R203m for Zuma home upgrade

2012-09-30 14:42

Nkandla homestead.

 

Johannesburg - The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants the public protector to probe allegations that R203m of taxpayers' money would be used in the revamping of President Jacob Zuma's iNkandla homestead, the party said on Sunday.

"Reports that the department of public works will be spending millions on Zuma’s private homestead is a serious abuse of taxpayers’ money by a department which is failing in almost every other key responsibility," DA Parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said in a statement.

"This expenditure by public works represents a serious confusion by the president and the minister of public works as to what the pressing priorities for South Africa are," she added.

The DA's outrage came after a report in the City Press stated that Zuma would only be footing five percent of the bill, which amounted to around R10.6m.

Previous reports suggested that Zuma would pay for most of the revamping.

"[We] will not allow for this to go unanswered," said Mazibuko.

She said she wanted the public protector to investigate whether the money for the project had not been transferred from other projects that needed the funds.

The party also criticised the fact that the residence would be a private home and would not remain the state's property.

The City Press reported that the budget for the revamp was approved by the public works department in March last year.

According to the paper, Durban's public works regional manager Kenneth Khanyile wrote a memorandum last year to the then minister of public works, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde saying their head office had assisted in apportioning costs between the department and Zuma.

Khanyile had reportedly informed Mahlangu-Nkabinde that they had already spent funds on certain building aspects which were initially meant to be catered for by Zuma.

"[Zuma] may want to implement these issues himself without the interference of the department or else he may want to opt to reimburse the department the same," Khanyile's memorandum was quoted as saying.

The presidency referred the City Press to the department of public works for answers, but the department refused to give comment.

The "handling of information for this residence is protected in terms of the 1982 Protection of Information Act", the department's acting director-general Mandisa Fatyela-Lindie was quoted as saying.
The revamped house would contain 10 air conditioned rooms, underground living quarters, a clinic for Zuma and his family, 10 houses for security personnel, a helipad, houses for air force and police units, underground parking, playgrounds and visitors centres, said the City Press.

- SAPA

 

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/R203m-for-Zuma-home-upgrade-20120930

Burglars use muti to steal

25 September 2012 | Donald Green

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Smoke from the burning of soil mixed with incense, a secret mix of herbs and steel wool, could put people inside a house into a deep sleep in order for criminals to steal their belongings at leisure.
This was revealed to the police by a family from Extension 12 in eMbalenhle when they brought a burnt tin with the mix to the police.
Capt Magonseni Nkosi, Spokesman for the local police, said the family was woken by the smoke in their house last Saturday and found two unknown men inside the house.
“The family did not want to file a case.
“It will become difficult for us to investigate and arrest people because victims do not open a case.”
Capt Nkosi, however, said though such cases are not often reported to them, they did confirm that criminals do use such an act to commit crime.
He said criminals burn the mix and within few a minutes of letting the smoke into the house, the occupants fall asleep.
It is believed they will only wake up in the morning.
Capt Nkosi urged residents to be aware of such acts and keep their doors locked and to never open the doors to strangers at night.
“The festive season is nearing and people will buy goods only to find that they are being stolen in this manner.”

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/eastern-highveld/eastern-highveld-news-crime?oid=6246839&sn=Detail&pid=4980109&Burglars-use-muti-to-steal

14 Signs That The World Economy Is Getting Weaker

The United States is not the only one with massive economic problems right now. The truth is that just about wherever you look around the globe things are getting even worse.




Protest in Spain

China is experiencing a substantial economic slowdown, and Japan has resorted to yet another round of money printing in an effort to keep the Japanese economy moving. Unemployment in Europe continues to get even worse, and the riots this week in Spain and in Greece have been absolutely frightening at times.

In the United States there are a whole host of signs that another recession is approaching, and the number of American CEOs that say that they plan to eliminate jobs in the coming months is rapidly rising. So hold on to your seat belts - it is going to be a bumpy ride.

The following are 14 signs from around the globe that the world economy is getting weaker....

#1 Things in China do not look good right now. The Shanghai Composite index fell to its lowest point in over 3 years earlier this week. Will the S&P 500 soon follow suit?

#2 The Bank of Japan has resorted to yet another round of money printing in a desperate attempt to try to bolster the faltering Japanese economy.

#3 In Spain, violent demonstrations over the state of the Spanish economy just outside the national Parliament building in Madrid on Tuesday evening made headlines all over the globe.

#4 As unemployment hovers around the 25 percent mark, foraging through garbage bins for food has become so rampant in Spain that one city has actually started putting locks on supermarket garbage bins "as a public health precaution".

#5 Despite all of the money printing that the ECB has been doing, the yield on 10 year Spanish bonds has risen back up to about 6 percent again.

#6 The economic protests in Greece are getting completely and totally out of control.

#7 The unemployment rate in France has risen for 16 months in a row and is now the highest that it has been in over a decade.

#8 As I wrote about recently, the number of unemployed workers in Italy has increased by more than 37 percent over the past year.

#9 New orders for durable goods in the United States fell by a whopping 13.2 percent in August. That was the largest decline that we have seen since the middle of the last recession (January 2009).

#10 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. GDP only grew at a 1.3 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2012 as opposed to the 1.7 percent annual rate previously reported.

#11 The U.S. Postal Service is about to experience its second financial default in just the past two months.

#12 It looks like General Motors is on a path that will lead to bankruptcy (again).

#13 According to a recent survey conducted by State Street Global Advisors, 71 percent of "investors in a survey of 300 around the world, including the largest pension funds, asset managers and private banks, fear an imminent Lehman-like event."

#14 According to a recent survey of American CEOs by Business Roundtable, the number of CEOs that plan to eliminate jobs has risen significantly from earlier this year.

All over the globe financial authorities are playing all sorts of games in an attempt to keep the system functioning smoothly. But these games are going to steadily undermine confidence in the system, and that is going to prove to be absolutely deadly.

Read more: http://divineinterventionws.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=news&thread=9832&page=1#59603#ixzz27xXepsf2

Plaasmoord is vir ANC nietig

Deur: Gert Coetzee2012-09-26 23:01

ONS leef in ’n land waar jy kerk toe gaan en as jy tuis kom, word jy ingewag en met byle doodgekap.
’n Land waar jy vir die aand saam met jou mense gaan uiteet en dan in die restaurant deur rowers doodgeskiet word.
Waar jy in jou bed kan wakker skrik met gewapenes in jou slaapkamer wat jou met knopkieries, messe en pistole aanval, jou huis beroof en jou dan met hondekettings vasbind. Waar ’n tweejarige dogtertjie teregstellingstyl doodgeskiet word deur die plaasaanvallers wat haar ouers vermoor het, sodat sy hulle nie as ’n ooggetuie kan uitwys nie.
In ’n land waar die sekretaris-generaal van die bewindsparty woedend reageer op ’n vraag of die regering genoeg doen om landelike veiligheid te verseker.
Waar die woordvoerder van internasionale betrekking by navraag sê die regering steur hom nie aan sanksie-pleidooie teen Suid-Afrika weens die gruwelike plaasmoorde hier nie.
“Daar is geen styging in plaasmoorde nie. Misdaadstatistieke toon ’n afname in plaasmoorde,” sê ene Clayson Monyela uit New York aan Volksblad.
Só stel Monyela sy onkunde ten toon.
Of is dit dat hy nie omgee nie? Dit sou strook met die ANC-regering, waarvan hy ’n hoogsbetaalde mondstuk is, se ingesteldheid dat daar eintlik nie iets soos plaasmoorde is nie, omdat dit dan nie van ander moord sou verskil nie.
Dan beweer Monyela ook die Belgiese politikus Philip Claeys weet nie wat in Suid-Afrika aangaan nie. Vir Monyela se aandag: Die regering se misdaadstatistieke wat verlede week bekend gestel is, maak nie voorsiening vir plaasmoord nie.
Bowendien is die statistieke net ’n stel syfers wat die ANC-regering voorhou om voor te gee misdaad in die land daal.
Lies, damned lies and statistics...
Die beskikbare plaasmoordsyfer kom nie van die regering nie, maar van landbou-organisasies en ander wat omgee.
Die Instituut vir Sekerheidstudies bereken dat byna 32 uit elke 100000 Suid-Afrikaners in 2010-’11 vermoor is – sowat vier en ’n halwe keer meer as die internasionale gemiddelde moordsyfer (nagenoeg per 100000). Dit sit die Suid-Afrikaanse plaasmoordsyfer in perspektief: 99 per 100000 boere word vermoor, sowat 14 keer meer as die internasionale gemiddelde syfer.
Verstaan tog dat die ANC-regering nie tyd aan ’n nietigheid soos plaasmoorde kan afstaan nie. Dat sy provinsiale premiers, ook in die Vrystaat, hulle nie eens verwerdig om kennis te te neem daarvan as ’n plaasmoord gepleeg is nie. Al ruk ’n gemeenskap saam daarteen op, soos verlede week op Trompsburg.
Die ANC het soveel belangriker sake wat sy aandag verg. Veralmetdie Mangaung2012-leiersverkiesing se groot geskarrel om toe te sien dat jy jou steun aan die regte kandidaat toesê.
Nie “reg” soos in bekwaam, aanspreeklik en betroubaar nie. Maar “reg” in die opsig dat as hy as president (her)aangewys word en jy’t hom gesteun, plavei dit ook jou paadjie na die krip toe.
To hitch your wagon to someone’s star, lui ’n Engelse gesegde.
As deel van die groot uitskuddery het Julius Malema gister in die Polokwane-hof verskyn. Sy groot sonde? Nie geldwassery, bedrog of korrupsie nie.
In die ANC kan jy immers hiermee wegkom...Raak net president.
Malema se groot sonde is dat hy in onguns verval het by die man vir wie hy eens “sou gesterf het”. Daardie man wat só aangedring het op sy eie dag in die hof. En so hard geveg het om dit te vermy.
Die ANC het dus ander prioriteite as plaasmoord en geweldsmisdaad.
Vertel dit vir die egpaar Fourie van Trompsburg; vir Corrie Sanders; vir die gesin Potgieter en hul dogtertjie, Wilmien, van Clocolan; vir die egpaar Kruger van Dewetsdorp; vir die oud-atleet Karen Wilkinson. En dis net die afgelope twee weke.
Volksblad

http://m.news24.com/volksblad/Rubrieke/GertCoetzee/Plaasmoord-is-vir-ANC-nietig-20120926

Petrol price hiked again

Sep 28 2012 13:08 Fin24

Cape Town - Petrol is going up by 21c a litre (93 octane) and 23c/l (95 octane) next Wednesday.

The department of energy said on Friday the increases were due to higher international prices and a weaker rand currency.

I-Net Bridge reports the department also said the price increases between 95 and 93 octane petrol differ due to the quarterly application of the octane price differentials.

The new pump price of 95 grade petrol in Gauteng will increase to R12.20/l.

Motorists at the coast will now have to pay R11.85 for a litre of petrol.

The wholesale diesel price will also go up by 40c to R11.34.

The latest price increase follows this year's highest single price hike of 93c/litre in August.

During the period under review‚ the average rand/dollar exchange rate weakened when compared to the previous period‚ the CEF reported. The average rand/dollar exchange rate for the period August 31 to August 27 was 8.3075 compared to 8.2758 during the previous period.

Last month's increase included a 3.5c/l increase in all grades of petrol. This increase‚ the department said‚ was necessary in order for service station operators to finance the wage increases for service station pump attendants and cashiers agreed upon at the Motor Industry Bargaining Council in September 2010.

Meanwhile, the single maximum national retail price for illuminating paraffin will increase by 44c to R8.67/l.

The maximum retail price for liquid petroleum gas will decrease by 3c per kilogram.

http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Petrol-price-hiked-again-20120928

Strike hits other miners

Sep 28 2012 14:27

Johannesburg - Gold miner‚ Village Main Reef [JSE:VIL] on Friday announced that an unprotected strike had started at its Blyvooruitzicht operation in the North Western Province.
It said in a note that the strike prevented Thursday’s night shift as well as Friday’s day shift from taking place and that most of the 1 700 employees forming part of the National Union of Mineworkers’ bargaining unit failed to report for work.
“Management will continue to engage in constructive dialogue with its employees‚ their representatives and other stakeholders with a view to maintaining peace and resolving the strike. Village reserves its right to approach the court for an interdict as this is considered to be an unprotected strike‚” the miner said.
Shares of Village Main Reef fell 6.35% weaker to R1.18.
Underground sit-in

Meanwhile striking mine workers at the Samancor Chrome mine in Mooinooi, Rustenburg were staging an underground sit-in to demand a R12 500 monthly salary, said the Rustenburg Joint Strike Co-ordinating Committee.

"The workers vow to stay underground until the Samancor management meets their demands, which include a R12 500 basic salary," said committee spokesperson Mametlwe Sebei.

In a statement headlined, "Occupation of the mine in demand of a R12 500 basic salary", Sebei said about 400 miners have been underground with no food or water since Thursday.

He claimed that the ventilation had been switched off.

"The mine management has... closed the mine's water supply, in an apparent move to starve and dry (sic) out the workers... we condemn this stance taken by management and urge them to go underground to table an offer."

He said the workers were also upset because the mine would not allow them to hold big gatherings.

"Yesterday, these workers decided to defy that and decided to gather underground at the mine."

Sebei said the organisation would be mobilising community members to gather in the afternoon and demand that the miners be given food and water.

The workers at the chrome mine have vowed to stay underground until management meets their demands, said Sebei.

Additional to the R12 500 demand, workers also wanted a R1500 sleep-out allowance and a R1 500 underground allowance.

Samancor was not immediately available to comment on the matter.

http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Mining/Strike-hits-another-miner-20120928#.UGWbmX0fAt0.facebook

Derby-Lewis se vrou doen aansoek om mediese parool

2012-09-28 13:05

Johannesburg – Die veroordeelde moordenaar Clive Derby-Lewis se vrou het aansoek om sy mediese parool gedoen, het ‘n koerant berig.

Beeld berig die moordenaar se prokureur, Marius Coertze, het gesê sy vrou, Gaye Derby-Lewis, het aansoek om mediese parool gedoen.

Coertze het bygevoeg dat mev. Derby-Lewis die aansoek met die media sal bespreek.

Die provinsiale departement van korrektiewe dienste kon nie onmiddellik vir kommentaar bereik word nie.

Mev. Derby-Lewis het verlede maand gesê sy sal die dokumente vir die aansoek indien, aangesien haar man aan kanker en gangreen in een been ly.

Mnr. Derby-Lewis (76) is verlede jaar normale parool geweier.

Die parlementslid van die apartheid-era se Konserwatiewe Party is tot 25 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis vir sy aandeel in die moord op Chris Hani, sekretarisgeneraal van die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunisteparty, in 1993.

Hy het die vuurwapen aan Janusz Walus, wat dieselfde straf uitdien, verskaf.

Beide Walus en Derby-Lewis is aanvanklik die doodstraf opgelê. Hul vonnisse is later na lewenslange tronkstraf omgesit nadat die doodstraf afgeskaf is.

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Derby-Lewis-se-vrou-doen-aansoek-om-mediese-parool-20120928

Huishulpe aangekeer ná beweerde dade met kleuters

2012-09-28 10:05

Tom de Wet

THEUNISSEN. – Twee huishulpe van ’n bekende landbou-en-sakefamilie hier is deur die polisie in hegtenis geneem ná die beweerde seksuele molestering en verkragting van ses niggies en nefies.
Dié misdade, wat glo in die kinders se speelhuisie op die grootouers se plaas gebeur het, het na bewering reeds ’n maand gelede begin.

Nadat die skokkende ontdekking gedoen is, is die kinders vandeesweek deur ’n pediater in Bloemfontein ondersoek, asook deur personeel by die Kopano-kliniek vir seksuele slagoffers in Welkom.

Die dokter het bevind dat penetrasie met voorwerpe wel plaasgevind het en dat al die kinders erge infeksie by hul privaatdele het.

Die kinders, vyf seuntjies en ’n meisie, is tussen 1 en 4 jaar oud.

Sers. Ian Gaobepe het by navraag gesê die pa van een van die seuntjies het Maandag op dié seuntjie en sy nefie in die speelhuisie afgekom waar die een die ander met die been van ’n plastiekpop gepenetreer het.

Die kinders is aangespreek en die aand by die onderskeie huise is die kinders oor die gebeure uitgevra. Hulle het toe gesê dat hulle ’n speletjie speel wat die twee kinderoppassers aan hulle geleer het.

Die kleinkinders was onder dié twee vroue se sorg terwyl hul ouers daagliks by hul siek ma in die hospitaal gekuier het.

Uit verdere ondervraging van die kinders het dit geblyk dat die twee vroue glo eers die dade met mekaar voor die kinders gepleeg het en die kinders toe gewys is hoe en wat om te doen.

Die plastiekpop, ’n teddiebeer en stukke dun hout is glo in die seksuele aanrandings gebruik.

Voordat die seksuele misbruik ontdek is, het die meisietjie se ma die infeksie by haar opgemerk en behandel. Eers nadat die gebeure aan die lig gekom het, is besef wat die oorsaak daarvan is.

Die vroue, 20 en 35 jaar oud, bly in aanhouding en sal op 11 Oktober weer in die hof verskyn. Die uitslag van die finale doktersverslag sal bepaal of klagte van verkragting by dié van seksuele molestering gevoeg sal word.

’n Familievriend het gister aan Volksblad gesê die gesinne is uiters ontsteld. Hulle hoop dat die ondersoek spoedig afgehandel word om die kinders verdere trauma te spaar en dat die gereg sy loop sal neem.

- Volksblad

http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Huishulpe-aangekeer-na-beweerde-dade-met-kleuters-20120928

Elderly women brutally raped and murdered

18 September 2012 | Johan Meyer

Six men have been arrested in connection with the brutal rape and murder of two women in Westonaria.
Westonaria police was notified of a house robbery in Edwards Street, Westonaria on 15 September just before 9am and was told on arrival by a neighbour that they received reports of an injured woman in the house.
Police were forced to break the lock to gain entry into the house.
According to Westonaria Police Spokesperson, Constable Thembi Masango, officers were shocked at what they found when they entered the house.
"When they entered the house, they found the body of a woman, later established to be 56-years old, lying on her back in a pool of blood," says Masango.
"Her pyjama trousers were pulled down below her knees and her hands were tied behind her back.
"She had suffered wounds on her left eye and forehead."
Eyewitnesses on the scene told the Herald that the woman had been bludgeoned to death, but police were unable to confirm this.
Masango says that the other occupant of the house, an 86-year-old woman was lucky to survive the attack.
"She was severely assaulted and raped, but luckily not killed," says Masango.
"She was rushed to the Krugersdorp Private Hospital."
According to Masango, police investigations showed that the suspects had stolen the victim's car, jewellery, cellular phones, and other valuables.
Police managed to trace the car to Poortjie near Sebokeng, where one suspect was arrested.
"Officers managed to get the information of all the other suspects and by the end of the day, all six men were in custody and all the stolen goods recovered," says Masango.
The men, all aged between 20 and 53, face charges of house robbery, murder, attempted murder and rape.

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/randfontein-westonaria/randfontein-westonaria-news-crime?oid=6205647&sn=Detail&pid=489914&Elderly-women-brutally-raped-and-murdered

‘Vat grond van wittes’, MRK ondersoek

Die Mensregtekommissie (MRK) sê hy sal Phatekile Holomisa, voorsitter van die kongres vir tradisionele leiers (Contralesa), ondersoek nadat hy glo gesê het dat Suid-Afrikaners grond van wittes moet terugeis.
Isaan Mangena, woordvoerder van die kommissie, sê die Afrikanerbond het ʼn klag teen Holomisa gelê. Mangena sê die saak is onder hulle aandag gebring en dat hulle dit ondersoek. Holomisa het glo die uitlatings gemaak tydens die McGregor Mgolombana gedenklesing in die Oos-Kaap waarna die SABC daaroor berig het. Volgens die berig van die SABC, het Holomisa gesê grond is nie van swart mense gekoop as dit onder dwang deur wit mense afgeneem is nie. “Ons moet onsself volgende jaar voorberei vir ‘n stryd vir grondhervorming sodat ons nie meer situasies het waar 87% van grond in blankes se besit is en 13% deur swart mense beset word nie,” het Holomisa glo gesê. Jan Bosman, hoofsekretaris van die Afrikanerbond, sê Holomisa se uitlatings is aanhitsing tot geweld. Bosman sê sy uitlatings is ook verkondiging van haat aangesien hy verwys het na ras. Holomisa sê die staat het nie die geld om grond terug te koop van wit mense en dit onder swart mense te verdeel nie. Hy het bygevoeg dat elke swart mens geregtig is op ‘n stuk grond sodat individue huise kan bou en kos vir hul families kan produseer.

http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/vat-grond-van-wittes-mrk-ondersoek/

Raadslede van SAA bedank

2012-09-28 09:35

 

Johannesburg – Agt raadslede van die Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAA) het bedank.

Cheryl Carolus, voorsitter van SAA se raad, sê sy het geen ander opsie as om uit te tree, gehad nie.

Die SABC berig Carolus en agt van die 14 lede van die raad het bedank. Hul bedankings kom nadat Russell Loubser, voormalige uitvoerende hoof van die JSE en ‘n lid van SAA se raad, ook uitgetree het.

Carolus sê sy respekteer die lugredery, die regering en die land, maar dat die situasie rondom die raad heeltemal onhoudbaar geraak het.

“Ons reputasie en professionele integriteit is deur die modder gesleep sonder enige verduideliking of ondersteuning van aandeelhouers.”

Intussen het die departement van openbare ondernemings gesê hy is nie bewus van die raadslede se bedankings nie.

 

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Sake/Nuus/Raadslede-van-SAA-bedank-20120928

Transport strike hits ATMs

Sep 28 2012 16:00Fin24

Cape Town - The transport strike, which is already causing damage to the economy by interrupting delivery of fuel and urgently needed items across all sectors, has now hit banking clients.

Capitec Bank Holdings [JSE:CPI] said in an SMS to clients on Friday that the transport strike is limiting cash to ATMs.

Online retailer Kalahari.net also warned consumers of a delay in purchase deliveries due to the strike.

South Africa has been hit by an often violent strike of about 20 000 workers in the road freight transport sector over wages since September 24.

The South African Express Parcel Association (SAEPA), which strongly condemned the violence and intimidation accompanying the truckers strike, said the labour action is having a huge impact on the economy.

"The strike is interrupting deliveries of fuel and urgently needed items which mining, manufacturing and agriculture rely on to keep the economy growing.

"It is causing lost productivity and lasting damage to the economy.

"It also puts at risk members of the public dependent on express delivery for urgently needed medication and other vital items," said SAEPA.

Capitec advised clients to buy and pay accounts by card as well as draw cash at supermarkets. Although card payments incur no costs, supermarket withdrawals will cost clients R1, no matter how much they draw.

Capitec's SMS reads "buy/pay accounts by card - no fees or get cash @ supermarkets - R1! (limits may apply)".

In its "Truck drivers’ strike notice", Kalahari.net said "the current transport workers’ strike may cause a disruption to our normal delivery. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."

http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Transport-strike-hits-ATMs-20120928

Zuma: SA stuur dalk soldate na Mali

2012-09-28 10:45

 

Parys – Suid-Afrika kan dalk soldate na Mali se noorde stuur om ‘n Wes-Afrika militêre mag, wat wag op goedkeuring van die Verenigde Nasies, te ondersteun.

Die militêre mag sal teen rebelle in Mali se noorde baklei wat beheer oor die deel van die land geneem het.

“As die VN ‘n besluit neem dink en nie sal ons moeilikheid hê om soldate oor te stuur om die probleem te help oplos nie,” het president Jacob Zuma aan France 24 gesê.

“Ons het al voorheen soldate aan Afrika-lande verskaf.”

Mali is Maart in chaos gedompel toe rebelle die presidensie omvergewerp het en beheer oor die noorde van die land geneem het.

Mali het die Verenigde Nasies by hul nasionale vergadering gevra om onmiddellik ‘n mandaat goed te keur wat internasionale magte sal toelaat om te help om die noorde van die land terug te wen.

 

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Afrika/Nuus/Zuma-SA-stuur-dalk-soldate-na-Mali-20120928

Remove Zuma as president, Malema urges

2012-09-26 13:16

 

 

Polokwane - Expelled ANCYL president Julius Malema told his supporters on Wednesday that they needed to make sure President Jacob Zuma was not re-elected at the ANC's national conference in Mangaung.

Malema, who was speaking after being officially charged with money laundering at the Polokwane Regional court, and subsequently released on R10 000 bail, said Zuma must be removed as president.
"We must make sure Jacob Zuma does not become president of the ANC," he told supporters.
"Zuma has 700 charges against him. I only have one."

He said Zuma had to be officially charged and arrested.

Innocence
Proclaiming his innocence, Malema said: "Comrades... we are happy our charges are here. We are prepared to answer any questions and every question... because we are not hiding anything," he said.

"Only criminals run away from the court."
He thanked the crowd for its support and for a night vigil held for him on Tuesday.
Malema also thanked his family, and especially his grandmother, who he said continued to receive threats.

"She has always said to me... if you believe in it, continue to fight for it."

He thanked the ANC provincial leadership for supporting him against "politically motivated charges".

"All of you, your efforts are recognised," he said.

He also thanked his lawyer, who he said had represented him despite criticism from other white people.

"They want justice to be served. That is why they took a decision to represent me... and my team will be victorious."

- SAPA

 

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Remove-Zuma-as-president-Malema-urges-20120926

Malema-ondersteuners sing 'skiet Zuma'

2012-09-25 22:46

 

Johannesburg – ‘n Groep mense wat tydens ‘n nagwaak vir Julius Malema saamgekom het, het ‘n weergawe van “'dubula ibhunu” (skiet die boer) gesing waarin die lirieke in Zoeloe verander is na “skiet Zuma”.

Floyd Shivambu, die geskorste woordvoerder van die ANC-jeugliga, het ook Dinsdagaand by die Nirvana-gemeenskapsaal in Polokwane saamgekom om die nagwaak vir sy kollega by te woon.

Shivambu het buite die saal gestaan terwyl Malema-ondersteuners liedjies gesing het wat die spot dryf met Jacob Zuma.

Jongmense in die saal het ‘n Pedi-lied gesing, wat vertaal kan word na “stortman gee ons probleme... Malema, bid asseblief vir ons”.

Terwyl hulle gesing het, het hulle gebare met hul hande gemaak wat ‘n stortkop uitbeeld.

Teen 21:00 het geen busse nog opgedaag nie, maar die getal mense het stelselmatig begin toeneem.

Kyk hier na 'n video van die mense wat "skiet op Zuma" sing.



http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Malema-ondersteuners-sing-skiet-Zuma-by-nagwaak-20120925

SANDF in big trouble

GRAEME HOSKEN | 25 September, 2012 00:26

South African National Defense soldiers (SANDF)
Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS

The SA National Defence Force is on the verge of collapse.

With dwindling budgets, an exodus of highly-skilled technical staff and reduced spending on training and equipment, the defence force - according to military experts - can barely meet its constitutional obligations.
Increasing international demands and frequent internal deployments - such as the recent presidential announcement of the deployment of hundreds of troops on crime fighting operations over the next four months - is putting further strain on the already overstretched armed services.
The army has nearly 2000 troops on peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan, and military trainers in the Central African Republic and the DRC.
The defence force has military observers deployed under the AU and UN flags in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The navy has a frigate, and air force personnel and aircraft, in the Mozambican channel and Mozambique deployed on anti-piracy operations.
Military analyst Helmoed Heitman said the defence force was now collapsing.
"We have huge sections of the budget spent on salaries, with equipment and training left lacking. We are hopelessly short on manpower - 20000 troops too few - and porous borders that cannot be guarded properly," he said.
"We have pilots who can't fly [sufficient] hours, troops who have been given limits on the amount of ammunition they can use in training, and equipment, such as our frigates, which cannot be maintained because there is no proper budget.
"The defence force is collapsing. If drastic action is not taken soon, in the next three years it will be beyond recovery."
The Defence Department received just over R34-billion last year from the Treasury. Its current budget of R37-billion is expected to increase to R39-billion in the 2013-2014 financial year. Professor Renfrew Christie, dean of research at the University of Western Cape, said the military's budget needed a drastic increase.
"We spend 1% of our gross national product on defence. We need a military capable of looking after our country with the time now coming to increase spending to 2% of GDP," Christie said. "To do our duty, we need a bigger and better equipped military. The option of downscaling our involvement north of our borders is not an option.
"Protecting our country and its borders is far bigger than just putting up fences," he said.
Retired admiral Chris Bennett, the former naval chief of staff, said the massive "poaching" of technical staff had led to numerous crises in the navy.
"Our military, especially on the technical side, is being bled dry by both public and private industries, as well as by foreign militaries.
"Though the navy until now has managed to stay afloat, things are beginning to bite," he said.
"The right funding has not been given to the military [which is] being required more and more by parliament to do things [parliament is] not prepared to pay for.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/09/25/sandf-in-big-trouble

Die Boere-Afrikanervolk is nie die kleinste volk nie

September 25, 2012
Suid-Afrika se oppervlakte beslaan 1 221 000 vierkante kilometer en het amptelik volgens die statistiekdiens 50 586 751 burgers. Van die bykans 50 miljoen burgers is 23 181 997 stem geregtig. Dit beteken daar is 52,67 vierkante meter grond vir elke stem geregtige in Suid Afrika.
Die Boere-Afrikanervolksraad het ‘n mandaat van sowat 40 000 kiesers ontvang op 24 September 2011 om namens hulle ‘n eis om selfbeskikking in te stel. Dit sou beteken dat die volksraad namens hierdie kiesers om 2 106,81 vierkante kilometer grond kan aanspraak maak. Om dit in perspektief te stel, die groter Pretoria gebied is 1 644 vierkante kilometer groot en huisves 2 345 908 mense.
Wat state betref, het Monaco 35 986 burgers en is slegs 2 vierkante kilometer “groot”. Monaco is egter nie die kleinste onafhanklike staat nie, die Vatikaanstad wat minder as ‘n halwe vierkante kilometer groot is, is die kleinste. Daar is in werklikheid 69 onafhanklike state in die wêreld wat kleiner is as 2106,86 vierkante kilometer. Daar is ook 43 state in die wêreld met ‘n burgery van minder as 100 000.
Dit sal dus beteken dat die onafhanklike staat van die Boere-Afrikanervolk nie die kleinste sal wees nie en ook nie die kleinste bevolking sal he nie. Ook moet daar in ag geneem word dat 40 000 kiesers verteenwoordig n bevolking, of dan burgery van ongeveer 100 000 aangesien kiesers natuurlik ook minderjarige kinders het wat nie stem geregtig was tydens die verkiesing nie.
Hierdie bevolking is groter as die Boere bevolking van die ZAR tydens die ABO. En hulle het kans gesien om die magtigste Empire in die wêreld die stryd aan te sê!
Die Boere van die ZAR het egter eers die vreedsame diplomatieke pad gestap. ‘n Moeisame, tydrowende pad. Ook die nuut verkose Volksraad stap tans daardie vreedsame diplomatieke pad. Maar dit is onvermydelik.
Die eerste been van daardie pad is nou vir alle praktiese doeleindes afgehandel. Die ANC regime het deur hul stilswye te kenne gegee dat hul nie belangstel in ‘n vreedsame oplossing nie. Nou is dit in die hande van die internasionale gemeenskap om die saak te besleg deur druk op die regime te plaas. Vanuit Australië en Nederland was daar reeds oproepe om sanksies teen die regime te plaas en die internasionale kriminele hof in den Haag is tans besig om die Boere-Afrikaner se klag van volksmoord wat deur die Verkenners gele is, te ondersoek.
Die druk op die internasionale gemeenskap moet nou verhoog word, om druk op die regime te plaas. Die alternatief is internasionale bemiddeling.
Die Boere-Afrikaner is nou by Magersfontein. Nou moet daar koelkop gebly word. Nou moet daar geduld gebruik word.
Piet Poltlood

http://www.dievryburger.co.za/2012/09/die-boere-afrikanervolk-is-nie-die-kleinste-volk-nie/

Gold Fields obtain urgent interdict as strike spreads

Sapa | 25 September, 2012 16:39

A mine worker holds a placard before taking part in a march outside the Anglo American mine in South Africa's North West Province, September 12, 2012.
Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS

Gold Fields has obtained an urgent interdict against strikes at its operations, the company said on Monday.

"The company has received urgent interdicts for KDC West as well as Beatrix West, and is applying for an interdict for the remainder of the Beatrix mine," said spokesman Willie Jacobsz.
He said the company was evaluating all options to deal with the unlawful strikes.
Workers at KDC West (formerly Driefontein) went on an unprotected strike on September 9, demanding a monthly pay of R12,500 after deductions.
The strike spread to the West Section of Beatrix (formerly Oryx Mine) on Friday, and to the rest of the mine by Monday.
"The large majority of the 15,000 employees at KDC West and 9000 employees at Beatrix are participating in the unlawful strikes, and production has been halted at both operations," said Jacobsz.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/09/25/gold-fields-obtain-urgent-interdict-as-strike-spreads

Iran threatens to attack US bases if war erupts

Published: 24 September, 2012, 23:08

AFP Photo / Fars News / Mehdi Hadifar

Iranian officials say they aren't scared of Israel’s threats of a military assault aimed at their rumored nuclear warhead program, but a senior officer in Iran's Revolutionary Guard says such a strike would warrant retaliation against US bases.

Should Israel make good with its warning of using military force to take down an Iranian nuke procurement plan, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says that the response will be costly for the United States military, even if America does not endorse a unilateral strike on Iran.
Gen. Hajizadeh explains in a statement this week that America’s continuing support of Israel is enough to associate them with any attack waged against Iran, even if the US has officially condemned any plans to put boots in the ground to dismantle the rumored nuclear program.
"For this reason, we will enter a confrontation with both parties and will definitely be at war with American bases should a war break out," Hajizadeh says, according to a post on Iran's state Al-Alam TV.
Hajizadeh adds that among the US facilities that would be targeted are structures in Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan.
"There will be no neutral country in the region," Hajizadeh says. "To us, these bases are equal to US soil."
Israeli officials continue to make a case that Iran is working towards obtaining a nuclear warhead and have repeatedly pleaded with the United States to intervene, but Iranian authorities insist that any research being done is for peaceful purposes.
Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel,” and once more pressured US President Barack Obama to announce America’s cooperation in an attack against Iran.
Although President Obama refused to intervene at this time, over the weekend he told CBS’ 60 Minutes news program that he understands Israel’s plea but must put the national security of the US first above their ally’s request.
“When it comes to our national security decisions — any pressure that I feel is simply to do what’s right for the American people. And I am going to block out—any noise that’s out there. Now I feel an obligation, not pressure but obligation, to make sure that we’re in close consultation with the Israelis — on these issues. Because it affects them deeply. They’re one of our closest allies in the region. And we’ve got an Iranian regime that has said horrible things that directly threaten Israel’s existence,” the president told 60 Minutes.
On Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commented on the conflict from the United Nations headquarters in New York City, refusing to call Israel by name and rejecting their warnings.
"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists. … We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves," Ahmadinejad said.
"We don't even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated," the president added.
President Ahmadinejad had arrived in New York to participate in the UN General Assembly’s annual discussion for the last time as president, as Iranian rules forbid him from running for another term. He is not scheduled to deliver a speech until Wednesday, but ahead of that address he said he remains open for discussions with the United States.
"The nuclear issue is not a problem. But the approach of the United States on Iran is important. We are ready for dialogue, for a fundamental resolution of the problems, but under conditions that are based on fairness and mutual respect,” Ahmadinejad said.
"We are not expecting a 33-year-old problem between the United States and Iran to be resolved in a speedy fashion. But there is no other way besides dialogue.”

http://rt.com/usa/news/iran-us-bases-israel-889/

Staking kan petroltekort veroorsaak

2012-09-25 09:44

 

Kaapstad – 'n Landwye staking deur vragmotorbestuurders is in volle swang, het die SABC berig.

Nagenoeg 60 000 vragmotorbestuurders het Maandag begin staak.

Volgens berigte gaan KwaZulu-Natal die ergste deur die staking geraak word.

Die staking gaan na verwagting ook die skeepsbedryf raak en kommer heers oor brandstoftekorte oor die land heen indien die staking vir 'n tyd voortduur.

June Dube, adjunkpresident van die SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Satawu), sê hulle eis 'n verhoging van 10% terwyl werkgewers 7% aanbied.

 

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Sake/Nuus/Staking-kan-petroltekort-veroorsaak-20120925

Stakers gooi klippe na vragmotors

2012-09-25 15:10

 

Johannesburg – Stakende vragmotorbestuurders in die Johannesburgse middestad het Dinsdag klippe na verbygaande vragmotors gegooi, het die metropolisie gesê.

"Die vragmotors het verby Beyers Naudé-plein gery waar die vragmotorbestuurders betoog," het hoofsupt. Wayne Minnaar gesê.

"Maatskappye word versoek om aan hul werknemers te sê om nie enige vragmotors na die Johannesburgse middestad te stuur nie om enige verdere geweld te vermy en ook dat vragmotors beskadig word."

Die SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Satawu) het vroeër gesê meer as 20 000 werknemers van die Padvragvereniging het Dinsdag gestaak oor 'n salarisverhoging.

Werknemers van die Padvragvereniging, wat vragmotorbestuurders insluit, eis 'n 12% verhoging. Hul werkgewers het 8,5% aangebied.

Volgens Satawu het die staking begin nadat salarisonderhandelings met werkgewers 'n dooiepunt bereik het.

Vincent Masoga, woordvoerder van Satawu, het gesê geen betogings word vir Dinsdag beplan nie maar werkers sal by Beyers Naudé-plein bymekaarkom vir nuus oor die onderhandelings.

Minnaar het gesê verkeer word van Simmondsstraat en Pritchardstraat herlei asook by die kruising van Harrison- en Pritchardstrate en President- en Sauerstraat.

 

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Stakers-gooi-klippe-na-vragmotors-20120925

‘Vrystaat stort in duie’

2012-09-21 05:55

DIE Vrystaat is besig om in duie te stort en die kommerwekkende misdaadstatistieke wat gister bekend gemaak is, is net nog ’n bewys daarvan, sê opposisiepartye en inwoners.
Regeringswoordvoerders het gister vrae hieroor gesystap en gesê misdaadbekamping is nie net hul verantwoordelikheid nie.

Roy Jankielsohn, DA-LW en dié party se woordvoerder oor polisie in die Vrystaat, het gesê misdaad bly ’n groot probleem en hy twyfel of dit binnekort sal afneem.

Jankielsohn het vroeër in die Vrystaatse wetgewer gesê die provinsiale regering is self “’n netwerk van misdaadsindikate” en het verwys na beweerde korrupsie en ander ongerymdhede.

Volgens die statistieke het die meeste misdade in die Vrystaat toegeneem. Dit sluit in motor- en vragmotorkapings, roof met verswarende omstandighede, witboordjiemisdade, veediefstal, ontvoering en seksmisdade wat in ’n jaar met onderskeidelik nagenoeg 20,94% en 100%, 10,26%, 59,07%, 6,24%, 44,29% en 1,84% gestyg het.

Die Vrystaat se moordsyfer (963) is presies dieselfde as die vorige jaar.

Jankielsohn sê plaasaanvalle en -moorde word nie spesifiek gemeld nie, maar dit lyk asof dié misdade meer in die Vrystaat as elders voorkom.

Die nuutste misdaadstatistieke is verteenwoordigend van die tydperk tussen April 2011 en Maart vanjaar.

Jankielsohn sê ekonomiese ontwikkeling in die Vrystaat word deur van die misdade belemmer, want sakelui en beleggers verloor vertroue in die provinsie.

Dié statistieke is volgens hom net een van die bewyse dat die provinsie “teen ’n redelike tempo” agteruitgaan.

Prostitusie en die aantal kinders betrokke by satanisme, wat moontlik verband met van die misdade hou en deel van die algehele verval is, word volgens Jankielsohn nie in die misdaadstatistieke vervat nie.

Mzwandile Hleko, Cope-LW en dié party se woordvoerder oor polisie in die Vrystaat, sê die ANC-leierskap het inwoners in die steek gelaat.

Abrie Oosthuizen, leier van die VF+ in die provinsie, sê misdaad in die Vrystaat is dalk erger as wat deur die statistieke weer­spieël word.

Volgens hom kom baie misdade weens swak ondersoekwerk en ’n gebrek aan hulpbronne in die polisiediens nooit in die hof nie en word nie by die statistieke ingesluit nie.

Wisani Ngobeni, segsman van die Vrystaatse premier, Ace Magashule, sê mense wat meen die provinsie gaan agteruit, moet met bewyse vorendag kom.

Hy sê die provinsiale regering het verskeie programme, onder meer die toekenning van studiebeurse en oprigting van veeldoelige sportsentrums, wat duisende jong mense van die strate af hou en dus help om misdaad te voorkom.

Volgens Ngobeni is dit nie net die regering se verantwoordelikheid om misdaad te voorkom nie, maar almal, insluitend opposisiepartye, geloofsleiers en Volksblad, s’n.

Zolile Walaza, woordvoerder van die provinsiale departement van polisie, paaie en vervoer, sê die LUR, Butana Komphela, was gister in Kaapstad met die bekendstelling van die misdaadstatistieke. Hy moet volgens Walaza eers met die polisiebestuur vergader en na “hul kant van die storie” luister voordat hy kommentaar kan lewer.

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Misdaad raak ménse. In koeranttaal is dit ’n méns-storie. Maar misdaad in Suid-Afrika – wáár dit plaasvind en veral die neigings wat oor jare vorm – is ook ’n sýfer-storie: ’n statistieke-storie. Daarom het Media24 se digitale nuusspan ’n webwerf gebou waar jy op jou eie tyd die jongste amptelike misdaadstatistieke op ’n interaktiewe landkaart en in die konteks van vorige jare se statistieke kan ondersoek. Besoek die misdaadwerf hier.

- Volksblad

http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vrystaat-stort-in-duie-20120920

Iran would clobber Israel within 24 hours: Cmdr.

IRGC troops march during a military parade near Tehran. (file photo)

Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:32PM

A regime [with a frontier] that in some spots is only 24 kilometers wide could have its back broken by one of our infantry battalions in 24 hours."

IRGC deputy commander, Brigadier General Hossein Salami

The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Islamic Republic can annihilate the Zionist regime of Israel in 24 hours.

“A regime [with a frontier] that in some spots is only 24 kilometers wide could have its back broken by one of our infantry battalions in 24 hours,” Brigadier General Hossein Salami told an Iranian television station on Sunday.

“Our defense strategy assumption is that we would enter an all-out war with a US-led global coalition,” the general said, adding, “We have already identified the vital interests of the enemies and established an invasive power structure to destroy these vital interests.”

“We know that the enemy bases in the region, the security of the Zionist regime, energy supply security and protecting the life of enemy troops constitute the vital interest of the enemy,” General Salami noted.

“Our strategic doctrines are all defensive, but our tactics are invasive. It means that we do not initiate any war, but if anyone wages a war against us, we will counterattack incessantly and will not stop,” he warned adding, “The enemy could initiate a war, but its ending would be up to us”.

He also underscored the precision of IRGC-developed missiles, saying, “Our missiles are capable of targeting enemy bases in the region, at any range, with high destruction capabilities. We have mastered the knowledge of developing all modern missiles.”

Israel is stepping up threats of carrying out a unilateral strike against Iran’s nuclear energy facilities before the US presidential election on November 6. However, the US opposes any Israeli military action at the current juncture.

Israeli threats are based on the unsubstantiated claims that the peaceful nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic have been diverted to the acquisition of military nuclear capability.

The Iranian officials have promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.

KA/PKH/AZ

Corrie Sanders sterf ná restaurant-roof

2012-09-23 08:08

 

Corrie Sanders. (Joyrene Kramer)

 

Johannesburg – Die voormalige swaargewig-bokskampioen Corrie Sanders is dood ná hy Saterdagaand in die maag gewond is tydens ’n gewapende roof buite Brits, het die weekblad Rapport berig.

Kallie Kriel, voorsitter van die burgerregte-organisasie AfriForum, was toevallig op dieselfde tyd by dié restaurant, Thatch Haven.

“Ons was op pad huis toe na ’n krieketwedstryd van my seun. Die kinders het ingehardloop gekom en gesê die skote het geklap en die koeëls het net bokant hulle koppe getref,” het Kriel volgens die koerant gesê.

Kriel het Sanders buite die restaurant op die grond aangetref.

“Die man was in baie pyn,” het hy gesê.

Ser. Kelebogile Moiloa, 'n polisiewoordvoerder, het bevestig dat daar ’n skietery was en dat een man gewond is.

Sanders is na die Kala­fong-hospitaal buite Pretoria oorgeplaas omdat hy ernstig gewond is.

Die polisie ondersoek sake van poging tot moord en gewapende roof teen drie verdagtes, maar niemand is in dié stadium in hegtenis geneem nie.

Rapport het Sondagoggend berig dat Saunders later beswyk het aan sy wonde.

 

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Sport/AnderSport/Oud-bokskampioen-in-maag-geskiet-sterf-20120923#.UF8MigPdZN4.facebook

Malema owes Sars sixteen million rand

Sapa | 23 September, 2012 10:08

Expelled African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema
Image by: STRINGER / REUTERS

The SA Revenue Service (Sars) has obtained a R16 million judgement against former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema for unpaid taxes

The judgment was obtained in the High Court in Pretoria on September 11, City Press reported.
Malema did not oppose the application by Sars.
Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay confirmed the judgment against Malema for R16 million was obtained.
He told the newspaper the amount included unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.
Lackay said he could not give any more details of Malema's tax affairs because a "taxpayer's confidentiality is a legal obligation imposed on Sars".
According to the report Sars was about to seize Malema's property and assets in Gauteng and Limpopo.
Alan Lewis, a tax law consultant and advocate, told City Press the judgment showed two things: Malema had a "hell of a lot of money" and he was in deep trouble.
Lewis, a former Sars employee, said the revenue service would most likely hand the judgment to a sheriff of the court, who would attach Malema's properties and assets.
Sars started looking into Malema's tax affairs last year after it was revealed that he was linked to companies which had obtained lucrative contracts from the Limpopo provincial government.
Millions of rands were channelled through Malema's Ratanang Family Trust, according to the report.

Regering verwag groot stygings

Deur: Jan-Jan Joubert2012-09-22 05:55

KAAPSTAD. – Die regering gaan ingryp om die invloed van die verwagte kwaai wêreldwye styging in die koste van vleis- en graanprodukte op Suid-Afrikaanse verbruikers te verminder.
Die ongekende droogte in die Amerikaanse midwestelike state – in die voertaal bekend as die broodmandjie – sal na verwagting die kleinste opbrengs in dekades oplewer uit dié streek, wat van die wêreld se vrugbaarste landbougrond bevat.
Dit sal na verwagting, onder meer deur die domino-effek dat kos van elders bekom sal moet word vir die reusagtige Amerikaanse mark, tot gevolg hê dat voedselpryse wêreldwyd skerp sal styg, veral waar graan en vleis betrokke is.
Ronald Ramabulana, Suid-Afrikaanse regeringswoordvoerder, het gister op ’n mediakonferensie gesê die kabinet is Woensdag op sy gewone tweeweeklikse vergadering voorgelig oor verwagte toekomstendense in voedselpryse.
’n Nuwe interministeriële taakspan oor voedselsekerheid is in die lewe geroep om met voorstelle vorendag te kom.
Die land se bestaande geïntegreerde voedselstrategie sal onder meer aangepas word, veral betreffende die hantering van prysstygings.
Die grootste vrees is dat arm Suid-Afrikaners aan die pen kan ry as hulle gewoon nie meer vleis of graanprodukte te ete kry omdat hulle dit nie kan bekostig nie.
Een van die ingrypings wat oorweeg word, is om die skoolvoedingsprogram uit te brei sodat die armstes ook in vakansietye gevoed word.
Voedselbanke vir armes is nog ’n voorstel wat reeds aan die hand gegee is, het Ramabulana gesê.
Verdere besonderhede sal mettertyd deur die interministeriële taakspan aangekondig word.
Volksblad

http://m.news24.com/volksblad/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Regering-verwag-groot-stygings-20120921

Malema warrant is politically motivated – Magaqa

2012-09-22 17:17

Sindiso Magaqa and Julius Malema. Picture: Brett Steele

 

The issuing of a warrant of arrest for expelled ANC Youth League President Julius Malema was politically motivated, former ANCYL secretary general Sindiso Magaqa said.

Magaqa, speaking in his capacity as a member of the Friends of the Youth League, told eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) today he did not know what charges Malema would face. He believed the charges were trumped up to serve political purposes.

“There is nothing substantive about these charges, these charges are brought to fight political battles in the ANC,” he said.

Malema’s allies were not shaken by the move, because they knew there was “an orchestrated campaign to silence him,” Magaqa said.

The timing of the warrant – two weeks before nominations are opened before the ANC elective conference in Mangaung and shortly after the Marikana shooting – raised suspicions about the intentions behind it. He said the youth would rally in support of Malema.

“Young people will react, young people will defend the leader that represents their interests.” Magaqa said the battle for economic liberation would not be stopped by the arrest warrant.

“We are focusing our programme. We will be in each and every mine, each and every society agitating people to liberate themselves so that at the end of the day their children will be economically liberated.”

Malema is expected to appear in a Polokwane court on Wednesday. eNCA said in an unsourced report that Malema would hand himself over to authorities on Wednesday. His attorney, Nicqui Galaktiou, could not immediately be reached to confirm this.

City Press reported yesterday that Malema faced charges of money laundering, corruption and fraud relating to his Ratanang Family Trust and its shareholding in On-Point Engineering, a company that allegedly made millions from Limpopo government tenders.

On Tuesday, Malema told reporters in Johannesburg if he was arrested, it would be done illegally. He said he was willing and ready to go to jail, and was not intimidated.

- SAPA

http://www.citypress.co.za/Politics/News/Malema-warrant-is-politically-motivated-Magaqa-20120922

Polisiebeamptes vir roof in hegtenis geneem

2012-09-10 17:25

Kaapstad – Drie polisiebeamptes van die Moederstad is in hegtenis geneem nadat hulle na bewering ‘n snoepwinkel in Kraaifontein, Kaapstad, beroof het, het die Wes-Kaapse polisie gesê.

Ao. November Filander sê die beamptes van die Steenberg-polisiestasie is Sondag vasgetrek.

Die mans het verlede week na bewering ‘n Somaliër se snoepwinkel in Scotsdene, Kraaifontein, beroof terwyl hulle aan diens was.

http://m.news24.com/nuus24/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Polisiebeamptes-vir-roof-in-hegtenis-geneem-20120910

Oud-bokskampioen geskiet in rooftog by restaurant

Deur: Hanri Wondergem
2012-09-22 23:13

Voormalige swaargewig-bokskampioen, Corrie Sanders is gisteraand omstreeks 18:00 in die maag gewond tydens ’n gewapende roof buite Brits.

Kallie Kriel, voorsitter van die burgerregtelike organisasie, AfriForum, was toevallig by dieselfde restaurant, Thatch Haven, op dieselfde tyd.

“Ons was oppad huis toe na ’n krieketwedstryd van my seun. Die kinders het ingehardloop gekom en gesê die skote het geklap en die koeëls het net bokant hulle koppe getref,” vertel Kriel.

Kriel is na buite waar hy vir Sanders op die grond aangetref het.

“Die man was in baie pyn. Ek hoop hy is orraait.”

Kriel se hy het van omstanders verneem dat daar ’n een en twintigste verjaardagpartytjie was en dat die rowers daar selfone en beursies gesteel het.

Kriel se seun, C.M. (14) en ses van sy vriende het die voorval gesien.

Hulle is in Eldoraigne Hoërskool in Pretoria en het gister teen Hoërskool Wagpos in Brits krieket gespeel.

Volgens Kriel is die seuns baie getraumatiseerd.

“Die kinders hoor altyd van die goed, maar mens hoop dat hulle dit nooit self sal beleef nie.”

Ser. Kelebogile Moiloa, polisiewoordvoerder, het bevestig dat daar wel ’n skietery was en dat een man gewond is.

Volgens haar is Sanders oorgeplaas na die Kala­fong-hospitaal buite Pretoria omdat hy ernstig gewond is. Die polisie ondersoek sake van poging tot moord en gewapende roof teen drie verdagtes. Teen druktyd was niemand nog in hegtenis geneem nie.

* Slegte nuus vanoggend (Sondagoggend): Corrie Saunders het in die Kalafong-hospitaal gesterf aan sy wonde. Besonderhede volg later.

http://m.news24.com/rapport/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Oud-bokskampioen-geskiet-in-rooftog-by-restaurant-20120922

Malema’s lawyer confirms warrant

2012-09-21 14:10

Julius Malema. Picture: Muntu Vilakazi/City Press

 

Adriaan Basson, Carien du Plessis and Sabelo Ndlangisa

Julius Malema’s lawyer has confirmed that a warrant for his arrest had been issued.

"We have received confirmation from the authorities that there is an arrest warrant issued for Mr Malema," Nicqui Galaktiou of Brian Kahn Attorneys told City Press.

She said they had not seen the warrant as yet but were busy discussing his court appearance next week with the authorities. Galaktiou said they were "likely to see the warrant after the weekend only".

City Press revealed earlier this afternoon that the arrest of the former ANC Youth League president was imminent.

Malema is expected to appear in court in Pretoria or Polokwane next week on charges of money laundering, corruption and fraud.

The case relates to his Ratanang Family Trust and its shareholding in On-Point Engineering, a company that has made millions from Limpopo government tenders.

It was still unclear whether Malema would be jailed before he appears in court. His lawyers previously urged the National Prosecuting Authority and the Hawks not to arrest him but to tell him when and where to appear in court.

Malema reiterated this week that he would appear in court if charged.

He told City Press he had “not heard anything. I think if there is such a thing, I will be open about it,” he said.

A source close to Malema, however, confirmed that they had heard about it and were waiting for further details. “The law enforcement agencies know his address,” he said.

Malema said if he were charged, he didn’t know what he would be charged with. “So far we don’t know what is the issue, whether it is money laundering, fraud, corruption,” he said.

“I am not the first person to be arrested,” Malema said, adding that this had happened to politicians before and that charges were dropped. This is an apparent reference to President Jacob Zuma, who at the time believed there was a political plot to get rid of him through prosecution and corruption charges.

The NPA and Hawks have said they won’t comment on the arrest warrant.

NPA spokesperson Bulelwa Makeka said they don’t respond on arrest warrants and will only comment once an accused have appeared in court.

The Sexual Pathology of the Libyan Attackers

 

Soon after the terrorist attack that left four Americans dead in Libya, reports began coming in that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not only murdered by the Muslim mob, but also sodomized both before and after his death, and his corpse dragged through the streets. This grotesque defilement was willfully suppressed by the mainstream media, who were focused like a laser on a much more horrific story: presidential candidate Mitt Romney talking like a conservative at a fundraiser. Thank goodness that in these difficult times we can count on the media to cover the news we really need to know.
As FrontPage Shillman Journalism Fellow Raymond Ibrahim writes,

Sexual abuse and degradation is a common tactic used against non-Muslims, especially women, as the repeatedly raped Lara Logan found… Nor are men immune from such rapes. In fact, the photos of Ambassador Stevens—stripped of clothes, bloodied and tortured right before he was killed—very much resemble the photos of Gaddafi right before he was killed. One U.S.-supported “freedom-fighter,” for example, can be seen sodomizing Gadaffi with a rod as others dragged him along.

Ibrahim finishes by noting that “the al-Qaeda affiliated men who sexually abused and killed Gaddafi are the same men who sexually abused and killed America’s ambassador.”
This revelation about the sexual denigration of the reportedly gay Ambassador Stevens raises several questions. First, when are so-called liberals going to shed the rose-tinted goggles of multiculturalism and get in touch with a righteous anger about a pathologically anti-gay, ragingly misogynist, mob culture that sexually violates and murders innocents?
When are American progressives, who whine about a mythical Republican War on Women, going to denounce this perverse sexual pathology in Arab culture? When are leftist academics, up in arms about the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogations of hardened terrorists, going to vent their fury against a culture that routinely commits sexual torture and mutilation?
Gay rights supporters work themselves into a lather over the Chick-Fil-A restaurant chain, which discriminates against neither gay employees nor gay customers. I suppose they’re unaware that most Arab and African nations walked out of an historic UN Human Rights Council debate on gay rights earlier this year, refusing to legitimize homosexuality. When are the “liberals” going to break their monastic silence about a theocratic culture that hangs gays from cranes, as in Iran, where President Ahmadinejad famously claimed they don’t have the problem of homosexuality there?
Obviously these are all rhetorical questions designed to underscore the left’s disgusting hypocrisy, because the answer to all of them is never. Breaking free of the mental bondage of multiculturalist indoctrination would cause the entire world view of leftists to come crashing down. They must cling to their delusion or risk a complete psychological meltdown.

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Zimbabwean Anglican bishop calls for ‘war against the white man’

admin | September 21, 2012 |

Dr. Nolbert Kunonga

The Church of England Newspaper reports that the former Bishop of Harare, Dr. Nolbert Kunonga, has urged Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe to expel the few remaining white farmers from their lands, telling a gathering of ZANU (PF) supporters that “Whites like other aliens should not be allowed to own land and other properties in the country as they are strangers.”

In an account of his sermon printed in The Zimbabwean, Dr. Kunonga said that he too had been engaged in a campaign of expropriating white-owned properties. “I took 3800 church properties in the region since their title deeds were in my name. There was no way the properties could remain under charge of the church controlled by whites and their black puppets. Bishops such as Julius Makoni, Chad Gandiwa and others are MDC-T and furthered western interests,” he said.

The controversial bishop, who was excommunicated by the Church of the Province of Central Africa after he quit the church to form his own Anglican Church of Zimbabwe, has waged a violent campaign of repression with the support of the security services against Anglicans who are loyal to the Bishop of Harare.

In 2011 the Archbishops of Canterbury, Central Africa, Southern Africa and Tanzania, along with local Anglican bishops, met with President Mugabe asking him to reassert the rule of law in Zimbabwe, and protect persecuted Anglicans from the depredations of Dr. Kunonga. The former bishop has been banned from travel to the U.S., the E.U. and the U.K. due to his complicity with the crimes of the Mugabe regime.

A long time supporter of the Zimbabwean president, Dr. Kunonga has campaigned against the opposition MDC party and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai. He told the gathering at the Dimbe Primary School near Marondera in Mashonaland East that MDC-T and “its western puppet, Morgan Tsvangirai, are agents of doom fighting to reverse the land reform programme and hand back land to the former colonial white masters.”

“Tsvangirai is a white man masked in black skin. He is like the Biblical Pharaoh who enjoyed the suffering and economic deprivation of his own people. On the other hand, Mugabe is the Biblical Daniel sent to suffer for the cause of his people,” said Dr. Kunonga.

The former bishop added that those who drive out white farmers, MDC supporters and foreigners from their lands “will enter the kingdom of God.”

“As Christians; we must gear ourselves for a bloody war against white interests,” he said.

 

http://praag.org/?p=1778

Striking miner dragged under armoured car

2012-09-20 09:43

(File, Sapa)

 

Rustenburg - Police have killed two more people in a crackdown on striking miners, the Congress of SA Trade Unions and a strike leader said on Thursday.

Police said on Wednesday they fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up a march by thousands of strikers at Amplats mines near Rustenburg belonging to Anglo American Platinum, the world's largest platinum producer.

Amplats strike leader Evans Ramokga told AP that a miner was run over by a police armoured car and dragged several metres before it stopped. He said the man died overnight in the hospital.

Police spokesperson Dennis Adriao said he was unaware of the incident but added the armoured cars weigh several tons.

Woman out shopping when struck by bullet

Cosatu condemned the brutality of police who have been harshly criticised for the August 16 shootings of 112 striking miners that left 34 dead at Lonmin platinum mine.

The trade union federation said ANC councillor Paulina Masuhlo was shopping on Saturday near the Never Die Tavern in Wonderkop where Lonmin miners.

Police began firing from a speeding armoured car and hit several women.

Masuhlo was hit in the abdomen and leg and rushed to the hospital, where she died on Wednesday, Cosatu said.

Police spokesperson Dennis Adriao said he was investigating the report of a death. He said police had reported to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate that several people were hit by rubber bullets in a raid to disarm strikers on Saturday, the day after the government ordered a crackdown.

The directorate already has opened 34 murder and 78 attempted murder charges against police.

But no action has been taken against any of the officers involved. The government has said it is awaiting the outcome of a judicial commission of inquiry that is supposed to report to the president in January.

47 dead

Cosatu called for "the immediate identification and suspension of the police officers involved in [Masuhlo's] murder".

"We are also extremely unhappy that, to date, none of the police officers involved in the massacre on 16 August 2012 has been identified or suspended - this is totally unacceptable and unlawful," Cosatu said.

The deaths at the two mines, both northwest of Johannesburg, bring the toll to 47 dead in violent strikes rooted in union rivalry.

Lonmin on Tuesday resolved its five-week strike by agreeing to pay raises of up to 22%.

Union leaders warned that sets a precedent for other miners to join demands for better wages.

The strike already has spread to several gold, platinum and chrome mines, damaging investor confidence in the country that produces 75% of world platinum and is the No 4 chrome producer and in the top 10 of gold producers.

- AP

 

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Striking-miner-dragged-under-armoured-car-20120920

Soldiers protest at Oudtshoorn base

2012-09-19 14:30

SANDF soldiers (File, Sap

Johannesburg - A picket was held outside the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) base in Oudtshoorn on Wednesday, with members of the SA National Defence Union (Sandu) protesting over conditions at the base, the union said.

Spokesperson Pikkie Greeff said the union was holding a peaceful picket because the military had failed to respond to concerns related to "dire management practices" allegedly taking place at the base.

In a statement, he claimed there had been no investigation into recent deaths at the base, or if they had been investigated, the results had not been made public.

In August, a woman recruit committed suicide at the base. At the time Sandu claimed the suicide note made reference to humiliation by base management.

Picket organisers face arrest

SANDF spokesperson Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga criticised the union for "trying to gain popularity [by] using the death of a person".

"I don't know where they got it that this investigation would be made public, or the timeline."

Greeff said the organisers of the picket were threatened with military arrest.

"He [the commanding officer] has even taken the ridiculous step of unlawfully ordering all members at his base that they are prohibited from attending any Sandu meeting outside working hours and outside the military base...

"By issuing these illegal orders and clamping down with power abuse on constitutional rights, Sandu's complaints about the Oudtshoorn base [are] simply being justified."

Mabanga said any threat to security at an SANDF base would be dealt with.

"If anybody comes close to any SANDF institution to picket or toyi-toyi we will deal with those issues."

Bound by the rules

He warned soldiers not to allow themselves to be misled.

"They themselves volunteered to join the SANDF, and when they joined they committed themselves to the rules that govern the SANDF members."

These were the Constitution, the Defence Act, the Military Supplementary Discipline Matters Act, and the Code of Conduct.

They were also bound by any other department of defence policy, as well as the SANDF's directives and instructions.

"Taking into consideration the social and economic situation in South Africa and the high rate of unemployment, [there are] people - individuals and unions - trying to gain popularity... and trying to mislead South Africans.
"People must not try to incite or mobilise [soldiers] or undermine military discipline and the authority of the SANDF."

Last Wednesday, expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema met with around 60 soldiers at the Lenasia Recreation Centre in Johannesburg.

There he criticised the country's political leadership and accused them of ignoring the needs of SANDF members, including not reinstating the hundreds of soldiers put on special leave for protesting at the Union Buildings in 2009.

- SAPA

 

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Soldiers-protest-at-Oudtshoorn-base-20120919

Afrikaner Godverlate, maar besef dit nie

Deur: Ikabod2012-09-18 06:00

Die soveelste moord die afgelope drie weke in Suid-Afrika verwys. ’n Vonk steek ’n kruitvat aan die brand – maar as die kruit nat geword het, kan nie eens ’n groot vuur dit maak brand nie.
Dag ná dag, uur ná uur, sekonde ná sekonde vind die moorde plaas op my volk se bejaardes, middeljariges, jeug en kinders. Meestal gepleeg deur hul vertrouelinge wat vir hulle werk!
Voor my oë sien ek telkens ’n 5-jarige dogtertjie van Bethlehem wat aan haar nek gevat en doodgeskiet word. En die bloedspoor van Trompsburg teen mure en kaste. Oral sien ek die bloed van my volk wat uitgemoor word.
In my geestesoog probeer ek my indink die worstelstryd van die oom of tannie of boer of vrou of kinders nadat die moordenaars in hul moordorgies met hul aanvalle begin het.
Ja, my volk draai sy gesig weg en kyk anderkant toe en maak of niks gebeur nie. Ons mag niks sê nie, want dan is ons rassiste. En ons was blykbaar nie eerste hier nie, dus het ons alles gesteel en is dit nou betaaldag.
Die gesag se stilswye verklaar sy goedkeuring. Dit los tog ’n probleem op, want nou hoef hulle nie nog ’n wet te maak om ons in te perk nie.
Die bloed van my volksgenote roep uit, maar my volk antwoord nie meer op jou wekroep nie!
Ons is nie eers skaam nie. Nee, sport en plesier het ons afgod geword. As ons net naweke kan sport kyk, is alles reg.
Weet jy wat, Afrikaner? Jou God het jou verlaat en jy kom dit nie eers agter nie! Niks roer meer my volk nie – wat ’n hartseer dag! Wil of kan niemand dan vir my volk in die bresse tree nie?
Bloemfontein


Volksblad

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Bok-span te ‘wit’ en verdeel SA, sê Div

Deur: André Damons2012-09-18 21:59

Bloemfontein. – Deur die Springbok-span “wit” te maak, word swart mense van die span en rugby vervreem en word die land weer verdeel.

So het Peter de Villiers, voormalige Springbok-afrigter, eergister in ’n onderhoud met Ballz Radio, ’n internetradiostasie, gesê.

“Ons moet weet in watter land ons bly en op die oomblik draai ons baie swart mense teen ons deur die span wit te maak.

“Ons breek ons land weer op. Mense wil nie daaroor praat nie, maar ek moet.

“Ons doen ons land meer skade aan deur ’n sport wat ons so liefhet,” het hy gesê.

De Villiers wou hom nie oor die Bokke se laaste verloor-wedstryd uitlaat nie omdat hy nie die wedstryd gesien het nie.

Hy wou hom ook nie oor Heyneke Meyer, huidige Springbok-afrigter, se spankeuses uitlaat nie. Hy het wel gesê die beste spelers behoort uit te draf.

“Ek wil nie kommentaar lewer oor Heyneke se spankeuses nie, maar weet dat jy nie dieselfde goed kan aanhou doen en ander resultate verwag nie.”

Justin de Allende, woordvoerder van Fikile Mbalula, minister van sport en ontspanning, het by navraag gesê die minister ondersteun die Springbokke en die nuwe afrigter.

“Hy is nog kort in sy pos en ons wens hom en sy span net die beste toe.”

http://m.news24.com/beeld/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bok-span-is-te-wit-en-verdeel-SA-se-Div-20120918

Nog ’n terroriste aanval

Mnr. Johannes Jakobus (Jan) du Toit is in sy huis deur twee swart terroriste met messe aangeval en vermoor. ‘n Foto van die moord toneel word hiermee saam geplaas..

Mev. Anna Maria du Toit is ook aangeval en is in die Midmed-hospitaal opgeneem waar sy behandel en later ontslaan is..
Volgens die bure van die egpaar het honde in die buurt deur die nag geblaf en daar is swartes in die straat opgemerk.
Die terroriste het deur ‘n venster aan die voorkant van die huis ingebreek.
Die aanval het in die vroeë oggendure in die voorstad Dennesig plaasgevind. Daar was ‘n hewige worsteling tussen mnr. Du Toit en die terroriste.
Sedertdien is Middelburg in rep en roer en blykbaar is alle mobiele alarms op die dorp verkoop.
Familie en vriende van die egpaar wat die huis gaan skoonmaak het, het die foto op Facebook geplaas.

http://www.dievryburger.co.za/2012/09/2235/

Cosatu begroot R13 miljoen vir sy konferensie

Deur: Jan-Jan Joubert en Maryna Lamprecht2012-09-20 06:00

JOHANNESBURG. – Die vakverbond Cosatu het voorlopig meer as R13 miljoen begroot vir sy nasionale konferensie, wat nou in Midrand aan die gang is, luidens dokumente in Beeld, susterkoerant van Volksblad, se besit.
Luidens die voorlopige begroting kos die huur van die ruimte by Gallagher Estate in Midrand byna R7 miljoen – R6999837,48 om presies te wees.
Dit sluit middagete, aandete, tee en koffie vir die 4000 afgevaardigdes in, asook die klankstelsel en groot skerms vir die beeldsending van die gebeure in die vergadersaal.
Vir die opstel, druk en verspreiding van die amptelike dokumente op die kongres is R850000 begroot. Dit sluit die Cosatu-grondwet, resolusies, notules, die verslag van die sekretariaat en die organisatoriese verslag in.
’n Groot uitgawe is die inhoud van die drasakke, wat só ’n kenmerk van konferensies geword het en waarvan elkeen van die 4000 afgevaardigdes een ontvang.
Die sakke self kos R600 elk en bevat ’n gholfhemp ter waarde van R150, ’n ander hemp ter waarde van R250, ander kleding ter waarde van R100 en ’n pet ter waarde van R35.
Altesame kos die 4000 drasakke en hul inhoud dus R4540000.
Die naamkaartjies en die snoere waarmee dit om die nek gedra word, kos R20000.
Dit sluit naamkaartjies vir personeel, gaste, afgevaardigdes, diensverskaffers, uitstallers en die media in.
Uitgawes verbonde aan die versiering van die saal, die verhoog en die lokaal vir die vakverbond se kultuuraand beloop R90000.
Die kultuuraand self sou na verwagting R250000 kos.
’n Uitgawe wat die wenkbroue kan laat lig, is die R120000 wat vir die leierskapverkiesing begroot is, hoewel dit dalk kan verander met die onbestrede herkiesing van verskeie leiersfigure.
Reis en verblyf bly ’n groot uitgawe, met R55000 wat vir vliegkaartjies begroot is.
Die verwagte koste aan verblyf vir Cosatu se leiers, personeel en spesiale gaste beloop R140000.
Dat sommiges meen vakbondkongresse is ’n goeie plek vir kinders, blyk uit die R5000 wat vir kinderoppassers begroot is, en wat die totale begrote bedrag vir die kongres op R13,069 miljoen te staan bring.
Patrick Craven, Cosatu-woordvoerder, het by navraag gesê hy en sy kollegas is tans te besig met vakbondkwessies om die akkuraatheid van die dokumente na te gaan en hulle gaan nie kommentaar lewer nie.
Borgskappe deur groot maatskappye, wat dan die reg kry om uitstallings op die konferensie te bedryf, help Cosatu om die uitgawes te bekostig.
African Rainbow Metals (ARM), myngroep van die sakereus Patrice Motsepe, speel ’n groot rol in die finansiering van die konferensie.
Ander maatskappye wat uitstal, is Discovery, Investec, ubank (vroeër bekend as Teba Bank), VMS Technologies, die projek vir hernubare energie en klimaatverandering, die opleidingsowerheid vir vervaardiging, ingenieurswese en verwante bedrywe (merSETA), Sanlam en Ou Mutual.


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