Das neue Südafrika

Lucky

Kannst Recht haben das die es hier herstellen und keine USD brauchen.

Wie auch immer ein Gift das noch mehr zur Kriminalitaet beitraegt.

GNIGHT

XEX

'Zimbabwe is safer than SA'

2007-9-27 13:44

Johannesburg

South Africa being the third least safest place out of 48 countries on the African continent, indicates that SA is critically unsafe, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.

The party's spokesperson on Safety and Security MP Dianne Kohler Barnard said that the Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance, which ranked SA as third most dangerous after "war zone" countries, Sudan and Burundi indicated that what citizens of this country had been crying out for years, was the truth.

"South Africa's safety and security performance is utterly abysmal. The fact that we are just 30 points above the most dangerous country in Africa, and right now, probably the world, must act as a loud wake-up call to the Minister of Safety and Security."

Congo is safer than SA

She added that countries including Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe Rwanda and Liberia were far safer in terms of safety and security.

"Although the government will continue to throw money at the crime problem, such an approach has had only limited success," Barnard said.

She said it was likely that companies and individuals would continue protecting their own security themselves.

"This threatens to spawn a vigilante environment ... if a spate of violent robberies and killings of foreigners is repeated during the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the negative consequences for future tourism and foreign investment will be severe."

Bernard said the DA had made suggestions to government to address the shortage of detectives, and to increase facilities and equipment for the South African Police, in order to combat crime.

"ANC spin-doctors are already attempting to denigrate the Index, stating that, there is this hullabaloo over crime, and that South Africa is one of the safest countries in the world - for the ministers and their cronies perhaps, but most certainly not for the rest of us," Barnard said.

SAPA

DA: SA is going backwards

2007-09-27 12:02:04

Cape Town - South Africa is moving backwards in key development areas such as economics, safety and security, says the Democratic Alliance.

"When considering year-by-year positions on various indices, South Africa is actually backsliding rather than improving," says a DA survey, launched by DA parliamentary leader Sandra Botha on Thursday.

The document, titled "Truth and Denial", contrasts ruling party claims about the country's development with figures from international comparative surveys.

Among other things, it shows that according to the United Nations Human Development Index - which takes into account a wide range of factors such as adult literacy and GDP per capita - South Africa has been slowly slipping down the rankings since 2001.

Crime 'out of control'

In that year, the country was ranked 94th out of 162 surveyed. Last year, it was 121st out of 177.

Further, the Global Competitiveness Index, published by the World Economic Forum, ranked South Africa 45th in 2006/07, compared to 40th the year before.

"Contrary to the expressed statements of the ANC, South Africa is becoming less economically competitive," the DA document says.

It also examines the 7th UN Survey of Crime Trends, for the period 1998 to 2000, which shows the crime level in South Africa at that time was such that one in 12 people was a victim.

Botha - speaking at a parliamentary media briefing - said this was "very close to the position as it is today, in terms of South African statistics".

The public at least was very certain the crime situation was out of control, and, she said, there was a definite increase in the number of people who were emigrating because of this.

"I'm hoping that [the] 2010 [Soccer World Cup] will see an improvement in crime, because if it doesn't, every hope that we have of 2010 placing us under the spotlight in terms of an investment and tourism destination... won't happen," she warned.

The DA survey also looks at the 2007 Global Peace Index - maintained by the international affairs publication, The Economist - that ranks South Africa 99th out of 121 nations examined for their "absence of violence".

Commenting on this, Botha said South Africa, which cast itself as the "peacemaker of the continent", appeared to be a country at war with itself.

The survey says the ANC government "presents a glowing picture" of what South Africa looked like in terms of human and economic development, safety and security and education.

However, the studies showed a very different picture to the one posited by the ANC, it says.

News24/SAPA

:DAber hier gibt es schwere Strafen, in D gibt es Ladenverbot dafuer.

Disabled man jailed over whisky

2007-9-27 21:15

Grahamstown

A disabled Grahamstown man was sentenced to 18 months in jail on Thursday for stealing a R70 bottle of whisky - which he did not even get to drink.
The Three Ships whisky was later recovered from Vuyo Mlatsha, a 37-year-old disability pensioner from Vukani Location who was convicted in Grahamstown Magistrate's Court for the August 2006 theft.

Die 18 monate gibt es auch fuer bewaffneten Raubueberfall aber dort erwischt man nur jeden zweiten wenn ueberhaupt.

Das ist doch ganz einfach das Ergebnis der Zero Tolerance for Crime Inititive, welches sich Südafrika von New York (in den 90ern) abgeguckt hat

In der Umsetzung hapert es noch ein weing

Grade A for Idea
Grade F for Effort

Man oh man...

Vorher:
Jackie Selebi to head Interpol

08/10/2004 22:35 - (SA)

Cancun - South African police commissioner Jackie Selebi was elected on Friday as the new president of Interpol during the final of the 73rd Interpol General Assembly here in Mexico, said a spokesman.

Und nun das hier:

CAPE TOWN

Opposition want swift action on Selebi/Pikoli

Fri, 28 Sep 2007

Opposition parties on Friday called for a judicial commission to investigate National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi and for President Thabo Mbeki to state categorically whether a warrant had been issued for Selebi's arrest.

Mbeki could not himself decide about Selebi, as Mbeki's "credibility is under suspicion because it appears as if he has favourites whom he protects", Freedom Front Plus spokesperson Pieter Groenewald said.

Therefore, a judicial commission of inquiry should be appointed to investigate Selebi for involvement in organised crime ,nationally and internationally as well as, for involvment in the murder of Brett Kebble.

In a letter to Mbeki, Groenewald said various allegations were being levelled against Selebi.

There were reports of a dossier with the Scorpions implying that Selebi could be involved with a crime syndicate.

Call for independent judicial commission

"Because other members of the SAPS could be possible witnesses and the tension which currently exists between Commissioner Selebi and the Scorpions, you are requested to appoint an independent judicial commission of inquiry.

"It is in the national interest to disprove or confirm these allegations," Groenewald wrote.

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille urged Mbeki to say whether a warrant was issued for Selebi's arrest.

Reports that the National Prosecuting Authority had obtained such a warrant put Mbeki's suspension of NPA head Vusi Pikoli, on Monday this week, "in a disturbing new light", she said in her weekly on-line newsletter.

Earlier, the Cape Times quoted "well-placed sources" as saying the Scorpions, the investigative unit that reports directly to Pikoli, had plans for at least three months to arrest Selebi, but backed off after "intervention" by top government officials.

Further, that Pikoli "had obtained a warrant of arrest against Selebi a week ago".

Confirm or deny, Zille urges Mbeki

Zille said the seriousness of the situation should not be underestimated.

"We are entering a phase in our democracy where the most serious questions, with profound constitutional implications, are being asked about the conduct of the president and the national police commissioner. The president needs to take the nation into his confidence."

The latest reports needed to be either confirmed or emphatically denied as a matter of great urgency, she said.

Inkatha Freedom Party spokesperson Velaphi Ndlovu agreed the time had come for "the slate to be cleaned at the highest level".

"The country has the right to know the true facts. It is untenable to have a commissioner of police and a director of national prosecutions under such a dark cloud.

"The IFP in the public interest therefore puts an extremely serious question to President Mbeki, namely: Has a warrant of arrest, or any warrant, at any stage, been applied for against Mr Selebi?"

Civil rights initiative AfriForum asked Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana to investigate Pikoli's suspension.

Improper conduct

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel, said Mbeki's suspension of Pikoli would amount to improper conduct if the suspension was motivated by something having no bearing on the efficiency with which the NPA executed its duties.

"In any effectively functioning constitutional state, it is expected of the NPA to investigate all allegations about criminal activities as thoroughly as possible, especially if such allegations were to be made against a chief of police.

"If the warrant for the arrest of Selebi indeed played a role in Pikoli's suspension, it would be a severe blow for the concept of a constitutional state, as defined in the South African Constitution," Kriel said.

Meanwhile, Safety Security Minister Charles Nqakula says he was "taken aback" by reports that a warrant of arrest had been issued for Selebi.

He told reporters on Friday he was still to briefed on the matter by Mbeki.

Nqakula said if the news reports about the warrant were true it was "highly regrettable" that he had not been informed of the matter.

Sapa

Being black is not good enough

2007-9-29 18:08

Johannesburg

South African companies are like Irish coffee with whites on top and blacks at the bottom, said Jimmy Manyi, chairperson of the Employment Equity Commission on Saturday.

"There is the white part on top and a mass of black at the bottom, with a sprinkling of black right on top," Myani said.

Speaking at the University of Stellenbosch's monthly Leader's Angle talk on Saturday, Myani used this analogy to explain the lack of employment equity at the top, senior and professional management levels in South African companies, as shown by the latest equity figures.

Myani, who is also the president of the Black Management Forum (BMF), suggested that labour minister, Membathisi Mdladlana, should issue fines to companies not complying with employment equity.

He said fines would allow for remedial action to take place, and force companies to comply with employment equity.

"We can conclude that the management of the economy is still being controlled by whites... even if you look at black executives, there is nothing that you can conclude with them because they will tell you: 'I will get back to you'," he said.

'What precedent do we set...'

The distribution of the economically active population (EAP) in which South Africans between the ages of 15 and 65 are able to work - is measured as a percentage in terms of race, gender and disability.

The employment equity report then evaluates companies according to how well each population group (black, white, Indian, male female and people with disabilities) is represented and whether the representation of each group in companies is in line with the EAP percentage.

The EAP for blacks is 87.2% (46.9 male and 40.3 female) and for whites is 12.8% (7.3% male and 5.5 female).

"On the issue of white women, the commission is asking; have we, or have we not met the policy objective of seeking equitable representation of this designated group?

"The EAP of white women is 5.5%, but they occupy 14.7% of all top management positions, 19% of all senior management positions and a further 22.1% of all professionally qualified and middle management positions," said Manyi.

"What precedent do we set by allowing one group to surpass its EAP more than three times? What if we reached 80% of EAP for blacks and simply continued to increase this percentage?" he asked.

Serious problem with white gatekeepers

He said coloured people should challenge their employers in terms of their EAP and representation in the workplace.

On the issue of whether young whites should be excluded or included under employment equity, Manyi said young whites were still more privileged than other youths because their parents benefited from apartheid.

"For instance, white parents are able to make loans for their kids to study further."

Manyi said there was even a racial element in the employment of people with disabilities.

"While the representation of disabled people in the workplace has decreased generally, it is still white handicapped males who are being favoured for appointments."

He said employment equity was not reverse racism.

"This may have been the case if blacks were represented at the rate of 80% in companies and the act continued to favour them over others.

"Being black is not good enough. There is a serious problem with white gatekeepers at companies who do not see the merit in blacks.
People only see merit in people who look like them," said Manyi.

SAPA

I will never be arrested, says Selebi

2007-9-29 22:20

Johannesburg

National police chief and Interpol head Jackie Selebi has said he will never be arrested because a warrant does not exist, the early edition of the Sunday Times reported on Saturday.

"I will never be arrested... If there is a warrant for me I will stand on the 10th floor of the Sandton Towers so that the Scorpions can arrest me," he told the newspaper.

Selebi was responding to numerous media reports citing reliable sources that the National Prosecuting Authority had obtained a warrant for his arrest last week.

A search and seizure document was allegedly also obtained from the Pretoria High Court.

"I am not bothered at all. For what must I be arrested?
There is no such thing as a warrant. It does not exist. I will not comment on charges as there is no warrant," he said.

The question of Selebi's possible arrest follows in the wake of the suspension of National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli by President Thabo Mbeki.

Mbeki suspended Pikoli on Monday, citing an irretrievable breakdown in the relationship between Pikoli and Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla.

On Saturday night, Government Communication and Information System spokesperson Themba Maseko said Mbeki had appointed Frene Ginwala to conduct the inquiry into Pikoli's fitness to hold office.

Maseko said the former National Assembly Speaker had been appointed in terms of section 12(6) of the National Prosecuting Act 32 of 1998.

"It's (the inquiry) going to be under way soon. I need to meet with the doctor (Ginwala) first and will avail more details on Monday," he said.

Maseko said he would address a press conference on Monday outlining the details and format of the enquiry.

SAPA

Selebi: I am innocent

2007-10-1 13:01

Johannesburg

South Africa's police chief said he would be prepared to defend himself in court against any allegations he had links to organised crime.

Public broadcaster SABC reported on Thursday that prosecutors had secured an arrest warrant for National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who is also president of the international police organisation Interpol.

South Africa's Sunday Times reported there was a warrant for Selebi on charges including racketeering, corruption, and being an accessory after the fact to the 2005 murder of businessman.

The government has not confirmed the warrant and President Thabo Mbeki has not commented publicly on the case.

In an interview broadcast on Monday on South Africa's Talk Radio 702, Selebi said he was not aware of a warrant but would co-operate with any investigation as long as it was not part of a political campaign to discredit him.

Asked if he would like to have his day in court, Selebi said: "If there are allegations that can be proven, I would like to, but I do not want to go to court on allegations that do not exist."

"I am certain that I, Jackie Selebi, have never been involved in that kind of wrongdoing."

Some of the alleged charges relate to Selebi's friendship with businessman Glenn Agliotti, who is accused of participating in mining magnate Brett Kebble's murder, the Times said. Agliotti has denied any wrongdoing.

Selebi denies any financial links or any knowledge of Agliotti's alleged underworld connections.

The former anti-apartheid hero said he felt as if the media had tried and sentenced him. "I think that what is left for me is to wear my (prison) uniform," he said.

Mbeki and his cabinet have backed the police chief in the past despite calls for his sacking and resignation after questions arose about his association with Agliotti.

Selebi has also been criticised for failing to reduce one of the world's highest crime rates.

There were 19 000 murders in the year to March 31 2007, and an average of 144 women reported raped every day in South Africa.

Reports of the arrest warrant came during a week of drama that began with the September 24 suspension of Vusi Pikoli, South Africa's top prosecutor.

A government spokesperson said Mbeki suspended Pikoli because of his poor relationship with the justice minister.

It has been widely reported in the local media that the move was connected to Pikoli's investigation of Selebi.

The confusion comes less than three months before the ANC holds a key leadership conference.

Mbeki, who took over the ANC from Nelson Mandela in 1997, is constitutionally prohibited from seeking a third term as the country's president in 2009. But nothing prevents him from running again for the ANC leadership, and Mbeki has suggested he will do so.

A likely challenger would be Jacob Zuma, who was the country's deputy president until he was fired by Mbeki two years ago amid a corruption scandal.

Reuters

So liest es sich in deutschen Medien...:

http://www.spiegel.de/schulspi…ben/0,1518,493568,00.html

Johannesburg

While patients and newborn babies at South Africa's largest public hospital have to deal with little or no equipment and medication, staff at Johannesburg's Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital blew R9.4m of the hospital's R1.1bn annual budget on telephone account payments in the past year.

Zitat

Original von MAL2
So liest es sich in deutschen Medien...:

http://www.spiegel.de/schulspi…ben/0,1518,493568,00.html

Klar sind die nett wenn man was bringt und sie mit Hotdogs versorgt.
Wenn die 16 jaehrige Pech hat wird sie als Dank vergewaltigt und bekommt eine andere warme Wurst zurueck .
Wie auch immer man fuehlt sich halt besser wenn man was gutes getan hat, man kann dann in D sagen, ich war dort und habe den Schwarzen geholfen und war in einem Township anstatt am Tafelberg.

Lucky

Ich habe das nie abgestritten das ein Urlaub in RSA auch anders sein kann. Es kommt auf die Situation und Platz an wo man gerade ist.
Wenn man nicht unter den 52 Toten ist die am Tag ermordet werden oder 144 Frauen die vergewaltigt werden, oder unzaehligen die taeglich beraubt werden ist kann man sicher eine gute Zeit haben.
Vorgestern hat man einen von der Neighbourhood Watch der Abends freiwillig die Strassen in meinen Dorf patrolliert erstochen mit 42 Jahren.
Die fahren unbewaffnet nur mit einen Funkgeraet durch die Gegend da die Polizei es nicht macht.
Fragt mal die Familie ob Suedafrika sicher ist wo der Vater nun tot ist.
Von mir aus soll jeder kommen und seine eigene Erfahrung sammeln, auf Urlaub sieht einiges anders aus.

Ja am Land ist es schoen und die Leute sind sooooooo nett:

Since the ANC came to power in 1994, 2200 farmers have been murdered in over 9000 farm attacks. A farmer has been murdered, on average, once every second day for ten years.

There has been an average of 127 farm attacks per month.
The murder rate of South African commercial farmers is the highest for any specific group in the world 413 per 100 000.
The murder rate amongst the general population is officially 55 per 100 000 (In Europe the murder rate is 2 per 100 000).

Two of the hallmarks of farm murders in South Africa during the last ten years have been the horrible torture perpetrated on many of the victims and the sadistic cruelty to animals which is reminiscent of the Mau Mau terrorist campaign in Kenya in the 1950's. The sheer savagery of the extremely brutal attacks include: an elderly farmer whose head was opened by an axe; a lady of 84 who was repeatedly raped; a year old baby set alight; farmers strangled, garrotted; mutilated, dumped into boiling water, suffocated, slashed with pangas, repeatedly stabbed, tortured with a heated iron; etc.

In farm murders extreme violence is widespread. If women are present, they are generally raped. Torture is now fairly routine – cruelty to animals pervasive.

Near the shopping center:

Woman shot near Sandton

2007-10-5 20:10

Johannesburg

A 31-year-old woman was airlifted to the Johannesburg hospital on Friday after she was shot in the chest while walking near Sandton, paramedics said.
Netcare 911 spokesperson Mark Stokoe said two men shot the woman near Sandton at around 15:00 before they snatched her bag and fled.

The woman was walking along the road when she was attacked.

"She was in serious conditions and had to be airlifted," he said.

Lucky

Die Daten sind IMO untertrieben, wenn Mandela sterben sollte oder die Fussball WM abgesagt wird bzw. wo ander verlegt wird dann heisst es Koffer packen.
Solange die Hoffnung besteht das sie stattfindet leben wir trotz der hohen Kriminalitaet noch einigermassen sicher, wenn die abgesagt wird fallen auch die Immobilienpreise ganz gewaltig.

Cheers

XEX

SA climate change 'a reality'

2007-10-6 22:49

Capetown, South Africa

Climate change is already happening in South Africa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday during a visit to a biodiversity centre in Capetown.
"You can see that climate change is already a reality here," said Merkel, as she visited Biota Africa, a centre where German and South African scientists conduct research on African climate change.

"Climate change is more obvious in South Africa than in Germany," she said. :D....(alles wird schwarz).....das Klima kennt ihr.

"If the temperature rises seven degrees in South Africa, then it is too late," said Merkel.

Merkel had a meeting with President Thabo Mbeki on Friday in Pretoria, and then met former president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Saturday.

She is expected to go to Liberia on Sunday, the last stop on her first sub-Saharan Africa trip.

...und wir sitzen mit Apartheid in reverse.....Helden gibt es keine mehr, die haben schon laengst bedingungslos kapituliert.
Wenn eine Diktatur demokratisch ist juckt es keinen mehr.

Egal ob Burma oder Zimbabwe.....da halten sie die Schnauze.
Das kann man immer drehen, einmal ist man ein Held und beim naechsten mal ein Verbrecher.

AFP

South Africa

'Name the crime, we've had it

'2007-10-18 22:19

Pretoria/Tshwane

Lynwood Manor residents took the law into their own hands after a spate of violent crimes, by erecting their own barriers to streets going in and out of the neighbourhood.

News24 on Thursday learnt that the residents would also be taking Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality to court.

"The mood is tense," said Lynwood Manor resident, Dr Kevin Gast. "When you have toddlers shot and woman raped and tortured the mood is very tense."

Metro Police tried to stop the residents after they erected barriers made from tin drums, to control traffic coming into the streets.

"We've applied to the municipality for some form of assistance more than ten years ago," said Gast. "We adhered to the letter to every rule in the book with no response whatsoever."

Good relationship with cops

While Gast said they had a good relationship with the police and the Metro Police, the community had had enough after two murders, one attempted murder and one armed robbery incident - all within 5 days, according to a report in Beeld.

"We've had so many murders, robberies, attempted murders in our area in the last few months that it's actually quite appalling," said Gast.

"I mean we've had toddlers shot, we've had old people mutilated with crow bars, we've had people murdered, we've had break-ins... You name it we've had it."

Gast said the drum barriers, manned by private security guards, were there to prevent further bloodshed.

Gast himself had been a victim of crime five times in three years, in one incident even being a victim of an armed hostage situation.

About 70 residents, out of 110, were part of a resident association that paid for the guards at the barricaded streets.

Tensions escalated in Lynwood Manor after Kathy Odendaal, 51, was assaulted, robbed, raped and shot dead in her home on Tuesday afternoon, just a few houses away from where a three-year-old girl was shot in the back in a robbery on Saturday night.

News24 was unable to get a comment from Metro Police on Thursday afternoon.

The residents have applied for an urgent application to have the court sanction their application to have their area legally blocked off.

News24