacks, because blacks also deserve a turn to score from their own race card.

Are you aware that blacks have been under the impression that credit cards were given to whites by the NP government with unlimited spending facilities? That's what liberals told them.

You see, people often get upset when I tell them I do not hate blacks, because I hate liberals. Blacks were brainwashed by liberals. Children believe anything they are told by someone they respect, consider wise, or older. Liberals, playing on the emotions of blacks, presented themselves as the daddies, the saviours of blacks, thereby gaining their respect and trust. Liberals manipulated the minds of blacks to control their perception of their reality. The average worker-class blacks, in their naivety, believed what liberals told them as gospel.

The black youth of today actually believe that whites forced their grand-fathers and grand-mothers to work in their gardens and homes for free and that whites went to parks over weekends to assault blacks for fun and that blacks had no legal recourse. That is what was put in their heads by liberals. 

The curse of this country, and this world, is not the black, not the Indian, not the coloured, not the white, but these damn pesky liberals who manipulated the minds of blacks to control their perception of whites and pre-1994, so-called Apartheid, RSA. 

There is no more evil being placed on earth than a liberal. Liberals formulated and sold the concepts of Black Economic Empowerment and Affirmative Action to blacks, because it suited the liberal agenda.

Do I hate blacks? No I grew up with them, so I most certainly do not hate blacks, but I do hate what they have become as a result of the evil manipulation of liberals.

If one understands the traditions, culture, the mind and behavior of black one would expect them to run rampant in an undisciplined environment, where their traditions and culture were destroyed, which is exactly what we have in SA today, anarchy, thanks to the destructive efforts of liberals.

If a parent always tells the child that stealing is fine, because daddy always writes a cheque to make it go away, one should not hate the child for thinking there is nothing wrong with stealing, one should hate the parent for teaching him it is ok, because daddy would take care of it.

A parent that always makes excuses for the undisciplined delinquent behavior of his child, is breeding a criminal adult. Political correctness is a means of making excuses for the undisciplined behavior of certain groups, usually blacks. In so doing blacks are allowed to get away with everything and anything. Liberals with their political correctness are therefore to blame for the uncontrolled behavior of blacks world-wide, because they always get away with everything. 

Liberals are the daddies of the blacks. The daddies who always taught their children that everyone else on earth are always wrong, everyone else are always against them and just being nasty and that they, the blacks, are always right, always good and they are just being oppressed for being smarter than whites.

When whites, Afrikaners, Portuguese, Greeks, Germans, do something wrong like, rape, murder or defraud, the liberal media will always make a point of stressing the fact that they are white and of a particular language and culture, but when the same crime was committed by a black, the media will never mention colour and culture and avoid it at all cost. 

By so doing, doing the politically correct thing, liberals have been telling blacks, it is ok, they are entitled to crime, because their liberal daddies will protect them by hiding and denying their sins and wrongs. 

Crime statistics in South Africa are 100% untrustworthy for this reason and this reason alone.

Denialism and political correctness are both tacit approval and the single most important perpetrators of the murders, rapes, violent crime and corruption in South Africa. By denying that we have a rape problem, a murder problem, a high-jacking and juvenile delinquency problem we are actually stating that we have no problem. 

If there is not problem there is no reason to address anything now is there. This being the case, nothing is being done about crime in SA. If the SA Police were to suddenly start publicising and implementing plans to curb farm murders, the whole world would turn around and ask, but why? Why, if you do not have a farm murder problem, are you implementing these draconian measures to address something that, according to you and your statistics, does not exist?

It stands to reason then that even if they would like to, this regime, together with their police and liberal advisers, dare not do anything to curb crime, because it would be a clear give-away, an admission that they dare not allow. For the sake of tourism and business, they cannot afford it.

The image and perceptions that liberals deliberately created about pre-1994 RSA must be upheld at all costs, to make the New SA under this evil ANC movement and their liberal-created-god Nelson Mandela seem like a much better place.

So, does anyone still blame me for hating liberals as much as I do?

I hate any damn liberal with a passion beyond anyone's comprehension. They are the curse of this world.

http://toxinews.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-liberals-denialism-bred-culture-of.html

Arms Deal Kingpin Was 'Tipped Off'

Fana Hlongwane, a former state adviser central to the arms deal probe, was evidently tipped off his office and home would be raided by the Scorpions

Fana Hlongwane was allegedly paid R65-million in arms deal bribes.

And, although he should be central to the current commission's probe, apparently he cannot be found and has been removed from the list of witnesses that was released this week.

Because of the tip-off, four box-loads of evidence were allegedly removed from the politically connected consultant's Johannesburg office just hours before the raids early in December 2008. It is unclear who tipped Hlongwane off. The raids were part of the Scorpions' investigation into arms deal corruption.

At the end of 2011, President Jacob Zuma appointed a commission of inquiry under Judge Willie Seriti to investigate allegations of corruption surrounding the multibillion-rand arms deal. The commission's public hearings are scheduled to start on August 5, with not one of the 12 witnesses originally called invited to testify.

Seriti announced a revised 24-person list earlier this week that includes former president Thabo Mbeki, former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota and his deputy Ronnie Kasrils, the trade and industry minister at the time of the arms deal, Alec Erwin, and the then finance minister, Trevor Manuel.

The Mail & Guardian has been told that this session of the hearings will be a scenesetter and witnesses will not be cross-examined on allegations that have emerged.

The original list of witnesses consisted mostly of whistle-blowers on corruption surrounding the arms deal. It included Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille, retired banker Terry Crawford-Browne, former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein, businessperson Richard Young and DA MP David Maynier. Hlongwane, who was the former special adviser to the late defence minister Joe Modise, from 1995 to 1998, was also on the list.

Earlier this year, Seriti claimed Hlongwane could not be traced and, therefore, had not been issued with a subpoena.

Unimpressed
Crawford-Browne, who took Zuma to court and forced his hand in appointing the commission, is unimpressed with the new line-up.

"It seems evident to me that the schedule announced is just more foot-dragging and cover-up, and further evidence of still more bad faith and male fide," Crawford-Browne said.

The claim that Hlongwane was tipped off emerged in an email written by former Scorpions investigator Isak du Plooy to his senior colleagues, including the head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, Willie Hofmeyr, and the then state prosecutor, Billy Downer, following the raids. Du Plooy's email was seen by the M&G this week.

Du Plooy established that, at 2am on the morning of the dawn raid, five cars arrived at the Hlongwane Consulting offices.

"One lady and four guys entered Hlongwane Consulting and came out with four big boxes, loaded the boxes in the cars and left again at 3.30am," he wrote in his email dated December?18 2008.

Hlongwane is central to the allegations of corruption surrounding the arms deal. The Serious Fraud Office in the United Kingdom alleged he was paid £5-million (about R65-million at the time) in connection with South Africa's purchase of 52 Hawk trainer aircraft and Saab Gripen fighter jets.

Two payments of commission to Hlongwane were authorised just before South Africa signed the final contracts in 1999.

The contract was awarded to a consortium headed by British Aerospace (BAE) Systems, but the British defence giant was unable to produce satisfactory evidence of legitimate services performed by their agents.

Payments
When the covert payments were made to the agents, Hlongwane was still working for Modise, although he later resigned from this post.

Hlongwane is alleged to have received payments through a number of financial vehicles, according to Serious Fraud Office documents seen by the M&G. These included payments through BAE and Sanip, a local company set up by BAE and Swedish company Saab, as well as two covert vehicles, Arstow Commercial Corporation, registered in the British Virgin Islands, and Commercial International Corporation, registered in Jersey.

Although the now defunct Scorpions, formally known as the Directorate of Special Operations, clearly had Hlongwane in its sights, few documents were seized in the raids on his premises.

In his email, Du Plooy wrote that, after the Scorpions raided, he had tried to meet a security guard at Hlongwane Consulting in Illovo but the guard did not turn up for the  appointment.

However, the investigator established that, at 2am, five people entered the offices, appeared with four boxes and left 90 minutes later.

Also, little documentation was seized at Hlongwane's luxurious house in Hyde Park during another raid on the same day, Du Plooy said. Evidence had allegedly been removed from his house before the raid.

Du Plooy said in the email he had followed up on an article that had appeared in the Citizen about the raids. In it, Chris Bathembu wrote about the alleged removal of documents from Hlongwane's house on December 1 2008.

'Absolute rubbish'
Du Plooy claimed he spoke to the reporter who told him to contact the former editor of the Financial Mail andBusiness Day and managing director of Times Media, Stephen Mulholland, who lived in the same street as Hlongwane.

But Bathembu, who now works for the Government Communication and Information System, said this week he had not spoken to the Scorpions investigator.

Du Plooy wrote in the email that he had contacted Mulholland, who said he had not seen the removal of any evidence from Hlongwane's house but had heard about it from his friends in his street. They claimed there had been "a lot of activity" between 1am and 3am at Hlongwane's house, shortly before the dawn raid.

Hlongwane's lawyer, Christo Stockenstrom, said the allegations that his client had been tipped off and had removed evidence before the raids was "absolute rubbish".

"It is a load of nonsense. The Scorpions phoned me from the premises and said they were going to raid. They asked me to come and open up for them."

Stockenstrom said that the accusations that his client had taken bribes were false.

"He was simply paid money for services rendered," he said.

But Saab admitted in 2011 that BAE Systems had irregularly channelled payments to a South African consultant, who is believed to be Hlongwane. BAE has denied the payments made were bribes.

Du Plooy, who is now a forensics manager at Deloitte, declined to comment on the raids. "I am sorry but I just can't say anything," he said.

The investigator quit his job shortly after he wrote the email.

Du Plooy was one of the lead investigators on the investigation into Zuma, and there were fears that after his departure from the Scorpions this prosecution might be compromised.

The charges brought against Zuma were eventually dropped by the National Prosecuting Authority in 2009.

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-07-19-00-arm-deal-kingpin-was-tipped-off

Friends Humans Countrymen - Lend Me Your Ears

Friends, humans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I come to bury Mandela, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interrèd with their bones.

So let it be with Mandela. The ignoble Media

Hath told you Mandela was a god.

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Mandela answered it.

Here, under leave of his victims and the rest—

For victims are honorable men and women;

So are they all, all honorable men—

Come I to speak in Mandela’s funeral.

He was not my friend, having sworn to murder me.

But the Marxist media says he was a man of peace,

And the Marxist media has enormous power.

He hath chased many South Africans from home 

Has taxed the rest for the ANC BEE pockets to fill.

Did this in Mandela seem full of peace?

When that the poor have cried, Mandela hath made deals.

Democracy should be made of sterner stuff.

Yet you all say he was Madiba,

And you all pretend to be honorable men.

You all did see that on the farms and towns

The citizens are murdered in race wars,

AmaBhulu. Was this peace, democracy and freedom for all?

Yet you all say he was a man of peace,

And, sure, you will believe it.

I speak not to disprove what the media spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

My family, my friends, the killed, the murdered, those who live

In fear every single day. This is Mandela’s legacy.

Those who emigrate, those who are raped,

Dismembered, fearful and poor

You all did love him once, not without cause.

What cause withholds me then to mourn for him?

O judgment! Read his history not his fables,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.

My heart is in the coffin there, not with Mandela,

But with my dead cousins, comrades and friends.


TAKEN FROM A FACEBOOK PAGE: Posted by Renier Van Loggerenberg

What Are You Going To Do With Your Mandela Minutes ?

Well, lets see – first I am going to think for 67 minutes about how the retard De Klerk handed over our once great country to a terrorist and his merry band of corrupted misfits!! 

This in itself may cause me to drink strong liquor for 67 minutes!!

Then I will pack 67 new rounds of ammunition into my bedside drawer, in the hope that I can take 67 criminal ANC supporters with me when they eventually come for me. 

I will increase the already high voltage that goes to my electric fence by 67 watts of power in the hope of frying one of his moronic followers. 

Then I will add 67 cans of food to my stash that will keep me and my family alive when the savages are starving in a hell of their own creation.

I will also visit my old pensioner parents for at least 67 minutes, seeing as the only reason we still have an infrastructure in this country is because of them and their generation of hard working white folks! An infrastructure that the ANC is still riding on! 

I will also walk my dogs for 67 minutes because they are loyal, loving and deserve my time – unlike Mandela and his misfits!! 

I will also spend 67 minutes donating money to poor white families with hungry white children that the ANC has decided they are not willing to help simply because they are white.

Then I will again spend 67 minutes teaching white women how to disable and permanently maim an attacker that has come to rape her in her own house!! 

I will also spend 67 minutes on the Internet telling the world what a corrupt and murderous bunch of criminals we have in our government. 

Then just to be fair to Mandela I will spend 67 minutes in quite contemplation remembering the innocent people that were brutally murdered by his bombs. What I will never do is spend 67 minutes doing anything that glorifies a terrorist!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!! You bunch of sycophantic 67 minute morons!! Doing anything to glorify the ANC and its idol would be an egregious error of enormous stupidity that would be a slap in the face of my forefathers that built this country!

Now before you jump on your little horse and attack me do yourself a favor and think about what I have said for 67 minutes.

Oh damn!! I forgot, you need brains to think!!

http://nubbi.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-mandela-minutes/

Mandela Names

Mr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sometimes called by other names.

Each name has its own special meaning and story. When you use them you should know what you are saying and why. So here is a brief explanation of each name.

Rolihlahla – This is Mr Mandela’s birth name: it is an isiXhosa name which means “pulling the branch of a tree”, but colloquially it means “troublemaker”. His father gave him this name.

Nelson – This name was given to him on his first day at school by his teacher, Miss Mdingane. Giving African children English names was a custom among Africans in those days and was influenced by British colonials who could not easily, and often would not, pronounce African names. It is unclear why Miss Mdingane chose the name “Nelson” for Mr Mandela.

Madiba – This is the name of the clan of which Mr Mandela is a member. A clan name is much more important than a surname as it refers to the ancestor from which a person is descended. Madiba was the name of a Thembu chief who ruled in the Transkei in the 18th century. It is considered very polite to use someone’s clan name.

Tata – This isiXhosa word means “father” and is a term of endearment that many South Africans use for Mr Mandela. Since he is a father figure to many, they call him Tata regardless of their own age.

Khulu – Mr Mandela is often called “Khulu”, which means great, paramount, grand. The speaker means “Great One” when referring to Mr Mandela in this way. It is also a shortened form of the isiXhosa word “uBawomkhulu” for “grandfather”.

Dalibhunga – This is the name Mr Mandela was given at the age of 16 once he had undergone initiation, the traditional Xhosa rite of passage into manhood. It means “creator or founder of the council” or “convenor of the dialogue”. The correct use of this name when greeting Mr Mandela is “Aaah! Dalibhunga”.

Other names – Of course, Mr Mandela’s family use many terms of endearment for him. His grandchildren use variants of “Grandfather”, like “Granddad” for instance. Mrs Graça Machel frequently uses “Papa”.

Names

Mandela Genealogy

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born July 18, 1918)

Parents

Father: Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry (died circa 1927)
Mother: Noqaphi Nosekeni (died 1968)

Mr Mandela has been married three times.
He had six children, four girls and two boys.

A daughter and two sons passed away: Makaziwe died as an infant in 1948; Madiba Thembekile [Thembi] died in a car accident in 1969 and Makgatho Lewanika died of an AIDS-related illness in 2005.

His surviving children are Pumla Makaziwe [Maki], Zenani and Zindziswa [Zindzi]

Marriage

1944 Married Evelyn Ntoko Mase (born 1922, died April 30, 2004) – Divorced March 19, 1958

June 14, 1958 Married Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe Madikizela (born 1936) – Divorced March 19, 1996

July 18, 1998 Married Graça Machel (born 1945)

Children

With Evelyn Mase

1. Madiba Thembekile Mandela (born 1945, died July 13, 1969 aged 24)
2. Makaziwe Mandela (died 1948 aged nine months)
3. Magkatho Lewanika Mandela (born 1950, died January 6, 2005 aged 55)
4. Pumla Makaziwe Mandela (born 1954)

With Winnie Mandela

5. Zenani Dlamini (born 1959)
6. Zindzi Mandela (born 1960)

Grandchildren

1. Ndileka Mandela [1965—F—Thembi]
2. Nandi Mandela [1968—F—Thembi]
3. Mandla Mandela [1974—M—Makgatho]
4. Ndaba Mandela [1983—M—Makgatho]
5. Mbuso Mandela [1991—M—Makgatho]
6. Andile Mandela [1993—M—Makgatho]
7. Tukwini Mandela [1974—F—Makaziwe]
8. Dumani Mandela[1976—M—Makaziwe]
9. Kweku Mandela [1985—M—Makaziwe]
10. Zaziwe Manaway [1977—F—Zenani]
11. Zamaswazi Dlamini [1979—F—Zenani]
12. Zinhle Dlamini [1980—M—Zenani]
13. Zozuko Dlamini [1992—M—Zenani]
14. Zoleka Mandela [1980—F—Zindzi]
15. Zondwa Mandela [1985—M—Zindzi]
16. Bambatha Mandela [1989—M—Zindzi]
17. Zwelabo Mandela [1992—M—Zindzi]

Great-grandchildren

1. Ziyanda Manaway [2000—M—Zaziwe]
2. Zipokhazi Manaway [2009—F—Zaziwe]
3. Zenani Mandela [1997–2010—F—Zoleka ]
4. Zwelami Mandela [2003—M—Zoleka]
5. Zamakhosi Obiri [2008—F—Zamaswazi]
6. Thembela Mandela [1984—M—Ndileka]
7. Pumla Mandela [1993—F—Ndileka]
8. Hlanganani Mandela [1986—M—Nandi]
9. Zazi Kazimla Vitalia Mandela [2010—F—Zondwa]
10. Lewanika Ngubencuka Mandela [2010—M—Ndaba]
11. Zenawe Zibuyile Mandela [2011–2011—M—Zoleka]
12. Qheya II Zanethemba Mandela [2011—M—Mandla]
13. Ziwelene Linge Mandela [2011—M—Zondwa]
14. Zenkosi John Brunson Manaway [2012—M—Zaziwe]

Genealogy

Mandela's Trials and Prison Time Line

Prison numbers

• 7 November 1962: 19476/62 – Pretoria Local Prison
• 1963: 11657/63 – Pretoria Local Prison. When he returned to Pretoria after a short spell on Robben Island
• June 1964: 466/64 – Robben Island
• March 1982: 220/82 – Pollsmoor Prison
• 7 December 1988: 1335/88 – Victor Verster Prison

Trials and prison chronology

2 December 1952: Nelson Mandela is convicted with 19 others for his role in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and sentenced to nine months' hard labour, suspended for two years

21 March 1960: Sixty-nine peaceful protesters are killed by police at Sharpeville

8 April 1960: Apartheid regime bans the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

29 March 1961: Mandela is acquitted with 27 remaining accused in the four-and-a-half year Treason Trial. Immediately goes underground

11 January 1962: Leaves the country for military training and to gather support for the newly formed armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto weSizwe

23 July 1962: Returns to South Africa via Botswana

5 August 1962: Arrested at a roadblock near Howick, KwaZulu-Natal

7 November 1962: Sentenced to five years for incitement and leaving the country illegally. Begins serving his sentence at Pretoria Local Prison and is assigned the prisoner number 19476/62

27 May 1963: Transferred to Robben Island Prison

12 June 1963: Transferred to Pretoria Local Prison

9 October 1963: Appears, for the first time, with 10 others in the Palace of Justice in Pretoria. They become the accused in the Rivonia Trial. The case is remanded to 29 October

Accused:
Nelson Mandela
Walter Sisulu
Govan Mbeki
Ahmed Kathrada
Raymond Mhlaba
Denis Goldberg
Elias Motsoaledi
Rusty Bernstein
Bob Hepple
Andrew Mlangeni
James Kantor

29 October 1963: The defence applies for the quashing of the indictment alleging 199 acts of sabotage

30 October 1963: Prosecutor Percy Yutar announces that Bob Hepple would become a state witness. He is released and skips the country. The indictment against the 10 others is quashed. They are immediately rearrested

1 November 1963: Justice De Wet refuses bail to Kantor and Bernstein. The case is remanded to 12 November

12 November 1963:  Yutar presents a new indictment splitting the sabotage charges into two parts. The case is remanded to 25 November

25 November 1963: The 199 alleged acts of sabotage are reduced to 193. The defence applies to have the new indictment quashed

26 November 1963: Justice De Wet dismisses the application to have the indictment quashed

27 November 1963: The trial is remanded to 3 December, after Kantor’s new defence requests time to prepare

3 December 1963: The 10 accused plead not guilty to sabotage in the Rivonia Trial

20 April 1964: Mandela makes his famous Speech from the Dock, in which he says he is “prepared to die” for a democratic South Africa

11 June 1964: All except Bernstein and Kantor are convicted of sabotage

12 June 1964: Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment

12 June 1964: All except Goldberg are sent to Robben Island to serve their sentences. Goldberg, as the only white person convicted in the trial, is held in Pretoria Central Prison. Mandela is assigned the prisoner number 466/64

24 September 1968: Mandela’s mother Nosekeni dies. He is forbidden from attending her funeral

13 July 1969: Mandela’s eldest son, Thembekile, is killed in a car accident. He is forbidden from attending his funeral

31 March 1982: Mandela, Sisulu, Mhlaba and Mlangeni, and later Kathrada, are transferred to Pollsmoor Prison. Mandela is assigned the prisoner number 220/82

10 February 1985: Rejects President PW Botha's offers to release him and other political prisoners if he renounces violence

28 February 1985: Goldberg, who has been held apart from his comrades for more than 20 years, accepts the offer and is released

3 November 1985: Is admitted to the Volks Hospital in Cape Town for prostate surgery

23 November 1985: Is discharged from the Volks Hospital and held in a cell alone at Pollsmoor Prison, from where he begins communicating with the government about eventual talks with the ANC

16 May 1986: Meets with an Eminent Persons Group from the Commonwealth Group of Nations

20 July 1986: Holds his first meeting with Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee about talks between the government and the ANC

5 November 1987: Govan Mbeki is released from Robben Island

12 August 1988: Is admitted to Tygerberg Hospital, where he is diagnosed with tuberculosis

31 August 1988: Is transferred to Constantiaberg MediClinic to continue his treatment

7 December 1988: Is transferred to Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, where he is held in the house formerly occupied by a warder. Mandela is assigned the prisoner number 1335/88

5 July 1989: Meets PW Botha in his office in Cape Town

15 October 1989: Sisulu, Kathrada, Motsoaledi, Mlangeni and Mhlaba are released, along with Oscar Mpetha and PAC prisoner Jeff Masemola

13 December 1989: Meets President FW de Klerk at his office in Cape Town

2 February 1990: At the opening of Parliament, De Klerk announces the unbanning of all political organisations, including the ANC

10 February 1990: Meets De Klerk and is informed he will be released the next day in Johannesburg. Mandela objects, saying he wants to walk through the gates of Victor Verster Prison, and asks for two weeks for ANC to prepare. De Klerk refuses the extension but agrees to release him at Victor Verster

10 February 1990: De Klerk announces at a press conference that Nelson Mandela will be released the next day

11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison

11 February 1990: He addresses thousands of well-wishers gathered on the Grand Parade, from the balcony of the City Hall in Cape Town. Spends the night at Bishopscourt, the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Town

12 February 1990: Holds a press conference in the garden of Bishopscourt. Flies to Johannesburg

12 February 1990: Spends the night in Northriding, at the home of a supporter, Sally Rowney

13 February 1990: Flies to FNB Stadium in Soweto for a welcome home rally

13 February 1990: Spends his first night in decades at his family home, at 8115 Orlando West, Soweto

Trials and prison

Mandela's Prison Time Line

Prison timeline with Nelson Mandela's prison numbers

5 August 1962: Arrested

7 November 1962: Sentenced to five years for leaving the country without a passport and incitement. Begins serving his sentence at the Pretoria Local Prison
Prisoner number: 19476/62

27 May 1963: Is transferred to Robben Island

12 June 1963: Is transferred back to Pretoria Local Prison
Prisoner number: 11657/63

11 June 1964: Is convicted of sabotage with Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba, Govan Mbeki, Elias Motsoaledi, Denis Goldberg and Andrew Mlangeni

12 June 1964: Is sentenced to life imprisonment with Sisulu, Kathrada, Mhlaba, Mbeki, Motsoaledi, Goldberg and Mlangeni

13 June 1964: Arrives on Robben Island with Sisulu, Kathrada, Mhlaba, Mbeki, Motsoaledi and Mlangeni. Goldberg is sent to Pretoria as he is white
Prisoner number: 466/64

31 March 1982: Is transferred to Pollsmoor Prison with Sisulu, Mhlaba and Mlangeni. They are joined by Kathrada in October
Prisoner number: 220/82

28 February 1985: Goldberg is released

5 November 1987: Mbeki is released from Robben Island

12 August 1988: Is taken to Tygerberg Hospital where TB is diagnosed

31 August 1988: Is transferred to Constantiaberg MediClinic

7 December 1988: Is transferred to Victor Verster Prison
Prisoner number: 1335/88

15 October 1989: Sisulu, Kathrada, Mhlaba, Motsoaledi and Mlangeni are released with Oscar Mpetha and Jeff Masemola

11 February 1990: Madiba is released from Victor Verster Prison

Prison Time Line

Nkandla The Tip Of The Iceberg For ZumaVille

As the scandal still simmers around President Jacob Zuma’s R200 million-plus Nkandla home, news has broken that the nearby R2 billion “Zumaville” development is to go ahead.

The Nkandla-Mlalazi Smart Growth Centre, as it is formally known, will be at least half-funded by the state. It will reportedly include a school, libraries, a sport centre with tennis courts, housing, communal gardens, modern residential units, a shopping mall, a college, banking facilities and other amenities.

The Zumaville development is to be built in an area surrounding Nkandla. The mega-project is led by a rural development organisation Zuma chairs, Masibambisane Rural Development Trust, co-headed by a cousin of Zuma’s, Sibusiso “Deebo” Mzobe.

Mzobe is informally known by some as the “mayor of Zumaville” because he is in charge of developing Zuma’s home town of Nkandla.

Mzobe was married in May at a traditional wedding reportedly attended by 8 000 guests, including Zuma.

The Sunday Times reported that the chief of the area, Vela Shange, had given approval for the “Zumaville” development to go ahead.

The Nkandla-Mlalazi Smart Growth Centre is to be built in an area surrounding Nkandla. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo

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This came after residents of Shange’s area initially protested that they were not willing to vacate their homes and did not want family grave sites moved to clear space for the various developments.

But Mzobe told the Sunday Times that Shange had given his blessing.

Zuma has in the past denied that his home town had been unfairly advantaged by the project.

Responding to questions in the National Assembly in September, Zuma said he saw no reason why Nkandla should be “punished” because he happened to come from there.

“Should they be punished because they are neighbours to Zuma? I don’t think that is the correct approach.

“Developing that area does not trouble me, it makes me very proud.” But the development has raised the ire of various opponents.

“It is clear that Zuma will derive great benefit from the project in his personal capacity,” AfriForum chief executive Ernst Roets said.

He said the public protector had been asked to probe the matter because the circumstances amounted to an abuse of power by Zuma.

“The president is wearing three hats,” Roets said. “He is the head of the executive authority of government; he is chairman of Masibambisane, the government’s partner in this matter; and as a citizen with a personal interest in Nkandla, he is also a beneficiary.”

DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko previously asked in Parliament how the president could justify spending money in an area “just 3.2km from your homestead” when other impoverished parts of KwaZulu-Natal were left without basic services.

She said within a 100km radius, villages such as Ebizimali and Eqhudeni lacked water and electricity.

Zuma responded by naming 23 poor districts nationwide which had been identified by the government as recipients of upliftment programmes.

“Development goes where it goes at a given time,” he said.

He denied he had instructed the government to give priority to the development project of the new town.

“Government is doing a lot more throughout the country, even beyond the few districts I have mentioned. It is a pity that only Nkandla seems to generate interest,” said Zuma.

Last August, Mazibuko said she would formally ask the chairman of the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Themba Godi, to investigate why the government had decided to spend so much money on a single village when the money could have been spread across many impoverished rural areas in KZN.

On Sunday, the DA’s representative on Scopa, Dion George, criticised Mzobe’s involvement in another alleged scandal, a R1bn food-for-the-poor development.

Speaking to the Cape Argus last night, George said both the more-recent food matter, as well as “Zumaville”, would be the subject of investigations by the DA’s team on Scopa, “with a view to them both being discussed formally and publicly at Scopa”.

Last October, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela announced that her office would investigate “Zumaville"

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