Thursday, May 22, 2008

It's self-defence , NOT racism.

* 'It's self-defence, not racism' -

21/05/2008 08:01 - (SA)

Nicolize van der Walt, Beeld

Delareyville - While a young farmer appeared in court in the town on
charges of murder and attempted murder, interest groups and other
politicians lashed out against a Cosatu spokesperson's "irresponsible
statements".

Cosatu's provincial secretary Solly Phetoe, in a statement this week,
referred to "racist murders" after Jaco Swart, 26, shot two men in his
farmhouse at about 02:00.

The initial investigation showed that Swart, who apparently slept with
his bedroom door locked, had fired only one shot with his father's
licensed firearm. Both intruders presumably were hit by the same
bullet.

'Nothing racist'

Michael Thipe, 35, was fatally wounded in the head and his 33-year-old
accomplice was hit in the lung. The latter fled after being shot and
was later arrested in a nearby informal settlement.

"There is nothing racist about this shooting incident."

"My client protected himself and his possessions according to the law."

"Cosatu is fanning the flames of racial tension. It's funny that when
people kill off foreigners of other races, it's xenophobia but when a
white person is involved, it's immediately racism," Swart's advocate
said to Beeld on Tuesday.

The DA's provincial leader in North West, Chris Hattingh, submitted a
motion to the provincial legislature about, among other things,
Phetoe's remarks.

"We expressed our worry over the politicising of murders and farmers'
defencelessness specifically over Phetoe's remarks.

"It's irresponsible and he misuses his podium to polarise people on
the grounds of race."

North West Premier Edna Molewa apparently warned officials to act
responsibly during these types of occurrences and to discuss them
prudently.

The provincial leader if the Freedom Front Plus Pieter Groenewald said
in a statement said the party would write to Cosatu to ask its leaders
to intervene in case of "such irresponsible statements by provincial
officials".

"Susan Shabangu, the deputy minister of safety and security, can't say
that police officers may shoot to kill if their lives are being
threatened but then it doesn't count for ordinary citizens,"
Groenewald said.

Swart's bail of R2 000 was paid by AfriForum, a civil rights
organisation that also supported the Swart family during the court
hearing.

AfriForum's spokesperson Nantes Kelder said they were worried that
South Africa was being driven towards a Zimbabwe-situation where
politicians would start interfering in the legal system and that could
not be allowed.

The case was postponed until August 26.

Source:News24

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9909,2-7-1442_2326050,00.html

Friday, May 16, 2008

SOS : Support the Scorpions Court Protest !

SUPPORT THE COURT CHALLENGE AGAINST THE DISBANDMENT OF THE SCORPIONS!
Join the Democratic Alliance and other political parties outside the
High Court in Pretoria to form a combined opposition to the
undemocratic, unconstitutional attempt by the ruling party to prevent
their high-ranking officials from being investigated and prosecuted
according to the laws of South Africa.
Date: 20 May 2008
Time: 9.30 am
Venue: Corner of Vermeulen and Paul Kruger Street
(In front of the Supreme Court, Pretoria)


CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP THE DISBANDMENT OF THE SCORPIONS

Know anyone in the Pretoria area? Please encourage them to join the protest!

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Savagery of South-African Crime

South Africa Bulletin from the headquarters of TAU SA in Pretoria.

Web: www.tlu.co.za

The Savagery of South African Crime

Lien Gronum was an energetic and attractive South African woman who
moved with her husband to a small farm outside Brits in the North West
province of South Africa from their house in suburban West Rand after
their children left home. While her husband took some farm workers to
town, Mrs. Gronum was attacked, savagely beaten and eventually
brutally murdered with a breadknife and a sharp letter-opener by
members of her staff. Her husband came upon her body when he returned
to the farm an hour or so later.

This is but one example of the spate of vicious murders and attacks
which have seared South Africa's rural communities over the past few
months.

Farm attacks in South Africa have never been pretty, only last week,
Qatar-based TV station Al Jazeera told of what SA farmers are up
against. The programme showed graphic photos of the bloodied and
dismembered bodies of farmers and their families, photos rarely if
ever seen in South Africa's media. What sickens people is the utter
brutality and barbarity of the attacks. But then South Africa is part
of a savage continent which no public relations patina can really
hide.

Underneath it all lurks the Sierra Leone syndrome, like a shark moving
through water. Human Rights Watch issued a report in 1999 detailing
atrocities committed by black against black during that country's
civil war, where RUF rebels slaughtered humans in a manner which
stunned the world. Says the report: "The rebel occupation of Freetown
was characterized by the systematic and widespread perpetration of all
classes of gross human rights abuses against the population. Civilians
were gunned down within their houses, rounded up and massacred on the
streets, thrown from the upper floors of buildings, used as human
shields, and burned alive in cars and buses. They had their limbs
hacked off with machetes, eyes gouged out with knives, hands smashed
with hammers, and bodies burned with boiling water. Women and girls
were systematically sexually abused and children and young people
abducted by the hundreds".

Certainly South Africa hasn't reached that point yet, but the savagery
endemic to South African crime is making news. Over the past few
months, terrible things have happened in our country. A Groblersdal
farmer was shot stone dead in his living room while watching
television. An Indian woman from Ottosdal was brutally murdered in her
home. The assailants were arrested, escaped from police custody and
then proceeded to break into farmhouses outside the town, finally
killing a farmer by sawing his throat until his head was attached to
his body by the skin only. His wife was repeatedly raped and then shot
dead.

Another farmer outside Pretoria was attacked by twelve men, his family
tied up and brutally assaulted. A recently released parolee murdered a
young man of 27 in front of his three year old son in Kempton Park,
east of Johannesburg. An elderly couple on a farm outside Lichtenburg
were murdered, he was shot and his wife had her throat cut.

A widow (70) from North West was murdered by a man who had been
sentenced to death, then released. Her throat was cut and the murderer
raped her dead body.

South Africa's newspapers are replete with crime: old people savagely
beaten and killed for a cell phone, a young dancer suffocated and shot
in her house. Later the complex's security guard was arrested for the
murder. Violent crime stalks our hospitals, doctors and nurses are
"working in fear" declared a Sunday newspaper as criminals have
declared hospitals "their new hunting ground". The Johannesburg
Hospital has effectively been turned into a "fortress", yet a senior
doctor was attacked after coming off night shift with a gun to his
head in a lift. In the Cape, a recent survey revealed that 30% of
general nurses, 22% of midwives and 54% of psychiatric nurses have
been seriously assaulted. Young student doctors and nurses have been
raped.

Rape is endemic to South Africa - rape has always been a tool of war
in Africa, yet South Africa's rape rate is the highest in the world,
and we are defined as a peaceful nation. In early April a young woman
and her husband attended an Emigration Expo and on the following day
the woman was raped while lying next to her six year old son. Her
tear-filled face filled the newspapers. Needless to say the family of
four cannot wait to leave the land of their birth.

Parents collecting children from school in broad daylight have been
robbed and hijacked. A family of four emigrated to America six years
ago after the father was shot in the back during a hijacking. Refused
a further stay, they were repatriated to South Africa where in early
April, they were again hijacked and the wife's brother was shot dead
by the hijackers, in front of two small children. The brother's
daughter had been killed seven hours before in a motor accident with a
taxi.

People are regularly killed in their houses - in Garsfontein,
Pretoria, serious crime has increased by 40% over the past year. An
eighteen-year-old Pretoria girl was shot five times in her house and
left for dead. Paralysed, she is now trying to walk. Security
complexes are no longer secure, criminals rent houses within the
complex and conduct their operations from the house.

In Craighall Park, Johannesburg, the help of a witch doctor was sought
to kill the employer of a domestic who had worked for the house owner
for thirteen years. The lady divorcee was killed by deep knife wounds
to her head. In Rustenburg in March, a man was given a 20-year
sentence for torturing a house owner by burning him with boiling
water, cutting open his forehead, garotting him with a shoelace, then
assaulting his family, three children, with a knife. The murderer had
already committed crimes of assault and robbery and had been out on
early release.

In another instance, an elderly Johannesburg man received third degree
burns over 60% of his skin when he was tortured for hours with boiling
water repeatedly poured over his body. He died ten days later. This
month, a man from Knysna in the Western Cape was found guilty of
murdering two young women. One was smothered to death in a flower bed
and a month later he murdered and raped another girl, and set her car
alight. Her burnt body was found near the wreck, raped and covered
with assault wounds.

Human Rights Watch

It is interesting that the international organization Human Rights
Watch makes no mention of the brutality of these crimes on their
website and in their reports, especially the murder and assaults
against the commercial farming community of South Africa. According to
the Al Jazeera TV programme "No White in the South African Rainbow",
South African commercial farmers are the most murdered group outside a
war zone. But no special attention is paid either to this phenomenon
by the US State Department's "Country Report on Human Rights
Practices"

The Human Rights Watch latest report on human rights in South Africa
covers HIV abuses, "institutionalized racial inequality", the
mistreatment of people at the Johannesburg Methodist Church, sexual
violence, abuses in political asylum procedures, the targeting of
lesbians for murder, migrants abused by farmers, the non-granting of
full marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples, children threatened
by AIDS, the rights of rural schoolchildren, and the lack of basic
services for farm workers, especially housing. Nowhere is there
anything specific said about the gory murders and assaults on the
commercial farming sector in South Africa.

The US State Department's March 2007 Report on Human Rights in South
Africa sends out the same message. One lone paragraph in a 45 page
report is devoted to farm murders, and these are explained as
"motivated by financial gain". There are no descriptions of the
killings. But Mr. Mark Scott-Crossley, the man who was convicted of
placing a black person's body in a lion enclosure, is called "a white
farmer" which he definitely is not. Other white farmers who have been
involved in killing people trespassing on their farms are given
prominence, but there is nothing to show what is happening to white
farmers themselves. Scores of other human rights abuses in South
Africa are itemized by the State Department including human
trafficking and HIV problems, but the onslaught on the commercial
farming sector is missing.

It could be said that the endemic violence is simply a continuation of
the violence and the rendering of South Africa as "ungovernable" by
the ANC/SACP alliance in the run up to their revolutionary takeover of
South Africa. What you reap, you sow.

Source URL: http://www.tlu.co.za

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Them Boers

Spoken by Great Men

"Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will beach Europe . Give
me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of
Berlin . Give me two divisions of those marvelous fighting Boers
(Meaning Farmer, originating from the
<http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/6638/say.htm#%23> Boer War) and I
will remove Germany from the face of the earth."
Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allied forces
during WWII.

"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honor and
glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they
have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians
have no choice. The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of
bitches fight for the hell of it!"
- American General, George "Guts and Glory" Patton -

"Take a community of Dutchman of the type of those who defended
themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when
Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain
of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left
their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes . The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile,
unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these
formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant
warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in
which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill
with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is
immanently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the
rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by
a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming
patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one
individual and you have the modern Boer."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
(And for those who don't know, he wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories)

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Pensioners tell of hostage ordeal

Candice Bailey

May 07 2008 at 11:52AM

"I woke up with a gun in my mouth and I screamed."

This is how Tamboerskloof resident Angela Collins described the start of a two-hour hostage ordeal she and her husband, Stuart, suffered at the hands of four armed gunmen early on Tuesday.

The Collins couple, both in their 60s, told the Cape Argus the nightmare had begun when the four masked men, three with guns and one with a knife, charged into their house just before 7am on Tuesday.

The couple was forced to sit on the bed while the invaders looted the house of electronic equipment, cellphones and valuables.

The gang tied them up and urinated on the bathroom floor before fleeing.

On Tuesday night they were still wondering how the men had managed to get access to the house.

Speaking from their son's Green Point home, Angela Collins said: "It was from 6.55am until 9.20am but it seemed like forever.

"They terrorised us. I thought it was our last hour. I never prayed so hard in my life. I prayed and prayed and prayed.

"We were not allowed to move. They told us to keep our heads down."

She described the knife they were threatened with as being about 30cm long.

One of the men told her: "You make a sound and it goes in your stomach."

Stuart Collins, a former councillor, was the first to encounter the intruders.

"I'd been downstairs, and instead of making breakfast, I came up-stairs to listen to the 7am news.

"I got back into bed and I didn't hear a sound until I felt someone punch me on my head. I turned around and saw a guy with a gun.

"He told me to lie down, because there were two other guys with guns. There were three guys in my bedroom."

One of them stuck the barrel of his gun into Angela's mouth, waking her up.

"It was a hard steel old gun, a good weather-beaten gun. Not a toy," Stuart Collins said.

"We said we didn't have money, but they said: 'You live in a house like this, you must be rich.'

"I was an ANC ward candidate on two occasions and when they saw my ANC membership card, they took it and said: 'F*** the ANC and f*** you.'

"We were very, very lucky. It could have gone seriously wrong."

The couple's ordeal was ended by the arrival of their son.

This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Argus on May 07, 2008

Source:IOL

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080507113500983C805775For more information visit http://www.dienuwesuidafrika.com

Racial brutality against whites concealed from the media by the ANC (African National Congress)

To: bbcworld@bbc.co.uk, margaretha@publicy.nl, news@sky.com,
ireport@cnn.com, foxnewsonline@foxnews.com, InsideAfrica@cnn.com,
news@newsday.com, InfoDesk@ohchr.org
Cc: ourvoice-of-a-nation@googlegroups.com, stories@farmmurders.com

A few weeks ago, international headlines were made when students of the
University of the Free State gave some hostel cleaners a concoction to
drink, apparently containing urine. Shortly afterwards, the public outcries
about racism and human rights began.

cid:000d01c8b038$38e46b10$6502a8c0@oem973aa8a3f10On the subject of racism,
please read the story of Nico Bruwer (25).

Nico was arrested in Polokwane for reckless driving on the night of 6
January 2008. After he was arrested, he asked four times if he can call his
family to tell them where he was, but they refused. (According to SA Law,
you are allowed one phone call when you are arrested.)

He was thrown in a dirty cell with 25 other inmates. His arms were held and
his head shoved in a dirty pillow, so his screams couldn't be heard - while
he was repeatedly raped and assaulted. Later he lost consciousness from
shock. The policemen on duty didn't once come to check on what was happening
in the cells.
The next morning he was harassed by one of the rapists. Hours later Nico was
released on bail after his family finally found him. He broke down and they
rushed him to hospital where he was admitted and tested for HIV.
Nico and his wife, Rose-Mary (24) was married on 1 March 2008. Nico also
have a son (5). He and his whole family is traumatized by this experience.

What you may not know is that this is the ** second ** time this year a
young white male was raped in the Polokwane Police cells.

Why am I asking you to forward this? Because this is also racism. This is
crime in its worst form. Yes, what happened at UFS was despicable, but
nobody was PHYSICALLY hurt. But because it was ** WHITE ** students doing it
to ** BLACK ** workers, everybody made a huge deal about it. Now that a
white male was raped by black criminals while in police custody, virtually
nobody knows about it. No big cries from overseas condemning this absolute
disregard for human rights or basic human dignity. Nico Bruwer's whole life
will be forever influenced about what happened that night. But because he
is ** WHITE **, nobody cares.

But you should care. Think about your husbands, sons and brothers. Forward
this to as many people as you can. Let this email travel all over so that
the whole world can see what is ** REALLY ** happening in South Africa.

Lets show the world that we are sick and tired of the hate, the war and the
lack of respect for humans and their lives.
Oh, and don't forget the absolute disgrace of what the SAPS have become -
they who are supposed to keep us safe.
Yes, they recently wasted their time assaulting students in Stellenbosch and
ransacking pubs for 130g of dagga. But a rape in Police cells goes
unnoticed.

And while you are doing this, please say a prayer for Nico Bruwer and his
family. Ask God to give his wife strength to support her new husband during
this terrible time. To give them peace, wisdom and dignity when they surely
do not feel like they have any. And that his HIV test comes back negative,
because he already has so much to deal with, and he does not need this added
to his pain.