Das neue Südafrika

South Africa : Go and shoot him again

'2007-1-27 12:53

Durban - Legendary tourism personality and Anglo-Zulu War expert David Rattray's killer entered his house and fired a single shot before being ordered to re-enter the building to fire another two rounds, said a source close to the scene.

Sapa heard on Saturday morning that the leader of the gang had ordered the killer to go back inside Rattray's home, close to his Fugitive's Drift Lodge, near Dundee, after the first shot was fired.

Only one of the gang had entered Rattray's home while the others, including the man who appeared to be the leader, stayed outside.

The attackers then fled.

KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu said nothing appeared to have been taken from the house.

He said the gang had first held up the receptionist at the lodge.

Rattray was instrumental in putting the province's battlefields on the international tourism map.

'Senseless loss of life'

His widow, Nicky, said in a statement on Saturday that South Africa had lost a man who spoke to an international audience about "not only the history of his beloved South Africa but also about the miracle that he saw us living through today".

"Tens of thousands of people from Prince Charles to KwaZulu school children have listened to this unique South African deliver his message of nation building and reconciliation.

"This famous son of South Africa now joins the unacceptable list of citizens who have lost their lives to senseless banditry engulfing us."

Another well-known KwaZulu-Natal historian and raconteur, Kingsley Holgate, said Rattray had been a huge inspiration to him.

"We've lost a true son of Africa - and these people aren't many," he said.

"How tragic that a man who gave his life to preserving the Zulu culture and bravery of the old Zulu order ended his life at the hands of the Zulus.

"There will only be one David Rattray. He's a true icon."

He said Rattray had a way with the people of his area and was well respected.

Royal house shocked

He had also been close to Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini.

The head of the royal household department responsible for affairs of the royal house, Dr Vusi Shongwe, said he did not know of Rattray's death as the king was abroad.

"I didn't know, I am shocked, I will wake the king," he said.

According to the Conference Speakers International website, Rattray was born in Johannesburg in 1958.

He completed his schooling at St Alban's College in Pretoria and studied entomology at the University of Natal before managing the Mala Mala Game Reserve.

In 1989, he and his wife, Nicky, moved to his family's farm to start Fugitives' Drift Lodge from where they hosted a constant stream of visitors to the battlefields of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift.

"His exposure to Zulu oral tradition and his studies of his excellent library have left him uniquely equipped for his vocation as a raconteur, and he has entertained many audiences in South Africa and abroad," read the website.

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Cops arrested for theft

2007-1-27 12:50

Johannesburg - Six men including five policemen and police reservists were arrested after the theft of cash and cellphone cards at a Germiston shop during a "search", said Gauteng police on Saturday.

Genauso ist es und wird es, Lucky.

Heute las ich das Valley Blatt, erschreckend, die Neger rauchen viel Tik (heavy drug) und kommen mit Macheten, Messer und Schusswaffen und schlagen brutal zu. Die Typen bei mir waren auch auf Tik darum konnten die vom dritten Stock ""schmerzfrei"" runterspringen.
Ich dachte ich bin im Zirkus als ich das sah.

15 Gang Einbrueche nun mit Gewalt pro Woche und man will noch mehr Neger ansiedeln die arbeitslos sind.

Und nun die ersten Touristen die nicht aufgepasst haben und alles ganz locker sahen.

Gruss

Eldo

Barclays 'bankrolls' Mugabe

2007-1-28 08:05

London - Three British firms, including Barclays Bank, are providing millions of pounds worth of financial support to Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, the Observer reported Sunday.

Standard Chartered Bank and the insurance firm Old Mutual are the other firms reportedly linked to the regime, condemned by human rights organisations worldwide for its oppressiveness.

Citing an investigation by London-based newsletter Africa Confidential, the paper said that Barclays provided a £30m loan to a state facility which aims to sustain land reform.

One of the most controversial of Mugabe's policies, this has seen the government seize at least 4 000 farms for redistribution to landless blacks.

In total, the three companies provide more than one billion pounds' worth of direct and indirect funding to the Mugabe regime, according to the Observer.

"We have been in Zimbabwe since 1912 and have 1 000 employees serving 150 000 retail, business and corporate customers in the country," a Barclays spokesperson told the paper.

"We are committed to continuing to provide a service to those customers in what is clearly a difficult operating environment."

A Standard Chartered spokesperson reportedly confirmed his company had purchased Zimbabwean government bonds, as any commercial bank operating in the country must do.

"This is part of doing business in Zimbabwe," he added.

No-one from Old Mutual was available for comment when contacted by the paper.

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Africa 2010 WC will boost Africa

'2007-1-29 21:10

Addis Ababa - South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged on Monday to ensure the first ever world cup to be staged on African soil would benefit the whole of the world's poorest continent.

"We have to make absolute certainty that 2010 will benefit Africa and the African Diaspora," Mbeki said in a speech at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa.

Countries close to South Africa are hoping to reap significant dividends from the 2010 tournament, both from tourists and teams looking for training bases ahead of the finals.

Interest in football, already the most popular sport in Africa, is also likely to accelerate in the countdown to the big kick-off.

Mbeki said the tournament should leave Africa as a whole better off, and he expressed the hope that it would lead to other countries on the continent staging the world's biggest sporting event.

Right to stage WC fully earned'

"We should have this African legacy, we are working on a systematic manner so that it has a lasting legacy," he said before delegates at the summit which included Fifa president Sepp Blatter.

"As we proceed on our way towards 2010, the continent and the African people will be better than they are today thanks to the role of football."

Blatter said Africa had fully earned the right to stage the tournament. South Africa controversially lost out to Germany to host the 2006 event, but bounced back with its follow-up bid.

"Africa has provided the world with so many players and coaches," said Blatter. "We had legitimate joy when South Africa won the rights to host the World Cup in 2010.

"We are optimistic that football can make things smooth and Africa can be looked upon with respect rather than being patronised."

'World cup should be for entire continent'

African football has made huge strides in the last two decades and players such as Barcelona's Cameroon striker Samuel Et'o and Chelsea's Ivorian forward Didier Drogba, are gracing the top leagues in Europe.

Issa Hayatou, the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), said the decision to hand the continent five places at the next World Cup was a signal of growing respect.

"We will see that we have to prove ourselves after we have been handed five places," he said.

Hayatou echoed Mbeki with his desire for the whole continent to benefit from 2010.

"I want to tell you that the world cup should be for the entire continent, not only for South Africa," he said.

"We have differences but we should be together from north to south and west to east. Who could have thought about this 20 years ago?"

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South Africa: 32 cops held after protest

2007-1-30 08:40

Johannesburg - Thirty-two police officers and prison warders are behind bars after allegedly assaulting a station commander during a protest demanding her dismissal, the Sowetan reported on Tuesday.

The protesters, all members of the police and prisons union, Popcru, were arrested on Monday at the Vaal Rand flying squad headquarters in Vanderbijlpark.

The crowd had been demanding the immediate removal of the unit commander.

The protest began at 09:00 and continued until policemen arrived and arrested their toyi-toying colleagues at about 14:00.

Trudie Wilken, of the Vaal Rand police, said those arrested would face charges of assault, trespassing, contravening the Police Act and disrupting police services.

The 32 were expected to appear in the Vanderbijlpark magistrate's court Tuesday.

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Gefaehrliche Schokolade....

Aids strikes SA's rich

2007-1-30 17:18

Johannesburg - South Africa's Aids epidemic, often regarded by health workers as a disease of the poor, is in fact spreading quickly among the country's richest and best educated people, researchers said on Tuesday.

The study by the Markinor polling firm and the University of South Africa (Unisa) showed a rapid increase in HIV infections in professional people and those with full-time employment - both key to South Africa's hopes to spur economic development.

"The high risk group is growing, it is getting older and it is getting richer," said Carel van Aardt, director of Unisa's Bureau of Market Research. "This could represent a whole new wave of the epidemic."

Tracy Hammond, Markinor's project manager for the study said: "If we thought the Aids epidemic was having bad economic effects already, this could take us to the crisis point."

"This time it is not the employees, it is the employers. It is not the people without bank accounts, it is the people who make investments," Hammond said.

Young people greatest risk

The study challenges widespread assumptions about South Africa's HIV/Aids crisis, which is often described as a disease of the rural poor who lack access to information, treatment and basic health services.

South Africa now has some 5.5 million HIV-positive people out of a total population of some 45 million, giving it an estimated overall prevalence rate of about 11% and one of the worst Aids caseloads in the world.

The new study examined some 3 500 South Africans between the years of 2002-2005, a poll engineered to reflect the country's racial and economic demographics.

Overall, the study identified young people below the age of 30 as being at greatest risk for HIV, as most previous research has done. But it also found infections rising at alarming rates in the rich and better educated - groups not previously singled out as being at risk.

"We are on the eve of a very scary reality unless we start making some changes," said Hammond.

Up the social ladder

Researchers said there were many possible factors behind the spread of HIV among upper levels of society, among them confused government messages about HIV/Aids, greater disposable income and leisure, and general apathy about safe sex practices.

But whatever the reason, Aids is certainly climbing the social ladder for both black and white South Africans.

Among South Africa's professionals, for instance, the study found a 34% jump in estimated HIV prevalence, rising to 8.3% in 2004 from 6.2% in 2002.

People with full-time jobs - who in South Africa account for only about half the working population - saw estimated HIV-prevalence rise to 19.2% in 2005 from 14.4% in 2002.

Unemployed people, while seeing a bigger percentage jump in HIV prevalence, remained lower in terms of actual prevalence rates with just 18.4% estimated infected in 2005 compared with 11% in 2002.

Hitting people as careers take off

In a further piece of alarming news, the study said HIV infection was growing most quickly in those aged between 30-34, threatening people just as their careers take off.

Overall, the richest third of South Africa's population still has a lower estimated HIV-prevalence than the poorest third, at 8.5% compared with 23.4%.

But the study said new infections were increasing most rapidly in this demographic, rising by 39% between 2002-2005 against only a 14% increase for their poorest compatriots.

Reuters

SA police still 'too white

'2007-2-1 07:13

Nelspruit - The South African Police Service must be below 10% "white" by 2010.

That's according to a confidential report on the latest guidelines for quotas and affirmative action (AA) in the police by commissioner Manoko Aletta Nchwe, who's in charge of the service's career management.

Beeld newspaper has a copy of the report, which is backed by the national commissioner.

The report says that by 2010, the police service must consist of 79% blacks, 9.6% whites, 8.9% coloureds and 2.5% Indians.

At present, the SAPS has 156 180 members, of whom 29 401 are white, that is, between 18% and 19%.

Severance packages

Officers who command the 25 business units in the police have been warned they must comply with the AA guidelines.

Nchwe says attrition can take place through resignations, moving whites to other service points and by offering severance packages.

Dianne Kohler Barnard of the Democratic Alliance said it was typical of the government to ignore the massive crime crisis in South Africa and concentrate instead on transformation.

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Dann heisst es noch laenger warten wenn weniger Weisse mehr dort arbeiten.......die Polizei ist nur da wenn man sie nicht braucht.
Die fangen sich ein paar schwarze im Township ein und verpassen denen eine Uniform.
Vorher waren sie arbeitslose Kriminelle die dann fuer ""Ordnung"" sorgen.
Affirmative Action, ein schoenes Wort, ein neues demokratisches fuer Apartheid umgedreht.

Burglar in headlock for 45mins

2007-1-25 23:19

Pretoria - Quite literally defending his family "tooth and nail", Mark Singery of Willow Park Manor in Pretoria east held on to a robber for nearly an hour, until police arrived.

Singery, 41, was bitten and cut with a sharp object but it didn't stop him from holding the culprit, who was trying to beat a hasty retreat, in a headlock.

His wife, Luitje, also 41, said Mark woke up about 03:00 when he heard the toilet freshener falling to the floor.

"Shortly afterwards, he saw the light of a torch, and, the next moment, a man was standing next to the wardrobes in our bedroom."

"I switched on the lights and my husband tackled the man.

"They fought their way into the toilet, and knocked the bathroom window - with burglar bars and all - right out of its frame."

Hit the panic buttons

"I don't know if the would-be robber was trying to get back out again. We don't know if there were others waiting for him outside."

She said that, during the fight, she hit the panic buttons, and phoned their neighbours to come and help, as well as calling the police.

Singery held the man in a headlock for three-quarters of an hour, while his neighbour helped by twisting the man's arm behind his back.
Beeld ARTICLE

Home owner beats, kills burglar
Pta home owner kills burglar
Mob kills suspected burglar
Alarmed burglar off to jail
Man stole to start own business

SA: 90% will be crime victims

2007-2-2 14:27

Pretoria - The National Civil Safety and Security Action (Nacissa) has asked how government and the ruling party could promote a better life for all if crime was out of control.

"We are not against strategies that the government has put in place, we are here to assist," Nacissa chief executive Ockie van der Schyf said in Pretoria on Friday. He was addressing the launch of Nacissa which aims to unite civil society against crime.

Crime statistics show that nearly 2.5 million people were victims of violent crime in the past three years and a recent study also showed a probability that more than 90% of people would fall victim to crime in South Africa.

"The statistics confirmed that the government has already lost the struggle against crime and it does not have the political will to accept that crime is a greater threat to our society," van der Schyf said.

Nacissa would initiate campaigns to have crime declared a national priority like HIV and Aids and would raise funds for financial, legal and medical assistance for victims of crime.

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...wirds wohl stimmen

Bild dir deine Meinung

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Original von fs_fra:

...wenn "die" es schon sagen

...wirds wohl stimmen

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Das ist schon ziemlich hart [Blockierte Grafik: http://members.aol.com/s1stpx/smile/10.gif]

Andererseits gilt diese Zeitung ja auch als Kontra-Indikator

Kontra-indikator für wen? Wer macht den eine Reiseentscheidung anhand von einer Bild Empfehlung??? Sicherlich nicht die etwas "aufgeweckteren"

...das Problem ist einfach: Jeder Tourist, der zum ersten Mal nach Kapstadt kommt (zugegeben mit ein paar €€€ in der Tasche - ist ja nicht mehr wirklich Preiswert) denkt er steht im Paradies. Wenn man allerdings mal so ein bisschen näher an die Fassade kommt sieht man wie sie bröckelt. Und wer schon mal da ist und erkennt, dass die Fassade bröckelt und dann sich mal das marode Mauerwerk anschaut, dem läuft es kalt den Rücken runter.
Ich weiss wovon ich spreche - habe lange genug da gelebt!

Der Typ hatte Glueck in den paar Tagen wahrscheinlich auch eine gute Reisebegleitung.

In der Gegend sind sehr viele Cameras montiert und speziell in der Innenstadt faehrt mehr Polizei rum sodass es einigermassen noch sicher ist.
Ich haette den Typen gerne in Woodstock und Malay Quarter rausgelassen in der Nacht.
In Kloof, Long oder Longstreet kann man spazieren gehen, wer weiss was fuer ihn ueberhaupt huebsche Frauen sind.

Tatsache ist das Kapstadt eine Schwulenstadt ist, mehr warme Brueder als San Francisco.
Geht mal ins Bronx (Greenpoint) dort wird gekuesst und getanzt bis zum umfallen, gleichzeitig auch HIV verteilt.
Viele der anderen Grosswildjaeger fahren erstmal ins Puff und eine Schwarze zu schnakseln, es gehoert ja mit zum Besuch.
700 Rand und schon ist man in Afrika fuer eine Stunde, nach der Tafelberg Tour.
Btw, die Nutten hier gehen nicht zum Test und brauchen kein Zertifikat um dort zu arbeiten, die meisten sind auf Drogen und haben etliche km drauf.
Sorry, die Deutschen Maenner sind am schlimmsten, das erste was sie fragen ist wo koennen sie eine Schwarze......
Nicht alle aber viele !

Am Sonntag kam auf Carte Blance ein TV Programm das auf die Kriminalitaet im Land eingeht.
Tatsache ist das viele Touristen nicht mehr kommen und die auslaendischen Botschaften um ihre Buerger besorgt sind.

In dem Botanischen Garten in Kirstenbosch wurden letzten Monat 8 Touristen ausgeraubt. Man hat nicht mal Hunde eingesetzt um die 5-7 Gangster die immer vom Wald kommen aufzuspueren, es ist ja unmenschlich einen Hund einzusetzten.
Bis heute hat man noch keinen geschnappt, der Mann bei der Schranke sagt nur die sind noch da oben und rauben bald wieder einen aus.

Wer Mut hat der kann auch in Beirut/Bagdad eine schoene Zeit haben, wenn jemand am falschen Ort oder falsche Zeit irgendwo in der Welt ist hat er Pech gehabt. Sicher es`gibt viele die fahren gluecklich nach Hause und berichten von einen Traumurlaub.

Andere werden ein Opfer der Kriminalitaet und kommen nicht mehr wieder.

Probiert es doch mal aus nach dem Bericht, no risk, no fun.

Gruss

Eldo

""Bill, du bist doch Reisender, wie lange bist du eigentlich schon hier?
„Drei Jahre“, sagt Bill. „Ich reise so langsam ;(– die meisten Leute halten mich für einen Einheimischen.“"

Wir laden Freunde ein, grillen auf der Terrasse unseres Apartments in Camps Bay. Straußensteak und „Boerewors“, Weißwein und südafrikanisches Bier. Die Sonne erlischt im Atlantik, färbt die Felsen der Zwölf Apostel in Orange. Grillduft und Lachen, schöner kann Leben nicht sein. (zwischen den Einbruch in die Haeuser)

„Die schönste Stadt Afrikas ist noch schöner, wenn man ihr Zeit lässt“, sagt Bill. „Mache keine Pläne. In Kapstadt kommt ja doch alles anders.“

Doch erst, wer länger als ein paar Nächte bleibt, entdeckt die spannenden Seiten der City…

Fuer welchen Reiseveranstalter berichtet der eigentlich ?
Gleich unter dem Bericht kann man gleich die ganze Tour buchen,ist das nicht schoen?.

http://www.preisvergleich.de/travel/reisen-kapstadt.html

http://www.yourcar.co.za/

http://www.tiscover.co.za/za/s…tedEntry,home/online.html

Cops up for apartheid crimes

2007-2-7 07:15

Cape Town

The national prosecuting authority (NPA) has informed three security policemen that they are to be prosecuted for apartheid crimes.
These will be the first prosecutions since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

The case is related to attempts to poison the Rev Frank Chikane, who is now the director-general of the presidency.

Beeld has the names of the three security police officers and has established that they have been informed by their legal representative that the NPA intends to go ahead with prosecutions.

The move paves the way for prosecution of former minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and former chief of police General Johan van der Merwe, who are both fully aware of, and prepared for, what will follow, according to sources.

Address to the nation

The NPA did not want to confirm or deny that the prosecutions were to begin.

In political circles, speculation is rife that the planned prosecutions could open a hornet's nest in the week of President Thabo Mbeki's address to the nation.

The question of prosecuting apartheid-era crimes is politically loaded, as some believe that they're necessary to conclude the TRC process, while others feel they could destroy reconciliation.

It appears that members of the latter group could use high-level political pressure to try to prevent prosecutions.

In terms of policy and the constitution, the decision to prosecute lies with the national director of prosecutions, advocate Vusi Pikoli, and not with the government.

Questions already have been asked in high circles about the equanimity of the NPA, and if well-known African National Congress figures who did not get amnesty, would be prosecuted.

One of the ANC members whose amnesty application was turned down was Thabo Mbeki :D, who applied with a number of other ANC members.

Vlok was in the news recently when he washed Chikane's feet to atone for the attempt to poison him while he was general secretary of the South African Council of Churches.

The three security policemen were connected to the same plot to kill Chikane.

Vlok's step was lauded last year by Mbeki, who added that South Africans should learn to listen more closely to each other across the boundaries of apartheid.

Vlok did not want to respond to rumours that he could be prosecuted. Van der Merwe also remained silent.

Johan Wagener, legal representative of the three security policemen, said the NPA informed him of their decision at the end of last month.

He did not want to comment on any particulars.

The latest events follow the tabling in parliament last January of a new prosecution policy on apartheid crimes, among other things.

The victim has a say

It includes a clause that gives the NPA discretion on whether or not to prosecute, if it is not in "the national interest".

One of the factors that must be taken into account is whether the apartheid victim wants the prosecution to go ahead.

In Chikane's case, he has indicated that he is not interested in prosecution, but that he wants full disclosure on the attempt on his life.

He has also indicated that the government is not interested in time-consuming prosecutions.

The NPA has indicated, nevertheless, that prosecution will go ahead.
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E-mails pouring in to Mbeki

2007-2-7 16:06

Johannesburg - People concerned about crime have sent more than 5 000 letters to President Thabo Mbeki via a website Solidarity set up, said the trade union on Wednesday.

According to spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans, more than 5 000 letters were e-mailed to Mbeki's office within the first 24 hours of the launch of http://www.dearpresident.co.za on Tuesday.

Kleynhans said: "At the moment, between 20 to 30 people a minute are sending letters to the president via the website."

The website was launched in response to First National Bank (FNB) suspending a multimillion-rand anti-crime advertising campaign on Friday, reportedly due to pressure from some government and big business quarters.

11 violent incidents

It involved print, television and radio advertisements and invited members of the public to write to President Mbeki about their experiences of crime.

Kleynhans said Solidarity had received "numerous requests" from people who wanted to tell their stories to Mbeki.

Among them is a letter that reads: "Dear Mr Mbeki, I have experienced 11 incidents of violence and robberies in the past three years, and the crime is now getting out of hand.

"Please, I beg you to please do something about this. We are all too scared to go out or to live a normal life."

Another reads: "I hate South Africa because of the crime. I cannot drive with an open window because I am afraid of being hijacked.

"I cannot walk from the bedroom to the bathroom without de-activating my alarm. I am a prisoner in a 'free democratic country'."

Letters available for free

Founder of the website, realsouthafrica.co.za, Pieter Boshoff said copies of the letter FBN intended sending to Mbeki had been posted on his website.

"More than 1 500 copies of the letter already had been downloaded from http://www.realsouthafrica.co.za soon after it was posted on the site and anybody can do so free of charge..." he said.

Boshoff said the website was started in July 2006 in response to a "very negative website" that advised visitors not to come to South Africa.

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Eldorado

Sorry dass ich mich schon wieder einmischen muss. Aber was willst Du von uns???? Du lamentierst ständig über Deine von Dir freiwillig ausgesuchte (neue) Heimat. Ich kann doch nicht täglich über Big Mäcs schimpfen und jeden Tag 10 zu mir nehmen. Da passt doch was nicht.
Sollen wir alle ein Ticket nehmen und nach SA fliegen bis an die Zähne bewaffnet und den Schwarzen den garaus machen???
Sag es uns einfach.
Was willst Du damit bezwecken??? Du solltest durch Deine Aktientrades
doch schon so reich sein dass Du locker in ein besseres Land gehen kannst.
Andernfalls lasse Dich mal untersuchen.

Gruß
rokko

das wird jetzt tragikkomisch.

Sagt der eine über den anderen,

er möge sich mal untersuchen lassen.


Dem Patienten wird dann beigesprungen:

An Genesungswünschen habe es wahrlich nicht gemangelt.


Meinetwegen kann GS eine Standleitung einrichten,

auf der Eldo die Missetaten der Mohren nonstop

berichten kann.


Humor ist wenn man trotzdem lacht.

Gogh