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Thursday, 28 January 2010

Potholes : growth industry of SA…

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Champion Pothole R511 To Brits - Just After Crossing N4

Madibeng Pulse, 28 January 2010 - BRITS, North West . Just one Brits resident commuting to Necsa daily from Brits to work and back, has seen eight vehicles with shredded tyres since the beginning of this year due to a vicious pothole just this side of Brits on the R511 near the bridge across the N4. Mr. Olan Mitchell who works at Necsa passes the pothole just after seven on weekday mornings on his way to work and again at about half past four in the afternoon on the way home, writes Dolf Dreyer

The pothole is about 20cm deep and about one metre long, measured parallel to the road, and protrudes just across the yellow line onto the road, and it’s getting bigger. Motorists who are aware of the hazard posed by the pothole, know well enough to steer clear of it, but take heed the unwary, because the pothole is wide and long enough for a wheel to go right into it.

The extent of the damage caused by this hazard lurking on the highway would depend on whether one or two wheels go through it; it is deep enough to affect both tyre and rim. It is literally a matter of taking pot luck with this pothole for the unwary motorist, or for those who are aware of it, but daydream for just a few seconds as they approach it.

Olan Mitchell says because of their widths, the cars most often coming a cropper at the pothole are 4x4 Double Cabs, BMW 5 Series and Land Cruisers and other bigger models. Smaller cars have enough room to give way, but wider cars can’t manoeuvre sideways on the single lane road. As irony would have it, those are the cars fitted with the most expensive tyres, and woe to them who also have mag rims. (MadibengPulse reported about two years ago about the damage to a low slung 5-Series BMW which suffered R14 000 damage when the tyres and mag rims on its left side were destroyed by a pothole on the Kameeldrift road.)

Potholes are normal in Africa
The ‘normal pothole’ being a fact of life peculiar to most of Africa except the Western Cape – one would be satisfied with merely knocking a wheel alignment out of balance, but the pothole in question can cause damage anywhere between a few hundred and thousands of Rands.

Even for those, such as Olan Mitchell, familiar with this stretch of road, knowing about it does not mean that part of the road is safe. Travelling towards Brits on the R511, the road splits into two lanes in each direction just before and over the bridge but it reverts to a single lane shortly afterwards, forcing motorists there to concentrate on the traffic rather than the road. Visibility is also limited because the pothole lies about 10 metres from the top of a rise of the bridge as the R511 crosses the N4 toll road. At night, the situation becomes even more dangerous because of the reduced visibility and interference caused by the lights of oncoming traffic. Needless to say there is also no emergency warning sign, ‘Dangerous pothole ahead!’ Erratic driving either from oncoming or overtaking traffic may force a motorist to swerve left in order to avoid a collision - right into the potholes. There is no room for error. The R511 is a NW provincial road, and considering the state of roads all

over the province, probably considered to be just one more, by the road authorities. As far as is known, the pothole has been there for several months, but motorists using that road regularly would probably say, “Oh, it’s always been there.”

It could be a million Rand pothole
Apart from the risk to life and limb, it is a disturbing exercise to estimate the damage the offending pothole can cause. Assume that Olan Mitchell spends five minutes a day with the pothole in sight as he passes it in each direction, five times a week. Recently returning from the airport and passing the pothole just before nine in the evening, there were two vehicles having their wheels changed after encounters with it. If he has witnessed eight mishaps since starting work after the holidays, a statistician can predict the number of incidents over a year with traffic flowing 24 hours a day 365 days a year. An amateur, and conservative statistician, may predict that on average three incidents a day take place, with damage ranging from relatively minor wheel alignments problems and damaged CV joints, to more serious tyre and rim or undercarriage damage running into a few thousand Rands. Assume further, conservatively, that on average R1 000 damage is caused with each encounter with the pothole, annual damage could make it a R1-million-a-year pothole, perhaps much more. This amounts to good business for the tyre and vehicle repair business, but in saying for motorists it’s a dead loss, one just hopes it’s not literally so.

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Cops under siege from furious Rasta mob

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Jan 28 2010 – SAPS captain S C Marais reports that ‘one often hears the phrase, "too close for comfort" and that is just what happened to two East London drug dog handlers when they managed to escape an attack from a mob of Rastafarian-members in Duncan Village in the Eastern Cape.

Rastafarians use marijuana in their religious rituals.

On 25 January 2010, Inspectors Johan Vosloo and Tim Stockton were following up on information that led them to a house in Duncan Village. Upon arrival, the members informed the occupant of the house that they were following up on information on dagga (marijuana) being stored in the house. The members were given permission to enter and searched the house. They found a small quantity of dagga stached away in the roof of the house and arrested the suspect, Zamikhaya Rala, for possession of dagga.

As the community members outside heard about what had happened they swiftly converged at the house where the suspect was arrested. They threw stones at the house barely missing the members. The members locked the house from the inside in fear that the suspect might escape and that the rest of the community might enter and attack them.

Inspector Vosloo phoned Captain Stephen Marais from Duncan Village to assist them as they were trapped inside the house. Captain Marais mobilised members from his station and on the way called for more reinforcement. When they arrived at the house, the police was met by a crowd of 60 unhappy Rastas who swore at Captain Marais and his team. Some of the members dispersed the crowd, while the members of the Duncan Village Crime Prevention Unit managed to get the two trapped police officials out of the house and they were led to safety. The suspect was charged at the Dunacn Village Police Station and appeared in the East London Magistrates' Court on Tuesdsay for possession of dagga. The commitment by the members in securing the arrest has boosted the image of the SAPS. The community now know that the police are able to stand their ground and that we will not tolerate any inteference in our fight against drug abuse in the area.

Captain S C. Marais Tel (043) 7221461 Cellphone: 082 416 1597 email: ec:duncanvill.comm@saps.org.za http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=18387

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SA police ‘lost’ 5,900+ firearms worth R24m in 3 years…

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What exactly happened to those ‘lost’ SAPS firearms?

Cape Town – SAPS officers managed to ‘lose’ 2,944 firearms at a cost of R16m over a 9-month period in 2009 alone - reporting them either ‘lost’ or ‘stolen’, reports Beeld journalist Lizel Steenkamp. In the previous two years, they lost another 3,000… These facts came to light by the legal purchasing-tender for 4,000 new Beretta-pistols from the state-run ARMSCOR weapons manufacturer in September 2009. Krygkor says the tender for R15,8-m for 4,000 new Berettas costing R3,953 each was awarded to Republic Arms, an arms-dealer in Johannesburg, to replace last year’s ‘lost and stolen’ SAPS sidearms.

South Africa has about 117,000 police officers. They all carry firearms.

The director of Republic Arms Jeffrey Smale confirmed the tender, saying that their deadline for delivery was 15 March – before the start of the next financial year. Democratic Alliance opposition party MP Dianne Kohler Barnard was very critical of the huge replacement costs for the ‘lost’ weaponry, noting that ‘at that price, the management of the SAPS would try and do much more to prevent such losses, but obviously they don’t do much about them’.

During the parliamentary subcommittee for the security portfolio it was also noted that between 1 January to 30 September last year, a total of 2,944 firearms were ‘lost or stolen’.

It’s obviously a pattern: during 2007 and 2008, nearly 3,000 police firearms also somehow ‘ got lost ‘.

Kohler Barnard said it’s clear that the ‘police are unwittingly fuelling the illegal trade in firearms. Who knows where these weapons are funneled and what they will be used for? “ she said. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/64b0796888e84b1d84626f9b5a7c4719/28-01-2010-12-26/Polisie_verloor_R16_m_se_wapens_in_nege_maande

Thousands of firearms destroyed in Northern Cape during arms amnesty

The Northern Cape heeded to the call and destroyed thousands of firearms barely ten days after the Minister of Police announced the Firearms Amnesty. About 70% of the firearms were rifles and 30% were handguns. Several terrifying looking knives also met their fate. Being the weapon of choice in the Northern Cape, trunk loads of knives confiscated during crime prevention operations were also destroyed together with the firearms.http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=18402

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Facts regarding compensation and destruction of firearms during 2010 Amnesty

The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa has reiterated circumstances under which compensation shall not be paid during the current Firearms Amnesty (11 January to 11 April 2010). The conditions of the Amnesty including Government's position on not paying compensation on firearms surrendered for destruction, have been from the start and are continuously and widely publicised. http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=18379

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Albums of murdered Afrikaner-Boers

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Our picture albums of murdered Afrikaners and Boers

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Lone whites targetted by Pretoria gangs warns ISS

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Click to our album of the many Afrikaner-Boer murder victims .. it´s a growing pattern

2010-01-28 – PRETORIA. Top security expert and military analyst Henri Boshoff of the Institute for Security Studies warns of a developing crime-pattern in which lone white Pretoria residents are brutally attacked inside their homes and often cruelly murdered – but who frequently are only found injured and murdered much later.

Dr Boshoff responded to the month’s fourth known attack against a lone Pretoria resident, a 30-year-old Strubenkop woman, who was attacked in her bed, tied up and robbed. Hilda Fourie of Beeld reports that two days earlier, 83-year-old Elsa Blignaut was also found murdered in her bed in Nieuw Muckleneuk suburb. She was asphyxiated with her night-dress and was only discovered a day later by relatives.

Other victims this month were Mrs Katrina van den Bergh (65), murdered in her home in Hermanstad, Pretoria, and 83-year-old Kitty Botha pictured right, of Lyttelton, Centurion. She was beaten to death in her bed and then her house was torched.

Panga attack against Viljoenskroon farm woman

However these attacks are not limited to greater Pretoria only, similar events have been taking place all across the country, for instance the gruesome panga attack against a lone Viljoenskroon farm woman identified only as Theresa, pictured left, who was attacked in her Vermaansdrift, Viljoenskroon homestead, in her bed on January 25. She still remains in very poor condiiton at the Wilmed hospital in Klerksdorp. Nothing was stolen. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1026941238#/photo.php?pid=3098112&id=539439346

And lone female motorists often also are targetted by people who are supposed to protect them, such as on January 2, when a Free State traffic cop had pulled over a female Afrikaans motorist near Viljoenskroon because he wanted a `sexual experience with a white woman’. The terrified woman – a widow – said she felt very trapped and afraid because the man had pulled her car over in a lonely, rural area of the road which was surrounded by maize-fields. After the incident – she was issued with a traffic citation for which she had to pay a fine -- the woman felt so unsafe about lodging a formal complaint of sexual harassment that she wrote a letter to Beeld newspaper, asking whether someone could assist her. The Freedom Front Plus party, which represents the Afrikaner voting community, was asked to assist – and the party has already been in touch with municipal officials about the matter, demanding an investigation into the traffic official’s behaviour, said provincial leader Abrie Oosthuizen. Mr Oosthuizen also expressed concern about other reports regarding such incidents and asked that anyone who has experienced similar problems, to contact them directly. Beeld was unable to obtain formal comment from the municipal officials of Nala, they wrote. http://www.nuus24.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1479/45c49eb92f1d4c49b3e9b5d51b035db6/21-01-2010-09-15/Verkeersman_teister_vrou_glo_seksueel__

Marike de Klerk also was a ´lone murder victim´

Picture right --- And of course the most famous ´lone SA woman´ who was viciously murdered in her high security home while wearing her nightclothes was Mrs Marike de Klerk, divorced wife of Frederick W. de Klerk, the very last Afrikaner president of South Africa and who had officially announced the end of apartheid in 1990. Mrs de Klerk was was cruelly murdered in her lone, high security flat, supposedly by a security guard… at exactly the same time when her husband FW was in Stockholm, Sweden, scheduled to stand on an international podium together with fellow Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela.

Boshoff also said yesterday that ‘there’s reason to worry about people living alone, especially the elderly.’ He also referred to the murder of retired colonel Piet Swemmer, 89, who was bashed to death with a hammer in Waterkloofrif. He also lived alone.

`The largest concern is people who live by themselves, and it’s shocking how many live alone in large houses. Communication with such lone residents is the greatest challenge. Family members and neighbours must start making contact with them on a daily basis, because in many cases they are only found the next day after the attack.’

contacts Police captain Colette Weilbach of the Brooklyn police station has offered to hold a course about security measures and self-defence methods for elderly residents in local churches. She can be contacted at telephone 0 072 286 5610 to get these organised.

contacts Institute for Security Studies, 361 Veale Street, Block D, First Floor, Brooklyn Court, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria. Tel +27 012 346 9500/2 Fax +27 012 346 9570

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also reported by ISS today

Southern Africa Needs to Criminalise Human-Trafficking
by Charles Goredema, Programme Head, Organised Crime & Money Laundering Programme, ISS Cape Town

`On 19 January, the BBC reported the decision of a court in Abu Dhabi to send 13 Syrians, all but one of whom were men, to prison for trafficking Moroccan women to work as prostitutes in the United Arab Emirates. Seven of the men were sentenced to life terms. The five other men and the sole woman defendant were jailed for 10 years each.Available evidence indicates that this did not arise from an isolated event…. Paralels are drawn between the Abu Dhabi trial and similar cases from South Africa. Identifying similariies were:

the deception of the girls into believing that well paid, lawful jobs had been arranged for them in the United Arab Emirates
payment for the trip by a sponsor or sponsors unknown to the girls
the use of a domestic worker, apparently to give ‘peer recommendation’ that the arrangements were legitimate and safe
the ill-treatment, in some cases amounting to torture, of the girls once they found themselves in Abu Dhabi, and
the pressure on the girls to work as prostitutes in order to raise and re-pay the expenses of securing their passage from Morocco.

Large scale movements of migrants from Horn of Africa to southern Africa

We know of large-scale movements of migrants from the Horn of Africa, to the ‘eastern seaboard’ territories of Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique and a proportion travel straight through these countries and end up in South Africa.

Significant numbers of migrants from the Horn of Africa have passed through Swaziland. One is also aware of the transit of large numbers of migrants originating from Pakistan and Bangladesh to South Africa through Botswana.
Some of these migrants divert from the expected trajectory and wind up in Western Europe.

A well-established trend is the movement of Zimbabweans southwards to South Africa and Botswana. So is the southward movement of Mozambicans to South Africa.

The exploitation of young women in street-level sex work in urban South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland is well known. The deployment of boys and young men in cross-border trade on the border between Angola and Namibia has existed for quite a while. In an article published on 18 January, 2010, the Times magazine asserts that ‘…more than 500 mostly small-scale trafficking syndicates — Nigerian, Chinese, Indian and Russian, among others — collude with South African partners, including recruiters and corrupt police officials, to enslave local victims.’http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1952335-2,00.html#ixzz0ddBVKaUi

Southern Africa… stands out as a weak link in confronting human trafficking…

At the level of rhetoric, southern Africa countries maintain a condemnatory attitude to human trafficking. This has not necessarily prompted them to criminalise the practise, or to take complementary steps to ensure that none of them stands out as a weak link in confronting human trafficking. This may well be because of the lack of information on trends and culprits. It appears however that there are ample indicators that certain practices are occurring in the region that should justify the adoption of a more robust response to illegal migration.

In the process, human trafficking, as a by-product of illegal migration, would also be exposed and reduced. The following should be cause for concern:

Collusion between South African public officials

he apparent collusive deals between public officials in gate-keeping positions, such as immigration departments, and sponsors of illegal migration – which facilitates the manipulation of migration regulations. Such evidence should at least prompt the authorities to place immigration departments under tight supervision or security surveillance

Fragile borders

the continuation of fragile borders that can be breached effortlessly… the highly exploitative labour arrangements in the crop-farming agricultural zones in border areas. Studies indicate that the risk of trafficked labour in the livestock farming areas is negligible

High number of temporary migrants from Asia…

the high numbers of migrants from Asian countries residing for short spells in countries such as Botswana and Namibia, apparently while they prepare to move on to intended destination

the high proportion of desperate children among migrant communities

There is no indication that there will be greater speed in the adoption of a framework of measures against illegal migration and/or human trafficking across the region. As a way of getting to a common position, some have advocated the adoption of a regional instrument – in the form of a regional Protocol along the lines of the SADC Protocol against Corruption. The hope is that the ratification processes prompted by the protocol would give impetus to measures to combat human trafficking. There might be merit in this suggestion, but only if it will provoke a discussion that encompasses human trafficking in its comprehensive form; in other words, domestic as well as cross-border forms of human trafficking.

Only a framework against human trafficking that evolves and radiates from the domestic, country-level, to the international sphere is likely to be effective. Such a framework has to find a way of traversing some lingering cultural practices that tend to promote outdated forms of servitude in parts of southern Africa.

At the domestic level, all governments in Southern Africa need to demonstrate political will to combat human trafficking by conducting detailed studies of illegal migration involving their territories, regardless of whether they are sources, transit territories or destinations of migrants. `This was a summary. The entire report can be read on http://www.iss.co.za/index.php?link_id=5&slink_id=9432&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3

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‘Kill Boer” protestors target kids at Bethlehem Afrikaans High School

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Bethlehem ethnic cleansing of Afrikaans schools protest

Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer,’ chanted the black protestors from the Young Communist League, who were gathered at the gates of the Bethlehem, Free State Voortrekker Afrikaans High School on January 28 2010, while ‘handing over a petition’ against the presence of the region’s only remaining Afrikaans-language high school. The chairman of the school’s management committee, Dr Henk Basson, said he was deeply concerned about the hate-speech and the calls for murdering all the whites at the school, and had thus sent the children home early becauses of these threats. “Our school is being turned into a political playing-ball for certain groups’ secret agendas, despite Pres Zuma’s recent plea for quality-education and despite his warnings against politically-motivated protests at schools,’ he said.

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ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe today criticised African National Congress Youth leader Julius Malema's school visits

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Cape Town Du Noon clinic a ‘health hazard’

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Jan 28 2010 - A City of Cape Town health and safety report has revealed that its Du Noon clinic building, which treats more than 5,000 patients a month, is structurally unsound and poses a major risk to patients and staff. A report by senior citty engineers about the health-hazards at the Du Noon clinic was leaked to the Cape Argus It warned that the clinic’s poor ventilation exposed people to deadly infectious diseases such as (drug-resistant) Tuberculosis, which is rife in South Africa. The clinic’s tight working space also increased the risk of accidents such as needle-stick injuries which could infect people with the HI-virus.

Mothers bringing their children in for immunisation are forced to wait in the same room as infected Tuberculosis-patients.

Compiled by a city senior occupational health practitioner, Paul Neal, and other senior engineers, the report was written after an inspection of the clinic last July. The inspection found that the building, constructed and used as a storage facility during the building of government public-housing (RDP houses) in the area, was not only structurally damaged, but that:

There was significant mould on internal and external walls of the clinic due to rising damp and roof leaks. This, combined with poor ventilation, increased the risk of upper respiratory tract infections and bronchial conditions.
The room used for staff meetings and as a kitchen did not comply with the minimum building requirements as stipulated by the SA Bureau of Standards.
The nursing staff are required to perform "intravenous procedures" close to the entrance doors of the antiretroviral and preparation rooms. Mothers were sometimes even forced to change their babies' nappies in a passage leading to this preparation room.

"The confined space in which staff have to perform these high-risk activities... in addition to the added risk of handling infants under such working conditions increases the risk of accidental injury such as needle-stick injuries," the report said. The inspectors also found that staff had left used needles and other medical waste uncovered.There was also a fire risk due to lack of space and improper storage of hazardous and inflammable substances.

A top city official, who declined to be named, described the clinic as a "time bomb".

The clinic saw more than 5,000 people a month, and the numbers of patients needing antiretrovirals had increased more than fivefold in the past five years, the report said. When the Cape Argus visited the clinic yesterday patients also raised concerns about the size of the facility.

Nontobeko Dini said: "I use the clinic for my child's immunisation, but every time we come here we have to sit in the same waiting room as TB patients."

Health Department spokeswoman Faiza Steyn said ‘ the province was negotiating with the national Department of Public Works for a new site for the clinic.’ http://allafrica.com/stories/201001280123.html

Protesting Cape Town nurses , guards injured

27 January 2010, Striking student nurses' night duty nightmare -- ATHLONE, Cape Town. Three student nurses were injured when police hit them with batons, fired stun grenades and rubber bullets during protests against the harrowing working conditions of Western Cape College of Nursing students on Wednesday, Cape Town police said. Police were called in to ‘defuse the situation’ at the college when a standoff between students and security guards turned ugly, they claimed -- with students shattering windows, pelting the guards with stones and spraying the police with water from a fire hose, said Inspector November Filander.

"Five security guards sustained minor injuries when the students attacked them. Three students were also injured," he said. When police got to the scene, "the protest spilled into the streets and it became public violence".

"Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at the students. Nine of them were arrested and will appear in the Athlone Magistrate's Court on Thursday," said Filander. Nehawu spokesman Sizwe Pamla described the "assault of nursing students" as "brutal... unacceptable", saying security guards at the college had assaulted students with batons. "Nehawu is deeply angered and appalled by the assault of nursing students by the private security firm, the Red Jackets and the police. We condemn the violence and the brutality that was meted out to students by the Red Jackets and we demand the student's immediate release (from police holding cells)."

The union blames the management of Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the department of health who have dismally failed to address a myriad of problems which were brought to their attention by the students," Pamla said. He said students boycotted classes on Monday, calling on management and the health department to revise hours they worked during inservice training and for more supervision when they did their training.

"The nursing students work without proper supervision so they feel they are not better equipped when they leave the institution. They also work more hours in hospitals than they should... they feel they are being used to fill up nursing vacancies within the hospitals without any remuneration," said Pamla.

Spokesman for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Thami Nkwanyane said management had decided to close down the Athlone-based nursing college "until further notice because students were disrupting classes".

"Management has been negotiation with the students ever since the whole thing started. We strongly condemn the irresponsible manner in which the students have decided to address this issue because there are proper channels to address such issues," he said.

My comment: However he did not undertake to correct the truly harrowing and unprofessional working conditions which these student-nurses had been complaining about.http://www.capeargus.co.za/?fSectionId=3571&fArticleId=nw20100127171307167C803490

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Ethnic-cleansing of Pretoria name raises ire of Afrikaner ratepayers

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AfriForum civil rights activists have plans ready to oppose the ethnic-cleansing of Pretoria

27 January 2010 – ‘Legal protest actions will be launched before, during and after world cup if the ANC ‘s ethnic-cleansing plan goes ahead…’

The legal team of Afrikaner/Boer civil rights activists of AfriForum is all set to oppose in any law courts the ANC’s one-sided efforts to unilaterally change the name of their beloved city of Pretoria. And this civil rights group, representing the 3-million-strong Afrikaner-and Boer minority’s pride in their their historic capitol city, says they will also launch ‘major protest actions before, during and after the World Cup Soccer Tournament if the name were to be changed.’

Pretoria 'whites’ pay 80% of all city rates -- and 90% of all the city’s municipal service costs…

Background: The Afrikaners represent the single-largest group of ratepayers in greater Pretoria and together with English-speaking white ratepayers, also contribute more than 80% of the municipality’s entire annual budgetary income. These ‘whites’ also subsidise most of the city’s service-delivery -- with the black residents, while consuming more than 70% of all of the city’s water-, electricity- and sewerage reticulation services; only pay 10% of their own electricity bills and 12% of their own water- and sewerage reticulation bills. The ANC provides most of these services for free to the country’s black residents in order to buy their votes: White ratepayers subsidising black Pretoria dwellers

AfriForum's reaction follows in response to the news report that the ANC in Pretoria has started secret discussions with the Jacob Zuma government to have the name of Pretoria changed before the World Cup Soccer Tournament – despite the ongoing, and massive opposition from all the Afrikaans ratepayers.

Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, says the ANC ‘s move to ethnically-cleanse the name of Pretoria off the South African map before the World Cup 2010 tourists start arriving, does not comply with the legal requirements for public participation. "The courts have already ruled on the same grounds that the town of Louis Trichardt's name-change process was invalid -- and AfriForum will ensure that the same will happen to any effort to change the name of Pretoria too," Kriel added.

Afrikaners are ‘emotionally and culturally bound to Pretoria’

Kriel emphasised that the fact that in November 2009, some 30,000 people attended a protest gathering organised by AfriForum to muster support for the retention of the name of Pretoria – proving that people feel strongly about keeping the name.

Many supporters of the name Pretoria ‘feel emotionally and culturally bound to the name and regard efforts to change the name as an act of cultural aggression. "A country characterised by sensitive intergroup relationships, as is the case in South Africa, cannot afford the polarisation caused by the Pretoria dispute - not now, neither during the World Cup Soccer Tournament, nor thereafter," Kriel said.

AfriForum has, Kriel added, already sent urgent missives to the President and the Minister of Arts and Culture, asking Government not to agree to the name change.

AfriForum instead is in favour of a win-win solution, in terms of which the Metropolitan Council's name will be Tshwane and the city's name will still remain Pretoria.Statement issued by Kallie Kriel, AfriForum CEO, January 27 2010 http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=157624&sn=Marketingweb_detail

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The 4-million combined Afrikaner/Boer and other ‘white’ minorities pay 40% of all the country’s rates and taxes, and are clustered mostly in these mapped areas of South Africa below:

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Greater Pretoria:

Orange colour above indicate ‘white’ majority, which includes English-speaking whites of ethnic-European and UK-origin

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Gauteng:

legend: the beige areas represent ‘white’ provincial ratepayers

http://www.praag.co.za/anton-barnard-magazine-177/7080-waar-die-afrikaners-woon.html

East Rand

legends above and below: orange indicates the ‘white ratepayers’ clusters … ‘white’ is the governmen definition for both the Afrikaner/boer minority and the often wealthier English-speaking South Africans of ethnic-european descent: such as UK, Greek, Portuguese, and Greater-European origins… The South African government’s definition of ‘black’ on these specific two maps is indicated as ‘black-African’ –-- however usually the ANC-regime’s legal definition of ‘black’ indicates ‘ALL peoples of colour’ – including creole-South Africans; first-nation Khoi-San tribes, Indian-South Africans and Chinese immigrants – all lumped together with black-tribal Africans…

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Greater Cape Town

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NORTHERN CAPE – INCLUDING AFRIKANER ENCLAVE ORANIA

The majority population group clusters in the arid Northern Cape are ‘white’ taxpayers and ‘coloured’ Afrikaans-speakers - the latter are mixed-race, primarily Khoi-San first-nation origin and most earn non-taxable lower-scale incomes.