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South Africa is the world’s biggest welfare state:

The ANC-regime has created such a vast social grant system that South Africa now is termed the “biggest welfare state” in the world.  And the ANC keeps its voters totally dependent on this economically unsustainable behemoth, and the country is rapidly becoming another failed state, warns economist Francois Calldo of the Solidarity Research Institute.

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South Africa’s social grant budget plans to spend R89-billion in 2010/11 on paying out 13,8-million social welfare grants … with one taxpayer propping up 3 welfare-recipients; and that’s just the start…

 

 These Hispanic protestors in Arizona, USA, carried this startling sign in a demonstration in May 2010, demanding free health care, jobs, no taxes, free houses, and free food, writing ‘You Owe Us…’ In South Africa, this culture of ‘entitlement’ has already become a reality under the ANC-regime; the country has already shed nearly 1-million jobs in the year 2008 alone… and with the taxpayer-base still shrinking, who will be left in South Africa to pay for it all? Not all those mythical ‘rich whites”- nearly one-million of the 3-million Afrikaner minority now are in fact destitute, jobless and homeless too and they aren’t ‘entitled’ to any welfare grants, as members of the so-named ‘previously-advantaged minority group’ which most certainly does not vote for the ruling African National Congress now …

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Everything is free in South Africa – and nobody has to pay for anything…

Calldo’s summary shows that the ANC-government ties more and more voters to its apron-strings with a constantly-expanding, bloated network of welfare grants, free healthcare, free housing, free water, free electricity and free food handouts– and no-one has to do a day’s work for it : indeed its electorate is living in such a constant state of ‘entitlement’ that they even refuse to pay their utility bills when they have jobs and can afford to pay.

Power thefts cost R44-billion in 2009…  

• June 30 2010: “Illegal electricity connections cost Eskom and municipalities R4.4bn in the 2009 financial year, Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters said… and even if they were legal, the consumers are so poor that they would qualify for free electricity supplies anyway…
• http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Power-theft-costs-R44bn-20100630

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Failed municipal sewerage plants cause dangerous water pollution:

Picture above: the dangers of this culture of ‘entitlement’ are now becoming very obvious: the rapidly-shrinking taxpayer base cannot endlessly support this vast, inflating welfare system: the municipalities’ under-serviced, overloaded infrastructures are collapsing countrywide, the coountry’s scarce fresh water water-resources are becoming dangerously polluted with sewerage- and chemical overflows from failed sewerage systems;  Eskom needs many billions to maintain its overburdened electricity network – the country has shed more than one-million jobs; and South Africa is rapidly heading towards becoming another failed state.

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The social grant expenditure is targetting to spend R89-billion for the 2010/11 fiscal year for paying out some 13,8-million social welfare grants to about 9,6-million beneficiaries – out of in a a population of 49-million South African citizens, in a country with a 29% formal-sector unemployment rate, writes Calldo.

• The available grants in South Africa include child support grant, care dependency grant, foster child grant, disability grant, older persons grant, war veteran’s grant and grant-in-aid. However there’s a lot more on offer which is totally free: free food handouts to more than 12-mllion people; free public housing, free medical care, free water- and electricity supplies, and people are being actively discouraged from paying their utility bills, thus causing the bankruptcy of hundreds of municipalities.

Shocking waste at Eskom electricity supplier:

Pic: The ANC’s culture of entitlement: wasted free food just thrown away by workers; R2,3billion of unpaid electricity bills:  … Paul O’Flaherty, Eskom’s financial director recently warned that  Eskom currently have bad debts of R2,3 billion on the state-owned Eskom utility’s  accounts-receivable books. More than 60% of this debt is owed by Soweto residents alone – where there is an active campaign encouraging consumers not to pay any of their Eskom bills. And large-scale electricity theft with millions of illegal hot-wire links is so rampant that hundreds of people die from electric shocks each year.

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Free health care, free housing, free water, free electricity, free food – and nobody has to work for it or even have to pay their electricity or water-bills… except the white taxpayers of course…

However, due to South Africa’s high unemployment rate (25,2% for Q1:2010) and the fact that many South Africans live in extreme poverty, the ANC government’s alleviation of poverty doesn’t end with social grants. There is also free healthcare, free housing and free basic services. (*Homeless whites are however denied access to any of these services).

Therefore, although not all black South Africans who live in poverty are receiving monetary support from the government, they do inevitably receive some sort of free basic services, which is making them dependent on the government. This puts enormous pressure on South Africa’s economy and its shrinking-taxpayer base. Moreover, there are also at least 12-million foreign Africans who have moved to SA since 1994 – and who also overburden the economy and placing a heavy burden on the environment and the rapidly-collapsing municipal infrastructures.

Unsustainable:– one taxpayer per three welfare-recipients…

“The whole grant system is not sustainable,’ writes  Calldo. “Even economist Mike Schüssler warned in February 2010 that the South African dependency ratio of three people to one taxpayer is unsustainable.”

The previous governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Mr Tito Mboweni, went even further and said in September 2009: “From a politician’s point of view it is good to point out that the number of people benefiting from social grants has grown, but from the point of view of the total development of the person, the dignity and consciousness that we talk about of a person, is this the direction that we should be going?”  This is a valid question, notes Calldo.

“Entitlement mentality”

According to the South African Institute of Race Relations Chasing the Rainbow”, 2010 the government has paid little attention to promoting a sense of individual responsibility. Instead, its focus on socio-economic rights and affirmative action has “helped to encourage a mentality of entitlement”, the Institute warned.

Eskom has R2,3-billion ‘s worth of bad debts on its books – 60% from Soweto alone…

This “entitlement” culture and the non-payment mentality is having a negative impact on the finances of local municipalities and companies such as Eskom. The problem of non-payment is so severe that Eskom said in June 2010 that it wants the government to apply more political pressure and willpower to convince electricity consumers in previously disadvantaged areas to pay their debts.

• 60% of Eskom’s R2,3-billion in bad debts are by Sowetan consumers…
• Mr Paul O’Flaherty, Eskom’s financial director, said that Eskom currently have bad debt of R2,3 billion on Eskom’s  books. More than 60% of this comes from Soweto alone. Jan 23 2010 statement

Campaign in Soweto encourages customers not to pay anything to Eskom:

O’Flaherty further said there is an active campaign among “previously disadvantaged” (i.e. black)  people, especially in areas in Soweto, to encourage people not to pay Eskom.

“However, Eskom is asking the wrong people for help. Why would the ANC ask its voters to pay for services? It would be political suicide,’ Calldo points out. 

• “It is the same ANC that preached to its people during the struggle that “liberation should come before education”  and for the sake of short-sighted political gain created a culture of non-payment since coming into power in 1994. We are now reaping what the ANC has been sowing.

Does the ANC really want to ‘ liberate the poor ’ or just keep their voters dependent?

It is also questionable whether the ANC’s poverty interventions truly helped to liberate the poor or rather served to increase their dependency on the government. However, the question that South Africans should rather ask themselves is whether the ANC truly wants to liberate and uplift the people from poverty. After all, as long as the people are dependent on the ANC, the people will vote for the ANC, which might not be the case if people were self-sufficient.

Exploiting the poor and uneducated – just to stay in power?

In a recent article (“ANC’s blank cheque to buy votes”, Business Day, May 2010) Mr Moeletsi Mbeki – brother of former president Thabo Mbeki -- said that no organisation on the South African political landscape is better positioned than the ANC. If its voters remain poor, the ANC wins because they receive votes.

• “Mbeki stated that ANC voters do not vote for the party because of ideological or policy reasons; they vote for the ANC primarily because of their material dependence on the ANC-controlled government. According to Mr Moeletsi, this was brought into sharp focus by a recent study conducted by South Africa’s leading market research company, Ipsos Markinor. The study revealed that 67% of people who vote for the ANC do not work, and that 69% either have no education at all or have not completed high school.

“Therefore, as long as the majority of poor people think that only the ANC can provide them with a “better” life (wholly dependent on the ANC’s financial largesse) and that there is no political alternative, it seems that the welfare state will continue to expand at the expense of the South African economy and job creation, “ the Solidarity economist concludes.

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sources: links:

• http://www.solidaritysa.co.za/Home/home.php
• http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-01-23-eskom-price-hike-will-cause-serious-pain
• http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/2009_failed_states_index_the_whiplash_effect
• http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today/sairr-today-chasing-the-rainbow-south-africa2019s-move-from-mandela-to-zuma/
• Nelson Mandela let us down – we were badly educated – Winnie Mandela allegedly said
• The battle between Eskom and Soweto consumers: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/files/Egan%20Wafer%20SECC%20Research%20Report%20Short.pdf

Martin Krügel (78) May 7 2010 – beaten to death

  Less than an hour after her 78-year-old dad had told her ‘I will phone you back shortly,’ his daughter came across his body in his apartment across the Pretoria magistrate’s court, reported Beeld newspaper.

“When I close my eyes, I can still visualise him lying on the mat with his underpants pulled over his head,’ said Ms Carina Krügel (49). The old man was the caretaker at the Colorado Apartment complex for 18 years. The old man reportedly was brutally beaten and kicked. http://www.projek2010.co.za/page/Mei.aspx

 

http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/?c=2

 

June 2 2010 - George Cronjé ,48, an area manager of Sandvik Mining in Delmas and colleague Charles Slabbert, 45, were gunned down while on a business trip to a mine in Komatipoort, Limpopo. Cronje, father of two, reportedly died of two gun-shots to the chest while Slabbert was injured in the face, chest, arm and hand.

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 Buks Viljoen of Beeld newspaper reported one June 34 2010 that Mr Cronje and Mr Slabbert were shot in ‘most mysterious circumstances”. Cronje, the father of two and the area manager of Sandvik Mining in Delmas, was on a

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business trip to a mine near Komatipoort. It is believed that a security guard had shot  Cronjé and Slabbert. The two Afrikaner men had eaten at a local restaurant and were ravelling back to the Komati River Chalets where they were booked in, when they apparently ‘got lost’.

The guard, Arnold Mthethwa, appeared briefly in the Komatipoort magistrate’s court for a remand date while the SAPS investigates further. He was released on his own cognisance.

SAPS spokesman sergeant Gerald Sedibe quotes the arrested security guard as saying that he had spotted the two men driving along the train-tracks in Suiddorp near Komatipoort – and that the Afrikaners had attacked him, pulled him from his vehicle, assaulted him and pointed a firearm at him. The security guard claims that he then fired off ‘several shots with his  9mm handgun”. The guard claimed that the Afrikaners then had then ‘run away and jumped back into their bakkie’, and that he had gone to the police station to lodge a charge of assault.

The SAPS team which went to the scene to investigate,  found the seriously injured Slabbert who was sitting, injured and bleeding next to the vehicle against a tree, while Cronjé was seated inside the bakkie on the passenger seat, shot dead.

Slabbert, according to police, told them that they had lost their way enroute to the guest house, that a vehicle pulled up right next to them and that a number of shots were fired at them. He chased to the nearest house to try and find help. Initially, Slabbert allegedly said, he didn’t realise he’d been shot and that Cronje was already dead. Police said the guard worked for the Onderberg security company which undertakes regular patrols along the railway lines. After the shooting the SAPS dog-unit searched the scene – but were unable to find any guns which could have been discarded by the Afrikaner men.

Beeld has also learned in the meantime that the security guard has been arrested and released on his own cognisance, that his pistol was confiscated for testing.

Cronjé’s colleagues described him to Beeld as ‘a strict but very fair colleague. He was a peacemaker who always wanted to keep everybody happy.’  Cronjé leaves his widow Lorina, and children, Melissa (21), a Unviersity of Pretoria student, and Gustav (18), a pupil in matric at the Afrikaans High School Hoogenhout in Bethal.

http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Pa-doodgeskiet-en-kollega-gewond-toe-hul-verdwaal-20100603

 

US tourist David Bueche attacked, shot in upmarket Sandton:

He had just arrived at Johannesburg airport – - and had just stepped off the high-speed Gauteng-train link in Sandton when four black men assaulted and then shot the American man. He survived. It’s not known what was robbed.

Sandton -  population 125,466 -- is one of Africa’s most opulent  suburbs, located north of Johannesburg, Yet despite its upmarket reputation, the luxurious suburb registered 10 murders PLUS 35 culpible homicides in the 2008/9 bookyear – ( newer statistics are not available).

It also officially listed 142 rapes; 142 attempted murders; 175 ‘grievous’ assaults, 490 ‘ordinary’ assaults; 1,253 robberies  Sandton crime stats

Although one of the most high-security, most lavish suburbs of Africa – it’s  also located only 6km from Alexandra, one of the poorest black townships  (Inusually, in Alexandra, black residents were granted land-ownership rights in addition to their traditional homeland land-rights during the apartheid-era. After 1994 the township has sprawled out of control  with tens of thousands of backyard shanties and has become very badly polluted.)

Sandton covers an area of approximately 156 km² while Alexandra is just over 8 km². Yet in 1994, it was estimated that both towns each housed about 125,000 residents.

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Picture: train route from Johannesburg International Airport to Pretoria

http://www.pretorianews.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20100701091605110C228534

Sandton crime rate up to Nov 2009: (later statistics are not available).http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2009/provinces/gauteng/pdf/sandton.pdf

 

Black racists who threaten to kill whites and African foreigners, June 2010 – alphabetical list sourced from Facebook pages

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Baloyi, Allot – “Tomorrow we start the xenophobic attacks. I’m still proudly South Africa. The world cup is over. We are going to steal the cup it ain’t leaving this country.’

Chibeleka, Tundo “Oxide” “Now let the xenophobia start”

Diphoko Tebogo Fonfo June 19 2010 ; “Let’s get rid of them I say. Am going to buy panga and get some old tires… let us end the world cup, ba-boele magabone, who is from Alexandra xenophobic?

Dlungwane. Mfundo: (below) 25 May 2010 - “We have no choice but to kill the white babies, simply because they are going to grow and oppress our babies, so we kill the white babies. When the right time comes we’ll chop their heads off and they become headless little racists.’  His favourite book:  the “… deal with White People Handbook”

Mabena, Mongezi Ziggy - “Xenophobia attacks shall commence on the 13th of July 2010. It’s a race thing.’

Makhosonke Sangweni – April 6 2010 - “We must kill all dis white people de ma se kont pooses futsek julle racist’

education: College: Vaal University of Technology 2009; Khunjuliwe Secondary school 2003. – lists himself as a ‘political student activist and part-time worker’. http://www.facebook/com/makhosonke 

Hatespeech source document on:  http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=125968640751147&view=all#!/photo.php?pid=30683730&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=125968640751147&aid=-1&id=1004996175&fbid=1301869339218

Manzi, Lindo “If I can meet a white person in the street where there is no-one to witness, fuck I would killl the dog…’

Masemola, Jeff – organising new Azanian People’s Army units in Eastern Cape.

Matlatse Louis Kgomotso - “I can sense there will be a xenophobia scene. Come 11 July I need peace of mind’ .

Masethe Percy – “If we don’t make it to the next round, all the visitors must go. Or we go xenophobic again’

Mokgobi, Busta Tsholofelo – I think we can start the xenophobic attacks now instead of after the World Cup. Thinking where is Julius Malema when you need him.?”

 Mbateti Thato Mbateti – “Be awake my boere. You can contact me on 0795263525. I am racist. I do hate white pigs.”

Naicker Varusha -  “Never mind the kill the boer, kill the farmer song, you racist pigs are dying as we speak. The war is on, the attacks will be intensified… you are all going to die’ .

Nceba, Sodo – Safmarine employee, Port Elizabeth, “One bullet – one white infant” - “What can we do to protect our black babies from these future oppressors and racists? “

Mfundo Dlungwane: We have no choice but to kill the white babies, simply because they are going to grow and oppress our babies, so we kill the white babies. When the right time comes we’ll chop their heads off and they become headless little racists.’

Nkosi Mlungisi Oros - “To these white fuckers that think we racist and we can’t move on and we can’t forgive and forget, I say let’s kill 4-million white people and piss on their food, then we’ll be even’

Sanele Nene   “It is time to start our xenophobic attacks on every foreigner in the country.’

 

Pama -

SANKARA, Chris (real name is Chris Mathebula) “As an Azanian People Liberaty Army combatant I can tell you now that I am super fit and ready to take our struggles in another level, are you? I was invited as a guest speaker in two different places in Soweto by Soweto Concerned Residents because of the failures of the so-called government by unservice deliveries. The masses are very angry and we will see more angry unservice delivery protest after this soccer session June 25 2010”. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!chris.mathebula?v=wall&ref=search

Sangweni, Makhosonke – d.o.b. unknown, education: College: Vaal University of Technology 2009; Khunjuliwe Secondary school 2003. – lists himself as a ‘political student activist and part-time worker’.  Wrote on April 6 2010 Facebook page of AWB: “We must kill all dis white people de ma se kont pooses futsek julle racist’ http://www.facebook/com/makhosonke

Hatespeech source document:  http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=125968640751147&view=all#!/photo.php?pid=30683730&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=125968640751147&aid=-1&id=1004996175&fbid=1301869339218

 

Sodo Nceba,  Port Elizabeth, Safmarine employee, “One Bullet, one white infant”

 

South Africa is the world’s biggest welfare state:

The ANC-regime has created such a vast social grant system that South Africa now is termed the “biggest welfare state” in the world.  And the ANC keeps its voters totally dependant on this economically unsustainable behemoth, warns economist Francois Calldo of the Solidarity Research Institute. 

His summary shows that the ANC-government  ties its voters to its apron-strings with a constantly-expanding, bloated network of welfare grants, free healthcare, free housing, free water, free electricity and free food handouts– and no-one has to do a day’s work for it : indeed its electorate is living in such a constant state of ‘entitlement’ that they even refuse to pay their utility bills.

The dangers are obvious to any economists: the shrinking taxpayer base cannot endlessly support this rapidly-inflating welfare system: the municipalities are already collapsing and South Africa is rapidly heading towards becoming another failed state.

 The social grant expenditure is targetting to spend R89-billion for the 2010/11 fiscal year for paying out some 13,8-million social welfare grants to about 9,6-million beneficiaries – out of in a a population of 49-million South African citizens, in a country with a 29% formal-sector unemployment rate, writes Calldo.

• The available grants in South Africa include child support grant, care dependency grant, foster child grant, disability grant, older persons grant, war veteran’s grant and grant-in-aid. However there’s a lot more on offer which is totally free: free food handouts to more than 12-mllion people; free public housing, free medical care, free water- and electricity supplies, and people are being actively discouraged from paying their utility bills, thus causing the bankruptcy of hundreds of municipalities.

Shocking waste at Eskom electricity supplier:

Pic: The ANC’s culture of entitlement: wasted food; R2,3billion of unpaid electricity bills: Mr Paul O’Flaherty, Eskom’s financial director recently warned that  Eskom currently have bad debts of R2,3 billion on the state-owned Eskom utility’s  accounts-receivable books. More than 60% of this debt is owed by Soweto residents alone – where there is an active campaign encouraging consumers not to pay any of their Eskom bills. And large-scale electricity theft with millions of illegal hot-wire links is so rampant that hundreds of people die from electric shocks each year.

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Free health care, free housing, free water, free electricity, free food – and nobody has to work for it or even have to pay their bills…

However, due to South Africa’s high unemployment rate (25,2% for Q1:2010) and the fact that many South Africans live in extreme poverty, the ANC government’s alleviation of poverty doesn’t end with social grants. There is also free healthcare, free housing and free basic services. (*Homeless whites are however denied access to any of these services).

Therefore, although not all South Africans who live in poverty are receiving monetary support from the government, they do receive some sort of free basic services, which is making them dependent on the government. This puts enormous pressure on South Africa’s economy and its shrinking-taxpayer base.

Unsustainable

The whole grant system is not sustainable. Even economist Mike Schüssler warned in February 2010 that the South African dependency ratio of three people to one taxpayer and is unsustainable.

The previous governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Mr Tito Mboweni, went even further and said in September 2009: “From a politician’s point of view it is good to point out that the number of people benefiting from social grants has grown, but from the point of view of the total development of the person, the dignity and consciousness that we talk about of a person, is this the direction that we should be going?” This is a valid question.

“Entitlement mentality”

According to the South African Institute of Race Relations (“Chasing the Rainbow”, 2010) the government has paid little attention to promoting a sense of individual responsibility. Instead, its focus on socio-economic rights and affirmative action has helped to encourage a mentality of entitlement.

Eskom has R2,3-billion ‘s worth of bad debts on its books – 60% from Soweto alone…

This “entitlement” culture and the non-payment mentality is having a negative impact on the finances of local municipalities and companies such as Eskom. The problem of non-payment is so severe that Eskom said in June 2010 that it wants the government to apply more political pressure and willpower to convince electricity consumers in previously disadvantaged areas to pay their debts.

• Mr Paul O’Flaherty, Eskom’s financial director, said that Eskom currently have bad debt of R2,3 billion on Eskom’s  books. More than 60% of this comes from Soweto alone.

Campaign in Soweto encourages customers not to pay anything to Eskom:

O’Flaherty further said there is an active campaign among previously disadvantaged people, especially in areas in Soweto, to encourage people not to pay Eskom. However, Eskom is asking the wrong people for help. Why would the ANC ask its voters to pay for services? It would be political suicide.

• It is the same ANC that preached to its people during the struggle that “liberation should come before education”  and for the sake of short-sighted political gain created a culture of non-payment since coming into power in 1994. We are now reaping what the ANC has been sowing.

Does the ANC really want to ‘ liberate the poor ’ or just keep their voters dependant?

It is also questionable whether the ANC’s poverty interventions truly helped to liberate the poor or rather served to increase their dependency on the government. However, the question that South Africans should rather ask themselves is whether the ANC truly wants to liberate and uplift the people from poverty. After all, as long as the people are dependent on the ANC, the people will vote for the ANC, which might not be the case if people were self-sufficient.

Exploiting the poor and uneducated – just to stay in power?

In a recent article (“ANC’s blank cheque to buy votes”, Business Day, May 2010) Mr Moeletsi Mbeki – brother of former president Thabo Mbeki -- said that no organisation on the South African political landscape is better positioned than the ANC. If its voters remain poor, the ANC wins because they receive votes.

• Mbeki stated that ANC voters do not vote for the party because of ideological or policy reasons; they vote for the ANC primarily because of their material dependence on the ANC-controlled government. According to Mr Moeletsi, this was brought into sharp focus by a recent study conducted by South Africa’s leading market research company, Ipsos Markinor. The study revealed that 67% of people who vote for the ANC do not work, and that 69% either have no education at all or have not completed high school.

Therefore, as long as the majority of poor people think that only the ANC can provide them with a “better” life (wholly dependent on the ANC’s financial largesse) and that there is no political alternative, it seems that the welfare state will continue to expand at the expense of the South African economy and job creation.

http://www.solidaritysa.co.za/Home/home.php

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/2009_failed_states_index_the_whiplash_effect