Eish FB again!

@Diva1

Hope u not killing yoself with self-blame o. Take it easy sha. All has been said by the wiser,


@Sistawoman

Ja nheh, u said it all again. Wise words u used there, nothing do u jare

Reuters
Monday, 16 March 2009

Australia will cut its intake of migrants for the first time in a decade, the government said today, amid concern that skilled foreign workers could stoke resentment by taking jobs at a time of rising unemployment.
With a recession looming and the centre-left government expecting unemployment to reach 7 per cent by mid-2010, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the intake of skilled migrants would be reduced by about 14 per cent.

Australia goes to the polls in late 2010 and immigration has been a charged issue in past polls, particularly following economic downturn.
A leading migration expert, former government official Bob Kinnaird, said record recent migrant arrivals in a fast shrinking job market were leading to "highly combustible" conditions in regional areas, where many new arrivals had settled.
Australia is a nation of immigrants and has been enjoying a boom in new arrivals for the past decade to help meet labour shortages as a China-fuelled mining boom drove unemployment rates to 30-year lows.

But six of Australia's major trading partners are now in recession and economic growth has stalled. The country moved a step closer to recession this month with the first contraction in eight years and the economy shrinking by 0.5 per cent.
Australia's jobless rate spiked to 5.2 per cent from 4.8 per cent last month with the biggest impact felt by full-time workers. Some economists fear unemployment levels could go as high as 10 per cent.
Evans said the immigration intake next year would be cut to 115,000, from 133,500 in 2008-09.

In major resource states Queensland and Western Australia, retrenched mine workers returning to their home towns found that jobs there had been filled by foreign workers, sparking resentment, Kinnaird said.

"You could say in those last few months that madness has reigned," he told the Brisbane Times newspaper.
The ruling Labor Party, with its roots in the workers' movement, should have acted sooner to cut migration as economic conditions cooled to lance any voter backlash and ease tensions in critical country voting areas, he said.
But the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the government needed to be wary of tinkering with immigration, as many skilled employment areas still faced a worker shortage and lack of workers could crimp an economic recovery.
"We would have preferred a status quo position," chamber Chief Executive Peter Anderson said.
Evans, who removed hairdressers and cooks off Australia's critical occupation shortage list at Christmas, said he was now also deleting foreign bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters and electricians from the list that guides skilled migration intake.
Further cuts were likely in the 12 May budget, he said, leaving only health occupations, engineering and information technology skills as needed skills.

"What we'll look to do is run a smaller programme and keep the capacity to make sure we can bring in any labour we might need as the year develops," Evans said.
The government hopes its recently announced A$42bn (£19bn) stimulus package, including cash handouts and infrastructure spending, will help the economy through the downturn.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-slashes-immigration-as-recession-looms-1646048.html

This is hot news in SA and among SA ex-pats.

My problem is that the SA media is now alleging "Frank", the Brazilian link, as Nigerian?? Why? Because the drug mule alleges that "Frank" was too dark and has foreign accent similar to the Nigerian one

WTF?

Sheryl Cwele, married to minister of intelligence Siyabonga Cwele, has been directly linked to a KwaZulu-Natal mother arrested in Brazil with an estimated R3-million worth of raw cocaine while en route back to SA last year.
Siyabonga Cwele was chairman of parliament’s intelligence committee at the time.
Sheryl Cwele, a high-ranking municipal official on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, is linked to the unemployed Margate woman, Tessa Beetge, through scores of e-mails, SMSes and prison letters.

Beetge left South Africa on May 21 last year. She travelled to Colombia and Peru before being arrested in Brazil on June 13. She was in transit to Johannesburg when a 9kg block of cocaine was found in her suitcase at São Paulo airport.
The 31-year-old has been in Brazil’s Penitenciaria Feminina Da Capital prison since then. She has yet to be charged.
Beetge’s family say she was offered an overseas job by Cwele, a former neighbour who she’d known for many years. Beetge’s parents met Cwele in her office at the municipality before the trip, when she provided them with details of the job offer.
But Cwele said yesterday that a Johannesburg friend of Beetge’s had organised the trip, and that Beetge had asked Cwele to pretend to her parents that she had arranged it.
She claimed that Beetge had asked her to “make up” the text messages between the two so she could show them to her mother.
“I’m innocent, I wish I’d never helped her, but I trusted her and I felt sorry for her,” said Cwele. “I don’t know whether I’m a stupid Christian or not.”
She added: “If there is an official investigation, I will co-operate.”

A South African crime intelligence official said the Beetge case involved organised crime and “much bigger players”. He said the police investigation would be completed by the end of April, but refused to divulge details.
SA Police Service spokesman Director Sally de Beer said police were “aware of the detention of Tessa Beetge but because of our policy of not giving out information on ongoing investigations, I am unable to give out any details at this point”.
It has been established that Cwele is under investigation.

I[b]n 30 detailed text messages between Beetge and Cwele, director of community services for the Hibiscus Coast Municipality in Uvongo, between May 2 and 29 2008, Cwele:
• Talks to Beetge about a “business venture”;
• Makes flight, collection and visa arrangements for her;
• Orders her to pack warmly and offers her own “good luck” coat for the trip;
• Puts her in touch with her brother “Frank” and wife “Nomsa” in Johannesburg; and
• Tells her she will receive R25,000.[/b]

Beetge told her family in a letter from prison that Frank turned out to be a man with a foreign accent.
The Sunday Times has established that the two women remained in touch after Beetge left South Africa.
On May 13, Cwele SMSed Beetge to say she had “arranged 4 u 2 leave in the morning so u can pack nicely, ” She wrote later : “Pack warm clothes, I’ll borrow you my warm Gudluck coat!”
The coat was brought home to SA along with Beetge’s suitcase after her mother visited her in prison last September.
On May 26, five days after Beetge left Johannesburg, Cwele sent her an SMS saying: “Missing u lots my friend when are you coming back? Hope ure enjoying urself. Plz prepare ur cv when u get back ! SHERYL.”
Three days later, Tessa replied: “Sheryl, what are you up to? I’m sitting in Peru at the moment and really just want to go home! Have you spoken to Frank? Please keep in touch with my mom, Tess.”
A week before her arrest, Beetge e-mailed Cwele from Peru to ensure that, should anyone phone them, “we both have facts that are the same”.
In another e-mail to Cwele from Peru, Beetge complains about the delay in returning home: “I’m getting a little upset about it because mom is asking questions, I can’t keep telling her I’m coming home and then I don’t, Next time we go together, what you think?” Beetge wrote.
Three days later, on June 8, Cwele sent an e-mail from her official municipal e-mail address to Beetge’s Hotmail address, saying: “Frank told me about the delay which is for your own good really, avoid people who may end up asking a lot of questions, hang in there.”
Beetge was arrested five days later.

Beetge’s distraught parents said this week that their daughter was a scapegoat.
“I believe that she’s innocent because I don’t believe for one minute that she could do it on her own,” said her mother, Marie Swanepoel.
After Beetge called her mother to say she had been arrested, Swanepoel reported the case to police in Fish Hoek in the Western Cape, fearing that officers on the South Coast may be too closely linked to Cwele. She later reported it to a local policeman known to the family, who referred it to crime intelligence in Pretoria.
Swanepoel, who had accompanied their daughter to Cwele’s office in Uvongo to discuss the trip, claimed Cwele had said Beetge would be sent to London to do administrative work and would return home on June 5.
After Beetge’s arrest, Swanepoel said, Cwele denied knowing “Frank” in Johannesburg or that Beetge had been in Colombia and Peru.
In an e-mail addressed to Beetge’s aunt, Margie Olsen, on June 27, Elzanne Groenewald of the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Beetge’s arrest for alleged drug trafficking.
On Friday the department said it was “rendering consular assistance” to Beetge.
Minister Siyabonga Cwele said yesterday that he knew Beetge as a former neighbour but knew nothing of her allegations against his wife.
In letters to her parents, Beetge consistently implicates Cwele in the doomed trip.
“I’m doing everything to help the police and I’m co-operating but it feels like nothing is done about it, I have told them about Frank and Sheryl and that she is married to ‘Mr Cwele’ of parliament and of Frank’s friend Charles of the guest lodge in Jhb, One John 5 Four, ” Beetge wrote on July14 last year.
She said she’d given descriptions of the two men’s cars and one registration number to SA consular officials in Brazil.
On August 19 she asked her mother to locate the son of an IFP MP, Sybil Seaton. “His mom is in parliament in CT with Sheryl’s husband Mr Cwele, maybe she can find out and help my case?”

On 15 September : “I don’t know if the people in SA are finding anything to get Frank and Sheryl behind bars because living here is pure hell, I wish I could catch Frank and Sheryl myself but to me it’s like SA police don’t really want to get the bad guys,
On 16 October 2008: “I’m only guilty of trusting Sheryl, what came out of her mouth was all but lies, God knows her and what she has done and God will judge her sooner than she thinks!, God is not asleep.”

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=959364

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/PDFs/Drugbust1503.pdf

KHANYISILE MBAU is an attention seeker, finish 'n klaar. This girl has a borderline personatility disorder, so why believe her!

Infact, about 2 weeks she admitted that, her allegations were all lies: Shame on her for trying to disgrace Mzantsi girls. NXXXXXXXAAAAAA

http://www.sundayworld.co.za/swzones/sundayworldNEW/news/news1235850559.asp

MrCrackles:

I do man, but that thing in me just feel they over reacted based on what the fellas looked like

Spate of robberies in Chesire my ass!

If i was some white middle aged looking aristocrat with a classy lady by my side, looking in the mirror of a jeweller at Knutsford, will i nicked?

NAH!

If they knew it was Anichebe, they prolly wont jump on them straightaway, but the sensors in them triggered bleeping NIGGAS, GET EM

Very funny yet true.

debosky:

It's racial. How can a guy in a cast be trying to case a shop?

Why should they handcuff someone during questioning? Bullshit if you ask me - it was definitely racial.
Let them handcuff Gerrard and Carragher that way first.

Definately and there is just no justification for it, They won't dare try it to British Black Footballers. Funny enough, if he was on the wrong side of the law, the police would have recognised him straight away. Why they didn't recognise him first time buffles me.

Imagine what would have happened if it was an ordinary citizen like me or you? nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa

MrCrackles:


It is pathetic, i mean what pace will a fella in a caste and severe pains have to elude the Micky Dees eating cops of UK?

Mehhn, stop jocking. This is a serious matter o.

bawomolo:

this is a case of profiling whether racial or not.

very true o

TOYOSI20:


so it now has become a CRIME??

Its pathetic to say the least abeg!!

Ask again.

Aloy.Emeka:

Coolio once stole a wrist watch and a Senegalese player shop lifted in japan during the 2002 world cup.

Were they outside the shops? I'm sure their fingures/hands are that long,

~Sauron~:

So why are we blaming the PIGS for doing their job??

They only "do their job" to Black innocent people, abi?

~Sauron~:

Anybody can steal.
They got him arrested for "casing" the joint due to the grab-n [b]smash robbery that happened on Oxford street some few days ago.[/b]It coulda been a Caucasian or an Asian.

Afterall, Kalilou Fadiga(Senegalese player) stole a piece of bracelet during a world cup competition.

Those White boys were doing it for the 2nd time in 3 weeks, wearing balacclavas and the whole disguise clothing, armed with dangerous weapons and didn't care less about spectators taking their videos/pictures. Up to 2day, not a single person has been arrested, let alone detained for questioning.

Where were CCTV operators and armed emergency response? nxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxim

MrCrackles:

They even tried to grab his crutches in order to prevent him from running, in case he tried to!

There is a "colour reputation" element to it jare!

Twats!

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaha ha hahahaha hihihihihihi ! Oh dear! For the first I cracked up about this

Happy birthday Tgirl!

Wishing u many, many more 2 come. May the Lord continue blessing u always, Amen.


Hope u had great day o

With warmest wishes

TOYOSI20:

It sure is, even undermining the whole celeb. status thing too!!

My dear,

It undermines the whole Black race including Mandela and Obama

~Sauron~:

It's not hard out there. . . . .Bawolomo, i would sue your ass.
He was questioned not locked up.

He was detained wearing a leg cast following a surgery and his friend was actually handcuffed

Oga, pliz read the comments on dailymail website, from white people and still tell me its not hard in the Western world 2 b Black. For white people 2 b angered by this ridiculous act says a lot

@ Tgirl,

thanx baby,

This is racism at its best! Haba

Police swoop on black Premiership footballer looking in jeweller's window, because they thought he was 'casing' it

A Premier League footballer who was looking into a jeweller's window was swooped on by police who thought the star was casing the shop.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161443/Police-swoop-black-Premiership-footballer-looking-jewellers-window--thought-casing-it.html

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@ Siena,

nice interview & cool pix,


@ Tgirl

Great job, as always. Keep it up gal,

na wa oo! Heh chineke, I tire 4 Naija. Still funny tho, ha ha ha ha ,

onyinye2:

BWAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH GAWD!!!   OH GAWD!! ! OH GAWD!!!

Jeevus Crisp on Sunday Afternoon. . . . . . that was some funny shit.

@post
Man that is some funny shit right there. I mean hahahahahaha. . . . .  the part with the cave had me tearing up. Seriously after him not wanting to take his clothes off. . . . . I would have just left. Drive myself to Luby's or something. I mean let me recuperate from the disappointment away from you.

U know, I'm one person who doesn't get hurt easily and most of the time I find most of the things funny. Hence I laugh & laugh & laugh even at thing that should b annoying. To be honest with u, how I felt that whole weekend in Brighton, I still cannot explain it. I felt embarrassed, guilty, angry, hurt, disappointed,,,,,,,, I wanted 2 crack up hard and laugh it out but I could, I just didn't any emotions!! I was practically numb,

Now I laugh at it tho