Das neue Südafrika

Lucky, das sind natuerlich die offiziellen zahlen.
So wie bei uns die Cops geschmiert werden koennt ihr nicht mithalten.
Geh mal nach Thailand, das ist das ebenso normal,...wie ueberall wo es wenig lohn und viel arbeit gibt.
Jetzt muesst man wissen wie viele das sind, dann koennte man ausrechnen was jeder einschiebt.

Die eigenen Politiker und Banker sind doch das Vorbild...

200 dangerous prisoners moved

2007-11-28 12:02

Durban - Two hundred prisoners - described as some of SA's most dangerous men - have been transferred from various prisons to Kokstad's super maximum facility on KwaZulu-Natal's south coast.
The completion of the transfer was confirmed by the Correctional Services department on Wednesday.

This comes after several complaints had been received by the department stating that offenders were being kept below maximum correctional standards and this had subsequently led to many of them escaping from police custody.

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said the number of prison warders at the Kokstad facility had been doubled as part of its festive season security plan.

"It is designed to break the backs of hardened criminals, including murderers, rapists and habitual aggressive and violent criminals," he said.

He said the department had launched Operation Vala for maximum security during the festive season and the operation would end on January 15 next year.

World flocks to SA

2007-11-28 17:33

Johannesburg - Tourism to South Africa grew by 13.9% in 2006, while the global tourism industry only grew by 4.5%, SA Tourism said on Wednesday.

Research done by SA Tourism showed compound annual growth of 6.9% over the five-year period of 2002 to 2006.

There were 35.4 million visitors during the period 2002 to 2006 - 23 million visited for leisure purposes, and 10 million were long-haul visitors.

Long-haul visitors come from places far removed from South Africa such as Australia, Europe, the Americas and Asia.

The remaining 12.4 million visitors mainly came from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to visit friends and family and to shop.

Included in the 12.4 million are those visitors who came for business purposes from all over the world.

Foreign tourists numbering 8.4 million visited South Africa in 2006 alone and domestic tourism added R16.5 billion to the national economy in this year.

R222bn came from tourists during the period 2003 to 2006. SADC visitors were responsible for 60% of this total.

There was a decrease in the average length of stay from 9.6 days in 2003 to 8.2 days in 2006.

This was consistent with global tourism trends, SA Tourism said.

Foreign direct spending grew by more than 9% over the 2002 to 2006 period. This figure excluded capital expenditure for business purposes.

Per day and per trip spending from SADC visitors increased but decreased from long-haul visitors between 2002 and 2006.

- Sapa

@ Lucky ;),.... I know !...a bottomless pit , oder Fass ohne Boden ist Afrika.

Hier die fackeln nicht lange, vor kurzen sah ich wie die Thai Polizei gegen drug dealer vorgeht die mit Yaba (Meth)..(hier Tik) handeln.
Wirkt laenger als Kokain, viel billiger, leicht herzustellen, macht total verrueckt wenn man es nimmt.

2500 dealer wurden gleich auf der Stelle erschossen bevor es eine Gerichtverhandlung gab.
Das schreckte ab das der name Yaba auch Gefahr bedeutet in der Thai Sprache.
Manchmal gehts nur so um das Land und die Menschen nicht zu ruinieren..... Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn, aber nicht in D oder liberalen Europa.

Hoert sich hart an, wirkt aber !!

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Muslim crucified in Thailand

2007-11-28 18:12

Narathiwat, Thailand

A Muslim military informant was shot and crucified, while two Buddhist men were beheaded on Wednesday by suspected Islamic separatists in Thailand's restive south, police said.

The Muslim man, a 58-year-old who acted as an informant to Thailand's military, was shot and then stabbed so badly that he was nearly decapitated, police Lieutenant Khanchitthol Kreunor told AFP.

Suspected rebels then drove six-inch nails through his head, arms and legs to attach him to two pieces of wood, which were laid out like a cross in the middle of a road in Rueso district of Narathiwat province, near the southern border with Malaysia, he said.

Khanchitthol said police found a note written in Thai and left near the cross, reading: "This is what the infidels deserve. The soldier dogs must meet this end."

"The victim was attacked and killed in such a grisly way because they knew he was a military informant. This is to terrify the people," Khanchitthol said.

About two hours later, two Buddhist fishmongers aged 20 and 61 were shot and then beheaded in another district of Narathiwat, police said.

The killings came after a month of spiralling violence in the region, which has seen more than 2 700 killed since separatist unrest erupted four years ago.

Thailand's southernmost provinces were an ethnic Malay sultanate until the Buddhist kingdom annexed it a century ago, provoking decades of tension.

Monitoring group Intellectual Deep South Watch said last week that November has been one of the most violent months this year.

Hijacker shot dead on victim

2007-11-28 23:18

Johannesburg

A hijacker on Wednesday died on top of the woman whose Porsche he and an accomplice were trying to steal when a police reservist intervened.

The reservist also shot dead the other hijacker.

Elmarie Wypkema, 41, said: "The guy was still on top of me and we were wrestling with his pistol against my throat.

"Then I heard shots fired and his body suddenly went limp. He fell next to me."

She was describing the final moments of her encounter with an armed hijacker and his accomplice who were trying to rob her of her luxury sports car in a busy Johannesburg shopping centre.

Marc Ishlove, a captain in the police reservists who was sitting at Dam-A-Tra restaurant, saw what was happening and confronted the armed hijackers.

In a bloody gun battle, he shot the hijacker on top of Wypkema, as well as the accomplice who was seated, ready to roar off in her red Porsche Carrera.

Was pulled out of her car

The drama unfolded about 13:30 on Wednesday at Fir Drive Centre in Fairlands when Wypkema stopped there to meet a friend, Elsabie Annandale, and take her 13-year-old daughter home.

Annandale said: "Daniella (the daughter) was already in Elmarie's car with her schoolbags, and the two of us were chatting when two men suddenly loomed up at her side window."

She said one of the hijackers had pulled Wypkema out of her Porsche and the two of them were rolling around, wrestling on the ground.

"I ran into Carol's hair salon and screamed hysterically, 'Phone the police, phone the police'," said Annandale.

Meanwhile, the other hijacker had climbed behind the wheel of the Porsche, and ordered Daniella out of the car.

Daniella said: "He shouted loudly 'Get out!' and I just did what he said. I didn't look at his face."

Police spokesperson Lungelo Dlamini said the hijackers started firing when they saw Ishlove, and he returned fire.

"Several shots were fired and both hijackers were killed on the spot," said Dlamini.

The police took the two unlicensed 9mm pistols used by the hijackers.

Wypkema said while she waited for police to remove a hijacker's body from her car: "One doesn't actually think what's happening, you just hear everyone screaming.

Her attacker was the one shot

"When I heard the shots, I thought, now I'm going to die, but I didn't feel any pain.

"That's when I realised that the guy on top of me had been shot."

She was "very glad" that Ishlove had been at the shopping centre when it happened.

Dlamini said no one else had been wounded in the shooting and investigations were continuing

del

Tourism body worries about crime

2007-11-29 10:14

Pretoria - The National President, the National Executive Council, and staff of Satsa (Southern African Tourism Services Association), have condemned the death of Franz Richter, owner of Aloe Ridge Lodge and Heia Safari Ranch in Swartkops, Mogale City, who was murdered in an armed robbery close to his property on Wednesday morning.

"Our deepest sympathies and prayers are with the family and their staff... Richter was an iconic character of the industry, who had been involved in developing tourism to that area for the last 35 years. He will be greatly missed," said Satsa CEO Michael Tatalias.

The murder of Richter followed soon after the recent murders of the owners of the Wartburger Hof Hotel early in November and the murder of a tourist in Pennington just before the FIFA preliminary draw, and the robbery of two FIFA delegates over the weekend at the FIFA Draw itself, he added.

"As the private sector of the tourism industry we know that tourism holds a great potential to solve poverty and joblessness and the despair that surrounds it.

Crime threatens tourism

Tourism in South Africa is a R66.6bn a year industry, and is also the largest generator of foreign exchange earnings into South Africa, ahead of established industries such as gold, which is why we refer to Tourism as the new gold." :P...for Banditos 4sure !

Since 2002, foreign arrivals have contributed R222bn to the South African economy. We have also shown that for every eight fly-in tourists that arrive in South Africa, one new permanent job is created.

In a statement, the tourism body said it was concerned about crime and called on all citizens and communities to get actively involved in the fight on crime.
...das habe ich bei mir gesehen, eingeperrt haben sie mich, die anderen Einbrecher wurden nicht bestraft und sogar die verlogenen Kronzeugen .

"Satsa calls on the government and authorities to take clear and decisive action."

"The tourism industry, along with many others, is actively working with Business Against Crime to help find solutions and ways for business to assist the police. Satsa will continue with these endeavours, and will work with any stakeholders to reduce crime," added Tatalias..

"However, more needs to come from government's side. If crime is not stopped, and soon, our tourism industry may not be around to host the visitors that will come for 2010," he stressed

Mbeki: People don't use condoms

2007-12-1 14:42

Johannesburg

President Thabo Mbeki has stressed that government's call on South Africans to be faithful and condomise is not being heeded, the SABC reported on Saturday.

Speaking on World Aids Day, Mbeki said these were important aspects of the government's Khomanani campaign, considering that there was no cure for Aids.

Mbeki urged all South Africans to participate in events organised to commemorate World Aids Day such as the Nelson Mandela 46664 concert at Ellis Park, Johannesburg.

The latest public opinion survey released for World Aids Day showed that risky sexual behaviour was increasing.

Ipsos Markinor said sexually-active South Africans were not changing their attitude or behaviour in view of the HIV/Aids pandemic, even though millions of rands was being spent on related campaigns.

The research company said there had been a 13% increase in the medium-to-high risk group of sexually active adults since 2002, the broadcaster reported.

One possible explanation for the increase was that they were no longer taking precautions against HIV/Aids.

About six-million South Africans are HIV-positive, it said.

Sapa

Die Ironie der Sache ist das die millionen von Kondome die von der Regierung gratis verteilt wurden, fehlerhaft waren.

Ab in die Gummizelle !!! :D...macht keinen gummi thread aus dem.

Schluss mit dem Witz HIV,das ist kein Witz !!

Nun wissen wir das gummi verbraucht wird, manche koennen halt nicht widerstehen und die erwischst es irgenwann, irgendwo, irgendwie, viele unschuldig und unbewusst.

Mein Rat ?.........am besten gar nicht hinschauen !!!.

XEX

Die Art in RSA ein Auto zu bekommen macht immer mehr Mode...

Toddlers hijacked with 4x4

2007-12-1 22:15

Johannesburg

Hijackers on Saturday drove off with two toddlers in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, SABC reported.

The toddlers, aged between one and three years old were strapped into their car seats when their mother was hijacked, the broadcaster reported.

The woman was thrown out of the car before the hijackers drove off.

Police said they are following a lead after the incident at Napier Ville.

The hijacked vehicle is a white Nissan four-by-four with registration number NP 70951.

Man kidnapped in Jhb mall

2007-12-3 09:39

Johannesburg - Five men were arrested after they kidnapped a 31-year-old man nearby Balfour Park Shopping Centre in Johannesburg, police said on Sunday.

Spokesperson Captain Phillip Maganedi said five men aged between 25 and 40 allegedly kidnapped a man before calling his girlfriend demanding R3 000 as a ransom for his release on Saturday.

They forced the man to give them her numbers.

"The victim's girlfriend managed to get the money and contacted them.

"She was told to meet with them at Balfour Shopping Centre", said Maganedi.

He said they later decided to meet in Alexandra township at the woman's request.

"She then went to the police station for police to accompany her".

Police arrested the men driving in a red bakkie as they approached the meeting spot where they would collect the demanded ransom.

....nice shopping !

Robbers cut off mom's fingers

2007-12-3 22:54

Mookgophong

Robbers used pruning shears to lop off four fingers of an elderly Limpopo woman and her husband's life is hanging by a thread after he was repeatedly struck on the head with a panga.

The horrifying attack and plunder of the couple's home lasted for about eight hours.

When Theuns Janse van Rensburg, 72, lost consciousness, his attackers undressed him and placed him on the couple's bed.

One of the attackers lay next to him, watching television for several hours.

Tienie Janse van Rensburg, the couple's shocked son, told Beeld newspaper: "They hacked my father and left him for dead, and my stepmother is shattered."

Tienie said his father's dentures were found on the floor of the passage. One of Hettie's fingers was also lying in the house.

His father had heard a noise outside the 7th Street house about 20:00.

"My dad went to see what was happening and that's when the attackers must have slipped in at the front door."

Saw attacker watching TV

One attacker slashed at Janse van Rensburg repeatedly with his panga. Hettie tried to fight back, but four of the fingers on her left hand were severed with a pair of garden shears. Her right arm was also broken.

Bleeding profusely, she ran to the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom, where she locked herself in and used a towel to stem the flow of blood from her hand.

Her unconscious husband was dragged through to the main bedroom, stripped naked and placed on the bed.

Hettie peeped through the keyhole and saw his attacker lying next to him on the bed, watching TV. The attackers fled about 04:00 on Monday, after stealing bank cards, money, a TV set, a DVD player and a hi-fi set.

None of the neighbours had heard anything.

Martin Schmidt, who lives across the road, made the gruesome discovery about 07:00 when he went over to keep a work appointment.

"Hettie called and asked me to help, because her husband was dead."

He found his neighbour lying on the bed on his back. He was covered with a sheet.

"There was blood everywhere. It looked as if someone had slaughtered a cow. To my surprise, Theuns moved and I saw he was still alive."

Hettie remembered only one man attacking them, but on Monday morning three men who worked at Janse van Rensburg snr's gardening service were taken in for questioning by the police.

Janse van Rensburg was moved to Unitas Hospital in Centurion by helicopter on Monday morning.

He was still unconscious on Monday evening. Kate Cvitanic, a spokesperson for the hospital, said he was in a serious, but stable, condition.

Hettie is in the same hospital, in a satisfactory condition.

Another son, Pierre Janse van Rensburg, said his stepmother looked terrible and was confused.

"My father has a fracture of the skull, where he was hit on the head with the panga."

Dries Joubert, the president of TLU SA North, said the number of attacks on elderly people in Limpopo in recent times had amounted to a low-intensity war.

Farm-stall owner attacked

"Every member of the community must do everything possible to see to their own security."

In another incident on Monday, a woman was attacked in her farm stall in the Mokopane district and had serious facial injuries.

Her nine-year-old daughter called for help with the citizen-band radio.

One of the attackers was arrested at the stall and another between Sterk River and Limburg.

Two more disappeared into the mountains.

Beeld

'I'd rather have bled to death'

2007-12-4 22:59

Mookgopong

Hettie Janse van Rensburg, who lost four fingers when they were chopped off by attackers using garden shears, decided she'd rather bleed to death than be killed by her attackers.

That's what a badly injured Hettie, 70, told her stepson, Pierre, shortly after the horrifying attack on herself and her husband, Theuns, 72.

Pierre told Beeld newspaper on Tuesday: "One attacker told her in the course of the night to come out of the bathroom where she was hiding, and he'd call an ambulance for her.

"It was just a device to lure her out to kill her. She decided she would bleed to death, rather than have them kill her."

Beeld reported earlier that Hettie managed to lock herself in the bathroom, even though four fingers had been lopped off her left hand.

She hid there until a neighbour found her the next morning.

Fingers amputated

Hettie wrapped a towel around her left hand to stem the bleeding.

She still has no idea how she managed to lock herself in, despite her extensive injuries.

Theuns' dentures and one of Hettie's fingers were found lying in the blood-spattered house when police started searching for leads on Monday.

The four fingers of her left hand, which were cut off with gardens shears, were amputated up to the first joint on Monday night.

Hettie and Theuns are both in a critical condition in Unitas Hospital's intensive-care unit in Centurion.

Pierre said: "My stepmother's still very dazed and my father can't speak at all."

He said his father could possibly have brain damage from when the attackers repeatedly hit him on the head with a panga.

"There was brain haemorrhaging, which has been drained, and he's numb on the right side of his body."

Theuns will apparently be kept under strong sedation until Friday.

"If my father survives the attack, he is very, very strong." He is a diabetic and has already had two heart-bypass operations.

After Theuns lost consciousness on Sunday night, his attackers undressed him and put him on the couple's bed.

One attacker lay next to him, watching TV for several hours.

The attackers apparently thought he had died. There was a sheet over him when neighbour Martin Schmidt found him on Monday morning.

Hettie also thought he had died.

The attackers took their time - eight hours - to plunder the house.

Trompie Jonker of Tromar Emergency Services in Bela-Bela who treated the couple in Modimolle, said Hettie's arm was so badly broken that two bones were sticking through the skin.

Three men released

"An unbelievable amount of force was used."

Jonker said it would have taken too long to get a helicopter for the trip to Unitas Hospital, so they took the couple through by ambulance.

Sapa reported on Tuesday night that two Zimbabwean nationals had been arrested in connection with the attack.

Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba said the two men were due to appear in the Naboomspruit Magistrate's Court on Friday.

'We are an evil nation'

2007-12-5 09:08

Mookgopong - "Unrestrained anger" is a breeding ground for a cruel attack such as the recent one on an elderly Limpopo couple at the weekend.

"We are an incredibly evil nation," said well-known forensic criminologist, Dr Irma Labuschagne.

"I believe people in our country have never been angrier with each other."

Beeld reported on Monday about the attack during which 70-year-old Hettie Janse van Rensburg's fingers were cut off with garden shears. Her husband, Theuns, 72, was left for dead after he had been beaten over the head with a bush knife.

'Not just about poverty'

No less than 10 attacks were reported in Limpopo during the past couple of weeks. People were hacked with axes and a farmer was burnt alive inside his house.

Labuschagne said many promises were made during transformation to a democratic system. Many expectations were created and those who lived in terrible conditions, continued to suffer.

Many people believed their lives would change overnight. Many of these promises have still not been realised.

"Meanwhile some people realise that things won't get better overnight."

These people experience intense anger and take it out on those who are better off than themselves.

"They want to get back at those whom they attack for everything they don't have and for what happened in the past."

Labuschagne said not only poverty caused these feelings and reactions. In India, where there is abject poverty, violent crimes hardly exist.

"People in India have accepted their circumstances and live with it. This has not yet happened in South Africa."...end

I say.....

BRING BACK THE DEATH SENTENCE FOR THOSE BASTARDS !

82yr-old stabbed with scissors

2007-12-6 07:54

Johannesburg - An elderly couple from Westdene in Johannesburg were held up by armed men for two hours, while they were assaulted and robbed on Monday.

Gerrie Gerber, 82, was stabbed in the leg with a pair of scissors. He and his wife Rose, 76, were also repeatedly struck in the face and thrown against the furniture in their house on Monday night.

The robbers, armed with a knife and a screwdriver, ripped open cupboards in search of valuables.

"Every time I asked them something, they hit me.

Married for 52 years

They took all my jewellery, of tremendous sentimental value. My wedding ring, my watch, jewellery that I inherited from my mother and my cellphone," Rose said. The couple have been married for 52 years.

"They kept asking: 'Where's the laptop? I said we're old, we don't have a laptop'!"

The nightmare began when Rose suddenly woke up at about 23:00 and realised the light was burning.

"The next moment two men were charging at us."

"I shouted at my husband and we tried to push the door closed, but they were too fast."

Rose asked them what they wanted and told them to go. The men spotted a safe in the cupboard and demanded the key.

It was handed over to them and they stole Gerrie's pistol as well as about R3 000 savings from the safe.

"If I can say something nice about them: they turned my handbag upside-down and took all the money in it, but they left me all my cards for the bank, the medical aid, driving licence and my ID document," Rose said.

The thugs broke into the house through a small window in an adjoining bedroom.

Rose first had to unlock a door for the robbers before they tied them up. The bleeding couple were tied to their bed, and Gerrie told his wife they should pray.

To the "fluently-English speaking robbers" he said in Afrikaans "you cannot harm us; we belong to the Lord".

When the robbers had left they managed to wriggle free.

In the bedside drawer Rose found her mom's old netball whistle.

They went to the bedroom window and "kicked up a racket."

Tahnia Hook, a neighbour, heard the whistle and phoned their friend Pieter Cilliers, producer of Kwêla on kykNET.

He lives just one house away from the Gerbers, and he phoned Meldene's armed response unit.

Ex-Miss Thailand robbed in Jhb

2007-12-6 12:40

Johannesburg

Police on Thursday were hunting for the bogus "policemen" who allegedly robbed a former Miss Thailand and her entourage on their way to open a Thai temple in Johannesburg of more than R60 000.

The group of 30 Thai tourists arrived at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on November 10, and were en route to the foundation-laying ceremony of the Wat Buddha Johannesburg temple.

Miss Thailand Universe 2005, Chananporn Rosjan, was the first to be searched by the "police", who rifled through her bag, claiming to be looking for drugs and checking her passport.

One of the tourists managed to snap a photograph of one of the robbers without being seen.

Regular ruse

In the photo the man, one of four suspects, has his head turned away and his face partially obscured by dark glasses. Police are hoping the photograph will lead them to catch the gang who are believed to regularly use the ruse of police checks to rob people.

"We believe this is not the first time they've struck," said police spokesperson, Sergeant Sanku Tsunke. He said there were allegations of other similar incidents.

The tourists, who were travelling in three Toyota Quantum vehicles on the R24, were stopped by the four robbers, two men and two women, at about 11:30.

The robbers only searched the first Quantum, starting with Rosjan who was seated in the front seat next to the driver, according to Phrasomsak, a monk at the Johannesburg Meditation Centre where the temple is being built.

"They said they were looking for heroin," said Phrasomsak. He said the tourists were more than happy to comply, believing it to be a legitimate search.

The robbers took R60 000 and US$400 from two women sitting in the Quantam behind Rosjan. They fled with the money soon after, in their white Opel Kadett.

None of the tourists were hurt.

Rosjan works as a pilot for Thai Air Asia. She received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Thammasat University in Thailand.

Kempton Park detectives are investigating a case of common robbery and are appealing to members of the public for assistance. Anyone who knows or recognises the suspect is asked to contact the investigating officer Detective Inspector Mkhachane Mathebula on 082 556 4946.