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Omstrede Skiet-die-Boer-lied ontsier Vryheidsdag

ANC-lede ontsier opposisiepartye se vryheidsdagvieringe

2010-04-28 00:01
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JOHANNESBURG. – Terwyl pres. Jacob Zuma in sy Vryheidsdag-toespraak in Pretoria ’n nasionale dialoog oor verskeie knelpunte, onder meer die liedere wat Suid-Afrikaners sing, bepleit het, is ’n saamtrek van opposisiepartye by die grondwethof deur ANC-ondersteuners met die sing van die woorde “Skiet die Boer” ontwrig.

Me. Helen Zille, DA-leier, was nog besig om meer as 2 000 toeskouers buite die grondwethof toe te spreek toe die sowat 30 betogers met ANC-vlae en T-hemde opgedaag het.

DA-beamptes het vinnig ’n laer om hul ondersteuners getrek terwyl die polisie die ANC-ondersteuners tot in een hoek van die hofplein gedryf het.

Dit is toe dat die ANC-ondersteuners die gewraakte lied Ayesab’ amagwala, waarin die woorde Dubulu iBhunu (skiet die Boer) voorkom, begin sing het.

Mnr. Gwede Mantashe, ANC-sekretaris-generaal, het party­lede vroeër gevra om in die huidige omstandighede nie dele van struggle-liedjies te sing wat geïnterpreteer kan word as woorde wat tot rasse-polarisering kan lei nie.

Zille het later gesê dié soort optrede deur ANC-lede “simboliseer hul (die party se) aanval op die Grondwet”.

Lede van die DA en OD het gister by die hof saamgetrek, want hulle meen die land se Grondwet is in gedrang.

Leiers van Cope is ook genooi, maar hulle het nie opgedaag nie.

“Dit is belangrik dat ons ons regte opeis en ons Grondwet verdedig,” het me. Patricia de Lille, OD-leier, gesê.

“Ironies genoeg is ons Grondwet onder bedreiging van die hoof van die staat wat in die Uniegebou sit,” het Zille gesê.

Volgens haar het pres. Jacob Zuma die Grondwet ondermyn toe hy verseker het hy hoef nie hof toe te gaan en op 700 aantygings van korrupsie te antwoord nie.

“Hy misbruik mag om sy vriende, soos Schabir Shaik, teen die gereg te beskerm, terwyl ander politieke opponente vervolg word.

“Sy familie begin allerhande sakeondernemings en gebruik só hul posisie om uit staatskontrakte ryk te word.

Pres. Zuma verklaar nie self sy belange aan die parlement nie, maar net wanneer die DA hom druk om dit te doen,” het Zille gesê.

Volgens haar moet die grondwethof Suid-Afrikaners teen magsvergrype beskerm voordat die land soos Zimbabwe word.

Mnr. Sihlwele Myeki, die leier van die ANC-ondersteuners, het gesê DA-lede het hulle uitgetart en toe moes hulle Ayesab’ amagwala sing.

Hulle het die lied later ’n tweede keer gesing.

Myeki het gesê hy is ’n lid van die ANC se Joe Slovo-tak.

Mnr. Ishmael Mnisi, ANC-woordvoerder, het gesê die party sal ondersoek instel of dit wel ANC-lede was.

Die ANC sal enige politieke party die geleentheid gun om sonder inmenging bymekaar te kom, het hy benadruk.

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SA ‘a farcical country’

by Fran
2010-04-20 11:24

Dear Editor,

Re: Gang attack family, dad killed.

This is the headline that knocked me out of my euphoric state of absolute love for my country. This article shocked me to the core. A family is attacked, raped and beaten without any apparent motive. Is this what we have come to? A country of savages that rape, beat and murder to prove a point?

I have honestly never been as worried about the state of affairs in this country as today. The reasoning behind this statement stems from the fact that up until now I had some level of trust and hope that the powers that be are in fact working towards entrenching the democratic principles contained in our wonderful country’s constitution.

The above mentioned article however proves that this is in fact not the case. We are fast becoming the most farcical country, run by a group of hypocrites that use democracy as a “buzzword” to further their own agendas.

As a matter of fact, I now realise that Nelson Mandela had in fact not averted disaster, but that he had only put a postponement date of about 20 years on it. I’ve never been as sure of the fact that this country is heading towards a civil war, and I have to be honest that it scares the crap out of me.

I do NOT want to live in a country that could be likened to Idi’s Uganda and Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, but the sad fact of the matter is that this is already the case. We are living in Zuma’s South Africa and the outlook is dire.

So I am imploring you to take a stand. Speak your mind. Say what you think. Express what you feel and become politically involved. Most of us read articles such as the one at hand and think that it won’t affect us, but trust me it will. If it continues in this way, we will be so far up the creek we won’t even know about the existence of a paddle.

Fran

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[PIC] Baby suspect ‘has left SA’

Chakhoma Machaba has allegedly left the county. Photo: Supplied

April 28 2010 at 07:10AM
By Baldwin Ndaba, Nontobeko Mtshali, Shain Germaner and Angelique Serrao

Police guarding the Lebombo border post to Mozambique are not aware of the search for a Mozambican who is the main suspect in the assault on a one-year-old baby and her minder in Randburg – even though the neighbours of fugitive Chakhoma Machaba say he has not been at home for days.

They say they believe Machaba, a Mozambican who was reportedly living legally in South Africa, has fled to Maputo.

Yesterday, officers at South Africa’s main border post with Mozambique confirmed to The Star that they did not have a circular notifying them about Machaba, nor did they have a warrant for his arrest.

Home Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said the department would have to be informed by the police about warrant-of-arrest details before they could act. But Gauteng police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Opperman did not want to disclose whether Home Affairs had been made aware of the search.

“It is information that would only be known by us. We do not want to inform him (Machaba) about our plans to arrest him. We want to arrest him,” Opperman emphasised.

On Saturday police arrested Gerald Nyatumbo, 28, in connection with the Randburg attack and later, acting on information, went searching for Machaba at his home. There they found his cousin, Nelson Maphosa, 25, who was also arrested.

Nyatumbo and Maphosa were due to appear again in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court today to face charges of robbery with aggravating circumstances and two counts of attempted murder.

Police, however, believe Machaba is their main suspect and have issued an appeal for information on the whereabouts of the 28-year-old.

Machaba, who lives in the corner of a large cluster of shacks in Alexandra, has apparently not been seen at his home for days.

The shack, down a narrow alley next to a spaza shop on 17th Avenue in Alexandra, was identifiable only by a licence plate number hanging on the door.

Etched on the side of the metal shack is the word “builder”.

According to neighbours, Machaba shared this tiny, blue-door shack with three other men – one of whom was arrested at the weekend.

A friend, who did not wish to be named, confirmed that Machaba was out of work, and said he was generally a friendly guy who never drank, and was rarely seen at shebeens and taverns.

Earlier reports indicated that he had a propensity for violence.

And the bloody chaos that met Madelein Kruger when she returned home from work on Thursday bore testimony to that: her one-year-old daughter Marzaan was bleeding from the ears and nose and her nanny, Franscina Sekhu, had been assaulted too.

Sekhu told The Star from her hospital bed that she had let in the attacker because she considered him to be a friend, and knew him from his work as a builder at the Krugers’ house.

Yesterday, Marzaan’s family gathered outside the paediatric ICU at the Sandton Medi-Clinic. They refused to speak to the media, but hospital spokeswoman Liezl Furlong said the baby was still in a serious but stable condition.

Anyone with information on Machaba’s whereabouts is asked to call 08600 10111 or report it to Crime Line on 32211.

This article was originally published on page 1 of The Star on April 28, 2010

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Pretoria suburbs get booms

April 28 2010 at 07:20AM
By Zelda Venter
High Court Reporter

Crime-ridden residential areas around Pretoria have turned to the Pretoria High Court for help after failing to obtain permission for seven years from the Tshwane Metro Council to erect access control structures.

The council, however, settled the matter by granting temporary permission for access control to residents of Eldoraigne Extension 18, Wierda Park Extension 2 and Lynnwood Glen who had recently turned to the court.

Two other residential areas, Glossa Estate in Moreleta Park and Faerie Walk in Faerie Glen, have their court applications on hold because the council agreed, as a matter of urgency, to consider their applications to have temporary access control.

The agreement reached with two of these suburbs are subject to the council considering their Chapter 7 applications to have permanent access control to their suburbs.

This will also be the case when the council considers the temporary closures of the Moreleta Park and Faerie Glen suburbs.

Eldoraigne and Wierda Park submitted their Chapter 7 application to the council in January 2002.

Although the residents had complied with all the requirements – with all the council’s departments reacting favourably to their plan – they are still awaiting a final answer.

This is in spite of unofficial statistics showing this area is one of the most crime ridden in the country.

The court was told that the applicants’ owns statistics showed that the incidence of house robbery in this area is the highest in Pretoria and the fifth highest in the country.

“The statistics reveal that residents in this area have, over the past few years, faced exceptionally high levels of crime – violent crimes in particular. A large proportion of these are hijackings and armed robberies,” Johan Meyer, chairman of Eldoraigne Security Village, stated in court papers.

Residents in this area were living in fear because of crime, he said. In the second half of 2008, violent crimes rose by 300 percent compared to the first half.

In 2009 there were 42 incidents of crime – an increase of 27 percent on the already high crime level.

Meyer said that since the beginning of 2008 about 75 families in this area were directly affected by crime.

In January, a family were robbed in broad daylight, while in December last year there were at least six house robberies. The most recent statistics are not yet available.

Several streets will be closed off in this area. These include temporary closures of Stanger Street, north of its intersection to Estcourt Street; Memel Street, east of Howick Street; and a 24-hour manned entrance in Goshawk Street, north of Estcourt Street (open during morning peak). The streets are yet to be closed off.

In Lynnwood Glen West, several streets at the intersections of Glennwood Road are already closed. These include Alcade, Blanton, Elveram and Floresta streets. The residents have been waiting since November 2002 for their application to be considered by the council.

This area is also crime ridden, with statistics revealing that the residents face exceptional violent crimes. From 2006 to 2009 there were 10 armed robberies reported, 27 attempted robberies, numerous hijackings and 46 housebreakings.

Attorney Gary Duke, who brought the applications on behalf of the residents, said although it was taking the council a long time to consider these applications, he was grateful that the council was now co-operating by issuing temporary permission for access control.

“The city asked if we could find ways to resolve these issues, and we greatly appreciate this,” he said.

The council was also willing to consider Moreleta Park and Faerie Glen on an urgent basis, he said.

“The recent municipal strike delayed things a bit, but the council promised to urgently apply its mind in this regard. We are happy about this open-door policy and that the council is trying to find a solution to the crime,” he said.

This article was originally published on page 2 of Pretoria News on April 28, 2010

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Nie so opgewonde oor vryheid

deur Sakkie van der Merwe
2010-04-28 07:25

Ek reageer op Johan v/d Merwe se brief oor vryheidsdag.

Johan ons deel dieselfde van, maar nie dieselfde sentiment rondom hierdie dag nie.

Hierdie dag is geteken in die bloed van duisende Suid-Afrikaners wat sedert “vryheidsdag” gesterf, verkrag, geroof/beroof, gekaap en ontvoer is.

Hoe kan ‘n redelike mens hierdie dag as positief beleef?

Van ‘n eerstewêreldland na ‘n piesangrepubliek in sestien jaar! Hier waar alles afgebreek word wat deur “wittes” opgebou is.

Hier waar ‘n een-jarige baba gruwelik aangerand word ens ens. Nee Johan, kyk weer na vryheidsdag en ween oor wat dit oor ons land en sy mense gebring het.

Afrika het nie plek vir ‘n witmens nie. Gelukkig kan ons deur geloof bly hoop op ‘n verandering.

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Genocide Watch Threatens To Raise Boer-Genocide Alert

Genocide Watch threatens to raise “Boer-Genocide” level from 5 to 6

April 29 2010 — Dirk Hermann of Solidarity trade union said in an exclusive news report on their radio solidariteitradio.co.za today that they received a letter from Dr Greg Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch that if Julius Malema and his cohorts continued singing the genocidal hate-speech song “Shoot the Boer’, Stanton’s organisation  will soon raise its present Genocide Alert level 5 for the ongoing Boer Genocide to level 6, preparation for genocide.  Genocide Watch has listed the “Boers’ at risk of genocide level 5 (polarization) since 2002.

Level 6 is the “Preparation’ of a genocide. … which proceeds as follows:

“Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved.

Intervention by international community urgently needed at this stage

: “At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. If the political will of the great powers, regional alliances, or the U.N. Security Council can be mobilized, armed international intervention should be prepared, or heavy assistance provided to the victim group to prepare for its self-defense. Otherwise, at least humanitarian assistance should be organized by the U.N. and private relief groups for the inevitable tide of refugees to come. “ http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutgenocide/8stagesofgenocide.html

The next phase (7) is all-out extermination: 

“It begins.. and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.” It is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human. When it is sponsored by the state, the armed forces often work with militias to do the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge killings by groups against each other, creating the downward whirlpool-like cycle of bilateral genocide (as in Burundi). At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be established with heavily armed international protection. (An unsafe “safe” area is worse than none at all.) The U.N. Standing High Readiness Brigade, EU Rapid Response Force, or regional forces — should be authorized to act by the U.N. Security Council if the genocide is small.

For larger interventions, a multilateral force authorized by the U.N. should intervene. If the U.N. is paralyzed, regional alliances must act. It is time to recognize that the international responsibility to protect transcends the narrow interests of individual nation states. If strong nations will not provide troops to intervene directly, they should provide the airlift, equipment, and financial means necessary for regional states to intervene.”

8. DENIAL is the eighth stage that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres.

The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes, and continue to govern until driven from power by force, when they flee into exile. There they remain with impunity, like Pol Pot or Idi Amin, unless they are captured and a tribunal is established to try them. The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts. There the evidence can be heard, and the perpetrators punished. Tribunals like the Yugoslav or Rwanda Tribunals, or an international tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or an International Criminal Court may not deter the worst genocidal killers. But with the political will to arrest and prosecute them, some may be brought to justice.

Stanton, a professor at George Mason University in the USA, is a world-reknown expert on the subject of genocide ever since he investigated the Cambodian genocide for the US State Department. 

Stanton  wrote Hermann that ‘the singing of this song and the fact that Pres. Jacob Zuma does not disclipline Malema or have him charged (over this) , is worsening the situation in South Africa”.

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The organisation noted in its latest report in the situation in SA on April 20 2010 that the ANC will not disclipline Malema, quoting from Reuters report.

“South African president Jacob Zuma has decided to not discipline Julius Malema after a Monday meeting to discuss the ANCYL’s recent public controversies, a youth league source tells Reuters.

Malema has come under heavy criticism for his repeated singing of “Kill the Boer,” an old ANC struggle song banned by a South African high court as hate speech, and his throwing out a White news reporter from a press conference in a racially-charged and expletive-laden outburst. “His comments were made on behalf of the Youth League and not the ANC. We are independent and if there needs to be any disciplinary hearing it should be conducted by us,” the youth league source said, who attended the Monday meeting. The source also told Reuters that “Malema’s comments were made on behalf of the Youth League and individuals should not be singled out,” indicating the group is going to stand behind their leader.

The ANC says it is still thinking about what can be done with Malema. “The request for us to pronounce on what action will be taken, is premature, the ANC is still considering what to do,” ANC Deputy Secretary General Thandi Modise told reporters on Tuesday. Modise distanced Malema from Zuma by adding, “Whatever Malema does, does not make Jacob Zuma a strong or weak president. The president should be judged by his own performance.” http://www.genocidewatch.org/ 

Genocide Watch has also listed “Foreigners’ in South Africa as being at a high risk-level at the hands of ‘black racists’.

Source – Afrikaner Genocide Archives – 29 April 2010

Afrikaner Willie Pienaar’s 2 murderers released through police error

  Investigating officer in murder of Willie Pienaar (21) at Kwaggasrand, Pretoria failed to open a docket for the two captive murderers – so the court released them April 29 2010 – The SAPS investigating officer in the murder of Afrikaner Willie Pienaar, 24 on 10 April 2010 ‘forgot to charge’ the two men who were arrested by members of the local community shortly after the Kwaggasrand, Pretoria http://bit.ly/9guvvv

Kreasionisme en evolusionisme

Moontlik, omdat verlede jaar Darwinjaar was, is “debatte” in koerante en op die internet oor evolusie volop. Hierdie “debatte” is dikwels erg nydig, en is dikwels sprekend van groot onkunde. Die indruk word gewoonlik gelaat dat dit handel oor Christen-kreasioniste aan die een kant, en ateïstiese…

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Dop en produktiwiteit

Navorsing wat pas bekend gemaak is toon dat werkers wat by die werk skelm dop of ‘n ietsie snuif, die land byna R10 miljard per jaar  aan produktiwiteit kos.

Dit is maar die oortjies van die seekoei van die land wat nie optimaal produseer nie weens ‘n spektrum van…

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