ich kann die Vehemenz, mit der sich meine Kritiker auf die unentschuldbare Handlungsweise dieser „Studenten“ gestürzt haben nachvollziehen. Jedoch sollte sich jeder der Tatsache bewusst sein, dass „White-on-Black“-Kriminalität sofort die große –auch internationale- Welle macht, wohingegen die viel höhere „Black-on-White“-Kriminalität oder gar die noch viel schlimmere „Black-on-Black“-Kriminalität völlig außerhalb des Fokus` eines durchschnittlichen Mitteleuropäers liegen.
Der Triumph, dass es auch heute noch rassistisch motivierte Gewalttaten Weißer gibt, sei also meinen Kritikern gegönnt. Aber, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere, lautete ja der ursprüngliche Vorwurf an mich, dass ich –zugegeben- einseitig negativ poste. Positive Entwicklungen in Südafrika wurden seitdem von meinen Kritikern aber auch nicht gepostet.
Ihr solltet also diese Gewalttat als das nehmen, was sie ist, nämlich der –ekelerregende- Ausdruck eines zutiefst gespaltenen und gewalttätigen Landes.
Sewage from scores of badly-run municipal treatment works is spilling into rivers across the country every day, raising fears about further outbreaks of water-borne diseases such as cholera and dysentery.
In the second such incident in two days, a city woman has described her outrage at getting home after returning to Cape Town on a domestic flight to find that airline or airport staff had stolen valuables from her luggage.
Abgesehen davon, dass Messer und Pfefferspray sowieso nicht gegen UZIs, AK47 und das südafrikanische Militärgewehr R4 helfen, sollte man doch zunächst als Staat das Gewaltmonopol durchsetzen, bevor man die zuvor schon weitgehend Wehrlosen im Falle eines Falles auch noch zu Gesetzesbrechern macht.
Weapons ban will leave women defenceless Smit conceded that women did not generally carry knives and ninja stars but rather favoured pepper sprays, zappers and stun guns. While these were not listed in the document, it is understood they too will be banned.
Das öffentliche Gesundheitswesen wurde von den Regierenden erfolgreich zerstört. Nun also zum privaten Gesundheitssektor:
South Africa's health minister on Tuesday signalled that the government planned to further regulate the private health care sector, saying it was profit-driven and not accessible to the poor majority.
State admits education system is failing Children are still struggling to get a decent education three decades after the Soweto uprising, according to the South African Human Rights Commission.
SKskywalker200392 Beiträge · seit 200628. Feb. 2008 ·
Hallo Yoshikawa,
Der Triumph, dass es auch heute noch rassistisch motivierte Gewalttaten Weißer gibt, sei also meinen Kritikern gegönnt.
Wer soll triumphieren, weil es rassistische Gewalttaten von Weissen gibt? Das ist jetzt schon ein bisschen happig. Du magst Dich in Deiner Schwarz-Weiss-Welt einigeln, mir ist das zu eng.
Übrigens noch was zu "Afrika ist leider nicht so einfach, wie wir es gerne hätten" im SPIEGEL (der sich ja immer öfter auf hanebüchenen Boulevard-Mist zurückzieht aber dieser Artikel ist schon gut): http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,535209,00.html
Gang targeting Cape guesthouses Authorities have called on the owners of guesthouses, bed and breakfasts and holiday flats in Camps Bay to improve their security and give their guests safety tips as several establishments have been struck in the past two months by a gang of robbers who seem to follow the same method.
Perils lurk at OR Tambo airport South Africa's ambassador to the UN, Zimbabwe's opposition leader and scores of other people - mostly tourists - share a similar crime story. They have all been ambushed by armed men shortly after arriving in the country at OR Tambo International Airport. And while there is strong evidence to suggest that have fallen victim to a well-connected syndicate, police say these attacks - which, according to sources, occur almost every week - are not all necessarily linked to a gang or gangs of robbers stalking people arriving at the airport.
Taxi operators have set three buses alight at a taxi rank in Botshabelo, east of Bloemfontein, the SABC reported on Thursday. … Protesting taxi operators are unhappy about Interstate buses transporting passengers along certain routes. - Sapa
Longer blackouts in new power cut plan The bad news is that hospitals, clinics and other emergency services can no longer be isolated and spared from the cuts because they are now being done in larger "blocks".
No respite for hospitals Hospitals will not be protected from power cuts in the new load shedding plan, contrary to an assurance given to the Johannesburg Hospital by City Power.
Cable theft may put Pretoria out of work City business people are losing millions of rands as a result of cable theft. Some business owners say Telkom's delay in replacing stolen cables and reconnecting phone lines has forced them to consider retrenchments as a possible means of cutting operational costs.
Cable theft costs Telkom R863m Copper cable theft between April last year and the end of January has cost Telkom about R863-million, the telecommunications provider said on Monday.
Bread shortages on the way? A possible bread shortage could arise from power cuts in South Africa, said the National Agricultural Marketing Council on Thursday.
Two people have died and six people have been injured by gunfire in a second night of violence in the Western Cape this weekend. The latest round of attacks took place in the fishing village of Hawston, on the south coast, late on Saturday night. It followed a massacre in Vredenburg in the early hours of Saturday morning, in which five people were slain in a shebeen shooting.
Damaged pipe leaves airport without water According to a clerk employed by an international airline, the situation was "insufferable". "We have had to put up without air conditioners and insufferable portable toilets all day - and this is not the first time it has happened. They are disgusting and are hardly clean.
6,5m South Africans blacklisted Nearly 6,5 million people are currently blacklisted at credit bureaus and as interest rates, food and fuel prices rise, more and more debtors are expected to go on the list. The blacklisted defaulters are among almost 17 million "credit-active" consumers who owe about R1-trillion, according to the National Credit Regulator. And of the roughly 10 million in good standing, 12,6 percent are in arrears with monthly payments and "on the radar screen of potentially risky clients", said Marlene Heymans, manager for research and statistics at the Regulator. This news comes as consumers face the most severe cash squeeze in years with soaring prices of food and petrol and increased interest rates.
Lack of skills spells road to ruin Basic infrastructure and services across the country are crumbling. Water, sewerage and local roads are all casualties of neglect and lack of forethought, and there is a critical shortage of skilled professionals who could turn the situation around.
Malawi und der Mais. Für die Unterstützung Mugabes lässt so mancher sein eigenes Volk leiden.
The Maize Crisis: The Pain Of Flirting With Zimbabwe? Be that may, Mutharika will be remembered for his bizarre ability to starve Malawians by donating and selling our maize to Zimbabwe and other countries. If he had listened to the national pleas for caution and patience, Mutharika and his government would not be panicking now.
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has send Senior Chief Lukwa in neighbouring Zambia to negotiate a contingency import of 90 000 metric tonnes of maize to mitigate against hunger and starvation in the country, Nyasa Times has gathered. … Malawi maize crisis has been triggered by exportation of maize to Zimbabwe and donation to Lesotho and Swaziland, which critics blame on President Mutharika who also hold the portfolio of Minister of Agriculture and Food Security.
Wenigstens profitiert die bundesdeutsche Wirtschaft ein wenig:
Planeloads of cash prop up MugabeMONEY that is being used to prop up President Robert Mugabe’s brutal regime, keep his military onside and win over voters in the run-up to Zimbabwe’s elections this month is being printed by a German company.
Malawi und der Mais. Für die Unterstützung Mugabes lässt so mancher sein eigenes Volk leiden.
Yoshi, wo steht, dass die Malawis jetzt verhungern müssen? Ganz im Gegensatz vielleicht zu den Leuten in Zimbabwe. Verstehe ich das richtig, dass Du Dich gegen humanitäre Hilfe aussprichst?
man kann auch Positives aus dieser Nachricht ziehen (siehe oben) - Politiker im Westen würden sich über solche Wachstumsraten freuen...
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Energie/Südafrika/ Südafrika stoppt vorläufig alle Gebäudeprojekte wegen Energiekrise =
Johannesburg (dpa) - Südafrikas staatseigener Stromkonzern Eskom hat eine halbjährige landesweite Blockade für alle neuen Gebäudeprojekte angekündigt, die größer als ein Einfamilienhaus sind. Dazu zählen etwa Fabriken, Tankstellen oder Wohnsiedlungen, berichtete der nationale Rundfunk am Mittwoch. Eskom-Manager Tony Stott hatte zuvor südafrikanischen Journalisten erklärt: «Wir wollen kein Wachstum abwürgen, aber wir haben schlicht und einfach nicht mehr genügend Strom für ein neunprozentiges Wachstum wie in Johannesburg.» In Südafrika sind für die Genehmigung von Bauvorhaben Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigungen von Eskom eine der Bedingungen.
Das Gastland der nächsten Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2010 leidet seit Anfang vergangenen Jahres unter einer chronischen Energiekrise, die zu landesweiten Strom-Abschaltungen geführt und der Wirtschaft Millionenverluste beschert haben. dpa rk xx n1 pi
das ist doch was erfreuliches diese Wachstumsrate?! Bleibt die Frage ob das auch überall ankommt.Ich befürchte,dass diese Wirtschaftsprognosen den Oberen in SA ein 🤩 ins Gesicht treibt. Den Haupteil der Bevölkerung wirst Du so 😠 antreffen.Vergleichbar mit GOOD OLD GERMANY😳
nun bringt mal die Pferde wieder in den Stall! Das Zitat eines Eskom-Verantwortlichen legt den Schluss nahe, dass es in Johannesburg in der Vergangenheit eine Wachstumsrate von 9 % gegeben hätte, im Vergleich zu der im folgenden Artikel zitierten Steigerungsrate von landesweit 5 %. Der danach stehende Link zur HSBC-Bank weist sogar nur 2,2 % aus. Fest steht derzeit nur, dass die Wachstumsraten wegen der Stromversorgungsengpässe sinken werden.
Economic Analysis: S.Africa's real growth - Where to now? More Socialism to slow it down? Can it actually be possible to grow even slower and redistribute even more? And if so, would that be desirable?
Sometimes it can seem that different factions inhabit parallel universes containing quite different South Africas. There is even a faction telling us that we are living in a laissez-faire, liberalising and excessively-growing economy!
In Business Report of 8 January the experienced and astute labour analyst Terry Bell describes, no doubt accurately, how Cosatu and the SA Communist Party view our economic situation. What they call Mbeki's "1996 class project", underpinned by Gear laissez faire, has apparently been prioritising growth over RDP redistribution. So the "Polokwane revolution" hopes to dump his liberal economic policies in favour of a Left alternative – a social democratic formula where an interventionist state takes a high degree of control over the economy to build a "developmental state".
This can sound quite surreal to anyone thinking we already have the world's largest welfare state, with 30 per cent unemployment and 5 million personal taxpayers supporting 12 million recipients of state handouts and many more in the queue. Are we discussing the same country? Do Cosatu and the SACP consider that we have been enjoying too much growth and too little redistribution these last ten years? Can it actually be possible to grow even slower and redistribute even more? And if so, would that be desirable?
But perhaps it's a question of our persistent "feelgood" democratic honeymoon, our media-driven perceptions of recent fast growth and our wishful denial of long-term stagnation? And it's certainly true that average incomes, having declined during the onslaught-eighties, have begun sluggishly to get ahead of recorded population growth in the last decade. So let's "go abroad" and contemplate the South Africa of World Bank country datasets for a more objective, long term and comparative view of our progress thus far.
In 1971, average income (in constant 2000 US$) of SA's 22.6m people was $3,163. It slid to $2,960 in 1995 ( 39.1m people) then rose to $3,406 by 2005 (46.9m people). Good show, though that last decade's annual average 1.4% incomes growth isn't so hot. Oh, by comparison with where?
Consider two developed states – the admirably-caring welfarist European social democracies of France and Germany. During 1995-2005 their average real incomes grew 1.6% and 1.3%. So we already enjoy their low social-democratic growth rates but with only a seventh of their average incomes. Then consider two developing states – the disreputably-uncaring non-welfarist emerging economies of China and India. During 1995-2005 their average real incomes grew 8.2% and 4.5%. So their average incomes rose 120% and 58% meaning so much more "cake" for saving and investing and consuming and redistributing. They really need and sensibly chase that growth because currently they 'enjoy' real average real incomes only 47% and 18% of ours. Not for long, of course, as they race off in hot pursuit of rich western incomes.
Now this bit may be interesting. Relative to South Africa right now, all four of those countries have slower population growth, much lower taxation, very much less unemployment and very much higher longevity. So what?
Well, which way does the Polokwane revolution want to go? Towards still more taxing and redistributing that will slow growth and increase dependency even further, then we can stagnate even more than France and Germany without ever getting any richer first? Or towards much faster Chinese-style low-taxed growth to create a progressively larger "cake" and the "better life for all" that the Chinese and Indians now savour yearly as they play swift "catch-up" with the developed world.
We already know the answer. All the evidence of policy statements from the SACP/Cosatu left has been that SA can now expect more socialist taxation and intervention rather than any of the real liberalisation, tax reductions, privatisation and deregulation needed anywhere for faster growth.
So while the World Bank forecasts growth in the developed world slowing to 2.2% in 2008 and developing countries expanding at a rate of 7.1% (before deducting population growth), SA's recent 5% annual growth may well sag and keep on sagging with each new piece of interventionist bad news from the new ANC leadership.
In addition, some say the global picture is darkening as property bubbles pop and a post-bubble recessionary tide draws in across the globe. So it may not be the best of times for further 'teach yourself mixed-up-economics' experiments in milking capitalist pigs of more and more of their golden eggs. Because – and here's the real clincher – if SA's real average incomes growth does ever turn negative again and unemployment and hardship start shooting through the Zimbabwe-roof, there will be hell to pay and no handy border to cross. So let's hope the Polokwane revolution comes rapidly to its collective senses and chooses a better approach than more intervention.
Author: Dr Jim Harris is an independent policy analyst. This article may be republished without prior consent but with acknowledgement to the author. The views expressed in the article are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the members of the Free Market Foundation.
Electricity supply teetering on the brink South Africa's ageing electricity infrastructure was coming apart at the seams at a time when the national electricity crisis was placing unprecedented strain on an already overburdened power supply system, MPs heard on Wednesday. Despite frantic efforts over the past few months to regain control of the power system and prevent a catastrophic grid-wide failure, the system continued to teeter on the brink and was frequently tripped up by ageing equipment, poor maintenance and coal supply problems.
Exodus out of Joburg as people flee crime Estate agents say their phones are ringing off the hook as Gautengers leave in droves to relocate to the Cape, citing rampant crime and more severe load-shedding there.
Left In The Dark Yet when the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994 Eskom was the world's seventh-largest electricity utility, providing the world's cheapest electricity and with a 40% capacity reserve. The government treated cheap electricity almost as a human right and supplied it to many black areas that had never had it before. In 1998, an official white paper warned that new power stations needed to be built if there were not to be power cuts by 2007. The government not only ignored the warning but also imposed a formal ban on the building of new power stations for six years in order to encourage private power utilities to tender.
Anatomy of South African decay These statistics suggest that, outside of Model C and independent schools, black and Coloured pupils are being deprived quality education; without which they cannot progress into the professions or compete with the children of the middle classes.
ich hätte Einiges darauf gewettet, dass Du meine Steilvorlage mit Eskom nutzt. Da haben wir wieder das halb leere Glas - immer eine Sache des Betrachters.
Schade, dass Du nicht Stellung zu meiner Frage bezüglich der Maislieferungen von Malawi beziehst, aber das wird hoffentlich noch kommen 🙂
zum Thema Humanitäre Hilfe und ihre Auswirkungen speziell in Afrika habe ich mich in diesem Thread schon häufiger geäußert. Seitdem haben sich meine Ansichten nicht wesentlich geändert. IRONIE AN Schon mehr als ein Jahr vergangen und immer noch keine Änderung der Ansichten! Shame on me! IRONIE AUS Die Entwicklung in Zimbabwe und Malawi sollten wir in Ruhe und mit Geduld abwarten.
Tourist confidence declining"Apart from the logistical problems a hotel faces during electricity blackouts, the confidence of overseas visitors regarding their safety and comfort when visiting South Africa may deteriorate considerably if load-shedding continues at this unforeseeable rate," warned Brian Singer, chief executive officer of the Singer Group, owners of the Colosseum Protea Hotel in Cape Town.
SA needs you, Zuma tells farmers The doors of the African National Congress are open to South African farmers, party president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. "We should not be afraid to raise any matter," he told grain farmers at the annual Grain SA conference in Bothaville in the Free State.
Government to fast-track land distribution "We also need financial resources. The willing buyer, willing seller principle is not working. The public works minister is tabling the expropriation act, so we hope that with all these we can fast-track the process."
SA farmers moving to neighbouring states In five years South Africa could be importing food from its neighbours as thousands of farmers pour over the borders because of the country's land claim policies.
SKskywalker200392 Beiträge · seit 200609. März 2008 ·
Ich muss sagen, ich habe die Situation unterschätzt - es ist tatsächlich viel schlimmer als ich immer wahrhaben wollte. Ich sage nur KUNSTRASEN.... Sowas wäre in einem richtigen Land nicht passiert.
Experts warn against great 2010 expectations Dynamic economic benefits, a tourism boost and a significant increase in jobs from the Fifa World Cup 2010 may be a pipe dream. … While experts remained "optimistic" about the country's ability to benefit from the event, some said research had indicated that "hardly any World Cups and comparable events had positive impacts on tourism, employment and income".
Airport link to tourists' ambush Ten minutes before a group of American tourists were due to arrive at their Joburg guesthouse, two armed men were dropped off outside the house and hid in the bushes. When the six women arrived at their Observatory guesthouse around 6pm on Tuesday, the men - along with two other accomplices who were waiting in a nearby car - ambushed them. … No arrests had been made.
The woman in this series of three pictures is the ruling ANC party's parliamentarian Winkie Direko, caught in the act of making a most offensive death-threat gesture to the Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard in the SA parliament. Winkie is the former premier of the Free State. The parliament was in session at the time. Her threat was recorded on parliamentary cameras.
March 5 2008 - CAPE TOWN. The Democratic Alliance opposition party has laid a charge against Winkie Direko, the former premier of the Free State, after the ANC-MP made an very offensive death-threat gesture at DA MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard during a sitting of parliament. Direko drew her finger across her throat (see pictures above) when Kohler Barnard was asking questions of Safety & Security minister Charles Nkakula relating to the dissolution of the Scorpions police unit. Ian Davidson of the DA commented that Direko’s shocking gesture served to heighten racial tension and promoted hatred and anti-White violence which was already wide-spread in South Africa.
SA: Afrikaner businessman arrested for refusing to bribe a Pretoria cop Afrikaner businessman Etienne Kruger, who was arrested and dumped into a police cell overnight for 'refusing to bribe a cop' has had enough. He is packing up his business with its 85 employees and leaving the country of his birth forever. Etienne Kruger of Erasmusrand was arrested after he had helped in the arrest of a suspected burglar at a neighbour's house Kruger told Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper in Pretoria that a police guard at the house of his neighbour, Home-Affairs minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, had tried to stop police from arresting him, and had also tried to calm the situation down, as the guard had witnessed the entire event and knew the Afrikaner had been totally innocent of any wrong-doing. The drama occurred in front of Kruger's home which is very near the Home Affairs minister's residence in Pretoria. Kruger said it all started after his family had spotted two suspected burglars while they were climbing across a neighbour's wall and immediately alerted the security guards. "My wife pushed the alarm button (of ADT-security company). My son Tiaan and I ran to the street and went and stood on the corner because we knew these men had gone to that corner erf,' he said. An ADT-security guard was on the scene very quickly and Kruger said he still tried to catch one of the men, who however ran away. Another ADT-guard then showed up and they, together with his son Tiaan, then helped catch the other suspect hiding in the back yard. This 'arrested' man now claims to be a gardener who slept there - and who now (falsely) claims that Mr Kruger had 'assaulted' him. The ADT-guard had asked Mr Kruger to 'hold on to the arrested man' while the guard called police and for reinforcements on the radio. "I walked with this arrested man to the Minister's home to ask the guard there for handcuffs but they didn't have any,' he said. As soon as the police arrived, the ADT-guards had left - but had left a note in his mailbox saying 'one suspect arrested'. With the ADT-guards gone, this suspect then claimed to the police that Kruger had 'assaulted him where he had slept in the garden' - demanding that Kruger take him to his own doctor and a private hospital for treatment - but Kruger indignantly refused and told the police the man was lying. That's when one of the policemen told Kruger that if the Afrikaner paid him a R5,000 bribe, he would 'not lodge a charge against him.' Kruger refused, was arrested in front of his family and thrown into the police van together with the suspected burglar and driven at breakneck-speed to Brooklyn police station. The police guard at the Home Affairs Minister's home - who had witnessed everything - kept telling the police during the arrest of Mr Kruger that 'this is wrong, you are arresting the wrong man...' but the cop refused to listen. The cops 'drove very roughly and I hurt my leg during the ride,' Kruger said. Mr Kruger was released at noon yesterday on 'warning'. There have been no charges lodged against him, but police captain Phillip Lekoantsane told Beeld that the 53-year-old 'complainant' -- i.e. the suspected burglar arrested by the ADT-security guards -- claimed that he was a gardener at a house in the same street and that this man 'had a small cut to his neck'. He also denied that Kruger had been asked to pay a R5,000 bribe. The case is now being investigated, he said. Kruger said he's now had enough. He is going to close down his business with its 85 employees, pack up his family and leave the country of his birth - forever. "I give up," he said. ADT-security company spokesmen said they were still 'investigating' and can't comment as yet.
Cops involved in illegal mining? Nelspruit - Police are suspected to be involved in illegal gold mining in Mpumalanga's Barberton area. … Strydom said there could be as many as 60 to 100 illegal miners underground each day, armed with AK47s and 9mm firearms.
'Prepared to die for houses' Julius Melanzi, a councillor in charge of relocation, said Xhosa-speaking people attacked Tswana-speaking people on Thursday night after they were evicted from the local houses they had illegally occupied. The Xhosa people had been evicted from the houses on Tuesday, after which the Tswana-speaking people legally took up residence. … The situation remained tense as the Xhosa group sang war songs while the Tswana-speaking people stood nearby.
SA: chanting black crowd occupies white-owned Caltex fuel depot in Ermelo March 7 2008 - A very strange, aggressive occupation of a leased private property by a large group of young black men has residents of Ermelo puzzled and increasingly fearful. The crowd of black occupiers - who claim they 'own' the leased Caltex-depot because they are the new land-owners of the site -- had first slaughtered a ceremonial sheep and hung its skin on the gate to the Caltex depot in a ceremony conducted by a local witch-doctor. They are also throwing 'muti-items' into the leased property to try and scare away the white leasehold-owner away. However he's not budging either and has lodged several high court interdicts to stop them. Apparently the large group of black occupiers headed by a man called Percy Masinga seem to believe that they now also 'own' the rights to run the leased Caltex-depot because Masinga claims to be the new owner of Ufudu Transport, the land-owner of the site. The Afrikaner who owns the leasehold says his lease only expires two years from now. He says the black crowd is looting his diesel and cash from his office and he has also lodged a charge of theft and fraud against the occupiers. All the business-related and personal items located at the Caltex-depot belong to his company which legally leases the site from Ufudu Transport. Celliers has already taken out two High Court interdicts to stop the illegal occupation by the Masinga-group, who are meanwhile still trying to terrorise him by chanting, toyi-toying and interfering with his customers, and by using witchcraft. Besides the 'ceremonial' sheep-skin - hung on the gate as a tribal-claim of 'ownership' -- Celliers has also found a badly-diseased sheep which had been tied up without any food or water to the Caltex-depot gates and 'muti-items' tossed into his office. This sick sheep has since been removed. Such things are done to confuse and scare the victims into giving in to the occupiers, he says. Masinga apparently 'refuses to understand' the legal rights of such leasehold properties in South Africa, i.e. the land-owners of these leasehold-sites do not automatically have any ownership rights to such leased properties - and that's the law. On Monday the large group of very aggressive black men had arrived at his depot in black Range-Rovers without numberplates and aggressively elbowed their way in, 'confiscated' Celliers' office equipment and the Caltex dieselpumps -- which all are his property. They then occupied the Caltex-depot and started singing 'struggle songs' and toyi-toying, constantly repeating the very threatening chants also favoured by ANC-leader Jacob Zuma's 'Bring my machinegun' - Awuleth’ umshini wami”... Several 'muti-items' were also tossed into his offices to try and intimidate him, he said. Now they are constantly threatening him while he is trying to continue running his business -- they still remain on the premises, chanting and threatening and being a big nuisance. He has lodged a charge of theft and fraud after some R170,000's worth of diesel and R30,000 in cash had 'gone missing' after the aggressive occupation of his Caltex depot. Police have not arrested anyone for this however. He is now trying to get a third high court interdict to try and get these occupiers off his leased Caltex property. Masinga didn't want to comment about the issue to Beeld newspaper, claiming he'd 'send them an email'. However he has failed to do so. Also, the man has provided no proof that he actually owns the land-site on which the leased Caltex depot is located.
Ich habe zurzeit weder eine Möglichkeit, den Beitrag zu löschen, noch das Bild einzufügen!
Daher noch ein Kommentar von David Bullard:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going — far away Last week three of my neighbours were shot in their home for no apparent reason. The husband is dead, the wife in a critical condition with a bullet in her head and the son only slightly better off with a bullet in his chest. The grief and trauma suffered by that family and those close to them are unimaginable — and that is only one horrific example of what is happening all over the country every week.
und ein Erlebnisbericht über eine Ankunft in Johannesburg:
OR Tambo Airport: A claim to shame A large sign outside the terminal announced that it was less than 900 days to go to the World Cup kick-off. Someone ought to mention that to the people in charge of the International baggage claim area. On the CT flight, I was informed that a new company have just taken over at the baggage claim area at Oliver Tambo. There had been rumours that the previous company, whose contract expired on Feb 29, were unhappy with their dismissal and would attempt sabotage. This might explain why the middle conveyer belt wasn’t working. But it certainly wouldn’t explain why it still took more than two hours for the bags from the Atlanta flight to appear. As much as 40 percent of the passengers were affected. It was disgraceful and a very poor first impression of how things run in this country, particularly after having just come from the ultra-efficiency of the USA, where service is done with a smile and the taps work at airports (one of the taps was decidedly wobbly in the male bathroom at International arrivals). Another rumour I heard was that there were only three people offloading the entire luggage of the Delta flight. Be afraid.
Experts warn against great 2010 expectations Dynamic economic benefits, a tourism boost and a significant increase in jobs from the Fifa World Cup 2010 may be a pipe dream. … While experts remained "optimistic" about the country's ability to benefit from the event, some said research had indicated that "hardly any World Cups and comparable events had positive impacts on tourism, employment and income".
Der Vergleich mit den Ausrichtern Frankreich und Deutschland hinkt, dazu sind die Volkswirtschaften zu unterschiedlich und die Auswirkungen nicht unbedingt vergleichbar.
Ich muss sagen, ich habe die Situation unterschätzt - es ist tatsächlich viel schlimmer als ich immer wahrhaben wollte. Ich sage nur KUNSTRASEN.... Sowas wäre in einem richtigen Land nicht passiert.
Die Studie ist eher statistik-lastig, über die Schlussfolgerungen (Ursachen) kann man sicherlich geteilter Meinung sein. Ich traue mir kein Urteil zu...
Tourist raped at top Cape hotel Somerset West - In an ordeal that lasted nearly two hours, a 60-year-old tourist from Holland was robbed and twice raped in a posh hotel at which she and her tour group were staying in Somerset West. The police are investigating, but had not arrested anyone by Monday evening. Apparently, the rapist had been waiting for his victim in her bathroom at about midnight. … It is suspected the rapist was not an employee of the Lord Charles Hotel, but someone who had gained access from the street. Erik Jansen, managing director of the Lord Charles Hotel, said they did not comment on their guests. A question about security measures in the hotel was also met with a "no comment".
Were the robbers waiting at the airport? A Nigerian tourist was robbed of his briefcase on his arrival at Johannesburg's Westcliff Hotel from OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday, police said. Another two tourists, who were in the reception area checking out at the time, were also robbed of their bags at 6.30am, said spokesperson Captain Cynthia Mogoai.
Excuses, excuses! "We are not happy because when we phone the police they don't come. On Monday, we called them to report the child missing and they said there are no vehicles. "When we call them at night, they say it's too dark and Zandspruit is too dangerous for them," Mafinya said.
Human excrement delays trains Human excrement and illegal electrical connections running beneath railway tracks in Metrorail's Central Line, are causing major train delays and malfunctions, says Metrorail's regional executive after visiting stations there. … Metrorail said the communities on one side of the railway line were serviced by Eskom, but those on the other side had no service, and as a result they made illegal connections through railway tracks to get electricity.
2010 World Cup costs skyrocket The South African government said that US$500m more will be needed to host the tournament than originally thought. … The government has so far made available a budget of US$2.5 billion for the World Cup.
Will 2010 leave cities with tax-sponges? The province's 2010 World Cup committee has rejected estimates by Cape Town's co-ordinator, Teral Cullen, that maintenance and running costs for the new Green Point Stadium after the event could be between R10-million and R12-million a year. Committee member Garth Strachan said: "My suspicion is that it's going to be way above R10-million and I've done homework on this." … "There is a fear that the stadium will not be used to its full capacity and that the citizens of Cape Town will have to pay for the maintenance," Gabru said.
