Diepsloot, a black township north of Johannesburg.
Five men accused of kidnapping, raping and killing two toddlers from Diepsloot will appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
They face two counts of murder, rape, and kidnapping after two-year-old Yonelisa Mali and her three-year-old cousin Zandile Mali were found dead in a Diepsloot toilet on October 15.
The men have remained in custody since their last appearance last Thursday.
National Prosecutions Authority spokesman Medupi Simasiku told reporters outside the court: “We hope by November 1 we will have enough evidence.”
He said the police were working with home affairs officials to verify the men’s identities.
The crime sparked widespread outrage.
On the day the girls’ bodies were discovered, President Jacob Zuma said: “These gruesome incidents of extreme torture and murder of our children do not belong to the society that we are continuously striving to build together.”
After the murders were discovered, Diepsloot residents stoned cars and burnt tyres in the street outside the local police station in protest. – Sapa
Traffic will be diverted in Newtown on Friday during a protest march by members of the Economic Freedom Fighters against e-tolls, Johannesburg metro police said.
Spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the protest would start from Mary Fitzgerald Square at 10am.
“They will proceed up Bree Street, turn right into Simmonds Street up to the office of the premier where a memorandum will be handed over,” he said.
“They will return to Mary Fitzgerald Square along Fox Street and Miriam Makeba Street. The march should be over by 1pm and we are expecting about 2000 marchers.”
On Wednesday, the EFF in Gauteng said the implementation of e-tolling would rob Gauteng residents of their hard-earned money.
The EFF called on citizens, civil society and anyone opposed to e-tolling to reject the system, as it represented a “systematic and well planned robbery by the [President Jacob] Zuma-led African [National Congress] government”.
A legal challenge to e-tolling by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Appeal on October 9.
Outa announced on October 18 it did not have money to continue the legal fight against e-tolling. Outa’s argument remained that the SA National Roads Agency Ltd and government did not conduct a proper public participation process. – Sapa
The exceedingly harsh sentences handed down by Judge Eben Jordaan in the Boeremag trial have had a mixed reception in South Africa. On the one hand, members of the black elite and the white neo-Marxist Left have reacted with unbridled Schadenfreude. On the other, patriotic Afrikaners – while not agreeing with the Boeremag’s reasoning or methods – have nonetheless evinced instinctive sympathy with them and their long-suffering families.
Jordaan has taken a very formalistic approach to the South African constitution and the country’s recent history, refusing to see the many mitigating factors that would have elicited more humane sentences.
First of all, only one person died as a result of the Boeremag explosions, some distance away from the scene. This was rightly seen by the court as a case of culpable homicide. As first offenders, in a country where even the most sadistic child murderers get released after ten years, it should not have carried a heavy penalty.
The many outlandish elements of the trial were no doubt included by the state in its evidence for the maximum propaganda effect. How could fewer than two dozen white men ever hope to displace thousands of South African blacks, let alone the whole population of forty million?
However, the most important factor that detracts from the guilt of the Boeremag trialists was the intimate involvement of state agents who did not attempt to dissuade them from pursuing their attempts at sabotage but in fact encouraged them. Not so long ago there was a similar “sting” operation in Germany during which the secret service or Verfasssungsschutz had infiltrated both the NDP, a political party and a group known as Sturm 34 which was at one point led by a government agent. German courts rejected governmental attempts to ban the NDP due to its heavy infiltration by state agents, finding that responsibility between the state and illegal political activity had actually blurred. In the USA too, courts take a dim view of overzealous state agents who “persuade” citizens to break the law.
Many people claim or suspect that the state organised the Boeremag “rebellion” in order to “mop up” right-wing dissidents. The detailed and incriminating “Document 12” was apparently supplied to the Boeremag members by the state who, through its agents, was intimately involved in so-called “strategic planning”.
The extreme, dehumanising violence associated with South African farm murders acted as a trigger for the Boeremag’s activities. One could argue that under conditions of lawlessness and violence, men are more easily persuaded to answer violence with violence. Certainly that is the line taken by Nelson Mandela and his fellow accused at the Rivonia trial who saw their sabotage campaign as justified by the police shooting at Sharpeville.
This leads to another problem of post-1994 South Africa to which Judge Eben Jordaan has not been attentive: violence is often seen as a legitimate vehicle for political objectives. With the exception of Clive Derby-Lewis and Eugene de Kock, among others, those who had committed acts of terror prior to 1994 were all amnestied by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Even the cold-blooded murderers of Amy Biehl were exonerated by the TRC because they supposedly killed her for “political reasons”.
So-called “democracy” has not led to a pacification of the South African population. There are more riots by South Africa’s black population now than ever under so-called “apartheid”. Together with farm attacks and house robberies, the general instability produces a climate of fear and insecurity that engender radical ideas like secession, rebellion or insurrection. In this respect, South Africa is a victim of the notion that it is “just another decolonising African country” that must be “liberated” through the kind of cleansing violence described by a theorist such as Franz Fanon.
During sentencing, Judge Eben Jordaan described South Africa as a constitutional democracy. But does that stand up to scrutiny? During the negotiations in the early 1990s, one of the objectives of the Slovo-Mandela camp was to disenfranchise ethnic Afrikaners. Both provinces and towns were demarcated in such a way that not a single area of the country is ruled by Afrikaners who have been here for 360 years. The largest concentration of Afrikaners in the country, Pretoria and environs where about 500 000 of them live, does not even control a local government and are made to undergo unpopular decisions, including humiliating name changes.
While not condoning sabotage and terrorism, at least the disenfranchisement of the Afrikaner national minority should have been taken into account in judging the actions of the Boeremag accused.
There is a further paradox in South Africa: Violence and terror are eulogised by the media, politicians and historians, as long as such violence was committed against whites or against Afrikaners. Both Communist Party leader Joe Slovo and Nelson Mandela, who had ordered the Church Street bomb and other horrific attacks on civilians, are presented as “good men” who had selflessly fought for freedom. In Amanzimtoti, terrorist Andrew Zondo who had placed a bomb in a shopping centre full of Christmas shoppers on 23 December 1985, has had the main street of the town named after him, in the very place where victims and relatives still nourish the wounds of their nightmare experience.
We see then that the South African state is increasingly suffering a legitimation crisis caused by:
the effective disenfrenchisement of the Afrikaner minority;
corruption and profligacy at all levels of government;
a plethora of racial laws limiting the employment and educational opportunities of Afrikaners, in the name of “affirmative action” for the majority;
physical insecurity which is only mitigated to some extent by private security companies, neighbourhood watches and so on;
anti-white and anti-Afrikaner rhetoric by leading ANC political figures;
the deterioration of infrastructure such as roads, electricity and water supply, as well as state hospitals where many whites are simply left to die without proper care;
systemic cultural and language discrimination, with Afrikaans schools and universities under attack by government bureaucrats and ANC politicians;
the impending radical land reform which could plunge the country into Zimbabwe-style famine and chaos;
the general perpetuation of communist/Marxist ideas in South Africa that have lost their legitimacy or attraction elsewhere in the world.
If the Boeremag trial had lasted six months and the accused had been sentenced in 2003 or 2004, shortly after their arrest, probably the Afrikaans public would have seen them simply as extremists out of touch with the new reality of ANC rule. However, given the protracted length of the trrial and the changing perceptions of our much-lauded “democracy”, public sympathies for the accused have definitely been in the asendance, even among those law-abiding middle-class Afrikaners who accept the fait accompli of National Party capitulation and a concomitant loss of Afrikaner sovereignty.
Afrikaner history is replete with martyrs after unsuccessful rebellions who received harsh treatment from a hostile government. There was the infamous death by firing squad suffered by Jopie Fourie on 20 December 1914, but also the Slagtersnek hangings of 1816 that gave rise to the Great Trek inland from the Cape.
Judge Eben Jordaan may just have given Afrikaners another Slagtersnek, apart from adding to the legitimation crisis of the current South African regime.
A police officer was arrested on Monday for kidnapping and extortion after officers accidentally shot and wounded singer Kuli Chana, Gauteng police said.
The officer was a detective from Silverton, Pretoria, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said in a statement.
“Police have launched a manhunt for five other suspects who were involved in the kidnapping. The police officer will appear at the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court within 48 hours,” he said.
Earlier on Monday, Dlamini said a case of attempted murder was being investigated after Chana was shot. Police from Bedfordview, Johannesburg, were tracking kidnappers and mistook Chana’s luxury sedan for that of the kidnappers.
“It is alleged that as they [police] were trying to stop the vehicle it drove away at a high speed. Several shots were fired and the driver lost control… It was established that the driver had sustained gunshot wounds,” said Dlamini.
A case of kidnapping was reported in Bedfordview and the kidnappers demanded a ransom from the victim’s family, Dlamini said. The victim’s family was instructed to leave the ransom money at the Caltex petrol station on the N1 highway in Midrand.
Bedfordview police arrived at the garage, saw Chana’s car, and mistook him for the kidnapper.
An internal investigation was underway.
Chana, whose real name is Khulane Morule, had been discharged from hospital, his publicist Sheila Afari said.
“He is shaken by the shooting as it came out of nowhere and there was no warning from the police whatsoever. He is recovering at home.” – Sapa
Final arguments in the trial of the man accused of raping and killing 17-year-old Anene Booysen are expected to take place in the Swellendam Circuit Court on Monday.
On Tuesday, the court heard Booysen could have been raped and disembowelled before being dumped at a construction site.
It was reported that police dog unit investigator Sergeant Jerome Timmy testified that he believed there was not enough blood spatter at the scene to indicate the attack took place there.
Johannes Kana is on trial for allegedly raping and disembowelling Booysen in Bredasdorp, in the Western Cape, in February.
Booysen died in Tygerberg Hospital on the afternoon of Saturday, February 2.
He has admitted leaving a Bredasdorp pub with Booysen, hitting and raping her, but has denied killing her.
The court heard that a baseball cap, allegedly belonging to Kana, had tested positive for traces of blood. – Sapa
Scene of the Amanzimtoti bomb planted by the ANC and SACP
The department of international relations would continue in its attempts to rectify the travel restrictions of former ANC urban terrorists in some international countries, it said on Monday.
“The SA government has repeatedly raised this matter with the US and will continue until this matter is sorted,” said international relations spokesman Clayson Monyela.
The New Age reported earlier that ANC stalwart Tokyo Sexwale had been briefly detained by immigration control at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York.
His lawyer Leslie Makhabela said: “They alleged he posed a threat to international security.”
Sexwale and many other anti-apartheid terrorists had been on a list of people banned from entering several countries since the apartheid era.
They were not removed after the country gained democracy in 1994.
Sexwale had since returned to the country. – Sapa and PRAAG
In an ironic mixture of the master-servant code, a black criminal in Ellisras, Transvaal said to his female white victim: “Hush Madam.” At the same time he was stabbing her repeatedly with a home-made knife, according to a report in Beeld.
“It was as if he wanted me to die,” Sandy Troskie, 45, told the newspaper yesterday.
Mrs. Troskie and her husband, Frans, 50, who are owners of the Sitatunga Safaris Lodge, were attacked last Saturday night in their home by four black men. According to them, it was an attempted murder as their assailants were stabbing them with the object of killing them.
The couple were being treated in the Montana Hospital in Pretoria for multiple stab wounds, but were grateful for “having survived”.
Frans Troskie was angry, saying, “If I get hold of them, I will cut off their fingers one by one.”
The attackers only took a cellphone.
Mr. Troskie was watching television with his wife having retired to the bedroom when four black men stormed into their home.
“Only one was wearing a balaklava,” he said. “When I saw the masked man, I knew we had trouble.”
The four black men, armed with machetes and knives, immediately started attacking Mr. Troskie by hitting and stabbing him. Among other injuries, he sustained a hard blow over the head with a machete.
“As I tried to stop one, the other would stab me.”
Mr. Troskie finaly succeeded in kicking one of his attackers and left the house to look for help.
But in the meantime one of the black criminals managed to reach his wife Sandy.
“I heard that there was a lot of noise,” she said. “As I turned round, one of them came for me.”
He started stabbing her in her torso. She tried to prevent the stabbings and so got stabbed in the muscle and sinews of her right hand.
He repeatedly told her in a very calm way: “Hush, Madam.”
Mrs. Troskie gave him a single kick, after which he fell, grabbed her cellphone and ran off.
At this point Frans Troskie and his farmworkers arrived, each armed with a machete too.
The couple said that they were grateful that their two children and their friend had gone to the hunting camp just prior to the attack.
Their 12-year old daughter described the blood in their hom as a scene from a “scary movie”.
Allegations of defeating the ends of justice against national police commissioner Riah Phiyega “will not stick”, she said on Friday.
“You can try as much as you like, but you will not succeed. No mud thrown at me will stick,” she said in a statement on Friday morning in response to a report in The Star newspaper.
“I remain determined to ensure that nothing, absolutely nothing, deters me and my leadership team from the new journey of rebuilding SAPS [SA Police Service], especially the crime intelligence division.”
The Star reported on Friday that Phiyega allegedly tipped off a senior police officer of a crime intelligence investigation against him into allegations that he had accepted a bribe from a criminal.
But Phiyega denied tipping off the officer, saying he had become aware of the investigation after the opposition Democratic Alliance asked a question about it in Parliament.
Also, Phiyega said it was “interesting” that the allegations against her surfaced from “faceless people” shortly after her decision to put former acting crime intelligence boss Maj-Gen Chris Ngcobo on special leave.
Ngcobo was this week placed on special leave after a vetting process allegedly found discrepancies in his qualifications.
Phiyega said she was not formally informed of the case of defeating the ends of justice opened against her but that she was aware of the allegations.
The allegations were from people who wanted to “discredit” her, Phiyega’s office said in the statement.
“Although general Phiyega does not expect her colleagues to behave in such an underhanded manner whereby they concoct a story and then open a case against her, it however, comes as no surprise given some of the mischievous activities conducted by crime intelligence in the past.
“It is clear that this is a lame attempt by certain individuals within crime intelligence to discredit her and derail the process of flushing out those within the SAPS who have no integrity and have no interest in taking the SAPS forward,” the statement read.
Phiyega placed Ngcobo on special leave on Monday, instructing that criminal investigations and disciplinary action against him be initiated.
Maj-Gen Bongiwe Zulu has assumed Ngcobo’s role until further notice.
The Star, quoting “highly placed sources”, said Ngcobo instructed crime intelligence officers to open the case against Phiyega on October 19.
Explaining the alleged tip-off she gave, Phiyega said a question was received in Parliament from the DA as to whether there was an investigation into a bribery matter against a certain provincial commissioner.
During the process of gathering information to enable the police department to prepare a response, the DA enquiry ended up in the provincial commissioner’s office after passing through various officials.
At that point the commissioner called Phiyega to ask about the investigation so it could not be argued that she alerted the commissioner about the investigation, her office said.
“Simply put, the national commissioner committed no crime,” the statement read. – Sapa
by John-Thor Dahlburg and Geir Mouson, Associated Press
European leaders united in anger Thursday as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies -allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel said had shattered trust in the Obama administration and undermined the crucial trans-Atlantic relationship.
The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel’s own cellphone brought denunciations from the French and German governments.
Merkel’s unusually stern remarks as she arrived at the European Union gathering indicated she wasn’t placated by a phone conversation she had Wednesday with President Barack Obama, or his personal assurances that the U.S. is not listening in on her calls now.
“We need trust among allies and partners,” Merkel told reporters in Brussels. “Such trust now has to be built anew. This is what we have to think about.”
“The United States of America and Europe face common challenges. We are allies,” the German leader said. “But such an alliance can only be built on trust. That’s why I repeat again: spying among friends, that cannot be.”
The White House may soon face other irked heads of state and government. The British newspaper The Guardian said Thursday it obtained a confidential memo suggesting the NSA was able to monitor 35 world leaders’ communications in 2006. The memo said the NSA encouraged senior officials at the White House, Pentagon and other agencies to share their contacts so the spy agency could add foreign leaders’ phone numbers to its surveillance systems, the report said.
The Guardian did not identify who reportedly was eavesdropped on, but said the memo termed the payoff very meager: “Little reportable intelligence” was obtained, it said.
Other European leaders arriving for the 28-nation meeting echoed Merkel’s displeasure. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called it “completely unacceptable” for a country to eavesdrop on an allied leader.
If reports that Merkel’s cellphone had been tapped are true, “it is exceptionally serious,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told national broadcaster NOS.
“We want the truth,” Italian Premier Enrico Letta told reporters. “It is not in the least bit conceivable that activity of this type could be acceptable.”
Echoing Merkel, Austria’s foreign minister, Michael Spindelegger, said, “We need to re-establish with the U.S. a relationship of trust, which has certainly suffered from this.”
France, which also vocally objected to allies spying on each other, asked that the issue of reinforcing Europeans’ privacy in the digital age be added to the agenda of the two-day summit. Before official proceedings got underway, Merkel held a brief one-on-one with French President Francois Hollande, and discussed the spying controversy.
The Europeans’ statements and actions indicated that they hadn’t been satisfied with assurances from Washington. On Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama personally assured Merkel that her phone is not being listened to now and won’t be in the future.
“I think we are all outraged, across party lines,” Wolfgang Bosbach, a prominent German lawmaker from Merkel’s party, told Deutschlandfunk radio. “And that also goes for the response that the chancellor’s cellphone is not being monitored – because this sentence says nothing about whether the chancellor was monitored in the past.”
“This cannot be justified from any point of view by the fight against international terrorism or by averting danger,” Bosbach said.
Asked Thursday whether the Americans had monitored Merkel’s previous communications, White House spokesman Carney wouldn’t rule it out.
“We are not going to comment publicly on every specified alleged intelligence activity,” he said.
But while the White House was staying publicly mum, Carney said the Obama administration was discussing Germany’s concerns “through diplomatic channels at the highest level,” as it was with other U.S. allies worried about the alleged spying.
In the past, much of the official outrage in Europe about revelations of U.S. communications intercepts leaked by former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden seemed designed for internal political consumption in countries that readily acknowledge conducting major spying operations themselves. But there has been a new discernible vein of anger in Europe as the scale of the NSA’s reported operations became known, as well as the possible targeting of a prominent leader like Merkel, presumably for inside political or economic information.
“Nobody in Germany will be able to say any longer that NSA surveillance – which is apparently happening worldwide and millions of times – is serving solely intelligence-gathering or defense against Islamic terror or weapons proliferation,” said Hans-Christian Strobele, a member of the German parliamentary oversight committee.
“Because, if you tap the cellphone or the phone connection of the presidents of France or Brazil, or the cellphone of the chancellor, then this is no longer about collecting intelligence about international terrorism, but then that is about competition, about getting advantages in this competition and winning. That’s why today is a watershed moment.”
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, said Europe’s undermined confidence in the U.S. meant it should suspend negotiations for a two-way free-trade agreement that would account for almost half of the global economy. The Americans, Schulz said, now must prove they can be trusted.
“Let’s be honest. If we go to the negotiations and we have the feeling those people with whom we negotiate know everything that we want to deal with in advance, how can we trust each other?” Schulz said.
European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said for many Europeans, eavesdropping on their phone calls or reading their emails is particularly objectionable because it raises the specter of totalitarian regimes of the recent past.
“At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter. We cannot, let’s say, pretend it is just something accessory,” Barroso told a presummit news conference.
Referring to the East German Communist secret police, the feared Stasi, Barroso said, “to speak about Chancellor Merkel, in Germany there was a part of Germany where there was a political police that was spying on people’s lives every day. So we know very recently what totalitarianism means. And we know very well what comes, what happens when the state uses powers that intrude in people’s lives. So it is a very important issue, not only for Germany but for Europe in general.”
In Berlin, the German Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to stress how seriously it takes the reported spying on Merkel. Germany’s defense minister said his country and Europe can’t return “to business as usual” with Washington, given the number of reports that the United States has eavesdropped on allied nations.
“The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right,” Thomas de Maiziere, who served as Merkel’s chief of staff, told ARD television. “I have reckoned for years with my cellphone being monitored, but I wasn’t reckoning with the Americans.”
A German parliamentary committee that oversees the country’s intelligence service met to discuss the spying allegations. Its head, Thomas Oppermann, recalled previous reports to the panel that U.S. authorities had denied violating German interests, and said, “we were apparently deceived by the American side.” – AP
Five men accused of kidnapping, raping and killing two toddlers from Diepsloot appeared briefly in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
The matter was postponed to November 1 for further investigation. They remained in custody.
The courtroom was packed to capacity by residents of Diepsloot, family and supporters of political parties.
National Prosecutions Authority spokesman Medupi Simasiku told reporters outside the court: “We hope by November 1 we will have enough evidence.”
He said police were working with home affairs officials to verify the identities of the men.
They face two counts of murder, rape, and kidnapping after two-year-old Yonelisa Mali and her three-year-old cousin Zandile Mali were found dead in a Diepsloot toilet last Tuesday.
Earlier in the morning, supporters of Agang SA were among those who managed to get seats in the packed courtroom while others stood outside.
Security guards manned both doors to the court.
Four of the men appeared in court on Friday and the case was been postponed for them to apply for Legal Aid.
On Monday, a fifth man, aged 29, appeared in court. He was arrested in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, on Friday.
After the murders were discovered, Diepsloot residents stoned cars and burnt tyres in the street outside the local police station in protest. – Sapa
In yet another shocking incident of racist hate crime, a timber harvester, Mr Dan Knight, was brutally murdered in KZN by black suspects. His partner, Ms Beth Butcher, recounted her horror at being forced to watch the attack. By “forced”, I mean that her head was held and turned towards the victim by force, and her eyes were forced open by one of the attackers, so that she could witness for herself the sheer horror of Mr Knight’s head literally being beaten to a pulp by his attackers. According to Ms Butcher, during a radio interview, they deliberately pulverized Mr Knight’s skull with a hammer and a plumber’s wrench, while she was forced to looked on.
The “motive?” Mr Knight had made the mistake of appointing a company, for which the perpetrators worked, to harvest timber, and the contracting company had failed to pay the perpetrators. Note that this was an arms-length relationship. They were not employed by Mr Knight himself, but by a third party. They nevertheless then took it upon themselves to smash Mr Knight’s head to a pulp, perhaps as an act of retaliation somehow aimed at their employer. For the purposes of this column, I must emphasize that the victims were white and the attackers, which were known to the victims, were black.
Multiply the above horrific, barbaric act of racist hate crime by 4000 dead and often-tortured farmers who have died during farm attacks, multiply this by countless white victims who have been raped, attacked, robbed, hijacked, murdered and tortured by hate-filled criminals from other groups, and you start to get the idea of what is going on in South Africa. It can surely only be described as widespread, endemic anti-white hate crime, if not the beginnings of a genocide.
Of course, we will now be told by the usual suspects, the likes of Sipho Singwisa and Gillian Schutte of the Media for Justice (sic) movement, that this is all “ordinary crime”. To them, being forced to watch while somebody crushes your partner’s skull with a plumbing wrench, is run-of-the-mill, everyday stuff, barely worth a mention. They will also, no doubt, attempt to offer the utterly moronic excuse that “everybody in South Africa suffers from crime”. While the latter may be true, it is whites who bear the brunt of hate crimes, for whites represent the vast majority of the victims of violent, interracial hate crime in South Africa. One just has to read the papers or watch the news to become aware of this undisputable fact, even though the media take great pains not to mention the race of the attackers. The surnames of the victims and court appearances of the perpetrators, however, almost always give the secret away.
White-on-black hate crime, on the other hand, is exceedingly rare. It is well-nigh impossible, for example, to find a single media report detailing a white-on-black sexual assault, whereas white women are often, and almost routinely, raped during anti-white hate crimes known as house invasions, and this even includes elderly women. To which the ever-more-desperate loony lefties will attempt to offer the feeble excuse that there are “more blacks than whites in South Africa”. Also true, but even controlling for population numbers, the rate per capita of anti-white racist crime still completely dwarfs the rate of whites committing hate crimes against others.
What is really guaranteed, however, to get these insane leftists berserk with froth-at-the-mouth fury, would be if anybody should dare to object to the violent, racist, anti-white crime endemic in South Africa in an organized fashion. This happened recently, during the Red October campaign, during which people like Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyr (both singers), dared to protest against shockingly racist murders and other racism-inspired hate violence aimed at whites.
For her trouble, Ms Bridges, who I emphasize is a female entertainer who is almost certainly not dangerous or violent, for having the gall to object to the violent, racist attacks aimed at her people, has even been compared to Adolf Hitler in a diatribe penned in the Daily Maverick by a little-known Wits academic, no doubt wishing to burnish her PC credentials. And, of course, loony-lefties like Ms Schutte have wasted no time in being reduced to hysterically screaming the little magic word so beloved of the frothing-at-the-mouth left: “racist!” Not only do the likes of Ms Schutte hysterically scream racism when whites dare to object to the hate crime aimed at us, but they actually want those of us who dare to protest, silenced by the government, as in this execrable piece of bilge perpetrated by Ms Schutte’s husband, Sipho Singiswa. Those who dare to write about racist hate crimes, are themselves branded as “hate groups.” In the above-mentioned piece of addled nonsense, Singwisa even frets about Ms Bridges (once again: a female singer) and her ilk taking to the streets and murdering blacks. I quote:
Perhaps they are waiting for the moment when these supremacists, drunk from the racist hatred they have been concocting and imbibing, and emboldened by the government’s lack of action against them, take to the streets and butcher a couple of innocent black people.
I would challenge the author of this incoherent nonsense to bring me a single example of any participant in the Red October protests who has ever committed a hate crime against any black person. Of course, this would imply that he would be amenable to a rational argument, which I would seriously doubt. However, following the “logic” in the tirade delivered by Singwisa, the surviving victim of the horrific attack mentioned at the start of this column, Ms Beth Butcher, would also be remiss in objecting to this clear hate crime which cost her her life partner. The likes of Singwisa and Schutte would, no doubt, prefer that Ms Butcher keep the details of this horrific, racist hate crime to herself and accept it as “ordinary crime”, or tell herself that “blacks suffer from crime too, so it must be OK”.
Should Ms Butcher dare to object to this hate crime, she, like Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyr, no doubt runs the risk of being branded a racist by the likes of Schutte and Singwisa. They will also, as demanded in Singwisa’s incoherent ranting, insist that the government silences Ms Butcher, and perhaps even that the government prevents Ms Butcher from speaking to the media. Perhaps Schutte and Singiswa (is it only me who finds the acronym for their combined surnames – SS – ironic?) would even like to see the likes of Ms Butcher jailed, should she speak out.
Because, you see, in the insane world of the la-la-leftie loony, objecting to hate crime, even if you are a victim or related to a victim is, in itself, “racist.”
The proposed re-demarcation of the municipal boarders of the Midvaal, Emfuleni and Lesedi municipalities in Gauteng should be scrapped after it was revealed that the chairperson of the municipal demarcation board, Landiwe Mahlangu, serves on councils and boards which provide services to the government and specifically to Emfuleni, Mr. Jaco Mulder, the FF Plus MPL for Gauteng says.
The fact that Mahlangu apparently, amongst others serves on the boards of Sea Key Holdings and Interwaste which do business with the Emfuleni municipality draws a line through the credibility of the demarcation board and should be investigated.
The FF Plus had already on 17 April 2013 lodged an appeal with the demarcation board after public hearings were held between 7 and 11 April 2013 in the two municipalities and various other centres in South Africa. The chairperson of the municipal demarcation board, Mr. LJ Mahlangu only signed the notices for the public hearings on 3 April 2013 – less than 6 days before the public hearings were held and the public notices in newspapers were published as late as April 2013.
The appeal is based on the spirit of the South African Constitution as contained in section 33 which in no uncertain terms determines the right to fair administrative action in par. 1, 2 and 3 and the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, 3 of 2000.
It is now clear that Mahlangu could not make any objective contribution to the process.
A man was shot and wounded on Tuesday on the M1 South near Killarney in Johannesburg following a chase from Pretoria, police said.
Police approached a minibus taxi at a Pretoria taxi rank following a commotion, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said. The vehicle sped off.
“Police officers summoned back-up vehicles, including a chopper.”
When the helicopter tried to bring the van to a halt, it crashed into three police vehicles.
The occupants of the taxi shot at police, who returned fire. When the minibus came to a stop at the Joe Slovo offramp two men got out and tried to run away.
“The driver of the vehicle was shot in the upper leg and the [passenger] managed to run away.”
The passenger was believed to have been the one shooting at police.
Police had his particulars and were searching for him.
The driver would be charged with malicious damage to property and attempted murder. He was taken to hospital under police guard.
It was suspected that the men fled as they may have been involved in several incidents of taxi violence.
The M1 South was closed as dozens of traffic officials, police officers and medics worked on the scene. The police landed their helicopter on the highway. Shortly before 2pm it was still there.
The Germans have a word – ‘Schadenfreude’ – which, loosely translated, means to take satisfaction in the discomfort of another. This is exactly what many South African Jews are feeling as we witness Nathan Geffen, Doron Isaacs, Stephen Friedman et al., try to scramble and disassociate themselves from the anti-Semitic utterances of their bedfellow Muhammed Desai, who recently led crowds in a rendition of the chilling mantra, “Shoot the Jew.”
Anyone sufficiently naïve to think that this noble call to action died with the defeat of the Nazis has received a clear signal that it continues to exist, even amongst those who are openly supported by members of our very own community.
Not that this comes as any surprise to those of us who can tell the difference between fact and fiction. The depth of the hatred directed at Jews both in South Africa and abroad, if not clearly evident, lies just beneath the surface, waiting to pop out at the slightest provocation.
Before I’m accused of oversensitivity as the target of a supposedly innocuous chant calling for my death, allow me to remind Desai that the equally harmless call to “Kill the Boer” contributed to a fair number of murders of white farmers over the past two decades.
There is little more unpredictable than the actions of an uncontrolled mob.
Until now, Jewish supporters of the BDS campaign have ducked and dived behind the claim that the focus of their organization is primarily directed at Israel’s supposed ill-treatment of the Palestinians, and ending the occupation of the West Bank. The villain was always Zionism, never Jews as such.
Happy to work for a good, recognizable cause, many intrepid Jewish do-gooders climbed on board. Nothing makes one feel better than to have a banner to wave and an underdog to support, particularly when you’re doing it from the safety of an armchair thousands of kilometers away from the site of the action.
Despite the clear warning bells, which included some hostile, anti-Jewish comments from Zwelithini Vavi, Bongani Masuku, and that doyen of the ANC, Ahmed Kathrada, our brave, committed activists, chose to plow ahead. These threats were not directed at them; they were not a component of the target. After all, were they not the ‘good Jews’ with the good cause and the right friends?
Of course, the analogy is clear;: Germany 1933-45. There were no ‘good Jews,’ only good dead ones.
What a shock to suddenly find yourself on the outside looking in. What a strange sensation to have to face the cold reality of a leading light within the BDS movement, Muhammed Desai, defending the call to shoot Jews because, according to him, “the word ‘Jews’ was not meant in a literal fashion.”
In fact, Desai claimed that the call to kill Jews was “just like you would say kill the Boer at [a] funeral during the eighties [and] it wasn’t about killing white people, it was used as a way of identifying with the apartheid regime.”
Perhaps Desai can explain that to Amy Biehl, Dr. Melville Edelstein, and the 3,000 white farmers murdered in an orgy of killing following the acquisition of new-found freedom.
Desai should also explain how the word “Jews” can be used in any sense other than the “literal.” It is certainly no verb, adverb, nor adjective.
One can only imagine the outcry and retribution that would follow were Jews to sing, “Kill the Muslim.”
What doesn’t appear to penetrate Desai’s limited intellect is that when a mob with a cause (however misguided) is presented with an appealing and emotive slogan, the line separating rhetoric from violence is thin indeed. Ask the millions of Jews who died in the pogroms of Eastern Europe.
In their scramble to either justify or condemn this embarrassing outrage, some strange things have been said which do no more than raise further questions. For example, Professor Farid Esack, writing on behalf of the board of BDS South Africa, expressed his opposition to “any and all incitement to violence and racism – including anti-Semitism and Zionism- even if it were to come from within our ranks.”
In the context of his statement, Esack is saying that “Zionism” should not be subject to racism. This is an open admission by Esak that Zionism is not the monster that it is portrayed as being, but is in fact the respectable movement that it is.
Thank you Dr. Esack! Your supporters will be delighted with your acknowledgment of Israel’s respectability.
However, ‘the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh.’ And close behind this admission, Esack ensures that we clearly understand that it is “unfortunate but not unexpected that supporters of Israel will focus on the singing of this song. … [as the] purpose and context [of the protest] … were and remain the larger struggle against Israeli apartheid, Israel’s illegal Occupation and its violation of Palestinian rights.”
The fact that Israel’s occupation is, according to International Law, not illegal; that Israel does not practice apartheid by any stretch of the imagination; and that Palestinian rights may be being violated, but are violated more severely by the Palestinian Authority, is obviously not understood by Esack.
Esack’s claim that it is unfortunate that supporters of Israel will focus on the singing of the song prompts the question: “Unfortunate for who?”
Unfortunate for the veracity of the BDS movement, which sails on the so-called victories of ‘persuading’ visiting performers to cancel their tours of Israel through threats and coercion, or the visit by Professor Steven Hawkins, who has yet to explain how he can hypocritically allow himself to use an Israeli designed microchip that enables him to speak?
The victories of BDS are small and hollow, and, other than an inconvenience, do little to nothing in advancing the cause they claim to pursue. Their actions, as we have now seen, are grounded in bigotry, hatred, and intolerance. In calling for the killing of Jews, they have revealed the evil within their ranks and the corruption of their aims.
Another Jewish advocate of BDS, political analyst Professor Steven Friedman, has rushed to say, “A series of organizations that support the boycotts have made it clear they don’t think it’s a remotely acceptable slogan. … It is very important that those of us who support the boycott make it clear it’s about the denial of rights and the denial of self-expression and self-government for the Palestinian people. It’s not targeted at a particular ethnic group.”
But that’s not true, Professor, otherwise what was sung would not have been sung. What do you not understand about “Shoot the Jew?” All the spin in the world cannot change what has been said and against whom. Even as an avowed opponent of Israel, you, as a fellow Jew, must feel a little niggle of discomfort at the thought that such bigotry can surface so easily from the mouth of one of the leaders of an organization that you openly support.
Finally, prominent anti-Israel activists, Nathan Geffen and Doron Isaacs lamely bleat that, “Anti-Semitism, besides being personally insulting to us, scores an own-goal. It undermines the struggle for Palestinian freedom.”How touching. Perhaps you need to reassess who your real friends might be.
My closing question to those Jews who swell the ranks of BDS is simple: With the identification of the undeniable true feelings of your fellow travelers, where is your self respect? – algemeiner.com
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