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Under-12 US girl soccer team tours South Africa
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This past soccer season was a season unlike any other for a group of Falls Church girls in Virginia, USA. They won an 8-day tour of South Africa with a dancing-video competition from South African Tourism. The girls are taking their trip in late March.
The under-twelve girls of the ‘97-fusion” travel-soccer team of Virginia are leaving late March in a 8-day trip of South Africa as the winners in the South African Tourism board’s dancing video competition to promote the World Cup 2010 football cup. The 14 young girls will take their trip in late March.
Kathleen Donovan, MEHMS PTA President, writes:
- Mon, 22 Mar 2010: Congratulations to MEHMS 6th Grade Soccer Players
- As we prepare for spring break this week, four of our 6th grade girls are anticipating a very special trip. Rebecca Davis, Clara Frost, Ella Howard and Annie Washa are members of a travel soccer team that won a "diski dance" competition and a trip to South Africa! The "Diski" (South African township term for soccer) is a special dance created for the FIFA 2010 World Cup which will be held this summer in South Africa. The "Diski Dance" is made up of five soccer movements, intended to simulate the energy and feel of players in a soccer game. South African Tourism, which sponsored the competition,
invited teams to submit videotaped interpretations of the dance. The girls spent hours learning and practicing the "Diski", and won first place in the competition. You can check out the girls' winning "diski dance" submission at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLg98m1NzNE&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=6...
“At the beginning I thought ‘we won’t win,’ said 11-year-old Rebecca Davis of Falls Church City interviewed by the Falls Church Times. The dance moves also “seemed a bit odd at first,” she said. “But as we practiced we got to the point we could even do it without the music.” When she learned through a text message that her team had won, she screamed. “I then called a teammate,” Davis recalled, “and my teammate was so happy she started crying.”
Stacey King, the team’s coach, learned of the competition in mid-October while perusing the U.S. Youth Soccer Association web site. The contest criteria (to submit about one minute of video, for instance, and to use a specific soundtrack) were simple, and the challenge of working creatively with the dance’s five main moves was enticing. Together, she and the girls and their parents watched a brief South African video demonstration of the Diski’s five main dance moves, and discussed the hours of teamwork and energy that would be required if they were to stand a chance of winning the competition.The girls and their families promised their commitment and gave King input about moves and scenes to include and not include in the video.
From then on, through early December, the team practiced for two hours every week, immediately after their team training sessions.
They also practiced for several hours between the games of a fall tournament, in a nearby gym that a parent had arranged to use.
And when it came time to film, they met four times in various locations, including during the snowfall on December 5 and in Washington, D.C., in front of the Lincoln Memorial and in the shadows of the Washington Monument.
“Everybody made it work,” said King. “The parents helped with arranging locations to practice, with filming and editing and other ideas, and with grabbing coats and supplies, and the girls never complained — they were always excited.“It was a complete and total team effort,” she said.
Evelyn Loeb, Rebecca’s mother and the parent manager of the team, said the girls were so committed to the project that when King came down with the flu before one of the last scheduled soccer/Diski dance practices, “the girls carried it through on their own, directing and going through everything themselves.”
The team’s goal, said King, was for the progression of scenes in the video to represent “the flow and feel” of an international soccer game.
“And I wanted to make sure we represented the feel and culture of South Africa as best we could,” she said. Viewers hear the South African national anthem at the beginning and see a team photo mimicking the typical “starting 11” photo taken at major games as well as a kick-off. One scene simulates the often underappreciated role of the goalkeeper, King notes, and almost everything in the dance is done as if each girl has or is about to make contact with a ball.
The video includes a photo of a red “vuvuzela,” a stadium horn commonly blown by fans at South African matches, and shots of the girls sporting the colors of the South African national team (as well as the pattern of the South African flag on their faces).
Almost all of the girls on ’97 Fusion have played together under King’s direction for 2 ½ years.
In addition to Davis, three of the players — Clara Frost, Ella Howard and Annie Washa — are students at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in Falls Church City. The other girls attend schools in the greater Falls Church area and nearby areas. Their website: http://www.fccps.org/meh/
Kathleen Donovan, MEHMS PTA President, writes:
- Datum: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Onderwerp: Congratulations to MEHMS 6th Grade Soccer Players
- As we prepare for spring break this week, four of our 6th grade girls are anticipating a very special trip. Rebecca Davis, Clara Frost, Ella Howard and Annie Washa are members of a travel soccer team that won a "diski dance" competition and a trip to South Africa! The "Diski" (South African township term for soccer) is a special dance created for the FIFA 2010 World Cup which will be held this summer in South Africa. The "Diski Dance" is made up of five soccer movements, intended to simulate the energy and feel of players in a soccer game. South African Tourism, which sponsored the competition,
invited teams to submit videotaped interpretations of the dance. The girls spent hours learning and practicing the "Diski", and won first place in the competition. You can check out the girls' winning "diski dance" submission at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLg98m1NzNE&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=6...
The girls will visit Cape Town and Johannesburg (including Soweto township, where they will visit a school), and will play a game against a South African youth soccer team. As part of their prize, each girl will be accompanied by one parent. In several cases, King said, entire families have decided to come along.
South African Tourism partnered for the competition with the U.S. Youth Soccer Association, South African Airways, and Coca-Cola, a World Cup sponsor.
The competition garnered entries from all over the United States. http://fallschurchtimes.com/category/sports/soccer-sports/
Contact information, Parent-Teachers Assocation, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School
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SA’s twin-killers: drug-resistant TB plus HIV… together
Experts warn co-epidemic of drug-resistant TB-plus HIV ‘ could spiral out of control’
CAPE TOWN, South Africa. The high incidence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa – often co-infected with HIV -- are increasing “at an alarming rate, and if case detection and adherence to treatment are not heightened urgently, the figures could spiral out of control”, the city's TB experts have warned.
Sipokazi Maposa of the Argus newspaper in Cape Town reports that the warnings were issued by Professor Harry Hausler of the TB/HIV Care Association and by Ivan Anthony, chair of the SA National Tuberculosis Association..
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He warned said “the devastation with which TB and HIV acted in unison meant that anyone involved in the fight against these infectious diseases must team up.” Hausler also warned that the numbers of drug-resistant TB were substantially higher because many remain undiagnosed – posing a severe public health threat…
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) figures released this week, out of2008’s new 400,000 multi-drug-resistant (MDR) cases worldwide -- about 13,000 were recorded in South Africa alone: and the Western Cape had registered more than 1,000 new cases of MDR and extreme-drug resistant (XDR) in the past two years, bringing the figures to more than 2,000 diagnosed cases.
- Last year 1 127 new cases of MDR and XDR TB together were registered in the province. In 2008, a total of 882 MDR patients were on treatment. Last year, that figure rose to 921. Also worrying was that at least 9 percent of all TB patients in the Western Cape had defaulted on treatment.
Hausler said the figures of drug-resistant TB could be even higher - he believed that a substantial number remained undiagnosed, posing a public health threat.He said though many more cases were now reported from laboratories, “ these were not necessarily registered because patients had either died or moved before they received laboratory results.”
The WHO's latest figures, for instance, showed that there were about 13 000 MDR cases in the country and less than half of these, 6 219, were notified. Hausler said drug-resistant TB had placed a burden on health services because it is 50 times more expensive to treat than normal TB.
He said the country needed to use the World Cup to "kick TB out of South Africa". "The attention, energy, and enthusiasm linked to this event must be harnessed to educate and motivate people to protect their health. Non-governmental organisations and civil society need to be recognised as true partners and be consulted in the development of plans as well as their implementation."
The terrible twins – TB plus HIV co-infection:
Ivan Anthony, the chairman of the SA National Tuberculosis Association (Santa), described TB and HIV and Aids as "terrible twins" that were silent killers in the country."We believe that the only way to deal with TB and HIV is working in collaboration with one another as government and civil society, instead of working in isolation."We need to mobilise communities and empower them with education too in order to de-stigmatise the disease.
"If we don't do this soon the fight will be lost. If we are to improve adherence to TB and HIV treatment, we need a patient-centred approach where communities are able to embrace TB sufferers and understand that they didn't commit crime by contracting TB," said Anthony.
As part of TB Month, organisations such as TB/HIV Care Association, Santa, TB Free and The TB Alliance Dots Support Association, will be taking part in an Olympic relay ending in Cape Town this weekend. A torch, representing the burning issue of TB, which was lit in Polokwane last month and taken through all nine provinces, is to be handed over to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi at the University of the Western Cape on Saturday. Thursday there will be a march to Thibault Square in the CBD, where Health MEC Theuns Botha is set to receive a memorandum. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003240984.html
11 February 2010
XDR-TB epidemic spreads in South Africa by shared hospital wards and workplaces…
Deadly, extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is still emerging in SA “because of delays in diagnosis, sub-optimal treatment and poor infection control”-- not because patients fail to adhere to their drugs-regimen, a newly published study of XDR TB cases in a North West gold mine notes.
Keith Alcoln of AIDSMAP in the UK quotes from the latest study examining 128 gold-miners with drug-resistant TB at a single gold mine in North West province between January 2003 and November 2005… i.e. before the outbreak of XDR-TB in Tugela Ferry, KZN.
In South Africa, many people now reportedly die of the co-infection of multiple-drug-resistant Tuberculosis together with AIDS – often within 32 days of diagnosis.
Previous reports have always claimed that patients developed drug-resistance because they did not adhere to the drugs-regimen.
However this new study shows that developing drug-resistance is not primarily the patient’s fault – they show that despite the high 85% cure-rate of ‘common’ TB at the West Vaal hospital (and also at Tugela Ferry), the poor infection controls by the SA health authorities themselves are causing the rapid spread of the deadly epidemic. It now has become the main cause of death in the country since it was first diagnosed in 2005.
South Africa shows the fastest rate of XDR-TB infection – however it is found in many other countries and is spreading even to countries with excellent TB-control: it has lately been identified among Eastern European migrants in the Netherlands, with 12 incurable cases in 2009; in France HIV-infected African migrants are the primary group being hit hard by TB co-infection – and the resulting multiple-drug-resistance is nearly incurable with existing drugs, these health authorities warn. The best way to control this airborne very infectious bacterial disease is to try and prevent it in the first place.
‘A cure rate above 85% – yet new cases of drug-resistant TB were still growing:’
The study by the US Centers for Disease Control ‘s online journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, noted that although the gold mine had achieved a cure rate above 85% in the treatment of new smear-positive ‘normal’ TB cases by 2001 using DOT treatment -- new cases still continued to rise and importantly, the cases of drug-resistant TB were also still growing.
Investigators from Stellenbosch University, Harvard University School of Public Health and West Vaal Hospital identified 128 drug-resistant TB cases among the 3,003 new TB cases notified at the gold mine’s hospital (West Vaal). Eighty-four also were co-infected with HIV, seven were HIV-negative and the remainder had an unknown HIV status (in South Africa patients are allowed to refuse HIV-testing under the privacy-law).
- Sixty-two per cent of those with MDR TB had a CD4 count below 200, indicating advanced HIV infection, but only 8% were already receiving antiretroviral therapy at the time of MDR TB diagnosis.
35% of these patients died, only 31% of those who were diagnosed with MDR TB were cured with the remainder still receiving treatment at the time of the analysis at the end of November 2005. However the cure-rates for MDR-TB are less than 2% in South Africa and in the KZN outbreak it was found that 95% of the patients who had advanced to incurable XDR-TB died within 32 days. Very likely all these gold-mine workers in the test-programme have died by now.
- The investigators calculated that 71% of these patients had acquired drug-resistant TB from another patient.
In the largest cluster of 42 patients, three-quarters of patients had been hospitalised for non-MDR TB in a general TB ward at the same time as another patient in the cluster was admitted to the hospital with Multiple-drug-resistant-TB care.
- Since all patients with TB received care on the same ward until diagnosed with MDR TB, it is not hard to see how such a large cluster could have emerged within a single facility, the researchers noted.
In addition 92% of MDR TB patients in the cluster had worked in the same mine shaft as another person in the same MDR TB cluster, and 85% lived in the same dormitory as another MDR TB case prior to diagnosis. Fifty-nine per cent of MDR TB patients in any cluster had a previous history of TB treatment.
The authors make a number of recommendations for curtailing the spread of MDR TB within South African hospitals and workplaces:
- Better infection control measures on general wards, outpatient waiting areas and TB wards.
- Ensure that everyone who is eligible for antiretroviral therapy is getting it, in order to reduce the number of individuals susceptible to developing active TB.
- Greater efforts to identify infectious cases through intensified case finding, active screening and improved education about TB symptoms.
- More frequent sputum smear examinations to identify infectious cases, and more frequent culture-based diagnosis to identify cases before they become infectious.
- Development and implementation of rapid drug susceptibility testing in order to identify MDR cases, plan appropriate treatment and separate from susceptible patients.
HALF OF ADULT HOUSEHOLD CONTACTS OF DRUG-RESISTANT TB in KZN SPREAD BY FAMILY MEMBERS
Approximately half of adult household contacts of drug resistant TB cases had resistance profiles that differed from the index case of TB, according to a presentation given by Dr. Tony Moll at the 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cancún, Mexico.
“This discrepancy between drug resistance in index cases and their household contacts suggests community spread of MDR- and XDR-TB,” Dr. Tony Moll of the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa, told the conference. http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/A944FD07-8DDC-4AD3-B5B0-9E55FC3D2D5A.asp
The household contact tracing study was conducted in Msinga, a rural sub-district of KwaZulu Natal, where the annual TB case rate is 1,000 per 100,000 population and about 75% of TB patients are also infected with HIV.
- Since 2005, 852 drug resistant TB cases have been identified. Of these, 43% of these have been multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB), and 57% extensively resistant (or XDR-TB).
Methods
In a four-year period from 2005-2008, the homes of each index case of multi- and extensively resistant TB cases were visited an average of 2-3 times, and every adult contact within the household was screened for TB (the study excluded children under the age of 13 due to the difficulty in diagnosing pulmonary TB in young children). A TB symptom history was conducted; sputa were collected on all sputum producers, and a chest X-ray was obtained for each adult contacts with productive cough or other signs and symptoms of tuberculosis. A physician evaluated each TB suspect.
Results
There were 711 index cases. Of these, 306 persons were identified as having MDR-TB: household contact tracing was possible in 255 (83%) of these cases but only 221 (72%) were included in the final analysis (some were excluded because there were no adults available for evaluation or missing data).
The remaining 405 index cases had XDR-TB: 333 (82%) of their households were traced, with 287 (71%) were included in the analysis. In all, 508 households were included in the study.
81% of the cases died within 32 days…
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of index cases were sputum smear-positive but only 50% had a previous history of TB, indicating transmission of already resistant strains in the 50% presenting with their first episode of TB. Eighty-one percent of index cases died with a median survival of only 32 days. http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/A944FD07-8DDC-4AD3-B5B0-9E55FC3D2D5A.asp
There were 1059 adult household contacts among the MDR-TB cases: 793 (75%) were screened for respiratory symptoms and 773 (97%) provided sputum sample for culture and drug sensitivity testing.
- Among the 1372 household contacts of XDR-TB cases, 973 (71%) were available for screening and 940 (97%) provided sputum sample for culture and drug sensitivity testing (DST). In all, complete data was available for 1713 adult household contacts identified.
- A median of 79 days passed from sputum collection of the index case to identification of household contacts, although the time for the actual household contact tracing was usually within a week of the diagnosis of drug resistant TB in the index case. The delay in susceptibility testing prolonged the period of time during which household contacts were exposed to the drug-resistant TB case.
Contact tracing identified cases of TB in 55 (11%) households. Of these, 47 households had only one TB case, 14 had two cases and 1 household had 3 cases.
Although survival was better for household contacts compared to index cases, there was still significant mortality (14% of MDR-TB and 52% of XDR TB household cases, respectively) within the median 506 day follow-up period.
Notably about half of the household contact TB cases had DST results that were discordant from the household’s index case, suggesting possible transmission in other community settings. The spread of resistant TB within the community needs further investigation.
Limitations of the study included unknown HIV status on most household contacts, so there was no control for HIV infection in the comparison of outcomes in the survivors and index patients. The study considered only household contacts and not other casual or close contacts. The investigation provides a minimum estimate of the household contacts, as they were not able to find each household contact.
Discussion
Further studies are needed to examine prevention control at the household level. “This study underlies the need for earlier diagnosis, particularly in this setting where the mortality is so high in the index cases,” stated Dr. Tony Moll, the study investigator.
Today, the TB cure rate is 83% in Msinga and the default rate 0%. There are dedicated tracing teams to investigate households of resistant cases. The study team hopes to extend the household tracing to children and report on those results in a future meeting.http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/A944FD07-8DDC-4AD3-B5B0-9E55FC3D2D5A.asp
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SOURCE REFERENCES:
Reference Moll A et al. Results of contact investigation and follow-up of contacts of MDR-TB and XDR-TB patients in Kwazulu-Natal. 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health, Cancún, Mexico, 2009. Reference Calver AD et al. Emergence of increased resistance and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis despite treatment adherence, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases 16 (2): 264-271, 2010. http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/D41DCB96-4856-4F88-B8E8-71512F289403.asp AND http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/A944FD07-8DDC-4AD3-B5B0-9E55FC3D2D5A.asp
High TB-rates in France amongst HIV+ migrants from sub-Saharan countries: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) amongst HIV-positive patients in France doubled between 1997 and 2008, investigators report in the January 28th edition of AIDS. During this period there was a particularly large increase in TB incidence among HIV-positive migrants, especially those from sub-Saharan Africa. A low CD4 cell count and a high viral load were risk factors for TB, and a large number of patients were diagnosed with HIV and TB at the same time. Treatment with anti-HIV drugs was associated with a lower risk of TB. The researchers believe that such findings warrant “the co-prescription of TB-preventative therapy and combination antiretroviral therapy for severely immunodepressed high-risk patients such as migrants and socially excluded patients”. Many of the cases of TB diagnosed amongst patients with HIV in France and similar countries are among migrants from countries with a high TB prevalence. French investigators designed a prospective study involving 72,580 HIV-positive adults who received care between January 1997 and December 2008. The proportion of patients who were migrants increased from 9% in 1997 to 29% in 2008. By this time 21% of all patients were from sub-Saharan Africa. A total of 2625 patients were diagnosed with TB. A little over a third (36%) of these had their TB and HIV diagnosed at the same time. During the period of analysis, overall TB incidence increased from 0.69 per 100 person years in 1997 to 1.39 per 100 person years in 2008. Incidence of TB amongst migrants was approximately twice that seen in non-migrants. In both groups of patients TB incidence increased – by 85% amongst non-migrants and by 151% in migrants. The only group of non-migrant patients in whom TB incidence did not increase significantly (p < 0. 0001) was gay men. When the investigators looked at the risk factors for TB, they found migrants from sub-Saharan Africa had twice the risk of TB compared to HIV-positive individuals born in France (adjusted risk ratio, 2.16; 95% CI, 1.88-2.48). Furthermore, the risk of TB was 83% higher amongst migrants from other regions compared to French-born patients with HIV. Late diagnosis of HIV was associated with an increased risk of TB for both migrants and non-migrants. The risk of TB was highest during the first six months of HIV care, and among patients with lower CD4 cell counts and higher viral loads (p < 0.0001 for all risk factors).
Patients who had been taking combination HIV treatment for at least six months had a 50% lower risk of TB compared to those not taking antiretroviral therapy (p < 0.0001).
Area of residence was also associated with TB risk, and was highest for those living in Paris or the French West Indies. Both these regions have large migrant populations.
“The incidence rates of TB among HIV-infected patients in this study was 40 times higher than those reported among the general population in France and 20 times higher than those reported in the Paris area…confirming that HIV itself is a risk factor for TB”, comment the investigators. In a third of patients, HIV was diagnosed at the same time as TB. “TB continues to reveal HIV in industrialised countries”, write the investigators. Late diagnosis of HIV is a matter of concern in many western European countries, and it is recommended that all patients diagnosed with TB should be offered an HIV test. All groups other than gay men had an increasing incidence of TB. Although the risk of TB fell the longer a patient received HIV treatment, the investigators note that, overall, TB incidence increased. They therefore conclude, “selected patients, such as migrants from highly endemic regions and patients with delayed access to care…might, therefore, benefit from co-prescription of TB-preventative therapy and combination antiretroviral therapy”.
ReferenceAbgrall S et al. HIV-associated tuberculosis and immigration in a high-income country: incidence trends and risk factors in recent years. AIDS 24 (online edition), 2010. http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/8BA43F9B-0FA6-4CA0-A219-77784D20FA50.asp
- HIV-positive African migrants in France hit hard by TB
- Household contact tracing reveals extensive community spread of MDR and XDR TB in South Africa
- http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/01/drug-resistant-tb-patients-died-within.html
- http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/02/dutch-fans-to-wc2010-warned-of-tb.html
- http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2008/09/killer-tb-epidemic-leading-cause-of.html
Black Klerksdorp nurse probed about anti-Boer hatespeech
March 24 2010 – PRAAG. PRETORIA. A black Klerksdorp nurse who allegedly used the name Thato Mbateti Mbateti (a man’s name) is being investigated about the anti-Boer hate-speech message which calls for the genocide of ‘all whites’ - posted on the Facebook page of ANC youth leader Julius Malema. This message has spread amongst the Afrikaner/Boer community like wildfire and has also caused a great deal of fear especially amongst vulnerable white elderly people. VIEW A PICTURE OF THE SUSPECT FACEBOOK MESSAGE
A senior police officer told Dan Roodt of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group that they ‘know who she is and we know she placed the call for blacks to kill all whites and to rape white women on the Facebook page. Unfortunately the investigation is still ongoing and we can’t reveal her identity just yet’.
PRAAG writes on its website that ‘the police officer wants to assure the public that there is no reason for panic. Such attempts to fuel racial hatred is being constantly monitored by the information department of the SAPS – and if there had been any hint of a plot we would act immediately.’
Apparently, PRAAG writes, the police has been flooded with calls from especially white elderly people who are terrified of being attacked. Over the past few days disinformation was also spread in the print media that the call ‘could have been placed by white agents-provocateurs’.
PRAAG writes that ‘the news that a black hospital staffer was responsible for the message can thus be viewed as extraordinary.’ http://www.praag.co.za/nuus-magazine-402/suider-afrika-magazine-400/7607-swart-verpleegster-sit-agter-facebook-haatspraak.html
Other recent anti-Boer hatespeech:
Pictured above is Johannesburg journalist Pakama Ngceni - who was one of the co-founders of the BLACKWASH group's Facebook site.
The Blackwash black-consciousness group's site - together with the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania’s Facebook site (left and above) also allowed a great deal of anti-white hatespeech and these messages even include calls to "Kill all Whites in South Africa.”
The PAC of Azania Facebook site for instance on March 2 2010 had this following posting from a female member who refers to herself as Boniswa Ngcukana :
- “We will retaliate for the countless massacres Sharpville, Soweto, Langa etc. and last but not least the Umtata massacres where five unarmed kids aged between 12 - 17yrs old. You will feel what we felt. If you wanna be safe start packing your bags bloody settlers. I can't wait for June 16. Feb282010 09:22 pm. http://www.facebook.com/profile.phpv=wall&id=673033379#!/group.phpv=wall&ref=search&gid=7545711430
- (That’s also a fake name: Boniswa was a Sharpville massacre victim)
While these postings have now disappeared of the site – they can still be found online as Google page-shot-ghosts.
After Adriana Stuijt of http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com wrote to this journalist about her responsibilities as co-founder of the Blackwash site, her name has disappeared from it. The PAC-facebook page also hit the headlines for its rabid anti-white hatespeech and its incitement to murder all whites. http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/02/radical-islamists-incite-sa-blacks-to.html
Below: a website called “People against AWB” also had the following threat - posted by someone using the name David Masotla. “Next year is the last year for all Whites. I MEAN ALL WHITES to apologize for what their granddaddies have done to ours, no exceptions, we gave yáll more than 15 years to make it up to us but some of you are still acting smart, your racist remarks are counted, watch out.’
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On Wednesday 17 March 2010 the Freedom Front plus also launched two criminal charges - one at the Potchefstroom police station against the SA Student Council chairman on the local university campus, Shimone Ramathosa, for hate-speech. Ramathosa also called on hundreds of students at a meeting to “Shoot the Boers’ – and the second charge was launched by Dr Pieter Mulder of Freedom Front Plus against Julius Malema of the ANC youth league for enciting the Johannesburg University students to ‘Shoot all the Boers’ from public platforms.http://www.praag.co.za/nuus-magazine-402/afrikaanse-nuus-magazine-401/7545-sasco-val-in-by-skiet-die-boere.html
Rioters torch Pretoria church, houses, vehicles, shops
ANC-councillors chased from Mamelodi, Pretoria - black township residents threaten to make country ungovernable during WC2010: ‘the foreigners must see the suffering of the South African people’ …
Beeld newspaper reports on March 24 2010 that thousands of black residents forced two ANC-councillors to flee; torched the councillors’ Mamelodi church and their houses; set fire to the ANC-councillors’ vehicles and also looted five shops belonging to ‘foreigners’ (Somalian refugees). Meanwhile in other greater Pretoria townships unrest is also brewing: for instance Hennopsrivier residents expect unrest and rioting because the townships haven’t had water for at least a week, warnings are issued on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=96816892443
Meanwhile Cape Town traffic was also brought to a standstill by a widespread strike of taxis.
Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper reports that the Mamelodi protest marches weren’t targetting foreigners – on the contrary the huge crowds of local residents who got together throughout the day and night in violent protests all said that they had chased off their two ANC-councillors because they didn’t do what they had been promising since 2000: ‘the people are tired of waiting for these long-promised free housing, free electricity, free water and free land – promised them by the ANC-regime since 2000.” They also demanded that the suspended train service to their local railway station start up again. They threatened that there ‘would be chaos if these matters aren’t corrected within days’.
Two seperate rioting scenes were policed around greater Pretoria yesterday: the Moloto road north of Pretoria was barred by about 8,000 residents who started gathering from around 2am and threw up blockades with burning tyres, rubbish and large stones. And about 7,000 people gathered in Mamelodi-East, torching and looting local shops, and demanding better train services.
Police sergeant Sers. Nonhlanhla Kgosana of the provincial Mpumalanga police confirmed the people of Mamelodi had chased their two local ANC-councillors out of town – and then torched the local IPCC-church and the councillors’ homes to the ground. “They also damaged the vehicles of the councillors and threw rocks at them.” Kgosana said 'the residents had already expressed their displeasure three weeks earlier because the church was given
land so quickly while the residents are still waiting for land to build on. They torched the church because one of the councillors is a member.’ Thirty-one people were arrested for public violence.
Later that night some 7,000 people gathered from about 8pm on the corners of Hans Strijdom Avenue and Hector Pieterson Street – this time protesting against the poor train services, and demanding better service-delivery and housing. About 800 of them mounted a march to central Pretoria where they took a petition to the railway authorities’ headquarters.
The crowds also attacked the police patrols with hails of large stones -- and the cops fired back with rubber bullets.
Nelson Ngalo -- chairman of the local Phomolong community forum in Mamelodi, said the community was particularly riled up about the fact that the local ANC had settled 600 families in new government (hop)-housing near Nellmapius east of Pretoria which had been promised to the Mamelodi residents. “We are trying to make contact with any representative of the Department of Housing but they are avoiding us. So protest marches and confrontation seem to be the only option left to us to give us the attention from the authorities we have been asking for. And if this (violent protesting) is what we have to do during the WC2010 then so be it. The foreigners must see the suffering of the people of South Africa,’ said Mr Ngalo.
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Afrikaner families cruelly attacked
“Pray because I am now going to shoot you,” screamed the smirking gunman at smallholder Corene Benade; then just laughed before walking away…
March 23 2010 – RIETSPRUIT SMALLHOLDINGS. KLIPRIVIER. The black gunman ordered Mrs Corene Benade (42) to ‘start praying because he was going to shoot her dead”; then burst into loud laughter at this huge joke before strolling away from the Afrikaner mom’s two-hour ordeal at the hands of an armed gang. Two years earlier, Mrs Benade’s mother-in-law Hannetjie (70) was also murdered in a very similar attack: ‘it’s just trauma upon trauma’ she said afterwards.
Picture and story by Sonja van Buul of Beeld newspaper. Mrs . Corene Benade gathers her children Johan jr. (9) and Chantele (15) in her arms after her two-hour ordeal at the hands of a vicious armed gang who threatened to rape, torture and torch her – while she sat on her knees with a gun pointed to her head, praying out loud.
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“It’s trauma upon trauma,’ said Mrs Benade – because the armed attack against her, she said, bore ‘a very close resemblance’ to the deadly attack on 29 November 2008 at Henley-on-Klip when her mother in law Hannetjie Benade (70) was murdered just before her smallholding’s homestead was torched.
Mrs Corne Benade said the armed gang accosted her and two employees, Mutle Mvunwla and Jacob Phuti shortly before 9am. The two workers were tied up and dumped in the hallway.Her husband Johan was at work and the two children at school.“From that moment on I was in the same hell my grandmother had suffered through and I was continuously praying out loud,” she said. The armed gang constantly threated to rape her, to murder her and to torch the homestead. They also threatened to torture her with a hot iron and to drill holes through her neck with an electric handdrill. Yet they didn’t do any of those things. She believes her calm prayer stopped them from carrying out their threats.She gave the men all the cash she had – R700 (about $70) and aksi unlocked the family’s registered gun-safe – but when she was unable to provide the security code to another safe on the premises the gang set to cutting it open with a blowtorch themselves. Throughout this ordeal the men were constantly threatening and shouting at here -- while she sat on her knees and prayed with one man holding a cocked gun to her head.
“They kept telling me to stop praying but our Heavenly Father folded me into His arms – and these men couldn’t do what they were threatening to do, namely to rape me, murder me or torch me. I was even saved from being tortured with the drill,’ the young Afrikaans mom said. In the end the gang left with money, cellphones, jewellery and her husband’s three hunting rifles. They had been at her homestead for about two hours. Meanwhile her husband – at work in Randfontein – started worrying when he couldn’t raise his wife on her cellphone. Like most Afrikaners the couple always stays in contact throughout the day. Benade contacted Mvunwla om his cellphone – and the employee, who was tied up in the hallway with fellow-employee Phuti – was able to whisper a warning through the phone. Mr Benade then contacted their neighbour Des Long – who rushed over to the homestead. The Kliprivier police were also alerted – and were on the scene within minutes, said the couple”. “We haven’t been able to even deal with the trauma of my mother-in-law’s cruel death because her murderers also are still at large – and now this. It’s trauma upon trauma,’ Mrs Benade told the journalist.http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/841a2d500041497888a6e4c8c6aa6a66/18-03-2010-11-16/%E2%80%98Bid,_want_ek_skiet_jou_nou,%E2%80%99_s%C3%AA_smalende_rower
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Van Vuuren family assaulted by 6-member black male gang with knives, shovels; in Jagersfontein, Free State
2010-03-23 The five-member Afrikaner family Van Vuuren was brutally attacked by a six-man gang of black males who beat up patriarch Boet,80, wife Francina, 77, wheelchair-bound brothers Marius, 44 and Marthinus, 35 (left) and nephew Juan, 13. The attack on Sunday-night was so relentless that blood coated the walls and floors of the homestead. Mrs Francina van Vuuren has been left in a coma.
The brothers are in wheelchairs because Marius was disabled by a spinar viral infection – and Marthinus was injured in a car accident. “It was like something out of a horror movie,’ said Johan van Vuuren after five of his loved ones were so brutally assaulted in their Harrington Street home. The attackers launched ruthless assaults on the Afrikaners with shovels and knives.
Johan was at work in the logistics department of Grootvlei Prison near Bloemfontein when he received the shock call and rushed home to Jagersfontein – but was unprepared for the carnage which met him. “Blood was everywhere against the walls and the floors, and the house contents were turned upside down,’ he said.
The family had just finished watching TV-news when old Mrs van Vuuren opened the front door for the dogs – and the attack gang stormed in, grabbing the old woman as a ‘buffer’. His dad always carries a .22 peashooter-pistol with him and wanted to shoot the man holding his wife – but was terrified of hitting her,’ said Johan. In the melee, the family members all were beaten and stabbed with knives and shovels, and kicked. “Marius was beaten from his wheelchair with a shovel’ said Johan. Boet had a a finger broken when an attacker wrestled him for the .22 and he was forced to open the registered gun-safe where about $3500 was stolen.’
Said Marthinus from his hospital bed at the National Hospital in Bloemfontein: “This isn’t human.’ Mrs Francina van Vuuren was beaten into a coma and is in the intensive-care unit of Pelonomi hospital – where Marius is also being treated for a broken left arm. The teenager Juan collapsed in shock and was rushed to Jagersfontein hospital. And dad Boet was treated for his injuries and has now moved to another house in town. “He doesn’t want to live in that attack house any longer’ said Johan.
“Nobody was arrested. Police detective-inspector Poena Rodgers can be contacted for more information at telephone 082-466-8479 or inspector Tiekie Ontong of the Jagersfontein police. http://www.volksblad.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/2114/4b91016499a04529b738a9279c961869/23-03-2010-02-02/Gesin_wreed_aangerand
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Afrikaans primary school rugby-team robbed by armed gang at a KZN petrol station: – while a policeman slept at the adjacent police station and wouldn’t come out… right next to the crime scene…
2010-03-22 Durban. –A police-inspector manning a satellite office near a petrol-station at the KwaZulu southcoast was apparently blissfully asleep while an Afrikaner teacher and his primary-school rugby team was being robbed at gun-point on the nearby parking lot.
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Afrikaans children are frequently targetted in armed attacks:
High school pupil Anika Smit, 17, was found murdered in her Pretoria home with her hands hacked off (: the limbs are missing). Nothing else was robbed. She was kept at home with an ear-infection that day. (March 11 2010, order original from Beeld newspaper http://www.beeld.co.za ).
Teacher Japie Visser of the North West province’s Swartruggens “Combined’ school near Rustenburg had stopped with his under/13 rugby team to rest at an Ultra City fueling station along the Ns highway close to Umgababa south of Amanzimtoto. The team was encourate to the Sportweni sports academy near Port Shepstone and he was tired, needed a rest. So they pitched their tent at the petrol station’s lawn, said Visser. Some of the boys were kicking around a ball when three armed black gunmen stormed over, pushed a 9mm police gun in his back, demanded money; while others held up the boys at gunpoint, taking their cellphones, clothes and bank-cards. And it took ‘a long while’ before they were able to wrench the lone policeman doing ‘duty’ at the satellite police post right next door to come outside. “When he did finally emerge he looked rather disheveled,’ said Visser.
However he was full of praise for the police dog unit which showed up quick as a flash with a detective shortly after the alert went out – even though the search for the attackers was unsuccessful. The N2 highway around the Umgababa region was infamous a few years back for the many attacks on motorists by robbers who also threw stones at the cars. The attacks ceased when police’s highway patrols started concentrating on the area. Police superintendent Vincent Mdunge confirmed that they had opened a docket for the armed robbery. He also said that ‘the satellite station is manned 24/7' and ‘as soon as somebody complains we will investigate…’ Visser says he can’t be bothered to do so because the dog-unit response was so fast. And next time they will make certain to rest at a different site rather than the lawn next to a police station. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/5d3d8d7e5e2846e0a5c26a6921ff926f/22-03-2010-10-16/Rowers_oorval_laerskoolspan_by_Ultra_City
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