Health budget havoc Malpractice suits expose Gauteng to crippling compensation claims http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article677188.ece/Health-budget-havoc
Sep 26, 2010 11:22 PM | By SALLY EVANS
The Gauteng Department of Health faces the possibility that it will have to pay R2-billion in compensation, a quarter of it for medical malpractice claims.
In the province's 2009-2010 annual report, "medico-legal claims" against the department were stated as R573-million, up from R447-million in the previous financial year.
Auditor-general Terence Nombembe raised concerns about the amount for which the department was successfully sued by victims of bad treatment and botched operations.
The biggest claim against the department was R1.5-billion in connection with the allegedly premature termination of contracts, two of which were with consultants.
The two contracts - with 3P Consultancy, valued at more than R200-million, and with the Bawoki Consortium, for a R1-billion computerised information system - were cancelled after a review by the new leadership of the department in April last year.
The Johannesburg High Court ordered the department to pay R10.4-million for services rendered by 3P Consultancy and to re-instate its contract with the company.
The department appealed and the matter is still before the court, according to the department's spokesman, Mandla Sidu.
Gauteng's MEC for health and social development, Qedani Mahlangu, said last year that her decision to cancel contracts signed by her predecessor, Brian Hlongwa, was "the right thing to do".
The DA's health spokesman in Gauteng, Jack Bloom, said the claims against the department were a concern.
He said the value of the contracts was not necessarily the amount for which the department would be liable if it lost in the high court. Hlongwa and 3P have consistently denied wrongdoing.
Adele van der Walt, a lawyer who specialises in medical malpractice claims, said increases in malpractice suits against doctors, nurses and hospitals could partly be ascribed to there being "more patients and fewer doctors".
The number of claims had increased in private and public healthcare, she said.
"Hospitals are understaffed and there are fewer qualified practitioners.
Only about 20% to 30% of nurses are qualified," she said.
The risk factors increased as the number of patients seeking medical attention increased, she said.
Taken together with the quality and availability of nursing staff, and of specialist doctors, it was a "challenge for medical services in South Africa".
The Sunday Times quoted the chief planner of the proposed national health insurance scheme, Olive Shisana, as saying that South Africa would recruit "thousands of doctors from other countries" to staff the scheme.
The scheme is intended to provide tax-funded cover to all citizens.
Bloom said it was not only claims and liabilities that were wreaking havoc with the department's budget: other provinces owed about R307-million to Gauteng.
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Selfverdegingingsvideos / Self-Defense Videos
HIERDIE IS DIE MOEITE WERD OM AF TE LAAI EN TE BESTUDEER, VERAL VIR VROUENS.
THIS IS WORTH WHILE DOWNLOADING FOR ANYONE, PARTICULARLY FOR WOMEN.
As jy nie die Krav Maga Kursus bygewoon het nie, kyk ten minste hierdie videos.
If you had not attended the Krav Maga Course yet, then at least download and watch these videos intently.
Dit is ernstige videos wat baie gevaarlike tegnieke leer.
This is serious stuff and certainly worth while.
Dis groot files wat jou ADSL Cap gaan opgebruik, MAAR DIS DIE MOEITE WERD, JOU LEWE IS BELANGRIKER AS 'N CAP.
These are large files, BUT WORTH IT. It will deplete you ADSL Cap, BUT YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MORE.
Unleash the Lioness
http://boereland.com/selfbeskerm.html
Video size 153MB Good video and much better and more effective than most other techniques
242MB (still good, but sound en image not syncronised)
Dr. Ruthless®: Practical, Primal Self Defense For Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0piEyfcVAk
10.8MB Excellent video
Krav Maga Self Defense Techniques : Front Gun Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jnqD8wvyE
8.4MB Good technique to handle an attack with a gun from the front
Krav_Maga_Self_Defense_Techniques___Hostage_Situation_Techniques_with_Krav_Maga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HaY2gV5seg
3.2MB Good technique to handle an attack with a gun from behind
Krav_Maga_Self_Defense_Techniques___Forward_Stab_Defense_Move_for_Krav_Maga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBa-sdNIEo
6MB Good for frontal knife stab attack
THIS IS WORTH WHILE DOWNLOADING FOR ANYONE, PARTICULARLY FOR WOMEN.
As jy nie die Krav Maga Kursus bygewoon het nie, kyk ten minste hierdie videos.
If you had not attended the Krav Maga Course yet, then at least download and watch these videos intently.
Dit is ernstige videos wat baie gevaarlike tegnieke leer.
This is serious stuff and certainly worth while.
Dis groot files wat jou ADSL Cap gaan opgebruik, MAAR DIS DIE MOEITE WERD, JOU LEWE IS BELANGRIKER AS 'N CAP.
These are large files, BUT WORTH IT. It will deplete you ADSL Cap, BUT YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MORE.
Unleash the Lioness
http://boereland.com/selfbeskerm.html
Video size 153MB Good video and much better and more effective than most other techniques
242MB (still good, but sound en image not syncronised)
Dr. Ruthless®: Practical, Primal Self Defense For Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0piEyfcVAk
10.8MB Excellent video
Krav Maga Self Defense Techniques : Front Gun Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jnqD8wvyE
8.4MB Good technique to handle an attack with a gun from the front
Krav_Maga_Self_Defense_Techniques___Hostage_Situation_Techniques_with_Krav_Maga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HaY2gV5seg
3.2MB Good technique to handle an attack with a gun from behind
Krav_Maga_Self_Defense_Techniques___Forward_Stab_Defense_Move_for_Krav_Maga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBa-sdNIEo
6MB Good for frontal knife stab attack
People’s War - New Light on the Struggle for South Africa
http://www.sairr.org.za/press-office/archive/sairr-opinion-people2019s-war-new-light-on-the-struggle-for-south-africa-4th-december-2009
SAIRR Opinion:
People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa
4th December 2009
On Friday 27th November 2009 the Mail & Guardian published an attack on Anthea Jeffery’s new People’s War book. Her response (see below) was sent to the newspaper on Monday 30th November 2009 with a request that it be published with the same degree of prominence as the attack. Instead, the newspaper has failed to publish it at all.
Jeffery’s response:
Drew Forrest’s review of "People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa" is an unconvincing parody of my book. For Forrest seeks to explain away 540 pages of evidence about the ANC’s people’s war on the simplistic basis that my alleged ‘dizzy romance’ with Inkatha lies behind my supposed determination to ‘stretch the facts to fit my preconceptions’. [‘Polemic pretending to be history’, Mail & Guardian 27 November 2009]
His review is also an extraordinary perversion of the truth, for he asserts that the ‘people’s war’ was ‘largely a figment’. He thus ignores:
Forrest also implicitly asserts that the struggle was simply ‘a mass movement of ordinary South Africans’, led by the United Democratic Front (UDF), in which the ANC was largely confined to ‘cheering from the sidelines’. But this ignores the fact that:
To explain away this sudden surge in violence after political liberalisation, the ANC and its allies developed the Third-Force theory, which Forrest endorses too. According to this theory, state president F W de Klerk had a ‘dual strategy’ of talking peace while waging war: of pretending a commitment to negotiations while using the police and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to destabilise the ANC.
The obvious involvement of both the police and the IFP in political violence lent significant support to this theory. But the theory also has many weaknesses:
By contrast (all of which Forrest overlooks):
2. stampede negotiators into giving it what Joe Slovo called ‘a famous victory’ in negotiations, and
3. put great pressure on the first all-race election, while making it unthinkable for anyone to demand a re-run of the deeply flawed April 1994 poll in which it was accorded (no accurate count being possible) some 63% of the vote.
Forrest also suggests that Inkatha was the principal villain in violence and that the book seeks simply to obscure this. But this ignores one of the most important of the lessons from Vietnam – that people’s war can be used not only against an incumbent government but also against all other rivals for power. Moreover, such rivals must be so weakened by the time of the transition as to give the insurgents hegemony and pave the way for the further stages of the revolution.
Against this background, it is not surprising that most of the violence was directed against Inkatha, which already had a million members in KwaZulu/Natal and on the Reef when the people’s war began and so posed the greatest obstacle to the ANC’s determination to dominate a post-apartheid South Africa. The IFP also bore the brunt of the casualties, for the police were correct in their analysis that ‘the ANC was waging an aggressive war’ against the IFP ‘by military means’ and that the IFP was ‘disadvantaged in its resistance’ because it ‘lacked the quantity and sophistication of the weaponry available to the ANC’.
Forrest also overlooks the violence directed at many other groups, all of which were targets for attack under the formula for people’s war. From 1984 to 1994, there was violence between the ANC and black councillors; between the ANC and the police; between the ANC and the Azanian People’s Organisation; between the ANC and the Pan-Africanist Congress; between the ANC and the locally influential Labour Party in Port Elizabeth; between the ANC and alleged ‘vigilantes’: in fact, moderate blacks tired of being coerced to take part in the ANC’s campaigns of mass action. Always it was the ANC that was the common denominator in the conflict.
To all of this, Forrest turns a determinedly blind eye. It is thus not my book but his review which is ‘a shallow polemic’. His real gripe is doubtless that the book succeeds too well in piercing the veil the ANC has drawn across our recent past.
- Dr Anthea Jeffery. Jeffery is Head of Special Research at the South African Institute of Race Relations and author of "People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa", recently published by Jonathan Ball Publishers.
SAIRR Opinion:
People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa
4th December 2009
On Friday 27th November 2009 the Mail & Guardian published an attack on Anthea Jeffery’s new People’s War book. Her response (see below) was sent to the newspaper on Monday 30th November 2009 with a request that it be published with the same degree of prominence as the attack. Instead, the newspaper has failed to publish it at all.
Jeffery’s response:
Drew Forrest’s review of "People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa" is an unconvincing parody of my book. For Forrest seeks to explain away 540 pages of evidence about the ANC’s people’s war on the simplistic basis that my alleged ‘dizzy romance’ with Inkatha lies behind my supposed determination to ‘stretch the facts to fit my preconceptions’. [‘Polemic pretending to be history’, Mail & Guardian 27 November 2009]
His review is also an extraordinary perversion of the truth, for he asserts that the ‘people’s war’ was ‘largely a figment’. He thus ignores:
- the ANC’s visit to Vietnam in 1978 to learn the formula for people’s war;
- its decision to adopt that formula, reflected in the ANC document The Green Book: Lessons from Vietnam;
- the determination made clear in The Green Book that the ANC would now embark on ‘a protracted people’s war’ in which opponents would be overcome via ‘a combination of political and military action’; and
- a host of subsequent ANC broadcasts and publications further exhorting people’s war and, in time, praising the achievements of this strategy.
Forrest also implicitly asserts that the struggle was simply ‘a mass movement of ordinary South Africans’, led by the United Democratic Front (UDF), in which the ANC was largely confined to ‘cheering from the sidelines’. But this ignores the fact that:
- the UDF was a puppet of the ANC (24 of the UDF’s 25-strong national executive committee being members of the ANC underground);
- the ANC was unbanned and back inside South Africa when the people’s war intensified in the early 1990s and the death toll in political violence rose three-fold from what it had been in the 1980s.
To explain away this sudden surge in violence after political liberalisation, the ANC and its allies developed the Third-Force theory, which Forrest endorses too. According to this theory, state president F W de Klerk had a ‘dual strategy’ of talking peace while waging war: of pretending a commitment to negotiations while using the police and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to destabilise the ANC.
The obvious involvement of both the police and the IFP in political violence lent significant support to this theory. But the theory also has many weaknesses:
- no credible evidence of De Klerk’s duplicity has ever been found, despite assiduous endeavour;
- more than 800 policemen were killed in the early 1990s, many in premeditated ambushes, while thousands of IFP office-bearers and supporters were killed in similar ways; while
- a Third Force that killed so many of its own made no sense at all, especially when neither the police nor the IFP drew advantage from the killings but were instead discredited and weakened by them.
By contrast (all of which Forrest overlooks):
- the ANC had a declared ‘dual strategy’ of persisting with its people’s war after negotiations began for it saw the talks as nothing but ‘an additional terrain of struggle’;
- the ANC had little compunction about attacking black civilians, including its own supporters, for the formula for people’s war draws no distinction between combatants and others and regards all civilians (irrespective of their political affiliation) as expendable in conflict;
- the ANC had a motive to unleash violence, for it wanted to create enough mayhem and unrest either to spark an insurrection or to weaken its opponents to the point where it could triumph in negotiations;
- the ANC had the means to unleash violence, for the peace process allowed it to bring back into South Africa some 13 000 armed and trained combatants whom it then refused to disarm or disband; and
- the ANC was the only organisation to draw benefit from the 15 000 political killings that took place in the early 1990s (after all major apartheid laws had been repealed), for it used these to:
2. stampede negotiators into giving it what Joe Slovo called ‘a famous victory’ in negotiations, and
3. put great pressure on the first all-race election, while making it unthinkable for anyone to demand a re-run of the deeply flawed April 1994 poll in which it was accorded (no accurate count being possible) some 63% of the vote.
Forrest also suggests that Inkatha was the principal villain in violence and that the book seeks simply to obscure this. But this ignores one of the most important of the lessons from Vietnam – that people’s war can be used not only against an incumbent government but also against all other rivals for power. Moreover, such rivals must be so weakened by the time of the transition as to give the insurgents hegemony and pave the way for the further stages of the revolution.
Against this background, it is not surprising that most of the violence was directed against Inkatha, which already had a million members in KwaZulu/Natal and on the Reef when the people’s war began and so posed the greatest obstacle to the ANC’s determination to dominate a post-apartheid South Africa. The IFP also bore the brunt of the casualties, for the police were correct in their analysis that ‘the ANC was waging an aggressive war’ against the IFP ‘by military means’ and that the IFP was ‘disadvantaged in its resistance’ because it ‘lacked the quantity and sophistication of the weaponry available to the ANC’.
Forrest also overlooks the violence directed at many other groups, all of which were targets for attack under the formula for people’s war. From 1984 to 1994, there was violence between the ANC and black councillors; between the ANC and the police; between the ANC and the Azanian People’s Organisation; between the ANC and the Pan-Africanist Congress; between the ANC and the locally influential Labour Party in Port Elizabeth; between the ANC and alleged ‘vigilantes’: in fact, moderate blacks tired of being coerced to take part in the ANC’s campaigns of mass action. Always it was the ANC that was the common denominator in the conflict.
To all of this, Forrest turns a determinedly blind eye. It is thus not my book but his review which is ‘a shallow polemic’. His real gripe is doubtless that the book succeeds too well in piercing the veil the ANC has drawn across our recent past.
- Dr Anthea Jeffery. Jeffery is Head of Special Research at the South African Institute of Race Relations and author of "People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa", recently published by Jonathan Ball Publishers.
African National Corruption a Fraudulent Company
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
373 in total or approximately 70% Can you guess which organization this is?
These figures have probably multiplied since I originally received this, but nevertheless,
It's the 535 members of the SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT -
(The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line!)
A Special Poem Dedicated to the ANC
Victory
(Author unknown)
You are the one who used to boast
That you’d achieve the uttermost,
Some day.
You merely wished a show,
To demonstrate how much you know
And to prove the distance you can go……..
Another year we’ve just passed through.
What new ideas came to you?
How many big things did you do?
Time . . . . left twelve fresh months in your care
How many of them did you share
With opportunity and dare
Again where you so often missed?
We do not find your name in the List of Makers Good.
Explain the fact!
Ah no, ‘twas not the chance you lacked!
As usual - you failed to act!
(Author unknown)
You are the one who used to boast
That you’d achieve the uttermost,
Some day.
You merely wished a show,
To demonstrate how much you know
And to prove the distance you can go……..
Another year we’ve just passed through.
What new ideas came to you?
How many big things did you do?
Time . . . . left twelve fresh months in your care
How many of them did you share
With opportunity and dare
Again where you so often missed?
We do not find your name in the List of Makers Good.
Explain the fact!
Ah no, ‘twas not the chance you lacked!
As usual - you failed to act!
Entire young white South African generation has left the country
Digital Journal
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267776
January 2011
The Institute for Race Relations reports that there's hundreds of thousands of young whites missing in South Africa. Newsweek also reports on the mass exodus of white, skilled families, asking: 'why are the brightest leaving this most successful state?"
The South African Institute for Race Relations says this week that the young white men -- aged 24 to 34 have mostly left the country now, and that there now are many more older white men than younger ones - when the reverse is the case in normal societies without wars.
There are two main reasons for this demographic oddity: the relentless murder campaign waged by heavily-armed, well organised black male gangs against white farmers: the latest murder toll is 3,038; together with the mass exodus of white, working-age families from South Africa ever since 1994 -- and which Digital Journal has also often reported about just recently. here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262718
Newsweek article
This week's Newsweek feature article (http://www.newsweek.com/id/184783) by Scott Johnson , headlined "Fleeing from South Africa,' asks: ' Fourteen years after apartheid, why are the best and the brightest leaving Africa's most successful state?"
He writes: "The South African government doesn't keep reliable emigration statistics. But even as the global financial crisis has caused emigration from most other countries to slow, a number of recent independent studies show that mass departures from South Africa are ongoing and are sapping the nation of its skilled and best-educated young citizens.
"The most dramatic figures can be found among South African whites, who are leaving at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict," according to a report by the South African Institute on Race Relations," he writes.
What Newsweek doesn't say however, is that more than 90% of all those 'whites' who have left, are actually Afrikaans-speakers, close-knit, often deeply religious members of a very distinct ethnic minority who view themselves as an independent nation, with their own language, culture and a very unique history. This exodus of 'whites' thus also marks the dissipation, the destruction of an entire ethnic minority in South Africa which has lived there since the 17th century. The young generation of Afrikaners is being forced out of the country of their birth, and not only face the heartbreak of leaving their beloved continent behind them forever, but also having to leave their aging parents behind.
Newsweek continues:
"Some 800,000 out of a total white population of 4 million have left since 1995, by one count," he reports, adding: : "...this wasn't supposed to happen.. but (emigration) has been accentuated by a violent crime epidemic, serious political upheaval and economic globalization. A poll conducted last May among 600 people of different races, ages and genders (in South Africa) found that 20 percent were leaving the country'.
Crime, murders, rapes:
"The primary driver for emigration among all groups, but especially whites (...) is fear of crime. With more than 50 killings a day, South Africa has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world." For the South African police statistics, which alas are not maintained very well, see http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/crime_stats_2008.htm
Rape in South Africa as if it's a conflict zone
He continues: "The same goes for rape—ranking the country alongside conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, Colombia and Afghanistan. Future Fact polling indicates that more than 95 percent of those eager to leave South Africa rate violent crime as the single most important factor affecting their thinking. (see our previous reports on the rape epidemic in South Africa here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264956 and here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264259)
"Lynette Chen, the ethnic-Chinese CEO of Nepad Business Group, is the only member of her family left in South Africa. Her parents departed in 2002 after being carjacked—twice. Her brother, also a victim of crime, followed suit shortly thereafter. "They're always getting homesick," she says. "But they won't come back unless the crime is reduced."
White farmers attacked:
"Another largely unnoticed problem is the growing number of attacks on South Africa's white farmers. As in neighbouring Zimbabwe, some appear to be racially motivated. The result is that white farmers' numbers continue to decrease...' (see our previous report here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265201)
"Then there's the problem of affirmative action, which many whites feel limits their opportunities for advancement and which keeps many émigrés from returning. "You can attract people home, but there are still the same concerns when they get here," Chen says. "Crime and lack of job opportunities if you're not the right color." see http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262718
The SAIRR spokesman Frans Cronjé slammed the Newsweek article's as 'putting South African in a poor light', especially over its comment that 'white South Africans leave the country at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict,"
However, he also felt that the Newsweek article raised a very important issue, and that it created awareness of the fact that so many white well-educated citizens have left the country.'
"The article shows the seriousness of the brain drain - and that the underlying causes must be urgently addressed,' Cronjé said.
He also confirmed that most of the country's white South Africans aged between 24 to 40 have already left the country - some 750,000 -- since 1994. An entire generation of whites basically have now left the country, and there indeed are many more older white men, aged above 60 years, than young ones left in the country.
And now, a second wave of young emigrants is also beginning to leave, he said: young coloured and Indian families; together with the recent graduates among the black middle-class, are also departing.
However managing director Martine Schaffer of the Homecoming Revolution - launched by a South African banking group to try and lure its best customers back to the country -- slammed the report as 'last year's old news', describing it as sensationalised, inaccurate.."
Although her organisation does not maintain any registers to back up her claims, she says there is no real brain-drain. There was a brief exodus from South Africa after the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC, xenophobic attacks, and Zimbabwe's economic crisis, ' she told the Afrikaans weekly Rapport today.
However, she denies that there has been a steady exodus of whites since 1994. And, she claims that due to the global financial crisis, many now are clamouring to return. see http://jv.news24.com/Rapport/Suid-Afrika/0,,752-2460_2474078,00.html
ARTICLE INSERTS
Boer Republican Organisation
2,400 Afrikaans children walked onto a football field in Kameeldrift, Pretoria with white crosses and laid down to illustrate the fear they were feeling about the country's growing violent crime targetting them. Each of these children had already suffered from at least one serious crime. In their small region 33 Afrikaans breadwinners have already been killed in more than 47 armed attacks this year, warns the Transvaal AgriUnion.
Solidarity trade union
December 16 2008, Afrikaner families showed up in their tens of thousands at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria to vote with their feet against ANC rule which allows genocidal attacks against their kin. Dr Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch says the Afrikaners are targetted for genocide. video on http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263898
Permission: Beeld newspaper
Sheepfarmer Johnny Cilliers in South Africa discovered his lawyer-dad tortured to death at his smallholding on February 16 2009. The dad, a lawyer who works at Cullinan law court, was hogtied, strangled, tortured and shot three times - in one of the many murders targetting white Afrikaners in South Africa since 1994.
Afrikaner Genocide Archives Picture
Especially Afrikaner whites are increasingly leaving the country of their birth. The New Zealand and Australian embassies frequently hold emigration seminars, which are always overcrowded.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267776
January 2011
The Institute for Race Relations reports that there's hundreds of thousands of young whites missing in South Africa. Newsweek also reports on the mass exodus of white, skilled families, asking: 'why are the brightest leaving this most successful state?"
The South African Institute for Race Relations says this week that the young white men -- aged 24 to 34 have mostly left the country now, and that there now are many more older white men than younger ones - when the reverse is the case in normal societies without wars.
There are two main reasons for this demographic oddity: the relentless murder campaign waged by heavily-armed, well organised black male gangs against white farmers: the latest murder toll is 3,038; together with the mass exodus of white, working-age families from South Africa ever since 1994 -- and which Digital Journal has also often reported about just recently. here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262718
Newsweek article
This week's Newsweek feature article (http://www.newsweek.com/id/184783) by Scott Johnson , headlined "Fleeing from South Africa,' asks: ' Fourteen years after apartheid, why are the best and the brightest leaving Africa's most successful state?"
He writes: "The South African government doesn't keep reliable emigration statistics. But even as the global financial crisis has caused emigration from most other countries to slow, a number of recent independent studies show that mass departures from South Africa are ongoing and are sapping the nation of its skilled and best-educated young citizens.
"The most dramatic figures can be found among South African whites, who are leaving at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict," according to a report by the South African Institute on Race Relations," he writes.
What Newsweek doesn't say however, is that more than 90% of all those 'whites' who have left, are actually Afrikaans-speakers, close-knit, often deeply religious members of a very distinct ethnic minority who view themselves as an independent nation, with their own language, culture and a very unique history. This exodus of 'whites' thus also marks the dissipation, the destruction of an entire ethnic minority in South Africa which has lived there since the 17th century. The young generation of Afrikaners is being forced out of the country of their birth, and not only face the heartbreak of leaving their beloved continent behind them forever, but also having to leave their aging parents behind.
Newsweek continues:
"Some 800,000 out of a total white population of 4 million have left since 1995, by one count," he reports, adding: : "...this wasn't supposed to happen.. but (emigration) has been accentuated by a violent crime epidemic, serious political upheaval and economic globalization. A poll conducted last May among 600 people of different races, ages and genders (in South Africa) found that 20 percent were leaving the country'.
Crime, murders, rapes:
"The primary driver for emigration among all groups, but especially whites (...) is fear of crime. With more than 50 killings a day, South Africa has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world." For the South African police statistics, which alas are not maintained very well, see http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/crime_stats_2008.htm
Rape in South Africa as if it's a conflict zone
He continues: "The same goes for rape—ranking the country alongside conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, Colombia and Afghanistan. Future Fact polling indicates that more than 95 percent of those eager to leave South Africa rate violent crime as the single most important factor affecting their thinking. (see our previous reports on the rape epidemic in South Africa here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264956 and here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264259)
"Lynette Chen, the ethnic-Chinese CEO of Nepad Business Group, is the only member of her family left in South Africa. Her parents departed in 2002 after being carjacked—twice. Her brother, also a victim of crime, followed suit shortly thereafter. "They're always getting homesick," she says. "But they won't come back unless the crime is reduced."
White farmers attacked:
"Another largely unnoticed problem is the growing number of attacks on South Africa's white farmers. As in neighbouring Zimbabwe, some appear to be racially motivated. The result is that white farmers' numbers continue to decrease...' (see our previous report here http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265201)
"Then there's the problem of affirmative action, which many whites feel limits their opportunities for advancement and which keeps many émigrés from returning. "You can attract people home, but there are still the same concerns when they get here," Chen says. "Crime and lack of job opportunities if you're not the right color." see http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262718
The SAIRR spokesman Frans Cronjé slammed the Newsweek article's as 'putting South African in a poor light', especially over its comment that 'white South Africans leave the country at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict,"
However, he also felt that the Newsweek article raised a very important issue, and that it created awareness of the fact that so many white well-educated citizens have left the country.'
"The article shows the seriousness of the brain drain - and that the underlying causes must be urgently addressed,' Cronjé said.
He also confirmed that most of the country's white South Africans aged between 24 to 40 have already left the country - some 750,000 -- since 1994. An entire generation of whites basically have now left the country, and there indeed are many more older white men, aged above 60 years, than young ones left in the country.
And now, a second wave of young emigrants is also beginning to leave, he said: young coloured and Indian families; together with the recent graduates among the black middle-class, are also departing.
However managing director Martine Schaffer of the Homecoming Revolution - launched by a South African banking group to try and lure its best customers back to the country -- slammed the report as 'last year's old news', describing it as sensationalised, inaccurate.."
Although her organisation does not maintain any registers to back up her claims, she says there is no real brain-drain. There was a brief exodus from South Africa after the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC, xenophobic attacks, and Zimbabwe's economic crisis, ' she told the Afrikaans weekly Rapport today.
However, she denies that there has been a steady exodus of whites since 1994. And, she claims that due to the global financial crisis, many now are clamouring to return. see http://jv.news24.com/Rapport/Suid-Afrika/0,,752-2460_2474078,00.html
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Boer Republican Organisation
2,400 Afrikaans children walked onto a football field in Kameeldrift, Pretoria with white crosses and laid down to illustrate the fear they were feeling about the country's growing violent crime targetting them. Each of these children had already suffered from at least one serious crime. In their small region 33 Afrikaans breadwinners have already been killed in more than 47 armed attacks this year, warns the Transvaal AgriUnion.
Solidarity trade union
December 16 2008, Afrikaner families showed up in their tens of thousands at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria to vote with their feet against ANC rule which allows genocidal attacks against their kin. Dr Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch says the Afrikaners are targetted for genocide. video on http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263898
Permission: Beeld newspaper
Sheepfarmer Johnny Cilliers in South Africa discovered his lawyer-dad tortured to death at his smallholding on February 16 2009. The dad, a lawyer who works at Cullinan law court, was hogtied, strangled, tortured and shot three times - in one of the many murders targetting white Afrikaners in South Africa since 1994.
Afrikaner Genocide Archives Picture
Especially Afrikaner whites are increasingly leaving the country of their birth. The New Zealand and Australian embassies frequently hold emigration seminars, which are always overcrowded.
South Africa Has Already Crashed
Sometimes vehicle accidents happen so fast that one cannot anticipate it, other times again one can see it coming and the driver then tries to avoid it by breaking, swerving, etc. If he is lucky he avoids the accident. It requires skill and experience to avoid most accidents. Some accidents are anticipated well in advance, but still cannot be avoided, like when the breaks fail, while the fuel pedal is stuck at the same time.
Only once the accident had happened do we realise what happened and what the dangers and consequences of the accident are. Only once the dust had settled do we realise how many people were in the car, that there is a baby in the back-seat, the fuel tank is leaking and the car may burst into flames. Only then can we assess the damage. Only then do we realise some are seriously injured and some are fine.
A bit later we realise the one that seemed fine is now coughing blood, which means internal bleeding and a possible life-threatening situation.
Afterwards we realise that besides the fact that the car was written off completely there are some positives, one could still use the left rear tyre and sell it for a few bucks. The price of iron had increased and we may get more for the vehicle at the scrap-metal dealer. Only later do we realise we had over-spent on the car, because the uninsured sound system is worth more than a third of the car's insured value. The alloy rims and expensive racing tyres, the custom paint job, etc. all money down the drain.
We are now also stuck with consequences of the crash, the lamp-post needs to be replaced at our cost, the ambulances and fire department will be sending us bills for their costs. The road is damaged and needs to be repaired. We are stuck without a car, a few broken bones, perhaps one or two dead and huge bills. To crown it all the driver is without a job without the means to pay for all the damages.
We also came to realise that while we thought we were good drivers we were not all that good and one should not speed with a poorly maintained vehicle. The outside appearance and available power is worthless, even dangerous, if the driver cannot handle the car and is not experienced in high-speed driving. This is the case with South Africa.
South Africa is not busy crashing, it has already crashed. We saw it coming and we realised it was unavoidable, because the fuel pedal was stuck and the breaks had failed, because of zero maintenance. At the same time the country was being driven by inexperienced show-offs, a classic recipe for disaster.
Few people saw it coming, because they were so impressed by the external appearance, the flashy life-styles and all the fancy additions to the vehicle that they never bothered to look a bit deeper.
This country had crashed. The water supply, never maintained, cannot meet the country's needs. The same with the electricity supply, the lack of infrastructure maintenance, the over-spending, the over-capitalisation, the incompetence, the lack of patriotism. The health services have cllapsed completed and there is nothing left of our world class roads.
The ANC was completely unskilled and inexperienced in any form of management, let alone government. Yet everyone cheered them, because they seemed so nice, so likeable. Their bragging, "sophisticated" appearance and their pretentious quasi-intelligence bluffed the ignorant masses into believing they are capable and in control.
In the meantime we are now experiencing the aftermath and consequences of the crash. Everything is collapsing all around us, while here-and-there we are being fooled by some positive move, which is nothing but the result of some external effect.
To build one new hospital, while 98% of hospitals have collapsed may seem positive, but it is not. To train a thousand nurses while less than 30% of existing nurses are unqualified is not positive. While building a highway through Gauteng may seem positive, but with the rest of the country’s roads having collapsed due to zero maintenance, it is not positive. Even the newly built highways are a pathetic disgrace, because they are breaking up and are already in serious need of repair, which is not positive, unless you’re a stupid brainless fool.
A nation could only feel positive about the future of the country if everything that exists is being well maintained, while at the same time further development is taking place.
Stamping out corruption in two or three instances and blowing it out of proportion as a means to pretend you're doing something about corruption, while billions are being stolen unchecked every week, is not positive.
The public is being kept stupid by the media promoting the tiny number of so-called positives, which in most instances is not as a result of the Regime's efforts.
South Africa has crashed and we are only now seeing, feeling, living and experiencing the effects thereof. SA was on the road to collapse in 1989 already when FW de Klerk started his capitulation and finally crashed in the 1990's under Nelson Mandela who was not a leader, he was not a President, he was not a manager, he was nothing other than a mere media-made icon, a mantle-piece, all for the show and were polished on the outside only.
Not a single leader of this country since 1994 was a patriot, they all lived in luxury abroad for decades and came back to this country still thinking it was as it was when they had left in the early 1960's. They did not come back to build and grow SA, they came here to collect, like any and every other revolutionary movement in the history of the world.
The ANC had zero knowledge or experience of government and they stepped in, got rid of everyone that could see what they were doing. The ANC did not get rid of the whites, only because they were so arrogant as to think they could actually run a first world country by themselves. The ANC got rid of the whites, because they realised the experienced whites would see what they were up to and they did not want that obstacle to their theft, fraud and corruption. They needed to get rid of everyone that would or could notice what they were doing on the inside.
Further to this their genocide strategy could also not be hidden if there were so many whites around.
They came here with a plan and the plan was to get rid of whites, chase them from the country, kill them all off and steal the country bankrupt, which was their only plan. In the meantime they put up a show that impressed the likes of the ignorant liberals.
We see in the media talk of plans for growth and development, even from the side of the quasi-right, building this and growing that all the hope of reversing the clock to the day before the crash. Unfortunately that cannot be done.
Once the car had crashed the thieves move in to steal the watches, the cell-phones, the laptop computers in the boot and everything seemingly worthwhile inside the car. They steal the mirrors and the one or two rims still intact. They steal everything they could lay their filthy hands on, but then brag because they are giving the crashed car a new paint job, while everyone knows it is beyond repair and on its way to the scrap-metal dealer.
Only the dumbed-down brainless ignorants could see this as positive.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Brutal murder of yet another white man in SA prison
The old SA is frequently accused of "abhorrent human rights abuse", but to this day no one could come up with any evidence to the effect, yet we can provide literally thousands of cases orchestrated and executed by the ANC against blacks since their founding some 100 years ago.
According to the ANC Regime's own Human Rights Commission (HRC), 73 people died while in Police detention during the period 1963 to 1990, which equates to 2.6 people annually during the "Apartheid" years.
According to the ANC Regime's own Independent Complaints Directorate (IDC), 219 people died in police custody for the period 1997 to 1998 alone.
By the time we received their results for the period 2008 to 2009 a total of 912 people had died while in SA Police custody.
Yet the old SA police were accused of being brutal and inhumane, while no one has ever said a single word about what has been happening since the ANC took control of South Africa?
For more on this and other so-called Apartheid atrocities please read: Apartheid an inhumane system?
In the meantime news24 reports on the brutal murder of yet another white man in prison : (with our own Formatting to highlight certain aspects)
Witness saw attack on man in police cell
2012-04-25 11:00
Cape Town - A witness has told how he heard a man calling for help shortly before he died following an assault in the Durbanville police cells.
Eben Meyer, 47, apparently pulled on the cell bars in an attempt to get the attention of police officers on duty, Die Burger reported.
His blood-covered body was found in the early hours of Saturday morning in the cell that he was sharing with eight other men.
Meyer had been arrested at about 01:00 for public drunkenness. He had apparently gone drinking after a fight with his fiancée.
Another man from Durbanville, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had also been locked up in the police cells on Saturday evening.
He was put in a cell next to Meyer’s. He said the men were already assaulting Meyer when he arrived.
He saw them kicking and hitting Meyer.
Aggressive
The witness said, however, that Meyer had been aggressive following his arrival, swearing and demanding cigarettes, and hitting two other men. He said Meyer had been looking for trouble.
“It’s sad that he died, but he needed a hiding.”
He said it felt like the assault on Meyer had taken several hours and that he was surprised that the police officials in the charge office nearby did not come to Meyer’s aid.
The two accused, Daniel Dyosi, 40, and Sipho Mhlanga, 29, were charged with Meyer’s murder. They appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Monday, where their case was postponed to May 10 for a formal bail application.
Ref : http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Witness-saw-attack-on-man-in-police-cell-20120425
According to the ANC Regime's own Human Rights Commission (HRC), 73 people died while in Police detention during the period 1963 to 1990, which equates to 2.6 people annually during the "Apartheid" years.
According to the ANC Regime's own Independent Complaints Directorate (IDC), 219 people died in police custody for the period 1997 to 1998 alone.
By the time we received their results for the period 2008 to 2009 a total of 912 people had died while in SA Police custody.
Yet the old SA police were accused of being brutal and inhumane, while no one has ever said a single word about what has been happening since the ANC took control of South Africa?
For more on this and other so-called Apartheid atrocities please read: Apartheid an inhumane system?
In the meantime news24 reports on the brutal murder of yet another white man in prison : (with our own Formatting to highlight certain aspects)
Witness saw attack on man in police cell
2012-04-25 11:00
Cape Town - A witness has told how he heard a man calling for help shortly before he died following an assault in the Durbanville police cells.
Eben Meyer, 47, apparently pulled on the cell bars in an attempt to get the attention of police officers on duty, Die Burger reported.
His blood-covered body was found in the early hours of Saturday morning in the cell that he was sharing with eight other men.
Meyer had been arrested at about 01:00 for public drunkenness. He had apparently gone drinking after a fight with his fiancée.
Another man from Durbanville, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had also been locked up in the police cells on Saturday evening.
He was put in a cell next to Meyer’s. He said the men were already assaulting Meyer when he arrived.
He saw them kicking and hitting Meyer.
Aggressive
The witness said, however, that Meyer had been aggressive following his arrival, swearing and demanding cigarettes, and hitting two other men. He said Meyer had been looking for trouble.
“It’s sad that he died, but he needed a hiding.”
He said it felt like the assault on Meyer had taken several hours and that he was surprised that the police officials in the charge office nearby did not come to Meyer’s aid.
The two accused, Daniel Dyosi, 40, and Sipho Mhlanga, 29, were charged with Meyer’s murder. They appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Monday, where their case was postponed to May 10 for a formal bail application.
Ref : http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Witness-saw-attack-on-man-in-police-cell-20120425
Monday, 23 April 2012
e-TOLL FACTS REVEALED ON RADIO 702
RADIO 702 - 23 APRIL 2012
DO NOT get an e-TAG and THE SYSTEM WILL FAIL.
Please pass on Please send to your Gauteng friends
- Less than 10 000 registered e-Tag's.
- The system is not manageable for cars travelling on the highways without an e-Tag.
- The Ben Schoeman Highway between PTA & JHB carries 300 000 cars per day.
- The e-Tag system is a dismal failure so far.
- The latest R1.75 p/km is a last bid from the government to force us to buy this e-Tag so they can get the 98% of the pension money back they've spend on the toll roads.
- You DON'T HAVE TO BUY THE e-TAG.
DO NOT get an e-TAG and THE SYSTEM WILL FAIL.
Please pass on Please send to your Gauteng friends
Friday, 20 April 2012
SANRAL - From an Australian Newspaper on South Africa E-Tolls
"The deal between Sanral and Kapsch of Austria, the e-tolling operating company is not with the corporate entity, but with Kapsch Sweden.
Kapsch Sweden used to be SAAB Aerospace, a 50% shareholder in a company called SANIP. British Aerospace held the other 50%. SANIP is alleged to be the payment vehicle used by SAAB and BAE to pay the alleged bribes of around R100Million in the Arms Deal saga to ensure that the Gripen fighter was chosen.
The names Hlongwane, Modise, ANC, Zuma, Shaik figure prominently in the list of alleged recipients.
So why Kapsch Sweden, not the corporate entity? I leave it to your imagination.
How much? According to the corporate structure used to implement e-tolling in SA, about 80c of each rand of profit can be repatriated to Austria via Sweden. Gauteng alone expects to generate about R350Million a month in toll fees.
Assuming a very conservative 10% profit available to be repatriated, that means about R28Million a month to go overseas"
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