THE TRUTH ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA.

The Dellers lived in South Africa: for 25 years.  (History)  They worked hard there, had a family and Brian's three children are still living there with his grandchildren.  They escaped to Spain in 1999.

The facts of the matter are that it is now obvious that South Africa was a far better country under Apartheid, which would have changed gradually over the years for most of its inhabitants, not just the Whites.  It was the richest country in Africa and no one starved.  All who wanted to work had a job and even thousands of Black people from the northern countries flooded to South Africa each year to work in the mines, etc.  Although the rates of pay may have seemed low, workers could live and save on them, unlike now where inflation and the very low value of the Rand has caused economic hardship for all except those who are in power at all levels who make sure that their incomes are inflation-proofed.   Now the rich are getting richer, and the poorer are getting poorer with an unemployment rate of 40%.    Most important, the murder and rape rates were way below average for Africa.   It was a safe country as long as you did not suffer from a terrorist bombing usually from the now ruling ANC party.   Now the crime rates are the highest in the World (second only to Colombia for being shot to death) and this is after just 13 years of the African National Congress's rule.  And they are not improving.

Would you go to the Soccer World Cup in 2010 in South Africa, to a country where it is not even safe to walk the main streets in the cities or in much of the countryside?

 

  November 2009: read the official opinions about the very serious violent crime in South Africa even now. November 2009.

Link: http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=63916&

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CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA

1 June 2008.

Let us leave no doubts in your minds.  The serious crime in South Africa is amongst the worst in the world including Iraq and Afghanistan.  The figures for 2007 show that you are twelve times more likely to be unlawfully killed  in South Africa than you are in the United States.  The incidence of rape, in a country where HIV is very high, is in itself  potential death sentence and even children as young as 3 months old are not safe due to the fools believing that if the "make love to a virgin" it will cure their HIV/AIDS.

The government's own statistics now show that there are an average of nearly 88 people a day that are unlawfully killed or in other words, murdered.  They can be seen at this web-site link.  You will need Adobe Reader to display them.

http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2007/_pdf/rsa_total.pdf

This year, 2008, over 50 foreigners were horribly murdered in the black squatter camps.  Simply for being foreigners, many of whom moved to the wonderful South Africa after being driven out of Zimbabwe where they were starving (3-million) or Mozambique where a 20-odd year war between the tribes left that country in a terrible state.

Apartheid was far better than this.    Foreigners came to work legally in South Africa then, but now under a Marxist ANC government, the unemployment rate is about 40%.

CRY THE BELOVED SOUTH AFRICA.  WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU?

Jan. 2010, read the report of a respected South African intellectual.

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Update AUGUST 2008.

It is impossible to record THE many DAILY examples of the terribLE situaTion that SOUTH aFRICA NOW FINDS ITSELF IN SINCE THE END OF APARTHEID bUT WE CAN GIVE A FEW EXAMPLES AND DIRECT YOU TO SPECIALIST WEB-SITES WHERE THE TRUTH, MAINLY FROM PRESS CUTTINGS THERE, CAN BE TOLD DISPASSIONATELY AND FACTUALLY.

aN EXAMPLE IS BELOW from such web site, called www.africancrisis.org.za:

News - South Africa: SA 'in grip of massive crime wave'

Date Posted: Tuesday 26-Aug-2008

By Sharika Regchand

A perusal of the media indicated that the country was in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, said a judge before he sentenced a man who shot and injured a couple at a holiday home at Leisure Bay to an effective jail term of 25 years.

Fana Nhlumayo, who was 18 at the time, was part of a group that attacked Jessica Webster and her then fiance, American attorney David Bovino, at her parents' holiday home in August 2006.

Nhlumayo stood trial on eight charges along with Sibonelo Mpisane and Sifiso Nhlumayo who were acquitted last week.

However, he was convicted on six of the charges - two of attempted murder, aggravated robbery, two of the possession of an unlicensed firearm and one of the unlawful possession of ammunition.



He was acquitted on two charges of indecent assault.

Judge Chris Nicholson said in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday that the public were baying for criminals to be jailed for a long time.

However, the courts also had to show mercy, and Judge Nicholson did that by ordering that some of the sentences run concurrently.

The judge said Webster, who was shot in the spine, was left temporarily paralysed and had difficulty walking, and that although Bovino's physical wounds had healed, he was still dealing with emotional trauma.

The judge agreed with state advocate Dalene Barnard that the incident had received international media coverage, which "does untold harm to the reputation of this country as a tourist destination".

The items stolen included an iPod, laptop, money and cellphone.

In aggravation of sentencing, Barnard had argued that Webster had been shot while on the patio and had not resisted or posed a threat.

After the incident Webster had been told she would become a paraplegic. Her will to live a normal life had helped her to make progress, but she would never fully recover.

Barnard told the court that Webster would never be able to live life the way she had before she was shot.

Barnard said when Nhlumayo was arrested he was found in possession of three guns and ammunition.

"The accused was indeed one of the shotists. Exactly what role he played one does not know. However, him being linked to the items shows that he played a leading role in the crime," she said.

Judge Nicholson turned down Nhlumayo's application for leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence.

sharika.regchand@inl.co.za.

 

UPDATE 17 January 2008.

It used to be only the wild animals were the danger in the massive Kruger park.

SA: foreign tourists, localworkers besieged by armed gangs near Kruger National Park

Date Posted: Friday 18-Jan-2008

Nelspruit - Two attacks have been launched against employees and tourists near the Kruger National Park on Wednesday and Thursday.
The tourists were attacked and fired on near the Orpen gate of the the Kruger National Park on Thursday. A day earlier, 3 workers of a nearby exclusive safari lodge were attacked, injuring one. The motives for the attacks are unclear: the attackers fled without robbing anything.

SEE MAP OF AREA:

URL: http://www.tintswalo.com/images/map.jpg

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PARADISE LOST: ORPEN LODGE, KRUGER PARK:

URL: http://www.krugerpark.co.za/images/thumbs/280...

The Kruger National Park is run by the SA government's national parks board, while Tintswalo is an exclusive (expensive, meant for foreign tourists) safari lodge, situated on a private Manyeleti Reserve concession inside the Greater Kruger National Park.

Police are investigating whether there is a link between the two attacks.

On Thursday morning at about 07:00, a group of tourists was driving past the Orpen Gate at the Timbavati Game Reserve Lodge when they came across branches in the road.

"While they were stopping there were some shots and they drove away," said police captain David Hlatshwayo. "Fortunately nobody was injured."    He said one of the group was South African and the rest were foreign tourists.    The car, a Toyota Yaris, was damaged, but nothing was stolen.   Police found bullets leading them to believe the suspects were using rifles that were stolen the previous week.

Police did not divulge much: they did not say how many tourists there were in this party on Thursday, nor what countries they hailed from.
It's also not known whether they continued their tour or not.

The afternoon before, on Wednesday three employees from Tintswalo Safari Lodge close to Hoedspruit, were attacked by an armed gang when returning to the lodge, located in Manyeleti Reserve which opens into the Kruger National Park.   The employees had just turned onto the gravel road to the lodge in a Nissan bakkie when three armed men stopped them and start shooting at them.

"One man was injured and rushed to hospital," said investigating officer, Captain David Hlatshwayo.

Hlatshwayo said the unnamed man was shot in his left arm and leg. The gang then ran away for some unknown reason which police did not clarify -- and their motive remains unclear as nothing was stolen.

The rifles used by the robbers might have been stolen during an earlier burglary at Kapana Lodge in Hoedspruit on Thursday January 10 where rifles, amongst other things, were stolen. Police are investigating two cases of attempted murder.
Source URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2254390,00.html

Posted By: Adriana
Adriana Stuijt Websites: CensorBugBear

Email: info@tintswalo.com

STILL WANT TO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA?   ARE YOU AN EXPERT WITH A GUN?  DO YOU WANT TO WALK AROUND SUSPECTING EVERYONE WHO COMES NEAR YOU AS WE DID?  CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY AND FEEL GUILTY ALL WHO SHOUTED FOR APARTHEID TO END.  INCLUDING ME!

 REMINDS ME OF THE MOVIE "WESTWORLD", EXCEPT THEY SHOOT FIRST IN SA.  

VISIT SOUTH AFRICA FOR AN EXCITING HOLIDAY, BUT MAKE SURE YOUR INSURANCE COVER IS RIGHT UP TO DATE AND INCLUDES HAZARDOUS TRIPS TO DANGEROUS PLACES, and youR wills are in order.

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CRIME UP.  SA Newspaper report July 2007.

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In the forty-four years from 1950 to 1993 in South Africa, there was an average of 7,036 murders per year. This also covered the “turbulent” times of the “Apartheid years” of conflict, terrorism bombing and riots. However, under the ANC rule, Interpol's statistics state the murder rate has averaged 47,882 per year. or over 6 times as many.

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6 December 2007.  Crime increases again.

SA: truck-hijackings up 53.3%; house robberies up 7%; business robberies up 29.3%...

Date Posted: Thursday 06-Dec-2007

06/12/2007 Pretoria - 7% more house robberies, 29,3% more business robberies and 53.3% more truck hijackings occurred April and September this year, the police announced in Pretoria on Thursday.

PERSONAL COMMENT -- it is however becoming increasingly difficult to believe anything the police chiefs say, as they also claim that murder, rape, attempted murder, assault with intention to do grievous bodily harm, common assault, aggravated robbery and common robbery have also decreased over these months. They left out some rather important details, such as the percentages of these proclaimed 'decreases ....

Read the entire confusing story here:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New...
Source URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2234121,00.html

Posted By: Adriana
Adriana Stuijt Websites: CensorBugBear

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 25 November 2007.

The new government statistics show that combining the deaths by murder and by manslaughter, the actual deaths per day are for 2006 - 88 a day average.  That is 32.000 a year.  And it is claimed that the official statistics are always inaccurate (lower) so as not to paint a grim picture under ANC rule.

You are 12 times as likely to die an unlawful death in SA than you are in the USA.

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The African National Congress (ANC), was a initially a political organisation and then eventually a terrorist organisation from around the 1960s when they started to receive support from communist countries that were intent on World domination through installing governments in countries where perceived injustices could be used as a reason for stirring up its inhabitants, but like all of these organisations, the majority of the Black people in SA did not respond at first.    After years of propaganda and especially from the Sharpeville incident where thousands of Blacks organised by the Pan African Congress, another terror group, descended on a small police station, breaking down the surrounding fence.  After a shot was fired, the police opened fire frightened for their lives and 69 Blacks died and a couple were injured, many being trampled by the crowd, the ANC and PAC started of the indiscriminate bombing of shopping centers, with some World support due to the propaganda about "freedom for the Blacks" and not understanding the need for longer development phases in Africa, the Whites who had skillfully managed South Africa and had made it the best country in Sub-Saharan Africa (if it was so bad, why did people from the North flock in their thousands to work there?).     Apartheid was eventually rescinded after a 1992 referendum of the Whites despite many misgivings by the rest since proven correct    The ANC then made sure that they received the most votes with blatant propaganda, some of it lies and by introducing the now well-know method of public murders to persuade others to support them called "necklacing".  This involved the placing of a motor-car tyre around the poor victim's neck and pouring petrol in it.    It is then set on fire and the crowds were force to watch the victims’ death agonies.  There were many other atrocities but that is history now.  Even a local police chief now near Johannesburg was a convicted terrorist bomber of women and children in a restaurant.  He has been plagued with controversy since and is currently awaiting possible trial for being drunk and crashing a State vehicle, and threatening police witnesses testifying against him.  There is so much evidence that, as in Rhodesia where the Ian Smith government forecast the future of Zimbabwe as it became known, the same is happening in South Africa.  But no one listened and look at Zimbabwe now!

What now?  Like Zimbabwe where economic meltdown has finally occurred, South Africa is in turmoil but who cares?  The people who were responsible for the installation of the ANC and a "democratic" government must turn away with guilty consciences when the hear of the disasters that have been caused by their handiwork in both Zimbabwe and now South Africa.  The World Press does not constantly highlight the problems there where rape occurs (every 83 seconds?) so often that women have given up reporting it, and HIV/AIDS is a pandemic, so rape can easily become a death-sentence.  Even babies of three months are not safe.  Murder rates are the highest in the world outside of a war zone with an official annual average of about 20.000 deaths in a population of about 45 million, but the South African Medical Council has been reported in the SA Press as saying that according to their statistics, it is 50% higher.   People who can afford to, live behind steel fenced townships where to enter you have to go through a barrier.  A reminder of Europe in the Dark Ages 500 - 600 + years ago.  But they still have to go to work!

And this country has been selected for the 2101 World Cup!  I hope that those intent on going read the UK Foreign Office´s travel advice before deciding; and the web-sites linked below.  Many will be lucky to receive their luggage at the airport with all then contents intact.  (Many travellers going there now find that their luggage has been opened and valuables stolen, even if completely sealed with plastic.)

The Whites previously in power predicted what would happen, and it is.    I refuse to be described as a racialist (the usual cry of the inept) for announcing the facts to the reader.    It is only by knowing the facts that a solution can be arrived at.

But there is not enough space to write here of the disaster that South Africa is quickly becoming for all its inhabitants who are unable to put cash in foreign safe havens, and a disaster for at least 80% of them now are seriously affected by crime or lack of income.  Read the contents of the following web-sites below that originate in the main from South Africa where citizens who have suffered enough are trying to shame the inept South African ANC led government into doing something about the terrible crime there.   And the National Police Chief is the President of Interpol.     SA's President Mbeki must also be held partly responsible for Zimbabwe's demise by his policy of "quiet diplomacy" in other words "support for Mugabe", and the ANC government needs to do its sworn duty to protect SA's citizens: but can it?    Many intellectuals of all races living there say NO!   The ANC does not have the skills in government and administration and is now more racialist in the true sense than the old Apartheid government.   Highly qualified Whites there cannot enter the job market where there are thousands of skilled jobs available because they are White (or Indian or Coloured [mixed]) - by  the laws of the country brought in by the ANC and this all adds to the crime problems.  1,2 million Whites have officially left (probably more) and now the SA Government is trying to get them to return as it is desperate.

Please read these web-sites remembering they are based on facts from the South African Press and with letters from people who are living there.  You may “click” to go to each link or copy addresses into your browser.

http://southafricathetruth.net/index.php

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/

http://www.gatedcomsa.co.za/

http://murders.homestead.com/rewards.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxM_DrIijyY&search=south%20africa%20genocide.

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LETTERS TO THE PRESS IN EUROPE.

15 July 2006

By E-mail

Dear Editor

What is going wrong with our World?  There are the terrorist groups in Gaza and Beirut/Lebanon who are causing a mini-war which may

yet develop into a major confrontation, and let us make no bones about it; the Palestinians are responsible for this current battle, but the

 liberals and far left will try and blame the Israelis.  As someone who lived in South Africa and still has relatives living there, I have a special reason for being concerned. 

 I wish to bring to your attention the so called “rainbow nation”, South Africa that 12 to 14 years ago under Mandela’s leadership was praised the world over as a miracle when the Whites there agreed to stop Apartheid and effectively hand over an economically strong and well run as, far as the infrastructure was concerned, country to a terrorist organisation called the Africa National Congress, an organisation that used “necklacing” (car tyres placed around (Black) people’s necks, filled with petrol and set on fire) to persuade the masses to vote for them.   Now the country is gradually crumbling away economically with having the doubtful reputation of being one of the most dangerous places to live (and visit) in the world.   The Black peoples there who were jubilant 12 – 14 years ago, are, apart from the privileged few, worse off than they were under Apartheid, but no one seems to care outside of SA.   An average of 18 to 20.000 people a year are reported murdered (how many are not reported?), rape is so common that most victims know it is not worth reporting it anymore (a sad crime with HIV/AIDS being so prevalent), and criminals are reported to have a 90% chance of getting away with their often savage crimes.  Many urbanisations (townships) of even a thousand homes are surrounded completely by steel fencing with guarded entrances/exits just like Europe in the dark-ages with castles.   It is now reported that in the South African Police Services, undermanned and underpaid, many are scared of the criminals, and corruption is a major problem due to low wages and fear.   It is reported that 57 policemen have been murdered this year already

Petitions are being sent to President Mbeki to take action to protect the citizens, but nothing is done.  The Minister of Safety and Security has said in parliament basically that if you do not like it, then leave.  He is sworn to uphold and protect the citizens of South Africa in the SA Constitution.

Unemployment is reported in the Press there to be running at around 40% and this is in country with no social services support (no job, you starve which never happened under Apartheid), and this adds to the crime rates as millions of Black people are now despondent at the promises previously made by the African National Congress now in Parliament, not being kept.  Many are living in squatter camps around the major cities with no hope of being re-housed or their conditions being improved in the foreseeable future, but the ANC government lives off the fat of the land with some officials even at council levels being paid exorbitant salaries they have voted for themselves to the detriment of the taxpayers, who have suffered with cholera outbreaks, sewerage in the streets, etc. 

The law is more racist now than under Apartheid forcing many young and middle-aged Whites, Indians and so-called Coloureds who can, to emigrate taking their skills with them, something South Africa cannot afford to happen.  But the ANC government, as they have with Zimbabwe, ignore the facts and castigate anyone who publicises them, branding them as “racists and unpatriotic”.   Farmers are being savagely murdered in increasing numbers by Black people, and now land is being forcibly taken from families, including those who are not Black but for example are Indian, who have owned it and produced food, for over 150 years in many cases.  Several very large farms have, like in Zimbabwe, already being left desolate so expect food aid to be asked for soon.

The World Cup 2010 is supposed to be in South Africa, and already they are way behind with the preparations reports the German Press experts who have visited South Africa to advise the officials.  South Africa cannot afford to have a World Cup.  Every day, major electrical power cuts in the cities are normal, and they are even announced on the radio and TV now.  New electrical power stations are needed, but the money to build them has been wasted on weapons that are not needed as the armed forces are now being decimated by HIV/AIDS and other diseases, plus the usual sub-Saharan African problem, - incompetence.  There is no safe and reliable transport infrastructure, with taxis that are in many cases 15-years old and very unsafe, trains that are set on fire by the users if they are not on time and the ever present hijacking of cars making every journey a dangerous action.  There are even large warning notices at selected street corners in and outside the cities known to be hijacking “Black spots”. People are reported to be dying in hospitals due to vital equipment failing due to no power and businesses are suffering thus increasing the 35 – 40% unemployment problem.  With the very high crime rates, anyone who travels there is putting his/her life at extreme risk.  You will not be able to walk the streets as you can in most of Europe without constant fear of being robbed, even in the supermarkets and restaurants.  And there they use AK 47 assault rifles, even though possession of one is supposed to mean an automatic ten-year jail sentence.

The world cheered when Apartheid finished despite the warnings of the White citizens there of what would happen.  Now it is and continues, with President Mbeki of South Africa even supporting Mugabe of Zimbabwe, showing his true colours.  What can be done?    In my opinion, as someone who lived there for 25 years and is therefore qualified more than most to be listened to is like most of Africa:  in my opinion, COLONISATION again is the only real answer.  But this will not happen, so the alternative is 100 years plus of the “dark ages” we had in Europe centuries ago, and this is what will probably happen.

If you are interested in what is happening in Africa now, and do not just write it off “because it is Africa, what can you expect”, take a look at the web-sites.  The facts will shock you and perhaps change your future attitudes.  And do not be frightened of being labelled a “racist” by the ignorant liberals.  The main aim is the betterment of all Africans, not with charity which just worsens the situation, but with good leadership and their enforced hard work.  It is the only way. We did it centuries ago.  Now they must to catch up.

Brian Deller, Marbella

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Guess who is the President of Interpol?  The mind boggles. 

Read this page to find out, plus more.

INTERPOL REPORT.

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SABC bans 'hardcore' Freedom Day advertisement, May 2007

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One of the First National Bank of South Africa adverts banned by the ANC to protect the government form their shocking record on fighting crime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guCRu80nYL4

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LETTER 2 dated 6 August 2006

Zimbabwe “revalues” its currency (AGAIN). 

This month of August has been another sad and chaotic one in then once thriving British colony that was forced into democracy before they were really ready, because the Zimbabwe dollar has been “re-valued” by the Zimbabwe government.    For some years now, the cost of printing the Zimbabwe currency notes has far exceeded the face value.    For example, where we may be used to carrying around say €150 in our pockets, the equivalent amount in Zimbabwe is now Z$ 100.000.000 (yes 100 million) which means that to go shopping, you need a suitcase on wheels, and the value is falling faster than binge drinkers in Glasgow on a Friday night. 

There are benefits of course.  If you live in adjoining South Africa where you can be murdered for as little as €5, it just is not worth it in Zimbabwe because not only is the currency value falling every hour, there is also very little to spend it on.   As one Zimbabwean wit said two years ago, it is cheaper to use a Zim $10 note than to use toilet paper. 

Now the Zimbabwean government under the leadership to disaster of Robert (Robbing, as he has been called by many for some time now) Mugabe, has decided to issue new currency where the face values have had three zeroes removed from them so a current Z$100.000 note will be worth Z$100 in the new paper notes.   The reason is that there is just not enough currency notes in the country. 

But that is not all, to stop “crooks” profiting from the changeover, three weeks has been designated as the changeover period ending on the 21st August, but with the weekends and public holidays, that means just nine days where you can go to your local bank to change the old notes.  But as the sales-people on TV used to say, “That is not all!”     You are also not allowed to have more than Z$100.000.000 (yes, €150) on your person or in your car at any one time, so many citizens will be effectively robbed by the government (again) as from the 21st August, the old currency will no longer be legal tender. And groups of the Mugabe’s governing party’s “youth league” will be stopping and searching people confiscating all money over this amount.   So it will not be the crooks who are stopped from profiting, it will be the many thousands of poor people who live in the villages many kilometres from the towns who will be unable to take their cash to the Banks.   Even a tank of petrol for the average car costs Z$100.000.000 now, if you can find a garage with petrol and our correspondent who lives there reports that since the edict, the garages mysteriously have run out of petrol.   But you can be sure that the Government officials have already changed all of theirs even though it takes a 30-ton truck to get them to the Banks. One more nail in the coffin of the once beautiful Rhodesia/Zimbabwe before the politicians in the West ruined it in the 1960-70s.  

Why am I writing about this for most readers to look at and tut-tut and then turn to the Sports pages?  Because the current problems in Middle East are also our problems where we have not written to our MPs in the last few years and said strongly something must be done, so do it or I will not vote for you next time.  So we allow the propaganda to flow over us, where “civilians” are being killed, by the “bad Israelis” who are only trying to survive in a World where most people do not care enough.  The  Syrians (and all foreign militias as well as unofficial armies) have been “told” by the UN to stop organising the terrorists in Lebanon and giving support in the form of weapons in the UN resolution 1559 in September 2004, insisting on just this and more.  Ok, the official Syrian army has moved out, but Syria (and Iran) is still supporting the Hezbollah terrorists and the ordinary Lebanese civilians, many of whom are Christian, are suffering as a result. And many ordinary people in the West who really do not follow what is going on, blame the Israelis for doing what the UN has said must happen but does not send the UN forces in to ensure that Hezbollah is disarmed and disbanded as it should be.    The propaganda works where women and children killed are shown as killed by Israeli bombs, but at least the Israelis have given due warning before they target an area, unlike the terrorist Hezbollah who have been firing unguided rockets into Israel and using stupid young people willing to blow themselves up, “For the cause” (Oh how that phrase is being recalled as these murderers stand before their maker just before the trip to Hell!)    

I know that the UN is getting ready to really “raise its voice” over the nuclear fuel problem in Iran, but that is because the resulting bombs that Iran will make can be easily set off in the middle of London, New York, etc. and the latter is dangerously near the UN buildings. These terror organisations who are using religion to gain World power (and to stay in power in their countries) see every step-down by the West as a sign of weakness, and like the school bully, someone has to step up to them and bloody their noses, - for ever.  Do I support Bush and Blair in their efforts to fight world terrorism?  You bet I do, because the future looks bleak if we do not for all our great grandchildren, those that survive being taught by a religiously fanatical Iman.  We have been there in Europe where Roman Catholics and Protestants were murdered by the State for their religious beliefs so we know these people are about 500 years behind us in civilisation.   Remember that we used to burn Protestants at the stake in our major towns London and persecute the Jews? 

So, dear reader, it takes only five minutes and a piece of paper to write a letter to your MP to the Spanish, UK, Irish, EU in Brussels, recording in a few lines your disgust at the way the citizens of : 

  • -- Zimbabwe are being treated, and the UN must take action to remove him and his party from power, by arresting Mugabe for the tens of thousands of his citizens he has committed genocide against and a trial in the World Court, and,

  • -- The immediate disarming and arrest, with UN troops, of all Hezbollah terrorists, and the removal of any Syrian and Iranian troops.  They have no need or right to be in Lebanon, a country that wants and needs peace.  This will mean a UN “peace-keeping” force being Lebanon for some years to make sure they do not come back.

Finally, are you really happy that a once great country called Iran is being run by mad-men who are intent on having nuclear weapons that can be smuggled into London, Madrid, Paris, Washington and New York and set off?  Of course you are not because if that happens, what is happening now will be a small skirmish compared with the results of such an atrocity.  And we will all be guilty of not doing enough about it now. 

To read the latest news about Zimbabwe, .written by Cathy Buckle, who is living there, please go to the web-site (Click):

http://africantears.netfirms.com/index.shtml

Brian Deller, Marbella

(PS I am Christian by upbringing, but recognise that all faiths have equal benefits if not twisted by man to suit his own ends.)

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Just another Day in the new south africa!  21 August 2006

From the www.rsa-overseas.com web-site message board.

Rah Rah club of South Africa

 Message:
10 year old girl raped and hammered to death.    CELINE: "WHY DID THE WORLD DO THIS TO ME?"

July 22, 2006 Thabazimbi - A 10-year-old girl was first raped and then repeatedly hit on the head with a hammer until she died.   Then, her killer buried her bloodied, battered body in a shallow grave in a nearby riverbed.

The gruesome murder of Grade 3 schoolgirl Celine Oosthuizen who attended the Koedoeskop Primary School, deeply shocked the residents of Thabazimbi in Limpopo.  A group of Thabazimbi women intend to hold a protest march on Thursday at the court.

Captain Gabashane Moseki of Limpopo's Waterberg region said Celine was believed to have been killed in the early hours of last Saturday.  She said that after school on Friday afternoon, Celine had gone to the town of Setaria near Northam platinum mine.   It seemed the girl used to go there often after school to play video games. Celine's mother and stepfather also live in Setaria.

Moseki said the suspect apparently had offered to take Celine back home on Friday afternoon.  Moseki said: "He is believed to have raped her on the way."   Afterwards, the girl apparently began bleeding and then she was taken to the nearby Crocodile River.   It seems the suspect and the girl spent the whole night on the river bank. Her parents thought she was visiting the relative.

Moseki said Celine was murdered about 06:00 on Saturday. Beeld (newspaper) heard from an informed source in the police that Celine had been hit several times on the head with a hammer.   The police officer said: "I've never seen anything like it in my life. It was really terrible."   Celine's family reported her missing by Saturday afternoon.   Her body was found after searching the riverbed and a post-mortem was done on Wednesday.

School principal Gustav Grobler said everyone was shocked.    He said Celine had been at his school only for the past four months.   "She was an extremely quiet little girl and in the beginning she struggled to adapt."

As a tourist or traveller, we urge you to boycott South Africa as a destination, because “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”!!   Help us to help the concerned citizens of all races and colours there to force the South African government to take responsibility and action against the crime and lawlessness that now has riddled the country since the ANC came to power 12 years ago and makes it the "Murder Capital of the World".   Only Columbia with its drug wars has a higher murder rate, but lower robbery and rape rates.
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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION - Now Closed.

But you can still order your stab-proof vest if you plan to go.

The petition for the FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament to be moved from dangerous South Africa  received a good response but the recent murders (January 2010) of the Togo football team will also bring home to tourists the dangers of visiting the sad country that South Africa has become under ex-terrorist rule.  Sad for most that is except the new leaders who live on the gravy train they have made governing South Africa now.  Even the Western Press as well as foriegn governments are now warning all who intend or who are thinking of visiting South Africa about the dangers in this now lawless country.

Read about the situation in an article written by someone who lives there.

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SOUTH AFRICA:  Violent crime exploding - up 20%
Violent crime exploding.  Wide-based forensic-standard Massmart statistics show violent crime has risen 20% on a year ago.

Barry Sergeant
Posted: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:00 | © Moneyweb Holdings Limited, 1997-2006

Mark Lamberti, CEO of Massmart, one of Africa’s largest consumer good distributors, says his company’s statistics – immaculately kept for insurance purposes – indicate that crime in South Africa “right now is about 20% up on last year this time”.

Lamberti told the Moneyweb Radio: “I’m talking about armed robberies, robberies of cash-in-transit, attacks of one sort or another on our staff, people being involved in hijackings and robberies at their homes and so on.”

Massmart monitors crime “very, very accurately and we have world-class statistics in that regard”.   Lamberti protested that “quite frankly, the [crime] level right now, despite a number of denials in this regard, is not acceptable.   I’ve actually heard it said, ‘Well, this is perception, not reality’. I mean, nothing could be further from the truth and we’ve got statistics to back that up”.

This week Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula (he who recently said in the SA Parliament that if you do not like the levels of crime, you can always leave SA) briefed the Black Business Working Group.   According to a statement, Nqakula said on the crime situation in South Africa that “crime has been declining steadily since 1994”.  (Another ANC lie)

Massmart’s crime statistics are widely based, feeding in from operations comprising a managed portfolio of ten wholesale and retail chains, through 228 outlets, and one buying association, serving 478 independent retailers and wholesalers, in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.    Massmart is the third largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, the leading retailer of general merchandise, liquor and home improvement equipment and supplies, and the leading wholesaler of basic foods.

South Africa (government) has effectively stopped publishing crime statistics, further fuelling rising frustration over the patently clear explosion in violent crime.    Today, Friday, President Thabo Mbeki is discussing details of a Business Against Crime campaign (Oh no!  Not another ineffective campaign?  Just and excuse to extract more money from big business again?) with his Presidential Big Business Working Group.

According to official statements, the cabinet approved the plan in principle on Wednesday; “the proposed campaign seeks to mobilise all South Africans to join hands with the police in the fight against crime and to restore public confidence in the criminal justice system”.   (This is a national police service that uses private security companies to protect the police stations)

However, for any number of South Africans, the explosion in violent crime has already been “too much”, as put in a posting by a Moneyweb reader. The reader continued: “I have been contracting offshore in various countries for ten years.   Retained SA citizenship and (rather useless) passport with intention to return eventually.   (Still have SA property and other assets). I have always vigorously defended SA in all aspects.

“This week a female family member was senselessly beaten to within an inch of her life for worthless jewellery. That is it for me.  No more defending, goodbye and good luck.”

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 News24.com

British pupils attacked in SA

IOL.co.za (IOL is a South African newspaper)
British kids attacked on SA tour
July 29 2006 at 11:23AM

Now what is also real interesting is the fact that both those stories quote a New South African Police spokesperson speaking on Saturday morning – even though the attack actually happened last Tuesday.    In other words, although the incident was reported to the "New South African Police Service", and therefore, the official press liaison officer would have been aware of it (I know, I used to do the crime reporting on a Johannesburg newspaper), they deliberately withheld news of it from the media, until the journo hacks were prompted into asking them about it, after they read about it on this blog.
And you were looking for evidence that the New South African Police are deliberately repressing crime reporting in this country? Look no further.   Anecdotal evidence from all over the country shows that the crime rate is easily triple or quadruple the “official” reported rate – and the above serves as an excellent example.
Another interesting point comes out of the IOL newspaper story above: it quotes one of the fathers of the South African kids also held up in the same incident, Pierre Francois Boote, who was badly beaten up in the attack: “The father of a South African pupil, Pierre Francois Boote, was badly beaten and was later treated in hospital. Although none of the children was injured, all were shocked and are received counselling.   Boote, a 59-year-old businessman, said he was lucky to be alive: "That I'm alive is a miracle. That the children weren't hurt is also a miracle.
"It was disgusting what these people did to these really nice kids (the British visitors) who came to our country . . . they were traumatised. These were decent children. The last thing on their minds was to be treated with this kind of violence and insanity."    Boote described how the party was winding down about 10.30pm when the house was stormed by between eight and 12 men wearing masks.  "These people came over the walls," said Boote.     "They herded the children into the lounge. The one British girl had her hair pulled and a gun put to her temple . . . They made one boy take his jeans off, why I don't know. He was a South African boy.
"My wife was lying in bed when she heard them beating me outside. She dropped to the floor between the bed and the wall, put her phone on silent and immediately called the police. She saved my life. They had a gun pointing at my face ready to shoot me when the police arrived."
Boote was highly critical of the police.
"The police station is only up the road but they took 20 minutes to get here. It's sick, sick. They could have been here in five minutes.    "I told them to jump over the wall and chase them. I went there bleeding and in shock and I looked over the wall. There was stuff lying on the floor but where were the police? They were inside the house, terrified to go out."

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LETTERS TO THE UK PARLIAMENT  2 Sept. 2006

The linked letter, sent to both Tony Blair and David Cameron (Leader of the Opposition) to keep up the pressure on the West doing something about the serious crime and other problems in Southern Africa.  Click:

The Ominous Parallels

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Dumisani Kumalo, SA's Ambassador to the UN chairing the UN Security Council cartoon; from SA Newspaper.

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An answer from a Bed & Breakfast place in Johannesburg (Sandton).  16 September 2006

My wife made an enquiry for accommodation in Sandton and asked about the crime rates.   The reply is copied below as it was received. 

The remarks from "Annabel's" in Bryanston, Johannesburg North, follow.  Clearly someone who has no idea that people in the real world would not want to risk life and limb.  Note how casually they talk about everything. 

Security.    You are quite correct in your observations that there are terrible incidents happening on the streets of South Africa.   

These happen to people who are not observant or think that their status, e.g. tourist, priest, doctor, big man, big car, big whatever, protects them.   

DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE AN EASY TARGET.

 We have lived here all our lives and have found that vigilant, careful behaviour is our best protection.  (What a way to live!)

Very simple steps can ensure your protection.  

At home  - park the cars inside the property, lock the cars,  lock the doors,  We have very  high walls around the property. 

We have two sets of electronic gates.   Razor wire and electric fencing on top of the wall.    We have armed response and “bobby on the beat” patrols in our immediate area.   Since this patrolled area has not had any incident in the last 5 years we feel quite safe at home.    We also take our guests safety very seriously.

In the car - When you go out in the car do a check, No money or valuables in sight- put them where they cannot be seen from outside the car.   Lock all car doors - if it is hot use the air-conditioner.   Make sure you always have enough petrol and your tires are pumped and in good condition so that you wont be stuck on the side of the road.

On your person -  Do not wear a waist bag outside your shirt.  Put it inside your shirt.   Use a handbag that zips at the top.  Do not cover yourself in diamonds that "say here, I am take me".   

When you are around other people in the shops make sure you keep your personal space free.  Don't let people crowd you or bump into you.  You can move away or  wait till they have passed or if they persist ask them politely to step back.

Do not walk alone at night anywhere!   Go by car and frequent populated areas with good lighting.

This is how people who live there are forced to react: almost knowing that it must only be a matter of time before they become victims.  Very sad, but as most people will shrug their shoulders and say, "It is Africa where the wild beasts roam.  What can you expect?"  Is this the nation that the anti-Apartheid campaigners wanted?  Surely not!

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From a South African ex-pats web site, www.rsa-overseas.com

Subject: Crime Stats for South Africa

Message:
There has of late been much discussion of the amount of violent crime in South Africa. Controversial websites, like Neil Watson’s Crime Expo South Africa, have reported the rate of violence in South Africa to the world abroad. Many in South Africa think this unfair as overseas tourists will keep away from South Africa. This negative publicity in turn creates job stagnation in the country. Others believe the only way to get the ANC led government to really address this issue is to expose the truth.

BUT WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA? Here are some statistics from 2003. I have not been able to find any more recent crime stats on the www. You make up your mind. Would you go to South Africa on vacation after reading the facts?:

Murders 21,995 (4th highest of 62 countries)
Murders per capita 0.496008 per 1000 (2nd of 62)

Murders with firearms 31,918 (1sT in 32)
Murders w/firearms per capita 0.719782 per 1000

Reported Rapes 53,008 (2nd in 65)
Reported Rapes per Capita 1.19538 per 1000 (1st in 65)

Assaults 535,461 (2nd in 57)
Car thefts 99,963 (10th in 55)

Illicit drugs:
Trans-shipment centre of heroin, hashish, marijuana, and cocaine; cocaine consumption on the rise; worlds largest market for illicit methaqualone, usually imported through various east African countries; illicit cultivation of marijuana; attractive venue for money launderers given the level of organized crime and narcotics in the region

For More Info go to www.NationMaster.com

Other websites that discuss crime in SA

WORLD TRAVEL WATCH www.worldtravelwatch.com
CRIME EXPO SOUTH AFRICA www.crimexpo.com
TRUE CRIME EXPO SOUTH AFRICA www.truecrimexpo.co.za
SOUTH AFRICA GOOD NEWS

In a recent story www.news24.com reported that according to the Democratic Alliance Party (a nominal opposition party to the ANC regime) 95 % of all police stations in South Africa still refuse to release crime statistics to the public.

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NEW ZEALAND ISSUES TOURIST ALERT ON SOUTH AFRICA

Posted: September 08, 2006 11:00

WELLINGTON - CESA (Crime Exposure South Africa)  2 weeks ago published a copy of the letter delivered to the Prime Minister in New Zealand re-CESA and violent crime in South Africa. We are winning in exposing what SA Tourism tries to hide from the international community.   New Zealand's foreign ministry stepped up warnings about travel to South Africa this morning, saying crime was a serious issue with muggings and car hijackings prevalent.

The ministry's travel advisory on its website said there was "some risk" in travelling to South Africa and advised visitors to be vigilant at all times, especially at bus stations and airports where organised gangs operated.

It specifically mentioned the key cities of Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria, warned of the danger of car hijackings on roads leading to Kruger Park and said visitors should only go to Table Mountain in groups to minimise the risk of attack.

LETTER SENT BY A CESA SUPPORTER TO NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER A FEW WEEKS AGO:

NEW ZEALAND - Dear Prime Minister.

I am a South African who has been living in New Zealand for the last 3 years and hope to become a citizen soon. It is a privilege to be in a position where a country like New Zealand took us in and allowed us to become part of the Kiwi-culture.

However, millions of other South Africans are not so fortunate and have to put up with the deteriorating level of safety in South Africa. Recently a webpage "CRIME EXPO SOUTH AFRICA " http://www.crimexposouthafrica.org/ became operational. The objective with this page is to force the South African government to change its attitude towards violent crime. Under the heading called "statistics" facts were placed to inform readers on the current situation in the country. The following were taken from that site:

"SOUTH AFRICA - A CSIN study indicates that statistically, out of an estimated 2, 115, 946 (that is over 2 million) serious & violent crimes committed in South Africa in 2004/5, there were only 62,717 convictions. A conviction rate of 2.96%."

"ALTHOUGH the criminal justice system is not yet able to reduce crime substantially, crime-fighting initiatives should convince the public that government is still in control, says the Institute for Security Studies."

Being a person that has gone through the trauma associated with violent crimes (I was hi-jacked and obtained a fractured skull in the process), I would like to state my reasons for writing this letter to you as follows:

1) All South Africans would surely express their appreciation at the New Zealand government if it was to apply diplomatic pressure on the South African government for not looking after the safety of its citizens.
2) All of us living in New Zealand still have family and friends in South Africa who does not have the qualifications, right age, skills or financial means to be able to come to New Zealand or any other country for that matter. These people are basically left behind in a "lion's den" so to speak.
3) People are getting murdered at a rate higher than that achieved during the recent Israeli - Lebanon war. I quote: "According to the BBC in 7 days fighting 270 Lebanese have been killed and 25 Israelites. A total of 295 or approximately 42 every day. In the same time, based on government statistics (projected) 385 people will have been murdered in the same period of time." - that is in South Africa.
4) According to Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person" and in accordance with the United Nations resolution 53/144, adopted in December 1998 on Right and Responsibilities of Individual Human Rights, "each State has a prime responsibility and duty to protect, promote and implement human rights. "   These basic rights are not respected by the South African government.

A temporary moratorium on the release of crime data by the government, government regulation of the national internet domain, and the President's release of farm murderers from jail.

I therefore humbly beg the New Zealand Government to express its disapproval of the situation in South Africa and by doing so help the citizens of South Africa to regain a decent lifestyle where people respect law and order and where all citizens are protected against criminals and in particular violent crime.

I would like to thank you very much for your time in reading through this lengthy document and hope to see a response from your office soon.
 

Yours Sincerely. - Riaan Mouton.

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SOUTH AFRICA TODAY 

Staring down the barrel of a gun.

Posted: September 23, 2006 14:29

September 15, 2006 - MY SON had something stolen from him the other day. It was his childhood. The golden circle of protection that he knows, that is the rightful due of all our children, was broken by a pistol held to his head in full view of his mother and his father. In that moment another theft took place: his parents were robbed of their humanity. Too fearful of what might happen to my boy or my wife, I was forced to lie down at gunpoint and acquiesce in the theft of a family’s spine. The incident is probably no more than urban legend writ large daily in a thousand households throughout our country. A familiar story to recount at dinner tables, board meetings, or among workplace colleagues and with friends.

Morning is a vulnerable time for all families. We are occupied by the essential trivia of life. Chivvy the children, let out the dogs, switch off alarms, and reverse the car out from the garage: a thousand details that make us all the families we are. This is familiar territory: place me in a middle-class house in Chatsworth or Soweto or Mitchell’s Plain, I will know my way around the routine. I am just more fortunate than most: I live in an upmarket neighbourhood with a beautiful house and spacious garden.

But as I have said before: go through this experience in real time. Four armed men lie you down in your own house, invade your privacy, defile your home, threaten your wife and your child with guns, bind your arms behind you, tie up your staff and steal the memories of 16 years of marriage.

It matters not a jot that for these fellows, this was business. There was nothing personal about it. Although they left me with a head injury that required multiple stitches, their intention was surely not to harm us: they wanted jewellery, cash, plasma screens, high-end computers. Their shopping list did not include gratuitous violence, rape, and defecation: in this we were more fortunate than many fellow South Africans.

However, I have no Damascene sense of sympathy for these people. There was nothing opportunistic about the robbery. This was no cri de coeur from a poor man wanting to feed his family. It was a planned hit. It makes me feel no better: I hate these people, and I am not alone. Decent people everywhere feel the same.

I had thought, bizarrely, that I was immune. My wife is the daughter of the late Isie Maisels QC, a barrister of legend who led the defence team in the Treason Trial of the late 1950s. He was a fearless defender of human rights and pursued the excesses of successive apartheid governments with a courtroom advocacy that his contemporaries applaud as the best they have ever seen. Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada ... all these men have told me that the townships rang with his name. I was strongly opposed to the apartheid government when I was a student; I was harassed by the security police, had my travel rights curtailed, and was generally hounded — although, relatively, my white skin allowed me a charmed life.

Lest you or I forget that SA today is still a far better place than the dark country looking forever backwards pre-1994, pick up a copy of George Bizos’s No One To Blame, which deals with some of the terrifying instances of institutionalised and state-sponsored violence and intimidation in the name of a Christian ethic.

But there is no great achievement in following apartheid and planting your flag on the moral high ground: Idi Amin might have looked a better proposition to gulag exiles after the excesses of Stalin. Certainly, I have a vested interest in my government extending basic social services to all citizens. That is what the Greek Thrasymachus might have defined as justice — successful selfishness.

It is in my interest for my countrymen to have a sense of future and of place. Equally, it is in their interest for the hundreds of thousands of families just like mine to feel safe in their homes, safe on the streets, safe in schools, shopping malls and on highways. Why? Because we are part of the complex economic machine that uses intellectual curiosity, management competence and entrepreneurial energy to support social services, run factories, maintain plant and generate wealth. Whether we are black or white is irrelevant; the point is that society is interdependent. As South Africans we need each other. To quote the English poet: the loss of one diminishes us all.

Do I feel helpless? No, not at all. Am I frustrated? You bet. Let me give you some first-hand anecdotal impressions of our plight.

Some three weeks ago our president met a group of South African business leaders. Crime was pretty much top of their agenda. According to one of my friends who was present, Thabo Mbeki was concerned by the loss of a moral compass revealed by our national crime statistics. Now that is all well and good, if you are attending Metaphysics 101. It is a worthless debate when you are running the country and have a particularly complex political matrix to address. What the process requires is management, not Hegelian discourse. Perhaps even more disconcerting is that our business leaders (who were spineless and silent by and large during the apartheid era) are equally disappointing now. Not a word in the media from them critical of the president’s approach: in whose interest can it be for them to remain silent while the country burns?

It was suggested to the President’s Advisory Board for Black Business that it was important for black business to echo the views of “big business” because the president needed to know that people from different walks of life held similar views on the prioritisation of national concerns. But I am told that what black business wants most from the president is a firmer hand on the tiller of economic empowerment: clearer direction on how to grab more for the few.

Occasionally I am forced to use the motorway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Several times in the past year I have been moved aside by a phalanx of black 4x4s and German sedans escorting God-knows-who to a meeting (you can insert any other noun you like: drink, cocktail party, assignation) at high speed. Why do these cars drive so fast: can politicians not organise their diaries better? Are seven cars really necessary to take anyone anywhere?

Three months ago, after I had been mugged at my gate (and a week before one of the giants of South African retailing was robbed at gunpoint in precisely the same place), the local police station persuaded the luxurious hotel in our neighbourhood to host a cocktail party for neighbourhood residents. What was the purpose of this largesse? To persuade us to fund the purchase of extra vehicles to enable the police to be effective. So while one third-rate political functionary requires eight cars to get somewhere, the local bobbies haven’t got the money for an extra pair of bicycle clips.

The investigating officer in our case asked me to send him a list of items stolen so descriptions and serial numbers could be circulated. I asked him his e-mail address. He doesn’t have one; he gave me his fax number. If you want to encourage corruption in a police force this is a fine way to go about it: send key documents on an open fax from where they can be stolen, destroyed or mislaid.

Recently my bodyguard was late for his morning shift. He explained that he had been delayed foiling a hijack attempt at his neighbour’s. One of the hijackers was killed, another wounded. All in a day’s work.

The “plan” announced by the safety and security minister (a contradiction in terms if ever there was one) proposes the merging of the Metro Police units with the South African Police Service. It is laughable. Anyone who has been ticketed by a Metro policeman will tell you that they are the most corrupt, venal lot in the land. Motorists get pulled over for misdemeanours; the brutality and boorishness of taxi drivers is allowed free rein. The “plan” is short on fact, short on budget, short on implementation, short on skills development. It lacks drivers. Business, black and white, needs to say something and to say it consistently.

Choose the route you want to follow. Be a victim, post your story on one of the many victims’ websites, return to making your life whole again, nurture your children and your wife with the knowledge that this day was granted to you by a kindly thug. Or be proactive and involved.

What would I, a layman, like to see at the Avenger’s buffet, just to start?

- Remove discretionary sentencing for offences involving firearms (real or fake). Point a firearm at a child (20 years), carry an unlicensed firearm (15 years), and steal a firearm (life).

- Divert significant defence capital budget over the next five years to police and justice.

- Countrywide skills development for all policemen tied in to competitive remuneration programmes.

- South Africans should unite in expressing their opposition to 2010. At the moment the inmates have the keys to the asylum. While we are barricaded in our houses, living in fear at every red robot, our politicians are devising ways to keep the streets safe for foreign visitors. The World Cup would be a wonderful event for Africa, but we need to make it a lever for change — to bargain for a better future than the one that faces us now.

Whoever is running this country has no right to claim a moral preference for a major global event. They have ditched their morality for the politics of envy and greed. Return us to the dream we had in 1994.

By the way: I don’t own a gun. Will this event make me buy one? No. Before my experience I was opposed to capital punishment. Am I still? Yes.

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SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE :

"WE HAVE TRIED, BUT FAILED TO ACHIEVE DECREASES IN CRIME"

Posted: September 27, 2006 16:15

(My comments are in italics.)

SOUTH AFRICA - Cash-in-transit heists have increased 74,1 percent in the past year, the SA Police Service revealed on Wednesday, releasing South Africa's annual crime statistics. Car hijackings were up 3,1 percent, truck hijackings 10,9 percent, and bank robberies 1,7 percent, police crime information head, Chris de Kock said at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

Cash-in-transit heists increased from 220 to 383 (+ 74%)- a phenomenon receiving urgent attention in partnership with the SA Banking Risk Information Centre. Car hijackings went from 12 434 to 12 825; truck hijackings from 930 to 829; and bank robberies from 58 to 59. In its annual report, the police said media reporting gave the impression of an increase in multiple murders in single incidents.

"Increases in the incidence of robberies at business and residential premises, cash-in-transit robberies and carjacking create circumstances for this to occur.

"It seems that people are being fatally wounded (murdered) during incidents like this because criminals increasingly use heavy-calibre firearms. The number of criminals involved in such incidents has also increased. "The chances are that the perpetrators of crime will shoot bystanders to 'defend themselves' or otherwise facilitate escape. In addition, victims of robberies and car hijackings increasingly tend to defend themselves with firearms against robbers."

(Welcome to the new "Wild West".)

The police said it also appeared that family murders were increasing, and that they now affected communities with larger families, resulting in a higher murder rate. (This is due to the very high stress of living in the "new South Africa" especially where Whites are now discriminated against officially).  Drug-related crimes increased by 13,2 percent and driving under the influence of alcohol by 9,9 percent.   However, it was emphasised that increases in crimes "heavily dependent on police action for detection" - such as these - showed that police were carrying out their duties proactively.

The police said they had tried, but failed to achieve decreases of between seven and 10 percent in contact crimes such as murders, rapes and indecent assaults. They remained "cause for concern".  Murders had decreased two percent to 18 528 incidents in 2005/06; rapes by one percent to 54 926 incidents; and indecent assault 3,8 percent to 9805. However, the murder rate had shown an overall decrease in the past 11 years (of ? %, but still many times higher than any other civilised country).

De Kock said much contact crime took place between people who knew each other. This was the case in 81,5 percent of murders, 59,4 percent of attempted murders, 75,9 percent of rapes, 89 percent of assaults with intent to do grievous bodily harm and 89,3 percent of common assault.   In 61,9 percent of murders, the victims and perpetrators were related to each other, he said, adding that here seemed to be problems in the country's domestic situation.

"No conventional policing can prevent this type of social crime... you'd have to have a policeman in every house," said De Kock. "The only thing that can prevent this is socio-economic development. Large scale, intense, socio-economic development to change the living conditions of the people in this country."

Crime shot up over weekends when people drank and got into arguments. Murders were particularly high around clubs, taverns and places where people drank, De Kock said, using Hillbrow as an example, but adding: "Go to Pretoria central you find it's the same; go to Tembisa you find it's the same. This is the type of pattern you find in South Africa," he said. "Hopefully we'll achieve (a) seven or 10 percent (decrease) in the next year. According to the report, arson decreased by 7,5 percent and malicious damage to property by 4,9 percent."

Of the property-related crimes, only theft of motor vehicles and motor cycles showed a marginal increase of 1,9 percent. The other sub-categories showed a decrease: burglary at residential premises went down 5,5 percent, burglary at non-residential premises dropped 3,6 percent, theft out of or from motor vehicles, 6,9 percent and stock theft, 12,6 percent.

For statistical purposes, six contact crimes have been grouped together: murder, attempted murder, indecent assault, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, common assault and rape. The areas worst affected by these contact crimes were Hillbrow in Johannesburg, followed by KwaMashu and Umlazi in Durban. Central business districts (CBD) were the places most affected by robberies.

Topping the list was Durban, followed by the Johannesburg CBD, Hillbrow, Booysens (on the edge of the Johannesburg CBD), KwaMashu, Sunnyside in Pretoria, Pretoria CBD and Tembisa on the East Rand.

The statistics cover the period April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006.

CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY!

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TOURISTS WON'T BE SAFE IN 2010

I RECENTLY attended the International Sociological Association conference at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Durban.

Before I escaped from the city to the relative security of the lovely Drakensberg Mountains, I heard of at least eight assaults on my colleagues, most of them within a few blocks of the ICC.

I came to realise that crime is completely out of control in your lovely country.

As much as I hope for the successful future of South Africa, I find the prospect of having the World Cup in Durban in 2010 to be truly frightening.

Your Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk is glossing over the dangerous situation. He has downplayed concern about the high crime rate, saying that tourism would help ease criminality and that solving the problem of poverty rather than increasing policing was the solution.

I sincerely doubt that South Africa will solve its poverty problem before 2010 and it seems to me that it is precisely the tourists who come to the World Cup who will be highly visible targets of the criminals that seem to rule the streets of South African cities.

THOMAS CUSHMAN
United States

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COMMUNICATIONS WITH FIFA

From: contact@fifa.org

Date: 10/04/06 17:57:25

To: B J Deller

Subject: RE: Mr Blatter Sir, Please do us the courtesy of at least replying to one of our mails.

 Dear Beverlee and Brian Deller,

 On behalf of FIFA President Blatter, we would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge your comments and your concerns noted in the various e-mails you have been sending to FIFA regarding the staging of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

 Kindly note that South Africa has been awarded the right and the honour to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup in May 2004 after a thorough bidding process and in line with the List of requirements that foresee a number of governmental guarantees to ensure the proper staging of the competition, including safety and security as well as a number of guarantees for other domains.

 FIFA has set up an office in Johannesburg to liaise with the Local Organising Committee of South Africa and to monitor the development of the preparations in every aspect. We are aware that hosting our flagship competition is a major undertaking for any country. However, we are confident that South Africa, its government and also its citizens will raise to the occasion and make this event a truly memorable one in four year's time.

 In particular, we are certain that the country's authorities are fully capable and do have the necessary resources to face the task of providing security and safety for this event. Our belief in these commitments is reinforced by the fact that in the past South Africa has successfully hosted major international sporting events such as the rugby and cricket world cups as well as the African Cup of Nations.

 The growing support and the marked enthusiasm of the public prove that South Africa will do its outmost to realize the benefits of hosting the world cup in their country and to make it a great success not only for South Africa but the African continent as a whole.

 Furthermore, please note that we do not consider the multitude of articles/blogs that you forward to contact@fifa.org as correspondence (for example the 4 e-mails you have so far sent on 4 October 2006) and thus one cannot expect any sort of reply to them on our part.

 We trust you will understand our position.

 Yours sincerely,

FIFA Communications Division

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 From: B J Deller

Date: 10/05/06 10:31:39

To: contact@fifa.org

Subject: WC 2010 in South Africa

 

Dear Mr. Blatter and FIFA Committee,

 Thank you for your reply to our letter.  We are confident that if you take all independent evidence into consideration, especially the terrible crime rates in South Africa, the WC 2010 will, on moral grounds alone, be moved to another site.

 May I suggest that during your visit to South Africa soon, you meet privately with the Leader of the Opposition Party, the DA, Mr. Tony Leon, and include his thoughts in your deliberations as well.  I used to be in the DA and am confident that he will, without being disloyal to SA, give you the facts without favour. 

You at least owe that to the citizens of South Africa who are suffering under the serious and extensive crime that the present government has allowed to start and exist since they came to power in 1994 and seem unable to contain, let alone eliminate to a reasonable "normal" level.

 Please tell us where else in the world do they have private security companies guarding police stations?  They do in South Africa.

 Also, we trust that due warnings will be well publicised before the event to all who are planning to go there.  Even being a tough, "soccer hooligan" is no defence against an AK47 assault rifle, a 9mm pistol or a 150 cm knife as most of the criminals are armed.  Many gangs that are looking forward to the rich pickings and they are the result of the present government's inability to do its sworn duty to protect and keep secure the citizens of SA, and many promises have been made before by them but soon broken, so please take this all into consideration and not let just commercial gain rule your decisions.

 With respect,

 Brian & Beverley Deller, Ex-South Africans with relatives still living in SA.

Marbella, Spain.

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 From South Africa - a report taken from an SA Magazine, the only one interested in printing what is now a common event in the "rainbow nation", South Africa   

"Ah!"  I hear you say.  "What do you expect?  It is Africa after all, and it is populated by savages."      Those who have lived there know this is not true.  Most of the SA citizens want good government and a safe life, but seem unable to vote out the inept ANC government that has allowed this situation to develope over 12 years and it is getting worse each year.   Please read on:

Received: Friday, July 14, 2006 16:15 PM

Hi Neil,

I attach an article that was published in "Man" magazine, about an incident when my son and I were attacked and my son Rysz was shot and killed. Even though I have sent this information to various newspapers and even Carte Blanche (SA TV programme) no one has "bothered" to publish this. The police have told me that this is not a newsworthy item because it happens so frequently. Magnum is the only publication that was prepared to publish.

Needless to say absolutely nothing has happened about investigating the case and bringing the killers to book.

A person was arrested for being found in possession of one of the shotguns stolen at the time of the attack, but no effort has been made to investigate whether there is a link between this person and the killers. The court case for this guy has now been remanded 7 times since he was apprehended, and the latest I heard is that the police have now 'misplaced' the file!  (Usually a file is lost for ever and the case dismissed.)

I wholeheartedly support your effort, well done. If I can help in any way please do not hesitate to let me know.

Andrew

MAGNUM Article, April 2005: LEST YOU HAVE TO GRIEVE

On 29 October 2004, a Friday afternoon, at about 3pm, my son and I went to a farm a little way out of Kempton Park to enjoy some dove shooting. I had flown my son, who had been living in Australia for four years, back home as a treat for his 30th birthday. He was due to go back the following day. He wanted to get in an hour or two’s wing-shooting because he had few such opportunities in Australia.

As I have been shooting on this farm regularly for about two years, I know it quite well and we stopped the car at a likely spot to have a quick look around before unpacking our guns. We walked off about 20 metres to see if there was any action and then returned to the vehicle to get organized. As we got to my car, we were attacked by four armed criminals and my son was shot and killed.

I was a little ahead of my son and as I got to the driver’s door two attackers charged me from behind the vehicle. One had a snub-nose (pistol), which he stuck into my face and the other grabbed my arms and pinned me against the side of the vehicle. At the same time two other attackers went for my son.   I saw one run at him from the front and, as he stood there, the other attacker ran up to him from the side and shot him. My son had made no move to resist and had said nothing. He died immediately I turned towards him as he fell but was kicked to the ground. I was severely beaten while my attackers repeatedly screamed at me that they were now going to kill me.

While my vehicle was emptied, I was hauled into a kneeling position, tied up and then locked in the back of my vehicle. The attackers stole money, cell phones, watches, two shotguns, ammo, etc. They even took the boots of my dead son’s feet and the left me in the car. I managed to free myself after they had left and eventually summoned help.

The police are investigating. One of the shotguns has been recovered and an arrest made. Whether the person arrested is one of the attackers has not yet been determined. Another man has been arrested for being in possession of some of the property stolen during the attack. The case is moving forward.

Nothing appeared in the Press!   From a media point of view the matter is of no importance as it is a common, everyday occurrence! (As a policeman told me a few days later, it is not newsworthy.)

Of all the places where I would have considered myself safe, it would be in the bush, miles from anywhere, with two shotguns in the back of the vehicle and a big, strapping 30-year-old guy next to me. There are a number of things I would like to make everyone aware of.

Firstly, the speed at which the attack happened. There was absolutely no warning, we had seen o one on the way, there was nothing to indicate any danger. The attackers jumped on me as I got to the vehicle and it was quickly over – in a split second, my son was dead; I was floored and kicked until I was unable to get up. This was the second time that I have been held up at gunpoint and I considered myself alter to potentially dangerous scenarios since the first incident several years ago. I was looking for danger but, even so, they got me.

Secondly, there was no way one could reason with these guys, they were so fired up, screaming, jumping around and yelling.   (On drugs?)

Thirdly, as this sort of thing happens every day and it was only a white male (so who cares?), the media was completely unconcerned.

The incident has left me with the clear impression that the media must have a brief from the government to under-report this sort of event. (Bad publicity may have a negative impact on tourism and investment, etc.)    Because thee events are seldom reported, the general public is not aware of the level of danger that exists. The politicians can therefore continue to utter platitudes about how “they” are winning the battle against rampant crime and that we shouldn’t be concerned about dangerous thugs, etc.    They follow this with the ‘logical conclusion’ that, as we live in such a ‘safe society’, there is no need for us to have the means for self-defence and preservation (Own guns).

The reason I am telling you this, is to warn readers about the potential dangers of going to the bush believing that you are out of harm’s way as this sort of thing only happens in the urban jungle. The simple lesson is that you cannot relax – anywhere.

I had my face stitched up and am now physically recovered. My family is devastated.    Our lives are changed forever. The event was just too awful.   It lives in my mind all day, every day. It’s like the worst nightmare come true. No father should have to see his son shot dead in front of him. I have now lost everything we had and everything we could have had.

www.crimeexposuresouthafrica.org

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More Press Releases and info on the WC 2010 next page

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The Sunday Times, UK

October 29, 2006

Nobel writer Nadine Gordimer, 82, attacked and robbed

R W Johnson, Durban

 

THE famous Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer has been attacked and locked in a storeroom by thieves who took cash and jewellery from the 82-year-old novelist at her Johannesburg home.

Gordimer was assaulted when she refused to hand over her wedding ring but did not sustain serious injuries, a police spokesman said. “The suspects then locked both Gordimer and her domestic worker in a storeroom and fled,” he said.

 

Gordimer was both brave and lucky when three men gained access to her house last Thursday, easily overpowering her and her maid. The men were unarmed and did not seriously assault either woman.

She was fortunate that her refusal to hand over her ring — a present from her late husband — resulted only in her and her servant being locked in a storeroom.

There have been frequent cases where thieves have tortured or killed their victims with hot clothes irons, knives and boiling water in order to get what they wanted — even when their victims have not provoked them by refusing them anything.

There is a grim irony to the attack, for Gordimer’s novels are all focused on the inhumanities of apartheid — with blacks always the victims, not, as in this case, the perpetrators.

Coming shortly after the news that two ANC cabinet ministers have also had their homes robbed it is a sharp reminder that nobody is immune from South Africa’s sky-high crime rate.

Gordimer is a national icon, a friend of Nelson Mandela and, unlike J M Coetzee, the country’s other Nobel literature laureate, who has emigrated to Australia, she has refused to leave.

For all these reasons, the fact that she has been robbed and assaulted at her home and during the day has triggered national outrage.

Gordimer, who won the Booker Prize in 1974 for her novel The Conservationist, was always a likely target. Thieves frequently target older people and she is known to be well off — she was left large sums by her family and by her husband, the art dealer Reinhold Cassirer, who died five years ago, in addition to her 1991 Nobel prize and large earnings from royalties.

Against the advice of some of her friends she has continued to live in her large, old Parktown house, rather than retreat to one of the new gated complexes (fortresses), shielded by electrified wire, armed guards and check-out points through which all visitors must pass.

Parktown, once a highly fashionable suburb, is now a little too close to Johannesburg’s high-crime city centre for many tastes, and Gordimer, who has not availed herself of all the latest high-tech security equipment, lives alone, protected only by two old retainers.

In this case the thieves simply took what they had and left, though the maid had managed to press a panic button that summoned a private security company, which may have hurried them on their way.

The rest is only too familiar to Johannesburg residents. The security company, which promises instant armed response, took half an hour to arrive and the police admitted that nobody had been identified or arrested for the crime.

The police detection rate, even in much more serious cases, is seldom higher than 5%.

It is simply no match for the numerous, well-armed and determined criminals who often use modern automatic weapons and raid shopping centres, banks and other targets with military precision.

And so it goes on!  Nadine Gordimer was an outspoken advocate for the end of Apartheid.  Kind of "poetic justice", one could say but to be regretted by all of us anyway.  Note she was advised to move to a "fortress" the only way to live in SA now, but you still have to travel out of these places.  There is a different and more violent Apartheid now in SA.

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I am afraid and ashamed.

This is a letter posted onto http://crimexposouthafrica.net/ on 22 March 2007

‘Mbeki blames white racists for SA perception of crime’, I am a 20-year-old second-year economics student and this is my response to crime in South Africa: I am afraid. And I am ashamed.

I am afraid to go out at night, no matter how big a group I am with. I am afraid to walk alone, even though walking in twos or threes doesn’t even make a difference these days. I am afraid in my own home; I am afraid I will wake up in the middle of the night and see someone standing there. I am afraid for everyone — for my family, for my friends and for my neighbours. I am afraid for every single South African.

I am also ashamed; ashamed that our government has taken so long to give even a little acknowledgement to the fact that our people are suffering because of crime.

I am ashamed because this environment we are living in is not conducive to the democracy we claim to be. I am ashamed that this is what my country has become. By denying the people’s pleas for help, the government is an accomplice to every murder, every rape, every hijacking and robbery.

I don’t want to live like this.

And (Safety and Security Minister) Charles Nqakula says that if we have a problem with the crime we should pack our bags and leave. My response to that is ‘Yes, I will do just that. I will knowingly and happily contribute to the growing skills shortage in South Africa. I will go somewhere where the government actually cares about their people’s safety, where I don’t have to worry about whether my children will live to go to university.’

It’s not a white thing, it’s not that whites are afraid of blacks or any of that nonsense. I am not white and I am still afraid. I don’t roll up my window when I see a black man approaching, I roll up my window when I see anyone approaching, because anyone poses a potential threat to me.

These days if you haven’t been a victim then someone you love has been. Stop making this a race issue, Thabo Mbeki. It’s not; it’s about human rights.

I am angry. I just want to finish my degree and I then I will leave. I chose to study economics because I wanted to make a difference in this country where so many of our people are not yet economically liberated, but I would like to live to make that difference and at this rate even that seems questionable.

What’s sad is that this is the sentiment among many of my friends, and they are all future engineers, economists, doctors and scientists. Is this really what the government wants? To drive out people who in a year or two will be graduates in fields that are experiencing drastic skills shortages?

I have always supported the ANC, their ideology and what they fought for, but when the next election comes they most certainly won’t have my vote .

Are you taking notes, Mr Nqakula? — S Joseph, Cape Town

Note Mr. Nqualula is the Minister for Safety & Security in the South African Parliament.  He is now not only infamous for being inept like most of his (communist trained) comrades, but also making the statement that "whites who did not like the crime should stop whingeing and leave South Africa".     He later said that it was not reported correctly although it was recorded in the SA Parliament.

What a great invitation to all those the SA government is spending large sums of tax payer's money to attract back to SA the skilled and entrepreneurs of all races who have left, as they are desperately short of skilled people.

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A radio interview in the USA, May 2007

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A reference to Pres. Mbeki's statement of "quiet diplomacy" with Mugabe to end the decline in Southern Africa.  Mugabe is sitting on Mbeki's shoulders.

 

Selebi is taking it on the chin - lawyer


    January 31 2008 at 02:24PM

 

 

It will likely be a short first appearance for national police commissioner Jackie Selebi in the Randburg Regional Court on Friday, a member of his legal team said.

Selebi would be present at the court but it was likely that his case was going to be postponed, advocate Fanus Coetzee said on Thursday.

"The State has indicated that they would ask for a postponement for further investigation," Coetzee said.

The decision to postpone is up to the magistrate hearing the matter.

 

'We can't even start talking about a plea'

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has previously indicated it intends charging Selebi with corruption and defeating the course of justice.

NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali did want to comment on the case beyond saying it would play itself out in the court.


Selebi's team would be handed a formal charge sheet on Friday, Coetzee said.

"We can't even start talking about a plea until we get the final charge sheet," said Coetzee.

Asked how Selebi was faring, he said: "He's taking things as they come, taking it on the chin."
 

'He's taking things as they come, taking it on the chin'

Earlier in January, Selebi made an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to have the investigation against him stopped.

He failed to have the matter heard urgently, but will pursue that case through the normal court process, having secured a date in the Pretoria High Court on April 10.

Alleged corrupt relations with murder accused and convicted drug trafficker Glen Agliotti, payments to the amount of R1,2-million, and turning a blind eye to drug smuggling were some of the reasons why the NPA wanted to charge him.

Selebi has been placed on leave by President Thabo Mbeki and has resigned as head of Interpol. - Sapa

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And still it goes on:

 

Woman hijacked twice in six months.

January 11 2010 at 03:39PM, - as reported in a South African newspaper.

 

LINK: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100111132250987C361133

By Dasen Thathiah.

Hijacked twice in under six months, a Wentworth woman says she is frustrated by the country's high crime rate.

Jelinda Snyman, 48, said the loss of her cars has prevented her from taking her 32-year-old daughter, Bronwyn, who suffers from cerebral palsy, out of their home.

Snyman said she needed a large vehicle to transport her daughter and her specialised wheelchair, but she was being targeted by criminals when she drove such cars.

'I saw a red car drive past me and switch his lights off'

Between Mrs. Snyman and her husband, Aubrey - who owns several taxis - eight of their vehicles have been stolen and hijacked in the past 10 years.

Last Wednesday night, Mrs. Snyman parked her Toyota Avanza outside the home of her cousin, Eugene Haywood, in Hunt Road, Glenwood, when she was approached by three men.


"I saw a red car drive past me and switch his lights off. At that moment I looked in my rear-view mirror and three well-dressed young men were walking towards us," she said.

"My window was open slightly and one of the men tried to put a gun to my head through the gap but dropped it on me. I realised what was happening, panicked, and the gun fell to the floor," she said.

'They casually jumped into my vehicle and drove off'

One man pulled Mr. Haywood out of the vehicle while a second pointed a gun at Mrs. Snyman's face.

The attacker threw her out of the vehicle, injuring her arm in the process, and tried to kick her as she lay on the ground.

"They casually jumped into my vehicle and drove off. They didn't speed or skid or anything," she said.

Unknown to her at the time, a family driving past witnessed the events and called the police. They followed the stolen vehicle to King Dinizulu (in the Berea) Road.

"Later a guy came up to me with a cell-phone, saying the police wanted to speak to me. I wish I had the chance to thank them before they left," she said.

"When I talk to people about this they ask me why I was out at 7pm. The reality is we live in a free country but we are not REALLY free."

On June 8, Mrs. Snyman was hijacked in her Ford Bantam bakkie outside the Wentworth home of her daughter, Francine, while holding her grandson, Caleb.   Three men were walking past the car, surrounded by a group of overall-clad workers, when one stepped in front of the vehicle and pointed a gun at her.

A second man jumped into the back of the bakkie while the third forced her into the passenger seat.  Mrs. Snyman managed to push her attacker out of the way and ran towards the house with the baby under her jacket.

"The guy chased me; I think he thought I had something valuable that I was hiding," she said. "He started grabbing my hands to take my rings and when he pulled my hand he saw the baby. He searched my pockets and he just found tissues so he threw them on the floor," she said.

At that point, Francine was alerted to the commotion and rushed out of the house.

The man ran to the bakkie and sped off with his accomplices. "To all the people buying these stolen vehicles, they should really consider the unfortunate people who rely on them for transportation," said Mrs. Snyman.

    • This article was originally published on page 3 of Daily News (South Africa) on January 11, 2010.

    • Link: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100111132250987C361133