Anti white violence in South Africa Continues

Three days of unremitting violence

Youth Survives Panga attack

March 24 Randberg youth survives machete attack when his family home was invaded twice in seven hours.

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Elderly woman viciously assaulted

25 March 2010: "I am just grateful he didn’t rape me,’ said 79-year-old Afrikaner resident of Bloemfontein Mrs Hester Thomas after her attacker stabbed her above the eye, beat her purple and blue, choked her, jumped on her chest and kicked her during a so-called ‘house robbery’ in which very little of any value was actually ‘robbed’. Volksblad journalist Vicüs Bürger reports that this is the third attack on elderly Afrikaners in Bloemfontein within a week. She was admitted to Pelonomi Hospital. The attacker merely ‘robbed’ some meat, cheese and clothing…

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Gruesome attack on Family

23 March 2010: “It was like something from a horror movier,” says Mr. Johan van Vuuren after five of his family members were violently attacked in their parents house in Jagersfontein.

His parents, Boet (80) and Francina (77), brothers Marius (44 - pictured above) and Marthinus (35) and nephew Juan (13) was attacked on Sunday evening in their house in Harrington street, Jagersfontein, by six men armed with spades and knives.

The attackers showed no mercy and left a bloody house behind..

Even Boet and Marius were cruelly assaulted, even though both are paralysed and in wheelchairs due to a marrow virus and a car accident respectively.

Francina van Vuuren remains critical in hospital

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Elderly couple attacked on farm

25 March 2010: An elderly couple was seriously injured in a farm attack near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga police said on Thursday.

"The couple was found by their gardener when he came to work early in the morning and he went straight to the farm manager who phoned local security and police," said Inspector Dawie Pretorius.

The attack against the 82-year-old woman and 81-year-old man occurred on their farm, "Ooswes", in the Sterkspruit area in Nelspruit around 2am on Tuesday morning.

A group of men smashed through a glass door and attacked them before fleeing the scene with two cellphones and their truck.

The woman sustained serious head injuries and is in a critical condition in hospital.

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So few weekends pass without a farm murder

The latest South African farmer to dies was Koos van Staden was shot through the door of his bedroom on Saturday morning while he was trying to prevent his assailants from entering the room whilst his wife went for a gun.

Van Staden, a vegetable farmer in the Kleinfontein district, was declared dead on arrival at a local hospital. His wife was unhurt.

One of the couple's dogs had been poisoned, but the second survived. Nothing was stolen from the house and no arrests had been made.

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More South African Revalations

By JP

10. The Marklives! blog post breaking the story that FIFA's lawyers had just squashed Kulula's "Unofficial National Carrier of the ‘You Know What'" advertisement:

The website reported that "News broke on [the airline's] official Twitter account (@kulula) with the following post; "oh dear letter from FIFA's lawyers says we broke their trademark of the use of "South Africa" and think our non-WC ad was about soccer..." Apparently the lawyers are objecting not only to the use of "South Africa" but also to the use of soccer balls and the image of a stadium. Even use of our national flag was an issue." The offending advert follows below:

9. John Kane Berman's column in Business Day on the bright side of the ANC's internal squabbling:

Kane Berman notes that, "Apart from its entertainment value, the antics of the three-ring circus keep the comrades occupied. The more they party the better, since they then have less time to interfere with universities, impose import tariffs, undermine the judiciary, or gatecrash schools as Malema likes to do." He also observes: "The ANC loves power, and the trappings of power (blue-light convoys), and grandiose projects (the World Cup). But they lack interest in all the things that governments have to do at the level of the nitty gritty, such as fixing broken traffic lights or making sure that public hospitals have enough medicines and schools enough text books. This is why we need a professional civil service."

8. The Carte Blanche report on the brutish arrest of one Magdel Steyn by a gang of Tshwane Metro Cops for a traffic violation:

Steyn was parked outside the CIPRO offices in Pretoria waiting for her mother, when she was accosted by a Tshwane metro cop in mufti. The incident escalated until Steyn and her mother were surrounded by a crowd of about ten cops. Steyn told the programme: "'I just remember someone grabbing me at my shoulders. They were like picking me up. The next moment I was thrown against the towing truck.' A female officer hauled Magdel to a waiting police car, while verbally abusing her. Magdel: 'She just told me, 'Walk you f****** 'white' cow'...Magdel was taken to the Sunnyside police station about a kilometre from where the incident had happened... She would spend the next 15 hours locked up in police cells.'" Footage of the incident itself was captured on CCTV and posted on You Tube by Solidarity:

7. Rob Brand's web post on the potentially worrying consequences of the Equality Court's finding that ANCYL President Julius Malema was guilty of hate speech:

Malema had been taken to court for his statement that, "Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, request breakfast and ask for taxi money. In the morning, that lady [Zuma's rape accuser] requested breakfast and taxi money." Brand notes: "Malema's words were undoubtedly hurtful to many people. They may, at a stretch, be construed as ‘advocacy of hatred' based on gender. But did they constitute incitement to cause harm? I think not. And so, offensive though the words were to our sensibilities, they should be protected by the Bill of Rights."

6. The eyewitness account in the Daily Maverick by Stephen Grootes on the assault of Eyewitness news photographer Tshepo Lesole by Jacob Zuma's bodyguards:

Grootes, an Eyewitness News reporter, had asked Lesole to take a photograph of the presidential motorcade parked outside Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. As the two of them were walking back into the building Lesole was grabbed by two VIP unit thugs. Grootes writes: "Tshepo was dragged around a corner. I was still with him, and by this time the head of the detachment was there. He and his colleagues were refusing to talk to me, saying that they would only talk to him. I said that was ridiculous; he was my colleague. Once around the corner, he gave in. I really can't blame him. He deleted the pictures."

5. S'Thembiso Msomi's column in The Times expressing disquiet at the way in which the ANC had condoned Julius Malema's singing of ‘shoot the boer':

Msomi concludes his survey of the history of struggle songs by arguing: "Sure, freedom songs should continue to be sung. But there is a rich repertoire of songs that could be chosen that are no threat to non-racialism. If there is a lesson to be learned from the slogans and chants of the South African revolution, it is that each song spoke to the realities and demands of the time. Now is the time for nation-building, and the songs we sing should not undermine that objective."

4. The Star report on how ANCYL President Julius Malema had visited the hip hop artist Molemo ‘Jub Jub' Maarohanye, in prison, ahead of the latter's bail application following the killing of four schoolboys in a car crash:

Alex Eliseev wrote that an anonymous warder from the facility "has described how Malema and his entourage were escorted by warders, allowed to meet in a private room and forced some officers to work overtime. The warder, who asked not to be named, claimed Malema and Maarohanye were treated to Nando's chicken. Another witness claimed to have seen the group of visitors at the prison. They had parked their luxury cars - including a 4x4 and a BMW - outside a gate where normally no parking is allowed."

3. The complaint by 19 political hacks against the ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu:

In the document, published in the Daily Maverick, the journalists stated that Shivambu's actions in trying to peddle an intelligence dossier on City Press' Dumisane Lubisi - and then threatening those who refused to report on it - "was less about exposing unethical behaviour in the media, and had more to do with wanting to silence us with threats of public embarrassment over our private lives. We wish to place it on record that Shivambu's efforts sought to intimidate political journalists from doing their legitimate work."

2. The announcement by Kumba Iron Ore that the Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs had allocated a "prospecting right" to the 21.4% share in the Sishen mine previously held by Mittal to a "third party":

The company stated that its subsidiary, the Sishen Iron Ore Company had "lodged an appeal against the grant of the prospecting right and Kumba is currently engaged in discussions with the Department of Mineral Resources in relation to the 21.4% residual right in respect of the Sishen mine." It was reported the following day that the "third party" was an ANC linked shell-company Imperial Crown Trading 289.

1. Rian Malan's special report in the Daily Sun (see here and here) on South Africa's municipalities in crisis:

Malan compares the way the best and worst district municipalities in South Africa are run. On the one side, West Coast, north of Cape Town. On the other: Alfred Nzo municipality in the old Transkei. He writes that when the DA took control of West Coast municipality new executive mayor Rene Kitzhoff "decided senior managers were spending too much on themselves. So she told the ‘fat cats' to hand over their credit cards and cut them up with a scissors!" Over at Alfred Nzo meanwhile financial management is so lax that when government auditors arrived to check the books in 2008 only R108m out of R203m of income "actually showed up on its statements!"

The Daily Sun also published eight ideas for fixing the problem. The included cracking down on lazy workers, enforcing the law, making skills a top priority, having strong opposition, and saying phansi to bad affirmative action:

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ANC spokesperson 3x the legal limit

ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu

Cape Town - ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu was arrested for drunken driving in Cape Town on Thursday morning, officials said.

But this did not put him off doing his job - he did a phone interview with Sapa about youth leader Julius Malema around 09:00, an hour after the arrest, when he was apparently still being held at the Mowbray police station.

He was more than three times over the legal limit, said JP Smith, the mayoral committee member for safety and security in Cape Town.

Drove in bus lane

"Jackson Mthembu was arrested this morning [Thursday] on the N2 for driving in the bus lane. When they pulled him over, there was a strong smell of alcohol and they arrested him," said Smith.

The arrest was made around 08:00 on the N2 near the Pinelands off-ramp by the so-called ghost squad, the City of Cape Town's special unmarked high performance traffic unit.

Mthembu gave a lengthy telephone interview with Sapa around 09:00 about the criminal complaint against youth leader Malema singing "kill the boers, they are rapists", during which Mthembu at one stage started singing the song over the phone.

When called back later to ask if he had been arrested for drunken driving, Mthembu replied: "I can't comment".

Colleague tried to stop arrest

Smith said a colleague driving behind Mthembu pulled off the highway and tried to stop the officers from cuffing him. It was only then the officers realised he was a high-ranking politician, said Smith.

Mthembu was first taken to Mowbray police station. Smith said a constable at the station did not want to process his case because he was a senior African National Congress member.

"They were unwilling to process the details against Mthembu. There was a threat made that our officers would be arrested," said Smith.

"The officers felt they were being intimidated because of the political credentials of the person involved."

The ghost squad members then took him to the Safely Home Anti Drunk-driving Operations War Room (Shadow) in Athlone.

"The law should not protect politicians," said Smith.

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South African revelations

By JP

10. Jacob Dlamini's column in Business Day on recent academic research showing how the notorious 1913 Land Act did not, as is commonly assumed, place an absolute bar on black land purchases outside of the native reserves:

Dlamini cites a recent academic article by Harvey Feinberg and Andre Horn which noted: "between 1913 and 1936... [black] Africans bought about 3200 farms and lots outside of native areas." Black South Africans could apply for exemptions from the Act, and according to the authors, "between 1913 and 1924, under the governments of Louis Botha and Jan Smuts, there were 302 exemptions granted, amounting to 35% of the total. Between 1924 and 1936, when JB Hertzog was in power, there were 565 exemptions granted, amounting to 65% of the total."

9. The Carte Blanche story on the dumping of police dockets from the Burgersfort police station:

The programme reported that year two former high ranking police officers, Charles Bosch and Daryl Els, stumbled across thirty three dockets in a black bag in a road just outside of Burgersfort. "The cases in these dockets [were] related to armed robberies, attempted murder and kidnapping between 2005 and 2007." Carte Blanche managed to track down and interviewed two victims of violent crimes - whose dockets were contained in the bundle - Kgomotso Mehlape and Wayne Farmer. Mehlape's store had been robbed, while Farmer had been abducted by two armed men at an ATM. "They bundled him back into the boot of the car and drove around for four hours, waiting for midnight, so that he could withdraw the maximum amount from his bank account. And then they let him go."

8. The report in Die Burger on how the ANC government, having spent billions of dollars on purchasing hugely expensive Hawks and Gripens for the South Air Force, has not bothered to allocate enough money to allow pilots to train and fly on them:

Pieter du Toit writes that according to an Auditor General's report the use of the Gripen fighter jets will have to be kept to a minimum and those trainee fighter pilots - on the Hawk program -will have to be satisfied with half the required flight hours. Together the Gripens will be allocated 550 hours flying time this year. In 2011-2012 and the year after 250 hours, hopelessly insufficient by European and American standards.

7. Tim du Plessis' column in Beeld on how, during the great awakening of South African civil society, one institution remains sleepy and servile:

Du Plessis notes: "'n Nuwe tydsgees is aan die ontwaak. Mense, gemeenskappe, minderhede, noem maar op, staan op en sê: genoeg is genoeg. Nou vat ons ons regte terug. Groepe en instansies uit alle sfere kom in verset teen die versmorende ANC-hegemonie van die afgelope tien jaar. Die Pretorianers veg vir hul stad se naam. Belastingbetalers weerhou dienstegeld uit protes. In die townships is die middele van protes anders, maar die boodskap dieselfde: ons eis die regte wat die staat aan ons verskuldig is....Oral word die regerende party se groot projek - die ‘nasionale demokratiese revolusie', gemik daarop om die ANC in elke uithoek van die SA gemeenskap te laat domineer - in trurat gedwing. Oral behalwe by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch (US). Daar gebeur die teenoorgestelde - regte word geabdikeer."

6. Tim Cohen's comment in Business Day on decoding alliance language:

Cohen notes that the squabbling within the ANC alliance is articulated "in a special language called ‘alliance code', characterised by the excessive overuse of the passive voice. Hence Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of union federation Cosatu, announced on Thursday that a campaign had been mooted to oust both Zuma and ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe at the ANC's general council meeting in September. The ANC called Vavi's statement ‘not only misleading but also divisive', alliance code for ‘absolutely true'." Cohen notes: "The simple fact is both nationalists and leftists within the ANC are angry: the leftists with Zuma's decision to stick with real-world economic policies, the nationalists with the leftists opposing their attempts to use the state as tool of organised kleptocracy. Zuma needs to step in decisively, yet his big concern seems to be morality - his code for people questioning his right to unprotected intercourse with anybody he wants."

5. The IT Web story on the decision of the minister of trade and industry to place CIPRO CIO Dr Michael Twum-Darko on special leave:

The latest move stems from the continuing aftershocks caused by the inexplicable decision to give a little known company Valor IT the contract to implement an ECM system for CIPRO despite its R153m bid being two-and-a-half times as expensive as that of Faritec's. Twum Darko told IT Web's Martin Czernowalow that he was the victim of a racist conspiracy. "'I have always faced a challenge from my white counterparts,"... adding that he had been tasked by the DTI's director-general [Tshediso Matona] to replace white executives with black staff." Meanwhile, ValorIT chairman Josias Molele explained why Valor IT had yet to deliver on the system, a full year after the tender was awarded: "Our side of the project is finished. We have completed the new Web site, the intranet and file system. Cipro has admitted it is having problems with getting the infrastructure in place."

4. Kader Asmal's letter to The Times on the shameful decision by the police to revert to military ranks:

Asmal writes that "the egregious police commissioner, Bheki Cele, has requested MPs (nogal) to address him as ‘General Cele'." Yet the former cabinet minister notes: "Under section 205 [of the Constitution], the police are described as a service and under subsection (3), they are enjoined to uphold and enforce the law, which would involve strict adherence to the Constitution. As for Cele's burgeoning head, he will have to look at section 207(1), which refers to the appointment by the president of the national commissioner. There are also provincial commissioners. In passing those idiotic proposals, the Cabinet no doubt took into account these constitutional provisions. Will there be constitutional amendments to fit these whimsical fancies?"

3. The Mercury report on how a powerful ANC KZN politician, John Mchunu, had been handed some R40m worth of tenders by the eThekwini (Durban) Municipality:

Wendy Jasson da Costa writes that Mchunu is the chairman of the most powerful ANC region in KwaZulu Natal, and a member of the provincial legislature. He apparently "benefited financially from tenders awarded [by the municipality] to two of his companies, Inyameko Trading 148 cc and Zakhele and Mondli Trading Enterprise cc." The newspaper quoted the DA's John Steenhuisen as saying "many of the municipality's officials, including [Municipal Manager Michael] Sutcliffe, reported directly to Mchunu. ‘For tenders and contracts in Durban, the buck stops with him'."

2. Anthony Butler's column in Business Day on the agenda behind ANCYL President Julius Malema's call for the nationalisation of the mines:

Butler notes that under ANCYL proposals the state mining company would take up to 60% of the shares of mining houses. "This would amount to a giant corporate welfare system for over-leveraged and politically connected miners. Almost all of them, moreover, will see the proposed "partnerships" as opportunities to unload exhausted mines, and legal responsibility for the industry's environmental legacies, onto the state: the people as a whole shall share in the country's toxic mine wastes." One likely source of funding for the scheme, mooted by govt, are "public-sector workers' pension funds (ie the life savings of unionists)." Butler notes: "The incredible truth, then, is that Malema has persuaded many young communists, SACP cadres and Cosatu activists to campaign for a wholly bogus nationalisation programme. What they will get is a state-owned mining house that will bail out fat cats by looting unionists' own pensions. And the left says it is Malema who is stupid?"

1. Nadira Naipaul's controversial and contested article in the London Evening Standard on her meeting with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela:

Madikizela-Mandela told the Naipauls that the "great Mandela" has "no control or say any more. They put that huge statue of him [in Sandton] right in the middle of the most affluent ‘white' area of Johannesburg. Not here where we spilled our blood and where it all started. Mandela is now a corporate foundation. He is wheeled out globally to collect the money and he is content doing that. The ANC have effectively sidelined him but they keep him as a figurehead for the sake of appearance."