This article relates to my earlier article "South Africa's Rolling Clouds"
It must be to everyone that Zimbabwe-style land grabbing is being implemented in the New South Africa. The ANC has no control over the ANC Youth League and there is an obvious battle for power between the ANC Regime and their Youth League.
The ANCYL has no intention of losing this battle, while the ANC Regime is incapable of handling the situation.
This is the beginning of South Africa's Revolution.
ANCYL members storm private land
Oct 31 2011 09:10
Durban - A group of people has invaded private land in Hilton outside
Pietermaritzburg, claiming it belongs to ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, according to a report on Monday.
Land owner Rusty Roodt told The Witness newspaper he would approach
the high court in Pietermaritzburg on Monday to obtain a court order to
stop people from invading his land.
He said the police had done nothing to stop the land invasion at Winterskloof in Hilton.
One
of the land invaders reportedly said: "We are continuing what we
started when we marched on Thursday and Friday to reclaim what is ours,"
in reference to an economic freedom march from Johannesburg to Pretoria
led by Malema.
Earlier this month the SA President said :
Zuma: No Zim-style land grabs in SA
Oct 03 2011 09:44
Johannesburg - Zimbabwean-style land grabs will not happen in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday.
"I don't think the South African and Zimbabwean constitutions are the same. Our constitution is very important because it guides us on what we do," Zuma said.
He was speaking during a business breakfast in Sandton on Monday morning presented by New Age newspaper and the SABC.
The session was organised to give the president the opportunity to update the country about the progress Zuma's administration had made since the state of the nation address, at the start of the year.
The land question was asked by Mduduzi Vilane, who wanted to know if South Africa had plans to avoid what happened in Zimbabwe, where land belonging to whites was taken without compensation as part of the country's land redistribution programme.
Zuma described the issue of land redistribution as a serious matter that needed attention, adding that everything needed to be done according to law.
He said they were looking at reopening the process of lodging land claims because the process had been short. The cutoff date for lodging claims was December 1998.
While just a few days ago malema said :
Malema: Refuse to vacate land
Oct 24 2011 08:01
Johannesburg - ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has urged hundreds of Bantu Bonke township residents in Vereeniging not to vacate the mineral-rich land they occupy, should anyone want them to move.
"We heard Anglo (mining company) wants you to move... they said there's alternative land because they have discovered a mineral," Malema told the community in a packed hall on Sunday.
He said they had the right to continue living on their land and be party to mining and agricultural activity.
"Even the houses they want to give you are not proper houses. The land must be given to the people... people have been killed for this land."
AfriForum has laid a criminal charge of incitement to sedition against Malema, after he told people in Thembelihle in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, last week to forcefully occupy land.
On Saturday, Malema told residents in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, that he would not respond to AfriForum's criminal charges. He said he was prepared to go to jail in his fight for the poor.
Malema's visits are a way of drumming up support ahead of the league's "economic freedom" mass march expected to take place on Thursday and Friday. The league will target the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton, the Chamber of Mines in Johannesburg and the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Malema, donning a black beret, said the government must return the land owned by white farmers to its people.
"They (whites) found us here. They did not bring any land nor did they bring any minerals."
He then broke into his alternative rendition of Dubul' iBhunu (shoot the boer) called "kiss the boer", dancing and waving his fist as people took videos and pictures of him, while others joined in chorus.
He left in convoy soon after his address.
So far, Malema has visited Thembelihle, Diepsloot and Ivory Park and the Methodist Church at Ratanda in Heidelburg to mobilise support for the march.
His message constantly stressed the fight for economic emancipation, and ensuring that communities benefit from democracy.
A few community members that had waited in anticipation for Malema's arrival in Evaton ended up leaving the Sicelo Community Hall where he was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon.
It later emerged that Malema abandoned the rest of his Sunday programme, which also included a visit to Sebokeng's Zone 14, due to "logistical reasons".
"We were not comfortable in terms of preparations. People have been told that he won't be coming any more," said the league's additional member to the national executive committee Khusela Sangoni.
It was unlikely that Malema would return to these places due to his hectic programme ahead of the march, she said.
His disciplinary hearing will continue on Wednesday, at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.
It is speculated that ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and ANC national executive committee member Tony Yengeni will be the final witnesses to testify on Malema's defence.
Malema has been charged by the ANC in connection with his call for regime change in Botswana.
According to the land-grabbers :
Invaded land 'belongs to Malema'
2011-10-31 10:06
Thobani Ngqulunga and Stephanie Saville, The Witness
Pietermaritzburg - The owner of a tract of land in Winterskloof, Hilton, will approach the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Monday to obtain a court order to stop people from invading his land in Crompton Road.
Residents on Sunday complained that people clearing the land have told them the land “belongs to Malema”.
One resident said he was called a “settler” and told that his land would also be taken.
Landowner Rusty Roodt told The Witness the police in Hilton have failed to act on his complaints that people are invading his land; and nothing has been done to halt them.
Pegs
He said pegs were knocked into his land a week ago and on Sunday morning earthmoving equipment was brought in to level the land.
“I went to my office and got my rates accounts and an aerial map of my land to show the people, but they would not budge. They are just taking my land, so I am going to court.”
Richard Heathcote, who lives opposite the site, said the invaders have begun clearing right over Umgeni Water’s pipeline. “The police are doing nothing.”
Another resident, who asked not to be named, said that when her husband asked the crowd there what they were doing they threatened him, calling him a “settler”.
“They said they would take our land too.”
She said the invaders had removed the number plates from their vehicles so they could not be identified.
The community of Mpumuza are adamant that the land belongs to them and said there is nothing illegal about their actions because they are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
“We are continuing what we started when we marched on Thursday and Friday to reclaim what is ours,” said a resident who refused to be named.
Forcefully removed
Former Ward 2 councillor Sibusiso Ntuli said, “We have families that were forcefully removed from this area - like the Ngubanes, Mhlongos, Ngcobos, Mtshahes and many others. There is even a grave of the late iNkosi Zondi in this plot to prove that this area belongs to the Mpumuza tribal authority.”
He said people are simply claiming what is theirs and that if Roodt claims it is his property then he must produce the title deeds.
“We are tired of seeing black people being oppressed because we have even applied to reclaim this piece of land.”
Police spokesperson Lieutenant Joey Jeevan said the police are awaiting documentation to prove who the legal owner of the land is.
“If it is found that the land is under claim the matter will be referred to the land claims commission.”
Land grab saga in KZN
October 31 2011 at 09:35pm
A leader in an alleged land grab was selling off plots, claiming he was entitled to do so because “the land belonged to the Zulu people”.
Agronomist Edmund (Rusty) Roodt, who owns the 82 hectare concerned, said this in an urgent application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
Judge Ron McLaren interdicted the respondent, Philani Bha Ndlovu, or anyone acting for him, from entering the property until finalisation of the matter on November 21.
Roodt submitted his title deeds for the land, which is in Winterskloof.
Roodt said he saw about 20 people measuring plots on October 29
and knocking in pegs, typical of land demarcation.
On Sunday, October 30 he saw a bulldozer levelling plots that were demarcated the previous day.
He contacted Ndlovu, who is a businessman, who came to the scene.
Roodt told the court that Ndlovu said: “The land belongs to the Zulu people... the land belongs to the Ngonyama Trust.”
Roodt said he told Ndlovu the land belonged to his company, Farmers Nuco, that neither Ndlovu or anyone else was entitled to demarcate plots and try to occupy the land.
“The respondent (Ndlovu) replied that he was selling the plots and that he was entitled to do so,” Roodt said.
He denied that Zulu people ever lived or owned any of the properties in Winterskloof.
A Chief Zondi lived about two km from Farmers Nuco.
“Ndlovu and those who believe they may simply grab another's land and that this land was previously part of Zondi's land are mistaken,” said Roodt.
Ndlovu, who represented himself in court, was told by Judge McLaren that he should file opposing affidavits on November 11 and that Roodt should file replying affidavits if needed by November 18. - Sapa
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Monday, 31 October 2011
Sunday, 30 October 2011
South Africa's Rolling Clouds
This post relates to my previous article South Africa's Looming Revolution
Winnie sounds warning
2011-10-30
By Sabelo Ndlangisa
“Next year, we will be voting in Bloemfontein and trust me, we’re not into recycling. We shall get a new leader,” she told guests at an event to mark the 60th anniversary of Drum magazine at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg.
Earlier that day, the veteran politician testified in favour of embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema at his disciplinary hearing.
This is probably the most direct indication so far that Madikizela-Mandela supports the league’s bid to remove President Jacob Zuma in Mangaung next year.
ANCYL Economic Freedom March
As can be seen in the articles and galleries of the various South African newspapers, they only published very carefully selected photographs from which one cannot really make our how many people were part of the march.
The media went out of their way to convince the public and the World that the ANCYL's Economic Freedom March was a failure and that very few people attended the march. In fact they quoted figures of "less than 1000", and "no more than 3000", while there were no less than 10,000 and rather closer to 20,000 marchers in Pretoria, which I saw with my own eyes.
The media tried there very best to downplay the march in an effort to prevent anxiety and panic among the South African public and to prevent negative impact on foreign tourism.
The media is trying to hide the reality of the revolution building in the New South Africa. In the meantime the signs are clear for all to see.
The strange thing about it is that even the right wing is falling for the media's bluff? Even the right wingers are cheering, because the ANCYL's Economic Freedom March was a "failure"? It shows how even the right wing in South Africa are gullible to the extreme, living in their dreams of a new white homeland for white South Africans.
ANCYL march to Union Buildings
Well selected photographs of the march in Pretoria
ANCYL march in Johannesburg
Well selected photographs
Malema addresses ANCYL march
Video
ANCYL march - Day 2
Video
ANC youth league march IN PHOTOS
Well selected Photographs in South Africa's largest black newspaper
The South African Constitution is in danger
ANCYL demands change to Constitution
The ANC Youth League on Friday called on government to amend the Constitution to allow land claims without compensation.
The league demanded the amendment of section 25 of the Constitution which protects private property against arbitrary expropriation and allows for compensation.
The league's memorandum said all productive land should be nationalised and leased, and neighbourhoods electrified.
A state bank must be established and foreign policy must be changed to isolate countries that threaten South Africa's sovereignty.
"He stated clearly that everyone that lives in South Africa who isn’t black and who owns property has stolen it from the black people and especially from the black youth... Malema has now openly instructed that the Constitution be changed in order to legalise the theft of their property and possessions," said Botha. This above paragraph quoted from the following article Malema needs a history lesson - CDP.
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Malema hands memo to JSE
"The people who are stealing our wealth must come on stage," Malema said from the back of a truck converted into a stage outside the JSE in Sandton.
"Down with white capital monopoly," he chanted.
An official from the JSE received the memorandum from Malema at 17:15.
"Thank you for the opportunity. We will take your demands to the executive," he said.
This upset the crowd who started singing Dubul'ibhunu (shoot the boer), which has been declared hate speech by a court.
"Our demands are clear and they must respond as soon as possible," Malema said.
"We have come peacefully and we hope they can respect that."
A Very Important Point
With this ANCYL Economic Freedom March Julius Malema made a very important point that should be taken seriously. He showed how much control he holds over his followers. This march was peaceful to the extreme with not a single incident of violence or lack of discipline. Malema showed how much discipline and respect he commands with his followers.
If he could discipline them this well during two days of the longest march in history, leading at least 10,000 followers, what could he achieve under circumstances that required his followers to take more aggressive action under his command?
Comes the ANC Election Conference in Mangaung 2012 we shall see the results of the ANCYL's efforts.
A revolution could take many forms, but the process and methodology remain the same.
The dark clouds of revolution are rolling across the New South Africa.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
South Africa: Producer of Educated Skilled Labour for the 1st World
Is it rational that a white child is allowed to attend school with Government subsidies, then allowed to enter University and study with Government subsidies, but then once graduated he/she is rejected because he/she is white?
How does this fit in with our supposed non-racist, (supposed) "Democracy"?
Thanks to racist programs like BEE (so-called Black Economic Empowerment) and Transformation South Africa has become a major producer of highly educated skilled labour to the rest of the World. While taxpayers are subsidising the education and training of all nationalities in SA, once graduated whites are unable to enter for the local labour market, yet they are sought-after abroad.
This is not only racist, but irrational. SA is a third-World country that needs educated, skilled labour for development and growth.
Socialism - Remind you of the NEW SOUTH AFRICA?
An economics professor at a university made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
South Africa should take heed this profound lesson from the past.
Stated way back in 1931 and it says it all :
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." - Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
When are we to stop correcting the errors of the past?
The newspapers are filled with articles on racism and discrimination and one thing that tends to stand out is the mudslinging that goes with it. To-and-fro blaming, accusations and insults.
It matters not who was liberal, left or right-wing, how we have changed our political views or not, what is important is what we are going to do to ensure a future for all South Africans.
The World commended South Africa for the peaceful transition in 1994, we were commended for our ground-breaking Constitution. Unfortunately what we have discovered is that it is not what everyone expected or hoped for. Racial discrimination is at the order of the day and not only being supported, but demanded by legislation, which is the cause of much dissension and tension within.
South Africa is THE example to the rest of the World on peaceful Governmental transition, on the successful eradication of Apartheid and white on black racial discrimination, but are we an example to the World on the eradication of racial discrimination in general, no we are not. We have replaced white on black discrimination with black on white discrimination.
What is needed and would it take to level the playing field, to show the rest of the World how a country can be managed in such a way that all forms of discrimination, not only racial discrimination, is eradicated. If South Africa really wants to achieve anything in future we need to build on the achievements that led to the founding a new democratic non-apartheid based South Africa.
We need to interpret and apply our Constitution as it is written and without creative interpretation to find loopholes with which to continue the propagation of a discriminatory system in new and revised form. BEE and Transformation are no more than synonyms for Apartheid.
Discriminatory legislation and systems are often born from fear, fear of being overruled, fear of losing control, fear of being unable to compete on a level playing-field, etc.
What is it that black South Africans need to fear, that Government or the ruling party needs to fear that prevents them from leveling the playing field? Besides the promises to the masses and the fear of losing at the voting stations next time round, what is there to fear from such minorities?
We also need to keep in mind that this is not a white forum for discrimination against whites, because not only are the whites being discriminated against, but also Coloureds, Asians and other minorities are being refused equal opportunities. BEE and transformation is not about reversed discrimination, it is discrimination against all minorities particularly those not classified as black.
The excuse for this new form of discrimination is often given as being a means to address the wrongs of the past. One needs to question when does the past begin and when does the past end and how long does one continue correcting the errors of that past.
If South Africa is still in the transition phase of correcting the errors of the past it means that this is not yet the new South Africa, this is South Africa in the interim phase working towards a New South Africa.
The New South Africa is envisaged as a matured South Africa without discriminatory legislation and systems, it is a united South Africa that HAD corrected the errors of the past and IS working towards development of the nation and country as a whole as one singular colourless, genderless united all-equal nation.
How do we achieve this? We can only achieve such maturity by guts, conviction and determination. We achieve that through strong leadership, with leaders that are beyond reproach, ethical, moral, honest, without baggage, without debts to friends, with leaders that will have the guts to lay down the cut-off date for redress and call the closing date of this interim period during which the errors of the past are to be corrected.
How could we ever correct the errors of the past of we cannot even acknowledge the errors of today? We are so "Politically Correct" that no problems seem to exist. "Political Correctness" is the language of the weak, of those too scared of offending or standing up for what they believe in. The language of the pretentious hypocritical appeaser who blesses his decapitator after having sold-out everyone else. The "Politically Correct" are to be feared more than the enemy & than the Devil himself. "Political Correctness" is a disease, a virus that destroys truth & denies reality.
As long as legislation is in place that demands of business, industry and employers to redress the imbalances caused by the old regime, companies are compelled to comply with such legislation and we shall remain in this interim immature void.
Pressure needs to be applied to Government to call the closing date of this interim transitional period of redress so that the current legislation demanding compliance with transformation and BEE may be abandoned and we as South Africans can start building the New South Africa of the future, equal, united, together.
How does this fit in with our supposed non-racist, (supposed) "Democracy"?
Thanks to racist programs like BEE (so-called Black Economic Empowerment) and Transformation South Africa has become a major producer of highly educated skilled labour to the rest of the World. While taxpayers are subsidising the education and training of all nationalities in SA, once graduated whites are unable to enter for the local labour market, yet they are sought-after abroad.
This is not only racist, but irrational. SA is a third-World country that needs educated, skilled labour for development and growth.
Socialism - Remind you of the NEW SOUTH AFRICA?
An economics professor at a university made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
South Africa should take heed this profound lesson from the past.
Stated way back in 1931 and it says it all :
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." - Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
When are we to stop correcting the errors of the past?
The newspapers are filled with articles on racism and discrimination and one thing that tends to stand out is the mudslinging that goes with it. To-and-fro blaming, accusations and insults.
It matters not who was liberal, left or right-wing, how we have changed our political views or not, what is important is what we are going to do to ensure a future for all South Africans.
The World commended South Africa for the peaceful transition in 1994, we were commended for our ground-breaking Constitution. Unfortunately what we have discovered is that it is not what everyone expected or hoped for. Racial discrimination is at the order of the day and not only being supported, but demanded by legislation, which is the cause of much dissension and tension within.
South Africa is THE example to the rest of the World on peaceful Governmental transition, on the successful eradication of Apartheid and white on black racial discrimination, but are we an example to the World on the eradication of racial discrimination in general, no we are not. We have replaced white on black discrimination with black on white discrimination.
What is needed and would it take to level the playing field, to show the rest of the World how a country can be managed in such a way that all forms of discrimination, not only racial discrimination, is eradicated. If South Africa really wants to achieve anything in future we need to build on the achievements that led to the founding a new democratic non-apartheid based South Africa.
We need to interpret and apply our Constitution as it is written and without creative interpretation to find loopholes with which to continue the propagation of a discriminatory system in new and revised form. BEE and Transformation are no more than synonyms for Apartheid.
Discriminatory legislation and systems are often born from fear, fear of being overruled, fear of losing control, fear of being unable to compete on a level playing-field, etc.
What is it that black South Africans need to fear, that Government or the ruling party needs to fear that prevents them from leveling the playing field? Besides the promises to the masses and the fear of losing at the voting stations next time round, what is there to fear from such minorities?
We also need to keep in mind that this is not a white forum for discrimination against whites, because not only are the whites being discriminated against, but also Coloureds, Asians and other minorities are being refused equal opportunities. BEE and transformation is not about reversed discrimination, it is discrimination against all minorities particularly those not classified as black.
The excuse for this new form of discrimination is often given as being a means to address the wrongs of the past. One needs to question when does the past begin and when does the past end and how long does one continue correcting the errors of that past.
If South Africa is still in the transition phase of correcting the errors of the past it means that this is not yet the new South Africa, this is South Africa in the interim phase working towards a New South Africa.
The New South Africa is envisaged as a matured South Africa without discriminatory legislation and systems, it is a united South Africa that HAD corrected the errors of the past and IS working towards development of the nation and country as a whole as one singular colourless, genderless united all-equal nation.
How do we achieve this? We can only achieve such maturity by guts, conviction and determination. We achieve that through strong leadership, with leaders that are beyond reproach, ethical, moral, honest, without baggage, without debts to friends, with leaders that will have the guts to lay down the cut-off date for redress and call the closing date of this interim period during which the errors of the past are to be corrected.
How could we ever correct the errors of the past of we cannot even acknowledge the errors of today? We are so "Politically Correct" that no problems seem to exist. "Political Correctness" is the language of the weak, of those too scared of offending or standing up for what they believe in. The language of the pretentious hypocritical appeaser who blesses his decapitator after having sold-out everyone else. The "Politically Correct" are to be feared more than the enemy & than the Devil himself. "Political Correctness" is a disease, a virus that destroys truth & denies reality.
As long as legislation is in place that demands of business, industry and employers to redress the imbalances caused by the old regime, companies are compelled to comply with such legislation and we shall remain in this interim immature void.
Pressure needs to be applied to Government to call the closing date of this interim transitional period of redress so that the current legislation demanding compliance with transformation and BEE may be abandoned and we as South Africans can start building the New South Africa of the future, equal, united, together.
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