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8 February 2007
How can we get the English off our backs?
Filed under: Africa Politics, Languages, Afrikaans, English
According to the outgoing director of the British Council in Namibia,
Patience Mahlalela, the Afrikaans language is responsible for the slow
development of English in schools and the general public in the
country.
"Too much Afrikaans is still spoken by everyone. This is very
detrimental to the development of English as the official language in
the country in general. But, as long as the political will is there
and the willingness of the people persists, the English language will
eventually take its rightful place as a communication tool."
My question is, is it right that the British council seeks to promote
English in a way that sees indigenous languages as a problem? An
obstable in the way of English dominating everywhere and everything
even more than it is already?
I don't think it is right, and I think we should name it as it is: neo-
colonialism.
Why should English, a world language with powerful financial,
technological and military factors that favour it be promoted? When
will British people begin to seek the promotion and survival of small
languages instead of trying to stamp them out?
Ek het gewonder of daar mense is wat kan help met opleiding van
onbevoegde mense.
My vriende is raadop. Hulle word ge-intimideer deur benadeelde mense
om ander benadeelde mense op te lei en deur te sit wat ten doel is om
Lugbeheerders te word op die einde van die dag.
Lugbeheerders beheer vliegtuie in die lug. Dit beteken dat die
vlieenier van 'n Boeing 777 met +-400 pasassiers, bevele van die
Lugbeeerder moet uitvoer, inderwaarheid, sy pasassiers se veiligheid
moet onderwerp aan die lugbeheerder se besluite.
Al ooit gedink wat 'n benadeelde kan doen by die Johannesburgse
Lughawe met Mbeki se Boeing?
O-ja - ek het vergeet, net begunstigdes land by Johannesburg, die
benadeeldes land mos by Waterkloof Lugmagbasis waar net begunstigdes
as lugbeheerders gebruik word.
Dieselfde geld vir Brandweeropleiding, wie sal nou ooit kon dink dat
water nie op chemiese brande gebruik kan word nie? Wat is chemies tog
in elk geval?
Ek was vir so 2 weke weg gewees, en ek weet nie of daar in die tydperk iets
dramaties gebeur het nie, maar dit wil so voorkom want hier is amper niemand
meer hier nie.
Dit laat my dink aan iets wat die siener gesê het oor 'n burgeroorlog
in Rusland en dan ..........
Filed under: Asia
Do you dare to imagine Russia's reaction if a wolfpack of NATO
helicopters plunged into Chechnya by night, violating Russian air
space to do so, in order to attack Russia-friendly forces seeking to
subjugate the Chechen rebels? Can you imagine how Russia would wail to
high heaven about "provocation" and the "territorial integrity" of
Russia?
Other countries, it seems, are not entitled to any such attitudes.
Especially not Georgia.
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not denying that, as the
Jamestown Foundation reports: "an air attack on Georgia's upper Kodori
Valley during the night of March 11-12 was carried out by Russian
helicopters." JF describes the carnage:
Two or three helicopters violated Georgia's internationally recognized
air space over the upper Kodori Valley that night, flying in from
Russia's Karachaevo-Cherkessia region. The helicopters, apparently of
the Mi-24 type, fired at least 20 guided projectiles, damaging the
local government headquarters, a school, and some other civilian
administration buildings in several villages. The damaged building in
the village of Chkhalta is shared by the government office and a
school. This attack is at least the fifth Russian violation of
Georgian air space in the upper Kodori Valley in the last six months.
It is, however, the first incident when weapons were fired. Georgian
radar recorded all of those incidents, but Georgian police stationed
in the area have long been instructed not to fire.
The Kodori Valley, see map above, borders Abkhazia, a region of
Georgia agitating for independence in exactly the same way Chechnya
has been doing against Russia for years now. Yet while Russia insists
no foreign nation can dare to "interfere" in Chechnya, Russia
apparently has no problem making military incursions against pro-
Georgian forces in Abkhazia. The JF reports:
According to the ministry's chief spokesman, Mikhail Kamynin, the
incident is a "logical result" of Georgia's July 2006 decision to re-
establish control over this part of Abkhazia and install authorities
loyal to Tbilisi there. Even more explicitly, Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin describes the air incident as part of
an "action-reaction" process, triggered by Tbilisi's "destabilizing"
decision last year, with consequences now and perhaps down the road.
He warns, "This incident sends a strong message to those who are
attempting to destabilize" the situation." By this logic, the re-
establishment of Georgia's legitimate authority in the anarchic no-
man's land that used to be upper Kodori is destabilizing,
notwithstanding the actual stabilization and rapid economic
development of the area in the secure environment that exists since
July 2006. Further, by Moscow's official logic, the air attack on
Kodori should serve as proof that Georgia is destabilizing the area.
It reflects Moscow's traditional belief that Georgia's stability and
prosperity are incompatible with Russian interests.
The JF notes: "An investigative report is due for release in the next
few days under a United Nations imprint. The political issue at hand
is whether the UN would, as usual, seek to obscure Russia's
responsibility." It's more than obvious that if the UN is prepared to
accept the conclusion that "Georgia's stability and prosperity are
incompatible with Russian interests" and therefore sweep this incident
under the carpet, it may have outlived its usefulness. Whether Russia
is seeking to actually annex the territory of Abkhazia by attacking
the chokepoint border area time after time, or just to destabilize the
anti-Russian government in Tbilisi (against which it has already tried
to foment a coup d'etat), the world must send a clear message to
Russia that its actions are intolerable http://publiuspundit.com/2007/03/is_russia_trying_to_annex_a bkh.php
Superster speel homself in nuwe Afrikaanse musical
Van sy onderonsies met joernaliste tot by vleisbraai saam met Jacob Zuma -
Steve Hofmeyr het nog altyd mense aan die praat gekry. Om homself te speel
in 'n musical oor sy lewe, mag moontlik vir baie die kersie op die koek
wees. Dit is egter presies wat vanaf 4 Oktober tot 18 November 2007 op die
verhoog van die Operahuis van die Staatsteater in Pretoria gaan gebeur!
Packed House Productions bied met trots aan: Dis hoe dit was.die Steve
Hofmeyr-storie - 'n splinternuwe Afrikaanse musical waarin jy kan sien hoe
sy lewe regtig verloop het, met Steve self in die hoofrol!
Steve Hofmeyr is sonder twyfel een van die grootste supersterre wat
Suid-Afrika nog ooit opgelewer het. Die bekende dramaturg en vervaardiger,
Deon Opperman, het die stoute skoene aangetrek om 'n Afrikaanse musical oor
Steve te skryf- en hom ook oortuig om homself te speel. Packed House
Productions is die vervaardiger en die produksie sal, soos vorige Packed
House-produksies, 'n lewendige orkes sowel as groot en skouspelagtige
stelle, beligting en kostuums hê.
Vir almal wat Steve Hofmeyr se lewe nog net deur die mediabril kon volg, is
hierdie 'n geleentheid om die ware verhaal oor sy lewe te sien. Wat dit nog
meer opwindend gaan maak, is dat Steve van sy grootste treffers soos
Pampoen, Agter elke man, asook 'n paar nuwe komposisies in die produksie
gaan sing. Ons gaan ook 'n paar van sy verborge talente ontdek, soos dat hy
al opera-areas gekomponeer het.
Die produksie is om meer as een rede iets besonders :
. Dit is een van die weinige Afrikaanse musicals wat al op die verhoog van
die Staatsteater se Operahuis aangebied is.
. Die lewensverhaal van 'n superster wat nog leef, gaan op die verhoog
uitgebeeld word.
. Dit is die eerste Afrikaanse musical ooit, en een van die weiniges in die
wêreld, waar die hoofkarakter deur homself gespeel word.
Dis hoe dit was.die Steve Hofmeyr-storie word weer eens met trots geborg
deur Absa. kykNET is die mediavennoot.
Packed House Productions is in 2003 gestig deur die gevierde dramaturg Deon
Opperman, waar die ervare vervaardiger, Paul Berning, in 2004 by hom
aangesluit het. 'n Stigterslid en later Feesbestuurder van die Aardklop
Nasionale Kunstefees, Giep van Zyl, is in November 2005 aangestel as
Uitvoerende Direkteur:Teater. Packed House Productions was verantwoordelik
vir die onlangse treffers My Fair Lady en The Sound of Music, sowel as die
splinternuwe musical, Soweto Story, wat tans in die Johannesburg Skouburg te
sien is. Met sy visie "bringing magic to the stage", kan gehore verwag om
musiekblyspele en ander produksies van die hoogste kwaliteit en met
buitengewone vermaaklikheidwaarde te sien
Bespreek by Computicket 083 915 8000, of besoek die webwerf
www.computicket.co.za. Skakel Computicket se Korporatiewe
Besprekings-afdeling by 011 340 8128 / 8475 vir korporatiewe- of
blokbesprekings. 'n Spesiale afslag van 10% vir groepe van 20 of meer word
aangebied. Besoek www.packedhouse.co.za vir meer inligting.
Exodus 23:11 - Die gesaaides moet Israel in die sewende jaar op hulle lande
laat sodat die arm mense eers daarvan vir hulself kan neem, en dit wat
oorbly aan die diere van die veld.
Straf
Exodus 9:9 - (Die sesde plaag). Dit maak nie vir my sin dat God ook
vierbenige diere wat redeloos is en nie met God of die mens kan kommunikeer
nie saam met die Egiptenare sou straf nie. Ek wonder dus teen watter soort
dier God wou optree.
Gemeenskap
Levitikus 20:15-16 - Die doodstraf word opgelê waar 'n man / vrou vleeslike
gemeenskap gehad het met die dier, want hulle bloedskuld rus op hulle. Word
hier van 'n vierbenige dier gepraat. Sulke dade word tog nie met diere
gepleeg nie. En waarom sou God 'n redelose dier wat slegs op sy instinkte
handel van bloedskuld beskuldig.
Opdrag uitvoer
Exodus 19:13 - 'n Dier wat die berg met die hand aanraak? God het seker tog
nie Moses versoek om naas Israel ook ape en bobbejane te belet om nie die
berg aan te raak nie. Vir 'n dier sou so opdrag onverstaanbaar gewees het.
Woning
Jeremia 21:6 / 27:6 - Mens en dier sou aan die pes sterf. Die dier van die
veld sal aan die koning van Babel gegee word om hom te dien soos slawe. Kan
enige viervoetige dier jou dien soos 'n slaaf.
Klere
Jona 3:8 - Mens en dier moet 'n rougewaad dra, en hulle moet ernstig na God
roep. Die dier dra dus klere en beskik oor die vermoë om tot God te bid.
Onderskei van viervoetige diere
Judas 1:10 - Hulle praat sleg van goed waarvan hulle niks weet nie. Hulle
kan dus praat.
OPSOMMING
Hierdie is waarlik 'n merkwaardige dier. Hy word "wilde dier van die aarde"
genoem, en onderskei van vee en viervoetige diere. Gevolglik is dit 'n dier
met 2 bene wat gesaaides, olywe en druiwe eet. 'n Man en vrou kan met die
dier gemeenskap he. Die dier het hande en voete en woon in stede. Hulle dien
die mens en ontvang 'n loon vir hulle arbeid. Die dier maak van 'n land 'n
wildernis en kan 'n mens virhinder om daar deur te gaan. Die dier kan met
mense en met God kommunikeer en berou toon oor sy sonde. Verder kan die dier
alles belaster waarvan hy niks weet nie.
Die vraag ontstaan of die diere vandag nog uitgeken kan word. Indien wel,
wie het die moed om dit te doen.
Die Beeld het ten sterkste beswaar gemaak oor onderstaande deur dit as
"gemorspos" af te maak. Maar die punt is - is dit?
RAPPORT/ SUNDAY TIMES
BEELD
HUISGENOOT/ YOU
LANDBOU WEEKBLAD
SARIE
FARMERS WEEKLY
SON/SUN
Hierdie tydskrifte en koerante diskrimineer teen hulle eie lesers,
veral die Afrikaanssprekendes :
ek wou verlede Donderdag (25/01) advertensie plaas om die Blanke
Ekonomiese Forum teen R15 000-00
by Beeld te adverteer. Die verkoopsdame het my egter ingelig dat Johan
Vosloo (hoofbestuurder) en
Peet Kruger (redakteur) besluit het dat die inligting te sensitief is
om geplaas te word. Ek het gevra of
hulle advertensie van die "Black Management Forum" sou aanvaar en sy
het gesê: "Natuurlik".
Dit is blatante diskriminasie teen blankes! Rapport het reeds te kenne
gegee dat hulle niks van ons inisiatiewe
wil weet nie en Huisgenoot het luidkeels verkondig dat blankes nie
aandele in Media 24 kan koop nie.
My vraag is: WIE KOOP HIERDIE TYDSKRIFTE EN KOERANTE? Natuurlik is dit
die blankes!
Ons ondersteuning is goed genoeg maar ons mag niks publiseer waarby
ons kan baat vind nie.
Dit is verkeerd en ontneem ons van ons reg om op nasionale vlak te
kommunikeer.
HIERDIE BLATANTE DISKRIMINASIE TEEN BLANKES MOET STOP!
DAAROM VRA EK DAT U ALMAL HIERDIE GESKRIFTE BOIKOT.
MOENIE DIT LANGER KOOP NIE TOT VERDERE KENNIS-GEWING. "
Steve Hofmeyr
Mense, kan ons vir 'n tweede keer (eerste keer - Sheldean Human) -
bymekaar staan
om die diskriminasie teen blankes deur blankes stop te sit?????!!!! !
Ons almal mor & kla, maar staan ons regtig bymekaar soos EEN, wanneer
dit kom by
"SAAM STAAN"? Oor en oor is bewys die afgelope 10jaar (amper 11jr),
wat
reggekry word met mense wat met oorgawe "SAAM STAAN"!!!!!! !!
Komaan vriende..... ... laat ons sien of "SAAM STAAN" nog WEL vir
blankes iets beteken!!!!
pr...@yahoogroups.com
Kom ons sien of Mbweni die ding gaan reg maak.
Trader vic is dood reg met sy analise van die SA CAD.
Hou lager Mbweni wag , hou harder gaan ons val
Till 'def' do us part
27/03/2007 08:01
By: Vic de Klerk
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South Africans spend more
Dire need for savings culture
Lesson for SA is to save more
C/A deficit a blow for rates
C/A deficit swells to 7.8%
Shock and horror
A LARGE DEFICIT on the current account of the balance of payments in
the past always worried me as an investor in listed shares. There was
too close a correlation between the direction of the deficit and the
price: earnings multiple at which the shares were trading.
Even just the turnaround of a surplus on the current account to a
deficit in the past caused a fall in the p:e at which shares were
trading. Of course, the fall of a p:e means that share prices fall.
South Africa not only has a large deficit on the current account of
its balance of payments but in the fourth quarter of 2006 the country
also had a huge, unhealthy, structurally dangerous, unprecedented -
and call it other names if you like - deficit of an annualised R143bn,
or 7.8% of SA's gross domestic product.
In the past, especially when we were still isolated from the rest of
the world's money markets, a 3% deficit on the GDP made me so nervous
that I exchanged the broking industry for farming.
Bull market of '69
That fear of a current account deficit dates from 1969. For those who
don't remember: between 1964 and 1969, SA experienced a huge bull
market in the prices of industrial shares. During the course of that
bull market the then Rand Daily Mail's index for industrial shares -
the JSE didn't have its own index yet - rose by nearly 400%.
One of my first duties when I entered the Johannesburg financial world
in 1969 was to keep a weekly graph of SA's foreign exchange reserves
up to date - by hand. Yes, at that time SA's gross foreign exchange
reserves were announced weekly.
For years the graph, with crosses for increases and circles for falls,
just went up and down in line with the share prices. The reserves rose
mainly because SA had a surplus on its current account.
There wasn't much of an inflow of foreign capital in those days.
Sharpeville was still vivid in people's memories; in any case, SA had
strict foreign exchange control on foreign investors.
The big drop
Then suddenly - from May 1969, and especially June and July of that
year - the weekly graph showed more falls than rises in our forex
reserves. Then, without understanding the contexts properly, I
overheard discussions on the floor - which were shared by the
investment analysts, portfolio managers, traders and our small
economics division on one side - that share prices were no longer
rising. In fact, they began falling.
The reserves fell further, followed by further falls in share prices.
But the faces, especially of the management of our merchant bank, fell
the furthest of all. It was clear that most of them were insolvent, as
the merchant bank's share price fell too far below the price at which
they were obliged to take up options.
That was around 1970, 1971. The reserves still fell, because SA had a
current account deficit. In fact, things only began improving from the
middle of 1976 when the gold price started climbing slowly.
In the following years my colleagues at the then PLJ Financial
Services, now Thebe Securities, and I carefully followed the country's
current account surplus as an important medium-term indicator of what
could be expected of the share prices.
But just as with any good indicator that suddenly no longer works you
quickly forget your good habits.
Investment vs saving
Our current account surplus disappeared back in the second quarter of
2003 and became a deficit. That coincides almost exactly with the
start of the current strong bull market in shares. Luckily, over the
past few years my former colleague Lafras van Rensburg, who is still
with Thebe, and I completely forgot about our fears concerning a
current account deficit.
Nevertheless, it's something that keeps sticking in the back of my
mind - even though (Reserve Bank governor) Tito Mboweni assures us
regularly that the inflow of capital and the level of reserves are
quite sufficient to cover the present current account deficit.
The student who wonders why there's a correlation between the current
account deficit and share prices would be well advised to take a look
at the latest SA Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin. The table on page S
124, which deals with the financing of gross capital formation, shows
that SA's gross capital formation was R350bn last year. However, the
country's gross savings were only R239bn.
Investment therefore exceeded savings by R111bn - exactly equal to our
balance of payments current account deficit for that full year. In
2006, that deficit was comfortably covered by the inflow of all kinds
of capital.
Pain of rising rates
My longstanding fear of a current account deficit and its effect on
share prices rests on the simple supply-and-demand principle.
Investment can't exceed savings forever, especially not at 7.8% of
GDP.
Savings - specifically, personal savings - just have to increase from
the current negative levels. That can only happen if personal spending
is lowered. And for that drastic measures are required, such as a
significant increase in interest rates.
Trader Vic asked Mboweni as far back as April of last year for a two-
percentage point increase in the repo rate. So far, we've had two
little steps of 0.5 percentage points each.
The time has come for a full percentage point increase in the cost of
credit. It's now necessary for the new class of consumer who has only
recently discovered the wonderful pleasure of plentiful credit - and
also the rest of the interest cycle - to learn about the pain of
rising interest rates.
ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma is meeting a group of prominent
Afrikaners in Johannesburg on Monday evening to discuss Afrikaner
issues.
Organiser for the meeting, Liesl Gottert said it was a private meeting
hosted by De Kat magazine publisher Elzilda Becker.
Those expected to attend include writer Dan Roodt, Solidarity's Kallie
Kriel, movie maker Leon Schuster, singer Steve Hofmeyr, photographer
Paul Alberts, actress Brumilda van Rensburg, a representative from the
Pro-Afrikaanse Aksiegroep, Sean Else, who co-wrote the song De la Rey,
and the Pendoring awards founder, writer Wilma de Bruin.
"It is people who specifically wanted to see him (Zuma) and who are
taking Afrikaner issues quite seriously," said Gottert. - Sapa
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