tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26880607926098090322024-02-07T21:38:27.107-08:00Colyn RememberColyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-43462538638108177922020-06-21T00:20:00.000-07:002020-06-21T00:26:51.054-07:00Chancellor of Oxford University talks to BLM followers.The Chancellor of Oxford University, was on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 yesterday on the removal of statues of people linked to slavery. Interesting statements. The Daily Telegraph headline yesterday was "Oxford will not rewrite history".<br />
Patten commented "“Education is not indoctrination. Our history is not a blank page on which we can write our own version of what it should have been according to our contemporary views and prejudice"<br />
Rhodes must fall ????<br />
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Dear students,<br />
Cecil Rhodes’s generous bequest has contributed greatly to the comfort and well being of many generations of Oxford students – a good many of them, dare we say it, better, brighter and more deserving than you.<br />
This does not necessarily mean we approve of everything Rhodes did in his lifetime – but then we don’t have to. Cecil Rhodes died over a century ago. Autres temps, autres moeurs 2. If you don’t understand what this means – and it would not remotely surprise us if that were the case – then we really think you should ask yourself the question: “Why am I at Oxford?”<br />
Oxford, let us remind you, is the world’s second oldest extant university. Scholars have been studying here since at least the 11th century. We’ve played a major part in the invention of Western civilisation, from the 12th century intellectual renaissance through the Enlightenment and beyond. Our alumni include William of Ockham, Roger Bacon, William Tyndale, John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Erasmus, Sir Christopher Wren, William Penn, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Samuel Johnson, Robert Hooke, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Emily Davison, Cardinal Newman. We’re a big deal. And most of the people privileged to come and study here are conscious of what a big deal we are. Oxford is their alma mater – their dear mother – and they respect and revere her accordingly.<br />
And what were your ancestors doing in that period? Living in mud huts, mainly. Sure we’ll concede you the short lived Southern African civilisation of Great Zimbabwe. But let’s be brutally honest here. The contribution of the Bantu tribes to modern civilisation has been as near as damn it to zilch.<br />
You’ll probably say that’s “racist”. But it’s what we here at Oxford prefer to call “true.” Perhaps the rules are different at other universities. In fact, we know things are different at other universities. We’ve watched with horror at what has been happening across the pond from the University of Missouri to the University of Virginia and even to revered institutions like Harvard and Yale: the “safe spaces”; the #blacklivesmatter; the creeping cultural relativism; the stifling political correctness; what Allan Bloom rightly called “the closing of the American mind”. At Oxford however, we will always prefer facts and free, open debate to petty grievance-mongering, identity politics and empty sloganeering. The day we cease to do so is the day we lose the right to call ourselves the world’s greatest university.<br />
Of course, you are perfectly within your rights to squander your time at Oxford on silly, vexatious, single-issue political campaigns. (Though it does make us wonder how stringent the vetting procedure is these days for Rhodes scholarships and even more so, for Mandela Rhodes scholarships) We are well used to seeing undergraduates – or, in your case – postgraduates, making idiots of themselves. Just don’t expect us to indulge your idiocy, let alone genuflect before it. You may be black – “BME” as the grisly modern terminology has it – but we are colour blind. We have been educating gifted undergraduates from our former colonies, our Empire, our Commonwealth and beyond for many generations. We do not discriminate over sex, race, colour or creed. We do, however, discriminate according to intellect.<br />
That means, inter alia, that when our undergrads or postgrads come up with fatuous ideas, we don’t pat them on the back, give them a red rosette and say: “Ooh, you’re black and you come from South Africa. What a clever chap you are!”1 No. We prefer to see the quality of those ideas tested in the crucible of public debate. That’s another key part of the Oxford intellectual tradition you see: you can argue any damn thing you like but you need to be able to justify it with facts and logic – otherwise your idea is worthless.<br />
This ludicrous notion you have that a bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed from Oriel College, because it’s symbolic of “institutional racism” and “white slavery”. Well even if it is – which we dispute – so bloody what? Any undergraduate so feeble-minded that they can’t pass a bronze statue without having their “safe space” violated really does not deserve to be here. And besides, if we were to remove Rhodes’s statue on the premise that his life wasn’t blemish-free, where would we stop? As one of our alumni Dan Hannan has pointed out, Oriel’s other benefactors include two kings so awful – Edward II and Charles I – that their subjects had them killed. The college opposite – Christ Church – was built by a murderous, thieving bully who bumped off two of his wives. Thomas Jefferson kept slaves: does that invalidate the US Constitution? Winston Churchill had unenlightened views about Muslims and India: was he then the wrong man to lead Britain in the war?”<br />
Actually, we’ll go further than that. Your Rhodes Must Fall campaign is not merely fatuous but ugly, vandalistic and dangerous. We agree with Oxford historian RW Johnson that what you are trying to do here is no different from what ISIS and the Al-Qaeda have been doing to artefacts in places like Mali and Syria. You are murdering history.<br />
And who are you, anyway, to be lecturing Oxford University on how it should order its affairs? Your #rhodesmustfall campaign, we<br />
understand, originates in South Africa and was initiated by a black activist who told one of his lecturers “whites have to be killed”. One of you – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – is the privileged son of a rich politician and a member of a party whose slogan is “Kill the Boer; Kill the Farmer”; another of you, Ntokozo Qwabe, who is only in Oxford as a beneficiary of a Rhodes scholarship, has boasted about the need for “socially conscious black students” to “dominate white universities, and do so ruthlessly and decisively!”<br />
Great. That’s just what Oxford University needs. Some cultural enrichment from the land of Winnie Mandela, burning tyre necklaces, an AIDS epidemic almost entirely the result of government indifference and ignorance, one of the world’s highest per capita murder rates, institutionalised corruption, tribal politics, anti-white racism and a collapsing economy. Please name which of the above items you think will enhance the lives of the 22,000 students studying here at Oxford.<br />
And then please explain what it is that makes your attention grabbing campaign to remove a listed statue from an Oxford college more urgent, more deserving than the desire of probably at least 20,000 of those 22,000 students to enjoy their time here unencumbered by the irritation of spoilt, ungrateful little tossers on scholarships they clearly don’t merit using racial politics and cheap guilt-tripping to ruin the life and fabric of our beloved university.<br />
Understand us and understand this clearly: you have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you.<br />
Yours,<br />
Oriel College, OxfordColyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-89964520327195258822019-06-17T00:17:00.001-07:002019-06-17T00:17:05.201-07:00Steve Biko Can't Tell Me Nothing<b>Steve Biko Can't Tell Me Nothing!</b><br />
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It's very sad that for over 24 years, we were taught that Apartheid was this evil, racist, oppressive and murderous regime whose primary aim was to suppress and exploit Black people from maximising their full potential, in a country that was and is truly theirs.<br />
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While holding on to the illusion that was made famous by the late Steve Biko, that Blacks have endured so much oppression from Whites that it is impossible for them to be racist.<br />
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[Which is strange, because Steve Biko should have known that when the Mfengu's had fled from Shaka's Mfecane; they came to Xhosa land to seek refuge. Through King Hintsa, the Emperor all amaXhosa, they found more than refuge. They were integrated as Xhosas.<br />
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Yet the amaXhosa did not receive them well. They abused, exploited and even treated them as actual dogs. Thus they too possessed the same oppressive quality that he was condemning Whites for.<br />
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For every Xhosa man who lived during Steve Biko's time knew this history very well, and it had happened just over 100 years prior.<br />
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Thus it was strange that Steve Biko did know this. The same way it is strange for Thabo Mbeki to say that South Africans are not Xenophobic when every year they kill hundreds of African Foreign Nationals for being in their country.<br />
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Yet again, when you are blinded by racism, you cease to be objective. Your objective is Colour.]<br />
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Thus when you look and deal with Black people, one could let go of their guard; for now they were dealing with a Saint who could not sin unless the White man oppresses him enough.<br />
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Yet when you look into reality, you easily find that, this was all ANC propaganda; designed to cripple Blacks from using their majority vote to vote and demand the prosperous life they thought the end of Apartheid was going to yield.<br />
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For if Black people were not intellectually crippled by the ANC, the latter would not be in power and Blacks would not be starving as they are today.<br />
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[For no government has ever subjected Black South Africans to this level of helplessness, uselessness and hopelessness as the ANC has.<br />
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The only difference is that Black South Africans give the ANC a mandate to keep them poor and hungry every five years. So clearly they enjoy being worthless.]<br />
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Yet because they are intellectually crippled, they do not possess the intellectual might to doubt their leaders and act on this doubt.<br />
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The same way when the weather man is telling you that it is sunny, because you have a functional brain; you don't just accept his claim as truth. You go outside and verify yourself.<br />
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In fact, you carry an umbrella despite what the weather man is telling you on SABC. For your ability to use your brain compels to think and act according to your own interests. And when you step outside, you find that your neighbors also did the same thing.<br />
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However, it seems as though Black South Africans are incapable of doing this. The same way Africans in general have proven to be incapable of thinking clearly, as we see them keeping the same leaders who impoverish them, in power.<br />
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I mean, how is it possible that Black graduates were more successful during Apartheid than they are in a Democratic South Africa?<br />
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How is it that today, with Blacks in power, that only 5% of Black students graduate on time; whereas during Apartheid (1975), 15% of them graduated?<br />
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How is it that today's graduates are begging their own government for jobs, when the Apartheid government not only gave them jobs; but gave them scholarships to study abroad, and come with better skills to invest in South Africa?<br />
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In essence, why are things worse now, for Black people than they were under Apartheid, under White racists?<br />
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It is because we merely replaced one racist regime with another one. The only difference was that Apartheid actually yielded jobs, while ANC-Rule destroys them and is bent on keeping Blacks hungry.<br />
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This continues to perpetuate itself because Black South Africans have proven themselves to be unwilling to think and act for themselves in the political arena. Just as we see with Whites, Coloureds and Indians, who have grown to be more successful under ANC-Rule than Blacks could ever dream of.<br />
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How can they not be more successful when most Black people dont even own a book, much less read it?<br />
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If only our Youth could realise that they have been duped by their parents, most of whom are blindly devoted to the ANC. And that their enemy is not some foreign invader with a foreign language.<br />
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If they, just like African-Americans could realise that it is their own community that is a threat to their own lives. For it is their own leaders who sell them short in exchange for a cheque.<br />
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The same way it was Black chiefs who sold of their own people to be American slaves; in exchange for mirrors and beads.<br />
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Vuka Mzantsi!<br />
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Poverty Does Not Have To Be Your Best Friend. The Arms of Prosperity Are Yours To Embrace!<br />
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Blessings!<br />
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© 2019 Dumisa Mbuwa<br />
All Rights Reserved.Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-34238849057827279322018-11-01T07:53:00.001-07:002018-11-01T07:53:15.174-07:00AFRICANS DON’T WANT DEVELOPMENTAFRICANS DON’T WANT DEVELOPMENT. WE JUST LOVE HUTS, STICKS AND STONES MORE!<br />
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When you travel around Africa (well outside of South Africa, since we are a mere extension of Europe through Colonialism), you instantly realize just how Africans are content with their tame surroundings.<br />
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Surroundings, which of course are characterized by deserts, huts, barren lands, unattended livestock on the highway, unemployed youths, dying, poor and sick mothers/women, dysfunctional and almost invisible men.<br />
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These Black elites received their education either in South Africa or somewhere in Europe or America, where they return home to “Africa” with nothing else but English twangs, coupled with with no solutions on how to advance and uplift their own people from the Dust to Life.<br />
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Like their parents, whose only legacy in these countries was to work or be friends with the dictator who gave them their first job, at the expense of closing their eyes at the level of National Sodomy that most Africans experience in the hands of the own government. They too arrive from Cape Town, shut their eyes, drive their parents Mercedes and work very hard in creating a little Johannesburg for them and their friends who are just as useless as they are.<br />
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These are the same Blacks who appear on TV and tell the world in British or American accents that all is well in Lagos or Zimbabwe. That the possibilities in Burundi are so vast, the only problem the country is facing is a legacy of Colonialism, which the people are still imaginatively struggling with.<br />
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In Africa, it is very common to find Toyota, KIA, or even Mazda dealerships, even though most of the country’s workforce cannot find jobs to even afford to get a donkey (or at least feed it, since they are always as skinny as they are) to move them from point A to point B.<br />
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No one is really concerned about manufacturing these products locally, instead of them being dumped there by (powerful) foreign countries (like China), only to increase the nations debt, since no one can genuinely afford them.<br />
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Especially when almost in every African country, the government is the biggest employer (like here in failed South Africa), retrenching hundreds and thousands of employees every year, since there is no viable tax base to sustain the governments mindless, fruitless expenses (hence the heavy reliance on Foreign Aid and China).<br />
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The locals on the other hand, always seem very happy that at least the president visits their village, sits down with them, and “listens” to their problems (problems about agricultural land, homosexuals, plots for public housing, and a whole range of issues that involve handouts). And what does this president do?<br />
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He leaves, feeling assured that hey! His people are actually mentally base as he has always known (he got his education in London or South Africa). Especially since no one is really concerned about how is it possible that since Independence (1950s, 1960s, etc.) and with the departure of Whites who actually created jobs, built schools, clinics and had the best doctors to cure them; that things became extremely and unforgivably worse at the hands of Educated Black Leaders?<br />
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Like little children who were raised to believe that they mean nothing to their fathers (and the world) who abandoned them at birth (a common trait among African men) to create other babies who would also be abandoned; they delight at the fact that at least their president appeared before them and made vain promises about their future.<br />
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At least he dared to make a promise. At least now, the self-esteem that’s been shattered by being perpetually ignored, oppressed, impoverished and failed for decades their own Black government, is now restored, even if it is only for a very brief moment.<br />
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Indeed it very true - Africans are like little toddlers who need adult supervision (China, USA and Europe) to help them think, choose what is good for them and most importantly, help them decide on what really entails a better future for them and their children.<br />
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This is evident in the fact while Colonialism was driven by the racist, erroneous belief (as well as the demonic impulse to oppress those they regarded as inferior, i.e. Africans, Latinos, etc.) that Africans are animals in the jungle, who are in desperate need for Western Civilization, in order to convert them from Beasts into Men.<br />
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As soon as Africans received their Independence, and managed to drive out their White Oppressors/Colonizers out of their countries to materialize the African Dream; all they have managed to do was to fulfill the African Nightmare, which was essentially transforming Africa into being the Shithole we now know as Free, Democratic and Independent Africa.<br />
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We also see this in the fact that Africans don’t even make the things they consume. Their supermarkets are owned by White South Africans, Chinese and Indians. Even the foods and Dashikis they are so proud of are either made in China or by the Indians they now depend on for their own survival.<br />
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All that they seem to have been successful in over the past decades (over 50 years of Independence) is either killing each other even more, imprisoning Black gays and journalists, inciting or rather, actualizing brutal civil/tribal wars, amputating albinos and rhinos. And just impoverishing each other simply because, really, this is the African Thing To Do!<br />
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Like crabs in a bucket, all Africans do is pull each other down because none of them even know what it means to go up! Being hungry and oppressed is what we consider to be the Ultimate Good!<br />
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Meanwhile, you have Black Americans who come here, seeking a “home”, since back in the US they too are murdering each other in cold blood in their own inner cities (Chicago, Compton, Harlem, etc.). And so, coming “home to Africa” will provide for them that lost self-worth that the White man supposedly snatched away from them (for more than an entire century after Slavery).<br />
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Especially when in the US, they constitute 12% of the population, but are responsible for over 50% of the entire country’s homicide; and are gravely responsible for over 90% of all the murders in the Black community.<br />
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[So much for Black Lives Matter! They obviously don't in the Black Community!]<br />
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Yet when they arrive here in Africa, desperately wanting to believe (as they do back home) that the root causes of the problems which characterize Africa, are caused by Whites who were chased out 50 years ago!<br />
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Even when you try very hard to enlighten them on what is pretty obvious, even to Africans themselves (who are mostly ignorant about anything beyond their realm of speciality, which is seeking handouts or being oppressed by their own).<br />
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They are still as delusional, and extremely senile as they were when they left the US, where they kept Barack Obama in office for 8 years for doing nothing, but for being a “Black president who can dance and loves basketball”!<br />
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[The same way they "adopted" notorious rapist Bill Clinton as "Black" just for playing the saxophone on a Black Television show.]<br />
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They do not even realize that when they arrive here, through their ignorance and natural pretentiousness that is honed by Hollywood (their most trusted source of Truth), they resemble the same “Superior” White man they hate so much back home. They too arrive here to “Save and Convert” Africans from their Barbaric ways!<br />
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Now, while we all know that real Industrialization, driven by Quality Education (which is still the legacy of Whites/White missionaries in Africa) and Free-market Capitalism (which yields jobs as we see in Singapore, Japan, Germany and even China) is the only solution to Africa’s problems.<br />
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Yet, do Africans see these as necessary or even crucial?<br />
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Or we prefer being deeply in love with our sticks, stones, and riding donkeys better?!<br />
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Perhaps, we, Africans shall answer this question a hundred years from now, when China has finished raping us like our leaders (whom we love and keep in power) have done best since we our “Freedom”.<br />
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Alas! Only Africans Can Wake Africa From Her Own Slumber!<br />
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Blessings!<br />
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© 2018 Dumisa Mbuwa<br />
All Rights Reserved.Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-28585519499092884922018-10-30T12:13:00.000-07:002018-10-30T12:13:16.991-07:00AFRICA: A WORLD OF NOTHINGNESS!AFRICA: A WORLD OF NOTHINGNESS!<br />
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If Cape Town (Western Cape) is a giant suburb, graced with leafy trees, glorious beaches, clean roads and freshly cut lawn; and Johannesburg is one big dirty township, where Blacks effectively do anything to exploit, rob, rape and murder one another just to be “successful”.<br />
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Then Africa as a whole must be one colossal rural area, where the inhabitants are still stuck in the 1800’s, and are sitting under a tree, waiting for a chief (their president, usually a warmongering, militant dictator or a renowned thief) to provide a plan for a better tomorrow.<br />
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You can cross the South African border and easily realize that, damn! The people in the Eastern Cape, with all their love for relentless ANC failure and looting that has left that once beautiful province to be the most powerful epitome of Poverty and Suffering in the country; actually have it good!<br />
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Especially when millions of Africans leave their Independent countries every year, only to settle in the most Industrialized country in Africa. Why?<br />
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Why would Africans leave their home countries, and settle where there is so much “Racism”, “Colonialism”, "White privilege" and "White Monopoly Capital"; only to work or be educated by the White man in Cape Town or East London, if Africans are so adept at developing themselves, without the assistance of the “Evil Caucasian”?<br />
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Who in their right minds renders himself to the devil for bread, decent education (when compared with most African countries), clean water, electricity, decent roads, racial/cultural diversity and most importantly, more socio-economic opportunities; when they know that the devil can only offer Hell as a return?<br />
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It is because Africans themselves know very well that Africans are the most incompetent, useless, shortsighted species on the planet Earth when it comes to running a country. They are totally incapable of uplifting their own people, and ascending them to the pillars of World Greatness that they deserve the most.<br />
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Instead, African “leaders” focus more on self-enrichment (without State power, they wouldn’t even be worthy sherperds. Look at Zuma or Syrupy Cyril or even Egypt), simply because they know that most Africans view this as a legitimate right for a leader. A leader they inherently regard as an autocratic chief, with absolute power.<br />
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A chief they cannot dare question, lest they invite the wrath of God, who appointed the chief to lead them as docile sheep in the wilderness.<br />
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This is the overall mentality of Africans: They are docile sheep who need a worthless sherperd to lead them, and feed them, because they cannot do it themselves. You see this mentality even when some of these sheep ascend into State power, they cannot govern without Foreign AID (from Europe or the US), and most recently, without China.<br />
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Then you wonder why Africans keep the same people who impoverish them, advance their diseases (Africa, the home of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and many other deadly diseases that are intertwined with Poverty, and Unemployment), kill their babies (like Frere Hospital in the Eastern Cape), rapes their daughters (like in South Africa, the rape capital of the world) and kills their sons and fathers (unending civil wars over State Power which characterize Post Independence in Africa).<br />
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Yet throughout all of this, you wonder how and why do Africans manage to become one of the largest consumers of pornography (don’t get shocked at Malusi Gigaba - minister of Home Affairs’ sex tape) in the world, with South Africa being the most porn consuming country in Africa.<br />
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While at the same time being one of the most dangerous countries to live in, alongside terrorism-riddled countries like Iraq and Syria. Especially with the natural resources to become the continent that makes everything that the World consumes!<br />
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How is it possible that as the second largest continent in the world, we still function as though we have the tiniest brains in the world?<br />
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Is it not yet obvious that only Africans can redeem themselves from the Uselessness that they have proven to enjoy the most?<br />
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Yet with all of this obvious horror, you still find delusional educated Blacks who have made a fortune (they run NGO’s, sit in high-paying government chairs and blame their failures/looting/uselessness on Race) from importing Black Americans sentiments on Race, just to have a sense of commonality with the World (Black USA/Hollywood) that they have longed to be part of since they were children.<br />
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Yet, fail to see that Africans, and their brains which are too attached to slumber, are the main problem in Africa!<br />
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[As though they were enslaved like Black Americans. Instead Africans were the ones who sold their own brothers as slaves to Europeans, Arabs and Americans. The same way it is Africans who kill Albinos, call them baboons, amputate them and sell their body parts to witch doctors. The same way Black South Africans rape babies in order to get rid of AIDS.]<br />
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Yet, these are these are the same people who supposedly built the Pyramids in Egypt. But, could they have successfully done so without help from “ever-thinking” Jews (their “slaves”)? Who were smart enough to conceive and build (Joseph the Dreamer) such magnificent storage facilities to preserve food in times of famine, while Africans thought it wise to just keep eating.<br />
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Just as they still think it wise today to be addicted to government welfare and Foreign Aid, instead of building their own futures!<br />
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The real truth about Africa is that, we are still stuck in the 1800’s, and it will take years for us to make it to the 20th century. And it will take more years for us to even dance on the stage of the 21st century.<br />
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Is it any wonder that South Africa, a country that became a mere extension of Europe in the 1800’s (through Colonialism/Colonial Project), remains the closest thing to the Global world and indeed the 21st century?<br />
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Yet, with evil, criminalist Blacks in Power (ANC), South Africa is leading itself to where most Africans desperately want to leave:<br />
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Africa - A World of Nothingness!<br />
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If Only Africans Knew How To Wake Up From Their Slumber!<br />
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Blessings!<br />
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© 2018 Dumisa Mbuwa<br />
All Rights Reserved.Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-79873271933286185332018-07-15T01:52:00.001-07:002018-07-15T01:52:24.215-07:00Toe is dit Winter'n Goeie vriend van my stuur hierdie vanoggend vir my ... Dankie Ben Bredenkamp. Ek en jy kom al 'n baie baie lang pad. Van daar uit 1971 uit.<br />
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TOE IS DIT WINTER ...<br />
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Ek het dit eers vinnig gelees, tot ek by die derde sin gekom het ... Ek het opgehou en weer voor begin lees, maar dié keer stadiger - dit laat jou regtig stop en dink ...<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Hp8VtzCEfVL3h0c9LadTex2lXgtcJ8jAmbF_UpbeaeA3YHAkyHMvg7ALSNLc8s0tFgfa7G9dbLCEIcLLi9hPhDYpOXz5b33x_MAbsqXGYVTpX0gLRGcRilqeG_v8TYjn9NthFRY-GTo/s1600/Colyn_-0843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="802" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Hp8VtzCEfVL3h0c9LadTex2lXgtcJ8jAmbF_UpbeaeA3YHAkyHMvg7ALSNLc8s0tFgfa7G9dbLCEIcLLi9hPhDYpOXz5b33x_MAbsqXGYVTpX0gLRGcRilqeG_v8TYjn9NthFRY-GTo/s320/Colyn_-0843.jpg" width="320" /></a>Jy weet ... tyd het n manier om vinnig te loop en jou onverhoeds te betrap sonder dat jy aan die verbygaande jare dink. Dit voel soos net gister wat ek jonk was, net getroud is en my nuwe lewe saam met my maat begin het. Tog, op n manier, voel dit soos n leeftyd gelede en ek wonder waar al die jare heen is. Ek weet dat ek almal geleef het, ek kry terugflitse van hoe dit tóé was, en ook van al my hoop en drome.<br />
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Maar hier is dit ... die winter van my lewe, en ek is verras ... hoe het ek so gou hier gekom? Waar is die jare heen, en wat het van my jeug geword? Ek onthou so goed hoe ek deur die jare na ouer mense gekyk en gedink het dat ek baie jare agter daardie ouer mense is, ... en dat die winter so ver weg was ... dat ek myself nie kon indink hoe dit moes wees nie.<br />
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Maar, hier is dit ... my vriende word grys, en tree af ... hulle beweeg stadiger ... en ek sien nou ouer mense. Sommige lyk beter en ander slegter as ek ... maar, ek sien die groot verandering. Nie meer dié wat ek onthou wat jonk en lewenslustig was nie ... maar, soos ek, begin hulle ouderdom wys en óns is nou daardie ouer mense wat ek gesien, maar nooit gedink het ek ook sal word nie. Nou vind ek dat net om in die stort te klim 'n regte prestasie vir die dag is. En 'n middagslapie is nie meer n bederfie nie, maar 'n vereiste! Want as ek dit nie uit my eie vrye wil doen nie ... raak ek bloot aan die slaap net daar waar ek sit!<br />
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En so betree ek 'n nuwe seisoen van my lewe ... onvoorbereid op al die skete en kwale, en die verlies van krag en die vermoë om te gaan doen wat ek nog altyd wou, maar nooit het nie! Maar ten minste weet ek, hoewel my winter gekom het, ek nie seker is hoe lank dit sal duur nie ... weet ek dat, wanneer dit hier op aarde verby is, is dit verby ... n nuwe avontuur sal begin!<br />
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Ja, ek het verwyte, en ek is jammer oor dinge wat ek wens ek nie gedoen het nie, dinge wat ek moes gedoen het, en baie dinge wat ek gedoen het waaroor ek bly is. Dit is alles deel van 'n leeftyd.<br />
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So, as jy nog nie in die winter van jou lewe is nie, laat ek jou herinner dat dit vinniger hier sal wees as wat jy dink.<br />
So, wat jy ookal graag in jou lewe wil bereik, doen dit asseblief gou!<br />
Moenie dinge te lank uitstel nie! Die lewe gaan gou verby. Doen vandag wat jy kan want jy kan nooit seker wees of hierdie jou winter is of nie! Jy het geen belofte dat jy al die seisoene van jou lewe gaan sien nie, so leef vir vandag en sê vir jou geliefdes al die dinge wat jy wil hê hulle moet onthou ... en hoop dat hulle jou waardeer en liefhet vir al die dinge wat jy vir hulle in jou leeftyd gedoen het!<br />
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Die lewe is 'n geskenk aan jou, en die manier waarop jy jou lewe leef, is 'n geskenk aan dié met wie jy dit deel. Leef goed! Leef voluit! Geniet vandag, élke dag! Doen iets wat jy geniet! Wees lief vir ander! Déél wat jy het, moenie net daarmee "brag" nie.<br />
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Goeie gesóndheid is ware rykdom, nie goud en silwer nie.<br />
Vriendskap met familie en vriende is rykdom. As julle om watter rede ookal uitmekaar gedryf het, vergewe en vergeet<br />
... leef vorentoe en nie in die verlede nie, want môre mag dalk nooit aanbreek nie!<br />
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Vandag is die oudste wat jy nóg was en tog ook die jongste wat jy ooit sal wees - so, geniet hierdie dag vir solank dit duur!<br />
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Jou kinders is goed ... maar jou kleinkinders is volmaak!<br />
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Om uit te gaan is goed, maar om by die huis terug te kom is beter!<br />
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Jy vergeet name ... maar dis okay want daar is mense wat vergeet dat hulle jou ooit geken het!<br />
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Jy besef dat jy nooit regtig goed sal wees met enigiets nie ... veral gholf ...<br />
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Die dinge wat jy altyd graag gedoen het, doen jy nie meer nie, maar jy dink nogal daaraan dat jy nie regtig meer omgee dat jy dit nie meer doen nie ...<br />
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Jy slaap beter in n leunstoel voor die blêrende TV as in jou bed ...<br />
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Jy mis daardie dae toe alles met net 'n AAN of AF skakelaar gewerk het ...<br />
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Jy is geneig om meer kort woordsinne te gebruik soos "waar?" "hoesê?" ...<br />
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Nou dat jy duur juwele kan bekostig, is dit nie veilig om dit enig iewers te dra nie ...<br />
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Jy merk dat alles wat in winkels verkoop word, is "mouloos" ...<br />
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Wat altyd sproetjies was, is nou "lewervlekke" ...<br />
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Almal fluister wanneer hulle praat ...<br />
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Jy het 3 groottes klere in jou hangkas ... 2 waarvan jy nooit sal dra nie ...<br />
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Maar OUD is goed in sommige dinge: OU liedjies, OU flieks, OU wyn, en beste van alles ... OU VRIENDE!!!<br />
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Mooi bly, my OU VRIEND(IN)...!Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-61777734601261141172018-06-20T04:31:00.001-07:002018-06-20T04:31:59.101-07:00Don't Disturb Me When I'm Playing The Race Card<b>Don't Disturb Me When I'm Playing The Race Card!</b><br />
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Lo and Behold! It is now finally CLEAR to South Africa and the rest of the World that Racism is just a term that vain Race Gluttons like Ashwin Willemse, Weak Musi Maimane, and the most vile, hateful Black to enter SA politics (Used Greasy Lollipop Head-Julius Malema ) love to throw away whenever they are caught being Stupid.<br />
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<a href="https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/35829015_2099121980102384_3315239278157496320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=e59d6d5a8c1bc7348bd5eb035ff3e813&oe=5BB0D4FF" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, sitting" border="0" height="390" src="https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/35829015_2099121980102384_3315239278157496320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=e59d6d5a8c1bc7348bd5eb035ff3e813&oe=5BB0D4FF" width="400" /></a>A quality (being Stupid) that all three boys (ok they're grown men) share and advance with irreplaceable fervor. To the Peril, of course, of Ignorant, Delusional, Misguided and Extremely Racist SA Blacks (especially those with university degrees and government jobs) who are not only incapable of asking real questions when faced with alarming information.<br />
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Like the Mental Lepers which they truly are, these Black Race Gluttons cannot even Think on their own. Hence Racism is the only subject that stimulates them intellectually. Simply because it caters to their inherent inability to do anything worthwhile with their lives other than being Proud Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid which they have never endured.<br />
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For Race Gluttony reassures them that they are not the Intellectual Zombies they truly are. Which is a Shame indeed.<br />
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Yesterday, (Tuesday) SuperSport CEO, Gideon Khobane, announced that their findings have indicated that there was no racism involved in Ashwin Willemse walking out from an live broadcast.<br />
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Addressing the media, Khobane said:<br />
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“The conduct between Naas and Nick during the off-air conversation with Ashwin and during the live studio broadcast of the post-match commentary of the match does not manifest naked racism and was not motivated by racist considerations.”<br />
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Willemse walked off a live broadcast last month after the Lions’ 42-24 win over the Brumbies, whining like a baby devoid of bread milk, that he would not be patronised. And therefore, couldn’t work with Nick Mallett and Naas Botha who played rugby during the Apartheid segregated era.<br />
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Khobane added that Willemse did not participate in the inquiry.<br />
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“Ashwin Willemse regrettably decided not to participate in the review even though all parties involved were advised of the process before it started and raised no objections at the time.”<br />
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Why would he, when he himself knew that HE was WRONG (if not DUMB) and that the White men he accused of being Racists who benefitted from Apartheid were RIGHT?<br />
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Why would he want to prove them RIGHT AGAIN and AGAIN prove to the Word that he is just another Dumb Quota Player who thought that by zealously licking the ANC's Racist Behind. He would not emerge as the Biggest Ass (Donkey) to be Quota'd?<br />
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One can only Hope that we, SA Blacks who vigilantly see through the Bullshit [sic] would permanently rise and not be afraid.<br />
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For if the South African Black community Could be truly Liberated and Healed from our own self - inflicted Mental/Intellectual Leprosy (thanks to our relentless support for the ANC - The Modern Day Nongqawuse). A Prosperous South Africa would cease to be the distant dream that not even the deepest Political Slumber (24 years old sleep) can never us transport to.<br />
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Rise Now!<br />
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O! You Fragile Black and Apply Your Mind! No Amount of Race Cards will Save you now!<br />
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Blessings!<br />
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Peace, Unity and more Love!<br />
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© 2018 Dumisa Mbuwa<br />
All Rights Reserved.Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-64488329932564593342018-05-26T11:26:00.000-07:002018-06-20T04:32:38.372-07:00I am a Black South African citizenI am a Black South African citizen ...✋<br />
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~ I am Going To Speak ~ Independently; I am Going to Write Freely and Democratically ! ! !<br />
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<a href="https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33083921_1746527105440410_8177603699925843968_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=3acf0243ca086cf3fbe2a861449a0008&oe=5B8641F0" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, smiling, standing, tree, sky, child, grass, outdoor and nature" border="0" height="400" src="https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33083921_1746527105440410_8177603699925843968_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=3acf0243ca086cf3fbe2a861449a0008&oe=5B8641F0" width="300" /></a>This is just a word of advice to the African National Congress government: You, as government, you are going to cause the most unbelievably "constitutional debacle" in the history of all democratic states.<br />
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You see? Your products? the "30% pass rate Matriculants" really believe you and every word you are saying... that:<br />
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~ "their land was stolen by all white people living today" ~<br />
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Fact and Truth..The Union of South Africa 1902<br />
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The British, after defeating the Boer Republics, subequently declared most Southern African lands as colonies of Great Britain; from what is now Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho opted to go the route of "protectorate states" of Great Britain.... sort of like the homeland bantustans under Apartheid, called "self-governing homelands" under direct control of the South African government.<br />
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Fact and Truth..The Republic of South Africa 1961....<br />
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South Africa became a Republic, but on condition it remained part of the Great Britain Commonwealth of Nations.<br />
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(covered elsewhere in my posts.)<br />
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Fact and Truth..<br />
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): 1991<br />
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CODESA was a process that was influenced<br />
by a number of stake-holders like Britain,<br />
USA, Japan, West Germany and giant local factory and mine owners; the banks, the Nationalist Party, the ANC and other lesser forces.<br />
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The purpose of the process was to ensure<br />
that in the long and short term, the interests<br />
of capitalism and imperialism in Southern<br />
Africa are safeguarded through stability.<br />
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It was a by-product of ANC officials who<br />
had political ambitions to occupy government posts, including the presidency, those who would be duly rewarded for their co-operation with the capitalists and imperialists.<br />
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South Africa became a Democratic Republic<br />
with a government of National Unity, under the majority rule of the African National Congress (ANC); but it also remained part of Great Britain's managed Commonwealth of Nations.<br />
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Now with the EFF misguided:<br />
"land expropriation without compensation";<br />
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The youth are now on the rampage... invading each and every piece of land they can see, even land that is owned by other black people...<br />
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Government? You should rather be informing young black people that they should rid themselves of the view that all white people walking around South Africa today own land.<br />
Furthermore; You yourselves as government, know this to be true..that...<br />
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Those white people who do own land today, they bought it and you, as government, you issued the "legal tender" documents called "TITLE DEEDS". Issued by the New<br />
SA Government".<br />
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To my mind and growing up experience,<br />
I have never come accross someone called van Riebeeck who still own land today in South Africa, since 1902..<br />
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Historical processes did take place... up to the point were you took control of the country, it's land and it's people.<br />
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You did this after adopting a 'constitution' that made this country a 'sovereign independent state'. There is nowhere in that "constitution" that states that "this land is stolen property".<br />
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If it was so? Then, you as government, could've taken that "stolen land" back from them long time ago. You controlled the police, the army the navy and the airforce.<br />
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You had a full quarter century to do so without prejudice ~ BUT if "the whites" produce and show you a "TITLE DEED" that was issued by your government.<br />
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Then frankly you don't have "a leg to stand on" in any Court of this Country and even the International Criminal Court (ICC). Unless, you can counter-produce another "TITLE DEED" that says: “"This Is Government Land.”"..<br />
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Blacks can hate me if they want to... 😣<br />
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Haibo! This is "nonsense" nje! We are gonna<br />
be "a laughing stock" of the everybody in the international arena.<br />
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Lawrence NtlokoaColyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-50351513689749744382018-04-30T03:51:00.000-07:002018-04-30T03:51:12.977-07:00Marrying The Ghost of White Privilege<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Marrying The Ghost of White Privilege</div>
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Well, at least Musi Maimane has his Black Privilege intact. He is married to a White woman, is president of a "predominantly White" political party, resides in a White suburb and speaks English (a White man's property).</div>
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Yet 'we must fight and destroy this evil, evasive Ghost of White Privilege because it is the primary cause of Poverty, Unemployment, Crime, Looting and the general Despair that has infected all South Africans since 1994'.</div>
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'It is also due to White Privilege that millions of Africans leave their "Independent" countries, where they are killed and kept poor but their own Black government'. Despite these countries no longer having White people around, since the darker days of their (country’s) Independence. As we saw in Zimbabwe.</div>
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O! The Marvellous Beauty of Black Rule in Africa! Blacks get power and become more Oppressive than the Whites they relentlessly brand as Racists, Colonialists Oppressors.</div>
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It is always those who speak the most fluent English who hate Whites, Coloureds and Indians the most. Yet their entire beings are measured, designed and sustained by "Whiteness" and "White" money.</div>
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Maybe Musi should chase his own wife back to Europe, as well as renounce his DA presidency because he was and is still supported by White people. His entire salary is paid for by Whites.</div>
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He must also stop wearing shiny suits designed in Europe by Whites, relinquish his degrees (since they were handed to him by Whites), and start wearing animal skin - The Black Thing To Do In Africa!</div>
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Finally, he must also get the Land and plough the fields in Soweto with his degrees. Since that's the dream job for most educated Blacks - owning farmland.</div>
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If Blacks have been in power for 24 years and yet, White Privilege is the main impediment to their progress, then - What have we been doing all these years in Power?</div>
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Oh yeah! NOTHING! Besides Looting and Impoverishing Blacks.</div>
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Shut your big mouth and lead our Country forward - you weak, fragile loudmouth pretending to be strong. We see through you!</div>
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You are just another weak Black manchild with deep identity issues like your heroe Barack Obama or your homeboy Trevor Noah.</div>
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While maintaining yourself as yet another Race Pimp, pimping racism and race identity politics to sound "real" to your already useless, clueless, shallow and dismally delusional "Black Caucus".</div>
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Hence one day you are pro what is Good (when Black Twitter is not slaughtering you) and at times you prove to be just as bad (if not flacid) as UGLI-JAM (USED GREASY LOLLIPOP HEAD-JULIUS MALEMA) and his blesser, Syrupy Cyril.</div>
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You have proven to be utterly useless at bringing our Nation together (which was your most formidable obligation, over and above your ambitions to be another Obama. Hence no one really knows you, or where you really stand. Unless you are echoing someone elses opinion, whom you persobally regard as more powerful or will maximise your base. But a base that is based on a baseless leader is bound to be a permanently baseless base!).</div>
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I just wish strong Black leaders like Herman Mashaba could rise and usurp you. You are just another Dingane, pretending to be a Shaka!</div>
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Blessings!</div>
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Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-13661488668981787922018-04-28T00:52:00.003-07:002018-04-30T03:52:03.342-07:00IS SOUTH AFRICA'S YOUTH FIT TO GEAR THE WHEELS OF CHANGE?<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
IS SOUTH AFRICA'S YOUT FIT TO GEAR THE WHEELS OF CHANGE?</div>
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It is no longer a myth that the progress of South Africa`s youth was never at the forefront of our democracy in 1994. Nor was our youth, genuinely regarded as an instrumental part of the struggle against apartheid.</div>
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This reality is becoming evident by the day, despite the several reactional advances by the ANC government to make up for missed opportunities to qualitatively develop the youth of South Africa with the same historical vigour we used when conquering Apartheid.</div>
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Thus, as we celebrate Freedom Day, we ought to ask ourselves: has this grand democracy, which was greatly suffered and unimaginably sacrificed for, served our nation's best interests? Or has it merely elevated only those who rightly brought about its realisation by putting them in the government at our expense?</div>
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For some time now, there has been a sustained debate around the issue of land expropriation without compensation; how its delay in implementation (full nationalisation) has been regarded as the core impediment for real growth and development our country has needed for 24 years.</div>
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This view has been hammered into our minds everyday by embattled politicians that we end up being convinced that it is shared by all South Africans; especially black.</div>
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This is despite the fact that it has been proven several times that it is only a very marginal fraction of South Africans who believe that more land reform will indeed bring about the prosperity the country needs.</div>
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Comprehensive opinion polls commissioned by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) have repeatedly shown that most black South Africans have little interest in land reform. Their 2016 field survey indicated that only 1% of black respondents (down from 2% the previous year) indicated 'more land reform' as the 'best way to improve lives'.</div>
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By contrast, an overwhelming 73% of black people saw 'more jobs and better education' as the 'best way' for them to get ahead.<br />
Conversely, the IRR`s 2017 field survey showed that only 1% of black respondents identified 'speeding up land reform' as a top priority for the government. Even among people who lost land under apartheid laws, and were later compensated, most opted for cash compensation than having actual land restored to them.</div>
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Of the roughly 76 000 successful claims in post-apartheid South Africa’s land restitution process which begun in 1994, only about 5 800 chose to have land returned to them. The remaining 92% preferred cash compensation.</div>
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Similar results were found from a September 2017 opinion survey by eNCA, carried out among some 5 000 people, including roughly 2 700 self-declared ANC voters. Even here, most South Africans wanted "more pro-business policies", over "more radical policies/redistribution".</div>
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This is against the backdrop of the Government`s Land Survey, which has been used both by the ANC and the EFF to advance the misleading notion that SA blacks own less than 2% of rural land; and less than 7% of urban land. While whites own over 72% of farm land.</div>
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These claims form the basis of the impending onslaught of property rights, that are currently protected by our country`s Constitution. The same property rights black people were deprived from having by the apartheid government.</div>
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It is for this reason, that in response, the IRR published a study early this year, where they have shown and proven that Black South Africans actually own more land than Whites and that the government is the biggest owner of land in the country (46%).</div>
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For example, of the 3.2m ha of the urban land owned by 6.2 million individual South Africans, 3.2 million (56%) is owned by Black South Africans. While 1.55 (26%) is White and the rest is divided between Coloured’s (507 829), Indians (414 069) and Others.</div>
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Even when you look at the individually owned farmland by whites (the focus of the ANC/EFF`s claims); you will find that a substantial majority of this white-owned land is located in arid or semi-arid areas of the country. 43,1% is located in the Northern Cape alone, 11,3% in the Eastern Cape (most of it in the drier western parts of the province), 10,14% of it in the Western Cape, and 14,1% in the Free State.</div>
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The huge overlays that exist between such land and the arid or semi-arid areas in the western part of the country make this land unsuitable for cultivation in the absence of irrigation.</div>
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This is in addition to 13,1 million hectares (6,6% of the extent of SA) of agricultural land has been acquired and transferred by the government since 1994 through its land redistribution programme.</div>
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Little of this land would be individually owned today as most land claims and redistribution projects had multiple beneficiaries, and furthermore, since 2009, the government has held back from granting title to the beneficiaries of the land redistribution programme. In addition, government has made no effort to ensure those living on their ancestral land in former homeland areas acquire individual title to their land.</div>
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Now that we have established how faulty the Land debate is, especially since it is deeply predicated on lies and abysmal political propagandas, instead of viable solutions for taking our country forward, what can help take us forward?</div>
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Qualitative education and jobs!</div>
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You don`t have to be a social scientist to arrive at the realisation that South Africans need more of these than land. This observation is crystallised by the fact that between 2011 - 2016, over a million South Africans (mostly young) have migrated from "worse-off" provinces such as the Eastern Cape, to "better performing provinces" such as Cape Town and Johannesburg; looking qualitative education and jobs (not land).</div>
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Credit must be given to those young people, who in response to poverty and massive unemployment start initiatives that are primarily aimed at tackling these stubborn problems. Particularly aspiring entrepreneurs, who find and establish opportunities where they have been considered to have long expired.</div>
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Yet, these individuals are but a very small drop in the ocean of insecurity that affects close to 60% of unemployed young South Africans, almost like unemployed university graduates, who make up 170 000 of the 3.5 million unemployed youth.</div>
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What our country needs is comprehensive investment into rigorous and real-income job generating sectors such as manufacturing; where our young people can be able to create what the world consumes. Just as with China, where they make the dashiki`s, doeks, cellphones, tablets, stoves, microwaves and even electric bulbs; that we in turn spend billions of rands in consuming, instead of creating.</div>
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While there is a great deal of importance placed on higher university education, (particularly for black students) by the ANC government via "free" university education, internships for graduates. It must always be borne in mind that these endeavours are very meager in comparison to grade 4's who cannot read to understand, many learners still progress into higher grades because teachers are unable to cater to the individual needs of learners due to the size of their classrooms.</div>
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These learners eventually dropout mid-high school or fail grade 12.</div>
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Of what value is it to spend billions in squeezing learners into universities, when only 20% of them complete their undergraduate programs on time and the rest struggle mainly because of the higher reading levels required at university and the lack of funds to obtain the support and resources to succeed?</div>
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Is it not obvious then that we are putting too much emphasis on what uplifts only a few (university education), when the millions of young South Africans could be better off at (currently under-funded) TVET colleges; where they can be trained and placed into employment programs as technicians, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, manufacturers, and many other skills that are needed to rebuild our economy. Government jobs cannot be the fallback, which is currently where most South Africans work.</div>
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The simple truth is that not all young people can be doctors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, inventors, scientists, filmmakers or even record producers.</div>
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To deny them focus on other avenues which could amplify their talents and serve our country with their output, is to deny the very thing that needs their hands to be sustained - Freedom!</div>
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Let us Rise!</div>
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Our Future is no longer in the colours of our respective flags and races.</div>
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It is on a common need to build a socio-economically free South Africa, where all can live in complete harmony and relish every fruit of her prosperity.</div>
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Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-79799160867561838772018-03-23T21:32:00.000-07:002018-03-23T21:32:23.987-07:00Ramaphosa and the EFF's dodgy land stats<a href="http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/ramaphosa-and-the-effs-dodgy-land-stats">Ramaphosa and the EFF's dodgy land stats.</a><br />
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Ramaphosa and the EFF's dodgy land stats</h3>
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The Ratcatcher examines the racial land-ownership data on which the EWC push is being justified</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The numbers in the 2017 State Land Audit <a href="http://www.ruraldevelopment.gov.za/publications/land-audit-report/file/6126" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">report</a> on “Private Land Ownership by Race, Gender and Nationality” released in February this year have been used extensively to motivate for Expropriation Without Compensation of white owned land. In the EFF motion to amend Section 25 of the constitution the Audit is cited as the source for the claim “that black people own less than 2% of rural land, and less than 7% of urban land”.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">President Ramaphosa also used the numbers contained in the report recently in the National Assembly, <a href="https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/development/ramaphosaqanda-return-of-land-fundamental-to-transformation-of-society-13813922" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">saying that</a> “While more than 3 million hectares of land was restored between 1995 and 2014, the Land Audit Report indicates that white people in our country still own around 72% of the farms owned by individuals; Coloured people in our country own 15%; and Indians 5% and Africans -- who constitute the majority of the people who live in this beautiful land -- only own 4%."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Given the centrality of these figures to the demand for either eradicating (EFF) or eroding (ANC) property rights it is important to examine them closely. It is worth noting at the start that there are numerous numerical errors in the text and tables of the report, and so the reliability of the data presented below is not beyond question.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Methodology</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The methodology used to conduct this land audit was to go and extract information on all property registered with the Deeds Office. This was then combined with cadastral information held by the Surveyor General to determine the extent of the properties. The nationality of origin and gender of individual property owners was acquired from the Department of Home Affairs’ population register and their race from the <a href="http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=785" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">highly confidential</a> census data held by Statistics South Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The report states that 114m ha of 122m ha of land in South Africa is registered with the Deeds Office. The remaining 7,7m ha is unregistered trust state land in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo. The registered land falls into only three categories: “erven” (urban land - 3,2m ha), agricultural holdings (a nominal 340 000 hectares) and “farms” (110,7m ha.) The study classified land held by companies (presumably including that held by state-owned enterprises), trusts, individuals, community-based organisations as “private” and land owned by “national government, municipalities, provincial government, public entities, public schools” as state-owned. This included land held in the name of Ingonyama Trust in Kwazulu-Natal. Private land came to 94m ha (77%), leaving the remainder as all state-owned land (including the unregistered state trust land) at 28m ha (23%).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The report states that 722 667 ha - 22,6% of the 3,2m ha total - of erven are individually owned by 6 million people, of whom 3,32m were black African (56%), 1,55m white (26%), 507 829 Coloured, 414 069 Indian (6,9%) and 173 418 (2,9%) “other.” If one looks at the land extent the situation appears to be far less balanced however.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">357 507 ha are apparently owned by whites (49,5%), 219 033 ha (30,3%) by black Africans, 54 522 ha (7,5%) by Coloureds, 55 909 ha (7,7%) by Indians, 14 332 ha (2%), 14 332 ha under co-ownership (2%) and 21 365 (3%) by others. The EFF’s claim that black people own “less than 7% of urban land” is based on this figure. They have divided the 219 033 ha individually held by black Africans over the total area covered by erven (3,2m ha), which comes to 6,85%.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Incidentally, using precisely the same method of calculation one could say that “only” 11% of urban land was owned by white people. The land audit report does not provide figures for erven other than those individually owned, or falling under sectional title (another 50 000 ha). It does not provide figures for “privately-owned” land in total, or the extent of erven owned by the state and parastatal corporations. The latter must be a massive proportion of the total however.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moreover, if one looks at white individual erven ownership by province it is clear that there is some anomaly with the Northern Cape figures. 84 041 white individuals in the Northern Cape, who make up a mere 5,4% of all white erven owners, apparently own 152 624 ha of erven. This is 42,7% of the total area of erven owned by whites, and 21,1% of the total area of individually-owned erven in the entire country. According to the land audit white individuals in the urban areas of the Northern Cape own an average of 1,8 ha each (4,9 acres). This seems implausible, and given the small population of the province, it is largely irrelevant to understanding urban land ownership patterns across the country.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Excluding the Northern Cape from these figures changes the picture significantly. Outside of this province 38.1% of individually owned erven are owned by white people, 40,2% by black Africans, 7,8% by Coloureds and 7,9% by Indians. Even here about half of the remaining extent of erven, individually owned by whites, is in the Western Cape. In the seven more eastern provinces whites own 26,5% of the area of individually owned erven, black Africans 53,3%, Coloureds 6,8% and Indians 7,8%. Accepting the figures for the other provinces are correct, according to the land audit black Africans own more individually owned “urban land” than whites in seven of nine provinces, and a majority of such land in four provinces. This is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">before</i> including the massive share of urban land owned by municipalities, and other state or parastatal bodies. See table below.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Table 1: Individually-owned erven (“urban” areas) by race and province in South Africa</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to the figures provided by the 2017 land audit land categorised as “erven” at the Deeds Office makes up 2,6% of the extent of South Africa, “agricultural holdings” 0,3% and “farms” 90,8%. It is important to note here that the reference to “farm” is a classification of a piece of land not a description of its use, and such land could be used for a variety of different purposes other than agriculture. For example it could form a section of a national park, game reserve, water reservoir, communal area, or cover a mining or forestry operation. The land audit report is mistaken to refer to it on occasion as “farmland”. The 6,3% remainder is the unregistered state trust land referred to earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In terms of ownership 30,4% of the total extent of the country is – according to the figures in the land audit - in the hands of individuals, 24% in the hands of trusts, 22,9% in state hands, 19% in the hands of companies, 2,9% in the hands of Community-Based Organisations, and 0,7% under co-ownership. As with erven, the report provides only a detailed provincial breakdown for “farms” and agricultural holdings owned by individual owners (by race and gender) only.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is here that one finds the basis for the claim – employed by the EFF, Ramaphosa and others – that 72% of individually owned land is in the hands of whites. See table below.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Table 2: Individual land ownership of farms and agricultural holdings by race in South Africa</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Race</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hectares</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">% of total</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whites</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">26 663 144</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">71.9%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Blacks</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 314 873</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3.5%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Coloureds</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5 371 383</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">14.5%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indians</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 031 790</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5.5%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Others</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 271 562</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3.4%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Co-owned</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">425 537</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1.1%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="95"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Total</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="132"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">37 078 289</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="95"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">100%</span></div>
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</tbody></table>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The focus on this particular statistic is misleading for three reasons. Firstly, such individually-owned land makes up less than a third of the extent of land in South Africa, according to the land audit itself. This means that individually-owned land, held by whites, makes up only 21.9% of the extent of South Africa. This is less than the extent held by the state. There is substantial variation by province with under 10% of the total extent of Limpopo and KZN individually owned by white “farm” owners, 12.6% in Mpumalanga, 15,1% in Gauteng, 17,8% in the Eastern Cape. </span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Secondly, as the provincial breakdown of these figures make clear, this pays no regard to the agricultural potential or value of the land. A substantial majority of this individually-owned white-owned land is located in arid or semi-arid areas in the western part of the country. 43,1% is located in the Northern Cape alone, 11,3% in the Eastern Cape (most of it in the drier western parts of the province), 10,14% of it in the Western Cape, and 14,1% in the Free State. As the land capability map below illustrates there is thus a huge overlay between such land and the arid or semi-arid areas in the western part of the country, which are not suitable for cultivation (in the absence of irrigation).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In terms of the carrying capacity for livestock of natural pasturage Ernest Pringle has <a href="http://hsf.org.za/resource-centre/focus/focus-70-on-focus/focus-70-oct-e-pringle.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">pointed out</a> previously “In the high rainfall eastern areas of the country, the average carrying capacity is 1:4, whereas in the arid western areas the average is 1:16. This means that one hectare of land in the former region can produce the same as 4 hectares in the latter, and the value of the land should therefore be 4 times higher.”</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">Map of land capability in South Africa (the blues and green areas are potentially arable land)</span></strong><img height="352" src="http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/media_stream/politicsweb/1/1659483/images/LandCapabilityMap.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: initial;" width="489" /></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thirdly, the ANC and EFF have seized on a metric that effectively ‘disappears’ both the land that has been transferred to black hands by the ANC government since 1994, and that was in black hands pre-1994. Ramaphosa’s suggestion that despite 3,1m hectares being “restored” between 1994 and 2014 black African people (through land restitution) “only own 4%” of individually owned land is somewhat disingenuous.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">First-off the more appropriate figure for “restoration” is in fact 8,1 million hectares (6,6% of the extent of SA), as a further 5 million hectares of agricultural land has been acquired and transferred by government since 1994 through its land redistribution programme. (In an area covering another 2,2m hectares financial compensation was accepted by claimants in lieu of land restitution).</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Little of this land would be individually owned today as most land claims and redistribution projects had multiple beneficiaries, and furthermore since 2009 the government has held back from granting title to the beneficiaries of the land redistribution programme. In addition, government has made no effort to ensure those living on their ancestral land in former homeland areas acquire individual title to their land. It is unclear how such restituted and redistributed land was categorised by the land audit – other than as not individually owned - but it quite clearly qualifies as ‘black owned’ land, and it would have taken little to quantify it accordingly in the report.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If one measures the individually white owned land by province against former homeland areas and land restituted and redistributed post-1994 then one gets a far more balanced (though still highly incomplete) picture of land ownership patterns, notably in the wetter eastern regions of the country (the Free State being the exception here). See table below.</span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Table 3: Individually white-owned land vs. communally black-owned land by province </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Province</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Extent of province</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Former homeland areas</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">% of total extent</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="115"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Land owned white individuals</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">2017</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">% of total extent</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="122"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Land restituted or redistributed post -1994</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">% of extent</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">As % of ind. white owned land 2017</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">EC</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">16 891 700</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5 757 277</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">34.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3 007 709</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">17.8%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">650 123</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3.8%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">21.6%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">FS</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12 982 600</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">238 582</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1.8%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3 748 192</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">28.9%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">444 956</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3.4%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">11.9%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">GP</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 817 800</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">91 447</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5.0%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">275 021</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">15.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">67 257</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3.7%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">24.5%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">KZN</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">9 332 800</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">4 223 491</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">45.3%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">853 152</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">9.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 333 087</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">14.3%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">156.3%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">LP</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12 575 600</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">3 399 298</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">27.0%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 139 454</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">9.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">806 256</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6.4%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">70.8%</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">MP</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">7 649 500</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">954 621</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12.5%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">967 634</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12.6%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">924 209</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">95.5%</span></div>
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">NW</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">10 488 100</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 079 612</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">19.8%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 408 880</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">23.0%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">853 551</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">8.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">35.4%</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">NC</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">37 288 800</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 689 794</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">4.5%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">11 498 449</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">30.8%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 998 674</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5.4%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">17.4%</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">WC</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">12 946 300</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">0</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">0.0%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 764 652</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">21.4%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">543 292</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">4.2%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">19.7%</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Total</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">121 973 200</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">18 434 122</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">15.1%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="115"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">26 663 144</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="105"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">21.9%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" width="122"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">7 621 406</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6.2%</span></div>
</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="104"><div align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">28.6%</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conclusion</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is striking then that in a debate on such import for the future of the country the proponents of expropriation without compensation have employed such partial and misleading statistics. Indeed, there seems to have been a deliberate focus by the ANC and EFF on a particular metric that would exaggerate the discrepancy between white-owned and black owned-land. Most South Africans would have been unaware that Ramaphosa was talking about a minority sub-set of South African land, mostly located in the most desolate regions of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">To sum up then the land audit may have given the state access to highly sensitive information about the race and nationality of individual property owners via census and DHA data – essential information for any planned RET-style programme of racial dispossession – but the report itself provides little meaningful basis for discussion as to overall patterns of rural land ownership in the country, let alone of agricultural land in particular.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politicians who continue to use these statistics are unlikely then to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Intellectual Honesty any time soon. </span></div>
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</section>Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-18873219113500826082018-03-20T00:17:00.002-07:002018-03-20T00:17:55.565-07:00THE USELESSNESS OF POST - 94 SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION.#WILLDERNESSPIECE. VI<br />
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THE USELESSNESS OF POST - 94 SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION. ESPECIALLY FOR BLACKS.<br />
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<a href="https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26229573_1914255931922324_7896067054154556672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=22e2d91128d91b2ba2ffdea1e6d39976&oe=5B3A951D" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image may contain: one or more people, sky, house, outdoor and nature" border="0" height="180" src="https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26229573_1914255931922324_7896067054154556672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=22e2d91128d91b2ba2ffdea1e6d39976&oe=5B3A951D" width="320" /></a>There is an illusion that is embedded in the minds of many [black] South Africans who do not know any better. That, without the ANC, we would still be stuck with the unshakeable, rusty chains of Bantu Education.<br />
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Bantu Education, which, as we know, was designed to give blacks an education that was of inferior quality to that of their white counterparts.<br />
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Yet, as evil and racist this Bantu Education [together with Missionary schooling] was; it managed to yield a very successful black middle class that consisted of formidable doctors, lawyers, judges, business owners, academics, writers, musicians, teachers, nurses, and clerks.<br />
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This success was so apparent that in the 1980’s [The proportion of black students progressing at universities was higher in the 1980s than it was in 2017]; we had the highest number of black university graduates who not only managed to get jobs after graduating.<br />
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They also managed to secure prestigious scholarships in Western [overseas] universities to advance not only their education, but also their careers.<br />
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[Today, black university students are barely finishing university; mostly due to difficulties with comprehending university material, English, finances and general socio-economic disparities which impair many on campuses].<br />
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It was this era of [Pre-94] education that produced the likes of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Steve Biko, Patrice Mostepe, Cyril Ramaphosa and Thabo Mbeki.<br />
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Then the miracle of 1994 finally arrives. The ANC enters government and institutes education policies that not only pretended to advance black people. But indeed crippled them every step of the way, with the sole intent of producing a sterile populace that is totally incapable of doing anything other than to consume social welfare, debt, and government failure.<br />
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With a youth unemployment rate that is gradually reaching 60%, one would expect that the road to Bulawayo was not as easy and delightfully pursued [by the ANC through its ill-fated policies].<br />
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A 2017 study revealed that over 70% of Grade 4<br />
learners cannot read. In 10 years, they will be eligible voters whose sole understanding of good governance will be measured by being broke, illiterate and unemployed.<br />
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Especially when about 70% of South African youth [20 million people] are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of assault, robbery and property theft than adults [35 years and above].<br />
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With no plan or budget; criminal mastermind – President Jacob Zuma – announced that university education shall be free for poor and working class students. Other than the announcement being absolutely unfeasible, since we are so broke, thanks to him and his Gupta Colonial masters.<br />
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There are no jobs in South Africa, even for graduates.<br />
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With over 3.5 million unemployed youth, only 170 000 of them are graduates. At this rate, we are hastily entering the stage where a South African university degree, just like the Zimbabwean Dollar, will be a worthless piece of paper, glittered with vain and pompous proclamations.<br />
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It will not even be able to buy you a single grain of dirty white rice. Much less get you a job as a janitor at a local city library; because you will be competing with PHD graduates waiting in line for the same job.<br />
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Almost like the recently released fantasy by Basic Minister of Education, Angie Motsheka, that the 2017 Matric pass rate is 75.1%. When in fact it is a mere 37%.<br />
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In 2015, over 40% of Grade 10 learners either failed or were derailed as South African trains tend to do nowadays. While over 47% of [enrolled] Matriculants dropped out before writing their 2017 final exams. Thus, the number produced by the Department is erroneously not reflective of this depressing reality.<br />
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Regardless of what discredited race-gluttons [whose primary purpose in life is to chase the very evasive ghosts of White Privilege, Decolonisation, Land-grabbing and White Monopoly Capital] say. The ANC, via its unfailing black majority vote, not only fatefully failed [mostly poor, uneducated and illiterate] black people.<br />
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It also failed to use education as a tool to create a [black] educated class that is effectively able to create product, [national] wealth and jobs. Instead of being educated butlers with good English.<br />
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The so-called black business class we have today is mostly made-up of parochial, shortsighted, floral shirts and shiny suit-wearing, street-hustle contractors who get huge tenders from the ANC government just to distribute free sanitary towels to rural schools.<br />
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Or to build futile RDP houses that have to be rebuilt twice before being open for owners to live in them.<br />
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If not, then through political connections and narrow BEE privileges, they sit as executive shareholders on boards for white-owned companies. Just like Cyril Ramaphosa did with his Shanduka Group and their stake in the [now declining] platinum mining giant, Lonmin.<br />
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Perhaps, only after we have successfully destroyed all that is left to sustain South Africa, like Mugabe did with his suicidal socialist [and racist] policies. Will we realise that in order to rebuild a truly prosperous South Africa, we will need to reverse everything the ANC has done, particularly with education.<br />
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We will also need to begin by yielding a focus on producing more artisans, mechanics, technicians, plumbers, manufacturers and engineers. These skills do not require expensive university education, but [currently underfunded] Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).<br />
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With an additional socio-economic focus that is anchored on investment in manufacturing, and free-market based capitalism.<br />
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This is how countries like Germany, Japan, Singapore and even China continue to make everything the world [including South Africa] consumes. From cars, home appliances, clothing, computers, smart phones and even African dashikis!<br />
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Not everyone has as a glorified Life Orientation [Sociology or Social Justice] degree in China or South Korea. They can show you how to make a shoe or produce a brand new car battery.<br />
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This is the direction South Africa desperately needs.<br />
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Yet, as long as we are led by the ANC, we will never see prosperity. What else can we expect from a useless, failing ANC-driven Post-1994 South African Education?<br />
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© 2018 Dumisa Mbuwa<br />
All rights reserved.Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-28602623052338864342018-03-06T05:30:00.002-08:002018-03-06T05:30:20.929-08:00Black Advancement - A couple of points to consider<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
'Black Advancement Hinges on White Handouts?’</div>
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Mr. Zamani Xaba, this opinion piece is a reply to your statement that white 'racist attitudes' towards blacks are<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> what have largely resulted in a floundering black African society that has lost its way.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggxHn5ejn5SrILLng55AMkE2CJ1fEpptgXaenbS-qUoHnEFeCsT8R0dEVhEZpZCrrYMO7pfXA5aQ_IfU7tDyOqLrYATno0xNEERSLaZUACg_1dKCpRPYV1WMhJ0qJk9P-0jqgux4N67uY/s1600/Meme_life_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggxHn5ejn5SrILLng55AMkE2CJ1fEpptgXaenbS-qUoHnEFeCsT8R0dEVhEZpZCrrYMO7pfXA5aQ_IfU7tDyOqLrYATno0xNEERSLaZUACg_1dKCpRPYV1WMhJ0qJk9P-0jqgux4N67uY/s320/Meme_life_01.jpg" width="320" /></a>You seem to be implying that people who are reluctant to give up their land, jobs or property are racist? This is unreasonable. Please don't fall into that trap. Just because they are trying to preserve their standard of living & property, does not make them racist, even if you feel they 'had it easy' under apartheid.</div>
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What is very misguided is our people believing that 'taking' what the minorities have will correct the imbalances long term.</div>
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A couple of points to consider:</div>
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1) The whites and other minorities are taking their assets overseas at an unprecedented rate, along with their support structure of investors...time is pretty much gone to 'take' their majority assets, and even then there is not enough to sustain our people.</div>
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2) Why do we want their assets anyway - it is only a temporary thing. Our clear objective should be for acquiring knowledge & education - something we can build into our society, and perpetuate. This will truly help us sustain and grow long term. Remember, there is no colour to knowledge, so why do we seem reluctant to acquire it unless we are somehow prejudice?</div>
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3) Why are we not putting more focus on increasing levels of education for mission critical career sectors? We need a revamped educational program that creates a well balanced society of not only academics, but engineers, scientists, data entry clerks, artisans, technicians, construction workers etc This will contribute directly to our knowledge base, and build our qualifications as a workforce with breadth & depth, and a technology leader. Where is the construction of our own robust institutions - we are doing some of this, but the vacuum the ANC has created in institutional-support for Our People is horrifyingly absent. Of course the ANC are an institution themselves, serving ONLY themselves at the expense of the millions of disadvantaged people. And they do this without losing any sleep, while expectant mothers die daily in disgusting hospitals, and the quality of our care for the aged is bordering on a crime on humanity. And you are worried about white attitudes? How is this going to help our hospitals?</div>
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Where is the plan for the re-emergence of South Africa as a center of inspired innovation? The ANC would rather focus on creating racial issues than tackling real challenges like this.</div>
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Taking land, or taking jobs, or taking taxes from a diminishing minority is short-sighted, and destined for failure.</div>
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It's funny when you look at the excessive wealth of the black elite, and how we DO NOT focus on taking their fair share of the taxes to help rebuild our country. We let them get away with hoarding millions of rands of ill-gotten wealth.</div>
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Also VERY SAD is how the black elite revel at deepening the class divide. They PLAN to keep the impoverished uneducated, and in debt, and prolong their pain so that they can keep capitalizing on it, all whilst they divert the resentment towards minorities & foreign entities.</div>
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Can the minorities help us more than they currently are? Of course. But many of them are simply trying to figure out how to get out of this country, or at least how to get their children out. They essentially are focusing on survival for themselves, and creating an exit plan for their next generations. The People who want to stay (like farmers) - we turn a blind eye to the farm murders, hoping the problem just goes away. The unfettered crime rates that are skyrocketing, that the ANC just 'shrugs off'. What label would you place on these complacent attitudes?</div>
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We seem obsessed with 'them' and 'others', while ignoring the building blocks necessary to ensure our productive futures are guaranteed, and not spent in refugee camps.</div>
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Is leveraging wealth from these fleeing minorities key to our long term advancement as a majority country? Of course not!</div>
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The fifty million (and growing) Africans in South Africa must dig out of this hole ourselves, in our own way, if we are to be a successful, self-sustaining and a healthy nation long into the future.</div>
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Let's insist that our leaders show us a specific plan on how this will be accomplished. If our leaders can't articulate this, we must find leaders who can.</div>
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Menzi Solomon Shange</div>
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Farm attacks – an evil within<br />Nov 02, 2017</div>
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Limpopo is no exception and when embarking on research into farm attacks University of Limpopo (UL) research assistant Cristopher Gumbi couldn’t possibly have been prepared for unearthing the sorrow bottled up in recollections of physical trauma shared by victims of such crimes. Shedding tears with survivors as they revisited the horrors of the past, he got a glimpse of a form of crime that threatens food security and, in turn, the economy of the country.</div>
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His findings were consolidated in a 117-page thesis for a Master of Arts degree from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UL, which he obtained in September this year. Gumbi’s investigation of the motivational factors for farm attacks and its consequential injurious phenomena looks into such crimes committed in parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga between 2005 and 2015, bringing him into contact with 23 individuals and groupings who have all been survivors.</div>
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Before getting started with the interview Gumbi pointed at his predominantly monotone outfit in solidarity with scores of South Africans commemorating Black Monday, the countrywide action commemorating lives lost in farm attacks and survivors thereof.</div>
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From the study the reader gets varying perspectives of the situation as Gumbi delves into a decade of attacks through conversations with survivors from both genders, who varied in age from 38 to 88 years.</div>
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Harrowing accounts made him question, among others, the need for inflicting physical trauma upon victims during the orchestration of attacks, he remarked during the interview. “The violent nature of attacks is amply demonstrated by such actions as beatings, tying victims down with cable ties, threats of burning victims with hot water or poisoning them and shooting at first sight,” he notes in his study.</div>
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Without exception all respondents stated that attacks which occurred on their farms were well-planned, mentions Gumbi. “There is a clear indication that attackers conduct thorough surveillance of their target and surroundings before they pounce. This shows the high amount of intelligence and patience they put in, in making sure their plan succeeds.” He quotes a victim who stated that the assailants were picked-up by a vehicle after the attack. “This confirms the idea of a hit squad and a getaway car as a form of organised attack,” he states.</div>
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He further writes that all of the surviving victims mentioned that the attacks against them were linked to a crime syndicate, with the chief aim of robbing farmers of their money, valuables and weapons in order to fund their operations. In one instance he quotes a victim saying “One of the attackers informed my son that he is part of a crime syndicate and that they cannot remain in custody… These cell groups have kingpins in every town who use kids for stealing because the kids cannot be prosecuted… This is a well-planned operation involving Police, public prosecutors, judges, magistrates to high ranking officials of the government…”</div>
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Attackers with military training<br />Some of the victims maintained the belief that their attackers were a mix of South African and Zimbabwean with military training, according to the information contained in the study. In one incident a victim recalled that the attackers collected all spent cartridges on the scene. In another attack the assailants allegedly ran more than 4 km while carrying rifles to their getaway vehicle and changed clothes in order for them not to be recognised. Gumbi reaches the conclusion that an attack on a farmstead from four sides during one such incident, which resulted in the farmer being shot in the head, indicated a form of formal training on the part of the assailants.</div>
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In 47% of the cases money and jewellery were not targeted while 65% of the respondents stated that their attackers were not very interested in other items but their weapons. What the researcher had established though, was that attackers always knew the arrangement of the targeted farmsteads, where the safes were and the weapons kept. It led to the inference that the attacks should have been orchestrated with the help of insiders, who allegedly included teens living on farms.</div>
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Attacks believed to be form of intimidation<br />According to Gumbi’s research 78% of the respondents who reported farm attacks related a form of intimidation, aimed at driving farmers off their land. A female victim informed him that she had believed the attack on her farm was a form of intimidation, because the attackers never stole anything but just started firing through the windows of the house without prior warning. “More than 60 shots were fired. My husband shot back with a .38 revolver. He (name withheld) tossed (the) phone to me to call for help. They shot him (name withheld) in the head. They never came inside. The attackers shouted that they will kill all…”</div>
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A farmer who reported that he was attacked by twelve men informed the researcher that one drew a gun and started shooting. “When asked what their primary objective of attacking the farm was, they responded that it was not about cattle, money, guns or jewellery, but about taking control of the farm.”</div>
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Thirty-nine per cent of the respondents stated that they knew the attackers. A respondent who was attacked twice, in 2007 and 2014, said his wife knew one of the attackers because she recognised his voice during the initial attack.<br />Gumbi quoted survivors who were asked whether farms with poor security were singled out for attacks as saying “Poor security is not a contributing factor; it is all about brutal revenge and financial purposes” and “I don’t think poor security is the point here. These attacks are orchestrated by some leader somewhere who wants to drive farmers off their land.”</div>
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Gumbi further remarks that farmers do not feel that they are receiving the necessary service delivery from the South African Police Service. From the responses it is clear that the Police are not doing enough to assist the farmers during and after an attack, he writes. “Negligence and dereliction of duties are evident from the responses of respondents. Serious allegations concerning negligence with firearms raise concerns.”</div>
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Farm attacks need to be addressed holistically hence, the researcher concedes, more role players such as all government departments and non-profit organisations need to play a more active role in improving security on farms to protect food security.</div>
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Gumbi points out that unless security on farms is made a national priority, farm attacks will continue to increase. He recommends that it gets prioritised and discussed as part of South Africa’s national agenda, particularly in Parliament. He also recommends that racial stereotypes in farming urgently get addressed. “The South African justice system needs to recognise farm attacks as a criminal charge of its own with a strict mandatory minimum sentence applied; this will serve as a form of deterrence to attackers.”</div>
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Gumbi expresses great concern over farm attacks in South Africa not being given the necessary attention by the government, considering the effects such crimes have on the economy and the well-being of victims, families and communities.</div>
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According to him South Africa has the responsibility to view farm attacks as a violation of human rights and a threat to the country’s economy and food security. “The rural farming community contributes substantially to the growth and development of the South African economy.”</div>
Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-10643145274141366792018-03-05T12:42:00.001-08:002018-03-05T12:42:34.072-08:00Land expropriation is anti-black<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Much to my disappointment, the South African Parliament passed a motion by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to endorse the expropriation of land without compensation.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSIShjXp6rr8CE-wwAIymVKpiCnUpsyAcr3a6woMZlNlYywt017BH9sXU1_ocMArKBrWwAXxN8_RmEGmVI7MgZaOERC7Nk82IQaTOHq7R8WrHPGgtoHm2WVIpQKsiEXiW1At1OWhiGRY/s1600/Politics_14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSIShjXp6rr8CE-wwAIymVKpiCnUpsyAcr3a6woMZlNlYywt017BH9sXU1_ocMArKBrWwAXxN8_RmEGmVI7MgZaOERC7Nk82IQaTOHq7R8WrHPGgtoHm2WVIpQKsiEXiW1At1OWhiGRY/s320/Politics_14.jpg" width="319" /></a><span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Essentially, all political parties, except for the Democratic Alliance (DA) and one or two smaller others, voted in favour of a policy that gives government the power to seize land and property rights from individuals and families.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The argument put forward by the supporters of this policy is, of course, centred on the historical dispossession of many black South Africans of their property rights and land; first under colonial rule, then through racist apartheid legislation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let me be clear from the outset: the act of redressing this legacy by implementing a rational and legal process of land restitution is wholly justified. Indeed, I am in full support of a rational and moral process, founded on the rule-of-law and due process, for assessing valid land claims.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If the claim is proven to be valid through an evidence-driven process, then the beneficiary must have the option of reclaiming the land or accepting financial compensation for their loss. In the same breath, the individual set to give back the land should also be compensated for their loss, provided they didn't use any measure of force to illegally claim that land.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ultimately, it was the State, whether through the guise of colonialism or apartheid that was responsible for the dispossession of citizens in the first place. It is that same State today (albeit governed by a democratically elected party) which must act to redress its past mistakes and actions.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My approach is a just and sound policy, as where all parties find mediation and resolution.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is why I cannot bring myself to agree with the EFF approach of land expropriation, which disturbingly calls for complete state ownership of all land.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Julius Malema is a forked-tongue politician. At Parliament's podium and at his public rallies he shouts that the land "must be returned to our people". He does not, however, tell the public, and specifically the black people he claims to trade for, that his approach entails dispossessing them too of whatever meagre property they have.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On this matter the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: the State owning something on behalf of the people does not translate to the people owning or enjoying the utility of that good.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is this intellectual dishonesty and effort to undermine the intent and spirit of section 25 of the Constitution which makes the EFF very dangerous. While Malema talks of targeting "white land thieves" to "benefit landless blacks", in reality the EFF is giving government the power to steal property from families, rich and poor.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I've yet to get an answer from Malema and his acolytes on how it is </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"pro-black" to demand that blacks become landless and permanent renters of land from the State, as is proposed in Point 2 of the EFF Land Policy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It would seem that land expropriation without compensation and the State owning all land is a crude attempt by socialists to take away land from everybody, including black people. This policy is nothing short of theft and is the stuff of the economically illiterate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A government owning land on behalf of blacks (or any citizen really), as is EFF policy, is immoral and patronising. It is anti-black and anti-poor!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sadly, we've seen this show before on the continent, from Julius Nyerere's disastrous Ujamaa policy in the 1960s, to Idi Amin's expropriation without compensation of mostly Indian merchants land and businesses in 1972, to the collapse of our Zimbabwean neighbours after the wave of land grabs unleashed by Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF in the early 2000s.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Land Expropriation without compensation and the socialism which underpins it has been the killer of African aspirations for prosperity and development.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most depressingly, and what the politicians don't tell you, is that these measures kill the aspirations of black families looking to OWN land and have property rights, just as the colonialist and apartheid systems did.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is nothing to celebrate here. Troubled times lay ahead for us South Africans, as our liberty is at stake. For far too long South Africans of all races have had to give up one freedom and liberty after another, at the hands of statist and socialist politicians.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Government should be a tool for empowering families and communities and enhancing their liberty, not making them dependents. I don't see how taking our land without compensation and making us renters of the land of our birth is pro-South Africa, do you?</span></div>
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Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-45550403241045989472018-03-05T02:38:00.002-08:002018-03-05T02:40:13.158-08:00Why The Poor Should be Worried ~ Expropriation of LandWhy The Poor Should be Worried ~ Expropriation of Land 🦃🐖🐃🏞🏜<br />
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Expropriation without compensation represents a profound danger for South Africa's immediate and long-term economic future<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELAzeeH7wE96YitYpiZZl5aHjTfIVFjzz-1wdIW2jhyPizbbJxb6Jmg7Xo1S2mnzf1zr58V6n9Dv7fOVAjkF4H1UDEG8um3MkdGgIBRVVnwWYfLauosEyQe_ZWruQ-Uwr1sC6YcG_8W8/s1600/Retard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="552" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELAzeeH7wE96YitYpiZZl5aHjTfIVFjzz-1wdIW2jhyPizbbJxb6Jmg7Xo1S2mnzf1zr58V6n9Dv7fOVAjkF4H1UDEG8um3MkdGgIBRVVnwWYfLauosEyQe_ZWruQ-Uwr1sC6YcG_8W8/s320/Retard.jpg" width="320" /></a>~ The "necessity of the state being a custodian of all South African land". This is a "state" that has proven to not having any skill; is very clumsy and incompetent. Consisting of an 'employment programme' based on "nepotism", patronage, cronyism" of employing select families and friends.<br />
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This 'state' doesn't have a clue on the meaning of the words "merit" and "professionalism" and "qualifications". This 'state' is just managed by the most bungling, blundering, bumbling, and unproductive,unsuccessful, ineffectual,<br />
inadequate, inferior, wanting and not up to scratch. They just fumble on.<br />
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This resolution is sponsored by one of the most corrupt, immoral, uncaring and unprincipled young so-called leader, who<br />
was ever produced by South Africa.<br />
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He became a +R200 multi-millionaire at<br />
age 32, from money he defrauded from the Limpopo government. His career is marked by a string of corrupt activities in the ANCYL, the NYDA and the EFF. There is a deep irony here.<br />
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The resolution is quite correct to refer to South Africa's history and the abuse of black people's property rights. He is a champion of just doing that and I have written extensively on his corrupt escapades.<br />
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His saving grace is "rubble rousing", at which he is a 'master' ~ trashing, vandalising, looting, burning government and private property<br />
are his speciality. The question is, how does<br />
he manage to achieve all of these things so puplicly and brazenly?<br />
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The answer is simple, he had protection from high up in government, from non other than Ubaba ka Duduzane. They created this elaborate 'perception' of being at war with<br />
each other, but nothing is further from the truth.<br />
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He enjoyed the same protection U Baba got from #Abrams_NPA_783_charges. How is his new reform policy going to improve the lives of its beneficiaries, and enhances the economy as whole.<br />
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Well, it is not. The young man already has 2 farms and a number of properties under his belt. He is not interested in how it is going to improve the lives of the poor, but only his own life, that of his family and cronies. He only says "the poor" in public.<br />
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This resolution rests on a flawed diagnosis of the problems facing South Africa's land reform efforts, and proposes reckless and counterproductive responses.<br />
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First, its evidence is questionable. While there is consensus that the land reform programme is not performing well, the figures it purports to draw from the land audit – 'black people own less than 2% of rural land, and less that 7% of urban land' with 'black' referring to African' ~ are incorrect.<br />
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These numbers refer only to registered and titled properties held by individual owners.<br />
The audit was unable to assign racial identity to around two thirds of the country's land.<br />
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This was held by companies and trusts, and a large portion belonged to the 'state' or is<br />
'state trust land'.<br />
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Much 'state' land is in fact land in the former homelands, or land acquired for 'beneficiaries', but whose title has not been transferred to them. Lunch Bar! That wasn't the plan of government officials, Juju himself got his lands through this process.<br />
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Current land redistribution policy is to retain state ownership of land and to lease it to tenants. Remember, the 'state' is now 'black'. Small wonder that 'black' ownership of land remains modest, they claim. The 'state' doesn't include itself in this category of 'owners'.<br />
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Truth be told, some 46% of agricultural potential ~ land with fertile soil and good water sources, for example, mostly in the eastern parts of the country ~ is in the hands of government and historically disadvantaged individuals.<br />
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"other constraints, including increasing evidence of corruption by officials, the diversion of the land reform budget to elites, lack of political will, and lack of training and capacity have proved more serious stumbling blocks to land reform" says the audit report.<br />
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The Constitution in fact affords the state considerable latitude in achieving such goals. As the eminent agricultural economist, the late Dr Hans Binswanger-Mkhize, once wrote:<br />
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"This constitutional and policy framework is one of the most favourable in the world for successfully and rapidly implementing land reform."<br />
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The cheapening of South Africa's founding<br />
law for populist political ends should greatly concern the country's constitutionalists.<br />
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Attacking Section 25 would undermine the very concept of property rights ~ not just those in land. It would render all property, or all people, vulnerable to an intrusive state and its officials: mines, factories, houses, artworks.<br />
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It should be borne in mind that the poor could be especially hard hit ~ there are numerous examples across the world of poor people with weak property rights being deprived of their property, land, livestock, houses and so on, by their governments in the name of development.<br />
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Beyond enabling the state to seize property without compensation, it suggests what amounts to wholesale nationalisation of South Africa's land resources. For the state to take 'custodianship' of all land would effectively be to end private ownership in land.<br />
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It should be understood that no one ~ land baron or smallholder, black or white ~ would really own anything. All would be at the mercy of the state. Do you think Juju would allow his 2 farms to be included in this situation?<br />
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Probably the most important problem with this resolution. It avoids any reference to economic considerations. Even Cyril Ramaphosa's assurances that expropriation without compensation will not compromise agricultural output and food security are absent.<br />
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Expropriation without compensation ~ as officials in the banking industry have warned ~ will undermine the capital base of agriculture. The risks associated with large volumes of credit to enable production are likely to make financial institutions exit the sector.<br />
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Government cannot match these financing requirements, farm debt stands at over<br />
R160 billion at present.<br />
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This implies a predictable decline in production. The damage would not be limited to job losses, declining taxes and export receipts, and the disruption of value chains.<br />
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It would likely prove destabilising to the country as shortages become the norm and food price inflation takes off. Venezuela and Sudan have recently provided vivid illustrations of the dire consequences of compromised food security.<br />
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It is unlikely that South Africa would be able to avoid further downgrades or be able to attract much investment. Interactions with business people ~ foreign and domestic ~ has shown a deep concern about the possibility of this becoming official policy.<br />
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To reiterate: that the success of land reform policy should be measured by the extent to which it improves the lives of its beneficiaries, and enhances the economy as whole.<br />
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The EFF's reported resolution would do the just the opposit, and the country might end up being owned by the likes of foreigners like,<br />
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Lord Robin Renwick and his London cronies.<br />
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#asblif_rules<br />
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(Source : Terence Corrigan ~ Project Manager at the SA Institute of Race Relations (IRR) / News24)Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-49762913487359860202018-03-01T07:30:00.000-08:002018-03-01T07:30:44.833-08:00Black lies about land settlement in South AfricaHere is the article link ...<br />
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In fact, there were stable White communities in the South African interior before the founding of most of the Latin American republics. The first West European arrivals at the Cape antedated the colonization of Australia (1788) and New Zealand (1790) by 136 and 138 years respectively. The white community was also economically settled on unoccupied or negotiated land before the most and major black tribes even crossed the modern day borders of South Africa.<br />
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<br />Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-169589644570073182018-03-01T02:53:00.001-08:002018-03-01T02:53:39.477-08:00Majority of black South Africans have little interest in land reformSome facts behind the land issue ...<br />
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently claimed the ruling party must move ahead with land expropriation without compensation because of a 'pressing' and 'urgent' hunger for farming land among South Africans.</div>
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However, comprehensive opinion polls commissioned by the IRR from 2015 to 2017 have repeatedly shown that the great majority of black South Africans have little interest in land reform.</div>
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In the IRR's 2016 field survey, for instance, only 1% of black respondents (down from 2% the previous year) said that 'more land reform' was the 'best way to improve lives'. By contrast, 73% of black people saw 'more jobs and better education' as the 'best way' for them to get ahead.</div>
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In similar vein, in the IRR's 2017 field survey, only 1% of black respondents identified 'speeding up land reform' as a top priority for the government.</div>
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Even among people who were dispossessed of land under apartheid laws – and were most likely to have a strong wish to see their land restored to them – there has been little interest in land as opposed to cash compensation.</div>
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When the land restitution process began in 1994, some 79 700 valid land claims were submitted by December 1998. By 2013, as the then minister of rural development and land reform, Gugile Nkwinti, pointed out, roughly 76 000 successful claims had been disposed of. However, only about 5 800 of these successful claimants (roughly 8%) chose to have their land restored to them. The remaining 92% preferred to receive cash compensation instead.</div>
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Said Nkwinti: "We thought everybody when they got a chance to get land, they would jump for it. Now only 5 856 have opted for land restoration." People wanted money because of poverty and unemployment, but they had also become urbanised and 'de-culturised' in terms of tilling land. "We no longer have a peasantry; we have wage earners now," he said.</div>
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The 76 000 successful claimants who could have chosen land rather than money could be seen as respondents in a particularly large opinion poll. That most of them – faced with a real-life choice – opted for cash, rather than land, is telling.</div>
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Opinion polls also show that ordinary people would far prefer to have rapid growth and many more jobs than the massive land distribution that the ANC is now portraying as the key antidote to poverty.</div>
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In the IRR's 2016 survey, for instance, respondents were asked whether they preferred "a political party which focuses on faster growth and more jobs", or one which "focuses on land expropriation to redress past wrongs". Given this choice, 84% of black respondents opted for growth and jobs, whereas only 7% wanted major land redistribution as redress for apartheid injustices.</div>
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Similar results have emerged from a comprehensive opinion survey commissioned by eNCA and carried out by MarkData in September 2017 among a representative sample of some 5 000 people, including about 2 700 self-declared ANC voters. (The results of this survey, as analysed by renowned political analyst and author R W Johnson, were first released by eNCA during the December race for the ANC presidency at the Nasrec conference.)</div>
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Even among ANC voters, it was clear that most people wanted the ruling party to embark on "more pro-business policies", rather than to pursue "radical policies/redistribution".</div>
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This was also the case in KwaZulu-Natal, the home base of the then president, Jacob Zuma, with his repeated calls for "radical economic transformation". There, 57.2% of ANC voters said they wanted the ruling party to "adopt more pro-business policies in the hope that business would invest more and create more jobs". By contrast, only 19.5% wanted the ANC to "push on with radical policies aimed at the complete redistribution of all wealth and income".</div>
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Support among ANC voters for "more pro-business policies" was frequently still stronger, standing at 75.9% in North West, 66.8% in the Eastern Cape, 57.1% in the Northern Cape, 55.9% in Limpopo, and 49.9% in Gauteng. In all these provinces, support for "more radical policies/redistribution" was low, coming in at 6.6% in North West, 8.7% in Limpopo, 10.6% in the Eastern Cape, 12.8% in the Northern Cape, and 16.2% in Gauteng.</div>
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These survey outcomes confirm that the great majority of ordinary ANC voters want more business-friendly policies – not the land "expropriation without compensation" option which the Nasrec conference endorsed and the ANC and EFF now seem determined to push through Parliament.</div>
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Claims by Ramaphosa and other senior figures in the ANC that ordinary South Africans are agog for land expropriation without compensation should be taken with a bucketful of salt. Far closer to the truth is Johnson's telling comment on what the eNCA survey results reveal.</div>
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These results (says Johnson) show that "much of the ANC leadership has completely lost contact with what most ANC voters think – and may not even be conscious of the huge divide that separates their assumptions from those of their electorate".</div>
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- Dr Anthea Jeffery is head of Policy Research at the Institute for Race Relations. The IRR is a think tank which promotes political and economic freedom.</div>
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Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-58415369131680496602018-02-28T22:41:00.001-08:002018-02-28T22:41:29.239-08:00A BRITISH LEGAL EXPERT'S OPINION ON EXPROPRIATION OF LAND WITHOUT COMPENSATIONA BRITISH LEGAL EXPERT'S OPINION ON EXPROPRIATION OF LAND WITHOUT COMPENSATION<br />
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Response written by Mark Philip Malcolm Horn - London Barrister. * No one does business with a thief, and no one extends credit to a thief.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LPOKvH_Pi_MCUnewIf_W_QFs2FdpmRwl7hxJjwZfwrsHFqsdxN_WDgdCuq505X-5tiboh0UQXWRVeRN_jpPebaadW4k43SCA9EMJT-00yfDi7KHO39PYVN6GCa5ynH7iUi-gu3BYlXA/s1600/Meme_farming02.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1127" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LPOKvH_Pi_MCUnewIf_W_QFs2FdpmRwl7hxJjwZfwrsHFqsdxN_WDgdCuq505X-5tiboh0UQXWRVeRN_jpPebaadW4k43SCA9EMJT-00yfDi7KHO39PYVN6GCa5ynH7iUi-gu3BYlXA/s320/Meme_farming02.jpeg" width="320" /></a>"You can not have land expropriation without compensation. It is illegal in international law. It is contrary to a dozen treaties that South Africa has signed and ratified. As such, it is a principle that is also enshrined in South African domestic law. You can not change the Constitution therefore to make it legal - Treaty law is superior law, it always applies.<br />
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The proposal, if directed at land held by the white community, would also contravene half a dozen international treaties, notably those condemning apartheid, that South Africa since the ANC took power, has signed and ratified.<br />
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The same argument applies above, but now with the ironic twist that any such initiative would result in the ANC being condemned under international law for actions that the world would condemn as being racist.<br />
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So no, it can not be done. When Mugabe tried this, the point was litigated. These were the legal conclusions. Now, Mugabe pushed ahead, so what happened?<br />
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Well, the claims for illegal expropriation still are valid in law - at some point the Zimbabwean Government will need to pay them.<br />
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The consequence of their illegal policy is not forgotten with time. If they ever want to be re-integrated into the global community, they will need to pay.<br />
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As to the consequences of such a policy - Zimbabwe is a good example. There are no sanction on Zimbabwe. That is a myth. The only sanctions are those targeted on Mugabe and a few of his associates, and they are in place because of human rights abuses.<br />
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The economy has crashed, there is a 90% unemployment rate, for the very simple fact that Zimbabwe has shown itself to be a thief. No one does business with a thief, and no one extends credit to a thief.<br />
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You can not run a modern economy without access to the international market, and for that you need credit. The Zimbabwean economy has declined by 70% from what it was at independence simply because no one does business with a thief.<br />
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So what would be the consequence of a policy of expropriation without compensation in South Africa? Well, as noted, such a policy would be illegal.<br />
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The international community will immediately take note that South Africa has become a rogue state. That is not too much to worry, about, its just political. There are plenty of rogue states around the world.<br />
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What would happen, however, in terms of South Africa's access to the international markets is of far more concern. South Africa would have signaled that property rights are insecure. That will mean that international investment in South Africa would come to a screeching halt.<br />
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This has been happening for many years in any event - that is why South Africa is now ranked no. 7 in gold mining, when it used to be no. 1.<br />
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It is why South Africa has a 27% unemployment rate, and a 50% youth unemployment rate. So the response could well be: "who cares, we do not need their investment". That may well indeed be true.<br />
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But, that is not where the real crisis occurs. South Africa needs access to international financial markets because it has a trade and budget deficit. It needs access to international financial markets to pay for its bloated public sector, and to pay social grants to all those unemployed people.<br />
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To raise that money, it needs the banks. Now this is where the consequences of a policy of expropriation without compensation hits home.<br />
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Banks have, as is the nature of banking, highly leveraged Balance Sheets. They lend as multiples of the assets they actually have. They need to conform with the Basel ratio's. If they have a rise in bad debt, they can easily wipe out their Balance Sheets - they then become bankrupt, and they collapse.<br />
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So what do you think will happen if land is expropriated without compensation to the Banks? The answer is, they will see a rise in bad debt, and they will collapse.<br />
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That is not the end of the story. South Africa has seen its black population rise from approximately 2.5 m in the mid 19th century, to its current level of 50 m. The 2.5 m may be taken as the sustainable level of the black population without the benefits of colonialism, and of modern agriculture.<br />
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That 2.5 m number is important, because only 13% of South Africa is suited for agriculture, and only 3% is high quality agricultural land. The vast majority of South African agricultural land requires the application of modern technology.<br />
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Farming in South Africa is highly capital intensive. Farmers depend on bank lending not only to buy their farms, but also to provide essential working capital.<br />
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So, what happens if the land is expropriated without compensation, if the banks then collapse? Well it means no one is able to provide the essential working capital. If the farms then collapse, then up to 95% of the existing black population is at risk of starvation.<br />
The banks can not access international markets, international lenders will not lend, South Africa then descends into chaos. At point, the international community would probably intervene military to restore order. As such, South Africa would have become yet another Failed State in the traditional African mold."Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-67893275227783949342017-11-04T07:33:00.003-07:002017-11-04T07:35:14.554-07:00What has Blacks done for South Africa<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">From 1910 until 1961 our country, South Africa, with exactly the same borders that it has today was a colony of Britain. It was called the Union of South Africa. That was a period of 51 years.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It wasn’t until 1961 that South Africa became an Independent Country and was officially named The Republic of South Africa.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">During the time when the country was under the British, the South African whites (Boers) were very dissatisfied with the way things were done and they wanted nothing and absolutely nothing less than self-rule; self-determination. The right to decide their own future. Now, everybody knows that the Boers are fiercely patriotic and proudly nationalistic. I must confess that I know of no other people who are so proud of their identity, so confident of their abilities, and so optimistic about their capabilities and prospects like the Afrikaners of South Africa. (I cannot help but feel pure unalloyed admiration for the spirit of nationhood; volksheid, that the Afrikaners have among themselves. Something that the black people should perhaps emulate)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In Parliament the Boers fought British domination tooth and nail until they won the government in 1948 under the auspices of the National Party until 12 yrs later they won total independence from the British and could call the country their own. Now, the Boers were not only passive talkers. They were shrewd planners and industrious men, hard workers who were not shy to roll up their khaki shirt sleeves and get dirty from work. The Boers were not only hard workers, but they were hard thinkers too. And the Boers were tireless community organisers too. The following explanations will attest to the assertions I made above.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">While the Boer fathers and grandfathers were debating in parliament about the future of South Africa, Afrikaner Volksbewegings (Civil Society Movements) were doing a great job in organising Boer communities across the country to solidify social cohesion. And private funds were established to send bright young Boer students to Universities overseas to learn the wisdom of those times. As a result bright eyed young Afrikaner scientists graduated from European universities with degrees that equipped them with the knowledge of how to convert iron ore into an industrial product called steel which proved to be a commodity whose commercial value was inestimable. Now, the Boer Fathers and decision makers set up an industrial milk cow named Iscor/Yskor.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1958, even before they got independence from the Britons, the Boers withdrew from the British Commonwealth. They now had a challenge of importing fuel at inflated prices from countries which were members of the commonwealth. But like I said before, the Afrikaners, the South African Boers, are smart thinkers, shrewd pragmatists and tough minded business dealmakers. They had earlier, a few years before, sent clever Boereseuntjies, bright and sharp young Afrikaners to study abroad about what was then a relatively new technology of converting coal into fuel. With the new witchcraft which they have learnt overseas, the Boereseuntjies, helped their Vaders to establish an oil processing giant which they proudly named the Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool and Olie Ko-operasie/ South African Coal oil Industry ; that is SASOL to This was another cash cow; die geldelike melkkoei, if I may borrow the Boeretaal phrase.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With cash generated from the self made industrial milk cows, the Boers could simply and very easily launch and sustain secondary industries; Transport (SAA, SAR,), civil service (Post Office), Infrastructure(Telkom, EVKOM) etc.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Boers even establish their own research organ, the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) When the ANC took over government from the Boers, the Boers had already made serious progress into research about Nuclear Power (Electricity) generation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There’s no enough space here to explain everything that the Boers, had done for the country that they called theirs. But my point is; what are black people doing to lift themselves up just as the Boers wanted to lift themselves up and free themselves from the Brits? What are black people willing to do except wail, whimper and cry?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Where are Black Civil Society movements? Even up to today, the Boers still have AfriForum. The name might have changed from Broederbond, Volksbeweging, or whatever the Afrikaners decided to call it, but the Spirit is still the same; the Spirit of self-determination and the indomitable desire to have the freedom to decide your own destiny. The Spirit of Volksheid(Natio</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">nhood, Community, Togetherness, Unity, or brotherhood if you like). The right Spirit. The Spirit without which nothing can be accomplished.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Maybe when Oliver Tambo said in 1979 that the ANC must sometimes imitate their enemy, he had in mind some of the few things I mentioned here which the Boers have without any shadow of a doubt accomplished; and accomplished so magnificently.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Education for the Boerekinders during the reign of the NP was something to be admired. It was an education that empowered them to create giants like EVKOM, TELKOM, YSKOR (I am deliberately using Afrikaans abbreviations), SASOL, SAS (Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorwee) and others. What kind of education do we feed our kids today? If you care, you may look at an article I posted two weeks on my timeline here on Facebook, I haven’t removed it. It is titled EDUCATION OF A BLACK CHILD.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And lastly, what have we created in the twenty three years that the ANC, a black man’s liberation organisation, has been in power. Where is Black Power? What are we doing except except complain and project ourselves as victims? The Afrikaners still have Afriforum; what do we have?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mmatlou Josias Ntjana</span>Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-92040584464038174592017-11-01T22:04:00.000-07:002017-11-01T22:04:05.892-07:00Black South Africa, Time to Look In The Mirror<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
"Black South Africa, Time to Look In The Mirror'</div>
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I hear my brothers complain about how the rest of the world has oppressed our people, our history, our culture, and magically always seem to control our behaviour, lifestyle-choices, etc.</div>
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It's time to break free from this mental enslavement:</div>
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We are the reason we have never better documented our ancestral history.</div>
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We are the reason we did not develop the ability to create & save written records of our people, or didn't appreciate the relevance of the written word at a time when many societies did.</div>
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We are the reason we let other thriving cultures influence and dominate us.</div>
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We are the reason we have not built our own self-sustaining African-centric economy, our own factories, industrial complexes, and mega cities, when many others would have by now.</div>
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We are the reason we can't grow our own food proficiently, and master advanced agricultural & irrigation techniques, so that we may feed ourselves.</div>
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We are the reason we can't adequately educate ourselves, we allow our schools to deteriorate while school administrators drive Mercedes and make a living on ensuring we keep the bar low for our future generation. Our ability to compete in an ever-competitive world as a result has waned.</div>
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We are the reason we continue to let arrogance, laziness & criminal behaviour permeate our government institutions, our ability to enforce the constitution, enforce the law and maintain discipline is questionable.</div>
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We are the reason we allow tribal-despots, ignorance and empty heads to waste our time in politics and desecrate our beloved land.</div>
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We are the reason we have let the ANC become rotten to the core - to where now the stench is intolerable & offensive - and we are now considered to be the 'court jesters' of Africa for our inability to be accountable to ourselves.</div>
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We are the reason we are regarded as a joke by world cultures - due to our ineptness, irresponsibility and inability to implement the values we hold high - black consciousness, Ubuntu and Pan Africanism concepts. We throw them away - We are all talk.</div>
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We are the reason millions pray for our morality - for allowing the crime, rape, and HIV to run rampant, exposing the depravity in our black leadership - they embarrass us by constantly blaming others to deflect from the glaringly obvious issues.</div>
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We are the reason we continue to elect leaders who are not good stewards of our country and our people.</div>
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We were the reason we are weak and allow our resources to be scavenged by government officials who sponsor deals that leave our people unemployed, underpayed, while they capitalise on the suffering of the underclass..whilst the ANC Elite laugh and sip their cocktails.</div>
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We are the reason we are weak and have allowed the new dark forces to take hold, along with the throng of BRICS countries in queue behind them with their bribe money in hand, ready to indebt us for the next century ... they all laugh at us behind our backs as our leaders sell their souls while pumping their fists in self-serving victory...Mother Africa weeps.</div>
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We are the reason we can't unite fully as South Africans, and allow our government to divide us with class-envy, racial rhetoric, and stupid songs.</div>
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We are the reason we always talk about our suffering, but never really do anything about it, and actually seem to revel in victimhood and perpetuate it.</div>
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We are the reason we are weak and divided, and allow this to happen.</div>
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We are the reason we flounder as black people and continue to be mentally unable to rise to the challenge..always blaming others...never looking within.</div>
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Look in the mirror black South Africa, resolve yourself to take action, it is squarely our responsibility now, no more excuses, fix it or become a footnote in the history books.</div>
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For those who are surprised that I can string two words together, and that I can speak the truth - you will quickly say that I write like a 'white man' - I am sad for you, and that attitude is part of what deeply ails our country. Stop it! Look at the words, understand them, and we will all be able to heal together.</div>
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Namuhlanje sengikhulile<br />Ngiyamaz’ uNobuhle noNobubi<br />Mus’ ukungikhohlisa weKhohlisile<br />Inkambo yami ngiyayazi<br />Izinwele zami ngiyayazi<br />Ibala lami ngiyalazi;<br />Ngiyeke ngobulongw’ engingabazi<br />Ngimuhle nginje.</div>
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Menzi Solomon Shange</div>
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[Through Knowledge, Justice & Righteousness, South Africa Will Be Liberated]</div>
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""<br />Menzi Solomon Shange is from Kwazulu Natal where he spent his childhood. Mr. Shange currently lives in Gauteng - he owns a successful business that services the mining industry. Mr. Shange started publicly writing in the last few years and is providing razor sharp commentary on social-political issues, providing an insight and a vision that is striking a chord amongst many South Africans. Mr. Shange has developed a strong anti-ANC following - his powerful, intelligent, and unique writing style has become his key signature, and easily recognised by his followers. His strong belief that the ANC is impeding/undermining the advancement of millions of poor South Africans has strong support across many mainstream groups, both community-based, political-based, and business-based.</div>
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Many have recognized Mr. Shange' s efforts in exposing ANC ineptness & corruption - these efforts have been an influential factor in the growing support for opposition parties. Opposition parties were successfull in winning key metropolitan areas from the floundering ANC in the 2016 municipal elections. A strong victory is expected in 2019 should the ANC continue to betray black South Africans and continue to drive the country into its precipitous economic slide, while stealing and plundering the countries resources.</div>
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For More Details on a Community that Menzi is part of, see South Africans For Change - SA4C</div>
Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-83247503908554925942017-04-15T00:00:00.000-07:002017-04-15T00:00:29.904-07:00The Lies about Apartheid unmaskedIn 1988, a German book published how benevolent the White giant of
Africa actually was. Below are some of the facts referencing 1988 <br />
In 1972, SA blacks owned 36<span class="text_exposed_show">0,000 vehicles. (More than all the black African states together)<br />
The monthly income of blacks per capita in 1988 was R352 per month in
South Africa – Malawi and Mozambique was less than R20 per month.<br /> In
1988 black people could undergo a complicated heart valve surgery for
just more than $ 1 while black Americans had to pay $ 15,000. In a
Pretoria hospital between 2,000 and 3,000 of these surgeries were done
per year.<br /> In 1970, black workers earned R1,751 million, or 25.5% of
the total wage fees in SA and increased to R17,238 million in 1984
(1,000% growth) and 32.3% of total wages in SA.<br /> In the 1986/1987
financial year, whites paid R9,000 million and blacks R171 million tax.
Indians paid R257 million and coloreds paid R315 million on tax.<br />
Between 1962 and 1972 the UN paid $ 298 million to underdeveloped
countries compared to South Africa that spent $ 558 million on the
development of its black areas.<br /> The budget amount for black education increases every year from 1970 to almost 30% more than any other government department.<br />
From 1955 to 1984 the number of black scholars increased from 35,000 to
1,096,000. In 1988 71% of the adult black population could read and
write versus 47% in Kenya, 38% in Egypt and 34% in Nigeria. On average
during the year 15 new classrooms per working day were built for black
scholars.<br /> In 1985 there were 42,000 black students enrolled at SA universities.<br /> There were 5 black universities and 28 higher education institutions funded by the government.<br />
Soweto with its population of 1.2 million had 5 modern stadiums versus
Pretoria with its 600,000 whites who had three. Soweto had 365 schools
versus Pretoria 229. In Soweto in 1978, there were 115 football fields,
three rugby fields, 4 athletic tracks, 11 cricket fields, two golf
courses, 47 tennis courts, 7 swimming pools, 5 bowling halls, 81
basketball fields, 39 children playgrounds and countless community
halls, cinemas and clubhouses.<br /> In Soweto in 1978, there were 300
churches, 365 schools, 2 technicons, 8 clinics, 63 kindergartens, 11
post offices and its own fruit and vegetable market.<br /> The white
government built a huge hospital Baragwanath 3,000 beds in Soweto. One
of the largest and most modern hospitals in the world.<br /> Its 23 operating theaters were equipped with the best equipment money can buy.<br /> Here blacks were treated at a nominal cost of R2 for an unlimited period.<br /> In 1982, no fewer than 898 heart surgeries were done here.<br />
Next to the Baragwantha Hospital is the St. John-eye clinic, famous for
the treatment of glaucoma, previous fix retinas, traumatic eye injuries
and rare tropical diseases.<br /> There were over 2,300 registered firms, 1,000 taxi operators and 50,000 car owners in Soweto.<br /> Dr. Kenneth Walker, a Canadian physician, visited Soweto and made the following observations:<br /> He saw several houses worth more than R100 000 with various BMW’s at the door.<br />
Only 2% of homes are shacks with neat buildings with lawns. If he had
to choose between the decaying apartments in New York, Detroit or
Chicago than he would rather stay in Soweto.<br /> He’d rather be very ill in Soweto as in some Canadian cities.<br /> He says the city has more schools, churches, cars, taxis, and sports fields than any other independent African states.<br />
In 1978 the South African government built a highly modern hospital
MEDUNSA on the border of the independent state of Bophuthatswana at a
cost of R70 million on 35 hectares. In this “city” there were living and
sleeping facilities for male and female students.<br /> Black doctors,
dentists, veterinarians and para-medical staff were trained. It is the
only specialized university of its kind in Africa and one of the few in
the world financed by white taxpayers exclusively to benefit blacks.
Almost all students who mainly came from the national homelands costs
were taken care of by the government.<br /> The practical training took place in the nearby Garankuwa Hospital farm where the whole range of human ailments is covered.<br />
Garankuwa had the facilities for kidney transplants, isotopes units
with specialized laboratories where 200 doctors were trained practically
every year.<br /> South Africa provided training for the airline personnel of Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zaire and the Comores.<br />
In 1979, when the train traffic to the Malawian capital Lilongwe was
interrupted by rebels, SA sent transport aircrafts with fuel drums to
keep their economy going.<br /> In 1986, 80,000 black businessmen from Africa visited Cape Town to finalize business deals.<br />
South Africa provided the grain needs of its neighboring countries and
wider. In 1980, Zambia received 250 000 tons of maize, Mozambique
150,000 tons maize and 50 000 tons of wheat, Kenya 128,000 tons maize
and Zimbabwe 100 000 tons. Other countries that also received South
African grain were Angola, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mauritius, Tanzania and
Zaire.<br /> At least 12 countries of Africa, according to the “Argus
African News Service” were so dependent on SA grain that a total ban on
imports and exports would have destroyed them economically.<br /> About
half of Lesotho’s male population worked in South Africa, about 146,000
in 1983, and earned R280,6 million which was about half of Lesotho’s
treasury.<br /> In the 1982/83 financial year SA budgeted R434 million for assistance to the independent neighboring states.<br />
SA produced more electrical energy than Italy, as much crude steel as
France, more wheat than Canada, more wool than the US, more wine than
Greece and more fish than Great Britain.<br /> South African trains ran on
more rail lines than in West Germany, carried more passengers than
Switzerland, have better punctuality record than Austria and exported
car parts to 100 countries.<br /> SA mines bore down to the depth of 3,480
meters and holds the record for the deepest vertical shaft at 2,498m
deep into the hardest rock in the world.<br /> They were accused by the world that they were a police state:<br />
In SA 1.4 officers for every 1,000 people while the world is as
follows: UK 2.2, Israel 3.5, New York 4.3, and Moscow 10 per 1000. In
South Africa there were 16,292 white policemen versus 19 177 non-white.</span><br />
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They were accused of killing their political offenders:<br />
In 1979-1980 there were no deaths in SA prisons. In the previous 10
years 37 died versus 274 in the same period in Wales and England.<br />
They were accused that they payed starvation wages:<br />
In 1974, the average monthly income of black workers in South Africa
were $ 127 versus the $ 140 in the US, the richest country in the world.<br />
They were accused that they locked up thousands of political prisoners:<br /> In 1983, 127 such prisoners are confined in SA and 11 whose movements were limited. A further 32 were under house arrest.</div>
Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-51621775885176582512016-12-27T07:46:00.003-08:002016-12-27T07:46:45.995-08:00Blaming Verwoerd for what the British didBELOW THE FACTS THAT MOST SOUTH AFRICANS DON'T KNOW. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER <br />
“APARTHEID”- <br />
THE BIGGEST BRITISH LIE EVER ATTRIBUTED TO VERWOERD <br />
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"“Apartheid”– that evil term the British press so gleefully attributed
to Hendrik Verwoerd as the “father/architect of “Apartheid” – and that
“system” Jacob Zuma and his “poor disadvantaged” blacks so much blame
whites in South Africa for in fact was a creation and brain child of
these SAME British pestilences to shift the blame of their own evil
creation onto a very innocent ,intelligent man – and an excellent
leader. <br />
Let us explain:<br />
Hendrik French Verwoerd was born in 1893 – got that? He passed away by the hands of the Zionist banking assassins in 1966.<br />
In the year of 1809 the NATIVE PASS LAW of the BRITISH government at
the Cape of Good Hope compelled black people to carry a pass book.
(Verwoerd was not even born yet.)<br />
In 1865 the British born Sir
Theophilis Shepstone PROHIBITED blacks in the province of Natalia to
have any voting power.(Verwoerd still was not even born yet)<br />
In
1894 Cecil John Rhodes PREVENTED a colored man- one Krom Hendriks– to
join the national cricket tour to England.(Verwoerd was 1 year old.)<br />
In 1905 Rhodes COMPELLED schools in the Cape Province to SEPARATE white British and black people.(Verwoerd was 12 years old)<br />
In 1913 the British NATIVE LAND ACT 2 prohibited black people to own land.(Verwoerd was 20 years old and still a student)<br />
In 1925 British minister HW Sampson promulgated the act on Labor
Demarcation to divide whites and blacks.( Verwoerd was 32 and not a
politician yet)<br />
In 1927 the Immorality Act was promulgated in
British controlled Natal to prohibit intimacy between black and
white.(Verwoerd was 34 and still not into politics)<br />
In 1936
SEPARATE representation in parliament was promulgated by none other than
liberal British minion Genl. Jan Smuts.( Verwoerd was 43 – an editor of
a newspaper and not in politics yet)<br />
In 1945 the Native Urban
Area Act prohibited blacks to stay for longer than 72 hours in a white
urban area.( Verwoerd only then -at the age of 52- start into politics
but had no portfolio to take any decision in parliament yet.)<br />
Lastly the term “Apartheid” was not even used by Verwoerd first- but factually by Dr. DF Malan.<br />
It is quite interesting to take note- that in the year of 1966 when the
great man- Hendrik Verwoerd- was murdered- South Africa experienced the
healthiest prosperity unknown in South African history. The inflation
rate was only 2% and the national growth 7.9%. Verwoerd was deliberately
assassinated by the Zionist banking fraternity and the Oppenheimer and
Rupert clans to get access to South Africa’s minerals and substantiate a
central banking system to control South Africa’s finances and start the
first and biggest loan-sharking venture on South African soil- of which
Verwoerd was a stern opponent of. <br /> Today more than 80% of all South Africans suffer under debt captivation. Verwoerd’s fears were well substantiated.<br />
“Apartheid”<br />
This strong position was achieved by Dr Verwoerd under a policy of
separate development -then dubbed “apartheid. “The living standards
ofblacks were rising at 5,4% per year against that of the Whites at 3,9%
per year. In 1965 the economic growth rate was the second highest in
the world at 7,9%. The rate of inflation was 2% per annum and the prime
interest rate 3% per annum. Domestic savings were so great that South
Africa needed no foreign loans for normal economic expansion.A few
months before the assassination, the editor of the British periodical
Statist,Paul Bareau, wrote: “At the rate at which South Africa is now
expanding the term ‘miracle’ is likely to be appropriate to its
development over the next few years”. So, the expectations were that in
‘the next few years South Africa, under a policy of separate development
(apartheid), would be in a very strong position against any economic or
military threat.<br />
THIS LIBERAL NEWSPAPER SUBSTANTIATE THE FACT
THAT THE OPPENHEIMER/RUPERTAND THE LIBERAL CLANS WERE BEHIND VERWOERD’S
ASSASSINATION. DE KLERK ALREADY WAS BEGINNING TO GET GROOMED TO HAND
OVER SOUTH AFRICA.<br />
His view then was that South Africans will be
impoverished by debt if a central banking system ever will be allowed.
This is PRECISELY what happened and South Africa currently are so deep
in debt with a mere 1.7% growth rate and inflation rate of close to 14%
that the scrupulous ANC regime have to make MORE debt from the Zionist
loan sharks in order to pay off PREVIOUS debt….the spiral to decay just
continuous…JUST as Verwoerd warned. If the poor illiterate South
Africans paid more attention to their school classes- and less running
around like hooligans in the streets with their “ Liberation before
Education” slogans while they burn their schools to ashes- maybe then
the likes of thugs like Jacob Zumawould never have entered the political
scene and turned South Africa in yet another 3rd world slum.<br />
-AND HERE IS THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH WHY VERWOERD AND AFRIKANER NATIONALISM HAD TO GO…<br />
So- now we have all their British Zionist conspiracies in a nutshell as to WHY Verwoerd HAD to be blamed for “Apartheid.”<br />
<br />
UNFORTUNATELY the British press already shifted their evil “Apartheid”
creation onto Verwoerd and brain-washed the illiterate black masses (
and the complacent ill-informed international world) for 40 years into
believing that it was Verwoerd who was the father of “Apartheid”– and
keep their bank-rolled lap dogs in the ANC advocating this evil lie on a
permanent basis- just in order to keep the division between black and
white so-that the British corporate thugs can proceed to plunder our
resources and state coffers.Today- under the British created
“Democracy“- reversed “Apartheid” is MUCH worse then “Apartheid” itself
ever was- with more than 119 racist laws created against white
Afrikaners. Yet ‘n stupefied hippocratic British and local media- as
well as the international world- all have deliberate attacks of
laryngitis.<br />
THE UNJUST DEMONIZATION OF VERWOERD BY THE BRITISH
PRESS- ALL A CONSPIRACY BY THE BRITISH COMMUNIST ELITE TO OUST HIM IN
EXCHANGE FOR MONEY RACKETEERING AND CONTROL OVER MINERALS.<br />
OLD BRITISH DISTORTED MEDIA ATTACK ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICIES (pics below)<br />
EVEN THE LOCAL CARTOONISTS TODAY STILL PURSUE THAT AGE OLD DEMONIZATION TACTICS OF VERWOERD.<br />
HERE COMES THE WORST LIE OF ALL: VERWOERD THE “ARCHITECT” OF APARTHEID:<br />
It is ironic that Verwoerd today is branded as a” racist ” when he was
the only member of NP government in the 1950s who, as far as I know, is
on record explicitly rejecting racist assumptions. In his class notes,
as Professor of Sociology at the University of Stellenbosch between 1927
and 1936, he dismissed the idea of biological differences among the
‘big races’, adding that because there were no differences, “this was
not really a factor in the development of a higher civilization by the
Caucasian race.” He also rejected the notion of different innate
abilities. He observed that what appeared to be differences in skills in
the case of Europeans and Africans were simply differences in culture
due to historical experience.<br />
In the first few weeks of his term
as Minister of Native Affairs Verwoerd made an astounding proposal,
which historians surprisingly have ignored. It shows that he initially
did not intend to limit opportunities for blacks to do advance jobs to
the homelands. Verwoerd became Minister for Native Affairs on 19 October
1950, and six weeks later, on 5 December had a meeting took place at
his request with the members of the Native Representative Council, which
included several leading ANC members. Stating that he expected large
numbers of blacks to remain in the big cities for many years, he
announced that government planned to give blacks ‘the greatest possible
measure of self-government’ in these urban areas. All the work in these
townships would have to be done by their own people, enabling blacks to
pursue ‘a full life of work and service.’<br />
For this reason,
Verwoerd continued, blacks had to be educated to be sufficiently
competent in many spheres, the only qualification being that they would
have to place their development and their knowledge exclusively at the
service of their own people. Verwoerd invited the NRC members to meet
him after the session for a ‘comprehensive interview’ about these
matters and to put forward proposals, offering a prompt reply from
government to their representations.<br />
This was a fateful turning
point in South African politics. A new field for black politics could
have been opened up if this offer had been accepted,particularly if it
set in motion a political process that could have entailed talks between
government and the urban black leadership on the election of urban
black councils, the formula for the allocation of revenue, the staffing
of the local councils’ bureaucracy, property ownership and opportunities
for black business. It would have opened up a whole new area for the
development of black managerial and administrative capacity, something
that country would sorely lack when whites handed over power in 1994.<br />
SO– just WHO was the “architects” and founding fathers of “Apartheid” then?<br />
“Apartheid” was created specifically- and still are kept well and
alive by these same despots to ram a “guilty” complex down the white
Afrikaner’s throat on a daily basis. <br />
The Afrikaner are psi-opsed
to understand he has no rights no more- and deserve nothing-must feel
ashamed of his white skin not to be called a “racist“- and must at a
constant basis look after the well being of the black because of the ”
inequities” of the past- thus for the next 20 years he still must be a
submissive slave to the British Jew and black “disadvantaged” parasite
that keep on living on state grants supplied by Zuma and his corrupt ilk
as long as that black parasite keep on voting the ANC into power with
his stomach. It is high time the damn ignorant and stupid South
Africans wake up , get their facts straight and start to study more
real history and less British and ANC communist propaganda. <br />
Maybe blacks should try reading history books for a change to get more
enlightened- and whites stop being such lame-duck bed-wetters and “
humble” pathetic bum nuggets of the devastating media, the “church “ –
and the illiterate ever demanding majority."</div>
Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-53772998745996898972016-02-29T04:18:00.000-08:002016-08-22T17:22:54.613-07:00The Shocking Truth About RacismNot my words.<br /><br />How Can We Believe You Mr President<br /><br />The Shocking Truth About Racism by Juju Mkize a Top Black Academic At the University Of Cape Town<br />“South Africans are psychologically sick as a result of violence<br />inflicted upon the majority of the country’s people<br />during the apartheid era”, President Jacob Zuma<br />This lie is getting really old! <br /><br />The history of black South Africans has always been that of violence, death and destruction – NOT inflicted upon them by white people in this country. Shaka Zulu, during his 10-year reign butchered more than 2 million black people in South Africa, not counting the deaths during mass tribal migrations to escape his armies. He had his warriors clubbed to death upon the merest sign of weakness. He neither took a legal wife nor fathered a son, for fear that his heir would plot against him, and had his concubines executed if he discovered they were pregnant. When his mother died, he massacred thousands of his subjects so their families would mourn along with him. Shaka retained his throne through the worst kind of sheer terror, vast mass executions, torture and mindless butchery. His brother, Dingane, was no better. He took power after the assassination of Shaka and started his reign by butchering those loyal to Shaka.That,amongst many other horror stories of black-on-black violence, is the history of Black South Africa.<br /><br />2014_1$thumbimg130_Jan_2014_150041963-llDuring the Apartheid years it was not better. Factional fighting and tribal conflict was again the main cause of violence and death amongst black South Africans. During the Apartheid era, from 1948 to 1994, the average life expectancy of black South Africans had risen to 64 years, on par with Europe’s average life expectancy. Infant death rates had by been reduced from 174 to 55 infant deaths per thousand, higher than Europe’s, but considerably lower than the rest of the African continent’s. The African population in South Africa increased by 50%.<br /><br />Deaths due to political violence during apartheid: 21 000 people died in political violence in South Africa during apartheid of whom 14 000 died during the transition process from 1990 to 1994. This includes SA Defence Force actions, for instance the 600 deaths at Kassinga in Angola during the war in 1978. Of those deaths, the vast majority, 92%, have been primarily due to Africans killing Africans, such as the inter-tribal battles for territory. During the period June 1990 to July 1993 a total of 8580 (92%) of the 9 325 violent deaths during the period June 1990 to July 1993 were caused by Africans killing Africans, or as the news media often calls it, “Black on Black” violence – hostel killings, Inkatha Freedom Party versus ANC killings and taxi and turf war violence.<br /><br />sa_necklaced_burningsThe security forces caused 518 deaths (5.6%) throughout this period. During the transitional period, the primary causes of deaths were not security forces nor white right-wing violence against blacks, but due to “black-on-black necklace murders”, tribal conflict between the ANC-IFP, bombs by the ANC and PAC’s military wings in shopping centers, landmines on farm roads, etc.<br /><br />In this country TODAY (under black rule) as many as 18 000 people are murdered EVERY year. …and those are the official statistics. More than 400 000 people have been murdered in South Africa under ANC rule.<br /><br />The past 20 years have been the most violent in the history of this country since the death of Shaka Zulu…and NONE of it has anything to do with WHITE people or APARTHEID… but I guess if you repeat the lie often enough foreigners actually start believing the drivel coming from your mouth, Mr. Uneducated President !!!”<br /><br />Unfortunately people from all over the world believe the lies you have spread and wrongly blame the Whites for Racism!!<br /><br />– Email Received at our Email Outpost quoting a letter from Juju Mkize SRC president of University Cape TownColyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-25259797197099442512016-01-20T02:06:00.000-08:002016-08-22T17:22:54.634-07:00Black Nations are Failures and Own Worst Enemies: Jamaican Govt. OfficialBlack Nations are Failures and Own Worst Enemies: Jamaican Govt. Official<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Black nations produce nothing, do not pull their weight globally, even in farming, and lag on all metrics—innovation, hard work, sacrifice, production, prosperity, and then use their own performance deficits to blackmail white people for aid, a senior Jamaican government official has said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="africa-poverty1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6516" height="485" src="http://i2.wp.com/newobserveronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/africa-poverty1.jpg?resize=730%2C485" width="730" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Writing in an opinion column in the <em>Jamaica Observer,</em> Dr Franklin Johnston, who serves as the senior adviser to that island-nation’s minister of education, said that this failure to produce anything of value was one of the prime drivers of racism, because “blacks do not count. Why should they when they can’t prosper one of the dozens of nations they rule?” he asked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His column, titled “<a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Racism-thrives-because-black-nations-fail-_19196594" target="_blank">Racism thrives because black nations fail</a>” pointed out that blacks are also highly racist towards all non-blacks of any other race, and employ outrageous double standards in dealing with whites, using the recent police shootings in America of criminal black thugs as an example:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“In Nigeria, blacks just killed 42 blacks and we do not blink, yet we’re rabid when police kill one black youth in the USA,” he wrote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Johnston also dismissed the idea that slavery was the origin of racism. “Some say slavery caused racism. But it is dead, and despite multi-hued slaves, only black racism grows.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He then explained in detail how blacks have racist attitudes towards non-blacks of all hues:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Most ethnic groups are racist to blacks, and we equally so!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Racist Africa expelled Asians (UK took them) as Dom Rep does Haitians today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our racists target Indian, Chinese using derogatory names and belittle their success as “yuh see ‘ow all a dem pack up inna on ‘ouse, an a calaloo and rice dem eat an dem av money; mi haffi eat meat!”</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">He then went on to his main point, that until black nations actually achieve anything of note, they will always automatically be regarded as backward:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The day one black nation has top military, space and nuclear capability, racism goes into immediate remission. Many black nations exist, but none prospers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That slavery is the root of racism or the cause of black poverty is a cleverly crafted subterfuge by lazy-brained blacks; rip-off reparations and back-to-Africa scams.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Racism against “Gooks” died with Japan’s prosperity; the Chinese blew it away with cash and WMDs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">India (remember we dissed Coolie man?) is gone clear with technology, space and nuclear arms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Africa is the only major population to be universally disrespected, even here; why?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They have no prosperous, potential menacing nation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Small Jamaica is up front with big Nigeria as having great potential but mired in ennui, corruption and racism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Black nations fail and this feeds global racism. We are our worst enemies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other races ordered their folks, scientists invented, stole or borrowed technology and got to a point where they could destroy the world—welcome to the head table!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Every black nation is a satrapy. Ours, with the best brand, shames the new world negro; rich, big Nigeria shames itself and black people everywhere!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He concluded by saying that only Africans could end the rest of the world’s view of Africa and black people as backwards:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Blacks can end racism but we will not apply ourselves!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Black nations produce few goods, mainly services—wrong move!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They live off nature’s bounty—tourism, beach, jungle, wild animals; to sing, dance, run, preen on a stage is what we do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blacks do not produce basics—sanitary napkin, car, gun, ship, toilet paper—yet use them with impunity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blacks do not pull their weight globally, even in farming, and lag on all metrics—innovation, hard work, sacrifice, production, prosperity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They suffer for their performance deficits and use it to blackmail white people for aid.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Published here ... <a href="http://newobserveronline.com/black-nations-are-failures-and-own-worst-enemies-jamaican-govt-official/">http://newobserveronline.com/black-nations-are-failures-and-own-worst-enemies-jamaican-govt-official/</a></div>Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688060792609809032.post-27365357798578892712015-12-29T00:44:00.000-08:002016-08-22T17:22:54.655-07:00You are Entitled to Nothing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh5xxv8hm5pZyEQjcGlVlcL1hVgIZDhdDTwFhyphenhyphenkYk2sVgqdYYch0Zg3RW3nekx2L5fagsy1dPlfo-F6km4WSw3HfuClNDZ7yzG59Tpe9n5kAJRD_BC7NoJ6nXVq1yoBDbvzHydvcCfLw/s1600/Ambition_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh5xxv8hm5pZyEQjcGlVlcL1hVgIZDhdDTwFhyphenhyphenkYk2sVgqdYYch0Zg3RW3nekx2L5fagsy1dPlfo-F6km4WSw3HfuClNDZ7yzG59Tpe9n5kAJRD_BC7NoJ6nXVq1yoBDbvzHydvcCfLw/s320/Ambition_01.jpg" width="320" /></a>Let me just make this clear ... I am not pointing at all black people in the country, I am informed enough to know that millions of black South Africans are working hard to make a better life for them and their children and I salute you ... this article is specifically pointed at those black racists that reveal their substandard intellect in the uninformed and purely racist posts they make.<br /> After spending another day reading so many posts by racist black uninformed keyboard warriors ... I feel it is time to say something to them.<br /><br /> You should spend your data on getting yourself better informed instead of surfing Facebook and making idiotic posts.<br /><br /> You may feel strong and powerful when you type your hatred for whites and make threats of how you will kill us all ... but the truth is, you are an uninformed black racist that is worthless to the country. <br /> If you are a civil servant, you are a leech that sucks up tax payers money to finance your lifestyle ... you are a consumer of wealth and not a creator of wealth. You and your fancy clothes mean nothing to the country.<br /><br /> That poor guy in the rural area that sits next to the road, selling wooden ornaments, or the lady selling clay pots is worth more to the country than what you will ever be ... why ... because they create wealth where you, you are a scavenger that eats the taxes that hard working people pay.<br /> And then you turn your uninformed mind to economics and screams that you want the white businesses that is making a profit and is listed on the JSE.<br /><br /> Your uninformed racist mind sees the profits the company makes and you scream .... I WANT THAT ... what your uninformed racist mind do not see is the millions of jobs created and financed by that company ... millions of people that have food on their tables because of that company. No, your tiny black racist mind do not see that ... why ... because you have never worked for yourself and created wealth ... you just suck it up.<br /><br /> Use your data and go and get yourself informed on how many millions of jobs have already been lost because of your racist militant attitude towards business ... but I am afraid your little racist brain cannot do the maths ... why ... because while you are screaming and destroying in the streets, thousands of serious students are getting themselves educated and prepared for the challenges of the modern economy. They will be equipped to meet the demands of industry and you ... you will then one day wake up and realise ... while you were wasting your time many of your countrymen actually advanced beyond your racist little island and you are still nothing.<br /><br /> You scream that the whites have the majority of the JSE under their control ... what your tiny black racist intellect should actually be asking is ... WHERE ARE THE BLACK CAPITALISTS ... you blacks have the advantage of living in a society where black privilege and black entitlement is protected by law .... and yet ... most of you FAIL ... why ... Because education, work ethic and commitment cannot be redistributed.<br /><br /> You black racists need to wake up ... you scream Kill the Whites but your tiny black racist minds do not see that there are almost twice as much illegal immigrants in this country, than whites, protected by your black government and they suck the social services dry without ever paying a single rand of tax. In your communities they own all the small businesses and they run gangs that murder and kill your own people ... but yet ... your racist little black brain screams ... KILL THE WHITES.<br /> I don't hate you ... because generations of hard working ancestors has taught me that hate is a wasted emotion and that I must instead of hating .... focus on working for a better life for my children.<br /> Yes I don't hate you, I also don't want to kill you ... why ... because you and your illegal immigrant neighbors are killing yourselves.<br /><br /> I do feel sorry for you ... why, because the current economic climate and the drought and the wholesale corruption in government is going to make 2016 a very nasty year for consumers. You black racists will not have food on your table, you will not be able to afford it, food prices is going to eat up your income and you will have nothing left to pay for your civil servant salary lifestyle.<br /> Your government has plunged our country into a debt pool that your racist black brain can not understand because you are uninformed. This ANC has driven our once wealthy economy to the brink of bankruptcy ... the day is coming fast that they will fail to pay the International Debt, fail to pay civil servant salaries, fail to pay social grants ... why ... because your racist and militant attitude towards businessmen is destroying the wealth creation machinery of the country and with that goes the tax revenue.<br /><br /> Now your racist mind may ask ... What happens when the state goes bankrupt ... well, use your data and go and look it up. When the IMF steps in to bail a country out ... the first thing they do is close the taps on expenses ... Social Grants, Civil Servants and restrictive laws that prevents economical growth. Now I am sure your little uninformed mind can see what that will mean ... apart from a huge slash in the number of civil servants, all your BEE and Affirmative Action Laws will be out of the window. If you don't believe me ... go ask the Greeks.<br /><br /> This is when your racist uninformed lifestyle is going to crash because suddenly you will no longer have the protection of the ANC and your neighbor that actually have the qualifications will get the job that you have, only because you got your job because you are connected.<br /> I hope this makes you think because 2016 is going to be hell economically, Zuma has trashed our money, the ANC has trashed our economy and you ... you racist black keyboard warrior, you have trashed the future of your children.<br /><br /> Lastly ... do not think for one moment that when you come to kill me that it will be a one sided affair ... I will not allow you to have it all your way, I will fight and I know that many of my workers and many of your neighbors will fight with me because you are the evil scourge that only understands violence and you are the enemy of every decent person living in this country ... and trust me ... you will loose this war that you are calling for.<br /><br /> Now I am done ... and if any of my friends are disturbed by what I have posted here, feel free to use the UNFRIEND option, you are not bound to me by glue or chains.Colyn kook ManKoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05035901890954688482noreply@blogger.com0