The DA will file affidavits alleging “bad language” after an MP was physically threatened by Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Mzwandile Masina.
During the presidency budget vote on Tuesday Steenhuisen said Masina had mouthed: “I will f*&k you up”.
“He looked straight at me and said I will f*&k you up. Members were chirpy… I saw it, other members saw it. We were chirping; [in parliament] there is heckling. There was profanity and then there was a physical threat,” Steenhuisen told The Citizen on the side-lines during a brief break in proceedings.
Chairperson Thandi Modise said she would investigate the matter.
“I think it’s going to be test now for other members who are singled out for using profanity in house,” said Steenhuisen.
ANC caucus spokesman Moloto Mothapo said: “It’s an allegation by the DA which is being investigated by the presiding officer. They are serious allegations. We hope that those who make them did not do so purely for political posturing.”
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the Baltimore’s recent spike in violence “disheartening” Thursday as police work to address a dramatic increase in homicides and nonfatal shootings in the black American city.
“It’s extremely frustrating,” the mayor told reporters at a news conference. “It is disheartening, but I am still resolved to continue to reduce violent crime in our city.”
Rawlings-Blake said the city’s faced spikes in crimes in the past and police have been able to successfully reverse them. She said she’s “confident” police will do so again.
The city has experienced 100 homicides this year, compared with 71 at this time last year, the police department said. It’s the fastest the city has reached 100 homicides since 2007. Last year, the city reached the mark on July 4. Nonfatal shootings are up more than 70 percent with at least 19 people shot on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Baltimore has raised a less-examined racial divide than the obvious one between black and white America. Not only in Los Angeles and Baltimore, but in Ferguson and other cities caught up in racially charged confrontations, Asian-American shopkeepers, including Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, and Arab Americans as well as Koreans, appear to have been the victims of racial profiling.
The New York Times reported April 27 that gang members in Baltimore had specifically “stood in front of stores that they knew were black-owned businesses to protect them from looting and vandalism,” pointing the rioters instead “toward Chinese- and Arab-owned stores.”
The Korea Times reported April 30, quoting the Korean-American Grocers Association International and the Korean Society of Maryland, that at least 40 Korean-owned businesses in Baltimore were damaged in the riots. One Korean-American-owned business, Fireside North lounge and liquor store, was set on fire, with its owner and the owner of another business, Uptown Liquor, reportedly sustaining injuries.
The Associated Press stated that a total of 200 small businesses, many owned by Asian-Americans, were shut down as a result of damage caused by rioters.
Baltimore’s WBAL News reported the same day that “42 Korean grocers, delis, and carry-outs” had been “destroyed or damaged during the unrest,” with the total number still being tallied. The television station also noted that the Korean consulate and the Korean-American wife of Maryland governor Larry Hogan subsequently held meetings with some business owners to discuss reconstruction.
The morning school run erupted into chaos in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town on Monday when a parent was shot dead outside a high school and, in an unrelated shooting, a taxi driver was killed near a primary school a few metres away.
Gilianno Smith, 34, was on his way to meet the principal of Cedar Secondary School, where his son is in Grade 8, at about 7.50am when he was shot several times, allegedly by gunmen in a passing vehicle.
“It is believed that the deceased was standing on the street corner when unidentified suspects in a Toyota Quantum fired several shots fatally wounding the deceased,” police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said.
Smith’s death and the subsequent shooting of a taxi driver near Spine View Primary at about 8.30am have left pupils and parents traumatised.
Van Wyk said the taxi driver is believed to have stopped his minibus in Spine Road to pick up commuters when he was shot by an unidentified suspect.
Smith’s distraught mother, Veronica Smith, said he had been on his way to Cedar Secondary to meet the principal, David Charles, when the shooting occurred.
Mother’s Day was the last time she spoke to her son.
“I am very, very sad. He made me a card (for Mother’s Day) because he believed a bought one wouldn’t express the words he wanted to say to me.”
She said her grandson had walked ahead of his father and arrived at the school unaware of his father’s death.
The UN Security Council has echoed calls by the Secretary General urging all parties in Burundi to refrain from acts of violence and intimidation as tempers flare over a decision that will see President Pierre Nkurunziza seeking a third term.
Demonstrations in the capital Bujumbura have been building for a number of months with opposition groups arguing that a third term would violate both the Arusha Peace Accord and the country’s constitution.
Thousands have already fled across the border to Rwanda while the UN has warned that 400 000 people could be affected as violence erupts.
While the African Union has urged patience for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of a third term, concerns from Security Council members about rising political tensions, Council President for April, Jordan’s Mahmoud Hmoud explains, ”They called on all parties to refrain from acts of violence and intimidation and for the need to restore calm and peace in Burundi.
Council members reiterated the importance of the freedom of expression and assembly in Burundi and expressed concern regarding the restrictions being placed on those freedoms.”
Opposition parties have expressed doubts that the Constitutional Court will be a fair arbiter on the third term’s legality. Presidential elections in Burundi are due on June 26th.
Rioters plunged the US city of Baltimore into chaos, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands mourned the man who died from a severe spinal injury he suffered in police custody.
The Maryland governor declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard to restore order — but authorities were still struggling to quell pockets of unrest after midnight, local time.
The riot was the latest flare-up over the mysterious death of African-American Freddie Gray, whose fatal encounter with officers came amid the national debate over police use of force, especially when black suspects are involved.
Police have declined to specify the races of the six officers involved in his arrest, all of whom have been suspended with pay while they are under investigation.
The violence, which began in West Baltimore — within a 1.5km of where Gray was arrested and pushed into a police van this month — had by the end of the day spread to East Baltimore and neighbourhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her first day on the job, said she would send Justice Department officials to the eastern US city in coming days.
A week-long, daily curfew was imposed from 10pm to 5am, the mayor said, and Baltimore public schools announced they would close for the day. At least 15 officers were hurt, including six who remained in hospital, police said. Two dozen people were arrested.
Officers wearing helmets and wielding shields occasionally used pepper spray to keep the rioters back. For the most part, though, they relied on line formations to keep protesters at bay.
But Gray’s family said violence is not a way to honour him.
“The violence is wrong,” Gray’s twin sister, Fredericka Gray, said. “I don’t like it at all.”
A lawyer for Gray’s family, Billy Murphy, said the family had hoped to organise a peace march this week.
Emergency officials were constantly thwarted as they tried to restore calm in the affected parts of the city of more than 620,000 people. Firefighters trying to put out a blaze at a chemist were hindered by someone who sliced holes in a hose connected to a fire hydrant, spraying water all over the street and nearby buildings. A massive fire erupted in East Baltimore that a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake initially said was connected to the riots. He later texted an Associated Press journalist saying officials were still investigating whether there is a connection.
The Mary Harvin Transformation Centre was under construction and no one was believed to be in the building at the time, said spokesman Kevin Harris. The centre is described online as a community-based organisation that supports youth and families.
Earlier, the smell of burned rubber wafted in the air in one neighbourhood where youths were looting a liquor store. Police stood still nearby as people drank looted alcohol. Glass and trash littered the streets, and other small fires were scattered about. One person from a church tried to shout something from a megaphone as two cars burned.
“Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs, who in a very senseless way, are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down and destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years,” said Ms Rawlings-Blake, a lifelong resident of the city.
Police urged parents to locate their children and bring them home. Many of those on the streets appeared to be African-American youths, wearing backpacks and khaki pants that are a part of many public school uniforms.
Later in the day, people began looting clothing and other items from stores at the mall, which became unprotected as police moved away from the area. About three dozen officers returned, trying to arrest looters but driving many away by firing pellet guns and rubber bullets.
Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and about 200 others, including ministers and mostly men, marched arm-in-arm through a neighbourhood littered with broken glass, flattened aluminium cans and other debris, in an attempt to help calm the violent outbursts. As they got close to a line of police officers, the marchers went down on their knees. After the ministers got back on their feet, they walked until they were face-to-face with the police officers in a tight formation and wearing riot gear.
Gray was arrested on April 12 after making eye contact with officers and then running away, police said. He was held down, handcuffed and loaded into a van without a seat belt. Leg cuffs were put on him when he became irate inside.
He asked for medical help several times even before being put in the van, but paramedics were not called until after a 30-minute ride. Police have acknowledged he should have received medical attention on the spot where he was arrested, but they have not said how his spine was injured. He died on April 19.
South African crime and violence have taken an even more bizarre twist as a pregnant young woman, Leandi Venter, was hijacked in her car a week ago, assaulted and tortured, with pictures of the battered girl sent to her father from her own cellphone to extract money from him.
Leandi Venter, on her wedding day. (Photo from Facebook.)
Her mother, Olga Bosman Schoeman, a classical musician and accomplished harpist, posted the following heart-wrenching account on her Facebook page in the form of a warning to women and girls that they might be attacked in their own cars at traffic lights in broad daylight.
My beautiful, fragile daughter was hijacked on JG Strijdom Avnue at 8.20am last Sunday. She was abducted and assaulted and held for ransom by four burly men who wore balaclavas and gloves.
She was on her way to Clearwater Mall. There was little traffic. When she stopped at a traffic light they broke her window with a brick they kept with them to beat her. They jumped into the car and commanded her to drive. They spoke little and only English.
They gave directions to an area near Rebel Farmers and forced her to stop in a secluded wooded section where they forced her to march into the bushes at knife point. They carried firearms as well.
Then they demanded money. When she said she had none, they wanted her to go to the bank and withdraw some. Their demand for cash increased as did their agitation. They took her phone and said: let’s see who will pay for you then.
First significant name on the list is “Daddy”. Let’s see how much daddy loves you, they said.
She said one cannot transfer and draw that incredible amount of money within minutes. She reasoned with them calmly and rationally. She also told them that she is pregnant and if they hurt the baby they will get no co-operation from her. They may as well kill her right there.
They said maybe Daddy needed some motivation to speed up the ransom. She refused to phone. They tied her up with duct tape and proceeded to take videos and pictures with her camera which they then sent to her dad before deleting them. They beat her brutally and relentlessly. One held her from behind, pulling her hair back to expose her delicate face. One held her legs. One took off his shirt and beat her. One video-ed.
After knocking her out they took more pictures which they sent to her dad. When she could speak, she phoned him.
They forced her back to her car and put a beanie over her brutalized face. They commanded her to drive in circles from one ATM to the next. Her husband was also called and sent videos and asked for cash. They wanted e-wallet transfers when the cash the dad and husband rustled up couldn’t be drawn fast enough. They kept her on her phone so we would know she was alive.
A famous private detective and his entire team, dogs and all, were quickly summoned. My brave girl continued to be calm and responsible and rational. She held it together.
Transfers took too long. One gent got scared and ran off after the second transaction. Her car has a tracer and thank God they made her use her phone because the team traced her within minutes and followed her aimless driving.
The thugs were also contemplating that this was not really going as well as they had hoped and that maybe they ought to have thought this through more. Like the possibility of someone tracing them through their account. Like keeping her for the night and getting more money.
That is where she nearly lost it. She did however keep very calm. A call came through which they wanted her to take. She had put the phone in the cubby hole quite casually, knowing there was a Mace spray in there. So when she took the phone she took the lipstick-shaped Mace as well.
The call was from the detective assuring her they were not far.
She then promptly stopped at the side of the road and said to her kidnappers calmly that they shouldn’t be idiots. Her car had a tracker and her phone as well. Did they really think that after the first call to her dad and second to her husband she would not be tracked? She said the call was from the police, they were minutes away with their canine unit. Won’t these gents be kind enough to be grateful for what they’ve already got and run?
She then sprayed them furiously with Mace.
They opened the door and ran in different directions.
All she could do after that was drive fast to a shopping area where she phoned. She was found minutes later by all concerned in the chase.
She is badly beaten, but those injuries will heal in time. The damage to her soul I cannot fathom. She is not coping at all. She was taken to Garden City Clinic for endless tests. Trauma counselling is in place. The gynaecologist is extremely happy with little Pinkfoot. He said if it hadn’t been for her courageous calmness throughout the nearly four hours of captivity and even and especially during the brutal assault, things might have been quite different.
How incredible it feels to say how lucky we are.
Things could have been very, very different.
This random hijacking near Clearwater Mall was a wrong-place-wrong-time-thing. And the men were desperate for cash.
She was lost in thought as she stopped at the traffic light, thinking about opening a new bank account and the maternity clothes she would soon need to buy.
The criminals demanded money from her account, first through transfers then through e-wallet. I didn’t even know such a thing existed.
So I implore you all to be extra vigilant at intersections. And know about this method of extracting money.
Foreigners sought refuge at the Primrose police station on Wednesday night saying they were terrified, Gauteng police confirmed.
Attacks and vehicle stonings marked fresh xenophobic violence in Johannesburg.
“The group of [20] foreign nationals went to the police station saying they are afraid for their lives,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini.
Earlier, groups of people had gathered in the Jeppestown section of Jules street, near the Wolhuter Hostel, and threw stones at passing cars.
White motorists were attacked by roaming black mobs and reporters on the scene saw mobs running up to passing cars and trying to force their doors open.
An Ethiopian man was also filmed having a brick thrown at him, News24 reported.
In Dobsonville, to the west of Johannesburg, two Somalis were attacked and robbed in their shop.
One of the men was thought to have been pistol whipped and the other hit by a glass bottle.
The SA Police Service and Metro police said they would be monitoring the city and surrounds on Thursday to prevent any violence.
President Jacob Zuma called for calm in special pre-recorded messages broadcast on public radio and television, after five people were killed in clashes between foreigners, locals and police in Durban since Friday.
Zuma will make a statement in the National Assembly on Thursday afternoon on the xenophobic violence which has swept across KwaZulu-Natal, ANC chief whip Stone Sizani said on Wednesday night.
“President Zuma is scheduled to make a statement on the unfortunate violence ahead of him taking oral questions in the National Assembly Thursday afternoon,” Sizani’s office said in a statement.
“After the President has delivered his statement, all political parties represented in the National Assembly will have an opportunity to make their declarations in reaction to the statement.”
Irate residents of Ledig near the Sun City resort outside Rustenburg, refused to allow North West Local Government MEC Collen Maine to speak to them on Wednesday.
“We could not allow the MEC to speak. We agreed yesterday (Tuesday) that all arrested people must be released by 10am (Wednesday), before the MEC address us,” said community leader Pakaza Mdluli.
Residents have waged a week-long protest over alleged missing tribal funds. A number of protesters have been arrested during the protests which centre on the alleged mismanagement of some R527 million of tribal and community funds.
“The issue about DJ (Ditsele Phologoane, the chairman of the Bakubung Economic Development Unit) is not paramount. The key demand is for all arrested people to be released,” Mdluli said.
After the failed meeting, some residents chanted:” Phanzi Phologoane, Phanzi” (down Phologoane, down), and as some headed home, a group of youngsters went to barricade the road. The police fired rubber bullets to disperse them.
Some residents now fear the protests will soon spiral out of control.
” If this toyi-toyi does not end now, criminal elements would use it to advance their activities. People will be killed all in the name of protest,” said Eugene Ngima, 60.
He said parents were afraid to send children to school.
“Will we be proud if our children failed at the end of the school year?” he asked.
“This burning of houses and shops must end now before more people are hurt.”
A shop was burnt down on Tuesday night, at the Ledig small industry, another shop was torched at the weekend and four foreign-owned shops were looted.
A plan by the North West Local Government to quell the on-going tensions in Ledig, near Sun City, has failed. The community have been on a rampage since the weekend , alleging that millions of rands in a form of royalties belonging to the community has been misused. These royalties are paid into the coffers of the community by a mining company operating there. Several properties have been destroyed, with foreign owned shops looted during the community protests.
A resolution to the tensions has been sought since Monday but to no avail. Local government MEC Collen Maine attempted to address the outraged community members but the planned resolution fell flat. The government is being accused by the community of negotiating in bad faith. Community leader Steve Moutloatse speaks of the conflict saying, “This thing is huge and we have been battling for the past ten years. We have been knocking at the wakes door, Thuli Madonsela’s door, now we are saying to the MEC, you must be prepared for the fire.”
While a meeting has been scheduled to take place at the Traditional Council Offices on Wednesday, the community wants over 30 people arrested following clashes released before the meeting can continue. The North West police Major General Jacob Tsumane says they are still monitoring the situation to enforce law and order in the area.
According to Tsumane, the investigations reveal that not only shops belonging to foreign nationals have been looted and some have been using the disorder as an opportunity to steal.
The tensions appear to be affecting life all around as even local schools have not remained unaffected since lessons are being disrupted. A learner expressed concern saying, “I am feeling so bad because as learners we want to pass and go on with life. Some of us are doing matric and it is hard for us, as matriculants because when the exams come they won’t even ask us about the protests.”
The outraged community vowed to continue with violence if government does not meet their demands, by releasing over 30 people who have been arrested and by also bringing the former tribal councillor Johannes Phologane into Wednesday’s meeting. Phologane is alleged to have knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing community funds. The community threatens to disrupt the South African Music Awards during the weekend in Sun City, if they don’t get positive answers.
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Premier Senzo Mchunu are to meet diplomats from African States in Durban Tuesday morning to discuss the wave of attacks on foreign nationals in the province.
King Goodwill Zwelithini met with the security cluster ministers in Durban Monday night to discuss the situation and the state of the country’s borders, including cross-border crime.
So far Malawi and Somalia are among the countries that have expressed concern about the plight of their nationals in KZN, but Zimbabwe has already indicated that the matter would carry no weight.
The Somali embassy said it was trying to trace its citizens and help them escape the violence. It has demanded urgent assistance from the Department of International Relations and Co-operation.
The Malawian government said it would be helping citizens living in South Africa to return to their homeland following the violence.
Both Gigaba and Mchunu are expected to assure the diplomats that the government is dealing with the situation of attacks on foreign nationals, which seems to continue in the province, threatening lives and stability.
Thus far, at least five people have been killed since the violence started. Thousands others have been displaced from their places of residence in various areas in the eThekwini municipality.
Businesses owned by foreign nationals have been destroyed and looted.
Meanwhile, more looting of shops has been reported overnight from KwaMashu and other townships in the Durban area. Thousands of foreigners displaced by earlier violence are being housed in three special camps in the area.
Some observers are blaming criminality rather than xenophobia for the looting. But political analyst, Protas Madlala, says economic hardships are a major contributing factor to attacks on foreign nationals.
Madlala says such incidents normally happen international in situations where the economy is very bad. He adds: “And the in-group, which in this case will be South Africans, attribute all their sufferings especially economic suffering and social suffering because there’s housing issues as well, they always attribute that kind of suffering to the outside group.”
The African National Congress does not have the same attitude towards whites as Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF, secretary general Gwede Mantashe says.
“When it comes to our attitudes we theorise colonialisation differently to Zanu-PF,” Mantashe told New24.
“That is why the ANC government will not use this approach of if a white man owns a farm it is revolutionary to kick that white farmer out and occupy it…”
This comes after Mugabe, who was in a two-day state visit in South Africa this week, refused to speak to journalists when he saw a “white face”.
Mugabe was in Soweto on Thursday visiting the Hector Pieterson Memorial.
Meanwhile the IFP in KwaMashu has called for aid after a mob “of thousands” overran police on Sunday night.
Foreign-owned shops in the township were looted and torched as locals attempted to drive out immigrants from other African states.
Inkatha Freedom Party spokesperson Mdu Nkosi said police officers were overwhelmed by the advancing mob on Sunday.
“The councillor from A Section and the men’s hostel informed me that last night [Sunday] he had done his best to try and appease the mob that had gathered but he was powerless. There were thousands of them and they even overran the police,” he told News24.
After waiting in long lines around the country over the past two days to vote, Nigerians are engaged in another long wait—to find out who will lead their country for the next four years. Both incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan and challenger retired general Muhammadu Buhari claim early leads.
Millions of people waited patiently to cast their votes for hours due to delays caused by various technical issues. Most notable were difficulties with a new personal voter card reader technology, which prompted the embarrassing spectacle of president Jonathan being unable to vote initially on Saturday morning.
The wait, of more than 48 hours after voting began, is causing tensions to rise. Voters in some areas of the country are worried that what has been a remarkably transparent process on the ground could be vulnerable to vote tampering at the national level.
Ultimately, the sooner results are announced, and Nigerians convinced the elections were fair and free, the better the chances the country has of avoiding violence and disruption.
The elections have so far been widely lauded as a success by both Nigerian and international observers including the United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon.
Yet, the most dangerous period in Nigeria’s electoral process is right after results are announced. In 2011 more than 800 people were killed in post-election violence.
It is not yet certain whether five black minors from North West, who are accused of murder, will appear in court tomorrow.
This is according to police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone, and follows after the arrest of the minors along with two older suspects for allegedly killing a schoolboy at Kgakala township in Leeudoringstad.
Mokgwabone says the 17-year-old was apparently stoned to death yesterday.
He added that the minors are currently undergoing assessment by social workers, and that if they should appear tomorrow it will most likely be in camera.
Mokgwabone told OFM News that the motive of the incident is unknown at this stage, and the investigation continues.
Former Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled’s visit to Soweto on Sunday turned into a celebration of violence, armed terror and crime “for a noble cause”.
Posters of Nelson Mandela adorned the walls of the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre in Soweto with the words: “The belligerent attitude adopted by the Israeli government is to us unacceptable.” Mandela however had welcomed armed terror in South Africa.
One of the main reasons why Mandela had lingered in prison for 27 years, was because he had refused to call off the ANC’s armed struggle campaign against innocent civilians.
The Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Mcebisi Skwatsha reminded the audience that weapons were an essential part of the struggle: “You are told it’s a matter of life or death, but the cause is a noble one. It was a matter of being inducted into the use of an AK47.”
“Two people stood out for us young ones. It was that picture of comrade Leila carrying an AK47. And it was also a pic of comrade Che Guevara carrying an AK47.
Without irony Skwatsha said Khaled, like Nelson Mandela, had been labelled a terrorist.
“The chief terrorist became the president of a liberated South Africa. Look at the difference the terrorists have made in our country in the last 20 years.”
Since Mandela’s release South Africa has become a criminal paradise, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world and a child rapist’s dream.
Max Ozinsky, a national executive committee member of the MK Veterans Association, said Israel and apartheid South Africa had worked together to fight the ANC and its “armed struggle against apartheid and its supporters”.
Skwatsha said he had been involved in terror against civilians in South Africa. He joined the ANC’s military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe “at an early age in the 1980s”.
Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans and Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans’ Association chairman Kebby Maphatsoe meanwhile declared war on the EFF, saying it was “in parliament because of our sweat and blood”.
He told a raucous crowd at the Centre: “They’ve declared war on us and we’ve been left with no choice but to defend ourselves.”
The mostly ANC crowd chanted struggle threats against EFF members, promising violence.
Khaled, who has reportedly had no less than nine facial plastic surgery interventions, leaves for Jordan today.
Her visit was to raise funds for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel in South Africa.
“Now you’re enjoying the streets of Soweto. I feel I’m with my family. You’re sisters and brothers. We [Palestinians] were celebrating in 1994 when you got your elections. Freedom is important because it is dignity. Why don’t they [Israelis] admit that occupation is terrorism?”
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