Empoverished Afrikaner widow Lena-Maria Jackson beaten: tortured with hot iron because she only had R40 30 Aug 2013 Empoverished, sixty-two year old widow Mrs Lena Maria Jackson was brutally assaulted and tortured with a hot iron because 'she only had R40 to give to her black male attackers. Mrs Jackson was attacked by a group of knifemen in her Thornville farmhouse south of Pietermaritzburg around midnight Aug 30. She was ambushed by the men when she was awakened by 'a noise' and was confronted by the knifemen. "They tied up my hands with rubber bands. They demanded money. I am a pensioner and only had R40 in cash in the house."Because this money wasn't enough for them they started stabbing me with their knives and then tortured me with a hot iron on my back. The lights were off and they did all this while shining a torch in my eyes. "I was able to turn on the lights while they screamed at me to turn them back off and not to look at their faces. They even got angry because the alarm went off when the lights were turned on. The most painful thing they did to her however was when they broken open the little box containing her late husband Ronald's ashes. 'The ashes were strewn all over the lving room floor. They didn't care and walked all over his ashes,' she wept. They turned her house opside down looking for valuables. Eventually they fled with two cheap cellphones, her shotgun and used her Hyundai bakkie as a getaway: it was found abandoned in Isipingo township. She was able to free herself from her bonds and alerted farm worker Simon Dube. "I think they burnt some drugs outside the windows to have me sleep as deeply as I did before the attack, because I cannot believe that all those things happened and I heard nothing,' claimed Dube'. SAPS lt Joey Jeevan said anyone with any information may contact the investigating officer, warrant officer Mandlenkosi Mpulo of the Thornville detective branch at telephone 033 251 0671 or 082 459 6042. She was taken to y Netcare911 to a Pietermaritzburg hospital -------------------------------- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=712869845406230&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater ---------------------- A 63-year-old farm-woman from a farm near Thornville, KZN (north of Howick) is in a critical condition at Netcare Hospital after she was 'burnt seriously' and 'assaulted with a blunt weapon', reports Netcare911 spokesman Chris Botha. "She was stabilised at the scene and taken to a Netcare hospital for further treatment'. Yet the KZN police spokesman colonel Jay Naicker merely said she was 'assaulted' - completely censoring out the horrific torture-ordeal she had endured. Chris Botha can be reached at http://www.netcare911.co.za/live/content.php?Category_ID=2263 -------------- Thornville: The SAPS in Thornville confirmed that they are seeking three black male attackers in which a 62-year-old woman was badly burnt and assaulted. She is in a critical condition in a Netcare hospital, confirmed SAPS colonel Jay Naicker. He said the woman was asleep when she heard a noise at the backdoor, went to investigate and was ambushed by three black males, who held her at knifepoint."They threatened to kill her and demanded cash.' 'The suspects assaulted her (NOTE:*THE POLICEMAN LEFT OUT THE DETAILS OF THE BURNS) and fled in the woman's car which was later found abandoned in Durban. It's not clear whether anything was even robbed from these reports. They are only investigating a case of housebreaking ----------- Chris Botha of Netcare 911 said the victim 'sustained very bad burn wounds and was assaulted". We stabilisied her at the scene and took her to a Netcare hospital'. ------------------ http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/thornville-plaasaanval-polisie-op-soek-na-drie-verdagtes/

HERMANUS: New report: A 77-year-old man was tied up in his house for several hours before his housekeeper found him the following day. On 12 August at about 22:30, the elderly man was in his house in 3rd Avenue in Sandbaai when two men and a woman entered his bedroom. According to Constable Mbongeni Mazuthu, spokesperson for the Hermanus SAPS, the robbers tied him up with an electrical cord and demanded cash. They fled the scene with a cellphone, bank cards and R78 in cash. No weapons were used in the robbery. The housekeeper called Safe Security when there was no response to her knocking on the door the following morning at 09:00. The man sustained minor injuries and was taken to Hermanus Hospital to receive medical treatment. A 25-year-old woman was arrested in connection with this house robbery and appeared in the Hermanus Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The case is being investigated by the Hermanus SAPS. http://www.hermanustimes.co.za/83602/news-details/man-tied-up-and-robbed

South Africa to criminalize 'hate' and 'hatespeech' -- August 31, 2013 A draft "Policy Framework on Combating Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Unfair Discrimination" has been finalised by the ANC-regime that will " introduce the concept of hate crime to South African criminal law, giving effect to international legislation aimed at balancing the right to dignity with the right to free speech." This was said by Jeff Radebe, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister who emphasized particularly the 'racism' of Afrikaners towards Jews when he addressed a meeting before the Jewish Council of Deputies and the ambassador of Israel. -------------------- ENTIRE SPEECH: SPEECH: http://www.justice.gov.za/m_speeches/2013/20130825-hate-speech.html ---------------------- According to the Minister, the draft framework seeks to address ‘newly-defined hate crimes’ – including hate speech – where there is evidence of a discriminatory motive for targeting characteristics that "include but are not limited to race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation". He said that the draft policy framework "attempts to define the concept of hate speech in a way that reflects South Africa’s commitment to freedom of expression.' ------------ He did not say whether the category 'hatecrime' would now be added to the official SAPS.gov.za crime statistics, however. SA is a signatory to the Rome Convention but has thus far not complied with the requirement to detail hatecrimes in its SAPS reports. -------------- Radebe said: "Acknowledging that people are often victimised despite the presence of the law’, Radebe emphasised the importance of "ensuring that hate crime does not spin out of control and lead to anarchy". He also pointed to the need for ordinary South Africans to be "educated about the values underpinning the proposed new policy, referring in particular to an ill-conceived perception that foreigners are not entitled to the same rights as South Africans." Once the draft policy framework has been approved by Cabinet, it will be released for public comment. --------------------- http://praag.org/?p=9855 http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20130827084257459 ------------ Radebe's entire speech: Notes by Minister Jeff Radebe, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, on the occasion of the panel discussion under the theme: “Imagine a World Without Hate!” Maroela Room, Sandton Sun Hotel, 25 August 2013 present at meeting: The Programme Director; National President of the SA Jewish Board, Mr Zev Krengel; The National Director of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, Ms Wendy Kahn The Chief Rabbi, Dr Warren Goldstein; Fellow Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers; Ambassador of the State of Israel, Mr Arthur Lenk; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Members of Parliament; Chairperson of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies; -------------------- "I would like to thank the South African Board of Deputies for inviting me to be part of the Conference today. The organizers have asked me to respond to specific questions relating to issues of the protection of the Jewish people under the Constitution, their access to human rights, crime against them and other related issues. In doing so, I am guided by the principle that human rights are indivisible and so is justice in general. In attending to the human rights that others deserve, in a way we are entrenching our own right and claim to the same principles. That is why human rights and justice is a matter that requires solidarity on both common and differential interests. -------------------- There is no doubt that humanity’s historical development across the world is littered with hatred of varying intensity, fueling in many instances blood conflicts and leaving behind a litany of injustices. For this reason it is imperative that we confront hatred as the root cause of many of the social, economic and political challenges that humanity has been seized with from time immemorial. I share your hope that in doing so we would have hit the nail on the head in as far as many of these historical conflicts are concerned and thereby help build a more humane world. Allow me to first and foremost congratulate the Board for the two among many activities that it has engaged in which locates it within the peculiarities of South Africa. Some of them never set their foot on South African soil yet their ideas or ideologies had so much impact on our country’s struggle for a just order. Firstly, the posthumous Human Rights Award to Arthur Goldreich who imparted the military skills to the uMkhonto Wesizwe was an acknowledgement of the role that many people of Jewish descent played in our struggle. As convener of the Logistics Committee of the High Command, his ability to procure materiel for the nascent military wing was a dangerous and a self- less exercise. After escaping imprisonment, Goldreich continued to champion the cause for justice in South Africa from his native country Israel. In my analysis, Goldreich deserves equal mention with those leaders such as Che Guevarra who fought for global justice against imperialism and colonialism. It was in my remembrance of the role that was played by Goldreich that many other personalities of Jewish descent also came to mind who had huge impact on South Africa’s social, economic and political evolution. Jews are found across the political spectrum and to pretend that they were only a merchant and currently a capitalist class is not supported by scientific evidence. The very antithesis of capitalist thought came from Karl Marx, a Jew. When we look for entrepreneurs in the commercial, financial and industrial sectors within the South African context, the name of Barney Barnato among others come to mind. In the dock at the1956 Treason Trial, 14 of the 22 Whites who were summarily rounded up by apartheid security and faced TRUMPED UP charges were of Jewish origins. Five of the RivoniaTrialists, Denis Goldberg, Lionel Bernstein, Bob Hepple, Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe were of Jewish descent. These are and deserve to be national heroes. The commander of the MK and later Minister of Housing was Joe Slovo. Ruth First was assassinated for the cause of the struggle for justice; Justice Albie Sachs lost his limbs because of this struggle to liberate our people. I could go on and on and the list is endless. Secondly, I would like to congratulate the Black-Jewish Entrepreneurs Network (BJEN) which has taken its first step towards sharing experiences and challenges between entrepreneurs of Jewish descent and Black entrepreneurs. The initiative will not only bring to fruition the suggestions made by the Deputy-President at the last Conference, but will also dispel the perception of Jewish insularity. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 brought about a new constitutional order in which the Constitution reigns supreme and as opposed to Parliament as it were under apartheid. The Constitution provides for a Bill of Rights which protects and entrenches certain fundamental rights, including the rights to equality, dignity and freedom of expression. The sum total of these Constitutional values inherently contradicts all forms of what may be termed hate crimes. Thus the dignity of any person is unconditional as it is accorded not on the basis of any status or social class but merely on being a human being. This discussion is thus very important as a window to look into how we can further consolidate our common efforts at building a society free from hatred as it were under apartheid and fascism. Hate Crimes as following: Although as a country, South Africa has made enormous strides, particularly in eradicating formal inequalities and establishing flourishing democratic institutions, however, hate crimes have from time to time reared their ugly heads as they have done so in many other parts around the world. It is unfortunate that in present day South Africa, we still have pockets of hate crimes by some few who refuse to embrace the changing times heralded by our Constitutional order. However, South Africa is today by far a better place than it were in 1994 and surely tomorrow holds the promise to be even better than today. Those examples in this regard that attempts to drag us back into the ugly past include the following: -- the violent (murders) targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, for example the so-called “corrective rape” and murder of lesbians and transgender men, especially in townships; -- the unprecedented wave of xenophobic attacks and violence South Africa experienced in May 2008 (blacks against blacks) resulting in the loss of more than 62 lives and damage to property, as well as displacement of (black African) migrants, and their displacement to emergency camps; and -- vandalism targeting religious institutions such as in October 2010, when several tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in Bloemfontein were defaced with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti. -- the Skierlik racially motivated killings of poor Black people by a White youth in North West Province; -- the case of the “Reitz Four” in the Free State University, Bloemfontein; ------------- Acts such as these that are motivated by social bias based on the identity (with reference to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity) of the victim are forms of bias-motivated violence, more commonly referred to domestically and internationally as “hate crimes”. But like we did with fascism and apartheid, working together we will defeat these hate motivated crimes. SOUTH AFRICAN LAW AND THE ROME CONVENTION: South African law does not specifically recognise a category of crimes committed against the victim on the basis of his or her inherent characteristics or membership of a particular group. It neither expressly allow for the aggravating circumstances to be considered when sentence is imposed. This is so despite the fact that such hate crimes are “message” crimes that sends fear to an entire community that identifies with the victim. As such, hate crimes, particularly when they do not meet an adequate response from the State, violate fundamental principles of equality and non-discrimination and can lead to social unrest. The State must thus be in the forefront to combat hate crime but its legal instruments can only succeed working in unison with broader society. "Hate Speech":"A related issue in the human rights sector, internationally and nationally, has been how best to address the phenomenon of incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence, or what may broadly be referred to as “hate speech”. Debate over this burning question has been fuelled by recent controversy surrounding what actually constitutes “hate speech” =============== "Allow me to locate the relevance of the Jew in South Africa today by reference to their humiliation in the past. I am doing so not to open old wounds, but to be true to the concept of forgiving but not forgetting the history we come from. In the period during and immediately after the Second World War, anti-Semitic sentiments were routinely supported by the government of the day. The Government that came to power in 1948 consisted of some of the most rabid anti-Semitic politicians this country had ever produced. Unburdened by the confines of principle, Nazi supporting organizations such as the Ossewa Brandwag, the New Order and the Greyshirts mushroomed even when the blood of the Jews had not dried in the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Dachau and Auschwitz, to name but a few. Both the Quota Act of 1930 and the Aliens Act of1937 were aimed at the exclusion of the Jews from immigrating to South Africa or prohibiting them from ascending to certain reserved professional positions in the civil service. These Acts were enacted at the time that the Jews in Europe were desperately looking for destinations to emigrate to as a consequence of their persecution in Europe. The Hoggenheimer-Jew dominated pro-Afrikaner cartooning circles in the early 1940s caricatured a gluttonous Jew who was intent in maximizing profits at all costs. He is recognizable in a black dinner jacket, a pinstriped pair of trousers, an obese fellow whose body was encased in a waist coat with a gold chain. He is gouging himself at a table laden with food, and sipping expensive wine and puffing an inextinguishable cigar. Bonzaaier, the cartoonist, exploited the sentiment of commercial and industrial competitors that Jews represented foreign capital. This scapegoating was textbook repetition of Nazi anti-Semitism. Even though the causes of the failures of the Weimar Republic were known to have been resident in the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, it became easier for Hitler and his Nazis to find a scapegoat for the misfortunes of the post- First World War Germany in the Jews. All these were wrong and the Constitutional democracy that was crafted after 1994 was aimed at eliminating the resurgence of these biases against all South Africans including the South Africans of Jewish descent. The topic of hatred resonates with the subtheme of this session of the 47th Conference: the end of hatred. My additions of the falsehoods about the Jews in general is based on the received and observed reduction of the people of Jewish descent as self-centred, forgetful of their history, conspiring and skeptical of criticism, hoarders of wealth etc. These falsehoods are not my creation. In its article, "The International Jew: The World’s Problem", The Ford International Weekly of May 22, 1920 raises these issues in some countries more sharply. It states: -- “In Russia he [the Jew] is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an accusation which is serious or not according to the circle in which it is made… In Germany he is charged with being the cause of the Empire’s collapse…. In England he is charged with being the real world ruler.... In America it is pointed out to what extent the elder Jews of wealth and the younger Jews of ambition swarmed through the war organizations – principally those departments which dealt with the commercial and industrial business of war. -- I wish to deal with the issue of euphemisms as pretext to hide the true intentions as it affected people of Jewish descent: The 1920 text that I quoted at the beginning of my talk referred to the International Jew as the World’s “Problem.” The invocation of the word “problem” invites calls for a solution. The “Final Solution” which was used as a euphemism by the Nazis to exterminate Jewish citizens could not have found a better berthing ground than the need to solve the so-called “Problem.” -- The euphemism of the slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” was used as a justification for the labour camps. Its South African equivalent was the creation of the myth (amongst many other myths) that Black people are generally lazy, and thus not worth of the freedom that would accrue from hard labour. Both of these exhortations were later proven to be false, and aimed at nothing but to hide the real intentions of the words behind them. -- The (nazi) film “The Eternal Jew” which was released in 1940 under the pretext of “revealing the truth about Jews,” laid the foundation for the extermination of the Jews. It displayed blatant Nazi paranoia against the Jews, and proved that the so-called “realities” can be distorted to serve genocidal tendencies. -- Underpinning these euphemisms are further euphemisms which further alert us to the need for solutions. Thus the issue of the Jews as well as that of Blacks became a Question. Once a nationality is referred to as a question as in the Jewish “Question” or the Bantu “Question” the vultures of racial bigotry hover above. These are examples that show hate crimes manifest itself in subtle forms and in various disguises before it becomes fully blown gross violation of human rights. DRAFT POLICY FRAMEWORK: In seeking to move away from South Africa’s past history of racism and racial discrimination, it is now necessary to examine the State’s response to hate crime, hate speech, and unfair discrimination in a manner that complies with the Constitution and which will advance the transformational promise of South Africa’s new Constitutional order. In other words are we doing enough to combat hate crimes so that we avoid repeat of the crimes of apartheid, holocaust and other historical genocides? -- Given the South African context of 350 years of systematic and structural racism from colonialism through to apartheid, which caused immense damage and devastated the lives of generations of Black people, resolutely confronting racist hate speech and other forms of intolerance is a priority of our government. -- In this context, the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development, conscious of the need to balance peoples’ rights to dignity with the freedom of expression and obligation to give effect to the relevant international law, has just finalised a draft Policy Framework on Combating Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Unfair Discrimination (Policy Framework). The Policy Framework is a result of intense research into the development of legislation that will: -- introduce the concept of hate crime to South African criminal law; -- refine the concept of hate speech in a way that reflects South Africa’s commitment to high standards of free expression at the same time as combatting hate speech,; -- make hate speech a crime; -- possibly, make other forms of unfair discrimination a crime; and -- the development of measures to combat hate crime, hate speech and unfair discrimination. The Policy Framework seeks to introduce a further category of newly-defined hate crimes in instances where the conduct would otherwise constitute an offence recognised at common law or by statute, and where there is evidence of a discriminatory motive on the basis of characteristics such as race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and the like. Latest progress on the Policy Framework The Policy Framework has already gone through the Justice Prevention and Security (JCPS) Cluster departments to elicit comments and inputs. The Department is now in the process of finalising a Cabinet Memorandum with the aim to approach Cabinet, through my Ministry, for approval of the Policy Framework and for approval to commence with public participation process. Gender based violence Some of the sexual crimes committed against women are based on their gender. Of particular note is the continued senseless rape and murder of young women under the pretext of what has been defined as so called “corrective rape” of lesbians. Our Constitutional democracy guarantees freedom of choice and the dignity of all across race and gender. I must point out that rape or murder of lesbians and gays is not limited to South Africa as we recently got news of the murder of a young man in Jamaica on the basis that he was gay. The Lesbian and Gay movement is universal, highlighting the global extent of the challenge. Some women in Egypt had to dress up as men to avoid being raped even as they participated in the on-going protests against Egyptian leadership. What this clearly indicate, as it happened under Hitler and as it happened in our townships, is that social, economic and political challenges often get vented against those deemed inferior or hated for one or other reasons. The Jews became the scape goat of the sufferings of Germans following their defeat in the First World War. Similarly the unemployment levels in townships are inextricably linked to their hatred of Pakistanis. This is not to justify hatred but merely to unravel the underlying motive forces that shape the emergence and perpetuation of hatred. We have in earnest started with work to enact relevant legislative instruments that would make it punishable by law to commit acts of hatred against lesbians and gays. Conclusion Allow me to again welcome this discussion as important contribution to our evolving jurisprudence. Before any law can come into being, there must be a philosophical tenet to it, that gives rise to universal acclamation. There is no doubt that many crimes committed against communities on the basis of race, nationality, religion, gender and geographical location are indeed inspired by unqualified hatred of those given peoples. Apartheid was in a way a hate crime, when white people embarked on the ambitions of Afrikaner nationalism based on racial supremacy. Similarly in 1994, as the entire world was gazed on the unfolding miraculous transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, over 800 000 people were killed in genocide within a space of less than a year in the Great Lakes region in the Hutu – Tutsi conflict. I know that as Jews, you have indeed suffered a lot under Hitler and Mussolini’s fascism during the Second World War in what became the holocaust. In doing so, we must be guided by former President Mandela’s assertion at the dock during the Rivonia Trial that he fought against both white and black domination, and made that his life mission for which he hoped to live but for which if necessary was also prepared to die. We therefore ask both South African Jews and all other communities in South Africa and beyond to consider it their mission to fight against the domination of the one group by any other. What I am certain about is that the eradication of hate crimes must be linked to enacting a just order socially, economically and politically. The courts can only come in as final arbiter on the resolution of conflict where there is basic framework consistent with a society free from hate crimes. In other words, once we have succeeded with enacting relevant legislation, we must also go about educating our people about the values of the law because in many instances people are victimised in spite of the presence of the law. This is because hate crimes can lead to anarchy, as we have seen with Pakistanis becoming victims in some townships, when thugs utilise the ill-advised excuse that since these are foreigners they therefore have less rights in our country. As I have indicated, many South African Jews who were prominent personalities such as the late Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson have immensely contributed to our jurisprudence. I take it that these debates are part of that contribution towards a better South Africa hence I must thank you for organising them as through dialogue we must continue to reach out to each other as a nation united in its diversity. We will succeed if we follow up our grand imagination of a world without hatred by the relevant logical steps through laws, frameworks and programmes to combat hatred and promote human solidarity. ----------------------- http://www.justice.gov.za/m_speeches/2013/20130825-hate-speech.html

Farmer Bertus Moolman 68 denies shooting dead anyone with shotgun-pellets: "The SAPS were also shooting at the community'. Beeld Satuerday 31 Aug 2013 FOCHVILLE. The farmer who was charged with shooting dead two black illegal mineworkers and injuring a third man during violent rioting on his farm when he and his workers were put under a rain of stones by the rioters -- said in a statement to the court during his approved bail application for R18,000, that ' he would be very surprised if any of my shotgun pellets killed anyone. The SAPS were also firing shots at the community'. Moolman's legal counsel read his statement in court, as follows: "I fired six shots with my shotgun - which was loaded with small-gauge pellets. Three shots were fired into the ground in front of me, and two shots were fired up into the air"."I would be very surprised if anyone was shot dead by my firearm.' The statement continued that the SAPS members on the scene fired shots directly into the 'community'. Moolman was granted bail of R15,000 by magistrate Sam Muedi - provided he did not return to his farm and that he hand in his passport. He has to appear again in the same court on November 29. He has been renting out land mainly to mineworkers who erect their own shanties on the land. SAPS captain Eric Mashaba, the investigating officer, told the court that 'the SAPS asked Moolman at the scene while he fired the five shots because the situation was under control'. Eyewitnesses told Mashaba that 'Moolman fired shots at the community." The SAPS - according to the investigating officer - told the court that the SAPS had been called by 'community members who told them that Mr Moolman and of his workers had allegedly assaulted a man in one of the shebeens he runs. The statements from residents was that 'SAPS members saw a man bleeding and begging for help' inside the shebeen when they looked in. Investigating officer Mashaba said 'the man couldn't stand on his own two feet'. "A group of people were massing outside the shebeen and some of the women 'screamed with joy' when the man was carried out by the police.' Mashaba said 'a member of the community threw a stone and the police told the people not to throw stones and no more stones were thrown'. Apparently at this stage Moolman 'fired several shots with his shotgun, said Mashaba. He said during cross-examination by defence-counsel that 'they only found shotgun-shells at the scene'. It's not known if the two dead men and the injured man 's injuries were examined for remains of bird-shot or other bullet fragments by the SAPS forensic department. This would be crucial to determine whether they had been shot by birdshot or by police-bullets. --------- TRANSLATED FROM AFRIKAANS REPORT ON: http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-08-31-boer-s-hy-het-donshael-gebruik ========= PREVIOUS REPORTS: Afrikaner farmer Bertus Moolman allegedly shoots dead two black men in Fochville; injures a third: witnessed by a police contingent, the Afrikaner allegedly allegedly fired five shots into a rioting, stone-throwing crowd who were threatening him and his workers, said SAPS: ---------------- Monday 26 Aug 2013 - In an stone-throwing altercation between socalled 'tenants' and Afrikaner farmer Bertus Moolman on a farm next to the Bank Road outside Fochville, at the Carletonville mining region) he allegedly fired shots with a shotgun, shooting dead two black men and injuring a third who were throwing stones at Moolman and his workers. It is believed that the violent altercation took place over purported damage one of his victims had allegedly done to one of Mr Moolman's shebeens and spaza-shops. The police said Mr Moolman owns 'several spaza shops and shebeens' and rents out space to about 2,000 black squatters on his farm - mostly mineworkers. SAPS lt.col Hennie Maass of the Fochville SAPS confirmed that Mr Moolman will be charged with two murders and attempted murder. The shots were fired after Mr Moolman went to talk to a man together with his worker. One of the workers had allegedly assaulted one man with a stock and in response, a group of 'tenants' started throwing stones at them. "Moolman allegedly fired five shots at the men who are tenants on his farm,' said lt-col Maass. This was witnessed by a contingent of SAPS-members who had been called to the farm by Mr Moolman, he said.There had already been unrelatedunrest at the farm the previous weekend when a black man was murdered by an unknown person and people became 'riotous' and packed a stone-barrier on the road on Sunday, said the police officer. One of Moolman's shebeens (pub) was also damaged on that day. Moolman told Beeld newspaper that he was forced to shoot in self-defence. "Some of the tenants became riotous when we went to talk to the man who, we'd been told, had damaged the shebeen,' he said. "The crowd threw us with stones and if I hadn't shot, we would all have died.' He said he carried a 9mm pistol and his shotgun with him. Beeld questioned Louis Nel, a Fochville resident who informed the Afrikaans daily newspaper that Mr Moolman had been renting out land for housing mineworkers for the past twenty years. "They raise their own structures. It creates a lot of problems for the community, as the miners then sublet the land again to others,' said Mr Nel. They have even built 'an informal electrical substation from stones, making 'several connections to the Eskom power cables'. Beeld also quoted one of Mr Moolman's tenants as saying that there had been several rapes and thefts in the area. "We are holding a protest march about this, we are sick and tired of it,' she said. Eighty-year-old farmer Danie Oberholzer's erf borders Moolman's land. "I don't feel safe and I am feeling so hopeless because I cannot afford to move as my land isn't worth anything, it's such a mess,' he told Beeld. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-08-26-huurders-geskiet-boer-vas

White South Africans' historical monuments being destroyed by contractors: Reservoir Hill, Ladysmith; ------------------------------ Ladysmith historical sites tour guide Vince Horne has laid charges against the contractor which has destroyed two historical sites and the world famous battlefield, and dumping tons of rubble on others. He says he is flabbergasted by the town council allowing the destruction of sites that could generate millions of Rands in tourism: He says that while tourist volumes are expected to rise, the Ladysmith municipality allows contractors to destroy the historical monuments on Reservoir Hill. 29 August 2013 While the United Nations top tourism body predicts that tourists visiting Africa will triple by 2030, our very own municipality is turning a blind eye to the destruction of vast numbers of Anglo-Boer War sites. These are not being destroyed by vandals, but by contractors building multi-million-rand houses for Ladysmith’s rich on Reservoir Hill. As the UN body is holding its 20th general assembly in the resort area at Victoria Falls on the Zambia and Zimbabwe border, council is allowing contractors to plunder our town’s historical and tourism resources. The UN World Tourism Organisation says that current tourist arrivals on the continent stands at 52 million per year, far below its true potential. "The destruction of the gun emplacement, sangars and walls of fortifications on Reservoir Hill was addressed in a meeting with Amafa in 2011 when council first started developing the sites." In a written agreement, council indicated that they would protect the existing structures; something they have since failed to do. Amafa was established as a statutory body in terms of the KZN Heritage Act of 1997, replaced by the KZN Heritage Act of 2008, to look after historical sites. Their permission is required to make changes to any building older than 60 years old. Vince Horne has laid charges against the contractor for destroying at least two sites and dumping tons of rubble on top of others. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/ladysmith/ladysmith-mobile-news?oid=7746655&sn=Mobile-Detail&pid=4980293&Contractors-destroy-historical-monuments

Message from "Staan Saam Rustenburg: August 30 2013 : Our prayers for Mrs Miems Robberts of Ellisras. A group of black males 'came to visit them' on her sister's farm near Mooinooi. Mrs Robberts, her husband, her sister and her sister's husband were all attacked and burnt with boiling cooking oil. The SAPS is on their heels. ------------ https://www.facebook.com/groups/318749681564252/ ----------- http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/randfontein-westonaria/randfontein-westonaria-news-crime

Biker Horst Jaeger, 27 dies in hit-and-run homicide: motorist in red Royota Etios saw the injured white man beneath his car- and drove another 100m with him - then backed up over him. -------------------------- 2013-08-31 Rapport newspaper writes that biker Horst Jäger, dad of a ten-month-old daughter, was overtaking a car driven by a woman when he struck it and was thrown off his motorbike. He was riding with two other biker-friends on the N4 in the direction of Pretoria between the turnoffs of Solomon Mahlangu and Simon Vermooten road. They looked on in horror at what happened next: When he fell to the roadway and got up, reportedly 'groaning and still alive', he was hit by a motorist in a red Toyota Etios, he fell again and then got stuck beneath that motorist's car. "The driver in the red Toyoto Etios got out, saw the biker stuck beneath his car, got back in and dragged Jäger another 100 metres,' eyewitnesses told Rapport newspaper . They did not say whether the driver was a male or female, nor provide any other physical description of the motorist. The 'culpible homicide' traffic-murder occurred at 23h00 on Friday 16 August. The father of the murdered man told Rapport newspaper: "The motorist got out, saw my injured son was stuck beneath his car, got back into his car, dragged him 100 metres - then stopped again, pulled pieces from his car in an attempt to get my son lose from his car, then got back inside and BACKED UP over him. Then the driver took off at high speed in his car and hasn't been found yet. His heartbroken dad Horst Jäger senior 55, said: "All I can say to that motorist is, do the right thing, how can you live with yourself". Mr Jäger was in New Orleans in the USA at the time his son was murdered - touring through the USA by bile. While Rapport visited the Jäger family and Jolene Venter, 26, his fiancee and mother of their ten-month-old daughter, the mother Elsa burst into tears and ran to the bathroom. The dad told Rapport that his son was with a group of three friends, all bikers, enroute home after they had been watching rugby at a pub. "Horst was riding third (last) man and tried to pass a motorist in the left lane when he struck the woman's car". "He got hurt and fell off onto the pavement and then his friends saw him get back up again. He was still alive.' Then the red Toyoto ran him down dragged him 100 meters and backed up over the biker. This was clearly no 'traffic accident' but in the SA statistics this will not be entered as a 'murder' but as a 'culpible homicide'. pThe young biker's friends tried to run after the red Toyoto in attempt to wave him down and get him to stop 'but they could not get close enough to the car. ' 'When they saw the driver back up over their injured friend and chasing off they ran to their bikes to try and pursue the motorist but he 'disappeared without a trace. Said Ms Venter: "I wonder if the motorist is happy with the fact that he has destroyed our entire family. It's so unfair, Nia will never know her dad'. The family and friends of the Jägers have launched a chain-email to all the car-repair shops in Gauteng, asking them to keep a lookout for a damaged car.The SAPS says they are only investigang 'culpible homicide'. The investigating officer is w/o Mmei ­Semono of the SAPS branch in Silverton telephones: 012 845 4047 of 073 503 3751 --------------- http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Kar-tref-sleep-jong-pa-dood-20130831

Archive 1953: The muti-murder and cannibalising of Irish nun Elsie Quinlan in South Africa 1952 in 'impromptu protest action by ANC members". -------------------------------- November 10 1952. Dr Elsie Quinlan and another nun found themselves in a violent Black protest which the police were trying to diffuse. Mike Smith wrote: "At that stage Dr. Elsie Quinlan, (Sister Mary Aidan) a 37-year-old Irish-Dominican nun from Cork who also was a medical doctor, had set off in her tiny black English car to take baskets of food to her black patients in the rowdy South African city of East London. The medical doctor had been in South Africa for 14 years working amongst blacks; trying to curb the enormous black-infant death rate in the Eastern Cape. (In 1952 almost every second black baby died.)Soon she found herself in the township were blacks were rioting while policemen were attempting to control the volatile situation. Dr Elsie Quinlan’s prime objective was to carry out her Christian Ministry but found herself amongst a sea of ill disciplined Black people who had no interest in the Christian Mission. Smith Writes: “Upon seeing Dr. Quinlan, a young black woman called out, “Here is a white woman, let’s kill her”. Shouting obscenities, they stopped her car smashed her windscreen in with a knobkerrie and struck at the driver. The Roman Catholic nun folded her hands in prayer. She was pelted with bricks, beaten with sticks, stabbed with a kitchen knife and then set alight. What happened next is just too horrific for words. The crowd opened up for a young woman brandishing a breadknife. Someone asked, “How can you finish a lady who helped us so much?” The knife was passed to a youth who cut flesh from the charred body.“I am eating the meat, because I want to get tough, said a young woman. Another began to eat the flesh for fear of being called “a spy”. While a young man was sharpening a knife against a sickle, a newcomer to the crowd was told, “We are eating the body of a nun.” One woman took some “meat” to show her child what human flesh looked like; others took the flesh home where they ground it into a fine powder to make medicine (known as Muti). By nightfall nine people have been killed and several church buildings of the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches including training colleges built for blacks were burnt down.” So much for Africa and the ANC who used trash like this to bring their communist utopia to South Africa. Did you know that since coming to power in 1994 over three hundred thousand people have been murdered in a communist bloodbath under the watchful eye of the ANC? Now remember some people will say ”well that was then”, as if her life and the way she died meant nothing! But the same kind of behaviours are being carried out against minorities even though the ANC has been in power for nearly twenty years. Twenty years seems to be a magical mark for rulers in Southern Africa (eg. Mugabwe) where these pontificating rulers subject minorities human rights violations. Remember everyone in the International community expects the same level of morality that the ANC demanded from everyone else. hence the war in Bosnia in recent times. Still no help by the international community here because they KNOW this is the way blacks behave in Arica. In any event I hope the ANC will produce a monument in 2012 that is fitting to her work and memory. Rest in peace Dr Elsie Quinlan. http://www.toursouthafricanow.blogspot.nl/ ------------- The Africans also spoke of threats against any African going to work today. All seven members of the local executive of the African National Coingress have been arrested. The SA minister of Justice Mr C R Swart is expected to visit Kimberley to study the situation. Proclamations were ready in Kimberley yesterday prohibiting for a week all gatherings of more than 20people in the district. The ban applies also to white people. The damage in Saturday's riots is estimated at several thousand pounds. Police reinforcements have arrived at Port Elizabeth, where a one-day strike by non-Europeans has been called for today. The strike was called by the African National Congress in protest against the curfew and ban on non-religious meetings imposed after the death of FOUR Europeans and SEVEN Africans in the Port Elizabeth riots three weeks ago. Mr Swart has promised that a state of emergency will be declared there if the situation gets out of hand and that the army would then take over." The Mercury (Hobard, Tasmania) Tuesday 11 November 1952, page 2. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/27120485

St Helena Mine security officer Dawie Wepener 31 survives shot in face in mob-attack by illegal mineworkers Welkom --- On the same day, Harmony Gold's Protea-Coin security team also arrested a woman, Mrs Yvonne Mojanaga, 50, in a local squatter hut, allegedly owning a 7-kg bar of gold. (story below). She was released on bail pending testing of the gold-bar. If it's genuine she 's in trouble for illegal gold-sale: and if it turns out to be fake, she's facing a charge of fraud for slicing of pieces and buying luxuries with it, claiming it was pure gold. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-02-goud-gekry-by-plakkershut ------------------- Sept 2 2013 - Censorbugbear has obtained formal confirmation from four reliable sources that on August 30 2013 at 08h30am, the Harmony company's St Helena mine was the scene of a violent attack by a large group of illegal mineworkers, referred to as zama-zamas against a ten-member mine-security patrol. During this confrontation, Mr Dawie Wepener, 31, was injured by home-made shrapnel fired allegedly by one of the zama's while others were throwing stones at the security patrol. Another unnamed member also was slightly injured by a rubber bullet, fired from the same crowd. The entire incident is still being investigated and further details are being awaited. It is believed however that when the ten-member patrol retreated, taking the injured colleagues back to the mine-offices, they initially believed Mr Wepener had been injured in the face by a stone. However when they started cleaning the wound they realized he had been shot and rushed him to the Ernest Oppenheimer hospital in Welkom. He was x-rayed and it was confirmed that shrapnel was embedded in his face which had cracked his jawbone and shattered his right cheek bone. Mr Wepener is scheduled for reconstructive surgery on Sept 3 2013 and reportedly is in good physical condition otherwise. ----------------- -updated September 2 2013 by Adriana Stuijt email a.j.stuijt@knid.nl telephone 31 519 701 266. -------- 7kg suspected pure gold bar discovered at squatter hut 2 September 2013 in Welkom Monday 2 September 2013 Tom de Wet WELKOM, South Africa. SA mine-companies, the SAPS and the mine-security team are awaiting with 'great anticipation whether a confiscated 7kg gold bar they had found at a squatter hut during an arrest, could be pure gold. If so, the 7kg bar could be worth more than R3million. The suspect, Mrs Yvonne Mojanaga, 50, was arrested at her squatter hut and released on bail. She was ordered to appear on 20 September 2013. Welkom has a large community of illegal gold-miners who live for months on end inside the mineshafts, endangering legal miners while hacking gold-ore from the rockface inside the shafts and smuggling it up to the surface to the cracked down, melted and resold to illegal dealers. It's not certain that the arrested woman's bar of gold is actually bona-fide as yet, it still has to be tested. Apparently this is a double-barreled complaint: slices of the bar were allegedly 'sliced off' and used to buy luxury goods and to lure more buyers. If it isn't pure gold as she had claimed, she could be charged with fraud. Members of Harmony Gold 's Protea Coin-security went in search of the gold-bar after they had 'followed up certain information'. kuriteit in Welkom inligting opgevolg het. – Tom de Wet http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-02-goud-gekry-by-plakkershut

UPDATE: SA Jewish Board of Deputies condemns genocidal chanting 'Shoot the Jew' -------------------- STATEMENT by Mary Kluk 2 September 2013 SAJBD says that BDS-South Africa has even 'sought to justify this incitement to violence "Shoot the Jew" chant condemned by SAJBD: "What was supposed to have been a silent demonstration against a concert by an Israeli jazz quartet at Wits University last Wednesday turned ugly when some of the protestors chanted "Dubula e Juda - ‘Shoot the Jew' - outside the venue. The protest was organised by BDS-South Africa, an organisation that campaigns for a boycott of anything to do with Israel, whether in the cultural, academic, economic or any other sphere. And moreover - rather than condemning this incitement to violence against South African Jews and distancing his organisation from those calls, Muhammed Desai, Coordinator of BDS-SA, has sought to justify it. As quoted by the Wits Vuvuzela, he said, "Just like you would say kill the Boer at funeral during the eighties it wasn't about killing white people, it was used as a way of identifying with the apartheid regime". Desai further commented, "The whole idea anti-Semitism is blown out of proportion". The SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) deplores this blatant incitement to racist violence against the South African Jewish community. It further finds it deeply shocking that that BDS-SA, an organisation that purports to stand up for human rights, refuses to acknowledge that it is doing anything wrong by propagating it. SAJBD National Chairman Mary Kluk believed that by allowing its members to make such hateful and dangerous statements and subsequently defending them for doing so, BDS-SA had revealed its true colours."What this incident unmistakeably shows is that BDS-SA's real agenda is not to stand up for the Palestinian cause but to incite hatred, and possibly even violence, against Jewish South Africans" she said, "South Africa, in view of its own tragic past of bigotry, racism and violence, simply cannot tolerate this kind of hateful, inflammatory rhetoric, whether aimed at the Jewish community or against any other sector of South African society". Kluk also remarked on how distressing it was that the calls for violence against the Jewish community had taken place at Wits, an institution that had throughout its existence upheld the values of tolerance, understanding, respect for diversity and academic freedom. She praised the Wits leadership for standing firm in the face of threats and intimidation by anti-Israel activists to cancel the concert and for ensuring that all the security arrangements were in place to allow it to go ahead without being disrupted. The only sad thing, she said, was that it had been necessary for such extensive security measures to have been required at all.The SAJBD is following up the incident and will be taking appropriate action. Statement issued by Wendy Kahn, National Director: SAJBD, August 2 2013 http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=402095&sn=Detail&pid=71616 ============================ South African pro-Palestinian journalist Tehillah Niselow, a (Jewish) journalist at PowerFM987 radio Johannesburg, apparently 'has no problem with the song 'Shoot the Jew' -- judging by her own remarks afterwards. This journalist was clearly visible on the video, smiling approvingly when hearing the song 'kill the Jew' being sung on August 29 2013 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -- while she was watching Jewish South Africans file past the protestors. The rentamob in brand-new tshirts and printed posters protested at the exit to the concert-hall against the appearance of Daniel Zamir, an Israeli classical saxophonist at the Wits University concert on 29 August 2013. Ms Niselow allegedly afterwards then 'demanded 'proof that the song Kill the Jew was sung'. But then she allegedly wrote later 'there is nothing wrong with the song'. ---------------------------- VIDEO: http://youtu.be/9ssMGadx1g8 https://twitter.com/tehillahniselow/status/372948649598525440 ----------------- Recorded reaction from concert-goer: "Hearing these hatemongers, is like listening to nazi speeches in prewar Berlin. This (Muhammad) Desai and his cohorts (who organized the protest on August 29 2013) need to be prosecuted for hatespeech. It's already been ruled that the "Kill the Boer" slogan is hatespeech, so in the face of that fact, the hate here is clearly delineated." -------------------- Source: As recorded on article Sept 2 2013: PoliticsWebCoZA headlined: "We strongly condemn singing of "dubula e juda" (Kill the Jew) - Geffen & Isaacs" ------------------- http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=401747&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389 -------------------- South African protesters sing “Shoot the Jew” instead of “Shoot the Boer” at concert of saxophonist Daniel Zamir August 29, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine: " We’ve discussed “Shoot the Boer” before. It’s one of those cheerful anti-Apartheid songs about shooting white people. Now it’s been narrowed down in its specificity by the BDS pro-terrorist crowd. Its coordinator Muhammed Desai says 'anti-semitism played no role in our protest', telling 'Wits Vuvuzela'that 'the whole idea of anti-Semitism is blown out of proportion. The concert at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa featuring Israeli saxophonist Daniel Zamir turned ugly Wednesday night when members of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group began to sing, “dubula e juda” (“shoot the Jew”) as concert attendees were entering the music hall, according to Wits Vuvuzela, a paper affiliated with the university. " Wits Vuvuzela" student publication, reported that BDS protestors also chanted “there is no such thing as Israel” and “Israel apartheid.” Despite the hateful rhetoric, Muhammed Desai, coordinator of BDS South Africa, rejected the notion that anti-Semitism played a role in the group’s protest, telling Wits Vuvuzela that “the whole idea [of] anti-Semitism is blown out of proportion.” Writes Greenfield in Front Page Magazine: "Clearly. I’m not sure what the right proportion for inciting the murder of Jews would be. Based on what most supporters of terrorism think, any criticism of that sort of thing is out of proportion." http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/south-african-anti-israel-bds-protesters-sing-shoot-the-jew-instead-of-shoot-the-boer/ ------------------- BACKGROUND BDS ('Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions") South Africa facebook announced its protest meeting as follows:"Following audio evidence of ethnic racism and profiling by pro-Israeli organisations, of an event scheduled to take place at Wits on Wednesday 28 August 2012 (http://tinyurl.com/kxjduyl); We, the Wits University Palestine Solidarity Committee, BDS South Africa and Concerned Wits University Staff and Students hereby call on all peace-loving members of the public to join us in a non-violent and peaceful protest that will be held at Wits University's Great Hall in Johannesburg from 18h30 outside of the event. The protest will be against the racism of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Zionist Federation, and in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their call for a boycott of Israel until Israel meets its obligations under international law. If possible, please dress in black Contact telephone: 0834530528 / 084219988 "About BDS: "A South African group advancing and working with the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel movement BDS South Africa was founded in 2010. At the time the larger global BDS movement was on the rise internationally but there was no specific South African group focusing solely on the boycott of Israel. We fulfill this role.BDS South Africa employs full-time staff members but mostly relies on a large and extensive group of volunteers. An advisory board, with respective experts, has also been set up to provide oversight and guide to the organization.Since its establishment BDS South Africa has facilitated numerous campaigns, including: the University of Johannesburg (UJ) academic boycott campaign which successfully resulted in UJ terminating its institutional ties with Israel (www.ujpetition.com); the South African Artists Against Apartheid cultural boycott campaign (www.southafricanartistsagainstapartheid.com); and, the annual Israeli Apartheid Week – a nationwide awareness raising initiative at over 15 South African universities and in more than 20 cities and towns. telephone +27 11 492 2414 - administrator@bdssouthafrica.com - http://www.bdssouthafrica.com - http://www.twitter.com/bdssouthafrica - http://www.facebook.com/bdssouthafrica https://www.facebook.com/bdssouthafrica - ---------------------------------------- Wits Vuvuzela article: "BDS protests saxophonist Daniel Zamir concert at Wits, sing "Shoot The Jew" (Dubula e juda)" (*The article produced by student-journalists, leaves unexplained what 'BDS' stands for) Daniel Zamir concert at Wits -- by Emelia Motsai - emelia@witsvuvuzela.com - and Nokuthula Manyathi - photos Nokuthula Manyathi by Emelia Motsai and Nokuthula Manyathi - August 29, 2013 Aug 29 2013; "Both concert organisers and protesters felt like winners after the Daniel Zamir concert that was held at Wits University last night. Muhammed Desai, coordinator of BDS South Africa, said the protest had been effective because they were able to make those attending the concert “uncomfortable”. “I am an alumnus of this university, they are the ones that are outsiders here, and we want them to feel like outsiders,” said Desai. “You have blood on your hands.You think you can use our university to cleanse your image.”He said because the organisers had to send out an urgent message to those attending the concert to tell them how to get in, which entrances to use and which to avoid is also a sign of victory – “already it shows that they are tense and they are stressed because SA is becoming so difficult for pro-Israeli organisations to operate [in].” But the organisers also felt that the night was a success. The concert was held as the university’s way of making up for the one that was disrupted in March. The president of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), Zev Krengel said Wits had lived up to its promise. : “The team was great. I could not fault Wits in anyway.” Krengel said the "protesters were peaceful apart from the group that moved into the corridor and which he described as aggressive". At first the protesters were singing softly but as the night went on they sang and chanted loudly. The protesters confronted and provoked those who came for the concert. “You have the blood of Palestine children on your jersey,” shouted a protester to a woman who was walking in to the concert area. “ You have blood on your hands. You think you can use our university to cleanse your image,” said another protester. Most of the people there to attend the concert passed by the protesters quickly pretending not to notice anything but not all of them. Some passed by the protesters holding up Israel scarves and flags. “Fuck you!” said a concert attendee to a protester. “Wits University is my University, I have two degrees at Wits,” said another person attending the concert -- replying to a protester who had shouted that they "were not welcomed at Wits". Another one gave the protesters the middle finger. Some had to be subdued by those walking with them. At some point the protesters threw papers at concert attendees as they arrived. They also sang, “dubula e juda” (“shoot the Jew”), and chanted “there is no such thing as Israel” and “Israel apartheid” as the concert attendees were coming in. Quote: Desai: "Just like you would say 'Kill the Boer' at funerals during the eighties it was a way of identifying with the apartheid-regime' --- Desai said many African people in South Africa when using the word “Jews” meant it in the same way they would have during the eighties. “Just like you would say kill the Boer at funeral during the eighties it wasn’t about killing white people, it was used as a way of identifying with the apartheid regime”. NO JEWS ARE BEING HARMED BECAUSE OF ANTI-SEMITIC IMPULSES: He (Desai) said "there was no evidence of Jews being harmed because of anti-Semitic impulses, – “the whole idea anti-Semitism is blown out of proportion”. He said if there were anti-Semitic sentiments they would flatly challenge it even if it came from within their protest. He said there a peaceful process going on and South Africans had to encourage that. http://witsvuvuzela.com/2013/08/29/with-gallery-audio-bds-protests-daniel-zamir-concert-at-wits/ Ari Kruger, who attended the concert said the the term “apartheid” freely used just to evoke enthusiasm and sensitivity among South Africans: “Look at their supporters, the Cosatu guys, I’ve spoken to them on many occasions, they actually don’t have the facts, they are being told, ‘come to the function, apartheid, free Palestine, South Africa’s history is Palestinian reality’ which is actually not true.” Krengel challenged the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) to have a joint concert with them, to “bring together a Palestine musician and an Israeli one.” Dr Shireen Ally, a Wits lecturer who was part of a group that represented Wits staff and students, said the university refused them the right to have a silent protest and move into the Great Hall foyer. Ally said they would be seeking legal advice because the university had “infringed” on their rights to protest. Deputy vice-chancellor Tawana Kupe said "the university had given permission for a silent protest, just not permission to be in the foyer which the protesters had not asked for anyway." http://witsvuvuzela.com/2013/08/29/with-gallery-audio-bds-protests-daniel-zamir-concert-at-wits/#comment-12463 =============================

Sept 2 2013 case in Stellenbosch magistrate's court: Two Cape-coloured males were arraigned in Stellenbosch, WC magistrate's court for the murder of German-born Jochen Rädel, 59, Aug 18 2013.Being charges with his murder are Morné Martin 20 and Ashwill Pietersen 27 said the SAPS. Their case was remanded for bail application to 2 September 2013. Both live in Devon Valley. ------- The murder is possibly drug-related said local residents: Also see: 'Drug-crazed gangs hold Western Cape communities hostage: pic story attached) http://www.worcesterstandard.com/77289/news-details/bendes-hou-dorp-gyselaar ------------- Die Burger Afrikaans daily writes that there had been breakin at the building site a day before the murder: and he was changing the locks of the house and also fetching a BBQ when he was attacked. Martin and Pietersen were questioned two days later and charged with the murder the following Thursday. Mr Rädel is survived by his wife Christiana, his son Kai and two sisters. http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-08-24-twee-verdagtes-in-rdel-moord-vlugtig-voor --------------------- STELLENBOSCH. – The facial wounds and horrific injuries to his head were so terrible that they 'cannot be described with words,' said a family friend after the murder of investment-advisor Jochen Rädel, 59, bludgeoned at the building site of his new home on the farm Chimanimani in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch on August 18 2013. "I 've never seen anything like it: his face bruised and swollen. I could almost not look at it, said family friend Gerit Schaafsma. The Rädel family were renting a townhouse on the farm Le Verger next to Chmanimani while they were building their new house next door. SAPS capt Frederick van Wyk confirmed that two people were questioned at the site. Rädel was found Sunday afternoon by his sun Kai, 22, an honours-student in logistics at the University of Stellenbosch. Don Maxwell chairman of the Devon Valley farm association, said 'the people being questioned are serial-criminals who live in the region. "Devon valley has an extremely effective security system,' he reportedly said, expressing shock over the gruesome daytime murder of Mr Rädel. Seymour Pritchard, eienaar of the Clos Malvern vinyard, commented that 'the attackers are occasional tik users (a drug which causes a high level of aggression). There are breakins here but not those kind of attacks. Drugs are a problem in this area and should be addressed, he urged. http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-08-21-sy-wonde-was-te-erg-vir-woorde ==================== SA investments Jochen Rädel 59, dies after pick-axe attack at a farm in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch where he was inspecting the building-site for his new family-home: --------------------------- August 19 2013 By Elbé van Heerden -- STELLENBOSCH - Devon Valley resident Jochen Rädel 59, an engineer who used to work at Siemens Telecommunications, and who had been at the building site of his new family home on a farm adjacent to the Le Verger hotel on a farm in the Devon Valley, Stellenbosch was critically injured at 14h00 when he was attacked by a person with a pick-axe. He was declared dead ('brain-dead') on Monday August 19 2013. His son discovered his badly injured dad when he went to investigate why his father had not returned on Sunday. The murdered man and his wife Christiane also lost their daughter Stefanie, 18 on 11 May 2007 in a car accident in Johannesburg, reported Eikestad Nuus. http://www.eikestadnuus.co.za/80656/news-details/brekende-nuus-man-breindood-ná-plaasaanval ----------------------------------- Jochen Rädel testified that his daughter's culpible homicide death in a car crash was 'pure murder' ------------------------------------ October 27 2009 By Nontobeko Mtshali -- "This is not culpable homicide; this is cold-blooded murder." Jochen Radel did not mince his words as he testified during the first day of the inquest into the death of his 18-year-old daughter Stefanie at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday. Stefanie died on May 19, 2007, eight days after a car crash in which her parents, Jochen and Christiane, were injured. Jochen said the car they collided with was travelling too fast. The accident happened at the intersection of Dorset and Chester streets minutes away from the Radels' Parktown North home. "Anyone who drives a car through suburbs at that speed has no conscience," said Jochen, referring to the driver of the other car, Mark Smith. "Besides causing a horrendous accident, he still had the audacity to sue my wife for his car damage, which amounts to R170,000."Smith's legal representative, Aad Den Hartog, said that according to Smith, Christiane did not stop at the stop street as she should have.Despite not remembering what had happened during the accident, Christiane said she always stopped at that intersection.Two independent experts, enlisted by the Radels, estimated that the BMW was doing between 100 and 120km/h in a 60km/h zone. Mark Lottering, a Joburg metro traffic officer who attended the accident scene, said the BMW came to a standstill 25 metres from the point of impact. The Radels' car was struck from the right-hand side and landed 18.8m from the intersection.Lottering said the Radels' Chevrolet had "collided with a car that had right of way".The Radels' legal representative, Barry Roux, asked Lottering if the BMW had been speeding, as indicated by the cars' sideways movements.Speed was a contributing factor," said Lottering. http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/car-smash-was-cold-blooded-murder-1.462786 Owner, Jochen Radel & Associates Jochen Radel & Associates cc previous Siemens Telecommunications Education Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jochen-raedel/10/466/3b8

Ize Vrey and another female pedestrian attacked, beaten, kicked: Village Mall, Tielman/Schubart Street, Female pedestrians attacked, beaten, kicked: Hartbeespoort Community Safety & Security — 22 August 2013 Female pedestrians attacked, beaten and kicked Left: lze Vrey sustained serious injuries to her face and body after being beaten and kicked by three men during a walk near the Village Mall. Two women have been attacked, beaten and kicked by three men while walking near the Village Mall this week.Both were saved from being dragged into the bushes by motorists who happened to pass by. Ilze Vrey from Schoemansville was overpowered by three men while walking to the Village Mall in the Tielman Street extension close to the corner of Schubart Street last Wednesday. She was seriously injured and saved from possible rape by a motorist who stopped to intervene. “I was walking past the open veld next to the Village Mall shortly after 15:00 when three men suddenly appeared behind me. They said something but I didn’t understand anything and carried on walking. The next moment they had grabbed me by the hair shouting ‘come here you white b…’ and punched me in the face,” Ilze told the Kormorant this week. “I tasted blood and started screaming. They ripped my shirt off and threw me on the ground, kicking me while one held my mouth closed. They then started dragging me into the bushes next to a sand heap. I was struggling but could not get out of their hold.” Luckily a motorist saw the attack, stopped and screamed and the men let go of Ilze and fled.On Saturday morning anther woman was attacked by men in the same area. Another motorist also stopped to help and the men got away again. These attacks are the last of a number of attacks in this area the past year. This area is a popular road for joggers and walkers.“We seriously want to warn, especially women, not to walk alone and to be alert at all times. Try and avoid bushy places and isolated areas and make sure that you are not alone. Rather walk or jog in groups,” said Hartbeespoort Community Policing Forum spokesperson Romano van der Spuy. “Police visibility in the area has been increased and regular patrols will take place,” he said.Anyone with information about the men, or anyone who notices suspicious behaviour in the area are requested to call the Hartbeespoort Police on 012 253 1000. The police have good descriptions of the men and are looking for them. http://www.kormorant.co.za/2013/08/female-pedestrians-attacked-beaten-and-kicked/

ANC ignores municipal bylaws in Pretoria: allows the traditional Afrikaner towns overrun by illegal black squatter sites: Mariska Batt of a Naspers publication calling itself 'Tswane-Beeld' writes that Afriforum civil rights group has been campaigning for years for the removal of growing numbers of illegal black squatters on vacant land sites in traditional Afrikaner suburbs such as Monument Park. --------------- Nich Nocolaou, chairman of the Monument Park citizen-policing forum, was quoted as saying that 'a nest of squatters on a vacant land-site in Skilpad Avenue is growing worse every year. 'The nest of squatters now has grown to 300 residents on that site, and countless pleas and petitions to the ANC-run so-called 'Tswane Council' are falling on deaf ears."The residents are very negative about the situation and cannot see that there is a willingness to solve the illegal land-invasions since it's being ignored for years by the council'."Squatters have no interest in keeping a community safe or follow municipal bylaws. Countless crimes occur there and this affects the entire suburb. It's not the only mini-squatter camp, there are many: such as a site at the corner of the (illegally renamed street of Solomon Mahlangu-Lane) previously Hans Strydom drive and Rubenstein Road in Pretoria East."People have moved in beneath the high-power electricity wires and are squatting right next to ratepayers' houses. They are clearly settled in to say, moving in furniture and hanging their washing on people's fences'. This problem is getting no attention from the ANC council, said Democratic Alliance councillor Francois Bekker.The latest insult received from the 'Tswane-Metro' council executive head Blessing Manale, was when Afriforum received a reply which clearly had been sent by accident and was an internal memo containing the following instruction to a colleague: ---------------------"dear colleague, just send me any kind of general report. I will just reply in one 'cut and paste' paragraph to Afriforum'. --------------------- This internal instruction was instead received by Afriforum's Ian Cameron after the civil rights group had sent yet another of its many requests about another suburb whose Afrikaner residents are being terrorised by rapidly-growing groups of illegal squatters. Monument Park residents now consider launching a legal case in court against 'Tswane Metro' because it has ignored its own municipal bylaws in relation to a group of squatters in Skilpad Avenue which has now swelled to 300 people, creating a health- and crime problem for adjacent ratepayers which grows worse every day. ------------------------ INCREASINGLY VIOLENT anti-Afrikaner attacks have occurred in Monument Park and its vicinity and these are getting increasingly worse: ----------------------- On July 17 2012, 70-year-old Monument Park resident Mrs Zia Erasmus was attacked in her garden by a young black male who tried to strangle her in an unprovoked attack: screaming 'I will fnkg kill you you white bitch.' The old lady was watering her garden when a "well-dressed man" asked her for work. She told him she does not have work for him, and he asked whether he may drink some water. She said he may and while he was drinking water from the tap, she turned to walk towards the house. He attacked her from behind en pushed her down, trying to rip her necklace off her. When he saw her rings, he took out a knife and threatened her.Her husband, 81 year old mr Erasmus heard the commotion and came out to investigate. The attacker rushed him and he tried to close the door, but the black attacker forced his way in, trying to stab mr Erasmus, shouting at him "Today I kill you!". When he missed, mr Erasmus managed to lock himself in the room. Mrs Erasmus in the meantime tried to get to the panic button, but the black attacker grabbed her, and threw her down, wrapped the electric cord from the vacuum cleaner around her neck and said for the second time "Today I will f***ing kill you, you white bitch.” http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/186 http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/centurion/centurion-news-crime?oid=5891294&sn=Detail&pid=1345596&Rower-teiken-bejaarde-egpaar in August 2013, on the highway adjacent to Monument Park, a white biker, Horst Jaeger, 27 died in a deliberate hit-and-run homicide: a black mystery-motorist in a red Toyota Elios had seen he biker fall when accidentally glancing the car of a woman he was overtaking: the red Toyota hit the biker as he was getting up in the emergency lane, dragged him, stopped, got out of his car, tried to dislodge the injured white man from beneath his car by tearing off metal from his car, and when he couldn't, got back into his car and dragged the biker for another 100 metres. Then the black man stopped, reversed, and drove over the white man once again. http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1511 It also was at the nearby Voortrekker Monument where a large, uniformed, armed delegation of the US New Black Panthers Party chanted an anti-white hatespeech song "One Settler One Bullet" in a public appearance in South Africa with the Pan Africanist Congress. The police did nothing. http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/835 It had also by that time become evident that the SAPS was totally unable to control the huge numbers of illegal Africans massing around the home office clamouring for forms so that they could apply for political asylum. All these people move into the adjacent suburbs, looking for sites where they can squat on. And they all survive with crime. This in turn has created a backlash in the black squatter camps, where apartheid-style segregation has development in an impromptu way, with 'foreign Africans' and 'black South Africans' all huddling inside their own ethnic enclaves. There has also been a massive increase in xenophobic attacks by black South Africans against these pockets of foreign-Africans in shocking outbreaks of extreme violence including gang-rapes ('jack-rolling") , torching of shacks and killing people who cannot speak Nguni. This in turn has also caused foreign black Africans to seek out vacant plots in Afrikaner suburbs where they start squatting in large numbers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZsGZNe5hLE On June 13 2012, rioting broke out at the Pretoria West Home Affairs satellite processing-office for black-African asylum seekers. It was reported that was being flooded with black-African asylum seekers ever since, under the Mbeki-regime, the country threw open its borders. A youtube video which was published by Beeld newspaper showed scenes of the June 14 2012 rioting. It's since been removed. It showed that the struggled to control the large masses of people waiting to get application forms for political asylum: --------------------- http://www.youtu.be/VINcTSujlzM -------------------------- http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/41 ------------------------- NASPERS COOPERATING WITH ANC-REGIME IN ETHNIC-CLEANSING RENAMING OF PRETORIA: -------------------- ALSO in reference to this article by Naspers publications: it appears as if the Afrikaans publications of the Naspers group have decided to ignore the court-orders stating that the name of Pretoria is illegal. Afriforum, the civil rights group in South Africa, has won several High Court cases over the ANC's ethnic-cleansing campaign of renaming the traditional Afrikaner-built city of Pretoria to 'Tswane' after a non-existent 'tribal chief'. (The name also means 'Monkey'in xhosa). Unfortunately the #Naspers publishing group completely ignores the fact that the name 'Tswane' is in fact illegal - the name-change was declared illegal in two Pretoria High Court rulings. However Naspers slavishly listens to the dictates of "His Master's Voice in ANC headquartersLuthuli House -- by ignoring the fact that the name 'Tswane' is illegal and part of the ANC's ethnic-cleansing campaign against Afrikaners countrywide - instead 'Beeld' even publishing a local publication called alls 'Tswane-Metro'. It used to be called 'Pretoria Metro'. This is a direct slap in the face of every Afrikaner whose forebears built the city of Pretoria and who is now fighting hard to keep it from being overrun by foreign invaders from other parts of Africa. This particular story (above) in 'Tswane-Metro' deals with the horrific influx of illegal black Africans into the traditionally Afrikaner suburb Monument Park and other suburbs terrorising the original Afrikaner inhabitants: https://afriforum.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013_08_28_1073895.pdf -----------------------

September 2 2013 - Southernwood, East Cape. An angry young black female Mabenzi-driver allegedly tried to run down a group of Afrikaans toddlers who were dawdling along on a legal road-crossing in Southernwood, between the Grensies Petite- and the Grens Afrikaans Primary schools: - reported by Shantel Randell writing on "Pig Spotter East London' Facebook page, with pictures of the alleged road-rage incident: "Ihis woman got irate when a group of toddlers, aged between 1 and 5 years of age, was led across a road-crossing by teachers and were taking too long for her liking. She continued driving and a teacher ended up draped over the bonnet of the Mabenzi, trying to stop the woman-driver from allegedly continuing while the little kids were toddling across the road. The incident happened on September 2 2013 at the crossing between Grensies Petite & Grens primary school near Southernwood: the children were being accompanied to go for 'their big walk on the rugby field'. --------------------- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=524789394263310&set=a.102182839857303.3327.100001967611624&type=1 ------------------------- VIDEO: These are the 'Grensies Petitie Afrikaans Primary School' toddlers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yAfUKrU7LJY http://www.grensies-petite.co.za/videos.html

Afrikaner student Jan Hendrik Jooste 20, chased off 4 black knifemen with psalm 50:15 during attack on him and friend Soné Verster 19 Tuesday 3 September 213 article by Piet Matipa. 'In the name of Jesus Christ, be gone from here...shouted Jan Hendrik Jooste, 20, first-year student at the University of Pretoria, when he and a friend Soné Verster 19, were attacked by four black male attackers. The two architectural students were in a park next to Andries Street, Pretoria - ordered to be there on Friday-morning during measurements for a class-assignment when they were attacked. They had been there all day measuring and taking pictures. At around 15h30 just before they were finished, the four-member gang descended on the two young Afrikaners, waving knives and shouting 'We Will Kill You.' Jan Hendrik said because they were so aware of the security problems in that area they had arrived on the Gautrain because they were scared someone would hijack their cars. Jan Hendrik said he kicked the knifeman and he stomped him back. "I fell down, jumped up and then hit him with my note-book on the neck.' Meanwhile Soné was under attack: the other three knifemen tried to stab her in the stomach, but again her notebook came in handy, shielding herself with it and throwing one thug with her cellphone. "We realised we could not win this fight alone. They had knives, we had books,' said Jan Hendrik. That's when he remembered Pslam 50:15 and shouted: "In the name of Jesus Christ, be gone from here'. The four thugs fled. The two Pretoria University students survived with a fright and scratches. What bothered them was that a 'church group nearby in the park did nothing to help us when we were being attacked'. But a passing couple in a white bakkie saw their plight and stopped to pick up the students at the Gautrain railway station. Now his dad Jan wants to find the couple to thank them: "We are grateful that you helped my son and Soné,' he said. SAPS captain Colette Weilbach confirmed that two cases of attempted murder and armed robbery were lodged with the SAPS. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-03-tukkie-verjaag-4-wat-aanval-met-bybelvers

Nelspruit Afrikaner woman abused as 'white bitch', threatened with R5 carbine by SAPS Tactical Reaction Unit and surrounded by large metro-cop and SAPS TRU force for no reason at all, snarling 'you whites ------------------- NELSPRUIT, 3 Sept 2013: This white minibus carrying SAPS TRU members was photographed by two Afrikaner victims who were attacked by the SAPS 's infamously violent Tactical Response Unit which has conducted similar assaults on other whites in the area before. --------------------- --- Also: Aug 20 2013: SAPS-captain, 57 arrested: sells weapons from SAPS13 police-vault: 20 Aug 2013: -- http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/lowveld/lowveld-news-crime?oid=7720877&sn=Detail&pid=490167&Polisie-kaptein-verkoop-glo-vuurwapens-uit-polisie-kluis ------------------------ Nelspruit journalist Susanna Oosthuisen writes that a 46-year-old Afrikaner woman and her fiancee were sitting in their car at 16h15 in front of a house for sale in Van Rooyen Street, awaiting the arrival of an estate agent they had an appointment with. They had noticed a luxury BMW with four of five black people in it, watching them, but didn't pay much attention. Then a white Mercedes Benz minibus without number plates - and containing a large number of black police officers getting out their guns also showed up. "We were still talking to each other wondering 'what could have happened in the area' when we saw all the cops,' the female victim tells Ms Oosthuisen,' when suddenly they surrounded us emasse around our car, their firearms all pointed at us.' The cops screamed at them to get out so that they 'could search the car'. The white lady was terrified and refused - so one of the cops dragged her from the car by her arm. When she objected at his rough handling, he hit her hard against her chest and cursed her for 'a white bitch'. She fell to the ground. Meanwhile the estate agent they had an appointment with, also arrived and was shocked at the violence meted out to the couple. She said "It was horrific to see, very violent, and my child who was with me, became hysterical.' But this was just the beginning: members of the SAPS in Nelspruit, as well as the traffic cops from the Mbombela and Mpumalanga provincial department also showed up. The Afrikaner victim said 'none of those authorities tried to raise a hand to stop the TRU-members aggressive violence against us.' The man was constantly cursing her loudly, rudely for 'white bitch' and at one stage even held his R5 military assault carbine against her chin. Another of the TRU-members told her fiancee 'that this is the new South Africa now and whites must not think you people can get away with everything. The female victim said she was badly traumatised; fearing that the angry TRU member would pull the trigger of the R5 while he was holding it against her head. And what really made everything so surreal, was that the couple do not know why they were targeted for this police- and traffic-cop onslaught at all. While they were under attack, the woman phoned her daughter and the Anti-Police Brutality and Corruption-Organisation."When they heard me listening to the man they drove off in their minibus,' she said. Her daughter had rushed to the scene as well and arrived shortly after she had called her. The independent police directorate has received a formal complaint lodged by the traumatised couple. This mysterious incident follows hot on the heels of the 7 August 2013 High Court ruling stating that the TRU-police unit was 100% responsible for the injuries and trauma suffered at their hands by another Nelspruit Afrikaner Mr Jan Coetzee. He was shot with rubber bullets in 2011 when the armed cop-gang descended on Mr Coetzee's father in law's property and shot him so badly that he spent four days in hospital. ------------------------ http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/lowveld/lowveld-news-section?oid=7754524&sn=Detail&pid=490165&Vrou-tegesnou-as--wit-teef

Anti-ANC chaos in town of Malamulele, Thohoyandou, LI: they want their own municipality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mrgRDWDVo Several vehicles and offices have been burnt down, roads blockaded and some retail shops looted. Residents are demanding to be separated from the Thulamela municipality and to have their own municipality. Seven vehicles, including a gallion and a truck, were burnt at a government satellite office at Malamulele. The offices have also been burnt down. Houses belonging to staff have also been burnt and windows broken. Some retail shops have also been looted. Thousands of protesters have blocked all the roads leading to Malamulele, including the Punda Maria road that leads to the Kruger National Park. No motorists are allowed to drive through the area. Police are being out-numbered by the protesters. [Source] Dr Isaiah Ndhambi (the man in red), spokesperson for the Malamulele demarcation task team that organized the protest The latest hooligan behaviour by residents is said to have been sparked by a lack of service delivery in the area, nepotism and alleged corruption in the Thulamela Municipality. http://tia-mysoa.blogspot.nl/2013/09/and-c-h-o-s-continues.html

September 3 2013 An elderly woman was brutally attacked in her home in Fourie Street in Westcliff Hermanus at around 10:30 this morning. She is in a critical condition in hospital. Forensic detectives are still on the scene. No one has been arrested. Read more in the Hermanus Times on Thursday. PHOTO: The house in Westcliff where the woman was attacked. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hermanus-Times/142669309089496?ref=stream&hc_location=stream

The Afrikaans media reports on 4 September 2013 that accused farmer Johnny Burger has been found dead with a gunshot to his head. Despite the fact that a forensic examination and an inquest court still have to decide how Mr Burger came to his death, the Beeld newspaper has already decided for them: announcing "Farmer in Court Case Takes His Own Life'. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-04-boer-in-hofsaak-neem-sy-eie-lewe --------------- If he did take his own life -- which in the face of the many death-threats against him, should be very thoroughly investigated -- he was clearly hounded to death: He and his farm-manager Wilhelm Treurnicht were attacked by a mob outside the Ashton court at their recent court appearance, where they had appeared on remand BUT HAD NOT YET BEEN ASKED TO PLEAD TO ANY CHARGES. The political group which lodged the law suit against them, had organised a large rentamob. The same group also arranged to have their names published before they had even been asked to plead to any charges. ---------------- Mob attacks, threatens to burn Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger, manager Wilhelm Treurnicht in Ashton Court SAPS fires stun-grenade to chase off rentamob threatening to 'burn' Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger and manager Wilhelm Treurnicht - the two only made their first remand-appearance and were not asked to plead to any charges - yet they have already been demonised in the SA news media: August 29 2013 Cape Town According to the Argus newspaper, the SAPS used a stun grenade to disperse very violent protesters outside the Ashton Magistrate’s Court, where the Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger and his manager Wilhelm Treurnicht appeared on charges of assault on Wednesday. They have not yet been asked to plead to the state's charge that the two had allegedly beaten farm worker Flip Engelbrecht and his son Flippie five years ago. Yet they have already been demonised and found guilty by the news media. http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus -------------- (related news: Proof that ANC is behind WC 'farm protests' - http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/we-have-proof-anc-behind-cape-protests-1.1569430 - http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus) ------------ Police were trying to form 'a protective ring' around Johnny Burger, owner of Rietvallei Wine Estate, and farm manager Wilhelm (Dozi) Treurnicht as they made their way to their bakkie after their brief court appearance on Wednesday. It was a remand appearance, they were not asked to plead to any charges, yet they have already been publicly identified and demonised. Once the two men were inside the vehicle, the 'protective ring' clearly didn't work: as the crowd surrounded them, jumped on to the back of the vehicle, hit the windows and bonnet, and threw stones, shouting 'Burn Them'. The state alleges that Flippie, now 20, was left epileptic and blind by the attack. This is the medical evidence which the State will have to prove. Flippie later fell into a fire during a seizure and lost both his hands. Last week he was fitted with a pair of prosthetic hands. -- It is the State’s case that in 2008 Burger and Treurnicht had beaten Engelbrecht, who worked on the farm, and Flippie, then 15. The evidence has not yet been led. The men appeared for their first court-appearance. On Wednesday, the small court building, which has only one courtroom, was filled with tension and anger as the community waited for the two men to appear. By 9am, more than 100 people described as 'farmworkers and community members' by the Argus had gathered outside the court to support the Engelbrecht family. Burger and Treurnicht arrived after 11am, and it was reported that they were late because one had not been feeling well. This prompted fury from the gallery. Shouts of “why are you so special? Who do you think you are?” were yelled as they entered the courtroom. “You say that you not feeling well. How you think this child feels and all the other children you assault?” shouted Carina de Viliers Papenfus, a disbarred lawyer who is the secretary of the Freedom Trust. After a brief appearance, magistrate Francois van Deventer transferred the case to the Ashton Regional Court, postponing the matter to September 13. As the two left the dock, a community member yelled: “Druk hom vas (get him)!” There was a rush for the door, and police formed a protective ring around the duo as the crowd suddenly surrounded them. The men reached their bakkie safely, but then people climbed on to the back and rocked it from side to side, while others hit the windows and bonnet. “Brand hom (burn him)!” was shouted numerous times. As the vehicle moved slowly away, stones were thrown. Police used a stun grenade to disperse the crowd. Solomzi Ntlalombi, one of the protesters, said that, although "he did not know Flippie he was there to support him.An injury to one is an injury to all. I don’t even know him, but support him because of the pain he had to go through.” Nosey Pieterse, the marxist, very militant general secretary of the Building and Allied Workers Union of SA, said Flippie’s case was not unique.“It’s a daily matter of farmworkers being violated. There are many such cases where some have even died, but the farmer is never charged. We are busy reviving those cases too,” Pieterse said. Later the victim - Flippie -- said that he was feeling heartsore. “The farmer didn’t feel well, but how did I feel after he assaulted me? Blood was running out of my ears and nose. I’m hurting. I can’t do anything for my parents.” ----------------- http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/mob-turns-on-flippie-assault-accused-1.1569773#.Uh8Gyn-NB1o ----------------- Karina Papenfus moet so trots op haarself wees vandag: 'n ordentlike boer, Johnny Burger, is doodgetreiter: http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-04-boer-in-hofsaak-neem-sy-eie-lewe ---------------------

ANC convinced fire was foul play 2013-09-04 The ruling party was convinced that a fire at its Johannesburg headquarters on Tuesday night was a malicious act, spokesman Jackson Mthembu said. ------------ http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ANC-Luthuli-House-fire-was-malicious-20130904 ------------------- "The bottle was strategically placed under the couch at reception -- a bottle filled with chemicals. The couch caught fire as the bottle exploded," said Mthembu on Wednesday."In our books that is grounds to be confident that this was arson," he said. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ANC-Luthuli-House-fire-was-malicious-20130904 He said the chemicals that filled the bottle left fumes that were still lingering in the building. Mthembu added that a bomb unit, police and other experts all confirmed that the attack was indeed an arson attempt. "It is pretty clear what we are dealing with and we view such actions in a serious light." The ruling party expressed disappointment at the act and said such actions did not have a place in a democratic nation. "We have avenues to address issues and this [attempted arson] is not one of them...This was a criminal act."South Africa does not need such incidents. An attack at the offices of the governing party or any political office under a democracy is something we do not need." SA Police Service Brigadier Neville Malila confirmed an investigation into an alleged arson attack was underway. Mthembu applauded security staff on duty. "Security personnel used fire extinguishers to put down ballooning flames that were almost reaching the ceiling of the reception area," he said. The ANC said it was unclear what motives were behind the attack. Work at Luthuli House would continue as usual on Wednesday. http://www.anc.gov.za