Julle ken my moerigheid daar oor dat die kniebuigende Afrikaanse media
na martelaars, verkragters en moordenaars as 'meneer moordenaar ens.'
verwys. Ferdi se verduideliking daaroor was dat hy die 'meneer' titel
verloor na skuldigbevinding.
Gisteraand se 7 uur nuusbulletin het, met verwysing na die Durban
anc-munisipaliteit se verafgoding van moordenaar Andrew Zondo tot
sulke afmetings dat 'n straat in 'toti na hom vernoem word, die
teendeel bewys. (die straat waar hy die bom geplant het
waarmee hy 5 mense vermoor het.
Die moordenaar is in 1985 gehang en selfs sy pa is teen die benoeming
gekant)
Toe die nuusleser gisteraand tydens die sewe uur nuusbulletin
verduidelik wie en wat die moordenaar is, het sy verwys dat 'meneer
zondo' in 1985 daarvoor gehang is.
Die Afrikaanse media is op hulle knieë en almal weet tot watter
geweldige invloed hulle in staat is. Hulle kan die witmense se
ondergang wees.
Ek was verras met Tim Du Plessis se uitgesprokenheid in verlede Sondag
se Rapport waar hy mbeki 'n nul op 'n kontrak genoem het.
May 26 2008 -- An extensive campaign has been launched by trade union
Solidarity to break through the silence which surrounds the growing poverty
of many hundreds of thousands of white South Africans - mostly Afrikaners.
They are poor not because they are lazy but because they are being denied
all access to the labour market by the ANC-regime's racist laws.
The trade union movement launched the new information campaign to also
highlight the fact that the ANC-government continues to ignore the fact that
the Poor White Problem is now taking on crisis proportions.
They want to use this campaign not only to raise funds from the Afrikaner
diaspora, but to also put pressure on the ANC-government to start helping
these poor white communities on an equal basis to any other poor group in
South Africa. By law, poor whites don't qualify for food-aid for instance --
only because they are whites. And this, Solidarity says, must change.
A multi-media website was launched this week, http://www.witarmoede.co.za/
which will continuously highlight the poor white problem with videos,
radio-reports and a photogallery.
Solidarity 's own investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter has done most of
the research and photography.
"Hopelessness and the constant knowledge that having to live on the streets
is just around the corner, that's the life of poor white South Africans,
said the fund's managing director Dirk Hermann. "These people all have one
thing in common: their eyes are empty. They have an inherent pride but all
hope has been taken away from them. And it's the hope which must be
restored.'
Of course while the number of whites in SA is considerably less than other
population groups, it's also a worrying fact that the number of poor white
people has increased by 95% between 1996 to 2005 - a much faster growth-rate
in poverty levels than for any other group in the country, he pointed out.
a.. The poverty increase during those seven years among black people was
13,7%, among mixed-race people by 17,3% and among the Indian population,
21%.
Solidarity also plans to raise funds among the white diaspora. At least a
million young white people have already left South Africa -- and the Helping
Hand hopes to that this diaspora will also start contributing to help in the
survival and upliftment programmes for the poor whites of South
Africa.http://www.witarmoedeco.za/
Ek het nou sommer gesit en speel en hierdie geteken.
As jy lus is kan jy dit afhaal en as wallpaper gebruik.
Daar is drie eenderstes maar verskillende groottes,
sa as jy dit will gebruik, toets maar al drie. Miskien
sal Full Size te groot wees, so download na die
eerste kliek, maar toets vol grootte ook. http://dave.photos.gb.net/c1517637.html
Riaan is in 'n tegniese beroep, wat dit moontlik maak dat hy dit
geweet het. Vir my is dit nuus. Nie vreeslik belangrike nuus nie,
maar ek kyk darem die nuus op TV:-)
Wrong signals from TV outlets
Corrinne Louw
In three years time your analogue television set will be unable to
transmit a picture and many Durban shops are hiding this information
from potential customers, despite a warning from government and
directives from their head offices.
Earlier this year the South African Department of Communications (DOC)
said that the process of migrating television broadcasting from an
analogue to a digital signal would be fully implemented by 2012.
Deputy Minister of Communications Radhakrishna Padayachie said at the
time: ÂWe are concerned at the possibility that the industry might
dump analogue televisions on our people by discounting schemes. If
these televisions become available at low cost, people might be
tempted to purchase them."
When asked, the major furniture outlets in Durban's city centre
assured us that their sales staff was informing customers of the fact
that without a transformer, the analogue TV would soon be useless.
However, we put this to the test and not one of the ten shops visited
informed us of the fact. To make matters worse many of these shops had
analogue TV sets `on special' at extremely low prices.
Basil Bloch, divisional merchandise executive of Ellerines, one of the
biggest furniture outlets in the country, said the company's sales
people had been instructed to inform customers of the switch and
advised their staff to tell customers that they would need to purchase
a Set Top Box or a STB for their analogue TV to work.
No one told us about a STB when we visited five of the Ellerines
stores. At the top end of West Street we visited Ellerines, Town Talk,
Bears, Lubners and Savells Fairdeal. Without exception, the sales
people advised us that the TV would be fine.
We also visited Electric Express and Russells, both JD Group stores.
Again we were told that the analogue TV would work. When asked what
will happen after 2012 we were assured by one sales assistant that
although shops would not be selling analogue anymore the ones that had
already been sold would definitely work.
The JD Group is also home to the Hi-Fi Corporation. Matthew van der
Walt, Hi Fi Corporation's chief executive said: ÂWe are informing
people at the point of sale. The analogue television sets or CRT will
not become redundant since we are aware that there will be a Set Top
Box (STB) that will convert that analogue signal to digital. We also
think that government needs to do much more to inform consumers in
this regard.Â
The STB referred to will be an instrument that converts a digital
television signal and makes it viewable on an analogue television.
So by the time the Âdual-illumination period of both analogue and
digital signals comes to an end, South Africans wishing to watch
television would need to have acquired a set-top box, or a
fully-fledged digital television.
Although the price of the STB has not been confirmed most estimate
that it would cost in the region of R400.
... die motorfietsryer wat die 'vip' se bestuurder gemoer het?
VIP driver punched in blue-light crash:
A motorcyclist punched a KwaZulu-Natal provincial VIP driver on Saturday afternoon for driving into to back of another car and seriously injuring its occupant near Pietermaritzburg.
...
Sapa has learnt that moments after the accident a motorcyclist - who had apparently earlier been forced aside by the VIP Mazda6 flashing its blue light - stopped at the accident scene and punched the driver before getting back on his bike and riding off.
...
KZN's transport MEC Bheki Cele later accused the driver of being "a self-made, arrogant, non-accountable individual who purports to be a good citizen and I will dare to argue that he is also a racist".
SA fisikus los Brittanje oor geld nie vloei
25 Mei 2008 09:15:05:820PM - (SA)
Anesca Smith
Londen. Prof. Neil Turok, 'n Suid-Afrikaner wat as topfisikus in
Brittanje werk, gaan groener weivelde in Kanada soek oor hy glo moeg
is vir Brittanje se swak finansiering van die wetenskap.
Turok, seun van die Kaapse ANC-LP prof. Ben Turok, is hoogleraar in
wiskundige fisika aan die Universiteit van Cambridge.
Turok sr. het gister gesê hy is baie trots op sy seun en dat die skuif
na Kanada slegs tydelik is. Hy sal daar as direkteur van die Perimeter-
instituut in Ontario werk.
Turok jr. het 'n groot rol gespeel in die onlangse besoek van die
wêreldberoemde teoretiese fisikus Stephen Hawking aan Suid-Afrika en
is ook voorsitter van die Afrika-instituut vir wiskundige wetenskappe
(Aims). Hy en Hawking is kollegas en ook groot vriende.
In 'n onderhoud met The Sunday Times het Turok hom uitgespreek teen
die Britse regering se swak bestuur en finansiering van wetenskap.
"Oor die jare het dit toenemend duidelik geword dat Britse politici
bitter min verstaan oor hoe wetenskap werk en die waarde wat dit vir
die land inhou," het hy gesê.
Turok was 'n professor in fisika aan die Universiteit van Princeton in
die VSA voordat hy 11 jaar gelede na Cambridge gelok is.
Hy probeer reeds jare lank sonder sukses om finansiering van 20
miljoen pond (sowat R300 miljoen) te kry vir die skep van 'n
internasionale instituut vir gevorderde fisika wat hy na Hawking wou
noem. Nou het hy handdoek ingegooi om dié droom te verwesenlik.
Turok is medeskrywer van Endless Universe en wenner van die 2008
internasionale TED-prys vir sy rol as "kosmoloog en opvoedkundige
aktivis".
Dave die hanskakie is weer aktief op die
nuusgroep. Wat is verkeerd met uit
Afrikaanse koerante aanhaal, ou Dave.
Of is die Engelse taal nou maar deel
van jou psige en voel jy vreeslik in jou
skik dat jy die rooitaal so kan gooi.
Vir jou informasie, ek lees geen pos
op hierdie nuusgroep in Engels nie.
Ek het 'n spesmaas min ander mense
lees dit ook. So as jy enigiemand se
aandag wil trek, is jou kans soveel
beter as jy dit Afrikaans pos.
Ek het dit hieronder op Litnet gelees. Hou veral van dit wat Ben in die
laaste paragraaf te sê het.
Jan van Perth
Ben Schoeman:
Boesak is eenogig en versand in sy weergawe van die verlede
Armoede is deel van die menswees. Armes sal altyd daar wees. Geld koop nie
noodwendig sukses of eerbaarheid of waardes nie, inteendeel. Hy self behoort
te weet, want daar is vir hom geleenthede geskep om die banvloek van armoede
te ontvlug. Dit is baie maal die kinders uit arm huise wat presteer en wat
"versadig, verstandig en vol mededoë", om van Wyk Louw buite konteks aan te
haal, hulle verlede gebruik om betekenis aan die hede en waardigheid aan
medemense te gee. Nee, die uitsigloosheid en verydelde hoop bring ?
weerloosheid en juis ook onderdrukte en ontploffende aggressie wat goeie
mense slegte dinge laat doen. Na 14 jaar se verval en leë beloftes het hoop
op die ashoop beland en het die vensters na ? beter toekoms dof geword.
Daarom verkas die geslag kundiges wat geen deel aan die regime of die beleid
gehad het nie, ook maar, want die Afrika-manier van doen en die hoog
geroemde ubuntu het nóg hoop nóg vrede gebring. Mugabe, die ikoon van
Afrika, wat na al die jare nog Brittanje en die Weste verwyt vir sy eie
versuim om insigtelik te dink is ? hartseer en eentonige wysie op die
Afrika-maat. Altyd ander se skuld!
Die Afrikaner was ook arm na die Anglo-Boereoorlog. So het elke land sy eie
eentonige verhaal van armoede en wandade. Maar die Reddingsdaadbond en
Helpmekaarbeweging is in die kultuur ingeweef. Hulle was ook uitgelewer aan
omstandighede en regerings wat hulle nie geag het nie en hulle ken die
vernedering van armoede, die magteloosheid van armoede, die verwonding en
woede ja, maar die armes is nie aksiomaties misdadigers en verkragters en
moordenaars nie. Nie diere nie. Dit klink al of Allan behaaglik agteroorsit
en wag dat die melodrama soos hy dit profeteer, homself ontvou en dan kan hy
sê: "Ons het julle mos gesê." Die vreesaanjaende dierlikheid waarvan hy
praat en waarvan daar tot vervelens toe gelees word is nie verskoonbaar nie.
Dol diere moet dierlik behandel word, ook in Afrika. Versoening, hoe nodig
ookal, of die gebrek daaraan, is geen rede om wetteloosheid te vergoeilik
nie. Armoede in ons ryk land moet kundig aangespreek en verminder word
sonder om sondermeer aanvaar te word as ? ewigdurende erfenis, of oorsaak
van al die ellende.
Die oplossing lê in die behoud van kundigheid en ? waardige skoolstelsel
waar waardes en harde werk weer beloon word. ? Regstelsel wat ons Grondwet
eer aandoen. ? Stelsel van meriete gegrond op meriete en nie blinde
lojaliteit aan ? gestorwe ideaal nie. ? Lewensingesteldheid wat nie na 14
jaar nog skuld aan gestorwe en begrawe apartheid toedig nie en ? gees wat
versoening adem en nie bevraagteken nie - dit is die oplossing. Enige
interaksie, positief of negatief, tussen kultuurgroepe kan nie sondermeer,
as dit jou nie pas nie, aan rassisme gewyt word nie. Ek dink ons het almal
al meer volwasse as dit geword. Jy is reg, Allan, ons moet die guts hê om
hierdie lewensweg by die kruispad te kies waar vergifnis, soos altyd, die
voorwaarde vir versoening is.
Moet nie nalaat om 'De Boeren (Afrikaners)' te lees.
Dit is so ondertoeérig in die eerste kollom.
Dan sal julle sien waarom ons onenigheid
met die Britten gehad het kort na 1806.
Kyk in die groep onder 'De Stammen'.
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