Cash-in-transit robbers nab R1.3m Dumisane Lubisi Hazyview - Five cash-in-transit robbers stole R1.3 million when they forced a Coin Security van off the White River/Hazyview road in Mpumalanga on Monday afternoon. The robbers opened fire on the van while overtaking it in a bakkie at about 2.30pm. Lowveld police spokesperson Captain Harry Shabangu said on Tuesday that two of the van's tyres were hit and the driver was forced to stop. The heavily armed robbers aimed R5 rifles at the two guards and emptied the van of money containers, which were loaded onto the bakkie. The robbers sped off. None of the guards were injured. Shabangu said police were following all possible leads to trace the suspects. Meanwhile, Tonga police are searching for three men who shot dead a shop assistant and robbed the owner of his bakkie and R3 000 on Monday afternoon. Shabangu said three armed men entered Good Lucky shop in Langeloop tribal trust at about 5:30pm and held up Jacobus Petrus le Roux and his assistant Daniel Fucane. They demanded money and one of the robbers suddenly shot Fucane, killing him instantly. The robbers fled in Le Roux's bakkie, a white Nissan with registration number CJN 957 MP, which is still missing. - African Eye News Service
Outrage as jailbreakers murder elderly woman Volksrust - Alleged police negligence may have led to eight criminals escaping from the Volksrust Prison at the weekend after which they strangled and killed an elderly woman with a television aerial chord. Four of the men have been re-arrested on Monday. Gertruida Diedericks, 60, was attacked in a storage room on the farm Baviaanskloof about 10km outside Volksrust on the Wakkerstroom road. At the time of the attack her husband Christoffel was not at home. From the storage room she was taken to the farmhouse where she was strangled and tied to a chair with a television aerial chord. The killers fled with about R15 000 in cash, a bag of bananas and a few containers of canned fruit. Volksrust police spokesperson Jeanine van Zyl said: "An investigation has been launched into whether the policemen on duty that night were negligent by not checking the cells regularly or whether they may have assisted the inmates to escape." According to Beeld, an entry into the incident book at the charge office showed that the last cell inspection was done at 7.00pm on Saturday night. The escape from the prison cells was only discovered at 7.00am on Sunday morning. According to police regulations the cells must be inspected every hour. Attempts to make late entries into the incident book after the escape were allegedly made. The murderers were allegedly part of a group of youths - all between the ages of 14 and 24 - who escaped from police custody in Volksrust on Saturday night. One of the youngsters - a 14-year-old boy - has already been found guilty of murder on Natasha van der Merwe (13) of Volksrust. She was stabbed to death in March this year while she was one her way home from town. The other seven who escaped were all awaiting-trial prisoners on charges ranging from rape to burglary. Van Zyl says the eight escaped through a hole they had sawed in the ceiling. They apparently bribed someone to buy them a hacksaw blade which was passed to them through an outer window of the prison cells. The Volksrust police, with the help of the local and Amersfoort commando as well as Secunda police immediately started a manhunt. The first suspect was arrested a few hours later. Diedericks returned at about noon from Vukuzakhe outside Volksrust where he was selling frozen chickens. When he found the house locked and his wife's broken spectacles on the floor of the storage room with her nowhere in sight he immediately called the police. The police broke down the kitchen door found his wife's body. A shocked Mr Diedericks said his wife must have gone to the storage room, where she was packing frozen chickens when she was attacked by the men. "When we found her she was tied to a chair in the lounge. Her throat was covered with scratch marks as she tried to free herself from the chord they had used to bind her. Inspector Sibongele Nkozi of the Secunda police said there was also a break-in at the school across the road from the Diedericks�s farm house. "Everything indicates that the suspects spent the night at the school. A fire was made on the school premises and a cheque from the police tea club was found lying on the floor.
Teenager arrested for farm murder Youth arrested for farm murder Nelspruit - A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Volksrust chicken farmer on Sunday, Mpumalanga police reported on Monday. Superintendent Izak van Zyl told Sapa that eight male suspects, aged between 14 and 24, had been linked to the attack on Getruide Diedericks. All the suspects allegedly escaped from the Volksrust police cells on Saturday following their arrest in connection with incidents of rape, housebreaking and robbery. The 14-year-old was arrested in connection with another murder. Van Zyl said only one, a 15-year-old, had been re-arrested. The incident was the seventh attack on farmers in Mpumalanga in six days. "One doesn't know what their (the attackers') agenda is. We think that they are trying to frighten farmers into leaving," said Agri Nelspruit spokesperson Charles du Plessis. However, police said robbery was the motive in all but one of the incidents. "We have no proof that it's politically related, but the fact can't be ignored," said Van Zyl. Diedericks was one of two farmers attacked in Mpumalanga over the weekend. In the second incident, an 82-year-old farmer was shot by three men near his farm outside Groblersdal. He is being treated in hospital and is in a stable condition. The attacks followed Friday's announcement by Mpumalanga police commissioner Eric Nkabinde that a national rural safety plan to reduce the number of farm attacks had been put in place. The plan, initiated by the police, incorporates the SA National Defence Force and the departments of Labour, Land Affairs and Agriculture and farm-workers' unions. - Sapa
Gang guns claim toddler's life Stellenbosch - In a bloody climax to a weekend of gang violence in Cloetesville, a four-year-old girl died after sustaining a head injury in the early hours of Monday morning, while she slept in bed behind her parents' and brother's backs. Andrea Davids died in the Tygerberg hospital a few hours after a fusillade of shots were fired at her parentsê house in Eike Street, Cloeteville at about 2:45 am. One of the seven bullets which hit the house, penetrated the bedroom's thin wood wall, hit Andrea in the neck, and lodged in her brain. According to Andrea's father, Andre, his daughter was scared of gunfire, and he suspected that she had lifted her head after the first shots were fired. The police found more than 20 9mm shells in the area around the house. Although the motive for the attack was still not known, the possibility was being investigated that it was connected to two gang-related shooting incidents earlier in the weekend. On Saturday at about 05:00, a 29-year-old suspected gang member, Alexander Olivier, was found dead on an open piece of land, less than 200m from Andrea's parents' house. He had been shot in the head five times. Olivier was walking across the land with a friend and a girlfriend when they were shot at. It is unknown from what distance Olivier was shot. Two suspected gang members from Cloetesville were later arrested for the murder. They are due to appear in court soon. At about 22:00, Patrick Mowers (23) was wounded in the leg when two suspected gang members opened fire on him outside a block of flats in Kloof Street. He was treated and later discharged from hospital. Nobody has yet been arrested in connection with this incident. Eight people, including Andrea and Olivier, have died in gang violence in Stellenbosch this year. Andrea is the first young child to die in gang violence. A two-year-old boy was seriously wounded in August this year in Cloetesville, when gangs shot at each other in the same area as Andrea's parentsê house. Family and friends who gathered at Andrea's home on Monday, said the community was sick and tired of the gang violence which caused them to live in fear. Andrea's funeral arrangements have not yet been finalised.
Union 'won't pacify' farmers Nico van Burick The Transvaal Agricultural Union said it can no longer urge its members to stay calm while they are systematically being wiped out. The Union was reacting to the murder of a farmer from Martinshoop near Lydenburg in Mpumalanga on Thursday morning. Johan Botha was shot dead in his bed at about 2 on Thursday morning. His wife was wounded in the leg and the liver. Botha was attacked two months ago, but managed to fend off his attacker. The Union's president Gert Ehlers said nothing was stolen or missing from the house. Even the firearms kept in the house were left untouched. He said it was becoming clearer by the day that robbery and crime had nothing to do with farm attacks. Labour and land affairs manager, Jack Loggenberg said an anonymous caller had phoned Botha last week and had threatened to shoot him. Botha then set traps around his home, but his attacker made a hole in a fence, dodged the traps and shot him and his wife in their bed. His wife was wounded in the leg and the liver. Ehlers said farm murders were traumatic and his organisation could no longer urge its members to stay calm. He said the Union saw the attacks as part of a campaign of intimidation to drive farmers off their land. "As farm murders increase and the list of crippled victims, little orphans and widows grows, the Union is urged to keep emotions in check," he said. "We will continue to alert our members and keep them informed."
MONDAY, 20 November 2000 : na001120 HEADLINES A. AFRICAN MIRROR : Visitors to Namibia fleeced. B. BOER RENAISSANCE : Boer freedom judged differently from Palestinian freedom? D. RAINBOW REPORT : Leon highlights ANC/Communist corruption and murder. E. TERROR TRAIL : The killings continue. F. SA GULAG : Prison escape in Zululand. G. WITCH HUNT UPDATE : Basson trial not going to London. H. EMPOVERNMENT GAZETTE : Saldanha Steel in the red. I. VOX POPULI : Under Verwoerd it was better... K. APARTHEID LOG : Israel bombards Gaza City. L. NWO DIARY : Pressure on Democrats to recognize Bush victory. M. FROM THE GLORIOUS DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TRANSFORMANIA: You are watching Big Brother... A. AFRICAN MIRROR LAGOS. Britain's Serious Fraud Office is investigating the role played by several British banks in handling money plundered from Nigeria by the country's former leader General Sani Abacha, the Financial Times has reported. The inquiry follows requests from Nigeria and Switzerland for help in tracing more than $4 billion (2.8 billion pounds) looted by the late black dictator. Abacha's successors have voiced concern over lengthy delays by British authorities in acting over the scandal. Cynics have suggested the reason why they are in such a hurry to get the millions back is that they themselves now want their turn at the trough... KAMPALA.Some 180 suspected criminals might have been lynched by mobs in Uganda during the first nine months of this year, according to unconfirmed reports. Law and order, like health services, have broken down in many of Uganda's outlying areas, many of whom are wracked by terrorist warfare and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. BUJUMBURA. Two more Hutu terrorists have been killed by Burundian government forces and one soldier was wounded in a fire fight in the Kiriri neighbourhood near the capital Bujumbura, official sources reported on Monday. 'The rebels wanted to manifest their presence after their defeat at Tenga," Luc Rukingama, Minister of Communications in the Tutsi-led Burundi government said. The new clashes erupted after over a month of calm which followed the fierce fighting at Tega, 10km north of Bujumbura, in which hundreds of Hutu rebels and government soldiers died. KISANGANI. Two rebel groups fighting to overthrow DRC President Laurent Kabila have exchanged gunfire near a northern gold mine in what appeared to be a fight over access to the country's minerals. The war in the Congo is being fought by three rebel movements, supported by Uganda and Rwanda. Hostilities between the different factions have broken out before, encouraged by the Kabila Regime eager to divide and rule. KINSHASA. Three white South Africans were thrown in jail and tortured in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The three had entered the DRC from Zambia to conclude a deal on maize exports to the country. Accused of taking photographs and of being on an espionage mission, black Congolese soldiers allegedly detained and tortured them for four days, during which time they received only four slices of bread. They were only released on Friday after a business associate helped them to pay a large sum to their captors, - confirming the suspicion that the whole case was just another way of robbing them of their money, a normal occurrence in Black Africa. One of the tortured men, Hans Blunk, is lying in the Sandton Clinic's Intensive Care Unit, where he is being treated for traumatic and emotional stress, rather than a physical disorder, according to his wife. Meanwhile, forces loyal to self-appointed DRC President Laurent Kabila are reportedly struggling to contain the rebel offensive moving up from the east. Allied troops from Zimbabwe, supported by their air force, are facing a difficult task trying to control the stretched-out front in this huge country and military analysts have said the only reason why mineral-rich Katanga has not fallen yet is the inability of the Tutsi-led rebels to exploit the situation. WINDHOEK. Foreign vehicles entering Namibia will be charged a levy of between 70 and 500 Namibian dollars from 1 December, the Namibian government has said. Sedans and light passenger vehicles carrying fewer than 25 passengers will be charged 70 Namibian dollars, while abnormal load truck drivers will have to fork out as much as 500 Namibian dollars. Most black African governments are milking visiting businessmen and tourists of everything they can get, from visa, transit- and airport fees to local, unofficial bribes, making their countries increasingly unattractive to visitors. B. BOER RENAISSANCE The outcome of the upcoming meeting between representatives of the black, communist provincial authorities in Kimberley and the white Afrikaner/Boer community in Orania is eagerly awaited not only in Orania, but also in other Boer and Afrikaner communities. Realistic forecasts, based on the ruling ANC/Communist track record, have not given the small Orania community much hope at a change in the newly laid-down Azanian (New SA) municipal boundaries, which would force a non-white majority, authority and mayor on the few thousand whites in what they would like to see as the embryo of a 'volkstaat'. Boers have been asked to take note of a statement made by the ANC/Communist President Thabo Mbeki at the ninth gathering of the Islamic Conference. Mbeki, who is the president of the Movement for unaligned Countries as well, not only reiterated his solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel, but he also defended the Palestinians' right to have their own country. He asked the United nations 'to implement all the resolutions regarding this without any avail'. Boer representatives have pointed out the inherent schizophrenia in the ruling black, communist Regime : On the one hand they support the creation of apartheid-style independent homelands in the Middle East, telling the Israelis to give up land to the Palestinians, - and on the other hand they refuse to give up sovereignty over one single square millimetre to Boers and other nations now under their oppressive rule in South Africa. In what is seen as an interesting side-line, some Afrikaans mass media did not report Mbeki's plea for a Palestinian state. Commentators believe this is because they do not want Afrikaners and Boers to read it, since it could strengthen their aspirations for their own "Volkstaat". It also seems to confirm suspicions that the Afrikaans mass media has degenerated to the level of mere mouth pieces and propaganda tools of the ruling Regime. The Afrikaner Bond (AB), formerly the Broederbond, has denied accusations of fawning collaboration with the ruling ANC/Communist Regime. According to Professor Francois Venter, the AB does not consist of a group of 'tame Afrikaners (ruling Azanian President) Thabo Mbeki can exhibit whenever it suits him'. Venter said the 'close contact' the AB had with Mbeki would be continued, and he repeated the offer of assistance made previously to both the national and provincial black, communist governments. The AB wants its 8500 members, who consist of experts in various fields, to attend to the many problems facing the ruling Regime due to its oppressive, anti-white policies. In a revealing statement, Venter also dismissed the principle of minority rights, saying the solution to Afrikaners' problems lay in, quote, active participation in the greater whole, unquote. The AB is accused of being the power behind the scenes, which sold out white South Africa to the ruling black Regime. D. RAINBOW REPORT The owner, Solly Lachporia, and the manager of the ESS Chemicals factory in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, where 11 black workers burned to death on Friday after they were allegedly locked into the factory during their night shift, have been arrested and are being held for questioning. Lenasia is a traditionally Indian suburb of Johannesburg. The Muslim terrorist organisation Pagad has been accused of waging a campaign of intimidation and terror to ensure that witnesses do not testify in court against its leaders. Azanian (New SA) deputy director of public prosecutions Jan d'Oliviera made these allegations while giving reasons why the trial of Pagad's national co-ordinator Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim and three other men accused of the 1996 lynching of gang boss Rashaad Staggie should be postponed. He told the court the State had intended to rely on witnesses and material evidence, with video material only as a backdrop in the trial, which was to have started last week. However, Pagad's "campaign of intimidation and terror" had influenced witnesses, who were now not prepared to make sworn statements for fear of their lives. This meant that the video footage of the Staggie killing, garnered from television news footage and apparently also from a private citizen, was now becoming a necessity in the case, and would have to be authenticated. Heavy downpours in KwaZulu-Natal have resulted in the Richards Bay harbour being closed temporarily with two yachts in distress outside the port. It also claimed the live of a six-year-old boy who drowned at Hluhluwe while playing near a flooded river. A German couple on holiday in Hluhluwe narrowly escaped death when their car slid off the road and plunged down a gorge. The frightened tourists managed to crawl out the vehicle and walk to safety. In what is seen as part of the continuing cover-up, Azanian(New SA) President Thabo Mbeki has tried to justify the failure of his Department of Trade and Industry to distribute millions in national lottery funds to welfare organisations and NGOs on the brink of closure. According to Mbeki, 'we need to build up a pool of funds before we start dishing it out'. It is estimated that the welfare fund accumulated by the ANC/Communist apparatchiks running the lottery already exceeds many millions of Rand, not a cent of which having been spent so far on what was touted as the 'good cause' of the lottery. Allegations of large-scale behind-the-scenes fraud and corruption have been made, which have been reinforced by the unprecedented delay. Five members of the radical Islamic terror organisation Pagad ('People Against Gangsterism and Drugs') were on Friday found guilty in the Cape Town Regional Court on three of the eight charges that were brought against them, following their arrest at a roadblock in the Karoo in February last year. Known as the "Oudtshoorn Five", they had allegedly been on their way from Johannesburg to Cape Town to lay bombs when they were arrested. After a protracted trial before magistrate Wilma van der Merwe, they were found guilty only of the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and illegal possession of a police bulletproof vest. The group includes former National Intelligence agent Ayob Mungalee, who is suspected of acting as a link to the ruling Regime. Sentence, which is expected to be light, is expected on Tuesday. Officials in KwaZulu-Natal have started the first vaccinations of animals in the foot and mouth disease control area. Finally woken up to the fact that they helped to spread the disease by their refusal to apply the same harsh measures to affected black farmers which had been applied to affected whites, the relevant government departments' black bosses have now given the go-ahead for officials to do the necessary to halt the highly infectious disease. Inter alia, trucks carrying cloven hoofed animals and produce into or out of the defined foot and mouth vaccination zone in KwaZulu-Natal have been turned away at roadblocks for failing to comply with disease control regulations. The KwaZulu-Natal health department has requested additional funds from their Azanian (New SA) national health department to alleviate the impact of the cholera epidemic on its budget. 76 new cases of cholera were reported in KwaZulu-Natal, with one further death among them. Staff at the Mangosuthu Technikon in Durban have threatened to strike over the reinstatement of black principal Professor Aaron Ndlovu, who was suspended in January this year for alleged irregularities. In line with all other state-controlled institutions in the New SA, the Manosuthu Technikon has also been 'transformed', blacks replacing whites as a matter of policy, not based on merit. Following a public outcry, KwaZulu-Natal housing MEC Dumisani Makhaye has vacated his luxury house in Umhlanga Rocks. More than R22 500 a month rent was reportedly being paid for the house, which has raised suspicions of huge back-handers and kick-backs. Black politicians have been at the forefront of large-scale corruption and fraud at all levels of the Azanian nomenclature. The ANC/Communist Speaker to the Azanian (New SA) Free State Legislature, Joe Mafereka, his driver and his bodyguard have been arrested on murder charges relating to the endemic black taxi violence. The ruling black, communist Regime has rejected a call by Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon to suspend the murder suspect, pending the outcome of the police investigation, saying they will only do this if their black comrade is found guilty in court. In civilised countries like Europe and the US, politicians arrested for murder will not only be immediately suspended, but offer to resign themselves. Mafereka, a former taxi owner, became a member of the Azanian Free State legislature after the infamous first Azanian (New SA) election of 1994. Meanwhile, Leon told a local election rally there was also evidence of political interference by the African National Congress's mayoral candidate for Bergriver, Western Cape, Sanet Smit, in the investigation against another African National Congress murder suspect, Sergeant Karel Farao. Other ANC candidates for local government election implicated in criminal activities included Elias Mkhize, former KwaZulu-Natal South Council mayor, who was charged with murder in 1998 and was currently on bail. He is number 34 on the ANC's Durban list. Leon also reminded his audience that Danile Landigwe, Cape Metro councillor and number nine on the ANC's Cape Metro list and Gladstone Ntamo, ANC councillor for KTC Nyanga and ward 39 candidate, were "heavily implicated in the political murders of DP and UDM members". Communist comrades implicated in the elimination of their opponents have traditionally been shielded by communist Regimes, according to historians. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anmals (SPCA), has given the ANC/Communist-controlled Northern Province's agricultural development corporation (ARDC) a week in which to ensure that the condition of starving cows at one of its projects improves drastically, or it will remove at least ten of the almost 50 cows. During a visit of personnel from the SPCA head office in Johannesburg, it was found that the Modjadji dairy in GaKgapane, outside Duiwelskloof in the north-eastern Transvaal, was completely run down, with emaciated cows listlessly plucking at grass and more than 40 Holstein cows, all KI bred, high potential dairy cows, in such a deteriorated condition that they might never produce milk again. Dozens of paid black workers were reportedly sitting around doing nothing. Flip Wessels, the white manager of the project, explained that the state corporation decided years ago to destroy the mango plantation that was part of the project and give the land to black small farmers. Now the farm hands who worked on this project are paid R54 per day without actually having any work to do, keeping themselves busy with their own vegetables, which they then sell to the community. Wages for the workers on the project amount to R750 000 per year, while the ARDC makes no profit. Dozens of other projects, among which are 23 sisal projects which cost the ARDC R32 million annually, have been totally run down by the New SA Regime and its 'transformed' agricultural department. Previously proudly presented as efficient, working models of rural development, these projects now operate at a loss, the gross income from these projects amounting to only R800 000. Only 11 projects, among which the Zebediela citrus estate and the Gillimberg farm outside Potgietersrus, are still reasonably well-run and productive, these being where the ruling Regime's 'transformation' has not yet been implemented too drastically. East Rand police are investigating a case of sabotage after an explosive device was found on a railway line near Germiston on Monday morning. Superintendent Andy Pieke in a statement said a Spoornet worker found the device on the track between the India and Germiston Lake stations. It is the fifth such device found on this particular railway track, which was reportedly planted to force goods trains onto an alternative route, where they might be robbed more easily. E. TERROR TRAIL Another white woman has been murdered. Last seen on Tuesday, she was found tied up and strangled in her flat in Springs on the East Rand. It is believed she is a further victim of the continuing murder spree by black killers robbing 'soft targets'. Police have identified eight young blacks, aged between 14 and 24, as the killers and rapists of a white farmer's wife, Getruide Diedericks, of Volksrust. All the suspects allegedly escaped from the Volksrust police cells on Saturday following their arrest in connection with incidents of rape, housebreaking and robbery. Only one, a 15-year-old, had been re-arrested. The incident was the seventh attack on farmers in the Eastern Tranvaal in six days. Even spokesmen of the normally subservient Azanian (New SA) national agricultural union, AgriSA, by word of their Nelspruit spokesperson Charles du Plessis, are now saying they 'think' the black killers, rapists and robbers are trying to frighten farmers into leaving, thereby admitting a political motive. As usual, the 'transformed' Azanian police have denied this, saying robbery was the motive in all but one of the incidents. In a second incident over the weekend, an 82-year-old white farmer was shot by three black robbers near his farm outside Groblersdal. Johan Ligthelm was driving home back form church when he stopped at a log dragged across the road. The blacks shot him, dragged him out and sped off in his car, leaving him bleeding on the side of the road. The latest killings and attacks follow Friday's announcement by Azanian 'Mpumalanga' police commissioner Eric Nkabinde of yet another grand 'anti-crime' plan, the 'national rural safety plan', which, like all those before, is supposed to reduce the number of farm attacks. Two black policemen and a white bystander have been murdered during a robbery at a Kliprivier south of Johannesburg. They have been identified as Sergeant Fox Rapone, 33, and Constable Lesiba Mamamela, 35, who were both stationed at the Kliprivier police station, and a member of the public, Victor Elves. A gang of at least seven blacks, who had robbed the Lucky Supermarket of about R50 000 in cash, fired at them, killing all three. Only one of the killers was arrested after the robbery and will appear in the Meyerton Magistrates' Court on Monday. Three young girls have been gang-raped by five black robbers, who surprised them inside a house in Meyerton in the Vaal Triangle on Saturday. The girls, aged nine, 11 and 14, were dragged outside and raped repeatedly. The nine-year-old girl was also stabbed. As usual, the Azanian police refused to identify the victims' race, but Meyerton is a traditionally white town. The assailants escaped with a television and radio valued at about R5 000. No arrests had been made, once again as usual. Another elderly white man was shot dead outside his house in Hurlingham in Johannesburg on Thursday night. Garth Kelly tried to help his wife who was being hijacked, when he was shot in the chest. He was taken to the Sandton Clinic where he died later. The black killers escaped in two other cars and the Kellys' Mercedes Benz. The 14-year-old white girl who was cruelly raped by a five-man gang in her parents' home in Pretoria on Tuesday night, is so traumatised that she will probably need counselling and support for the rest of her life. This is what the Reverend Barbara Louw, from the organisation Inter Trauma Nexus (ITN) told the media on Thursday. According to Louw, members of ITN as well as members of the police who were at the scene on Tuesday night, were also badly traumatised and have received counselling. The rape was described by hardened policmen as the worst they had ever seen. The girl was discharged from a Pretoria hospital on Thursday after the incident in which she was repeatedly raped by five black men in the bathroom of her parents' home. A 30-year-old white seasonal farmworker and a 16-year-old white youth appeared in the Kakamas Magistrates' Court on Monday after allegedly chaining two coloured farmworkers to a tree on the farm Soetap in the Kakamas area at the weekend. Francois Bruwer and the youth, who may not be named, face a charge of murder and another of attempted murder after one of the coloureds, 38-year-old Adam Smit, died of his injuries. The motive for the attack is not known. A Fidelity security guard was in a serious condition in a Bloemfontein hospital on Saturday afternoon after he was shot by robbers during a failed cash heist attempt at the Shell Ultra City outside Kroonstad. Black robber gangs are striking vulnerable public places holding cash on an almost daily basis, with the police unable to stop the scourge. Many of the more military-style robberies are linked to the ruling ANC/Communist Regime's former terrorist wing, MK, one of whose leading members, Coling Chauke, being called the biggest robber baron of them all. The Boer-orientated Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) says it can no longer urge its members to stay calm while they are systematically being wiped out. The more conservative and independent TAU has refused to disband in favour of new Azanian (New SA) provincial structures, instead going nation-wide to recruit new members and try and become more representative of the white Boer population. F. SA GULAG Three inmates serving two to seven years jail sentences escaped from the Ngwavuma Prison in the northern KwaZulu-Natal around noon on Saturday, according to a provincial correctional services spokesman. Prison escapes in the New SA are blamed on the rampant corruption among 'transformed' personnel. G. WITCH HUNT UPDATE The Pretoria High Court has dismissed the State's application to obtain evidence from a former Military Intelligence agent in England in the on-going Wouter Basson trial. Judge Willie Hartzenberg ruled that a commission to the United Kingdom would be too costly for the State and the taxpayer. He said there was a strong possibility that the witness, Roger Buffham, would not be completely frank with the court as he was unwilling to testify. Dr Wouter Basson, an eminent heart surgeon and former head of the old SA's chemical and biological warfare programme, has been at the centre of a drawn-out, witch-hunt-like court battle to find him guilty of all sorts of charges, ranging from the supply of toxic substances to detained terrorists to the misuse of state funds. H. EMPOVERNMENT GAZETTE Saldanha Steel, the multi-billion steel manufacturing project on the Cape west coast, is losing money. Built to use up some of the huge quantities of iron ore shipped out overseas from the country's rich deposits in the northern Cape, Saldanha Steel is a 50-50 venture between Iscor and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). Trying to explain the yearly losses of nearly 1 billion Rand, black IDC Chief Executive Khaya Ngqula admitted to the 'need to beef up management' as one of the two reasons why more money was needed. Semi-state corporations in the New SA have mostly 'transformed' themselves by pushing more and more blacks into highly-paid positions, regardless of experience or merit, thereby hoping to ingratiate themselves with the ruling Regime. According to former employees of these formerly successful and profitable organisations, the politically-motivated changes have placed huge additional financial loads on the corporations, while reducing efficiency at all levels. The Rand slumped to a second new record low of 7.7750 to the US Dollar. While apologists of the ruling ANC/Communist Regime are blaming the strong US Dollar, the weak Euro and all sorts of happenings all over the world, critics are pointing out the loss of confidence both internally and abroad among employers and investors, who are shunning the Regime's anti-white policies and the all-pervading terror and insecurity. I. VOX POPULI "...The consequences (of old SA's Dr Verwoerd's apartheid policies) were unbelievable economic prosperity..." - Tobie le Roux, Ferndale. K. APARTHEID LOG JERUSALEM. Israeli gunship helicopters and warships have been bombarding Gaza City in what looked to journalists like something out of a war film. Witnesses said rockets were falling at a rate of about one per minute on, quote, strategic Palestinian positions, unquote. Terrified residents were running about screaming and shouting, looking for shelter. The number of casualties is unknown. According to reports, buildings in Gaza City belonging to the Palestinian police, the Palestinian preventative security service, the Palestinian naval service, the Palestinian military intelligence service, the Palestinian satellite television station, the headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and his personal guard known as Force 17 were targeted and hit. The raids followed the explosion of a roadside bomb which was detonated in the path of an Israeli school bus earlier on Monday, leaving two Jewish settlers dead and nine wounded, five of them children. The total death toll since the beginning of the latest 'intifada' has risen to over 250, the vast majority of whom young Palestinians and Arabs protesting the continued occupation of what they see as their Palestinian homeland. SRINAGAR. India, the occupying power in Kashmir east of the 'Line of Control', has announced that its forces will not launch combat operations against Muslim separatist groups in Kashmir during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. Ramadan starts at the end of November. There was no immediate reaction from Kashmir's two dozen Muslim separatist groups to the Indian government's unilateral offer. Muslim separatists have been fighting a bloody guerrilla war against the Indian military and police in an attempt to shake off Indian (Hindu) rule. L. NWO DIARY ZURICH. A bomb has exploded at the French consulate in Zurich causing damage but no injuries, an embassy spokesperson said. At this stage, police can only speculate about the possible motivation behind the bomb. HANOI. Outgoing US President Bill Clinton has ended his historic state visit to communist Vietnam, amid conflicting reports of what it meant and what effects it will have. Western businessmen expect improved trade relations with one of Indo-China's most populous and industrious nations, while hard-line communists are talking of "hostile forces'" plots to undermine socialism. Clinton himself, a former draft dodger, was received cordially and expressed his satisfaction with the goodwill he encountered among ordinary folk. CANBERRA. Flood-devastated communities in parts of eastern Australia were evacuated on Monday as rivers burst their banks. Emergency services said this was the worst flooding for 40 years. WASHINGTON. While the US courts are still deliberating over whether ballot-by-ballot recounts in parts of Florida should be included in the state's official results from the November 7 US presidential election, pressure is mounting on the Democratic Party establishment to finally accept Republican candidate George Bush's narrow election victory. Though Bush's lead in Florida was pushed up to nearly a thousand by late overseas ballots, the Democratic lobby has been fighting tooth and nail to try and reverse his slim majority by insisting on controversial hand-counts over and over again. The Bush camp has alleged that manual vote recounts in some parts of the state were riddled with extreme irregularities and suggested that Democrats had a hand in the alleged mischief. With the rest of the US evenly divided, the majority-holder in Florida determines the outcome of the whole elections. Meanwhile, outgoing US President Bill Clinton has denied that there is a crisis in the American system of government. He said a decision will be reached in plenty of time for the new president to take the oath of the Southern Cross Africa News Presidential office on January 20 next year. NEW YORK. Two more black suspects have been arrested for the gang rape of a 13-year-old white mentally challenged girl in the US. So far, 14 blacks are in custody in connection with the attack. The girl was raped in two separate apartments over a 15-hour time period on October 13 by as many as 25 males, according to the police. A videotape was made by a suspect during part of the assault. LIMA. President Alberto Fujimori, whose 10-year authoritarian rule has crumbled in recent months over corruption scandals, has said in Tokyo that he will resign within 48 hours. Opposition inside Peru has taken on many forms, - from a boycott of the last elections to the failed insurrection by a group of soldiers. M. FROM THE GLORIOUS DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TRANSFORMANIA According to totally untransformed, politically horribly incorrect and reactionary Transformanians, the slogan 'Big Brother is watching you!' is not applicable in glorious, transformed and forever transforming Transformania. With nearly 100% of the population having a TV or access to one, 'Big Brother ain't watching you mate, you're...watching him!'...
Wat my dwars in die krop steek is dat hy in die tronk sit met vol salaris betaaling en voordele. Nie eers 'n opskorting nie. "Frikkie Potgieter" skryf in boodskap news:3a1ac0c9.4883873@news.saix.net... > Speaker deeper in the stew?
Welkom in die nuwe sa ou maat. Groete Frikkie On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:35:42 +0200, "E Bessinger" wrote: > Wat my dwars in die krop steek is dat hy in die tronk sit met vol > salaris betaaling en voordele. Nie eers 'n opskorting nie. > > "Frikkie Potgieter" wrote in message > news:3a1ac0c9.4883873@news.saix.net... >> Speaker deeper in the stew? >
Wat is tussen SA en Cuba aan die gang? "Frikkie Potgieter" skryf in boodskap news:3a1ac0c9.4883873@news.saix.net... > Speaker deeper in the stew? > > > Bloemfontein - Two additional murder charges as well as an array of > other criminal complaints were being investigated against Free State > legislature speaker Joel Mafereka, the Bloemfontein Regional Court > heard on Tuesday. > > Mafereka, who has been charged in connection with the 1989 murder of > taxi driver Joseph Qesi, has also been accused of conspiring to > assault and kill members of rival taxi bodies in Welkom, of bribing > police officers, and of ordering the assassination of a witness due to > testify against him, the court was told. > > Mafereka, 49, was arrested at Johannesburg International Airport on > Saturday on his return from an official visit to Cuba, and detained at > the Lyttleton police cells in Pretoria. > > He is facing a charge of murder, alternatively conspiracy to murder, > in connection with Qesi's stoning to death at Jammersdrift near > Wepener. > > Mafereka was a member of the Majakathatha taxi association in Welkom, > which later merged with another grouping to form the Mahanu-Puso taxi > association, of which he was still a member. > > Mafereka still owns a single taxi, which generates profits of about R3 > 500 a month, the court heard. > > Facing cross-examination during his bail application on Tuesday, > Mafereka rejected an array of allegations against him saying they were > lies by individuals seeking to damage his image, as well as that of > the African National Congress. > > State prosecutor Louis Pienaar told the court that evidence would be > led during Mafereka's trial that he had given the order to kill Qesi. > > Witnesses who were allegedly present during Qesi's murder, were > prepared to identify those of Mafereka's co-accused who did the actual > stoning. > > These witnesses were also prepared to testify that they have received > death threats on Mafereka's instructions to prevent them from > testifying against him. Many were under police protection. > > The court would also hear evidence that while Mafereka was chairman of > the Majakathatha organisation, he gave an order that members of rival > taxi bodies "be given a hiding", meaning that they should be killed, > Pienaar said. > > Witnesses would furthermore testify that Mafereka ordered the > assassination of a man called Lesole, who was to give evidence against > him in a case involving the theft of minibus taxis. > > Mafereka is also accused of waiving a R30 000 fee payable by a > Sergeant Mokoena to the Majakathatha association for operating a taxi > on the route between the Free State Goldfields and Van Rooyensnek on > the border between Lesotho and Wepener. > > In return, Mokoena was alleged to have assaulted and robbed taxi > drivers who were not members of the organisation. > > Pienaar also told the court evidence would be led that Mafereka had > offered a policeman R10 000 to lose the docket on Qesi's murder. > > Mafereka said the allegations were the work of a certain Moses Nonga, > who he claimed was out to take revenge for his dismissal from the > Mahanu-Puso association. Nonga is one of the witnesses in the case. > > The speaker was unable to tell the court who else would want to damage > his reputation and that of the ANC, or why. > > Mafereka is seeking bail on the basis that he was needed back at work > urgently, and that he needed to look after his four dependent > daughters. > > He told the court he would not be able to afford bail of more than R1 > 000, but questioning by Pienaar revealed that he owned two cars - a > RAV4 and a Camry - and was paying off a further R8 900 a month towards > a bakkie. He also recently acquired a home in Welkom, in addition to > his official residence in Bloemfontein. > > Mafereka testified that he did not pose an escape risk, as he had > returned to South Africa from Cuba well knowing that he would be > arrested on his arrival. > > Pienaar revealed that, following Mafereka's testimony in court on > Monday, several taxi drivers had contacted the investigating team > wishing to come forward as witnesses against him in this case as well > as others. > > These taxi drivers have indicated that they intended protesting > outside the court on Tuesday next week to oppose the bail applications > by Mafereka's six co-accused. > > This public outrage proved that Mafereka's life could be in danger if > he was freed on bail, Pienaar contended. > > "I do not believe that I am in danger," Mafereka retorted. > > "The allegations are all false, so there is no reason for me to be > afraid." > > The speaker's six co-accused, including his driver Hendrik Lewalala > and bodyguard, Joseph Mohlobodi, were arrested on Thursday and > appeared in the same court on Friday. The case was postponed to next > Tuesday for a bail application, and they were remanded in custody. > > The other four accused were Joseph Tsie, Aaron Phume, Keneth Molete, > and John Matlotlo. Except for Mohlobodi, all Mafereka's co-accused > were taxi owners in Welkom. Molete was chairman of the Mahanu-Puso > taxi association. > > Magistrate Manie Loubser granted an early adjournment until after 2pm > to give the prosecution time to confirm whether or not Mafereka had > any previous convictions. - Sapa >
Jammer ou maat, dis ongelukkig die nuwe sa hierdie jong. Frikkie On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:20:57 +0100, "Skunk" wrote: > Fokkit, Frikkie, is daar geen goeie nuus nie??? > > Skunk > > Frikkie Potgieter schreef in berichtnieuws > 3a1ac9c4.7183105@news.saix.net... >> Crime to worsen: expert >> Cape Town - "It is highly unlikely that the culture of violence and >> the crime rate will decrease in South Africa over the next ten years," >> said Martin Schonteich from the Institute for Security Studies in a >> report. >> Various factors, such as the large number of youths and children in >> the population, HIV/Aids, urbanisation and a poor legal system will >> contribute to this. >> From 1994 until 1999, violent crimes increased by 21.6%, and the >> number of reported crimes last year was the highest thus far. Earlier >> this year a moratorium was placed on the issuing of crime statistics. >> In 1999, 32.6% of all reported crimes were of a violent nature, in >> comparison with 15% in America and 6% in Britain. >> Interpol statistics in 1997 indicated that South Africa has the >> highest per capita murder and rape statistics in the world, as well as >> the highest per capita number of violent robberies and thefts. >> Schonteich said it was the case world wide that most crimes are >> committed by youths. In 1995/96, 2 283 out of every 100 000 men >> between the ages of 18 and 20 years old were found guilty of a crime. >> The most recent census (1996) revealed that more than a third of the >> country's population was younger than 15 and 44% was under 20. >> "According to international data, young people are responsible for the >> majority of crime. It is therefore highly unlikely that the number of >> crimes in South Africa will decrease in the next decade," Schonteich's >> report reads. >> According to the United Nations' Aids Report, 4.2 million people in >> South Africa have Aids, and by 2010, 6 million people in the country >> will have died of the disease. "Children orphaned by Aids will be more >> predisposed to commit crime," Schonteich said. >> South Africa's legal system has also worsened. In 1999 fewer people >> were convicted than in 1949. "In 1999 2.4 million crimes were >> reported, of which 560 000 ended up in court, but of which only 260 >> 000 were prosecuted. Of these only 200 000 ended in convictions," the >> report continued. >> Schonteich argued that it was highly unlikely that the "culture of >> violence" in the country would decrease in the next ten years. >> The high crime levels appear to be bringing forth a generation of >> young people who are coming into contact with violence on an almost >> daily basis. In addition, within ten years there will be two million >> children orphaned by Aids, who will turn to violent crime to survive. >