Beiträge von Eldorado

    Peter Silie


    Warum machst du wegen jeden scheiss einen thread auf ?? X(
    Mir ist es leid auf deine doofen fragen zu antworten und denke du willst hier nur den Kasper spielen.

    News
      Peter
    Ok, erstmal lachst du, aber wir lachen laenger spaeter ! ;)

    Solange diese Saubande Dir hilft, kannst du ja leicht lachen:


    DJ MARKET TALK: Comex Gold Tumbles $6/Oz On Fund Sales


    1416 GMT [Dow Jones] Resting stop-loss sell orders have driven Comex June
    gold $6 down to nine-day lows of $430 per ounce. Bullion banks had pressured
    prices lower earlier in the session, and fund follow-through sales were drawn
    out by the firmer tone emerging in the dollar relative to other currencies.
    With potential buyers content to linger on the sidelines, further price
    slippage towards the $429 or $428 areas has not been ruled out, dealers say.
    (GJM)

    Silver Wheaton Reports Record First Quarter Earnings of US$5.2 million


    Monday May 2, 7:30 am ET



    VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2005--Silver Wheaton Corp. (TSX:SLW - News; TSX:SLW.WT - News) is pleased to report record first quarter net earnings of US$5.2 million (US$0.03 per share) and net cash flow from operations of US$5.2 million (US$0.03 per share).

    HIGHLIGHTS


    - During the quarter, Silver Wheaton sold 2.3 million ounces of silver at an average price of US$6.92 per ounce.


    - Total cash costs of $3.90 per ounce.


    - Cash and cash equivalents at March 31, 2005 of $24.0 million.


    - The Company is debt free, unhedged and seeking further acquisitions.

    There are three possibilities:


    1. The ratio could fall to a lower low than in April 2003. (HUI 165).
    This would be highly significant, and would probably represent a "throwing in of the towel" by Gold-Philes - that the Central Bankers have won, and that they will retain control of the World's economy no matter what.


    2. The ratio could rise which, in turn, might imply that:
    The Gold Price could fall from here relative to gold shares which bottom out here. (Technically, this would be fairly healthy action, because it will imply that the gold price will probably remain in its long term rising trend after it finds support at lower levels, but above its long rising trendline)


    3. The Gold Shares could soon start to rise from current levels, against a background of a static or rising gold price. In the latter case, gold shares - because of their leverage - would rise strongly.


    Bald sehen wir welcher der drei punkte trifft nun zu.


    http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/bloom050105.html


    Ich habe nun das Gefuehl dass sich erst etwas bemerkenswertes ruehrt mit HUI und Gold ( ab ca. 6. Juni).. bis dort hin das PPT beide Werte unten haelt nach deren Vorstellungen und den Deckel darauf drueckt.
    Nach all den schlechten Nachrichten und Massaker sind die Anleger noch veraengstigt und verhalten sich erstmal vorsichtig. Jeder warted bis ein grosser Schub nach oben kommt und das eindeutige Signal kommt dass Gold und HUI wieder steigen. Der Dollar wird auch dann auch bis Ende Mai stark bleiben. (Leider) :(


    Am besten in Urlaub gehen,nicht hinschauen und erst Ende Mai wieder aktiv werden. ;)


    Auf alle Faelle ruehrt sich heute wieder nichts es geht wieder alles noch weiter runter. X(


    Da freut sich bestimmt Peter Silie :]

    hpopth


    Ich bin froh das ich nicht der einzige bin dem es aufgefallen ist.
    Letzten Monat war es auch so. Sicher da spielt auch Merkur mit aber ich bin kein profi um dieses genau zu erklaeren bzw. zu beweisen.Ich habe mal im Astro thread bei spica es erwaehnt aber es ist dort untergegangen.Waere interessant mal die Mond Zyklen mit dem HUI bzw.Goldpreis zu vergleichen.
    Somit sollte es aufwaertsgehen zwischen 8-20 Mai 2005.
    So ueber den Daumen gepeilt ist es ratsam kurz vor New Moon zu kaufen und kurz vor Gibbous Moon zu verkaufen oder kaufen.
    Wie auch immer, wer seine Emotionen kontrollieren kann,der wird auch seine Finanzen kontrollieren. ;)


    Ich habe die Liste begonnen und werde sie nachtraeglich eintragen
    um zu verfolgen ob etwas an dieser Theorie stimmt.



    Moon phases February 2005


    2 Feb 2005, at 7:26 am - Last Quarter Moon 421.60 :rolleyes:
    5 Feb 2005, at 5:49 pm - Balsamic Moon 415.00
    8 Feb 2005, at 10:27 pm - New Moon 411.00 :rolleyes:
    12 Feb 2005, at 6:09 am - Crescent Moon 420.00
    16 Feb 2005, at 12:15 am - First Quarter Moon 423.10
    20 Feb 2005, at 2:45 am - Gibbous Moon 427.00 :rolleyes:
    24 Feb 2005, at 4:53 am - Full Moon 433.00
    28 Feb 2005, at 2:19 am - Disseminating Moon 435.00


    Moon phases March 2005


    3 Mar 2005, at 5:36 pm - Last Quarter Moon 430.00 :rolleyes:
    7 Mar 2005, at 2:26 am - Balsamic Moon 433.00
    10 Mar 2005, at 9:10 am - New Moon 439.50
    13 Mar 2005, at 9:16 pm - Crescent Moon 442.00 :rolleyes:
    17 Mar 2005, at 7:18 pm - First Quarter Moon 438.60
    21 Mar 2005, at 10:12 pm - Gibbous Moon 432.00 :rolleyes:
    25 Mar 2005, at 8:58 pm - Full Moon 425.00
    29 Mar 2005, at 1:17 pm - Disseminating Moon 425.50


    Moon phases April 2005


    2 Apr 2005, at 12:50 am - Last Quarter Moon 424.00 :rolleyes:
    5 Apr 2005, at 9:56 am - Balsamic Moon 425.00
    8 Apr 2005, at 8:31 pm - New Moon 426.00
    12 Apr 2005, at 1:38 pm - Crescent Moon 427.30 :rolleyes:
    16 Apr 2005, at 2:37 pm - First Quarter Moon 425.00
    20 Apr 2005, at 4:06 pm - Gibbous Moon 433.20 :rolleyes:
    24 Apr 2005, at 10:06 am - Full Moon 434.00
    27 Apr 2005, at 9:15 pm - Disseminating Moon 434.50


    Moon phases May 2005


    1 May 2005, at 6:23 am - Last Quarter Moon 429.00 :rolleyes:
    4 May 2005, at 5:25 pm - Balsamic Moon 429.70
    8 May 2005, at 8:45 am - New Moon 426.00
    12 May 2005, at 6:26 am - Crescent Moon ?( X( 424.25
    16 May 2005, at 8:56 am - First Quarter Moon 419.00
    20 May 2005, at 7:29 am - Gibbous Moon :rolleyes:
    23 May 2005, at 8:17 pm - Full Moon
    27 May 2005, at 3:19 am - Disseminating Moon
    30 May 2005, at 11:47 am - Last Quarter Moon


    Moon phases June 2005


    3 Jun 2005, at 1:54 am - Balsamic Moon
    6 Jun 2005, at 9:54 pm - New Moon
    10 Jun 2005, at 11:02 pm - Crescent Moon
    15 Jun 2005, at 1:22 am - First Quarter Moon
    18 Jun 2005, at 7:58 pm - Gibbous Moon
    22 Jun 2005, at 4:13 am - Full Moon
    25 Jun 2005, at 8:54 am - Disseminating Moon
    28 Jun 2005, at 6:23 pm - Last Quarter Moon


    Moon phases July 2005


    2 Jul 2005, at 12:09 pm - Balsamic Moon
    6 Jul 2005, at 12:02 pm - New Moon
    10 Jul 2005, at 2:55 pm - Crescent Moon
    14 Jul 2005, at 3:19 pm - First Quarter Moon
    18 Jul 2005, at 5:45 am - Gibbous Moon
    21 Jul 2005, at 11:00 am - Full Moon
    24 Jul 2005, at 3:24 pm - Disseminating Moon
    28 Jul 2005, at 3:18 am - Last Quarter Moon


    Moon phases August 2005


    1 Aug 2005, at 12:42 am - Balsamic Moon
    5 Aug 2005, at 3:04 am - New Moon
    9 Aug 2005, at 5:35 am - Crescent Moon
    13 Aug 2005, at 2:38 am - First Quarter Moon
    16 Aug 2005, at 1:37 pm - Gibbous Moon
    19 Aug 2005, at 5:52 pm - Full Moon
    22 Aug 2005, at 11:59 pm - Disseminating Moon
    26 Aug 2005, at 3:17 pm - Last Quarter Moon
    30 Aug 2005, at 3:47 pm - Balsamic Moon


    Moon phases September 2005


    3 Sep 2005, at 6:45 pm - New Moon
    7 Sep 2005, at 6:35 pm - Crescent Moon
    11 Sep 2005, at 11:36 am - First Quarter Moon
    14 Sep 2005, at 8:36 pm - Gibbous Moon
    18 Sep 2005, at 2:00 am - Full Moon
    21 Sep 2005, at 11:27 am - Disseminating Moon
    25 Sep 2005, at 6:40 am - Last Quarter Moon
    29 Sep 2005, at 9:13 am - Balsamic Moon


    Moon phases October 2005


    3 Oct 2005, at 10:27 am - New Moon
    7 Oct 2005, at 5:45 am - Crescent Moon
    10 Oct 2005, at 7:00 pm - First Quarter Moon
    14 Oct 2005, at 3:50 am - Gibbous Moon
    17 Oct 2005, at 12:13 pm - Full Moon
    21 Oct 2005, at 2:08 am - Disseminating Moon
    25 Oct 2005, at 1:16 am - Last Quarter Moon
    29 Oct 2005, at 4:12 am - Balsamic Moon


    Moon phases November 2005


    2 Nov 2005, at 1:24 am - New Moon
    5 Nov 2005, at 3:22 pm - Crescent Moon
    9 Nov 2005, at 1:56 am - First Quarter Moon
    12 Nov 2005, at 12:17 pm - Gibbous Moon
    16 Nov 2005, at 12:57 am - Full Moon
    19 Nov 2005, at 7:52 pm - Disseminating Moon
    23 Nov 2005, at 10:10 pm - Last Quarter Moon
    27 Nov 2005, at 11:17 pm - Balsamic Moon


    Moon phases December 2005


    1 Dec 2005, at 3:00 pm - New Moon
    5 Dec 2005, at 12:12 am - Crescent Moon
    8 Dec 2005, at 9:36 am - First Quarter Moon
    11 Dec 2005, at 10:41 pm - Gibbous Moon
    15 Dec 2005, at 4:15 pm - Full Moon
    19 Dec 2005, at 3:57 pm - Disseminating Moon
    23 Dec 2005, at 7:35 pm - Last Quarter Moon
    27 Dec 2005, at 4:50 pm - Balsamic Moon

    http://www.321gold.com/editorials/yu/yu050105.html


    And, right now, the way the dollar has been holding up so well, gold shares don't stand a chance of recovering any time soon. (Disclosure: I own a few of them). Dollar has been doing so well that it's actually forming a bullish inverse Head and Shoulder pattern in addition to (1) holding above 50-day moving average and (2) MACD turning positive.
    The best thing for us gold bugs is to take the time off and come back in the fall to check on them. It just may take that much time to complete this bearish technical formation.



    Let's take a look at the Dollar chart. I think it's pretty self-explanatory.

    Goldpreis nimmt Anlauf auf Rekordhoch


    02.05.2005 Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Roßbach - Financial Times Deutschland - http://www.ftd.de


    Nach deutlichen Kursgewinnen am Freitag nähert sich der Goldpreis dem Hoch von 456,50 $ je Unze. Vor genau einem halben Jahr, am 2. Dezember 2004, hatte der Preis diesen langjährigen Rekordwert erreicht.

    Händler erwarten ?( in dieser Woche trotz der Feiertage in England und Japan einen Test der ersten Widerstandslinie bei 442 $ je Unze. Sollte sie genommen werden, läge die nächste Hürde bei 447,50 $.


    Ende vergangener Woche hatten vor allem Gerüchte über eine mögliche Aufwertung der chinesischen Währung für Goldkäufe gesorgt. Zuletzt kostete eine Unze 436,00 $. Positive Analystenkommentare beschleunigten die Rally. Die Marktbeobachter von Gold Fields Mineral Services hatten in ihrem Jahresbericht geschrieben, ein Anstieg des Goldpreises auf bis zu 500 $ je Unze sei möglich.


    Bis Freitag jedoch war die Stimmung am Goldmarkt mäßig. Nach schlechten Wirtschaftszahlen aus Europa und den USA fielen die Notierungen für die anderen, vorwiegend industriell genutzten Edelmetalle zunächst deutlich und rissen den Goldpreis mit nach unten. Dazu kam, dass der Euro zum Dollar zulegte. Gold kostete zeitweise nur noch 430,25 $ je Unze.


    Vergangene Woche wurde deutlich, dass Minengesellschaften keineswegs automatisch von steigenden Goldpreisen profitieren. Mehrere große Produzenten meldeten fallende Gewinne. Als Gründe nannten die Unternehmen unvorteilhafte Wechselkurse, höhere Kosten und zum Teil auch eine gefallene Produktion.


    Im Gegensatz zum Gold tendierten andere Edelmetalle vergangene Woche leichter. Der Platinpreis fiel zeitweise auf rund 880 $ je Unze und damit um beinahe 20 $. Der Silberkurs schwankte stark. Er sank von 7,25 $ je Unze bis Donnerstag auf 6,80 $. Dies war der tiefste Stand seit Anfang Februar.


    Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Roßbach ist Produktmanager Edelmetalle und Rohstoffe bei Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

    Bürokratie stoppt Südafrikas weitere Entwicklung in der Bergbaubranche


    02.05.2005 cs - GOLDINVEST.de Daily


    Wie kommt es, das Tansania für Bergbauinvestitionen viel attraktiver geworden ist als das benachbarte, besser entwickelte Südafrika? Dies ist für Südafrikas Politik eine unangenehme, aber unbestreitbare Tatsache. Tansania verfügt über eine sprießende Goldbergbaubranche und Explorationen werden intensiv betrieben.


    Seit rund einem Jahrzehnt haben sich die Regelungen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent für den Bergbau langsam durch die Erfahrungen mit der Weltbank und dem International Monetary Fund über ihre Interaktionen mit den souveränen Staaten des Kontinents entwickelt:


    In Tansania ist beispielsweise der Steuersatz für Gewinn aus dem Bergbau 25 % und die Regierung erhält eine Lizenzgebühr von 1,5 % des Verkaufserlöses der Rohstoffe. In der Demokratischen Republik Kongo wurde die Lizenzgebühr auf 2 % und der Steuersatz auf 25 % festgelegt. In Südafrika hingegen gilt ein Steuersatz von 29 % bei einer Lizenzgebühr zwischen 2 % und 8 %. Dies ist ungewöhnlich hoch im Vergleich zu den anderen afrikanischen Staaten.


    In Südafrika kam es in den letzten 20 Jahren auch zu keinen nennenswerten Explorationen. Grund hierfür ist wahrscheinlich wiederum die Regelung zur Besteuerung von Bergbauunternehmen: Die Kosten der Explorationsaktivitäten schmälern nicht das zu versteuernde Einkommen der Unternehmen. Eine Regelung, die in anderen Staaten ganz anders gehandhabt wird: Dort mindern natürlich Explorationskosten den zu versteuernden Gewinn. So z.B. in den USA, wo diese Regelung wohl einen Teil zur Prosperität im 20. Jahrhundert beigetragen hat.


    Weiterhin scheint die südafrikanische Bürokratie unfähig zu sein neue Explorationslizenzen zu vergeben. Ein Beispiel für die Auswirkungen dieses Problems: Letzten Monat packte die australische Bergbaugesellschaft Argosy ihre Zelte und verließ das Land. Das Unternehmen hatte bis dahin bereits einen Explorations-Vertrag mit einer inländischen Gesellschaft geschlossen und auch die „Gesellschaft zur Beteiligung von Schwarzen an der Wirtschaft“ Umnotho mit einem Anteil von 15 % an den Explorationsvorhaben beteiligt. Für das Projekt sind die Explorationslizenzen im März letzten Jahres ausgelaufen und, obwohl bereits die Verlängerung frühzeitig vor deren Auslaufen beantragt wurde, sind diese bis heute nicht verlängert worden.


    Darüber hinaus haben die Behörden inzwischen weiterhin bestimmt, dass mindestens 51 % an neuen Explorationsprojekten von „Gesellschaft zur Beteiligung von Schwarzen an der Wirtschaft“ gehalten werden müssen. Die australische Explorationsgesellschaft erklärte, dass sie außerstande sei, diese Regelung umzusetzen. Also verließ es Südafrika.


    Derweilen warten weitere 3.000 Explorationslizenzen bei den Behörden auf Ihre Genehmigung.


    In einem anderen Fall, der fehlgeschlagenen Übernahme von Gold Fields durch Harmony (beide in Südafrika), beklagte nun Hamonys Chef Bernard Swanepoel die bürokratischen Hemmnisse in dem Land: Die ganzen Verfahren erlauben den Beamten zu große Ermessensspielräume. Im vorliegenden Fall waren zwei unterschiedliche Behörden nicht imstande sich über den zeitlichen Ablauf des Verfahrens zu einigen.


    Ob Harmonys Übernahmeversuch dann geglückt wäre ist ein anderes Thema.


    Südafrikas Rahmenbedingungen für den Bergbau mögen der Wunschtraum vieler Bürokraten sein, aber er ist der Alptraum aller Unternehmer.

    Gold May Rise as Alternative Asset to U.S. Stocks, Survey Shows


    May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Gold may rise this week on speculation investors will buy the metal as an alternative to slumping U.S. equities, a Bloomberg survey showed.


    Twenty-four of 50 traders, investors and analysts surveyed from Melbourne to New York April 28 and April 29 advised buying gold, which rose 50 cents last week to $436.10 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Eighteen recommended selling the metal, and eight were neutral.


    Gold climbed 13 percent in the past year, reaching a 16-year high of $458.70 in December, as a declining dollar sent investors looking for alternatives to U.S. assets. Newmont Mining Corp. President Pierre Lassonde said demand for gold is so strong that metal refiners in Switzerland and Australia are ``working 24- seven putting product out.''


    ``People are very keen to use gold as an alternative currency, an alternative asset,'' Lassonde, 58, said in an April 27 telephone interview from the company's headquarters in Denver. Newmont is the world's largest gold producer.


    Gold's 0.1 percent gain in New York last week was anticipated by a majority of analysts surveyed April 21 and April 22, who predicted a gain. Bloomberg's survey accurately forecast the direction of gold prices in 31 of 53 weeks, or 58 percent of the time. Gold rose 1.2 percent last month, and is up 13 percent from a year ago.


    Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long position in Comex gold futures by 20 percent to 137,777 contracts in the week ended April 26, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said April 29. A futures contract is an obligation to buy or sell a commodity at a set price by a specific date.


    Link to Dollar


    The rally in gold over the past year has largely been linked to a drop in the dollar against the euro. Gold rose last week even as the dollar gained against the euro.


    ``People are buying gold to preserve capital,'' said Ian MacDonald, managing director of precious metals trading in New York at International Assets Holding Corp., an Altamonte Springs, Florida-based brokerage and asset-management company. ``If you look at the fundamentals of the euro, the yen and the dollar, none of them are good.''


    Gold has moved in line with the euro's change against the dollar, at a correlation coefficient of 0.66 this year. The maximum reading is 1. The coefficient measures the degree in which two variables move in unison. As much as 95 percent of gold's price is inversely correlated to the dollar, Newmont's Lassonde said.


    Regain Appeal


    ``Gold will regain its earlier appeal as the dollar rally is temporary and the bubble may burst in the next few weeks,'' said Jay Mehta, managing director of Mumbai-based Maximus Commodities.


    The appeal of precious metals also has improved as U.S. stocks declined because of concern for slowing U.S. economic growth and inflation, said Michael Martin, a broker at stock and bond brokerage company R.F. Lafferty & Co. in New York.


    ``People can't figure out what to do in the stock market, and they can't figure out bonds,'' Martin said. ``People are very nervous, and that's a good environment for gold.''


    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, up 0.3 percent last week, fell 3 percent last month and is down 0.8 percent over the past year. The 10-year U.S. Treasury note's yield has dropped half a percentage point from its high of 4.69 percent this year in March even as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates.


    `Bullish for Gold'


    The Federal Reserve tomorrow is expected to raise its target for overnight bank lending to 3 percent, below the 3.1 percent annual U.S. inflation rate in March, based on a Bloomberg survey of 93 economists.


    ``Real short-term interest rates are still low to negative, and that traditionally has been bullish for gold,'' said Michael Cuggino, who manages $350 million at San Francisco-based Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC, including about 115,000 ounces of gold bars stored in bank vaults.


    Newmont's Lassonde predicts gold will trade between $425 and $475 an ounce this year.


    ``For the first time in three years, we're going to see the gold price going up at the same time as we might see the dollar firming up, because of the perceived rise in interest rates,'' Lassonde said. Gold may rise on its own, either as investors seek a hedge against declines in stock and bond prices or as gold takes on a role as a currency on its own, he said.


    Stocks are trading at a historically high ratio to gold, at 23 to 1, based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average at about 10,200 and gold at $436, Lassonde said. Over the past 100 years, the ratio peaked at 42.35 to 1 in August 1999 and went to as low as 1.33 to 1 in 1980, when gold reached $873, he said.


    `Room To Go Up'


    ``When you look back in history, it's quite interesting, the ratio always comes back,'' Lassonde said. ``You could have the Dow coming down appreciably from here, but it still leaves an awful lot of room for gold to go up.''


    The economic slowdown that is hurting stocks may also hurt gold, said Thomas Au, an analyst at financial consulting company R.W. Wentworth in New York.


    Slower growth reduces investor concern inflation will accelerate, making gold less appealing as an alternative, said Au, who has correctly predicted the weekly direction of gold prices 61 percent of the time in the Bloomberg survey. He expects gold prices to fall this week, the first decline he has predicted since the survey began last year.

    ""Riding with a hidden or blind wave"" :D


    Predictions for 2 May to 6 May 2005


    GOLD


    Last week gold remained in range as predicted but the up and down movements came on different days. It does not inspire confidence when something goes down on a positive day and goes up on a negative one. I therefore cannot predict a strong upward move as time is making fools of us. I therefore advise that you stay away from any long term buying position.


    During this week, Monday will be the weak day for gold, Tuesday will remain positive, whereas it will move on both sides come Wednesday. Any downward trend can therefore be taken as a buying opportunity, while a strong rise till Friday should be taken as a selling opportunity, such that you won’t be carrying any position into next week.


    The current time is still directionless for gold. Therefore consider carefully before you put your hard earned money into it. I am still waiting for the right timing before I give you the alert to buy. June should be for gold while silver will also strongly move up during next month.
    I am sure that you must have sold gold as advised on Friday. Though it is trading above the important astrological support ($428.80), it still looks weak to me :D,
    Until it breaks $439.20.


    SILVER


    Silver has broken an important astrological support of $7.11 (which I indicated in last week’s newsletter). Until it crosses this level once more, it will remain directionless. Don’t therefore trade in it with big quantities.


    Wait till it crosses $7.11.


    Tuesday could be a positive day for silver but overall this week will remain directionless.


    Like gold, June will also be a good month for silver.


    CURRENCIES


    The dollar index will trade within the trading range during this week, with Friday’s close being above last week’s close or new high of 2005. All other currencies will remain directionless and will continue moving down.
    I am not at all excited about talk of Yuan revaluation and I don’t know you Yen and other currencies went up on Friday. They are telling to sell them.


    My recommendation is that one should accumulate the dollar index if it goes to USD/Index 84.



    ....... if it doesn't ....http://www.superlaugh.com/than…stamp=2005_05_02_04_07_54


    ..... and if it does.....
    http://www.guzer.com/videos/numa_numa.php

    90 inmates share one toilet


    01/05/2005 16:27



    Johannesburg - Conditions at the Johannesburg Prison were "totally unacceptable," correctional services portfolio committee chair Dennis Bloem has said.
    Speaking after an inspection visit to the jail on Sunday, Bloem said the facility's infrastructure was "suffering" as a result of overcrowding.


    "In the awaiting-trial prisoners section which I visited, there were 7 000 inmates, three times more than what that area can accommodate.


    "The one prisoner I spoke to said he has been awaiting for his trial for seven years now, which is unfair.


    "What will happen to him should he be tried and found not guilty after such a long time behind bars?"


    Bloem said in one cell, 90 inmates had to share one toilet and shower.


    "The sewage system there is suffering and toilets are blocked and everything. The conditions are really appalling," he said.


    Bloem said Johannesburg Prison was designed to accommodate about 6 000 prisoners but currently housed 14 000.


    He said there needed to be an investigation into why courts were taking so long to have prisoners tried.


    "This is why we support the Minister's (Ngconde Balfour's) decision to have some prisoners - arrested for petty crimes - released," Bloem said.


    He said the government was currently in the process of building prisons in Kimberley, Leeuwkop, Klerksdorp and Nelspruit which were expected to be completed during the current financial year.


    Bloem said he would be visiting more prisons around the country this week.


    News24/SAPA

    Robbers play cops in Kimberley


    30/04/2005 18:18 - (SA)


    Johannesburg - An ex-policeman and four others have appeared in court in Pretoria following their arrest for a robbery in Kimberley in which they allegedly masqueraded as police, Northern Cape police said.


    Police found police uniforms, bulletproof vests, date stamps, blue police lights and two unlicenced firearms at some of group's homes, Captain Tony Modise told reporters.


    At their hearing on Friday, the case was postponed to May 3, when they will appear in the Kimberley magistrate's court.


    They were Jack Pos, 33, of Leondale, Alberton; Oupa Abel Mawela, 47, of Mamelodi in Tshwane; Sifiso Sammy Mkhonto, 25, Johannes Mokatseng, 48, of Galeshewe, Kimberley and former Mamelodi policeman Simon Sello Mahlakoana, 44.


    The five were arrested in Kimberley with the assistance of the police dog unit from Gauteng :D, in an operation that ended on Thursday, Modise said.



    Crime Statistics RSA :
    http://www.saps.gov.za/statist…s/rsa_totals03_04_new.pdf