Het julle dit gesien.. die olieprys..R93.97...!
Dit is asof dit nie so lank terug is wat die nuusleser
opsigtelik bly gesê het "olie is weer onder R30.00."
Dit klink so snaaks dat die mens reeds ontwikkel het tot 'n wese wat
buitenste ruimtestasies beman maar nie 'n binnebrand enjin onafhanklik
van petrol kan maak nie. Dit klink onsinnig as jy na modernisasie
gepaardgaande met kompleet afhanklikheid van petrol, kyk.
Ek was en is nog steeds nie 'n Jake White fan nie, maar ek moet op die
staduim my woorde sluk en die man geluk wens omdat ons in die finaal speel.
Ek moet erken ek het nie gedik toe hy die afrigter geword het, het hy 'n
idee gehad wat hy doen nie. Duidelik was ek verkeerd.
Doen my nou net asb een gunsie, en trap daai Engelse Saterdag
Rubriek in die Sunday Times. (Deur 'n lojale ANC-man, 'n held van die
struggle.)
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Deafening silence as Mbeki and Co reduce South Africa to a state of
fear
Published:Oct 14, 2007
Juctice Malala
I am angry and I am afraid. I am deeply afraid for my country.
The sound of silence has fallen over our country while the government
of President Thabo Mbeki, in its anger and its shame over its numerous
failures and acts of deceit, uses state security apparatus to go after
every man and woman who dares to speak truth to power.
While all this happens, the many good men and women in Cabinet, in
government, in business, in the trade unions and in civil society,
keep quiet. Where are the good men and women of the United Democratic
Front? Where are the many good men and women of the SA Council of
Churches, such as Brigalia Bam?
They are silent. They are in agreement while the democracy they fought
for is abused to protect the increasingly paranoid and discredited
presidency of Mbeki and to settle petty personal scores.
We should all hang our heads in shame.
I write this having just heard that the editor of this newspaper,
Mondli Makhanya, and its head of investigations, Jocelyn Maker, will
be arrested this week. Their crime is that they published a story
alleging that the Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala- Msimang,
screamed at hospital staff and drank huge amounts of booze while in
hospital for a shoulder operation.
The minister, the custodian of our nation's health, has denied none of
these allegations. This newspaper also published allegations that
Tshabalala- Msimang was a drunk and a thief. This story has not been
refuted by the minister nor any other government official.
Instead, the minister of Health has abused public funds by getting two
of her generals to publish wasteful, unintelligible advertisements in
various newspapers to allege that it is a crime to access personal
medical records. No one has said a word about the public interest.
Instead, the case was handed to the Western Cape's top detective.
The imminent arrest of Makhanya and Maker is nothing new in the
ignominy that is now the Mbeki regime. It has long been alleged that
Jacob Zuma, the ANC's deputy president, was investigated by the
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) under Bulelani Ngcuka, husband of
the current deputy president, because he dared dream of succeeding
Mbeki while the President did not wish it to be so.
I have always dismissed this allegation as conspiratorial bunkum. I am
not so sure anymore. Where once I would have asked Zuma's supporters
to show me the evidence, I am forced to ask Mbeki and his cronies to
show me the evidence that they did not indeed set the Scorpions on
Zuma's trail.
Of course, the worst abuse of state apparatus is playing itself out
today while we consider the fact that Makhanya and Maker will be
arrested, prosecuted and perhaps even jailed. That abuse is the
refusal by Mbeki to let the law take its course and have National
Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, an Mbeki confidante, arrested by
the Scorpions.
Mbeki went to extraordinary lengths to stop the current NPA head, Vusi
Pikoli, from arresting Selebi on corruption-related charges, despite a
warrant of arrest and search warrants being issued by magistrates and
judges.
But Mbeki went further. For more than a week he and his office lied to
the public and the parliamentary opposition about the existence of
such a warrant. These past two weeks they have been going to
extraordinary lengths to cover up this outrage.
The question has to be asked: is this the South Africa of Nelson
Mandela and Albert Luthuli? Did the heroes of June 1976 and the
veterans of the fires of the '80s lose out on schooling and normal
lives to be in a country where journalists are prosecuted as happened
under apartheid?
The Mbeki regime has been an unmitigated disaster from the onset.
But ineptitude  ranging from the failure to deal with HIV/Aids and
rampant crime to consorting with criminals such as Robert Mugabe  is
different from pure, unadulterated corruption such as we see unfolding
today in the Pikoli saga and now the persecution of Makhanya and
Maker.
These are steps into the worlds of Mobutu Sese Seko and Mugabe. Only
13 years into our democracy, Mbeki's Stalinist learnings are fully on
show: journalists and editors arrested and jailed; opponents jailed on
trumped-up charges; everyone in government living in fear that they
are being followed, watched and bugged.
How long before a bullet arrives for a pesky journalist or Jacob Zuma?
Remember, we used to say Mbeki would not interfere with the judiciary.
We were wrong.
The worst part of this whole outrage is that Makhanya and Maker could
go to jail. They will go to jail while good men and women stand and
watch. They will be jailed while Mandela and many others stand and
watch while the country they fought for so valiantly falls deeper into
the hands of a corrupt and power- mad coterie at the Union Buildings.
I am angry and I am afraid. But mostly I am ashamed. Ashamed and
embarrassed to call myself South African. Ashamed that in this country
we all keep quiet while evil is so routinely perpetuated by a bunch we
ourselves put into power.
When, one day, we open our eyes and our mouths, our children will not
have a country to live in. This country will be a Zimbabwe because we
allowed Mbeki and his cronies to rape it.
Billed as a "musical" this is actually a musical revue. It will, of
course, attract Steve Hofmeyr fans. Its full title is "Dis hoe dit was, die
Steve Hofmeyr storie".
I like Steve Hofmeyr when he is performing his own Afrikaans work and also
when he sings his favourite songs from artists such as Neil Diamond. He has
a very natural, unforced and friendly feel to him when he is being himself.
Here we had a mixture of Hofmeyr being himself and playing himself. It was
not a bad mixture, but I prefer him being himself.
The sets and costuming were clever and nothing particularly jarred.
This revue with the cumbersome title can be seen at the Opera, State
Theatre, Pretoria during October and November and Steve Hofmeyr fans shouldn't
hesitate to take a peep into Hofmeyr's biographical story. They will
doubtless be as entertained as I was.
Ek glo nie aan 'n pak slae nie, maar 'n vet klap so nou en dan op die boud -
vir my 4-jarige dogtertjie met wie mens nog nie eintlik kan redeneer nie! -
maak die ore baie vinnig oop en gee haar die sekerheid pa is nog in beheer.
Ek is dus gekant daarteen dat ouers eenvoudig verbied word om die plathand
te gebruik.
Maar dis nou nie eintlik waaroor ek wil praat nie - ek dink ons almal, selfs
Gloudina, sal basies hieroor saamstem.
Wat ek graag wil weet: Gaan die ANC sy lede toelaat om volgens hulle gewete
oor hierdie wetgewing te stem? Ek wed hulle sal nie, want hulle kan nie
seker wees dat hulle dit dan goedgekeur sal kry nie. Dié stuk wetgewing sal
beslis nie die toest van 'n referendum slaag nie. Is dit nou demokrasie? -
die wil van die meerderheid wat regeer? - of 'n piepklein minderheid wat a
bee in die bonnet het en die meerderheidsparty misbruik om hulle wil op die
verre meerderheid af te dwing?
Riaan kla oor "ramp metering"op die Ben Schoemand Hoofweg (wonder hoe lank
dié naam nog gaan oorleef?)
Ene Deon McQuirk is die Hoof van Traffic Engineering in Oos-Londen. Hy het
spoedwalle op sy brein - nie sulke klein walletjies wat jou laak hik en
klaar nie, nee, sulke miniatuur bergies. 'n Mens moet die voertuig feitlik
tot stilstand bring voor jy daaroor gaan, anders eet jy jou ontbyt,
middagete en aandete - die hele lot! - weer. ieamnd het in die Daily
Dispatch netjiese wetenskaplike gegewens aangebied oor die impak wat die
speodwalle op lugbesoedeling het - en dus uiteindelik ook op globale
verwarming!
Maar onse Deon McQuirk is horende doof. Sy speedkops kan nie die wet toepas
nie, nou probeer hy dit met spoedwalle doen.
Medisyne word vir jare en jare eers op rotte en muise getoets voordat dit op
'n klein groepie vrywillige mense getoets word.
Nuwe sagteware word nie op die live rekenaar system gelaai voordat dit nie
behoorlik in 'n toets omgewing geëvalueer is nie
So kan enige persoon hier dalk aan my verduidelik hoekom hulle die Ben
Schoeman - Die BESIGSTE highway in Afrika gebruik vir hulle toetse. Eers was
dit die baan vir meer as een persoon in die motor, nou is dit die "ramp
metering"
Ek sou dink dat logika sal dikteer dat jy so stelsel eers naby Bloemfontein
sal gaan toets, en indien jy 'n positiewe uitwerking sien, dit in Gauteng
sal implementeer, maar nee.
Enige ander persoon op die NG wat in dieselfde bootjie as ek is om elke dag
tussen PTA en Centurion te ry, en net so gatvol is vir die storie soos ek ?
Gaan cehck bietjie www.amazegps.com - kaarte van Jhb, Kaapstad en
Durban (en omtrent alle ander stede in die wereld) waarop 'n mens 'n
adres kan soek. Dan kry jy die kaart met die adres (zoomable) of
hybrid - wat basies Google earth kaart is met die strate se name
opgeskryf.
Dit werk SONDER 'n GPS inset.
Maar as jy 'n bluetooth GPS het, werk dit daarmee saam en gee jou
instruksies hoe om op plekke uit te kom of waar jy is. Ek het 'n Nokia
GPS wat vasgesluit is met 'n foon met 'n Garmin kaart op. Kom toe
agter dis net die Garmin-kaart wat op die foon vesgesluit is. Die
GPS-eenheid werk lekker saam met AmazeGPS op ander selfone waarop
Amaze gelaai is.
Jou foon moet egter Java kan loop en met die internet kan konnekteer.
Verder is alles gratis.
Op die Why South Africa Sucks Blog, is daar 'n vraag gevra aan Suid
Afrikaners wat oorsee bly, om te vertel van die nuwe land waar hulle nou
bly, en om raad te gee aan enige persoon wat moontlik belang sou stel om
daarheen te gaan.
Die volgende is wat 'n ou van Kanada te se het -
If anyone wants to ask questions about Canada that I have not clarified
here, feel free to email me at meck...@bellnet.ca or if I can be helpful in
any way (just don't ask for money...lol). Oh, and no questions are necessary
as to why I am a cynical prick, it's all in my book. But a quick recap... I
lost $790,500 in SRTC Canadian government programs in 1985/86, the Canadian
Consul in Pretoria almost got my wife and kids killed in 1990 and I lost a
whopping $32,000,000 in 2001, which I am required by law to keep quite about
to protect the guilty in government and government related organizations.
So, you'd be a cynic too! But enough of that, on to Canada the good, pah!
In examining the protocols and procedures for immigration to Canada, I see
they have played some interesting (read nasty) games. The countries on the
"automatic refuge list" are;
DR Congo -- Sudan -- El Salvador -- Guatemala -- Colombia -- Sierra Leone
Note that the Canadian government deams only certain countries eligible for
automatic refuge immigration and that Columbia is on par approximately with
South Africa for crime. It may take some time before Canada places South
Africa on the "endangered species list" and they may only include the
allegedly indigenous peoples.
The Main Canada Immigration Page is at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp where you can find all the individual
links to the different methods of applying to immigrate to Canada. The best
solution I can see would be South Africans helping South Africans with
possibly help from like minded people here in Canada to form a private
sponsorship program.
A Private Sponsorship Program operates under an agreement with the Minister
in charge of Immigration and the private sponsors have to be able to float
the costs of responsibility for their sponsored families and individuals.
Unfortunately, everything costs money. There are also literally multiple
tons of lawyers and DIY groups that can help, but again, they expect you to
throw out bucks on the chance you might be able to immigrate. Trust no one,
get everything in writing, immigration brokers or politicians and their
hunchback bell-ringing lobbyists, they're all crooks and only in it for the
money.
There are no guarantees that anyone in particular would be allowed to
immigrate. There are additional requirements such as health and criminal
background checks. I find that kind of funny since we keep letting in
Tuberculosis and AIDS riddled refugees as well as murders and rapists... go
figure?
A little on Canada. Personally, I hate the weather here and loved it in
South Africa. I should have moved to Australia or New Zealand. Oh well, I
came back and have regretted my decision ever since 1990. But for some
people it might work out OK as there are people from all over the world who
have become accustomed to our climate and weather (maybe the fluoride in the
water is making them more passive).
Weather - Cold in winter and as low as -40 C, 1 to 6 feet of snow (or more)
in most areas except southern British Columbia. Spring is generally wet.
Summer is nice fluctuating between 18 and 35 C. Diffrerent areas of Canada
have different weather patterns, the warmest area is southern British
Columbia, the coldest is probably the North West Territories or Baffin
Island. There really are only two season though, Hockey and Road
Construction/Repair.
Currency - Canadian Dollar presently at just over the US dollar. The value
of the dollar is controlled indirectly through the CFR branch in Canada
(IMF) through the Bank of Canada, which is a bit of an oxymoron since it
isn't owned by Canada but rather IMF members. >From what I can tell, it
looks like Canada will be bankrupt in the next 2 to 5 years even though the
dollar looks good right now.
Government - Lame-ass, ball-less corporate sponsored oligarchy in a feudal
monarchistic relationship with England. The Prime Minister controls the
government, but, the Governor General (the Queen's representative in Canada)
can over rule or dissolve the government in accordance with the 1947 Letters
Patent of King George of England. Canada is still under the War Measures Act
and even though we have a constitution and privacy rights, they can be
dissolved in a heartbeat with a signature from the Prime Minister or the
Governor General.
Number of Honest Politicians - 1 (I think, at least we haven't caught them
yet, maybe they're just clever)
Taxation - Ridiculous, we are one of the highest taxed groups in the world.
You got your income tax which runs around 27% to 55%, then you got you 6%
GST on everything (services and retail) then you got your 8% PST on
everything retail, you have you 60% tax on gasoline.
Utilities Costs - Electricity average family $80 to $120 per month, Water
$30 to $50 per month, Natural Gas $90 to $130 per month
Housing Rental - Based on 3 bedroom house or apartment, $850 to $2000 per
month in the city, $550 to $1,200 in the country.
Contents Insurance - Usually around $40 to $80 per month
Groceries - Family of 3 around $100 per week, $400 per month
Buying a car - $17,000 to $30,000 on average, $3,000 down plus $450 per
month or thereabouts, fluctuates with price.
Car Insurance - About $800 to $1,200 per year if driver has an excellent
rating
Electronics Costs - Inexpensive, a good computer is less than $1,000,
Camcorders around $500, TV's $100 and up, DVD Players at $30 and up.
Educational System - Excellent to some extent, just watch the universities,
they are in bed with the politicians
Makeup of Country - 10 Provinces and 2 Territories.
Size of Country - Huge, look on Google Earth
Population - about 35,000,000
Population Type - ethnically diverse, about 94.6% Sheople, 5.2% Criminal
(including politicians, bankers, lawyers, accountants, etc.), 0.2% Human
with their own minds.
Dominant Ethnic Group - None since 1995, there is a pretty even mix of
everyone (it makes it easier to control through lack of co-operation as no
one can agree on anything so the governments IMF handlers make all the
decisions). I think at last count however the Asian population was 450,000
in Toronto and 325,000 in Vancouver (generally very good people).
Largest City - Toronto, Ontario
Cities with the highest rates of corruption and malfeasance - Ottawa
followed by Toronto and then Vancouver
City most likely to be destroyed by a natural disaster - Vancouver or
Victoria, British Columbia
Gun Laws - No Conceal Carry or Exposed Carry, Hunting Licenses and Sport
Shooting through approved FAC.
Judicial System - Not worth the paper it's written on. It's a pay to get
justice system, you got no money you get no justice.
Policing Organizations - CSIS (Canadian Society of Ignorant Serfs), RCMP
(Regressive Colonial Mounted Procrastinators), in Ontario the OPP (Ontario
Provincial Procrastinators) and of course local police departments. Don't
live in Durham Region on the east side of Toronto, the police there are like
Nazi SS. If you really want to know where to live, buy a police scanner and
listen to the police radio traffic before you buy or rent!!!
Investment Diversity - Don't even bother, the banks suck, the BDC sucks, the
government sucks. They are all extremely conservative and refuse to take any
form of risk, except with your money and then they run rampant.
Wages - Minimum around $8.00 per hour, Skilled workers around $20 per hour,
Engineers around $60,000 to $70,000 per year.
Health System - OK, public health, pay for prescriptions, dentists and some
surgeries such as cosmetic. Psychiatrists are not covered and after being
through 2 or 3 of the winters here, you may need one.
Health Insurance - Additional Health Insurance costs around $70 per person
per month (for dental and prescriptions).
Tap Water - Clean (uh huh) with 753 chemicals and/or heavy metals plus
Fluoride (like they use in Russian Gulags to keep the "general population"
calm).
Language - English and French Canadian (but the real French laugh at ours)
Common Phrases - eh? eh! Where's my beer, eh? Those Maple Leafs suck, eh!
She's got great hooters, eh!!! Wonder if she goes, eh??
Main Sport - Hockey and Political Fencing (off corruption charges).
Positives - The scenery and there is some level of security as long as you
keep away from the roaming and rabid gangs of feral teens. Also the cost of
living is moderate and the health system works somewhat well.
Sommer 'n nonsense onderwerp, maar dalk kry ek julle uit julle winterslaap.
Wat is julle gunsteling kleur en waarom?
Myne is blou.
Want die lug is blou en die see is blou en die berge is blou. Ek is gek
lief vir die see en vir berge en vir die blou lug - vir die lewe!!! (So
jammer daar's nie berge by OL nie)
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