Die gevolge van regstellende aksie is iets wat die politici nie graag
raaksien nie want dan moet hulle erken dat hulle verkeerd is. Die feit dat
daar geen plaasvervanger is vir ondervinding nie, is iets wat nie by hulle
indring nie want dan sal hulle ook moet erken dat hulle, die politici self,
ook maar onlangs aan't mag gekom het en eintlik SELF nie veel weet van
administrasie nie. Kundige mense met jarre se ondervinding van onderhoud
en voorsorg tref in 'n land se dienste, word vervang met swart mense ongeag
van die feit of hulle die werk kan doen of nie. En dis nie net op
regeringsvlak nie. Hier in Namibië vou die een na die ander dorp se
munisipaliteit weens wanbestuur en korrupsie. Water- en
elektrisiteitsvoorsiening aan dorpe word gestaak weens wanbetaling want die
swart onervare raadslede is besig om die inkomste van die dorp verkeerd te
bestuur tot hulle op die punt kom waar die dorp nie meer sy water-en
elektrisiteitsrekening kan betaal nie. Nou sit die dorp se inwoners met 'n
sleg probleem. Inwoners wat wel op datum is met hull rekeninge, se water
en ligte word ook afgesny want die hele dorp se voorsiening word gestop!
Die grootste 'Duh?' nog seker in die politieke geskiedenis van ons land
het gekom toe vir 'n minister gevra is hoe regverdig hy steeds regstellende
aksie 15 jaar na onafhanklikheid? Gesien in die lig van dat 'n hele geslag
kinders van alle geslagte gelyke geleenthede op skoolvlak gehad het, hoe kan
hy regstellende aksie nog steeds toepas op blanke matriekulante? Die
antwoord is natuurlik eenvoudig! Dis nie regstellende aksie nie.....dis
swart bemagtiging, plein en simpel. Rassisme.
Riaan Wolmarans and Sapa | Johannesburg, South Africa
5/27/2005 5:27:00 PM
Media watchdogs have reacted with shock to the gagging order placed on
the Mail & Guardian newspaper by the Johannesburg High Court on
Thursday night.
"We are deeply shocked by the judgement," said the South African
chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa and the Media
Monitoring Project in a joint statement on Friday.
"This issue is of great public interest because of the improper use of
taxpayers' money and the judgment which has enabled legal censorship
to be imposed on the newspaper."
The watchdogs said the judgement is constitutionally questionable
because it elevated a primary constitutional right, the right to
privacy, above that of another primary constitutional right, that of
press freedom.
"Both rights enjoy equal value under the Constitution, but the judge
has chosen to afford a greater value to privacy," they said. "The
right to privacy in this instance is questionable. Courts have ruled
that public figures, given their roles, responsibilities and public
accountability, have less claim to privacy than private individuals."
According to the organisations, the Press Code states that "in both
news and comment, the press shall exercise exceptional care and
consideration in matters involving the private lives of individuals,
bearing in mind that any right to privacy may be overridden by a
legitimate public interest".
The organisations said: "The judge's strictures on the M&G because of
its refusal to reveal its confidential sources take no account of the
key journalistic ethic of maintaining the confidentiality of sources.
"It is well-known that journalists are prepared to go to jail for
refusing to reveal confidential sources," they said.
Others who responded critically to the judgement included the
Democratic Alliance, the Freedom of Expression Institute, the South
African National Editors' Forum, the Inkatha Freedom Party Youth
Brigade and the M&G's founding editor, Anton Harber.
'Major blow'
Freedom of the media has suffered a major blow with the M&G being
banned from printing their story, Harber and the DA's Helen Zille said
on Friday.
Harber said: "The pre-publication censorship takes us back 15 years
and is a very serious setback for media freedom.
"One understands people are entitled to their rights of privacy, but
the story seems so important that I find it extraordinary that the
courts should stop it coming out," he said.
Zille agreed, and said that the public have a right to know how their
taxes are being spent.
She said most revelations in the public interest come to light because
of leaks and whistle-blowing, and not through official sources.
"It is crucial to the freedom of the press and the public's access to
information that revelations of alleged fraud and theft of taxpayers'
money are exposed."
The DA does not agree that a company's "right to privacy" overrides
this imperative.
"If the allegations are false, Imvume should take appropriate action
against the M&G to protect its good name; if they are true, the
public's right to know is, in our view, overriding," she said.
In most democratic countries, an allegation of this magnitude, if
proved to be true, would bring down the government, Zille said.
'Gagged'
On Friday, the M&G hit the streets with the word "Gagged" in large red
letters across its front page. Its latest revelations on the "Oilgate"
scandal -- printed on page two -- were totally blacked out.
The story the M&G planned to publish was a sequel to last week's
ÂOilgate exposé, which revealed that Imvume Management, an oil
company closely linked to the African National Congress, siphoned
money from the parastatal PetroSA to the ANC before last year's
election. The upshot was that PetroSA eventually used public money to
duplicate payment, this time to Swiss-based oil supplier Glencore.
The story has already had major fallout, with opposition parties
calling for a commission of inquiry and referring our disclosures to
Parliament's minerals and energy committee for investigation.
This week's story would have provided further information about
high-profile individuals who benefited from the Imvume deal, which we
believe is unequivocally in the public interest.
The gag order is the first time since the late 1980s that it has been
muzzled.
On Thursday night, the Johannesburg High Court granted an interdict to
stop the paper from running the report.
The newspaper's entire print run of 45 000 had to be recalled and the
costs associated with this are still being calculated.
Judge Vas Soni found Imvume's constitutional right to privacy and the
dignity of the company would be irreversibly damaged, and that the
newspaper should have given Imvume more time to respond to the
contents of the article.
The article was not of overwhelming public interest and was
potentially defamatory, the judge said.
"The media cannot elevate itself to be above the law. I'm not
satisfied that the respondents [the M&G] acted as responsibly as the
Constitution requires them to. Their conduct should be condemned."
ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said the party does not usually pass
any judgement against judges, and "in this case, would prefer not to
comment".
The South African National Editors' Forum said there is no doubt that
a report of taxpayers' money going, even indirectly, to any political
party is in the public interest.
"The granting of pre-publication restrictions constitutes a serious
infringement of freedom of expression and would be justified only on
the basis of compelling grounds being argued," said the forum in a
statement.
The Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade called the interdict "the
greatest assault on freedom since 1994".
'We differ fundamentally'
On Friday, the M&G wrote in editorial comment on the matter: "The M&G
is considering its legal options. We will also go on trying to tell
South Africans what we believe they need, and have a right, to know.
"While the judge ruled that the M&G 'had not acted as responsibly as
the Constitution demands', we differ fundamentally and believe that we
have acted in the interests of a robust free press and within the
Constitution's stated right of freedom of expression.
"To quote Judge Soni: 'In a democracy as young as ours, it is
essential there is vigorous and robust debate about clean
government.'"
In a twist, the reason for the police being present at the Media24
printers, who print the weekly newspaper, as the hearing was held on
Thursday night is unclear.
Andre Smith, printing works manager at the printers in City Deep,
confirmed police presence at the building, but said they were there
because of an accident that took place on a railway metres away.
Malcolm Midgley, spokesperson for the Johannesburg emergency services,
said they have no record of an accident in that area on Thursday
night.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Chris Wilken said the police will
not get involved in the gagging order as it is a government issue and
not one for the police. He said he will investigate further.
die voël het vanmiddag hier in 'n boom gesit,
en ek kan dit nie plaas nie. Dit maak sulke
krok...krok...krok... geluide.
Enige voëlkenners hier rond?
Dit is nie bang vir mense nie.
Kan mens daaraan raak?
tsk tsk tsk, jou engelse maatjies wil duidelik nie met jou speel nie, daarom
hang jy hier tussen die boere rond. dis maar sleg om 'n swartskaap te wees,
nè?
ja, plaas vertel jy ons meer, ons het gister vir die eerste keer van mp3
gehoor. en wat is active-x? jy ken sulke groot woorde. ons bewonder jou
daarvoor.
"Naartjie Bunker" skryf in boodskap news:Y8B2NR1638506.5489467593@anonymous.poster...
> Firstly let me ask you why, if you hate English so much, you are downloading
> MP3s in this noble language?
>
> Just shows you that there are just no worthwhile lietjies in the filthy plank
> language that you cling onto so tightly.
>
> PS
> I sat back and watched the IT illiterates in this NG hurry about and download
> the pissy little MP3 with such excitement one would have thought it was the
> first time that they had discovered this phenomenon. Maybe it was.
>
> But there's more bOERS ... remember when it asked you to register 1 - 2 - 3 etc
> on the home page of the MP3 site? Well cos you are all so dof, you will have
> agreed to installing the Active-X loader onto your systems ... and now guess
> what, you all are infected with a back-door trojan and a good dose of spyware.
> You have fun now, y'hear me ... and in future don't trust sites like this.
>
> THIS IS A COMMUNITY NOTICE TO TRY TO EDUCATE bOERS
>
'n Mamma-Zulu en haar baba gesels een dag toe die baba vra:
"Mamma, hoekom het ek sulke groot neusgate ?"
Die mamma antwoord: "Wel, my seun, wanneer ons in die veld jag, help dit jou
om beter kan ruik"
"Goed, en hoekom het ek sulke kort kroeshare?"
Die mamma antwoord:"Dit help jou as jy in die veld jag dat jou hare nie koek
of aan die boomtakke haak nie"
"Dankie Mamma."
Enkele minute later vra hy weer: "En hoekom het ek so 'n donkerbruin vel?"
Die ma antwoord ongeduldig: "Sodat die diere jou nie maklik kan sien as jy
in die skaduwee skuil terwyl jy in die veld jag nie"
"Mamma" vra die outjie toe nou al self kriewelrig:
" Nou waddehel soek ons dan in Hillbrow?"
Toe ons tydens die Paasnaweek kon kyk na die klubkampioenskappe,
SomerSaterdae kon gaan rondloop of rondry, en nie vasgekluister sit om rugby
te kan kyk nie, en wanneer winter aanbreek, om jou Saterdagmiddag te verwyl
onder 'n kombers, 'n bottel rooiwyn, en na die Kerriekoppie te kan kyk.
Dis winterig hier. Reën. Winderig, Koelerig. En geen plaaslike rugby van
enige waarde om na te kan kyk die naweek nie.
Ek sal maar 'n trui brei die naweek.
--
Groetnis
Annette
Life is uncertain - eat dessert first
ann...@ctnet.co.za
'n Interessante storie het in ons pers verskyn die afgelope week met die
skrywer wat vra of regstellende aksie werklik in sy doel dien? Wat is die
doel van regstellende aksie? Dis mos om mense wat benadeel is deur die
onregverdighede van die verlede, nou 'n kans te gee om in te haal. Logies
sou dit beteken dat daar soort van 'n ondersoek moet wees in elke geval om
die meriete van die betrokke geval se 'benadeling' te bepaal en om hom dan
te help. Velkleur behoort nie 'n faktor te wees nie........AS mens die
gehanna-hanna van die politici wil glo. Dis dan mos nou demokrasie en alle
mense is gelyk. Daar bestaan nie meer iets soos rasseskeiding of
onderskeiding nie. Maar wat gebeur in werklikheid? As jou vel swart is,
kwalifiseer jy outomaties vir regstellende aksie en as jou vel wit is, kan
jy NOOIT kwalifiseer daarvoor nie. Die in die middel met bruinvelle, moet
maar hoop die swart mense is hulle genadig.
Nou wat is dit anders as rassisme? Dit waarteen die bevrydingsgroepe
gewerk het, is hulle besig om presies net weer so toe te pas! Wat is dit
anders as wraak? Ek gee nie om dat dit wraak is nie, maar dan moet die
mense nie hoogheilig alle soorte van mooi name daarvoor gee nie. Apartheid
is 'alive en well' dis nog net die amptelike erkenning daarvan wat nog kort!
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