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Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by somehow: 10:29pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
So she couldn't have brought assets in parents or sibling's names? Or even withdraw and then pay into other accounts? HenryDion: 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Nobody: 10:39pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
thornapple:ok i will spend small and return d rest |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Nobody: 11:22pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
Akalia:chill the F up.you sound like you may break down tears any moment Tuksgrad is dishing nothing but FACTS 4 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by goingape1: 11:25pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
LeSudAfricaine:we don't eat them thou! we use them for ritual! 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Nobody: 11:31pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
fumiswtpusy:By this statement I take it that you are pro-Biafaria.I know this is absolutely non of my business but do you think that when you guys finally separate from that jungle that's holding you back you are going to be a prosperous country? |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Nobody: 11:34pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
goingape1:oh yes you eat them.You got restaurants that serve human tongues to customers 3 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Cannonleo(m): 11:39pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
Just30:i leave in A town In the south east of Nigeria and there are a huge number of ghanians living in my state . Most un-documented. Meanwhile papa mensah extends his greetings 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by fumiswtpusy(f): 11:55pm On Aug 31, 2017 |
Jayceon:I am a nigerian girl shall but my husband to be is biafran so yes soon I will leave the cursed country. Firstly they are the ones feeding the jungle,called nigeria so a smaller country mean more money for developments.and since it's small it will be developed fastly. Secondly a new country mean new constitution that will suite biafra not these one that is made for those illiterates in the north. Passion-it is an open secret that when a people love their country they try to make it work no matter what.millions have died for biafra and more are willing to,thats love and passion. Experince-with the experince will have in the zoo they will take precautions. New set of leaders or death penalty for corrupt politician. Technocrats.the igbos are the most talented people in africa infact some call them african Japan or china and they have produce everything the world can think of but deliberately the government don't want to support them. There are a thousand reasons,and Google and youtube is your friend to verify my claims. 2 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by fumiswtpusy(f): 12:02am On Sep 01, 2017 |
goingape1:Thank you for shaming us the yorubas.the truth is bitter like alomo but good for the health. Most of us yorubas are ritualist and thank goodness that other yorubas like you are accepting the truth because if I talk they will say I am a biafran impersonating yorubas. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Nobody: 12:17am On Sep 01, 2017 |
fumiswtpusy:Hmm sounds like this Biafaria thing is a force to be reckoned with,perhaps the reason they don't want you to secede from that British colonial setup is because once Biafaria flourishes into an economic powerhouse the failures of Nigeria are going to be more visible than ever? TBH with you,if I was a Nigerian I would be rooting for Biafra too.It's quite clear at this point,I mean even a blind man can see that Nigeria as a country is one of the greatest failures on this continent. 3 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by goingape1: 1:23am On Sep 01, 2017 |
fumiswtpusy:any yorubas that ain't accepting this common fact that ritualist is among there daily life, beware of them cos them might be hunting for ya skull! |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by buzzmania(m): 1:27am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Tuksgrad:Damn! You murdered a n!gga cold blood. 6 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by LeSudAfricaine: 4:08am On Sep 01, 2017 |
goingape1:Ow you even explain 2 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:03am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Tuksgrad and LeSudAfricaine let me wear condom before replying you so i dont get infected with your HIV/AIDS syndrome you carry all around the world. Yes am done the world headquarter for HIV/AIDS and the only country boys draw junkies blood just to get high on wunga or nyaope aka Whoonga. Drugs meant to treat their HIV thats what they use with rat poison to get a fix Special requirements for driving in South Africa Be careful at traffic lights as there are sometimes car-jackings. Leave enough room between you and the car in front so that you don’t get boxed in by car jackers. If driving at night have your windows rolled up and your door locked. Do not pick up hitch hikers or offer assistance to broken down vehicles. Europeans to think twice before investing in South Africa Every few years, the South Africa property market is booming, and suddenly, without any warning, the property values will begin to drop and panic will break loose among Europeans that cause them to pack-up and sell, to return to Europe. There are a number of factors at play, such as media, violence and propaganda from time to time that are very well calculated and precisely executed by fearless economist to create the fear thing , “It’s Time to sell!” Xenophobic Violence in South Africa Xenophobic violence perpetrated against foreign nationals living in South Africa is not improving and the problem has its roots in the violent history of South African society. Julius Malema – The Downfall of South African Politics and Progress? With an ideology that lists communism, Marxism-Leninism and Black Supremacy as some of their views, accompanied by hate speech and violent rallies, it’s safe to say that Julius Malema and his weird EFF party could probably destroy South Africa. Extreme home security Driving around suburban Johannesburg in a posh neighborhood, one observes the extreme lengths to which panicked folks have gone to protect their property and personal safety during a time when robberies and home-invasion assaults/rapes/murders have become depressingly common occurrences. Racial motive in farm attacks a well-known fact in senior ANC circles It is just part of the crime wave we are experiencing. It must be one hell of a crime wave when two black youths break into a house, torture an elderly widow to death, then return to the house every day for a week to eat and drink and enjoy themselves and then pile the scrap food and the Bible on top of the dead and decomposing body before setting the house ablaze. Xenophobic Violence in South Africa Xenophobic violence perpetrated against foreign nationals living in South Africa is not improving and the problem has its roots in the violent history of South African society. Crime is a prominent issue in South Africa. South Africa has a very high rate of murders, assaults, rapes (adult, child and infant), and other crimes compared to most countries. Most emigrants from South Africa state that crime was a big factor in their decision to leave. – Wikipedia. South Africa a country where crime rules and survival is not a game The story of a British woman repeatedly raped at gunpoint during a 14 hour ordeal, after she and her friend were kidnapped while visiting the stunning Drakensburg Mountains made waves in the international media. The tourists were blindfolded, bound with rope, and shoved into the perpetrators car. South Africa murder rate reflective of a war zone The murder rate in South Africa is reflective of a “war zone”, Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler Barnard said on Friday following the release of the 2013/2014 crime statistics. Farm murder statistics of 2015 worse than the 2014 figures The civil rights group AfriForum and the agricultural union TLU SA announced on Thursday that since January 1, 1990 more than 1 700 farm murders occurred in South Africa. Farmer severely attacked and shot in Leandra farm attack In the latest incident, Wimpie Oosterhuis (54) and his wife Sunette were attacked on their farm near Delmas in Leandra on February 4, 2015. Crime is a prominent issue in South Africa. South Africa has a very high rate of murders, assaults, rapes (adult, child and infant), and other crimes compared to most countries. Most emigrants from South Africa state that crime was a big factor in their decision to leave. – Wikipedia. Investors protect their houses like nuclear bunkers because of the (criminal minded) citizens. You kill for fun. There was more rape at the south african hosted world cup than the whole world rape recoreds combined together. All over the world Its only at south africa that car owners have to install fleam throwers to deter cars grand theft. Last week,a bullion van was attacked by your hardworking boys. Clap for your brain idiopathic scoliosis thats ravaging you and your country. Oh before i forget,Nigeria was the biggest cash donor to Nelson Mandela fight against the whites. We gave you pigs the crumps you craved 4
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Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:07am On Sep 01, 2017 |
1) Highest crime rate in the world 2) Highest electricity price in the world 3) 3rd highest food prices in the world 4) Highest unemployment in Africa 5) Most expensive cellular rates in the world 6) Highest number of rapes in the world 7) 4th highest murder rate in the world Country with the most public protests in the world (2013) 9) Highest number of Aids in the world 10) President (leader) with the lowest education (grade 5) 11) 5th lowest GDP in the world out of 176 countries 12) Highest GINI in the world (inequality) 13) Highest depreciating currency in the world 14) Large infrastructure project in the world 15) Highest number of hijackings in the world 16) Highest number of infant murders in the world 17) Highest elderly (over 65) rapes in the world 18) Voted worst education system in the world 2013 19) Most expensive presidential accommodation in the world 20) Highest teenage pregnancies in the world” |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:15am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Things are very bad in South Africa. When the scourge of apartheid was finally smashed to pieces in 1994, the country seemed to have a bright future ahead of it. Eight years later, in 2002, 60 percent of South Africans said life had been better under apartheid. Hard to believe — but that’s how bad things were in 2002. And now they’re even worse. When apartheid ended, the life expectancy in South Africa was 64 — the same as in Turkey and Russia. Now it’s 56, the same as in Somalia. There are 132.4 rapes per 100,000 people per year, which isby farthe highest in the world: Botswana is in second with 93, Sweden in third with 64; no other country exceeds 32. Before the end of apartheid, South African writer Ilana Mercer moved, with her family, to Israel; her father was a vocal opponent of apartheid, and was being harassed by South African security forces. A 2013 piece onWorld Net Dailyquotes Mercer as saying, with all her anti-apartheid chops, that “more people are murdered in one week under African rule than died under detention of the Afrikaner government over the course of roughly four decades.” The South African government estimates that there are 31 murders per 100,000 people per year. Or about 50 a day. That would make South Africa the tenth most murderous country in the world, outpacing Rwanda, Mexico, and both Sudans. And that’s using South Africa’s official estimates — outside groups put the murder rate 100 percent higher. Choosing not to trust the South African authorities is a safe bet — South Africa’s government, which has been led by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress since the end of apartheid, is outstandingly incompetent and corrupt. Of course, de facto one-party rule doesn’t promote integrity. Unemployment is 25 percent, but President Jacob Zuma, of the ANC, recently spent $24 million of public money to add a pool and amphitheater to his private home. Not long after the story broke, he was elected to a second five-year term. Think-tank theorist Leon Louw, who helped defeat apartheid, calls the crime and corruption “a simple manifestation of the breakdown of the state. The government is just appallingly bad at everything it does: education, healthcare, infrastructure, security, everything that is a government function is in shambles.” He adds — citing “anecdotal data” — that “most people don’t bother to report crimes.” It appears that South Africa is about the most dangerous place you can be outside a war zone. What’s more worrying is the chance that it might become a war zone. Nelson Mandela was able to hold the “rainbow nation” together, but he’s passed on. Now, according to the human-rights organization Genocide Watch, South Africa is at pre-genocide stage 6 of 8: “Preparation.” With the country skidding toward anarchy, naturally, the people want to know whom they should blame. In 2010, a prominent member of the African National Congress named Julius Malema revived an old anti-apartheid song whose lyrics — says Genocide Watch — call for genocide: “Shoot the Boer, shoot, shoot.” “Boer” means “farmer” in Afrikaans; colloquially, it means “white South African.” Malema was ejected from the ANC and convicted of hate speech; he has since formed a new opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, which is currently the third largest party in parliament. Seven months after Malema’s conviction, President Zuma sang the genocide song himself, leading a crowd in a musical chant: “We are going to shoot them with machine guns, they are going to run . . . The cabinet will shoot them, with the machine gun . . . Shoot the Boer, we are going to hit them, they are going to run.” Watch the video on YouTube— it is surreal. Nelson Mandela’s successor, the president of South Africa, addresses a crowd of — according to theGuardian— tens of thousands, in a giant stadium, and calls for the murder of what amounts to about 10 percent of his constituents. Among the audience, uniformed members of the military dance. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:17am On Sep 01, 2017 |
According to Genocide Watch, the murder rate among South African white farmers is four times higher than among South Africans en masse. That rate increased every month after President Zuma sang his song, for as long as accurate records are available: The police have been ordered to stop reporting murders by race. The police have also disarmed and disbanded groups of farmer-minutemen, organized to provide mutual security. Consequently, says Genocide Watch, “their families” have been “subjected to murder, rape, mutilation and torture.” Meanwhile, “high-ranking ANC government officials . . . continuously refer to Whites as ‘settlers.’” White South Africans have been native for more than 350 years; whites were farming South Africa before Newton discovered gravity. If, however, no length of time erases the stain of colonization, it should be noted that the dominant Bantu peoples of today’s South Africa displaced the Khoisan peoples who lived in South Africa before them. The archaeological record, evidently, is unclear — but it seems that the first Bantu appeared in what is now South Africa about 400 years before the first European. A long time, but not time immemorial. Obviously, this weekend, there are other groups at greater risk of genocide than white South Africans — the Yazidis, for instance, who are in the direst conceivable circumstance, surrounded by ISIS. Who, without Western help, may not survive the month. As disinclined as the West is to help the Yazidis, imagine how uninterested it will be in helping white South Africans, a group still suffused with the stench of apartheid. Four thousand white farmers have already been killed, according toThe Timesof London. Maybe the British will help, or the Dutch. In the meantime, endangered South Africans might try this: They could take advantage of their geography and set up a Singapore-style city-state. With foreign investment, they could purchase a city-sized portion of coastal land and assert independence from the national government. First they’ll want to hire some sympathetic military as a temporary security force. They can set up a low-tax, low-interference economic zone that can compete with Durban for its tremendously large volume of shipping traffic. As South Africa has fallen apart, Durban has slipped off the list of the world’s 50 largest container ports. But whatever happens to South Africa, the south of Africa will remain a vital point in world shipping. In fact, it’s only going to become vital-er, as trade between Brazil and Asia increases. Singapore, at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, built itself as a site of entrepôt trade — exporting imports. It has parlayed that into one of the world’s most advanced economies, a global center of innovation and free enterprise. A new South African city-state could join Singapore and Hong Kong as centers of trade and investment — starting with the investment that would be necessary to build a brand new city-state out of thin air. But one has only to look at Abu Dhabi, Dubai, or any number of Chinese cities to see how fast a city can be built with some will and capital. A South African enclave could attempt its own “Taiwan miracle.” And as this new city-state developed, it would necessarily boost the surrounding economy, and provide jobs for tens of thousands. It might be a fantastical idea. But it might be able to help South Africa back from the brink. And, like Singapore, it could develop a serious self-defense force, modeled, like Singapore’s, on the Israel Defense Forces. So, if necessary, it could help prevent a genocide. As a bonus. |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:27am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Here you can view the sad picture of a country in decline thanks to a dysfunctional regime. To save bandwidth -- which is expensive in South Africa -- each government department has a blog dedicated to it. If this was not done, this blog would be huge and take a long time to download. Click on the headlines or department names and explore the dreadful place that South Africa has become. Sunday, February 18, 2007 ANC AND BUSINESS: SOUL FOR SALE The African National Congress has traded ideals for influence as the party is corrupted by its members' lust for financial gain. The Financial Mail tracks the rot at the heart of SA's most powerful organisation. It was a cool spring evening when an ambulance screeched to a halt outside the ANC's provincial office in Dutoitspan Road, Kimberley. Paramedics were rushing to the aid of the city's first citizen, mayor Patrick Lenyibi, who had been hit by flying teacups thrown during a brawl in the ANC offices. The first cup hit him on the head. The handle of a second lodged itself deep behind the ear after being smashed onto his head with greater force by a senior ANC member. WHAT IT MEANS Bending the rules has become a culture The politics of the ANC has become distorted From several accounts, the fight, which took place in late 2005, was over a tender to supply coupons for pre paid electricity meters. The mayor is said to have implied that it would go to a group of ANC women, the member's mother included, who had already arranged to be trained to run the enterprise. But instead the tender was advertised, as it should have been, with conditions that cut his mother out of the running. The blows were exchanged in the office of provincial secretary Neville Mompati, who strenuously denies that the argument was over a tender. Decisions over tenders should be made by neither the mayor nor the ANC but, according to the Municipal Finance Management Act, by officials in the city's tender committee. However, theory and practice are far apart. Fights over who should get what contract are happening with growing frequency countrywide. It is a matter of embarrassment to the ANC, a party many members proudly think of in terms of its struggle legacy. That legacy is now being severely undermined, and the party seems paralysed. The ANC, as the party in government, is centrally involved in dishing out tenders and contracts. The introduction of commercial interests is one factor that is undermining its proud political footing. Another is the "deployment" of ANC comrades to business. This commercialisation has driven a profound change in the nature of the ANC. Once local ANC meetings were all about policies and strategies - the transformation of SA society according to the ideals the party championed for decades. Now these gatherings are frequently preoccupied with business opportunities and who should have access to them. It's a transformation that wasn't expected. Rather than "transforming the state", as the party describes its goals in official rhetoric, the economy has transformed the ANC. How did it begin? Trouble started for the ANC almost as soon as it took power, with squabbles over control of provincial structures. But it was only when politicians moved into the world of business that the competition for commercial opportunities began to dominate ANC dynamics. ANC national leaders, with their clear accomplishments and talents, provided a ready recruiting ground for white business, wanting to deracialise their leadership and management and, to a lesser extent, their ownership. In many cases, senior ANC members did not detach from the party in order to take advantage of such opportunities. Today, most of the senior leadership at the ANC's Luthuli House headquarters are involved in business (one of the exceptions is ANC secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe). As a result, few are ever there to do party work. In parliament, 40% of ANC MPS are directors of companies, many owning them outright. Such interests are often in construction and mining. The ANC national executive has several ultra-rich members involved in business or, in the case of several cabinet ministers, whose spouses are business high-flyers. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:29am On Sep 01, 2017 |
At the ANC's last national conference five years ago, black economic empowerment (BEE) became ANC policy and engaging in business, to transform the economy, won official recognition as an acceptable revolutionary activity. Quickly, ANC activists at provincial and local level followed the examples of their national leaders and headed into business. On a macro level, looking at the redistribution of wealth and opportunities and the growth of black business and ownership, progress has been slow but positive. But the grassroots picture is not a such a pretty one. Kimberley, for example, is a small city where, after mining, government business is the best game in town. The teacup meeting was not unusual: since 1999, when ANC comrades were first deployed in business, the awarding of tenders has been controversial. Many ordinary members in the ANC say they got the impression from the start that who got what tender was being brazenly staged by their political seniors. At least two senior public servants left their jobs and landed lucrative outsourcing tenders in a matter of weeks, after being "deployed" to business, activists tell the FM, by the top structures of the party. Soon a handful of ANC-aligned businesspeople were winning contract after contract - whether in security, transport or construction. A minor revolt in the party ended in defeat, when a group of rebels from the Kimberley region tabled a resolution at the party's 2001 conference, arguing that BEE should be broad-based and not favour just a selected few. In the Kimberley example, three businessmen stand out as having been particularly successful in winning contracts: Motsamai Rantho, Tshego Motaung and Tyron Ruiters. Rantho and Motaung are former civil servants. All three have at some point been business partners with ANC chairman John Block. Both Motaung and Rantho got their first contracts from Block's department, while he was transport, roads & public works MEC. Motaung, who once worked for Block, won part of a contract to manage the government garage - an enterprise for which Motaung himself had written the specifications before leaving the department to win the tender. Like almost all "emerging" businessmen, contractors in Kimberley donate handsomely to the ANC - sometimes far more handsomely than they would like. One contractor who was asked for a R20 000 donation paid up willingly, he told the FM, but could not afford a second request for more than 10 times that amount. Such donations are common (see "Untold Millions". John Block - Good contact to have Block, it was widely reported, was forced to step down as an MEC in 2003 for splurging public money on hotels and entertainment for himself, his wife and friends, including a trip to Cape Town's jazz festival. In a criminal trial he was acquitted - despite having admitted on television that he did it because he was a "jazz maniac" and hoped that the nation would forgive him. But the days when the Northern Cape's ANC leadership harmoniously discussed placing comrades in business are over. Both the chairman, Block, and the secretary, Mompati, are in business for themselves, alliances are constantly shifting as business deals succeed or fail and though Mompati strongly denies any tension, trust in the ANC is in short supply. "In the Northern Cape," says an ANC member fed up with corruption and the fight for contracts, "we no longer have an ANC leadership. We have an ANC dealership." Behaviour like that in Kimberley is a real problem for the party. Motlanthe, as national secretary-general, has been inundated with complaints from all over, particularly about unfair monopolisation of business opportunities. An endless stream of people have come to his door complaining. Some say they have been betrayed by the ANC, cheated out of tenders or told to cut the friends of certain politicians into their deals. Sometimes ANC colleagues shop one another when they fall out - as when North West premier Edna Molewa reported then Women's League secretary Yvonne Makume to the ANC head office. An ANC official says Makume had written to municipal managers, telling them to dispense with some tender regulations when it came to evaluating her company's bids. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:31am On Sep 01, 2017 |
There is no scientific measure of how bad corruption in SA really is. Organisations like Transparency International measure corruption on the basis of perceptions through interviews. SA comes out reasonably well, rated the second-least corrupt country in Africa. This might reflect the macro picture of SA's big corporates and government departments. But it is certainly a radical underestimation of what is happening at a micro level in provinces and municipalities. Motlanthe, in touch with the ANC's nearly 200 branches, has a better view than most. He believes corruption is far worse than anyone imagines. "This rot is across the board. It's not confined to any level or any area of the country. Almost every project is conceived because it offers opportunities for certain people to make money. A great deal of the ANC's problems are occasioned by this. There are people who want to take it over so they can arrange for the appointment of those who will allow them possibilities for future accumulation," he says. Members the FM interviewed implied that sending contracts the way of an ANC-linked businessman was frequently legitimised by the notion that doing so was "good for the ANC". Often, it is claimed, the profit will be for the ANC itself - a statement, says Motlanthe, that is far more often false than true. Direct donations to the ANC are frequently solicited, sources say. Contractors are also known not just to donate to the party generally but also to bankroll particular factions or individuals, well placed to dispense large contracts. Bending the rules, says Motlanthe, becomes a culture when people lower down see that higher-ups do it. The ANC and its structures are the first stop for anyone hoping to make money out of government contracts. And the party is highly vulnerable to manipulation by those looking to gain influence. Corrupting the ANC is not an expensive business. Membership costs R12/year and the practice of buying members to support an individual in a branch or provincial conference election is common. ANC membership rises and sometimes even doubles in the lead-up to a provincial conference (see graphs). Procedures put in place to confound ghost members had been subverted, Motlanthe said in an official report in July 2005, and people had been able to "capture branches" and "advance self-serving agendas". One local councillor - a community worker of excellent standing who lost his seat on the Emfuleni city council (Vereeniging) when his branch failed to nominate him in 2005 - told the FM the branch nomination process was "mad". "Almost everybody was pushing to get in [as a councillor]. I saw a lot of people I didn't know. These people had just been given membership - they had not been in the organisation at any point before." The impact on the party is clear. Businessman Saki Macozoma says he is deeply concerned about how "the expectation of making money out of government distorts the politics of the ANC". "People who have no interest in advancing the politics of the ANC have stormed in and taken over. Once inside, they displace others - and competence goes out of the window," he says. Access to provincial cabinet positions now carry an additional significance. The highest prize are those with capital budgets to spend: housing, public works, roads and transport. To see how access to such power is distorting the way the party should work, consider another example. Mcebisi Skwatsha - Deployed Mcebisi Skwatsha is the popular secretary of the Western Cape ANC - a position he has held for two terms. Though things have changed now, for many years Skwatsha was one of only a few African members of the ANC on the provincial executive. But though Skwatsha was close to Ebrahim Rasool, the ANC leader before 2005 and the premier since 2004, he wasn't automatically considered by Rasool for appointment to his cabinet. Ebrahim Rasool - Faction fighting in the Western Cape When Rasool put his cabinet together in April 2004, he was lobbied to include Skwatsha by the ANC's national structures. He was given the coveted transport & public works portfolio, which allows him to oversee the valuable property interests of the province, complete with a substantial capital budget. The party was trying to solve another problem. It had become concerned by complaints of a monopoly on economic opportunities by a small group of businessmen in the Western Cape (see case study, "Ethnic wrangling". But not long into his term, Skwatsha's responsibilities were summarily re organised by Rasool, who took the management of government's property assets away from Skwatsha and reallocated them to his office. The FM has been told that Skwatsha was negotiating with businessman Brett Kebble over the disposal of the provincial government's most precious jewel, the Somerset Hospital site, situated near the Waterfront complex and ripe for a multi billion-rand development. Those negotiations have been confirmed by an associate of Skwatsha's. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:33am On Sep 01, 2017 |
The result of the reorganisation was outrage and pandemonium in the ANC. Skwatsha parted ways with Rasool and teamed up with the "Africanist" faction that both had previously disdained. The provincial conference (during which the Skwatsha faction, according to a well-placed source, had its pre conference caucus meeting in a Seapoint hotel bankrolled by Kebble) saw Rasool stripped of much power. He lost his position as chairman and only barely held on to an ordinary seat on the provincial executive. According to sources in the Skwatsha camp, Rasool had one more stab at Skwatsha before losing his position. Two weeks before the provincial conference, Skwatsha was hit by corruption allegations, accused of trying to get a security tender from the city council for his brother's company by using his political influence. Rasool, says a member of the ANC provincial executive, admitted afterwards that he had met the investigating officer twice - which may explain why the police raiding the city's tender offices said in an affidavit that they were doing so on the orders of the premier. Cleared over a year later of any wrong doing by the elite Scorpions unit, the ebullient Skwatsha cracked open a bottle of champagne at a press conference late last year. "The champagne was not just because there was no case against him, but because Rasool had used state resources against him and failed," says a friend. The broedertwis in the Western Cape ANC shows how the arrival of business opportunities has changed political life. SA Communist Party leader and intellectual Jeremy Cronin says that the ideology of the ANC has shifted. While the general thinking used to reflect an organisational and collective approach to change, nowadays the emphasis is an individualistic one, a prevailing notion that "you can get whatever you want, if you want it badly enough". Saki Macozoma - The ANC is being distorted to make money Motlanthe and Macozoma both speak of the rise of the "Lotto mentality" and how the idea that it is possible to become an instant millionaire has taken root. Working for low wages or low returns in a small-scale enterprise is scorned. "People see that others are making reported millions - even though it's actually all debt. Ordinary ANC members ask themselves why not me?'," says Macozoma. So can the ANC get its house in order? For more than 18 months the party has been paralysed by leadership succession. Little else has been discussed at the NEC, the most senior committee of the party, despite a general recognition from across the board that the ANC is rotting from within. A sub committee of the NEC, made up of Macozoma, finance minister Trevor Manuel and others, was recently asked to produce guidelines on how the ANC should deal with the problems arising from its members' dealings in business. This was after Motlanthe rang alarm bells more than 18 months ago at the ANC's national general council, where he warned that the involvement of members in business was destroying the soul of the party. Expedient membership of the ANC Some of the group's suggestions include: declarations of interest for ANC officials; guidelines on what kind of donations the ANC should accept; and the suggestion that a special committee elected at the party's five-yearly national conference deal with disputes between members. Solutions, though, are constrained heavily by two things. The history of political and economic dispossession makes it unlikely that anyone, politician or high-ranking civil servant or not, will be excluded from the exceptional opportunities that BEE provides for wealth accumulation. "You've got to be reasonable and pragmatic about this. Cooling-off periods [where ex-government officials are restricted from participating in the sectors they have regulated] won't work for our generation. Where a person has built up skills and knowledge in an area, you can't tell them they can't participate," says Macozoma. Neither is excluding serving politicians from participation in business a realistic option, he says. "BEE creates a particular opportunity with a limited shelf life - you can't exclude people from it." But more immediately, the ANC is constrained most heavily in finding a solution by its own organisational paralysis. Obsessed with its leadership battle, the party has been rendered incapable of honest self-reflection at a time when it is faced with challenges that can bring about its own destruction. It is crucial for the party to reflect on its own systems and processes. The ANC national conference, at the end of this year, must choose the future leader of the party. But it may be more important to decide the future of the party itself. Motlanthe's words in reference to the Western Cape can be applied to the party as a whole: "I told them that they have no ideological differences; they have no racial differences. They are fighting over control and monopoly of tender processes." 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:36am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Business Day February 2, 2007 THE Institute for Security Studies says the violent nature of aggravated robbery in SA, and the obvious lack of fear of being caught by culprits who pick times when the public is likely to be around, are among the country's most serious crime challenges. Institute researcher Antoinette Louw said yesterday the public perception that crime was out of control could be linked to the violent nature of crime and lack of communication by the police. This was made worse by the public having to wait a year-and-a-half for crime statistics. While crime incidence is 7% higher than it was 12 years ago, there has been a steady decrease over the past three years in most categories. Louw, who has been monitoring the statistics for years, sees this as positive. But the rate of robbery, said Louw, was significantly higher than it was 12 years ago, with common robbery increasing 89% and aggravated robbery by 16% between 1994-95 and 2005-06. Most robbery-type crimes had decreased over the past three years, with the exception of car theft and cash-in-transit heists. "The response of police leaders has left the public with the sense that government, and the police in particular, don't care enough about the problem of crime or its consequences," she said. "What would help is a sincere and informed acknowledgement of the problems, followed by a clear outline of how these will be dealt with in various parts of the country." Louw said Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula's remark last June, that people who "whinge" about crime should leave the country, had not helped. It had not reduced public fears that robberies at shopping malls, banks and homes often targeted people. The threat of rape and murder and that these crimes were generally committed by large groups tends to fuel public fears. After peaking in 2001-02 at 15846, reported robberies declined steadily, reaching 12434 in 2004-05. In the past financial year, robberies increased 3%. Car theft was up 2,5% on 2004-05. Louw attributed this to an increase in the number of registered vehicles and the fact that organised crime was generally rising. The 74% increase in cash-in- transit heists between 2004-05 and 2005-06 was seen as a matter of concern. Factors were more cash in circulation, inadequate cash management, the absence of minimum standards for vehicles, training and vetting among companies that moved cash, and guards generally being outnumbered by criminals during attacks. A decrease in bank robberies because of banks stepping up security could also be a factor. Louw said promises by the police that the next set of crime statistics would be released in early May, rather than in September, were encouraging and would reduce speculation about crime. "Of the information that has been provided to the public it's encouraging to know that organised crime has been identified as a priority and that intelligence capacity and border control will be improved, although we know little about the precise restructuring of the police service." It was also seen as encouraging that Nqakula had hired the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation to help police in understanding violence. Research by Robert Mattes of the Centre for Social Science Research found that while SA police were often better resourced than their African neighbours, the perception of its performance ranked among the lowest on the continent. He said this suggested that "throwing more money" at the police or employing more people would not reduce crime. What was needed was a more community-orientated police service. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:42am On Sep 01, 2017 |
If the primary responsibility of governments is to protect their citizens from murderous criminals and lawless bandits, the Mbeki administration is open to criticism for downplaying the threat posed to South Africa by its high levels of crime. If the second obligation of governments in the age of electricity and the marvels the microchip is to maintain a sufficient and reliable supply of power, President Thabo Mbeki is vulnerable to censure for allowing demand to exceed supply. He cannot fairly be criticised for ignoring or denying that crime is a destructive force in post-apartheid South Africa. He can, however, be reproached for adding so many riders to his admissions of concern that they almost negate them. 'Mbeki asserted that most South Africans would agree with him' Thus, while he referred to crime as "a scourge" in his recent address commemorating the 95th anniversary of the founding of the ANC, he later felt the need to qualify it by describing crime as a problem rather than an out-of-control crisis. In an apparent bid to emphasise his qualifying point, Mbeki asserted that most South Africans would agree with him. He needs to ask himself why, according to the Human Science Research Council's massive social attitude survey, 75 percent of adult South Africans support the execution of convicted murderers, if it is not because they think these criminals are literally getting away with murder. While official police crime statistics point to a steady decrease in several categories of serious crime, including murder, it should be noted that the overall levels are still high and that the decreases need to seen in the context of increases in cash-in-transit robberies and rape, as well as a 7 percent increase in the 21 most serious crimes in the 12 years from 1994 to 2006. In what might be interpreted as a sign that crime is not taken as seriously as it should be, South Africa's programme of action on how to address the deficiencies and weakness in contemporary society does not include crime as one of the problems that needs be tackled urgently. The reason given for that astounding omission from the programme - which was submitted to the African Peer Review secretariat - is a decision by the programme drafters to restrict it to issues where a "discernible impact" can be made through limited and specifically targeted government interventions. The African Union was not impressed, judging by the leaked contents of a report that it sent to Mbeki. The AU urged South Africa to take a tough stand against violent crime and radical action to remedy the underlying causes of poverty and unemployment. Charles Nqakula, the minister of safety and security, has been sharply criticised for failing to take the concerns of opposition members of parliament seriously about the continuing high level of crime. He is on record as advising three opposition parliamentarians to emigrate to another country if they believe crime makes life in South Africa intolerable. His facetious response contains a corollary: the imputation that they do not talk on behalf of the black majority, an insinuation that was repudiated by black as well as white people the next day. On the critical shortage of electricity, and the recurring outages that disrupt the economy, inconvenience the citizenry and impede the flow of traffic on already congested and perilous roads, there is a similar inclination by Mbeki's ministers to belittle the distress of those affected or to deflect blame from themselves and/or the government. Instead of maintaining a tactful silence on the complaints of the businessmen about the loss of production and damage to the economy of the latest major outage - the one that cast a literal pall of gloom over large areas of Johannesburg and Cape Town - Trevor Manuel, the minister of finance, dismissed their estimates of the costs as "overcooked and utter garbage". |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:43am On Sep 01, 2017 |
As Eskom is a state-owned and, ultimately, state-controlled utility, the suspicion exists that Manuel's outburst was a defencive response, an attempt to minimise the damage to the government he serves by minimising the cost of the outage to the economy. Manuel, who has been highly praised for his skillful management of the government's macro-economic policy, is normally a man who chooses his words carefully and presents his case skilfully. His colloquial outburst is not unprecedented, however. He delivered a similar outburst during a budget debate in 2004, when he accused opposition parliamentarians of "speaking voodoo" for daring to press the government to make anti-retroviral drugs available at state health institutions for the treatment of HIV/Aids. As it turned out, the government eventually agreed that there were sound medical reasons to prescribe anti-retroviral drugs as an integral part of its comprehensive treatment plan for the dreaded pestilence. To return to the recurring outages that increasingly characterise South Africa: like Nelson Mandela, Alec Erwin, the minister of public enterprises, is another minister who is generally respected for his cool-headedness and rationality. But late in February last year, as Cape Town's residents seethed because of a series of power cuts and as the national local government elections approached, Erwin further inflamed anger in many households that had reverted to primus stoves to boil water for tea or coffee. In what seemed to be a deliberate intervention to deflect public anger away from the ANC government and the ANC-controlled city council for failing to ensure the supply of power to the city, he raised the spectre of sabotage. He publicly postulated that a loose bolt that had brought a unit of the Koeberg nuclear power station to a standstill had not been caused by incompetent maintenance of the unit but, instead, by a deliberate act of sabotage. Erwin's statement did not save the ANC from defeat in its battle against the Democratic Alliance for the control of Cape Town, however. Later, in August last year, when police investigations failed to establish that saboteurs had been at work, Erwin took another tack. He strongly denied that he had mentioned the word "sabotage", although, he said, at the time there was a "serious possibility" that it had been the work of a saboteur or saboteurs. Unfortunately for Erwin, he was recorded by e.tv news as saying: "This is in fact not an accident… Any interference with any electricity installation is an exceptionally serious crime. It is sabotage." He referred in the same statement to pending legal action and the laying of a charge. Neither occurred. The saga is not over yet. The full cost of folly and incompetence has still to be paid. South Africa's reserve supply of power is well below the international standard of between 10 percent and 15 percent. A winter of discontent looms ominously. 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Satansadvocate(m): 5:45am On Sep 01, 2017 |
A hospital building program in South Africa has been delayed to help pay for the country's hosting of the 2010 football World Cup. The construction of two hospitals in the remote Northern Cape has been held up for a year while funds are diverted to pay for the tournament. The South African Treasury said spending on health was increasing but did not deny that the money had been transferred. The cost of providing new and renovated stadiums for the World Cup is rapidly rising, with construction bills hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. The budget blow-out is due to inadequate government planning. President Thabo Mbeki has staked South Africa's reputation on the success of the World Cup. Surrendered guns used by criminals A "sizable number" of guns surrendered to the police for destruction have mysteriously found their way to criminal syndicates and warring taxi groups. Crooked police working at firearm centres at several police stations countrywide have been selling guns to criminal syndicates. The guns were meant to be kept in safes pending their destruction. We are at war South Africa’s top businessmen have expressed outrage at spiralling crime, saying violent criminals have plunged the country into crisis. Johann Rupert spoke of South Africans “being at war with ourselves”, and Saki Macozoma decried the country’s descent into “criminality” following the murder on Friday of world-renowned KwaZulu- Natal battlefields historian David Rattray at his home. The 49-year-old Anglo-Zulu War expert was shot three times in the chest at his home in Fugitive’s Drift, apparently by would-be robbers, and died in front of his wife Nicky. The historian had influential friends throughout the world. Billionaire businessman and chairman of Swiss luxury goods group Richemont Johann Rupert described the murder as “senseless”. “Is this the society that thousands of people fought and sacrificed their lives for? People who do not believe that our country is in crisis with violent crime must be in denial,” said Rupert. “This is not the type of country I’d hoped my children would live in ... we must now realise that in this country we’re at war with ourselves. South Africa has definitely lost one of its great sons ... he gave his life to promoting Zulu culture,” he said. Businessman, former activist and ANC National Executive Committee member Saki Macozoma described his death as “an example of the criminality that pervades our society.” |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Tuksgrad(f): 6:27am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Satansadvocate: 1. You are talking about hiv/ aids as a Nigerian? Lol. Now I understand why you are called illiterate "learned "man, I will blame that on your secondary school "universities " . Mr let me educate you. You have more people dying of this than any other country cus you have no proper Healthcare or humanity , and you have more children young as 6 months living with the disease, the SADC region thanks to SA and Botswana hospitals now can avoid mother to child transmissions . What does this mean? As lionessza the SA woman educated you in many threads , it means the generation of our people with this disease will decrease as yours increases from one generation to another. Do you know it's a law for any pregnant woman to be tested for the disease as a measure to curb this ?not in cities but in villages as well. The things Nigerians dream of, are a reality down south. Drug addicts would do anything to get a fix , go to America , south and North, go to Asia etc they are creative all over. Starve a man of what he wants the most and he will do and think of anything to get it , like naija people riding the boat to get to onyibo man's land , it's desperation really lol. 2.car jackings ? Remember SA houses over 10 million immigrants many of them illegals and refugees , the biggest number in the world, these lazy and jealous people are too accommodating and welcoming , more than the north of Nigeria ( who want igbos gone) more than lagos ( who want to deport the igbos) ( citizens of nigeria , mind you) . My point here is that the criminals in SA aren't only citizens many of them are foreigners from all over the world and mostly Africa including many desperados like Evans from Nigeria. So when you quote any article written by a random journalist , please keep that in mind lol. During the world cup they hosted the biggest crimes of robbery and kidnappings were committed by Zimbabweans and Nigerians, please check it up. Please also check out the fact that ex military people of Zimbabwe are now professional robbers and hijackers in SA and Botswana, I'm not saying there is no citizen involved . By the way Nigeria has no cars worthy to rob than SADC, SA alone has more than 50 percent of all new cars in the continent . Hence Nigerians in Nigeria choose to kidnap citizens and foreigners for money or use them for rituals. 3. You talk about Europeans investing in SA? Lol. Till today, they feel more comfortable investing in the SADC region than in yours , I wonder why ? . Kenya is the next big thing but not the Giant ? Lol. SA is the gateway to africa and not the Giants lol . 4. Farm murders ? Propaganda from AfriForum that has never been taken seriously not even by the Un or the US , but you are Nigerian and I expect you to swallow anything you are told is Coca-Cola even though it's pure piss mixed with shyt, you're are used to that kind of shyt aren't you ? 5. You can only wish to have less docile youth as the eff and them , trust me. Your youth instead of doing the needful would rather scatter all over the world to countries they never worked for , your youth want comfort but are not willing to sacrifice for it , your youth want to pay their way out of misery instead of working for it , your youth wants good governance but will never unite to get it, your youth want good education but never fight to demand it , your youth wants a good country but refuse to die for it lol etc . See why you are where you are ? You want but can never stand firmly for what you want. Mouth action , tribalism religion were invented in Nigeria lmfao. Those are some of the biggest setbacks in the world 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Tuksgrad(f): 6:38am On Sep 01, 2017 |
goingape1: 7 people from SA who practice canibalism handed themselves over to authorities cus they thought what they were doing was abnormal, and somewhere in west Africa there's a country where a whole state and tribe don't see anything wrong with eating human flesh and making pepper soup out of it lol. There are many parading human heads , and other body parts because they believe they will bring them fortune. Lmfao. Let's look at africa and the prevalence of such mindset ? Which County wins ? 1 Like |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Tuksgrad(f): 6:43am On Sep 01, 2017 |
mansakhalifa: Lol, typical Nigerian. Instead of working you are here wishing and hoping for the day things will change. Things don't change with time you fool , they change when you put effort. Pray all you want but "Allah" and " God" aren't gonna save lazy people,lazy people must learn to rise and do the needful. 2 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Tuksgrad(f): 6:47am On Sep 01, 2017 |
Genea: Sister I feel for Nigerians like you and it seems there are few who see the reality compared to the ones who believe a man stood in the middle of the ocean and didn't sink . I hope your kind gather together and do the needful . 4 Likes |
Re: South African Student On Spending Spree As Her Bank Account Gets $1m In Error by Tuksgrad(f): 6:52am On Sep 01, 2017 |
goingape1: Proud Zoogerian spotted, keep on brother/sister, we expect nothing less lol. |
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