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[Terre'Blanche suspects 'bragged']

Terre'Blanche suspects 'bragged'

Ventersdorp - Eugene Terr`Blanche`s murder, over a wage dispute and missing cattle, was planned in the stables of his farm, the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court heard on Monday. "They planned to kill Mr Terre'Blanche. They planned : 'this man is giving us trouble, we are going to kill him'," said investigating officer Ttietsi Mano during the bail hearing of farmworker Chris Mahlangu, 28.

He and a 15-year-old youth have been charged with killing the rightwing leader on Easter Saturday this year. The court heard on Monday that the two went to the stores for an iron rod, and broke into the farm house. They attacked Terre'Blanche while he was sleeping, using the rod and a panga. Mano said Mahlangu pointed out the murder scene to police, and this was regarded as a confession.

Mano testified after doubts at the weekend over whether he would stay on the case following his arrest for allegedly assaulting witnesses in other investigations. He is out on bail. Prosecutor George Baloyi said Terre'Blanche was struck several times in his face, head and body, with the weapons, according to a provisional summary of facts. He suffered 28 injuries to his face, brain, tongue, skull, ribs and liver during the attack on his farm.

After the murder, the court heard, the two took Terre'Blanche's cellphone then went to "brag" about killing him. "They met three people and accused number one told them that he is now their boss because they have killed Mr Terre'Blanche," Baloyi read from a summary of facts, which Mano confirmed. But the other farm workers did not believe them.

Crimen injuria, initially explained as being included because he was found dead with his trousers down, was not on Monday's list of charges. The 15-year-old made a brief appearance earlier and his lawyer said outside court that he had left school in grade seven to work for Terre'Blanche at a salary of R500 and a bed in the stables.

Terre'Blanche, a keen horseman who made appearances at shows around the country, had hired the boy to look after his herd of 97 cattle and also gave him a meal of pap and milk, and occasionally meat, said his lawyer Zola Majavu. The boy would plead not guilty when he returns for his own bail application on June 10 and then go on trial in a high court in September.

Terre'Blanche's brother Andries, as well as Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) secretary-general Andre Visagie, were among those present at the long-awaited bail hearing. The AWB saw the murder as proof of the dangers of ANC youth league leader Julius Malema`s singing the lyrics "shoot the boer", and farmers say the murder proves that they are being targeted.

Source : http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/TerreBlanche-suspects-bragged-20100510

Westminster, United Kingdom -- On Saturday morning, 8 May 2010, around 20 Afrikaners, referring to themselves as "Boere", conducted a "silent protest" in Parliament Square against what is known in South Africa as "Plaasmoorde" – Farm Murders. With their mouths taped up and without chanting any of the slogans on their placards ranging from "More than 3,000 farmers murdered since 1994" and "Families butchered everyday" to "No farmers, no food" and "Boer genocide = African famine" they symbolised the silence of the world press when it comes to the reporting of these genocidal killings.

Apart from two high profile murders which had enticed a couple of media reports for a week or two, these often very gruesome murders have gone largely unnoticed. When asked what the aim of the protest was, the organiser of the event, Wynand Krüger, said : " Whilst we acknowledge that South Africa's rampant crime leaves every citizen and tourist very vulnerable, we wanted to emphasise the ethnic nature of what we consider to be targetted attacks in order to scare and intimidate white farmers off their land. "Do you realize that Genocide Watch recently raised South Africa's threat level to Stage 5 out of the 8 possible stages of Genocide, referring to Boers and refugees as the potential victims ? That is why we also chose to display Boer flags here today; we consider "plaasmoorde" to constitute a process of ethnic cleansing that echoes the concentration camps of the Anglo Boer War.

"No-one believed it then and no-one is believing it now. Our people need, and would be very thankful for, another Emily Hobhouse, hence the protest here in Parliament Square." One protester also commented that the ANC-dominated government's failure to adequately address farm murders, as well as its racially prejudiced policies towards ethnic minorities since Nelson Mandela stepped down, left her feeling marginalised and unable to identify with the new South Africa, its flag and the idea of a Rainbow Nation any longer. "The ANC preaches one thing, but practises another", she said. Another protestor wanted to know why Mr Mandela was so quiet on the farm murder issue, especially since the ANC defended Julius Malema's singing of the genocidal hate-speech song "Kill the Boer". "Mr Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, where is he now ? Last year he shared a stage with now president Zuma, thereby endorsing Zuma and the ANC during the previous election."

Bean Earle, chairman of the Jack Hindon Scouts in the UK, said : "the frightening statistics of more than 3,360 farmers being murdered in more than 10,000 attacks since 1994, the ANC's failure to discipline Julius Malema for his hate speech and calling for Zimbabwe-style land grabs, the fact that South Africa can now be mentioned in the same breath as Zimbabwe and Iraq (both listed as at stage 5 by Genocide Watch) when potential genocide is discussed, as well as the knock-on effect of these factors on dramatic drop in the food production in Sub-Saharan Africa, all send a multitude of shivers up one's spine. It is therefore unsurprising that there are serious doubts about the prospects for a peaceful future in South Africa. "Despite the protest in Parliament Square being a silent one, those present hoped that the message got across loud and clear, he said.

Source : http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/05/stop-boer-genocide-protest-uk_10.html

[SAPS dismisses terrorist threat from huge explosive find]

SAPS dismisses terrorist threat from huge explosive find

Accidential discovery of massive explosives cache should set all the alarm bells ringing...

Despite an open threat from the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) terrorist group that they will attack the large crowds of Westerners attending the WC2010 tournaments and warnings from top SA security experts -- the SAPS ("police") dismisses any suspicions that the two and a half tons of commercial explosives and thousands of metres of explosive cord accidentially found at a house in South Hills. Johannesburg could have been just the tip of the iceberg – nor that the presence of such massive stolen explosives-caches could pose any kind of terrorist threat.

Although the SAPS have yet to question all the suspects and are still looking for other members of the crime-network, they are focused only on their conviction that this explosives cache would only be used to blow up ATB-cash machines... and nothing else, apparently.

Meanwhile the SA security services ignore the threats from the Islamic Maghreb – and instead prefer to concentrate on far-fetched claims from their own paid agent-provocateurs who have infiltrated Afrikaner-Boer political groups that there are 'far-right white-racist murder plots' afoot ...

Meanwhile the ATM-robber gangs are already waging a terrorist-style warfare campaign against the SAPS for control of the country's streets – and in many townships the gangs ow run things, including local polics stations.

Source : http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/05/saps-dismisses-terrorist-threat-from.html

[[I remember a time when the Rand was stronger than the US$, as this article shows below. But because the jews own the minerals (Oppenheimers) and the reserve bank (Gill Marcus), this country is regarded a third world country]]

South Africa is the world's richest country in terms of its mineral reserves - worth $2.5 thousand billion - according to research by the American banking group Citigroup, reports Bloomberg. The Citigroup report, which was compiled by its mining analyst, Craig Sainsbury, says that Russia comes second after South Africa, and Australia third.

The research states that South Africa, Guinea, the Ukraine, India and Kazakhstan all have mineral reserves unrelated to energy worth more than $200bn. Mines in these countries also all have average life spans of more than 100 years at current rates of exploitation. Countries like Guinea and Kazakhstan with high resource values but limited mining activity could see greater demand from the world's biggest mining companies and foreign wealth funds, the report continues.
Sainsbury says Chinese mines have an average 17-year life of mine, according to surveys by the US Geological Survey system. Sainsbury says it's no wonder that China continues to invest massively in metals and mining, Bloomberg reports. He says that China is expected to continue investing in copper and iron ore, together with energy resources like coal and uranium. Of South Africa's $2 500bn worth of reserves, $2 300bn resides in the platinum group metals.

Russia's iron ore reserves are valued at $794bn - more than the Australian iron ore reserves, which are estimated to be worth $737bn. Iron ore reserves in the Ukraine, according to Sainsbury, are worth $510bn, and Guinea has bauxite (aluminium ore) worth $222bn. In dollar values Guinea, South Africa, India, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan are the countries that under-produce the most in terms of their reserves, says Sainsbury. India will need to increase its domestic production rates, especially in light of its economic upturn. But bureaucracy and national protectionism will probably scare off any foreign investors, the report declares.

Source : http://www.miningmx.com/news/markets/SA-richest-country-in-the-world.htm

[I remember a time when the Rand was stronger than the US$, as this article shows below. But because the jews own the minerals (Oppenheimers) and the reserve bank (Gill Marcus), this country is regarded a third world country]

A rand was worth more than a US dollar from the time of its inception in 1961 until 1982, when mounting political pressure combined with sanctions placed against the country because of Apartheid started to erode its value. The currency broke above parity with the dollar for the first time in March 1982, and continued to trade between R 1-R 1.30 to the dollar until June 1984, when depreciation of the currency gained momentum. By February 1985, it was trading at over R 2 per dollar, and in July that year all foreign exchange trading was suspended for 3 days to try to stop the devaluation.

By the time that State President PW Botha made his notorious Rubicon speech on 15 August 1985, it had weakened to R 2.40 per dollar. The currency recovered somewhat between 1986-88, trading near the R 2 level most of the time and even breaking beneath it sporadically. The recovery was short-lived however, and by the end of 1989 the rand was trading at levels of more than R 2.50 per dollar.

As it became clear in the early 1990s that the country was destined for black majority rule and one reform after the other was announced, uncertainty about the future of the country hastened the depreciation until the level of R 3 to the dollar was breached in November 1992. A host of local and international events influenced the currency after that, most notably the 1994 democratic election which saw it weaken to over R 3.60 to the dollar, the election of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank, and the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999 which saw it quickly slide to over R 6 to the dollar. The controversial land reform program that was kicked off in Zimbabwe, followed by the September 11, 2001 attacks, propelled it to its weakest historical level of R 13.84 to the dollar in December 2001. [today its trading around R7-50]

Source : http://wapedia.mobi/en/South_African_Rand

SA journalist Paul Trewelha seems to be gloating – but perhaps it's just my imagination – when he writes : "Events are moving with incredible speed in southern Africa, almost too quickly to comprehend, as a new world order takes shapes in a configuration that has changed the sub-continent forever," he writes.

" President Ahmedinejad of Iran arrives in Zimbabwe as the guest of the Mugabe regime, for a secret deal to mine uranium for Iran's nuclear programme. Julius Malema (ANC youth league leader) arrives in Venezuela as the guest of the Yanqui-bashing regime of Hugo Chavez (Iran and Venezuela both sustained by oil revenues, Venezuela with its comprehensive statisation of the economy, Iran hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons for the global Islamist Armageddon).Extending ever deeper southwards, China is the new benevolent uncle bestriding the sub-continent in the shoes of Cecil Rhodes, on condition that African governments should not be too solicitous about their independence ....

Who is Paul Trewelha ? Paul Henry Trewelha, a journalist from South Africa, giving testimony to "The Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal Experts" - United Nations Commission on Human Rights investigating 'charges of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners victims of the policy of apartheid in South Africa", during its first five meetings in London from 12-24 June 1967. It heard three former prisoners testify to the discriminatory treatment of African prisoners and particularly African political prisoners. Testimony was also heard as to the mistreatment of witnesses personally suffered while in detention. The Working Group's weeklong session at the United Nations Association offices in London was scheduled to hear witnesses through to June 19 1967. It then proceeds to Dar Es Salaam to hear further testimonies from 21-27 June.

Weak government in South Africa : He continues : "Meanwhile, in South Africa : weak government, with the overwhelmingly dominant party of state racked with ferocious internal divisions, the President (of the state, and of the ruling party) racked with indecision as he attempts to hold together the factions of his ascendancy to office, in an increasingly fractious coalition..

"Iran - China - Venezuela ... here is the alignment of a new world order unimagined by George W Bush, as he led the United States with the blind assurance of a sleepwalker into unimaginable debt, and wars in the Muslim countries (is it correct to say 'states'?) of Iraq and Afghanistan, with the former Great Britain (now brand 'UK') at his heels. Here there is no road-map from the past to guide South Africa to the future. This was a context unimaginable to the Christian gentlemen who founded the African National Congress almost one hundred years ago, and led it under the guidance of iNkosi Albert Luthuli and even, to some extent, in exile, Oliver Reginald Tambo.

Unimaginable too to the rugged champions of the Communist Party of South Africa, which metamorphosed itself into the SACP after it was banned in 1950 : both parties ideologically baptised in the secularist font of Soviet Russia, and whose Iranian sister party, the Tudeh, was massacred by the mullahs' regime now headed by Ahmedinejad on a scale that would make Mugabe's Gukurahundi killings in Matabeleland look like a children's nursery. So much for the emancipation of women, for free and fair elections, for the secular alliance of Christian, Muslim, Jew and Hindu which convened the Congress of the People at Kliptown in 1955, and created the Freedom Charter.

And all the while, South Africa deteriorates into a condition in which, as one anguished commentator put it last week, "all the manouevres in the ANC have one thing in common : access to economic freedom for those who can use their ANC positions to do so." A party of warring kleptocracies and would-be kleptocracies, in which the ideals of decades of sacrifice are boiled down to the lowest common denominator, where a scramble for public office is the means to private graft.

Where the phrase 'tenderpreneur', invented only a short time ago, almost overnight becomes a term of everyday speech, in a movement in which a few decades ago individuals went to the gallows for a certain ideal of public service. Where the term 'Bermuda' now refers - not to an island in the Caribbbean, or a holiday destination for the rich, or a sinister legendary triangle - but to the 'shorts' by which politically-connected tenderpreneurs leave their ill-gotten public contracts half fulfilled, so that their bridges fall down, and their roads wash away in the rain. Where the public, once again, is short-changed....

Source : http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/