Mense wat nie *elke dag* die daaglikse pos in *meer as een koerant*
lees nie het nie naastenby 'n besef van wat gaan aan in
Oom Hendrik French se Suid Afrika nie, en moet
nie vermetel genoeg wees om kommentaar te lewer nie.
High-performance cops nab suspects
26 November 2008, 14:50Four armed men who allegedly hijacked a car
from its owner in Motetema, were arrested after the car was spotted by
a police patrol, Limpopo police said on Wednesday.
Spokesperson Superintendent Ronel Otto said the four were arrested on
Tuesday. It was hijacked on Saturday.
"Yesterday [Tuesday] at about 3.30pm, officers on patrol spotted the
vehicle and gave chase. The occupants fled, but with the help of
officers in high performance vehicles, they were traced again and
forced off the road."
Otto said the four ran in different directions as the police pursued
them.
"One of the suspects was shot in the leg. He is currently recovering
in hospital."
The other three were all overpowered and arrested. The car and its
canopy, which had been removed and stored at the house of one of the
suspects, were both recovered.
They four were expected to appear in the Motetema Magistrate's Court
on Thursday. - Sapa
2de laaste paragraaf - hy gaan toe maar op siekte verlof.
Lees ook hoe hy die poging-tot-moord-poeliesman verdedig.
Hou op om vinnig die sinne te scan en kommentaar te wil lewer.
Lees fyner.
Blue light brigade in a meeting
26 November 2008, 11:45
Related ArticlesBlue light victims turn on Radebe
Blue-light shooter 'not attending emergency'
Scolding for blue-light drivers?
'There's a history of blue-light terrorism'
By Sherlissa Peters
The MEC for safety and security, Bheki Cele, will today (Wednesday)
address the province's VIP protection officers in Pietermaritzburg in
an attempt to rein them in.
He has been given a mandate by the provincial cabinet to tackle the
increasing number of blue light incidents in KwaZulu-Natal.
Cele confirmed on Tuesday that the matter was a security issue and
would be closed to the media.
This meeting comes after an incident this month in which eight people
were injured when a car carrying five passengers veered off the
highway after a tyre was shot at, allegedly by a blue light driver.
The car swerved into the oncoming, N3 northbound lane and collided
with a bakkie.
Constable Hlanganani Nxumalo, 28, who was in the police car speeding
to fetch the MEC for social development, Meshack Radebe, from his
Hillcrest home to take him to Molweni, has been charged with eight
counts of attempted murder and was refused bail last week.
Emergency
Radebe, who initially distanced himself from the incident, said in a
recent media report, that there had been an emergency and he had to
get to Molweni - 12 hours after the storm - to see how he could help
and save lives.
He also condemned motorists who did not give way to blue light
vehicles.
"I am not condoning VIP drivers' behaviour, but I have experienced
rude behaviour from motorists. They seldom give way and for no reason
show us rude signs.
"Others, when they see us coming, speed up and then brake
unexpectedly. Our drivers are trained to protect us.
"We are heading to elections and they need to ensure our safety. If a
driver behaves like that, how do they know we are not being ambushed?
Their reaction is to push aside and shoot."
Radebe said he was taking strain after the incident and had been
booked off sick.
His comments were met with harsh criticism from the public, who
slammed Radebe's statements as "ludicrous" and "a reflection of the
moral and intellectual decay of the country's government".
- This article was originally published on page 2 of The Daily News on
November 26, 2008
ANC Youth League leaders have condemned members of the Congress of the
People (COPE) as cockroaches that must be killed, hot on the heels of
a public apology by its president Julius Malema for his hate speech.
In damning footage being aired worldwide by international news channel
Al Jazeera, Jason Mkhwane, the chairperson of the league branch in
Sedibeng, southern Gauteng, is heard saying: "People like Terror
Lekota and all those people who want to destroy the history of the
organisation (ANC), they behave like cockroaches and they must be
destroyed".
When probed by what was meant by the word "destroyed", Mkhwane's
comrade and Sedibeng ANCYL branch secretary Themba Ndaba told the
camera: "We must kill them."
When asked on Tuesday by The Star to verify his comments, Ndaba said
that while "I would destroy a cockroach, I would never kill a person."
When it was pointed out to him that he had said the opposite on
camera, Ndaba confirmed that while he had said it, his words must not
be misunderstood.
"Listen to the video and you will hear the words," he said.
"But please understand the context. I don't speak English very well,"
before adding: "These people are rubbish and they want to destroy our
organisation, and we will destroy them."
The footage was captured in Vereeniging on Sunday afternoon as Mosiuoa
Lekota staged an outdoor meeting in a local square where ANCYL members
sang and danced on the sidelines.
The league members were interviewed as Lekota's meeting came to a
close, when they vented their anger in no uncertain terms.
The comments came to light just a day after Malema apologised on 702
Talk Radio for his "kill for Zuma" comments that sparked nationwide
outrage earlier this year.
COPE spokesperson Philip Dexter said the league's latest comments were
the regrettable consequence "of ANC leaders calling our people snakes,
cockroaches and so on".
"It resonates down and the members interpret that as an instruction to
act in a violent way towards us".
The footage, part of a three-and-a-half-minute package, is being aired
worldwide throughout today on Al Jazeera, channel 406 on DStv.
This article was originally published on page 1 of The Star on
November 26, 2008
Dit is grillerig wanneer iets so dom vertaal word.
Waarskynlik het die skelms iets gesê soos 'we are the security'
of iets in dier voege,
wat nou vertaal word, nie as sekuriteit' maar soos bo.
Is daar dan nie 'n proefleser by die koerant nie, of is
dit dalk sy 'verfyning' van Dries Liebenberg se werk?
'Baasbrein' agter transitoroof doodgeskiet
en die berig eindig deur te sê
> Biyela is toe op borgtog vrygelaat, hoewel die polisie die aansoek teengestaan het.
Intussen het Zuma gesê daar is te veel woema in die uitdeling van
vrylatings op borgtog, en hy het teenstand gekry van lede van sy eie
party wat sê dat dit hulle daarop geregtig is.
Ek dink daar word meer kriminele geskiet as waaroor die media berig.
In ons lokale koerant 'Daili News' was daar ook berigte oor rowers wat
geskiet is terwyl hulle ondervra of gearresteer is want "hulle het
wapens gegryp en op die polisie geskiet". Dit blyk dat veral
polisiemoordenaars deur die polisie gejag en geskiet word.
Vele mense het koppe instemmend geknik, ek inkluis.
Maar ek begin nou wonder en bekommerd raak. Mense word
onskuldig gearresteer en hard behandel daartydens, volgens
meertalle koerantberigte. Hierdie selfde koerant het ook 'n berig oor
'n Springbok rugbyspeler wat probleme met die polisie gehad het omdah
hulle 'verdag' gelyk het.
Die polisie se rewolwerhande word losser en losser.
'n poeliesman skiet 'n kar uit die pad omdat die kar hom ophou terwyl
hy bo die padwette verhewe is. Radebe, LUR vir welsyn) maak,
ten spyte van sy welsynsportefeulje,
verskoning vir die gevangene en sê dat dit die motoriste se skuld is
dat die polisie hulle uit die pad skiet, al is hulle onskuldig.
En ons moet sukkel om ons vuurwapens te behou.
Ek dink daar's (nog meer) kak op pad.
Vandag se Beeld sê:
Radebe, KwaZulu-Natalse LUR vir welsyn, het intussen in die bres
getree vir sy lyfwag wat verlede week in die Pietermaritzburgse
streekhof op aanklag van poging tot moord verskyn het.
Nxumalo (28), 'n lid van die polisie se BBP-beskermingseenheid, het
glo vroeër op 'n motor geskiet wat nie vinnig genoeg voor hom padgegee
het nie.
Radebe het aan die Sunday Independent gesê motoriste moet ook die
blaam kry vir sulke voorvalle.
ÂEk keur nie die polisielede se optrede goed nie, maar ek het ook al
heelwat ongepoetste motoriste teëgekom wat met opset stadig ry wanneer
hulle ons voertuie sien aankom.
ÂOns lyfwagte is opgelei om ons te beskerm. Hoe weet ons dit is nie
dalk 'n lokval as iemand so stadig ry nie? Die lyfwagte se reaksie is
eenvoudig om die motors uit die pad uit te stoot en te skiet, het hy
gesê.
Ek het vantevore al die vraag gevra - hoeveel word SA geaffekteer
deur die onlangse finansiële skokgolwe wat die wêreld tot in sy
fondamente skud. As ek so vir Beeld op die internet lees, dan
lyk dit of baie min aangaan wat stof tot vrees is. Ek weet dat die
huismark deur die situasie getref is, maar verder kan ek geen teken
sien dat dit die nuus van die dag is, soos dit hier in Noord-Amerika
is. Alhoewel Kanadese banke nie drasties geaffekteer was deur die
aanvanklike skommelinge nie ( omdat hulle konserwatief opereer
en daar streng reëls is wat hulle praktyke reguleer) begin ons nou
die pyn voel. Baie van die karre wat die drie groot karmakers
vervaardig, word hier in Kanada net oor die grens aanmekaargesit
en dan na die VSA uitgevoer. As een of meer van die karmakers
nou bankrot speel, dan sal dit veral Ontario se ekonomie
katastrofies affekteer. Dit is daarom dat die Kanadese regering
oorweeg om ook te help met die "bail-out" waarvoor hulle nou
vra.
Die Beeld het weer iets wat hulle vir baie lank gaan besig hou.
Het hulle al ooit swart moordenaars oë daar ten toon gestel en daarop
gewys dat dit die "oë van 'n moordenaar" is?
Natuurlik is Johann Nel, die Skierlik skieter, op presies dieselfde
vlak as die swart moordenaars wat ook vrouens en kinders vermoor.
Maar die Beeld noem hulle nie 'moordenaars' nie. Let op wanneer julle
berigte lees. Hulle word 'rowers' genoem. Jy lees dat 'rowers' mense
doodskiet. En ook nie sommer net 'rowers' nie, maar hulle is 'meneer
rowers'. Gaan kyk bietjie of die moordenaar wie se oë uitgestal word
op Beeld, 'meneer' genoem word.
En aan enig iemand wat hier lees dink dat ek enigsins simpatie of
versagting vir die wit moordenaar bepeit, jy is siek. Dan is jy nie
net eenvoudig nie, maar het jy 'n sielkundige nodig.
Die brief het ek dmv epos ontvang.
Vir die egtheid daarvan kan ek nie instaan nie
maar vir mense wat wil seker maak is dit maklik.
Ek bevraagteken dit dat 'n mediese dokter in Afrikaans
van HIV sal praat, maar miskien weet hy net nie van beter nie.
Ek het al 'n Afrikaanse koerant gesien skryf van HIV en toe die
lesers die redaksie daaroor uittrap het hull hulself verontskuldig
met die dom verskoning dat hulle nie seker was of die lesers almal
weet wat MIV is nie. Ooglopend was dit deur 'n dom joernalis geskryf.
Hier is dit wat ek vanaf 'n bekende (niggie) korrespondent
ontvang het. As iemand lus voel om dit te bevestig
en oor te dra hierheen, doen dit gerus.
WAARSKUWING TEEN EETPLEKKE!!!
Briewe deur Wimpy is by skole ontvang waarin hul waarsku dat 'n mens
GEEN tamatiesous of ander souse, wat nie in sakkies verseël is, by
eetplekke moet gebruik nie. 'n Eetplek, hul wil nie die naam bekend
maak nie, het 'n man betrap terwyl hy besig was om bloed in hul
tamatiesous te gooi. Daar word vermoed dat hy HIV positief is en op
hierdie manier ander mense wil besmet! Die mensdom is SIEK!!!!
Wees maar asseblief versigtig, die insident mag dalk net in een geval
plaasgevind het, maar 'n mens weet nooit. Liewer versigtig as jammer!
Stuur ASSEBLIEF DIE E-POS AAN VIR SOVEEL MENSE AS MOONTLIK.
Special report: Economics blind spot is a disaster for the planet
15 October 2008 by Herman Daly
Magazine issue 2678.
HERE is a salutary tale about the World Bank. The first draft of its
1992 World Development Report, dedicated to sustainable development,
contained a diagram labelled "the relation of the economy to the
environment". It showed a rectangle labelled "economy", with an arrow
entering it labelled "inputs" and an arrow exiting it labelled
"outputs". That was it.
It was my job, as senior economist in the bank's environment
department, to review the draft and offer suggestions. I said drawing
such a picture was a great idea, but it really had to include the
environment. As drawn, the economy was receiving inputs from nowhere
and expelling outputs back to nowhere.
I suggested we draw a big circle around the economy and label it
"ecosystem". Then it would be clear that the inputs represented
resources taken from the ecosystem, and the outputs represented waste
returned to it as pollution. This would allow us to raise fundamental
questions, such as how big the economy can get before it overwhelms
the total system.
When the second draft came back, a large unlabelled rectangle had been
drawn around the original figure, like a picture frame. I complained
that it changed nothing. In the third draft, the diagram was gone. The
idea that economic growth should be constrained by the environment was
too much for the World Bank in 1992, and still is today. The bank
recognised that something must be wrong with that diagram - but better
to omit it than deal with the inconvenient questions it raised.
That was when I realised that economists have not grasped a simple
fact that to scientists is obvious: the size of the Earth as a whole
is fixed. Neither the surface nor the mass of the planet is growing or
shrinking. The same is true for energy budgets: the amount absorbed by
the Earth is equal to the amount it radiates. The overall size of the
system - the amount of water, land, air, minerals and other resources
present on the planet we live on - is fixed.
The most important change on Earth in recent times has been the
enormous growth of the economy, which has taken over an ever greater
share of the planet's resources. In my lifetime, world population has
tripled, while the numbers of livestock, cars, houses and
refrigerators have increased by vastly more. In fact, our economy is
now reaching the point where it is outstripping Earth's ability to
sustain it. Resources are running out and waste sinks are becoming
full. The remaining natural world can no longer support the existing
economy, much less one that continues to expand.
The economy is like a hungry, growing organism. It consumes
low-entropy natural resources such as trees, fish and coal, produces
energy and useful goods from them, and spits out high-entropy waste
such as carbon dioxide, mine slag and dirty water. Mainstream
economists are mostly concerned with the organism's circulatory
system, how the energy and resources can be efficiently allocated,
while tending to ignore its digestive system. As my experience with
the diagram showed, the sources of the resources that the organism
consumes and the sinks into which it deposits waste are ignored.
Effectively, economists are assuming they are infinite.
Because of this, they recognise no limits on the capacity for economic
growth. In a report published earlier this year, the Commission on
Growth and Development reviewed the experience and policies of 13
countries, including Botswana, Brazil, China and Japan, which since
the 1950s have grown at an average annual rate of 7 per cent or more
for 25 years or longer. The commission suggests that this is an
example the rest of the world should follow. If the global economy
were to grow this fast, however, then in 25 years it would have
increased to five times its present size. They don't say what would
happen after that; presumably we should simply aim to do the same
again.
Generally, when the cost of an activity starts to outweigh any
benefits, we stop doing it. Buying one ice cream makes sense if it
brings us pleasure and satisfies our hunger. Once we have eaten two or
three, however, we do not buy more because, despite the pleasant
taste, we start feeling sick. This "off switch" is not working for the
economy as a whole, though, because our national accounts do not
separate the costs of economic activity from the benefits. Instead,
both are counted towards a country's GDP. We count as desirable growth
both the beneficial activity that causes pollution and the costly
activity of cleaning up the pollution, for example. And when cutting
down trees and selling the lumber boosts GDP, we subtract nothing for
the loss of forests.
When the cost of an activity outweighs the benefit, we should stop
The scale of the global economy is approaching the limits of what our
planet can cope with. As the oceans are emptied of fish, forests
shrink from logging and levels of pollutants and greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere rise, the environmental and social costs of further
growth are likely to intensify until we reach a point at which the
price we pay for each unit of extra growth becomes greater than the
benefits we gain.
In fact, there is evidence that we have passed this point, at least in
well-off countries such as the US and UK. Since our GDP accounts
cannot reveal whether this has happened or not, scholars have devised
ways to track other potential indicators such as health, well-being
and the state of our environment. These include the Index of
Sustainable Economic Welfare, the Genuine Progress Indicator, the
Ecological Footprint, and the Happy Planet Index. They have found that
as GDP goes up, these other measures are levelling off and even
declining. Economic growth may already be making us poorer rather than
richer.
As long as our economic system is based on chasing economic growth
above all else, we are heading for environmental, and economic,
disaster. To avoid this fate, we must switch our focus from
quantitative growth to qualitative development, and set strict limits
on the rate at which we consume the Earth's resources. In such a
"steady-state" economy, the value of goods produced can still
increase, for example through technological innovation or better
distribution, but the physical scale of our economy must be kept at a
level the planet is able to sustain. Can we transform our economy from
a forward-moving aeroplane to a hovering helicopter without crashing?
After 200 years in a growth economy, it is hard to imagine what a
steady-state economy might look like, but it does not have to mean
freezing in the dark under a communist tyranny (see "Life in a land
without growth"). Most of the changes could be applied gradually, in
mid-air.
The idea of moving to a steady-state economy will appear radical to
many, perhaps politically impossible. But the alternative, a
macro-economy that is structurally required to grow in scale beyond
the biophysical limits of the Earth, is an absurdity, and heading for
the ultimate crash. Before we reach that radical physical limit, we
are already encountering the economic limit at which benefits of extra
growth are increasingly outweighed by the costs.
Profile
Herman Daly is one of the founders of the field of ecological
economics, which argues that the scale of the economy must be kept
within sustainable limits. He was senior economist in the World Bank's
environment department from 1988 to 1994, and is now professor of
ecological economics at the University of Maryland.
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