die woord word vlees in die bronsklokkie taai
oor tandverslete huisies en dekriet
lippetaal lieplapperig uit die populierbosdraai
vrouens diekant: ons en ons dogters
hoede lintjies vlegsellinge waaier uit die slape
oorkant mans en seuns stroewer in die bankies
die lam het oorwin - ons volg Hom
die kanselkleed plain op die issue af
in krismisbome voor roer skulpe aan toutjies
kastaaiings meerminbeursies belletjies
klokkies van die laaste heide
van soetanysberg waai seewind koel oor die panne
die woord het vlees geword en tussen ons kom woon
ons wat lewe in overkill en second strike
slagspreuke angst duurtes overbite wéét
dat in sy naam brandstapels ontwerp is
kruistogte oorloë vir hom mense gemartel is
generasies vernietig - sy grusame nalatenskap
verlore tol ons tot woord ons aan die aarde bind
onuitwisbaar deur soveel vergane tale gewrongel
tot vanoggend mirakelagtige woord op kersdag
asof alles meteens tot stilstand kom
bymekaar in ewewig hang
'n hele wanhopige land
verrafel sy laaste vernis gechip
afwagtend sing ons die stille nag tablo
sing ons die woord los uit sy kribbetjie
uit sy stal sleep hom los uit sy lull en nappies
laat waai wyd oor die stil strandveld
met breiende oop vokale
meedoënloos
tot die woord mens word
en regop staan
en hy's lankal nie meer wit nie
ook nie sodanig regverdig nie
(soos 'n kameraad eintlik aan die mans se kant)
maar van sy vingers blits nou onse waarheid
onverbiddelik teen die whitewash
sing sing
hoe onversier lyk hy nie
ja hy staan tussen ons
:agter in sy oë eiesoortig
vermy ons
die plunderende genadigheid
Almal weet dat al wat 'n liefdadigheidsorganisasie daar buite altyd
vrywilligers nodig het. Elkeen van ons het 'n organisasie wat ons graag
ondersteun en party van ons help met geld, ander help met tyd. 'n Nuwe
konsep van die VN is om "virtual volunteers" bymekaar te maak om uit te help
met navorsing, fondsinsameling, kennis, ens. Alles vind plaas via die
Internet.
As jy 'n bietjie tyd het, en jy wil graag 'n verskil maak of iets bydrae,
maar jy kan of wil nie jou gat voor die rekenaar lig nie of jy sit dalk vas
in jou land/huis, gaan kyk asb by http://www.netaid.org daar is 'n hele lys
van organisasies wat hulp nodig het. Jy kan self besluit hoeveel uur 'n
week jy kan afstaan aan jou gekose projek.
So nou en dan moet ek ook bietjie brêg met die web sites wat ons doen.
Vandag brêg ek met die ene http://www.dawnaymusic.com ons het Dawnay (U
Touch Me) deur 'n vriend ontmoet.
Ek kan nie al die krediet neem vir www.dawnaymusic.com nie, 'n outjie wat
vir ons kontrakteur het die site ontwerp. Ek is nie so bright met flash
nie - maar gelukkig ken ons mense wat goed is daarmee.
Okay, klaar gebrêg, tyd om weer aarde toe te kom :))
Die advertensie vir die veilige seisoen vra dat bestuurders met hul
hoofligte aan moet ry te alle tye EN vyf km/u stadiger as die voorgeskrewe
maksimum spoed.
Nou kry ons die volgende - die meeste mense wat op hul gewone roetes ry, ry
nog met hul ligte af, en binne die spoedgrens.
Dan kry mens motors op die N1 wat met hul hoofligte aan ry, en hulle het
gewoonlik registrasienommers van anderkant die berge - maar wat baie
opmerklik is, is dat nie een met ligte aan op die N1 hul naastenby binne die
spoedgrens hou nie.
Sondag was daar toe extreme snowboarding op Dolphin Beach -dis nou naby
Blouberg. 'n Helse sneeuvlak is opgerig en tonne sneeu is vervaardig. 20 000
toeskouers het die geleentheid bygebring. Ongelukkig het die organiseerders
hulle nie vergewis met die logistieke van die verkeer nie. Sou hulle dit
bietjie verder met die weskus op aangebied het, sou daar waarskynlik meer
toeskouers gewees het. Verkeer het opgedam tot by Melkbos aan die een kant
en tot diep in Milnerton aan die ander kant. Mense het tot 2 uur lank
gesukkel om te beweeg.
Geen ernstige ongelukke is aangemeld nie.
Frikkie - probeer die nuusberigte beperk tot ene per dag. Pos die nuusberig
wat die snaakste of die mees stimulerende ene is.)
(Ek aanvaar die "uitlanders" waardeer dit - maar ek lees self die krant)
Sal jy asseblief net poste in Afrikaans op hierdie
AFRIKAANSE nuusgroep plaas? Hoekom wil
jy vir ons dwing om Engels te lees, om in Engels
te lees hoe mense met lyke seks het, hoe predikante
in die NG Kerk gekritiseer word, ensovoorts,
ensovoorts. Het jy nie die nodige respek vir Afrikaans
deur vir ons dié nuus in Afrikaans op hierdie
AFRIKAANSE nuusgroep te pos nie. Ek vra
jou beleef, hou op om Engelse berigte op hierdie
nuusgroep te plaas.
Maria gaan na Betlehem.
Sy trek alleen deur die woestyn.
Die blink bronsson brand uit die blou,
die skadukolle krimp en kwyn.
Sy dra die kindjie, vas en sterk
- net haar hart, van jammerte, beef.
Hy is so fraai, so lief .... asof
'n lente in sy oë leef.
Die kind vra toe om water waar
Maria uitrus langs die pad.
" Vra nie om water nie, my lief.
Vra nie om water nie, my skat.
Want die riviere is troebel of
hul beddings droog, vol stof en sand.
Die blinkwit klippies in die spruit
skitter of hul van binne brand
en bloed vloei uit die fonteine,
bloed van die kinders van ons land."
Maar oorkant teen die rantjie soos
in 'n rustige someroord
wys daar die groen van lower, staan
daar 'n bloeiende vrugteboord
vol honderde lemoene wat
aan 'n wild-vreemdeling behoort.
Die tuinman is 'n blinde boer,
'n kêrel met groot oë dood.
" Gee my net een lemoentjie vir
my kind .... O help ons in ons nood!
Die arme bloedjie wil vergaan.
Hy hyg van dors hier op my skoot."
"Kyk, pluk maar self die vrugte, vrou.
Ja, neem soveel jy nodig het.
Pluk daardie grotes, dan word al
die kleintjies straks vanself spekvet. "
Maria staan slank op haar tone,
haar houding skoon soos 'n gebed.
Sy reik 'n sneeuwit hand omhoog.
Haar seun rus op 'n gousblombed.
Sy buig .... hy kry 'n groot lemoen,
die knapie lag en skop van pret.
Maria pluk die goue vrug
stil, een vir een, 'n stuk of tien.
Toe skielik bloei die hele boord met
'n oes soos nooit aanskou sindsdien.
En toe hulle afdaal van die rant,
begin die blinde boer te sien.
Hy duisel ..... of meteens die helder dag
deur al die duister in hom dring,
asof dié blanke lig, dié gloed
met silwer stemme in hom sing.
Sy oë vang die ver rante waar
hul bewe in lugspieëling ....
" Wie is die liewe vrou wat my
so 'n genade en blydskap bring?
Wie is die kindjie, wie die vrou? "
vra hy met skor bewende stem.
Dit was die Heilige Maagd, die Kind
op hul ver tog na Betlehem.
Baie dankie Frikkie, vir hope nuus. Sekerlik gee jy nie om
as ek 'n aanvullingtjie doen nie, né:-)))
Tog vreemd dat jy meer as een nuusberig uit dieselfde koerant
geneem het, en die voorbladnuus oorgeslaan het. Wèl, hier is dit:-)
(Jy het tòg gesorg dat Carletonville die hoofberigte in meer as een
van jou uitgawes behaal, sò, ek doen dit ook:-)
Ons burgemeester, is 'n vrou met 'n kop vir geldsake. Kom ek vertel
julle sommer van haar, ook. Ek was verlede Maandag in haar kantoor,
maar, sy is met ongevraagde verlof. En ek moes toe maar tevrede wees
om met haar 'aflos', wat ook op die rondry was, se sekretaresse te
gesels:-)
Anyway, soos ek sê, sy hou haar besig met geldsake en finansies,
maar lees self:
('Merafong' is die munisipaliteit ((of dorpsraad)) van Carletonville,
en ek het hulle die afgelope weke gehelp om 'n elektroniese
aftrekorder-stelsel geloots te kry.)
11/12/2003 03:08 PM - (SA)
Fraud with Councill's card
The suspended Municipal Manager of Merafong City, Adv Mapule Masemola,
may face additional charges of fraud against her after the Merafong
Council discovered she misused an official credit card issued in her
name. According to a press statement released last week, the Council
is considering pressing charges after discovering she spent nearly
R170 000 with the card. On 18 September 2003, as requested, Masemola
brought back a council credit card issued in her name after spending
R125 212,47 from her period of suspension early this year to August
2003. According to the Council's statement she then fraudulently
caused Absa Bank to issue her a replacement card on 17 October 2003.
According to records R41 105,87 of council money was spent on this
illegally obtained card from the date of issue to 7 November 2003. On
top of it all, the internal hearing into the case of misconduct
against Masemola, was once again postponed last week. She submitted a
medical certificate declaring she was sick on the eve of the hearing.
More news in the Carletonville Herald of December 12.
Shannon Ferreira, her 16-year-old daughter and her daughter's
boyfriend, Byron Shaw, all stand accused of assaulting Grade 10 pupil
Nosipho Mkhize outside Edgemead High School early last month.
Nosipho alleged that she was pulled by her hair, kicked and defecated
on after she had confronted Shannon Ferreira for verbally abusing
another pupil.
While admitting that a confrontation had taken place between herself
and Mkhize, Shannon Ferreira said several allegations made in the
media had been "exaggerated" at best - and, at worst, blatantly
fabricated.
'Nosipho alleged that she was pulled by her hair'
Since the incident, both Ferreira's daughter and Shaw had been fired
from their jobs and found themselves the target of ongoing public
ridicule - at one stage being forced to leave a restaurant because of
patrons' insults.
Ferreira's daughter told the Cape Argus she had become a "prisoner"
in her parents' Parklands home and was "scared" by the nasty looks
and comments she encountered in public. She has been accepted at
another school and will not be returning to Edgemead High.
The Ferreira's 11-year-old son has also allegedly been the target of
school bullies. The little boy - who witnessed the incident - was
devastated by media accounts of his sister and mother's alleged
racism.
"My mom is a good mom," he said. "She never raised us to speak like
that to anybody. I just want people to know that my sister has too
much respect for herself to treat anyone like that. We're a good
family. We are not racists."
Shannon Ferreira, a successful businesswoman who has raised nearly
R200 000 for a Johannesburg baby sanctuary, said the incident had
occurred after her daughter had water thrown on her by a group of
pupils.
'Allegations made in the media had been exaggerated'
The pupils allegedly acted as though they were sneezing on Ferreira's
daughter, the victim of bullying campaign - recorded by the school -
for the last two years.
Ferreira said she had been "horrified" by the level of cruelty
directed towards her daughter - who suffered from depression as a
result of both the taunting she received at school and the obscene
text messages she allegedly received on her cellphone - and had
confronted the pupils.
"Since we moved from Johannesburg two years ago, I have seen my
daughter change from a vivacious and popular extrovert into a
withdrawn, depressed shadow of herself. It's almost like she wants to
become invisible.
"When I saw how she was being victimised, it really broke my heart."
Shortly after she had finished speaking to the learners, Ferreira
alleges she was confronted by Nosipho - and the contentious incident
ensued.
Though unable to discuss exactly what occurred during the alleged
assault, Ferreira is adamant that it was not a racially-motivated
incident.
The Ferreiras' attorney, Howard Rubenstein, told the Cape Argus that
the family had been advised to air their version of events "in the
appropriate manner and in the appropriate forum".
"Despite my client's obvious natural desire to defend the family
against these allegations by providing the media with their version
as to the incident, they were advised from the outset that it would
be improper to do so. My client's silence in this regard should not
be construed as an admission of any allegations raised by the
complainant," Rubenstein said.
Shannon Ferreira said she was disheartened by the way the incident
had been depicted in the media.
"I am very, very sad that something that started out as a five-minute
schoolyard fight has been depicted as a racial confrontation. I doubt
it would have received the level of coverage if two girls from the
same racial group had been fighting.
"I realise we live in a country whose history makes it difficult for
people to think outside those categories - but that thinking becomes
dangerous when it stops people being able to objectively look at the
truth without resorting to racial stereotypes.
"My family has never and will never be racist," she said.
Over three weeks ago, the Cape Argus and community newspaper Table
Talk both reported the account of a 32-year-old Bothasig man who
allegedly witnessed the incident while picking his Grade 8 nephew up
from school. The eyewitness's account substantially contradicted the
media version of the incident.
Ferreira had not used the word "kaffir" during the confrontation or
stabbed Nosipho with her keys, the man said.
He denied that Ferreira's daughter had defecated on Nosipho - saying
he had seen faeces on the ground but had assumed that one of the
girls had soiled their underwear - and said Nosipho had not been
pulled on to the tennis court by her hair.
Shaw did not touch Mkhize, the man said. The only thing he did was to
threaten to get involved when certain pupils allegedly said they
would help Nosipho by stabbing someone.
The man - who said he had no reason to fabricate the story - said the
fight had escalated after Nosipho allegedly hit Ferreira from behind,
following an argument between the two.
According to the eyewitness, Ferreira's daughter then yelled "don't
hit my mother like that" and started fighting with Mkhize.
Following their arrest, Ferreira and Shaw were both given R1 000 bail
at the Goodwood magistrate's court, while her daughter was released
into the custody of her father, Glen. They face charges of assault
and crimen injuria and have themselves laid charges of assault and
crimen injuria against Mkhize.
The case was last week postponed until January 23.
The three, and Edgemead High, have also been taken to the Blue Downs
equity court by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), on
behalf of Mkhize.
SAHRC spokesperson Phumla Mthala had been dissatisfied with the level
of contradiction in the alleged facts of the case and had decided to
take the matter to court.
Glen Ferreira last week told the Cape Argus that he had been
impressed by Edgemead principal Malcolm Venter's refusal to take
sides following the incident - but dismayed by the Western Cape
education department's decision to suspend his daughter "without
hearing any of the evidence" related to the case.
Although the department did lift the suspension shortly after it was
imposed, Ferreira said he believed it had succeeded in convincing
people that his daughter was "guilty of something".
"At the moment all we want is to see is the truth coming out and our
name cleared.
"Our family has been through too many sleepless nights - we have been
walking around like zombies."
Edgemead High has indicated that it is considering legal action
following alleged defamatory accusations of racism aimed at the
school.
Rubenstein this weekend also indicated that the family was
considering launching a defamation case against certain undisclosed
parties.
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