A maintenance worker at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town was killed when the bakkie he was driving went over the East Pier into Table Bay harbour, Beeld reported on Monday.
A passenger managed to get out of the vehicle and a helicopter pilot subsequently smashed a window to free the driver, but once ashore he was confirmed dead by paramedics.
The accident happened on Sunday afternoon.
National Sea Rescue Institute Table Bay station commander, Pat van Eyssen, said harbour authorities had informed the Table Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew of the accident, and a rescue craft had hastened to the scene.
The passenger was uninjured, but he was treated for shock by paramedics.
The cause of the accident was unknown, but police would open an inquest docket, van Eyssen said. – Sapa
An African National Congress councillor has been shot dead in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.
“We can confirm that an ANC councillor was shot dead at his home on Sunday at 7pm,” Lt-Col Vincent Mdunge said.
He said a man knocked at the door soon after the councillor had returned home from a meeting in Nongoma. His son opened the door and a man asked to see the councillor.
“The man fired shots at him when he emerged. He tried to run into his bedroom but it was too late… he suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was declared dead at the scene.”
He said the motive for the shooting was not known and no arrest had been made. A case of murder was opened.
KwaZulu-Natal co-operative governance MEC Nomusa Dube said she was saddened by the councillor’s murder, identifying him as Makhosonke Msibi.
“According to the reports councillor Msibi had just returned home from his party’s recruitment campaign in Nongoma when an unknown gunman entered his house and shot him at point blank range in full view of his family members,” she said in a statement.
“We are deeply saddened by the brutal killing of one of the committed and tireless servants in the field of local government in the province,” she said.
The death of Msibi was a blow to the province’s democratic system of local government and the development of the Zululand district as a whole.
“We do not know the cause and the motive. We are, however, worried that the killing of councillors is becoming a disturbing trend, noting that it is not happening for the first time,” she said.
“If this cowardly use of violence was carried out with the intention to subvert the will of the people it will not succeed.” – Sapa
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) could not confirm a report on Sunday that it owed creditors R50 million, saying only that it owed “a lot of money”.
“Everybody has been quoting a figure, we are still verifying how much the ANCYL owes,” spokesman Bandile Masuku said.
“The figure could be less [than R50 million] or more.”
He was reacting to a report in the Sunday Times that the organisation was R50m in the red, and struggling to run its affairs efficiently.
Masuku said the league was still receiving requests for payments. The organisation was making a plan to pay its creditors.
“The organisation has been plagued by financial problems for some time now. Our task is to get all resources together and settle with creditors,” he said.
The amounts owed included R15m to the company University Events Management, for services rendered during the league’s 2008 national conference in Bloemfontein; and an undisclosed amount to Gallagher Estate, Midrand, for the 2011 national congress, according to the Sunday Times.
It also had a R270,000 legal bill, relating to the case of the league’s former spokesman Floyd Shivambu calling a journalist a drunkard. – Sapa
A mob justice scene in Khayalitsha, near Cape Town
Four people have been arrested for allegedly killing a suspected burglar in Panorama Gardens, Pietermaritzburg, on Sunday morning, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
A 27-year-old man was found dead with multiple injuries in a drain after he was apparently caught trying to break into a house in the area, Colonel Jay Naicker said.
“We urge members of the public to report any criminal activity to police and allow justice to take its course.”
The four would appear in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court soon. – Sapa
A seven-year-old boy was shot dead when he and his mother were caught in crossfire in Atlantis, Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Saturday.
“The young victim was accompanied by his mother when criminals opened fire, supposedly at another group of criminals, and [they] were both caught in the crossfire,” Lt-Col Andrè Traut said.
The boy’s mother was wounded in the neck and two men were also wounded in the shooting on Friday night.
“Many people have been questioned, and we will continue to question criminals until we find those responsible for the attack,” Traut said. – Sapa
Germany’s three biggest email providers announced Friday a partnership to bolster the security of messages sent between them in the wake of revelations of US online surveillance.
Telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom as well as GMX and Web.de, both subsidiaries of Germany’s United Internet, will automatically encrypt their email traffic from now on.
Email content as well as the identity of the sender and recipient and attachments will be encrypted, Deutsche Telekom and United Internet told reporters, presenting the “Email Made in Germany” initiative.
The email services of t-online.de, web.de and gmx.de represent two-thirds of private email accounts used in Germany, or more than 50 million email addresses, according to the companies.
Deutsche Telekom chief executive Rene Obermann said the leak, which detailed the US National Security Agency’s gathering of vast amounts of phone call logs and Internet data, had “deeply unsettled” users.
He said talks with other email providers aimed at widening the alliance have already taken place. – AFP
Monique Locke (13) whose father was shot in front of her through the heart, only to be officially recorded as ‘having died of natural causes’
According to newspaper reports recently unearthed by several rights groups in South Africa, murders of South African whites are being disguised by issuing death certificates showing that they had died of “natural causes”. At least three such cases have come to light.
In a brutal murder, auto-electrician Henry Locke (41) was shot through the heart in front of his whole family on 5 October 2009. Afterwards, the ANC-controlled state issued a death certificate stating that he had died of “natural causes”.
Commenting on the certificate, published in the Johannesburg daily Beeld on 30 October 2009, his wife Amanda Locke (43) expressed shock, saying: “On the contrary, he was shot dead right in front of us, before our very eyes.” (Beeld archive here.)
“They did not say anything. They just shot him dead. On the spot where he was shot, he fell and died.
“How can the murder case continue if the death certificate states that he died of natural causes?
“It is impossible that he could have died of natural causes. It simply cannot be.”
Mr. Locke was shot in the heart on the Elands game farm near Cullinan, northeast of Pretoria, in front of his daughter, Monique (13) and son Dawie (23), a paraplegic. According to Mrs. Locke, the government officials told her that the bullet hitting her husband’s heart had caused a heart attack, therefore the cause was “natural”.
When the Beeld reporter contacted Mr. Ronnie Mamoepa, the spokesman for the Department of Home Affairs, he told her that he was “certain that the information on the death certificate was wrong” and that “the mistake would definitely be corrected”. To date, there has been no news of any correction.
After the publication of the report in Beeld, another case came to light. A woman writing under the name of “Elsabé” in the letters column on 30 October 2009 stated the following:
“In reaction to the report ‘Is being shot in the heart a “natural cause”?’ on the late Mr. Henry Locke, I wish to mention that my husband was shot on 14 July in the house where we lived on a smallholding in Raslouw in what was presumably an armed robbery.
“His death certificate, too, states that he died ‘of natural causes’.
“My impression is that such ‘mistakes’ are committed deliberately (to falsify statistics?) or it could be simply lazy officials.
“In a previous letter to Beeld I had stated that the crime mentioned on my husband’s police docket was ‘domestic robbery’.
“The report of the post-mortem is still not available, after three months.
“Such mistakes are pointed out in the media, but alas – nothing happens afterwards.
“We must realise that we are at the mercy of the elements.”
A third case took an even bizarre turn when a man initially thought to have been killed by a buffalo was shown to have been stabbed to death. This case was mentioned in the Beeld on 6 October 2009, so three such cases were reported within one month.
Mr. Roy Munks (65) of Dunnottar near Springs on the East Rand was wounded in the neck, damaging his artery. He was presumed to have had a heart attack due to the shock of being gouged by a buffalo.
However, two suspected robbers were being questioned the previous week when they admitted during the interrogation that they had been a party to Munks’s death. The men, whose names were withheld by police, were charged with murder and held.
The results of the post mortem on Munks found that he had bled to death after being gouged by the buffalo. The wounds on his body “were commensurate with the wounds possibly caused by a buffalo’s horns”. The police now believe that Munks was stabbed with knives because the attackers wanted to rob his farmhouse.
None of these stories was published in the English-language media of South Africa. A thorough search of fhe names and dates returned no results.
Switzerland is a glamorous playground of the rich and famous, filled with glitterati from princes to movie stars. It’s also a land with a sometimes uneasy relationship with foreigners – especially when they aren’t white.
Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she ran into Swiss racism when a clerk at Trois Pommes, a pricey Zurich boutique, refused to show her a $38,000 handbag, telling one of the world’s richest women that she wouldn’t be able to afford it. Winfrey earned $77 million in the year ending in June, according to Forbes magazine.
“She said: ‘No, no, no, you don’t want to see that one. You want to see this one. Because that one will cost too much; you will not be able to afford that,'” Winfrey, appearing on the U.S. television program “Entertainment Tonight,” quoted the clerk as saying. “And I said, ‘Well, I did really want to see that one.’ And she refused to get it.”
She brought up the incident during an interview about her new movie, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” which opens next week and focuses on civil rights and race relations in the U.S. She was asked to open up about her own experiences with discrimination.
Swiss tourism officials and the boutique owner were quick to offer apologies Friday.
“We are very sorry for what happened to her, of course, because we think all of our guests and clients should be treated respectfully, in a professional way,” Daniela Baer, a spokeswoman for the Swiss tourism office, told The Associated Press.
The tourism office also posted an apology on Twitter, saying, “This person acted terribly wrong.”
The newspaper Blick described the bag as a crocodile-leather Tom Ford design named for actress Jennifer Aniston, a fan of the American designer. It quoted Goetz as saying the bag was priced at 35,000 Swiss francs.
Boutique owner Trudie Goetz told Swiss public broadcaster SRF that she believed the incident was a misunderstanding when the store clerk, who is mainly an Italian speaker, explained how expensive the bag was.
“I’m very sorry about this incident,” Goetz said. “And this can only happen because of a communication problem and a misunderstanding.
“The shop assistant apparently asked her (Oprah) if she would like to see the bag, but she apparently said ‘No, I just want to look’. And then she (Oprah) asked how much the bag costs and she (the employee) told her how much the bag was.”
Goetz added that “I believe she rather said something like ‘we have some less expensive’ – ‘we also have some less expensive bags’ and not ‘it’s too expensive for you.’ “
Winfrey was in Switzerland to attend the wedding of her longtime friend Tina Turner, who has lived in Zurich for many years and has been quoted saying how much she enjoys living among the Swiss. Turner was granted a passport earlier this year, a process that typically takes years.
Goetz, who was photographed at Turner’s wedding, stressed that the Oprah incident “has nothing to do with racism – really. Tina Turner is one of my best friends and it’s out of the question (that this has anything to do with racism).”
About 23 percent of Switzerland’s 8 million residents are non-Swiss, and the country earned more than $39 billion from tourism in 2011.
Last year, though, a government-appointed commission reported that immigrants, tourists, asylum-seekers and “people of a different skin color” can encounter “xenophobia and racism in certain areas of life.”
The nationalistic Swiss People’s Party, which has the largest number of seats in the federal parliament, has won support through claims that immigrants can bring crime and social problems to a country that has been an oasis of stability even in Europe’s darkest days.
In recent years, the People’s Party has successfully campaigned to ban the construction of minarets in a country that has about 400,000 Muslims, and to tighten the nation’s asylum law. Swiss lawmakers also narrowly rejected a proposal to ban veils worn by some Muslim women in public.
And this week, a row broke out over plans to bar asylum-seekers living in the small town of Bremgarten from visiting public swimming pools and attending schools.
Human Rights Watch said the agreement by the Swiss migration office to let the town impose “house rules” to limit access to schools and sports facilities violates international law.
It wasn’t the first time Winfrey has taken issue with treatment at a ritzy European boutique. In 2005, she was turned away from a Hermes shop in Paris 15 minutes after closing time. The store said it was closed for a private event.
A Hermes executive appeared on Winfrey’s talk show to apologize for the “rigid and rude” behavior of the employee. Winfrey complimented Hermes on its response – including sensitivity training for employees – and urged viewers to buy the company’s products.
In “The Butler,” Winfrey plays the wife of a butler who is a witness to history, from the cotton fields of Georgia to the White House. It is based loosely on the career of Eugene Allen, a black man who served as a White House butler from the Eisenhower through Reagan administrations.
During the TV interview, Winfrey said that “true racism is about being able to have power over somebody else,” and that she sometimes encounters it along with sexism in boardrooms. Then she recounted the incident in Zurich while she went shopping alone.
Oprah sans make-up
“Obviously, ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ is not shown in Zurich. So this doesn’t happen to me unless somebody obviously doesn’t know that it’s me,” she said.
A spokesman for Zurich’s tourist office, Christian Trottmann, called the incident “very regrettable” and said it obviously hurts the image of a friendly, world-class city accustomed to different cultures.
“We are inviting her to come back to Zurich and have fun here,” he said, “so she can see how open-minded this city really is.” – AP
The Citizen reports that the South African minister of police will have to cough up for the damages sustained by a Nelspruit man when he was arrested for no reason, shot with rubber bullets, assaulted and belittled as a “white bastard”
In terms of a settlement agreement in the North Gauteng High Court the minister of police accepted full liability for the damages sustained by Jan Lodewyk Coetzee, 39.
Coetzee is claiming over R870 000 for his ordeal at the hands of the police in February 2011, but the amount that must be paid will only be determined later.
Coetzee said in a statement the incident started when a fellow employee at a towing service parked one of the tow-trucks in front of his house without permission.
After repeatedly asking colleagues to remove the tow-truck, Coetzee and his father-in-law dragged the truck into the garage and locked it up.
When his colleague later arrived to fetch the truck, Coetzee’s father-in-law jokingly said he first had to pay R4 000 for storage, resulting in a huge argument.
Coetzee said he was busy with a birthday braai and wasn’t part of the discussion.
Later that night his boss and colleague arrived with about 12 heavily armed policemen dressed in combat clothing and bulletproof vests.
When the police wanted to force the garage open Coetzee asked if they had a warrant, where upon pepper spray was sprayed into his eyes.
His boss told him he was going to get hurt that night. Two policemen then opened fire on him with shotguns.
They kept on firing at him even when he turned around. They then sprayed pepper spray into his face again before throwing him into the police van, despite the fact that he was bleeding profusely.
At the police station he was hit and kicked by policemen who kept on shouting that he was a “white bastard”.
He was later taken to hospital, where he was handcuffed to his bed and guarded by nine policemen for four days, but no charges were ever laid against him.
Coetzee said he had been shot nine times. Some of the wounds never healed, he couldn’t straighten his left leg and he suffered from chronic headaches.
He battled to sleep, was nervous the whole time and became so aggressive after the incident that his wife insisted he needed counselling. – The Citizen.co.za
Someone please get Roger Waters a new hobby. May I suggest knitting or macramé? Something that keeps him busy and takes his attention away from offending Jews.
At a recent concert, Waters released an inflatable pig with a Magen David (Star of David) painted on it. A “pig-drone” of sorts. The song was “Run like Hell”. Now far be it for me to drone on (pun very much intended) but displaying a sacred religious symbol next to fascist symbols like the hammer and sickle that represent communism smacks of something far more nasty.
Now we know Roger is the poster child for BDS and has a penchant for walls and kangaroos (excuse my very lateral reference to the Russel Tribunal!) and would balk at any allegations that would insinuate that he is anti-Semitic. Isn’t he just an artist exploring his creativity?
Flying pig… the inflatable pig used by Roger Waters at his concerts with the Star of David showing
No Rog, you aren’t. Your politics are well known. While you have the right to spout your anti-Israel, BDS drivel, however misguided it may be, you have crossed the line. This time you are not making loaded statements about Israeli policy, this time you are taking a holy symbol and aligning it with the most hated forms of political governance. Straight out of the Goebbels propaganda handbook.
The preferred tactics of the anti-Israel brigade is to disguise their intentions under the cover of concern for the Palestinians of other minority groups in Israel. It is a thinly veiled disguise. I think we should ask Waters where is the pig with the Ahmadinejad head? Where are the effigies spray painted with the likes of the most heinous human rights abusers? If you are at a loss, we have a whole neighborhood full of them in the Middle East. Some throw opponents off the top of buildings, some throw acid on young girls in attempted honor killings, hell some even call for the destruction of a whole country!
With rising levels of anti-Semitism around the world, this kind of action is not only offensive, it is irresponsible and alarming. It is just not kosher for a variety of reasons. This does not make you a creative and lyrical genius, all it show is that you have completely lost the plot.
Roger may I suggest you run like hell. Run yourself along to a much needed reality check.
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Rolene Marks is a passionate advocate for Israel and has appeared on radio, television and has been published in numerous global publications. Rolene is a member of the Media Team Israel, an advocacy body that fights media bias. Currently residing in Modiin, Israel, Rolene volunteers for WIZO and previously represented the organisation on the World Zionist Congress. Rolene can be heard frequently on Chai FM, a Johannesburg-based radio station giving political commentary. In 2007 Rolene participated in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Young Jewish Diplomats Leadership course.
Flying pig… the inflatable pig used by Roger Waters at his concerts with the Star of David showing
Ex-Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters during a concert
Former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters attempted to deflect accusations of anti-Semitism and defend his decision to use a pig-shaped balloon emblazoned with the Star of David, among other symbols, during a concert in Belgium.
Waters, who last year voiced support for the boycott of Israeli goods, came under fire for the use of the inflatable pig, which was destroyed by the audience at the end of the show. Apart from anti-Semitism claims, some accused him of being a Jew hater and Nazi supporter.
In a response posted on Facebook, Waters denied the allegations and said the Star of David represents Israel and its policies, and not Judaism.
“[I]n a functioning theocracy it is almost inevitable that the symbol of the religion becomes confused with the symbol of the state, in this case the State of Israel, a state that operates apartheid both within its own borders and also in the territories it has occupied and colonized since 1967,” wrote Waters. “Like it or not, the Star of David represents Israel and its policies.”
The statement said Waters is regularly criticized by pro-Israel groups for his support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
As for the inflatable pig, the musician argued that it represents “the evil of errant government.” Waters said the balloon was used in 193 shows since 2010 and that it was destroyed by the audience at the end of each one.
Waters noted that the show also uses other religious and commercial symbols such as the Crucifix, the Crescent and Star, the Shell Oil logo, the McDonald’s sign and a dollar sign.
The show, Waters concluded, “is many things. It is thoughtful, life affirming, ecumenical, humane, loving, anti-war, anti-colonial, pro universal access to the law, pro liberty, pro collaboration, pro dialogue, pro peace, anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist, anti-apartheid, anti-dogma, international in spirit, musical and satirical. It is not anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi.”
Waters pointed out that the Anti-Defamation Leaguesaid it does not believe he had anti-Semitic intent, although it did regret the use of the Star of David.
This is not the first time Waters has come under fire for using Jewish symbols. In 2010, the ADL criticized the musician for using imagery associated with perpetuating Jewish stereotypes. – Haaretz
Also read Jolene Marks’s opinion piece criticising Waters.
Miami Beach police say an 18-year-old died after being shocked with a stun gun as he resisted arrest for spraying graffiti.
Chief Ray Martinez told the Miami Herald that officers spotted Israel Hernandez-Llach painting graffiti on an abandoned fast-food restaurant early Tuesday. Martinez said the teen ran, but was eventually cornered. He said Hernandez-Llach then ran at the officers and one shot him with a Taser in the chest. The teen went into medical duress and died at a hospital.
The teen’s friends told the Herald that Hernandez-Llach was originally from Colombia. His teachers at Miami Beach High School said he was a talented artist and photographer. – AP
Firemen inspect the damages inside the Nairobi airport building
by Peter Martell
A devastating fire shut down Nairobi’s international airport for much of Wednesday in a “major crisis” that forced the cancellation or diversion of scores of flights at east Africa’s biggest transport hub.
The first flights from abroad operated by Kenya’s national carrier will land early Thursday, officials said, with customs and baggage processed through what is normally the domestic terminal because international arrivals were gutted in the four-hour blaze.
Cargo and domestic flights out of the Kenyan capital resumed early Wednesday evening.
It was not clear whether other airlines would also land as early as Thursday.
The inferno, which started before dawn, sent plumes of black smoke billowing out of the main arrivals terminal.
But by 9:00am (0600 GMT), firefighters had succeeded in stemming the raging flames, despite a lack of both water and equipment.
“Everything is being done to resume normal operations,” presidential spokesman Manoah Esipisu told reporters outside the charred arrivals hall of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), where hours earlier flames had lit up the pre-dawn sky.
International passengers were given priority to fly to Kenya’s second city Mombasa to connect to onward flights while Nairobi’s domestic terminal was being prepared to handle flights from abroad.
Some 16,000 passengers usually transit through JKIA every day, Esipisu said.
The airport is a regional hub for east Africa, with many long-distance international flights landing there to connect to countries across the region.
Kenyan business operators were eager for a swift return to normal operations following the disaster.
“This is the busiest time of year for international flights,” said Duncan Muriuki, head of Destination Africa, a tour operator.
“We have people stuck in Mombasa, so it will definitely impact us negatively,” he said, adding that clients stuck at the coast would face journeys of several hours to travel by road to the capital.
The flower sector, which provides a livelihood for some half a million Kenyans, could be hard hit by the fire, as any delay in shipping out fragile lilies and roses would result in big losses.
Jane Ngige, who heads the Kenya Flower Council, said harvesting at flower farms had been halted Wednesday while the trade association waited for more information.
Tens of thousands of passengers could be affected by the JKIA’s closure, while regional airports have limited capacity and will likely struggle to handle all the travellers unable to land in Nairobi.
Around 250 flights take off and land there every day, regional aviation sources said, adding that some six million passengers used the airport last year.
The fire was reported to have begun at the immigration section at arrivals, but the cause is not yet known, with police chief David Kimaiyo saying that investigations had begun.
No casualties have been reported, but two people — an airport worker and a passenger — were taken to hospital due to smoke inhalation, Kenya Airways chief Titus Naikuni said.
The interior ministry was forced to issue public appeals for Nairobi’s notoriously congested traffic to give way to trucks ferrying water to the airport after firefighters tackling the blaze ran “dangerously low on water”.
Soldiers and police even came with buckets to help put out the fire, said Sylvia Amondi, who was at the airport to pick up a relative who had been due to arrive there.
“The international arrivals station has been completely destroyed, the roof has caved in and the floor is covered in debris and water,” she said.
Behind the scenes portly civil servants braved massive puddles to sift through soggy papers and files in what was left of their offices.
In the baggage claim area, only a giant advert for multi-choice TV remained untouched.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, whose father Jomo Kenyatta — Kenya’s first president — the airport is named after, visited the devastated terminal along with his top security chiefs to assess the damage caused by the “huge inferno”, the interior ministry added.
Kenyatta later called the fire a “tragic event”, and promised everything would be done to resume normal operations “as soon as possible”.
In Washington, the White House said President Barack Obama had called Kenyatta to offer US support.
August is one of Kenya’s busiest months for tourism, a key industry for the country, as foreign travellers fly in to see its wildlife and enjoy the white sand beaches on its Indian Ocean coast.
The airport offers direct connections to Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and other African cities. -AFP
A 60-year-old former auditor was raped and killed outside her home in Margate, KwaZulu-Natal, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday.
“The victim was stabbed with a sharp object in the neck and died,” police spokesman Captain Gerald Mfeka told the Afrikaans daily.
Janetta Lorraine van der Walt, a former auditor for the SA Revenue Services in Durban, Springs and Alberton on Johannesburg’s East Rand, was raped and killed on Tuesday evening.
She and her sister were watching television when she went to investigate a noise outside.
Her sister witnessed her being attacked and called for help.
Mfeka warned people not to go outside when they hear strange noises.
“Please rather call the police or press your panic button. Do not go outside,” he said. – Sapa
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