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[ANC Chief Whip Shot]

ANC Chief Whip Shot

Johannesburg - The ANC's chief whip in the Ugu district municipality was killed in a drive-by shooting in Manaba, Margate, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Sunday. "Around 22:00 on Saturday, councillor [Wandile] Mkhize and a friend were walking along a road when they came under attack from unknown men driving in a Toyota Corolla," spokesperson lieutenant-colonel Vincent Mdunge said. Mkhize was killed in the "heavy gunfire" and his friend critically injured. Mkhize was declared dead on the scene. The other man was taken to a hospital, the name of which was not disclosed for security reasons. Mdunge said the motive for the attack was unknown. Police were investigating a case of murder with aggravating circumstances, and one of attempted murder. No arrests had been made by 09:00 on Sunday.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ANC-chief-whip-shot-20120701


ANC Is 'Haemorrhaging' - Winnie

Johannesburg - ANC members should take care to halt the "haemorrhaging" of the ruling party, struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Saturday. "The ANC is haemorrhaging, it is your responsibility to stop that haemorrhaging," she told party members at her home in Orlando West, Soweto. Madikizela-Mandela received the ANC centenary torch on the last day before it left Gauteng. She warned members not to allow the party to disintegrate and she encouraged African National Congress members to make sure the party ruled forever. She said she was "so touched" to receive the flame. Like the flame, the ANC had "travelled a long way to be here".

'A battlefield'

She said 2012 was a very important year because it was the 100 year anniversary of the party and the 60th anniversary of the defiance campaign which "got us to where we are today". Madikizela-Mandela recalled the days when her suburb was "a battlefield". Looking around at the neat rows of guests assembled in her garden, now adorned with roses, she smiled slightly as she said : "I hid all the weapons here". She concluded her speech with her trademark salute of "Amandla!" (power). Supporters and members of the provincial executive council responded rapturously: "Awethu!" (people). ANC Gauteng secretary David Makura paid tribute to Madikizela-Mandela, saying her salutes embodied the essence of defiance, which fuelled the struggle against apartheid. "That defiant hand of yours ... there is only one veteran who does it like that."

Inspiration

He said younger generations had drawn inspiration from her. "The June 16 generation, you introduced them to the movement ... the young lions imbibed your fire," Makura said. He said she was a symbol of resilience too, as she had never let her spirit be broken by the apartheid regime. "You have always been the guiding light and that is what we bring back to you ... that is what the torch represents." The torch was delivered to Madikizela-Mandela's home just before 2pm by an ANC cavalcade accompanied by a fleet of the Sopranos Bike Club, Tshwane Metro police and police. A solemn procession of uMkhonto we Sizwe veterans from Tshwane delivered the flame.

Torch continues journey

The torch arrived in Gauteng on June 1 after being received by former President Nelson Mandela at his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape. After its month in Gauteng, the torch would be sent to Limpopo to continue its journey, which started in Mangaung, in the Free State, in January. The flame was set to arrive in Polokwane before midnight to keep up with the centenary celebrations schedule.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/ANC-is-haemorrhaging-Winnie-20120630


'ANCYL Saved Zuma From Prison'

Johannesburg - The ANCYL saved President Jacob Zuma from a prison sentence, expelled league president Julius Malema claims in an interview published in the Sunday Times. Malema was not convinced the "spy tapes", cited as the reason that corruption charges against Zuma were dropped in 2008, really existed. "Actually, we went to fetch him from a prison door," Malema said. According to Malema, Zuma "does not have what it takes" to serve as president and the thought of another term for Zuma was "scary and traumatic". Having once proclaimed that he would "kill for Zuma", he apologised for endorsing a Zuma presidency, claiming it was "a mistake" on the part of the league. The ANCYL's support for Zuma was based on his apparent "courage" against then-president Thabo Mbeki's bid for a third term in office. "That courage was very personal. It was informed by personal fear of being arrested and going to prison." Malema claimed Zuma had "nothing to lose" because he knew if he became president "chances are that you will not be arrested". Malema said both Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale had the qualities necessary for the presidency. The ANC elects its new leaders at its elective conference in Mangaung in December.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/ANCYL-saved-Zuma-from-prison-20120701


Malema's Former Office Burgled

Johannesburg - The office which former ANCYL leader Julius Malema used to occupy at ANC headquarters was broken into last week, the Sunday Independent reports. Books and files were taken from his office, and his former personal assistant Moshala Mothiba's computer was stolen, from Luthuli House in central Johannesburg, apparently while the ANC was holding its policy conference in Midrand. "The incident happened while the people were at (the policy) conference," police spokesperson Inspector Lorraine van Emmerik told the newspaper. She said police were investigating a case of business robbery. The Sunday Independent quoted unnamed sources saying that the door had not been forced open, and that the computer contained information on the daily running of the league. Malema was expelled from the African National Congress earlier this year and barred from entering any of the party's offices.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Malemas-office-burgled-20120701

[Don't Fall Into ANC - Trap !]

In another incident on July 3 2012 at a farm near Burgersfort, in the Free State, a family was able to defend itself against an armed gang of black male attackers and shot one of the invaders dead. Picture of black male attacker killed in Burgersfort farm attack July 3 2012 : Christo Van Graan wrote : Tonight 03/07/2012 around 20H30 a young white man and his girlfriend were at a farm house they rent located between Burgersfort and Steelpoort (Olifantpoortjie). The couple were barbequing when three black males attacked them, forced them to give the them their pin codes, stole their rented vehicle and withdrew cash with their robbed bank cards from the local bank. A third black male was left behind with the couple to guard them. Friends of the two white vctims showed up at the farm house when they came across the armed black man and this man was arrested. This man had raped the white girl while he was waiting for his comrades to return. Members of the SAPS, local farmers, private security and community volunteer citizens launched a search for the two remaining farm-attackers who had fled in the rented VW Polo. The vehicle tracker helped the SAPS find the men and during a firefight one of the two black male attackers was shot dead (picture).

Not going to post the picture here of the victim, but it can be viewed here

http://www.neo-genocide.com/farmitracker/reports/view/100

Don't Fall Into ANC - Trap !
 
Henri le Riche writes:  " South Africa  is in the middle of 'the ANC's 'National Democratic Revolution' which is followed slavishly by the new-generation of leaders also in the ANC youth league. "

And there's nothing they would love more than to incite the Afrikaners and Boers into violence, following the dictates of Karl Marx, who pointed out that "the revolution needs the whip of the counter-revolution to advance: ( the example in this case : http://www.marxist.com/egyptian-revolution-enters-new-stage.htm)

In other words, the ruling party of South Africa would be very happy if a 'counter-revolution' erupted so that they can enter their 'second phase. Without resistance  - 'counter-revolution' – their plans for revolution also will not advance. That's probably why they also aren't all that bothered about the scores of violent riots which erupt amongst disgruntled black communities countrywide at the moment. They can smash those communities with an iron fist – and do.

It's the Boers and Afrikaners who have to be incited to 'counter-revolution' – and very specifically, to armed violence ... don't fall into that trap ! 

http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2012/07/dont-fall-into-ndr-trap.html

[Part 10 – District Six - A Case Study In Forced Removals]

Part 10 – District Six - A Case Study In Forced Removals

By Mike Smith

When one today thinks about Apartheid forced removals, immediately Sophia Town in Johannesburg (blacks) and District Six in Cape Town (coloureds) springs to mind. We will take District Six as a case study. Today one is up against a mind set of people who wants to believe that District Six was a Multicultural paradise where, mostly coloureds, some Indians, some whites and also a few blacks all lived in harmony and perpetual bliss. They believe that the evil white government destroyed a happy go lucky community and forced them onto the Cape Flats, mainly where Mitchels Plain is today. To tell the truth about District Six today will be a revolutionary act. Firstly a bit of history. Where is or was District Six ? Well if you stand with your two legs in the water of Table Bay and you look towards Table Mountain, District Six would be on your left side at the slope of Table Mountain, just above "The Castle". Today the Cape University of Technology (Zonnebloem campus) stands on part of the area.

The origins of District Six is like this. Many moons ago during the Dutch and later British rule, it uses to be a farm called Zonnebloem. After the abolishment of slavery throughout the British Empire (1833) coloured people started squatting on the outskirts of Cape Town against the foot of Table Mountain, because they still wanted to work for the whites, but when they were slaves they were housed by whites, but as free people they now had to find their own houses. Two areas of freed slaves developed in Cape Town in what is called, "The Bo-Kaap" and "District Six". The Bo-Kaap was mainly a higher classed Muslim area and District Six, although also having a lot of Muslims, was made up from other coloureds of lower social standing. Now it has to be remembered that the Cape Colony only introduced official building regulations in 1861. By that time, 28 years of indiscriminate building by coloureds, resulted in a slum area developing in Cape Town's District Six that was getting worse with every day passing. There was no proper sewage or running water infrastructure in those days. In no time, District Six became an overcrowded slum, with narrow alleyways between jumbled together structures.

Here one has to consider that building rules are largely there for safety and health reasons. Windows need to be of a certain size to allow fresh air and natural light in. Rooms need to be a certain height. Every human being needs a certain amount of breathing space to prevent diseases such as Typhoid, Tuberculosis, etc from breaking out (as is the case in overcrowded concentration camps). Streets need to be a certain width so that ambulances and fire trucks can reach emergency situations. The coloured people from District Six knew nothing of such "trivialities". They just kept on adding more structures made from wood and corrugated iron sheets. This phenomenon can still be observed when one visit coloured areas today. No sooner have they received a house from the government for free, or they start building a "hok" (shack) in the backyard. Some have even multiple shacks or what is called "Wendy Houses", low quality wooden dwellings. These shacks and Wendy Houses are rented out and provide the owner with an income. Some even set up shebeens (illegal, informal drinking bars) in their backyard.

In the case of District Six it was exactly like that. Some of these people had several such shack dwellings that they would rent out and became what is referred to as the "Slumlords" of District Six. Most houses were small, some consisting of only one room housing as many as 20 people. The toilet was in the back yard and washing comprised turns in the bath tub in the kitchen or washing oneself in a "kom", a plastic bowl filled with some hot water. Once a week was enough. Further, In District Six started what is today referred to as the "Skolly gangs", coloured hooligans, who preferred a life of crime, drinking and drugs over honest hard work. By the 1930's District Six was a rat infested hellhole full of shebeens, "smokkelhuise" (smuggling houses) and brothels, where, alcohol and drugs flowed freely and sparked more and more social ills. The government realised that something had to be done about District Six before an epidemic of bubonic plague or cholera could break out that would have killed thousands. The government knew the history of the three smallpox epidemics of 1713, 1755 and 1767. The smallpox epidemic of 1713 killed about 90% of the KhoiKhoi (Hottentots) and about 25% of the whites of Cape Town.

The University of Cape Town has all the archives in their library. It is called The Denis Verschoyle Papers. Denis Verschoyle, an Irish immigrant, was a City Engineer and Town Planner in Cape Town. From 1961 to 1972, he lectured on the history of town planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town. He died in 1997. The information is today freely available to anyone who wants to know the truth about Cape Town planning and in particular, District Six. Basically Mr. W.S.Lunn who was city engineer in the 1930's had a plan. He wanted to transform District Six. He wanted to build proper houses with proper infrastructure and so, started building houses by the beginning of the Second World War, a total of 1127 homes had been built. But the coloureds did not want to move into the new houses. They claimed the rent was too high, but the rent was actually subsidised by the government (i.e.) White taxpayer money and very affordable. This a coloured culture for you. They always seem to have money for drugs and alcohol, but never for rent or utilities. Why pay rent and electricity when you can live for free in a shack and burn candles and have more money for alcohol ?

Eventually some did move into these houses, but as usual the backyards started being filled with illegally erected structures. Today the coloureds that lived in District Six have very fond memories of a period when alcohol flowed freely, Dagga was smoked and every second person could play a musical instrument. Their memories of District Six are basically, party every night. I do not dispute that they were very happy there. Like I said, in reality the place was a nest of social ills, it was dirty and it was a health risk, a ticking time bomb in actual fact. But how does one convince a pig that wallowing around in crap all day is bad for him, when he is so happy at doing it ? When one takes the pig away from his crap puddle, washes him off and let him live in a clean orderly place, he will be most distraught and upset with you. He will forever have fond memories of his crap puddle, where he was happy. No amount of explaining will ever convince him of anything else. So how did these memories of such a harmless and convivial District Six take root in the minds of coloureds over the years ?

Basically the newspaper called "The Cape Times", in an attempt to save District Six, ran some articles in the 1950's focussing on the music and culture of the people, painting everything rosy and saying nothing about the social ills, the gangs, the brothels, the alcohol and drug abuse or the rats. In 1966 the National Party declared District Six to be a 'White Group Area' so enabling them to destroy all buildings, except religious ones, on the grounds of 'slum clearance'. The government moved about 60,000 people from District Six to the Cape Flats at a cost of 30 million Rand including compensation. In 1970, the government renamed the area Zonnebloem after the original Dutch farm. They offered the land to investors to rebuild it, but no investors showed interest to rebuild the area, so the Government built the Cape Technikon Zonnebloem campus there. In District Six, there is a museum today that documents this period in an extremely biased and subjective way. It says that about 60,000 coloureds were forcibly removed from District Six to the Cape Flats because of the colour of their skin. It fails to mention that the coloureds of the Bo-Kaap are still living there and so are the ones from Observatory. If the government wanted to remove the coloureds from District Six, because of the colour of their skin or to take their "prime" land, why did they not also move the Bo-Kaap coloureds ? The Bo-Kaap is situated in the centre of Cape Town on prime property and worth billions. Why did the government not build millionaires villas in District Six, but instead chose to build a learning institution ? The simple truth is that District Six was everything from an eyesore, to a filthy slum, to a gang and rat infested hellhole.

The government in those days employed highly qualified health inspectors. One of them who were involved with the destruction of District Six told me how they went in there, saw rats the size of cats and millions of cockroaches half a foot long, how they had to board up these building structures first, fumigate them before they could destroy them, because they feared the plague would spread to the rest of Cape Town. Today the ex residents of "District Six" are a dime a dozen. Although only 60,000 were moved today the "survivors" are probably double that if not more. The "victim mentality" has fully taken hold of these "ex residents of District Six", but what they forget is about 40,000 whites were also forcibly removed from their land to make place for the Black Homelands. These whites have never been properly compensated for losing their farms that they had to sell way below market value to the government at the time, but they simply got on with life and made a living somewhere else. District Six was a case study in this issue, but the same can be said for places like Sophia Town where Blacks were also removed. Large concentrations of people from whatever race, who overcrowd and indiscriminately build with no planning, will always, pose a health risk not only to themselves, but also to their neighbouring communities.

Today they complain about forcibly being removed, but what was the alternative - Death by epidemic proportions ? They should be thankful that they are still alive today to yarn swap about their times in District Six, because if they carried on the way they did, disease would have wiped them out for sure. The irony is that they cannot see the truth. They see the NP government as a bunch of racists who wanted to exterminate them, but if that was the goal of the NP, they could simply have done nothing and waited for the bomb of disease to explode. No, the NP did everything in their power to avoid it. They actually saved thousands of coloured lives and entire future generations, along with their music and culture in District Six with their removal to the Cape Flats. Today it is easy to reminisce about the banjo playing, alcohol and dagga clouded times of District Six, but when you are a professional government with a job to do, to protect all your citizens, the picture is rather different.

[Land Reform Needs An Act As Forceful As War - ANCYL]

Land Reform Needs An Act As Forceful As War - ANCYL

Durban - It is an illusion if South Africans believe they can get their land back peacefully, ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola said in Durban on Tuesday. Lamola again called for the expropriation of land without compensation. He said youth unemployment could not be dealt with unless land was expropriated. "We need an act as forceful as war to bring it back to the Africans." He said it was an illusion if South Africans believed they could get their land back peacefully.

South Africa needs a minister of nationalisation, Lamola said. Such a minister would have a mandate in line with the Freedom Charter, he said in a lecture on economic freedom at the Durban University of Technology. While policemen had been forced to apologise to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, "corporate South Africa has never been put before the TRC". About 100 people protested outside the hall where Lamola was speaking. Lamola's lecture at the Durban University of Technology started an hour late after journalists initially outnumbered supporters. As Lamola was being introduced, loud singing could be heard outside the hall. The opposing faction wore T-shirts and displayed posters that read "ANCYL 100% Support for Zuma". University security prevented them from entering Mansfield Hall. Lamola said the ANC leadership had ignored the ANCYL's autonomy when expelling its former president Julius Malema from the party.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Land-reform-needs-an-act-as-forceful-as-war-ANCYL-20120619

[Leading Afrikaners Protest In Pretoria]

Leading Afrikaners Protest In Pretoria

On Tuesday, June 19 2012, more than 2,000 of South Africa's less than 3,5million Afrikaners undertook a peaceful protest in Pretoria, marching to the Union Buildings to hand in a memorandum against the brutal violence their community is targetted with by the black-African majority. Thirty leading Afrikaners led the calm procession. All the participants were dressed in black. There were no incidents of violence. The Afrikaners also left the procession-route cleaner than it was before their progress through Pretoria.

   
• In the last 18 years 345.000 people have been murdered in South Africa
• Since 2003, almost half a million (471.000) sexual crimes have been committed
• 1.573.597 people have been brutally assaulted between 2003 and 2010
• Commercial farmers have dropped from 70.000 to less than 40.000 since the communists took power in 1994

http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2012/06/leading-afrikaners-protest-in-pretoria.html