Die onteieningswetsontwerp moet die Wet op Onteiening van 1975
vervang en daardeur die gewillige-koper/verkoper-beginsel afskaf.
"Want die beginsel werk nie. *Hoe 'gewillig' is jy werklik as jy 'n
prys vra (vir grond) wat die regering nie kan bekostig nie?"
Thandi Tobias-Pokolo, ANC-LP
Rapport vandag bl 14
Soos innie army. 'Ek soek drie vrywilligers. Jy, jy en jy!"
Rock in jóú taal
Jun 19 2008 03:02:54:847PM - (SA)
Beer Adriaanse vertolk die rol van Johnny de Goede in MK 89 se nuwe
musiekdokumentêr, Johnny en die Maaiers. Dit vertel die storie van 'n
jong musikant se strewe na sukses teen die agtergrond van Afrikaanse
musiek se ontwikkeling oor die afgelope 40 jaar.
Francois Oosthuizen
As jy nog altyd gewonder het hoekom Afrikaners gaande was oor Gé
Korsten of hoekom Van Coke Kartel so genadeloos op jou ore is, moet jy
Johnny en die Maaiers kyk.
Hierdie nuwe dokumentêr op MK 89 bekyk die geskiedenis en ontwikkeling
van Afrikaanse musiek oor die afgelope 40 jaar en hoe dit deur
politiek, tegnologie en modes beïnvloed is.
Die vervaardigers, Third World Media, se aanvanklike opdrag was om 'n
antwoord te soek vir die vraag hoekom die jeug vandag na Afrikaanse
musiek luister, maar dit nie 40 jaar gelede gedoen het nie. Dit het
gou duidelik geword dat hierdie vraag nie 'n enkele eenvoudige
antwoord het nie.
Die een deel van die dokumentêr volg die loopbaan van Johnny de Goede,
gespeel deur Beer Adriaanse. Johnny is 'n aspirant-rocker wat by 'n
videowinkel werk. Sy loopbaan beklemtoon die uitdagings in die
mededingende Suid-Afrikaanse musiekbedryf, maar dit ondersoek ook die
kunstenaar se soeke na 'n eie stem en genre.
Johnny se verhaal speel af teen die geskiedenis van Afrikaanse musiek
van die afgelope 40 jaar. Veral jonger mense sal baat vind by
insetsels oor die struggle van Afrikaanse sangers soos David Kramer en
Anton Goosen teen die ou Nasionale Party se sensuurraad.
Een van die indrukwekkende aspekte van die dokumentêr is die groot
hoeveelheid bekende en invloedryke mense in die musiekbedryf wat
bydraes gelewer het. Rubriekskrywers soos Chutney de Ridder en Deon
Maas sowel as musiekbase en organiseerders van nasionale kunstefeeste
soos die KKNK en Oppiekoppi het insette gelewer. Om nie eers te praat
van musieklegendes soos Koos Kombuis, Hamma van Brasse van die Kaap en
Karen Zoid nie.
Volgens mnr. Johan Beukes van Third World Media en regisseur van
Johnny en die Maaiers was hul grootste uitdaging om 'n dokumentêr te
maak wat geskiedkundig korrek is, maar ook vir 'n jeugmark aantreklik
is.
"Die keuse van musiek sowel as die manier waarop dit die redigering
aandryf, is spesifiek op 'n jonger mark gerig," het Beukes gesê.
Die dokumentêr maak gebruik van die fanzine-styl wat deur
musiektydskrifte van die jare '60 en '70 beroemd gemaak is. In plaas
van direkte verwysings maak die vervaardigers gebruik van laterale
verwysings soos 'n produksielyn wat fortuinkoekies vervaardig om te
verwys na die groot hoeveelhede CD's wat jaarliks verkoop word.
Een van die interessante vrae is wat beteken dit om cool te wees. Met
uiteenlopende menings van Sonja Herholdt tot Hunter Kennedy is daar
wel konsensus dat die jeug besluit wat is cool en wat nie.
"Hoewel die dokumentêr met 'n definitiewe vraag begin, is daar geen
enkele antwoord daarop nie. Johnny en die Maaiers gee die feite en die
geskiedenis, maar die kyker kan sy eie afleidings maak," het die
akteur Neels van Jaarsveld oor die dokumentêr gesê.
Hulle beplan nou om die dokumentêr by oorsese rolprentfeeste te
vertoon. Volgens Beukes is daar reeds 'n moontlikheid vir 'n
bekendstelling in New York.
) Johnny en die Maaiers sal Maandag om 20:00 die eerste keer op MK 89
te sien wees.
Somtyds wens ek, ek kon Jim se talent in diplomasie by my CV skryf,
maar die rook wat sy sonder enige respek vir enige van die omstanders
uitblaas, maak dat ek nie so maklik kan roem met sy vaardighede nie.
Ek het gisteraand vir die eerste keer in my lewe die onaangename taak gehad
om vir die veearts te se om my dogtertjie se hond uit te sit. Die hond het 3
dae gelede begin siek lyk en ek het vermoed dit is bosluiskoors. Die dokter
het egter bevestig sy is deurtrek van die kanker en daar was nie meer hoop
vir haar nie.
Nou is ek op soek na 'n puppy - Ek hou nie van honde met lang hare nie, en
my eerste keuse is 'n staffie. Indien julle weet waar ek 'n teler in die PTA
Centurion omgewing kan opspoor, laat weet my gerus.
Sommige van die lelikste hoofstukke in Australiese geskiedenis is in die 19e
eeu in Tasmanië geskryf toe die setlaars 'n intensiewe en grootliks
suksesvolle poging aangewend het om volksmoord te pleeg. Toe die eerste
Europeërs in 1803 aangekom het, het 'n geskatte 4000 tot 5000 Aborgines op
die eiland geleef. Hulle was die afstammelinge van die oorspronklike
inwoners wat meer as 11000 jaar gelede gedurende die laaste ystydperk toe
dit moontlik was om oor die vlak laagte van wat nou die "Bass Strait" heet,
te loop, hierheen gekom het. Die Aborgines se vroeë uitgesproke wantroue
teenoor die nuwe aankomelinge het spoedig in volskaalse vyandigheid verander
toe hulle besef dat die indringers nie gekom het om hulle land te deel nie
maar om dit af te vat. Hulle het geveg en die setlaars het teruggeveg - met
brute geweld!
So om en by die agtien-twintigs is Aborgines geskiet wanneer hulle gesien
is, vergiftig met "geskenke" van meelblom of soos diere in strikke gevang.
Hulle kinders is gebruik vir dwangarbeid. Aborigine vrouens is verkrag en
doodgemaak. In 1830 het die owerhede die berugte "Swart Lyn" van meer as
2000 gewapende burgers gevorm wat vir drie weke skouer aan skouer deur die
bos geloop het om die Aborigines uit te dryf. Die 150 Aborigines wat
oorleef het, is na die stormgeteisterde Flinders eiland in die Bass Strait
vervoer waar hulle gedwing is om Christene te word en weggekwyn het as
gevolg van siekte, smart en wanvoeding. Die bejammerenswaardige handjievol
wat oorgebly het, is later toegelaat om na Oyster Cove in Tasmanië terug te
keer. Die laaste van die rasegte Tasmaniese Aborigines - 'n vrou met die
naam Truganini - is in 1856 oorlede. Vir die volgende 120 jaar is haar
geraamte in die Tasmaniese Museum gehou totdat haar oorblyfsels uiteindelik
veras en in die water van D'Entrecasteaux Kanaal naby Oyster Cove in die
omgewing waar haar mense vroeër gewoon het, ter ruste gelê is.
Vertaal uit "National Geographic Traveler Australia", Derde Uitgawe,
Washington DC, 2008, bl. 232 en 233
Amazon halts SA Post Office deliveries
Lesley Stones
Information Technology Editor
RAMPANT theft by Post Office workers has infuriated the internet
retailing giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to SA
by post.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now
pay for a private courier service  adding about R420 to the price of
a DVD.
SA's postal status makes the country the pariah of Africa, since no
other country has had postal deliveries scrapped. The only other
African country that cannot use the cheapest standard postal service
is Nigeria, although Amazon still trusts Nigeria's post office if
buyers pay a slightly higher expedited shipping rate.
The new restriction came in at the weekend, with customers being told
the theft rate was so high that goods would no longer be delivered
unless they paid a priority shipping rate of $39,99 per order and an
incremental $9,99 for each extra item.
Amazon has long distrusted SA's postal service, and already refuses to
deliver high-priced goods such as electronic items or perfumes,
restricting shipments to CDs, DVDs and books. Private scamsters have
also aggravated the crime rate, as people ordered and received goods
but claimed not to have received them, forcing Amazon to send
replacement items at its own expense.
The clampdown will benefit Wantitall, a local website that thrives on
Amazon's wariness. Wantitall collates orders for all type of goods and
orders them from Amazon, but has them delivered to a warehouse in the
US. They are then repacked and sent in bulk via courier to SA.
Amazon's action is bad for consumers but good news for Wantitall, said
its founder Justin Drennan. ÂBecause of the fraud, they have stopped
shipping via the standard postal service. Everything is being stolen
at the Post Office, he said.
Drennan said Amazon deliveries were easily targeted because of their
distinctive packaging. ÂAsk how many people have had stuff stolen from
Amazon and it's massive. Amazon was reshipping things at its own cost
but it's had enough, he said. ÂPeople were also ordering DVDs and
telling Amazon they hadn't received them. They are saying we are as
crooked as they thought we were.Â
Wantitall mainly handles the high-priced items that Amazon does not
deliver to SA.
No one from the P ost O ffice would comment yesterday. Its executives
have been trying to clean up its image by improving systems, and
reported a 69% reduction in theft last year.
Wil ook net graag vir Sipho krediet gee vir sy vermoe om die eens magtige
Poskantoor tot 'n val te gebring het. Is daar enige iets op God sw
wonderlike aarde wat jy NIE kan breek nie.
Every day in Arsezania, our half devil, half child brethren work towards
making our lives a living hell. Ranging from the Big 5 (Murder, Rape,
Robbery, Hijacking & House Invasions) to the innumerable petty ways in which
they poison & pollute our existence - from the complete anarchy on our
roads, to the jaw-dropping filth & squalor, to the endless pilfering, theft
& looting at the airports and everywhere else. Not one single facet of what
can be considered "normal life" is left unscathed by these unprincipled,
amoral jungle apes.
Take for example our postal services - once an efficiently functioning
system, it has now been reduced to nothing more than sheltered employment
for a gang of thieves and criminals. Not even our own government in the form
of SARS uses the SA Post Office for sending tax refund cheques anymore.
Pilfering, looting & stealing is the order of the day, so much so that the
world's biggest online mail order company Amazon.com, has now completely
blacklisted the SAPO, refusing to accept the insane losses it has suffered
through theft.
Several years ago, Amazon wisely stopped using the SAPO when shipping
expensive electronic goods, limiting it to books, CD's & DVD's only. Now
even these low ticket items cannot be entrusted to the Post Office,
compelling Amazon to impose a blanket ban.
With immediate effect, Amazon will use only (mostly White-owned)
privately-run courier companies, adding R 420 to the cost of each CD and DVD
purchase made. Just another small way in which those stupid enough to reside
in this coon-infested hell hole are being punished for living here.
@@@@@@@@@
From Businessday:
Amazon halts SA Post Office deliveries
RAMPANT theft by Post Office workers has infuriated the internet retailing
giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to SA by post.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now pay for
a private courier service - adding about R420 to the price of a DVD.
SA's postal status makes the country the pariah of Africa, since no other
country has had postal deliveries scrapped. The only other African country
that cannot use the cheapest standard postal service is Nigeria, although
Amazon still trusts Nigeria's post office if buyers pay a slightly higher
expedited shipping rate.
The new restriction came in at the weekend, with customers being told the
theft rate was so high that goods would no longer be delivered unless they
paid a priority shipping rate of $39,99 per order and an incremental $9,99
for each extra item.
Amazon has long distrusted SA's postal service, and already refuses to
deliver high-priced goods such as electronic items or perfumes, restricting
shipments to CDs, DVDs and books. Private scamsters have also aggravated the
crime rate, as people ordered and received goods but claimed not to have
received them, forcing Amazon to send replacement items at its own expense.
The clampdown will benefit Wantitall, a local website that thrives on Amazon's
wariness. Wantitall collates orders for all type of goods and orders them
from Amazon, but has them delivered to a warehouse in the US. They are then
repacked and sent in bulk via courier to SA.
Amazon's action is bad for consumers but good news for Wantitall, said its
founder Justin Drennan. "Because of the fraud, they have stopped shipping
via the standard postal service. Everything is being stolen at the Post
Office," he said.
Drennan said Amazon deliveries were easily targeted because of their
distinctive packaging. "Ask how many people have had stuff stolen from
Amazon and it's massive. Amazon was reshipping things at its own cost but it's
had enough," he said. "People were also ordering DVDs and telling Amazon
they hadn't received them. They are saying we are as crooked as they thought
we were."
Wantitall mainly handles the high-priced items that Amazon does not deliver
to SA.
No one from the Post Office would comment yesterday. Its executives have
been trying to clean up its image by improving systems, and reported a 69%
reduction in theft last year.
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