“Grondbesettings nie verkeerd nie” – Malema

Metropolisielede het op 12 November 2014 met rubberkoeëls op klipgooiers by Nellmapius in die ooste van Pretoria losgebrand nadat die persone onwettig plakkershuise wou oprig. Foto: Daniella van Heerden/eNuus, Twitter

Julius Malema, leier van die Ekonomiese Vryheidsvegters (EFF), het Vrydag gesê daar was niks verkeerd met die poging tot grondbesetting in Nellmapius, Pretoria-Oos, vroeër vandeesweek nie.

“Dit is die progressiewe programme wat oral in Suid-Afrika moet gebeur,” het hy aan verslaggewers in Johannesburg gesê. Indien die regering nie aan die mense grond kan gee nie, moet hulle dit vat. “Dit is ons grond. Hulle moet dit vat. As jy nie die massa kan lei nie, gaan hulle dit self doen.”

Malema het gesê hy gee nie om of dit staatsgrond of privaat besit is nie, en die EFF is nie skaam oor hierdie deel van die struggle nie. Hy het gesê daar gaan meer van hierdie “programme” wees ná die party se nasionale vergadering wat na verwagting in Desember gehou gaan word.

Nellmapius-inwoners het Woensdagoggend probeer om plakkershuis op die grond op te rig. Die ANC in Gauteng het gesê die grond is geoormerk vir laekostebehuising. Die plakkershuise is gesloop en die inwoners was ontstoke. Hulle het Tshwane-metropolisiebeamptes met klippe bestook en paaie met klippe, boomtakke en brandende bande versper. Die metropolisiebeamptes het met rubberkoeëls op hulle losgebrand.

Vusi Msiza, voorsitter van die EFF se Nellmapius-tak, het gesê die grondbesetting het al verlede Sondag begin. “Daar was mense wat probeer het om die plakkershuise op te rig. Die EFF het besluit om die gemeenskap te ondersteun omdat ons almal hierdeur geraak word,” het hy Woensdag gesê.

15-11-2014 om 09:54 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

Equatoriaal-Guinea organiseert de Africa Cup

14-11-2014 om 18:44 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

Arcelor-Mittal in die Weegskaal

VANDERBIJLPARK – Arcelor-Mittal (AMSA), voorheen Yskor (“Iscor”), se aanleg in Vanderbijlpark is glo finansieel in die knyp, en as die aanleg sou sluit, sal dit ernstige implikasies vir 140,000 mense inhou.

In reaksie op die nuus dat AMSA se aanleg in Vanderbijlpark moontlik oor agt maande sy deure kan sluit, net Mnr. Mike Schüssler van “Economists” gesê dit sal ’n ramp vir die land en die Vaaldriehoek se ekonomie wees. Sowat 7 800 mense werk by AMSA, maar derduisende meer is indirek afhanklik van die maatskappy.

Themba Nkosi, korporatiewe bestuurder van kommunikasie by AMSA, het gesê dat dit ‘n domino-effek op sowat 140 000 mense kan hê. Hulle maak nie winste nie en is heeltyd in die rooi. “Die skip sal omgedraai móét word,” het hy gesê. “Ons het tot Julie 2015 om sake reg te stel.”

Nkosi het Vrydag op ’n mediakonferensie beklemtoon dat AMSA se aanleg in Vanderbijlpark onder geweldige druk is omdat hy nie met die Chinese staalpryse kan meeding nie. Die regering laat die Chinese toe om hul goedkoop staal in Suid-Afrika te stort. Mense moet besef AMSA in Vanderbijlpark is nie te groot om heeltemal te vou nie.

Wat sake vir die aanleg nog moeiliker maak, is dat die Nywerheidsontwikkelingskorporasie (NOK), ’n regeringsinstelling, in September 2014 aangekondig het dat hy saam met die Chinese yster-en-staalgroep Hebei ’n moderne staalaanleg van R45-miljard in Phalaborwa wil bou. Schüssler het gesê die regering is besig om die land op ’n skinkbord aan China te gee. As AMSA toemaak, sal Vanderbijlpark soos Rustenburg (waar stakings by die platinum-myne hul tol geëis het), en Welkom (waar goud byna uitgemyn is) ekonomies erg geknou word. Hierdie situasie is uiters ernstig.

Volgens Nkosi kan die regering se planne om in 2016 koolstof-belasting in te stel, die laaste strooi vir die aanleg wees. AMSA in Vanderbijlpark blaas jaarliks sowat 15 miljoen ton koolstofdioksied die lug in. Dit beteken dat AMSA (ingevolge die Kioto-verdrag wat Suid-Afrika onderteken het) jaarliks sowat R600 miljoen aan koolstof-belasting sal moet betaal.

Intussen het Paul O’Flaherty, uitvoerende hoof van AMSA, in ’n verklaring gesê die “persepsie” wat geskep is dat die aanleg in Vanderbijlpark binnekort sy deure sal moet sluit, nie akkuraat is nie. Hy het gesê dié aanleg, die naas oudste in die AMSA-stal, werk onder baie moeilike omstandighede en ’n omdraaistrategie word dringend benodig. Daar word verneem dat O’Flaherty dringende gesprekke met die regering voer om eerder geld in die Vanderbijlpark-aanleg te belê pleks van om ’n nuwe staalaanleg in Phalaborwa te begin.

Volgens ontleders dui syfers daarop dat 52% van Vanderbijlpark se ekonomie in 2009 van AMSA afhanklik was. Die huidige syfer is sowat 20%.

14-11-2014 om 18:05 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

Esethu Hasane recently wrote an article titled: "Racist whites no longer offend me, but blacks do".

I saw the heading and thought, wow this must be something good. Then I started reading the article and it was quite sad to see how the author still looks at our SA society as us and them.

Firstly I just wish to mention that as a white person I have an African female friend that used to be my co worker but still work in the same environment. We talk about these things quite often and she like many others agree that there's still a misperception that blacks can't be racist.

Mr Hasane neglect to admit the short comings of Africans in this regard as well, where we've experienced racism across the board, blacks included. We are all the same, black, white, coloured and indian. So how is it possible that only one race can be racist and not the other.

So Mr. Hasane as a young black person, I've got news for you. It is possible for blacks to be racist as well and it's indeed A FACT THAT BLACKS ARE JUST AS MUCH RACISTS LIKE ANY OTHER GROUP in SA. Whenever someone of the same race tend not to agree with the mainstream argument of that particular race, we all want to make him out as a coconut(blacks)or a hanskakie(white) or a sell out (colourds), etc. 

We need to excel and rise above that type of thinking, but it can only happen if there's a definite willingness to do so. What we're also still struggling with in the modern SA is the manner in which different cultures act and think . Sometimes it's not the skin colour but the culture we're struggling with.

Like the bible says our struggle is not against flesh and blood.........we can relate by completing the phrase...........its not against the skin color but against the culture. We perceive certain things in different ways according to our believe and culture and that's where most of the problems originate.

The cartoon issue according to white, indian and coloured outlooks are not perceived as racist, but most Africans do see it as such. And that's where I believe we're still struggling -  the specific viewpoint of our people in the different cultures.

The solution???.........I believe extensive diversity training where we need to understand one another and not only one group demanding certain things, without being willing to provide something back. Further than that we will keep on struggling with these issues if we don't address it effectively over time.

He's viewpoint isn't factual at all, has never been researched in any way, but still this inaccurate stance and his misperception of reality is printed as the alpha and omega of modern day SA.

If we're all equal as we so much want to claim, then surely there's good and bad in everyone, irrespective of colour and creed and we should not be allowed to make such bias claims which could further damaged the image of this wonderful country.

14-11-2014 om 13:17 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

For decades, the country of South Africa was the focus of an international rallying cry against the injustices of apartheid. On June 17, 1991, South Africa’s Parliament abolished the legal framework for the practice of racial persecution. In 1994, Nelson Mandela and his Marxist African National Congress (ANC) assumed the reins of power. The international community looked away, satisfied that justice had prevailed. They continue to look away, even as South Africa has degenerated into another racist pit, best described by an Afrikaner farm owner: “It’s politically correct to kill whites these days.”

In July of 2012, Dr. Gregory Stanton, head of the nonprofit group Genocide Watch, conducted a fact-finding mission in South Africa. He concluded that there is a coordinated campaign of genocide being conducted against white farmers, known as Boers. “The farm murders, we have become convinced, are not accidental,” Stanton contended. “It was very clear that the massacres were not common crimes,” he added — especially because of the absolute barbarity used against the victims. “We don’t know exactly who is planning them yet, but what we are calling for is an international investigation,” he added.

The number of farm murders, or “plaasmoorde” as it is called in Afrikaans, is staggering. Over the last decade, it is estimated that at least 3000 Boers have been killed. Estimating the number of murders is necessary because the ANC has banned crime statistics from being compiled, claiming they scare off foreign investment. Moreover, the world knows little about the savagery that accompanies those killings. Many victims, including women and infant children, are raped or tortured before they are killed. Some have boiling water poured down their throats, some are burned with hot pokers, and some are hacked to death with machetes, or disemboweled. Several others have been tied to their own cars and dragged for miles.

The ANC, whose leader Jacob Zuma was reelected with over 75 per cent of the total voting delegates at the ANC National Conference held in Bloemfontein last December, denies that genocide is occurring, insisting that such attacks are part of the larger crime problem. Yet a report filed by the South African Institute of Race Relations notes that while crime has ostensibly declined between 1994 and 2011, “substantial numbers” of police stations have manipulated their crime statistics. The report sub-headline underscores the corrupt nature of crime statistics in the country: “Is this a true reflection of the crime statistics in South Africa? Who knows!” it states.

What is known is that the ANC celebrated in 100th year anniversary with a song led by President Zuma himself. “Dubula iBhunu” or “Shoot the Boer” was a line in the lyrics of an apartheid-era song, “Ayesaba Amagwala” (“the cowards are scared”) that violates the South Africa constitution prohibiting the “advocacy of hatred that is based on race … and that constitutes incitement to cause harm.”  Yet Zuma apparently felt no compunction to refrain from singing it, because the ANC considers it an integral part of the anti-apartheid movement that is part of their heritage.

In 2010, Julius Malema, then leader of the ANC Youth League, revived the practice of singing the song after many years. After the South Africa High Court ruled it was hate speech, the ANC appealed. Last October, the ANC and AfriForum, a lobby group that wanted the song banned from public performance, reached an out-of-court settlement.

Dr. Stanton concluded that Malema’s revival of a song advocating murder moved South Africa from the fifth stage on his genocidal scale to stage six. When the South African judiciary ruled it to be unlawful hate speech, Genocide Watch put South Africa back at stage five. When President Zuma was caught on tape January 2012 singing, “We are going to shoot them with the machine gun, they are going to run/You are a Boer, we are going to hit them, and you are going to run/shoot the Boer…” South Africa was raised to stage six once again.

Stage six is known as Preparation: “Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved.”

The sixth stage is followed by stage seven: Extermination.

In December, more than 200 protesters of the Afrikaner civil rights group AfriForum, which included families of murdered farmers and survivors of farm attacks, marched in the capital city of Pretoria. They were commemorating the second anniversary of the murders of farm caretaker Attie Potgieter and his family. Potgieter was stabbed and hacked 151 times with a knife, a fork, and a machete, while his wife and two-year-old daughter were forced to watch. They were then executed with shots to the head. “If you kill a rhinoceros in South Africa, you get more time in jail then if you kill a person,” said Susan Nortje, 26, Mrs. Potgieter’s younger sister. “I don’t think people understand. We must show people what’s really happening.”

The group is calling for attacks on South Africa’s mostly white farmers to be designated a crime of national priority. They delivered a memorandum to the country’s police minister, Nathi Mthethwa, urging him to give the murder of farmers the same level of urgency aimed at rhinoceros poachers and copper cable thieves. Mthethwa was not present at the time, but police spokesman Zweli Mnisi accused the protesters of “grandstanding.” “They are only representing people based on their color,” he contended. “For us, racializing crime is problematic. You can’t have a separate category that says, farmers are the special golden boys and girls. You end up saying the life of a white person is more important. You cannot do this,” he added.

Yet according to Johan Burger, a senior researcher with the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies’ crime and justice program, white farmers’ concerns are legitimately “special.” He reveals that it is now twice as dangerous to be a farmer in South Africa than a police officer. The overall murder rate in the nation is 31.9 per 100,000 people, 30 times that of Great Britain. For police it’s 51 out of 100,000. For farmers, who are overwhelmingly white, the rate soars to 99 out 100,000. Burger rejects the notion that such a rate constitutes genocide–even as he concedes that many murderers “take out their hatred for all those past wrongs, and show who’s in control now.”

Like so many societies where demonstrating who’s in control becomes a necessity, disarming the population becomes a priority. In 2010, the ANC-led regime changed the Firearms Registration Act, demanding that all legal guns be re-registered by July 31, 2011. In the process of re-registration, more than half the applicants were turned down, and 90 percent were turned down again on appeal. Thus, white farm families were forced to relinquish their last line of defense against the tens of thousands of criminal gangs roaming the countryside–armed with AK47s. and as Genocide Watch noted on its website last July one more step was taken as well. “The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons,” it reported. “Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.”

There is also a movement, much like the one that occurred in Zimbabwe, to confiscate white farmers’ land. Julius Malema led the charge, saying all whites are criminals, and that his ANC Youth League members were going to take all the land back without compensation, unless farmers relinquish 80 percent of it. At a conference in 2011, Malema reiterated his plans, contending that the nation’s “willing buyer, willing seller” program, aimed at redistributing 30 percent of white-owned land to blacks within the first five years of the country’s democracy (a deadline later shifted to 2014, and then to 2025), wasn’t working. “You can never be diplomatic about willing-buyer, willing-seller. It has failed. You have not come with an alternative,” said Mr. Malema at the time. “We are giving you an alternative; we must take the land without payment.”

That is a recipe for famine, as revealed by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti. In 2009, he told Parliament that more than half of the farms purchased for black farmers, at a cost of $891 million in government outlays, had either failed or were “declining.”

Yet ANC president Zuma remains undeterred. “The structure of the apartheid economy has remained largely intact,” Mr. Zuma said, in a speech given June 26, 2012 to thousands of delegates at ANC’s policy conference, held every five years, where the party’s pre-presidential election platform is discussed. “The ownership of the economy is still primarily in the hands of white males, as it has always been.”

Embedded in that platform is the idea that making peace with white South Africans following the end of apartheid has “hampered” the transfer of wealth to black South Africans. Thus, a “second transition,” was proposed, which even the see-no-progressive-evil New York Times was forced to concede represents a “sharp leftward shift for the A.N.C., which despite its roots has largely backed a free-market economy with minimal state intervention.”

Stanton sees a bigger picture. In a speech in Pretoria, organized by the Transvaal Agricultural Union, Stanton claimed the ANC was demonizing white farmers, who have been in South Africa since the 1600s, by calling them “settlers.” A Genocide Watch reports reveals the strategy behind those efforts. “High-ranking ANC government officials who continuously refer to Whites as ‘settlers’ and ‘colonialists of a special type’ are using racial epithets in a campaign of state-sponsored dehumanization of the White population as a whole,” it stated. “They sanction gang-organized hate crimes against Whites, with the goal of terrorizing Whites through fear of genocidal annihilation.”

ANC President Jacob Zuma continues to fan the flames of racial division. Last December, he admonished black South Africans for being dog owners, saying that doing so amounts to copying white culture. Zuma’s office contended the message was aimed at “the need to decolonize the African mind post-liberation.”

It is a post-liberation effort that remains alarmingly on track to emulate all the other historically blood-soaked efforts by Marxists, who invariably need an enemy at whom to direct their anger. White African farmers are that enemy. Pieter Mulder, leader of political party FF Plus and South Africa’s deputy agriculture minister, who was focused on the excesses of Julius Malema a year and a half ago, nevertheless offered an inadvertently prescient statement about his country’s future. After noting that Malema and his ilk were attempting to take the country “back to the period before 1994 when violence and even the possibility of a civil war was part of the South African debate” he revealed why such forces remain seemingly unstoppable. “We don’t have a Mandela that stands up and says: ‘This is wrong,’” he warned.

14-11-2014 om 13:14 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

Vuiste klap in parlement

Chaos het op 13 November in die Nasionale Vergadering uitgebreek. Foto: Twitter

 

Donderdagavond is de de politie het Zuid-Afrikaans parlement binnengestormd.

 

De politie werd opgeroepen nadat Ngwanamakwetle Mashabela , parlementslid van de Economische vrijheidsstrijders ( EFF ) , weigerde om het podium te verlaten . Ze heeft president Jacob Zuma tijdens een debat een " dief " genoemd en weigerde om haar uitlating in te trekken .

 

Ze weigerde het podium te verlaten. Politieagenten hebben zijn aan haar armen beginnen te trekken . Daarop schreeuwde dat ze haar mochten aanraken.

 

Kamerleden van de oppositiepartijen waren woedend en hebben Mashabela verdedigd. Het kwam tot een handgemeen nadat -volgens de politie- de Kamerleden van de DA en EFF zijn beginnen stampen.

 

Toen de politieagenten met Mashabela waren vertrokken, hebben de leden van de beschermingsdienst deze aangesproken en hebben ze gezegd dat de politie niet bevoegd is voor de Nationale Vergadering, het Zuid-Afrikaanse parlement. Het is niet duidelijk wie de politie opdracht had gegeven om in te grijpen .

 

John Steenhuisen ,DA 's hoofdman , was woedend . " Vier van mijn [ DA ] -leden , waarvan twee vrouwen zijn door de politie aangevallen , " heeft Steenhuisen gezegd . De leden zijn Terri Stander , Gordon Mackay , Denise Robinson en Dean Macpherson . Stander werd gestampt en is op de vloer gevallen voordat politieagenten op haar zijn beginnen stappen! Steenhuisen heeft gezegd dat de Kamerleden klacht zullen indienen van mishandeling door de politieagenten. " Ik denk dat dit het laagste punt in de postd-emocratische geschiedenis (sic) van het land . Er komt een crisis"

 

De EFF heeft inmiddels gezegd dat zij een vergadering zullen houden over hun volgende stappen en heeft al aangegeven klacht te zullen indienen tegen de betrokken politieambtenaren.

 

De chaos was donderdagmiddag al begonnen toen een discussie in het parlement uitbrak . Spreker Baleka mbete wilde de tijdsduur van de Nationale Vergadering veranderen en dat had al tot ernstige verzet geleid van de oppositiepartijen.

 

Mijn opinie:

 

En zo kunnen we vaststellen dat niet alleen alle straatnamen en dorpen Afrikaanse namen hebben gekregen, maar dat ook de mentaliteit volledig Afrikaans wordt, zelfs tot in het parlement. Voor 1994 was het Afrikaans parlement stijlvol Brits met de nodige regels in verband met hoffelijkheid. Nu is het een circus waar wordt geroepen en gevochten. Dat is toonaangevend voor het ganse land, waar momenteel wordt gestolen, gevochten en gedood als nooit tevoren.

 

Gisteren was er nog een hetze over het gemanipuleerde interview van Dan Roodt in het Amerikaanse satirische programma The Daily news. Roodt’s woorden werden uit de context gehaald en Roodt werd in het programma voorgesteld als een extreem-rechtse racistische blanke. Nochtans vertelde Roodt geen enkele leugen. De Hollanders hebben veel goed gedaan in het land, ze hebben wegen aangelegd, de economie ontwikkeld, hospitalen en scholen gebouwd, net zoals alle koloniale regimes in Afrika overigens. Roodt betoogde dat vele Zuid-Afrikanen met heimwee terugkijken naar de tijd voor 1994. Net zoals de Congolezen dromen over de tijd dat de Belgen nog actief waren in het land. Maar blijkbaar is dat allemaal racistisch. Blijkbaar hebben de blanken alleen maar onheil gebracht in het continent en is het nu allemaal veel beter.

 

Men moet eerlijk blijven. Elk regime dat een indeling maakt op basis van huidskleur is racistisch. Maar niets is zwart-wit. Elke nadeel heeft ook een voordeel. De slingerbeweging die Zuid-Afrika nu maakt, is van het ene extreme naar het andere. Men mag niet alles van de Hollanders afkraken. Dat is fundamenteel oneerlijk.

Afrikaans:

Vuiste het geklap toe lede van die polisie se openbare-orde-eenheid Donderdagaand in die Nasionale Vergadering ingestorm het.

Die polisie is ontbied nadat Ngwanamakwetle Mashabela, LP van die Ekonomiese Vryheidsvegters (EFF), geweier het om die podium te verlaat. Sy het president Jacob Zuma tydens ʼn debat as ʼn “dief” beskryf en geweier om haar uitlating terug te trek.

Sy het na nóg ʼn versoek en poging om haar te begelei, steeds geweier om die podium te verlaat. Polisielede het kort hierna opgedaag haar aan haar arms begin trek. Sy het glo geskree dat hulle nie aan haar moet raak nie.

LP’s van die opposisiepartye was woedend en het tot Mashabela se verdediging gekom. Die vuiste het begin klap toe polisiebeamptes glo die LP’s van die DA en EFF gestamp het nadat hulle tussenbeide probeer tree het.

Toe die polisiebeamptes met ʼn geskokte Mashabela uitgestap kom, het lede van die parlement se beskermingsdienste hulle aangespreek en gesê hulle het nie jurisdiksie oor die Nasionale Vergadering nie. Dit is nie duidelik wie die polisiebeamptes opdrag gegee het om in te gryp nie.

John Steenhuisen, die DA se hoofsweep, was ontstoke. “Vier van my [DA]-lede, waarvan twee vroue is, is deur die polisie aangerand,” het Steenhuisen gesê. Die lede is Terri Stander, Gordon Mackay, Denise Robinson en Dean Macpherson. Stander is glo gestamp en het op die vloer geval voordat polisiebeamptes op haar getrap het. Hy het gesê die LP’s sal klagtes van aanranding teen die polisiebeamptes aanhangig maak. “Ek dink dit is die laagste punt in die post-demokratiese geskiedenis van die land. Ons het ʼn krisis bereik.”

Die EFF het intussen gesê sy leierskap sal ʼn vergadering hou oor die pad vorentoe, maar ook aangedui dat hulle van plan is om klagtes van aanranding teen die betrokke polisiebeamptes aanhangig te maak.

Die chaos het Donderdagmiddag al begin toe ʼn onderonsie in die parlement uitgebreek het. Speaker Baleka Mbete wou die tydsduur van die Nasionale Vergadering se sitting verander en dit het tot erge verset deur opposisiepartye se LP’s gelei.

14-11-2014 om 09:13 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

Armblankes se verskuiwing na Ashoop Gestaak

Die Kroningspark vlugtelingkamp vir armblankes

KRONINGSPARK – Die verskuiwing van ongeveer 150 gesinne van die Kroningspark informele nedersetting na Munsieville in Krugersdorp is tydelik gestaak nadat waargeneem is dat hul nuwe tuiste glo onhigiënies, gevaarlik en nie geskik vir menslike bewoning is nie.

Die Munsieville terrein is sonder infrastruktuur

Die ANC-beheerde Mogale City-munisipaliteit aan die Wesrand van Johannesburg het reeds ʼn hofbevel in plek om blankes te skuif. Die beplanning was om Kroningspark in ʼn multimiljoenrandse vakansieoord te omskep. Amanda de Lange, raadslid van die Vryheidsfront Plus in Mogale City, het gesê die hofbevel bepaal dat die eerste groep inwoners van 01 November 2014 verskuif kon word en die tweede groep, gesinne met skoolkinders, teen middel Desember 2014.

Munsieville – ‘n ongerehabiliteerde strotingsterrein

Die Rooimiere het verlede Woensdag reeds aksie geneem om blankes uit die park te verwyder en teen Maandag is nagenoeg 30 gesinne na Munsieville geskuif. De Lange het egter gou ingetree en onmiddellik ʼn stokkie daarvoor gesteek.  Sy het gesê dat die stortingsterrein waarop die hervestiging gevolglik moet plaasvind, was ʼn ou vullishoop wat bloot gelyk geskraap is. Uit die gemors in die grond, wat duidelik nie gekompakteer is nie, blyk dit dat die gebied nie voldoende gerehabiliteer is nie. Daar is ook baie glasstukke wat ʼn gevaar vir die inwoners inhou.

Die strukture wat opgerig is om die mense te huisves, is ook onstabiel. Die strukture het te min vensters en die dakke en mure het sulke groot gapings dat ʼn mens letterlik daardeur kan kruip. Die dakke is boonop met toue vasgebind omdat dit kort na oprigting begin afwaai het. Sinkplate is van so ʼn lae gehalte dat dit selfs skeur in die wind. De Lange het vroeër vandeesweek ʼn skrywe gerig aan die munisipaliteit waarin sy melding maak dat die omstandighede onhigiënies, gevaarlik en nie vir geen menslike bewoning geskik is nie, en dat dit teenstrydig is met die hofbevel. Sedertdien is daar nog nie weer enige gesinne verskuif na die ashoop toe nie.

Sy voer ook aan dat sy nie weet of dit amptelik gestaak is totdat die omstandighede verbeter is nie, want sy het niks op skrif om dit te bevestig nie. De Lange kry ook geen terugvoer van die munisipaliteit af nie. Die inwoners verwag nie voorkeurbehandeling nie en beveg ook nie die hofbevel nie. Hierdie toestande is egter glad nie bevorderlik vir enige mens se regte nie en sy vra net dat die mense na ʼn leefbare gebied geskuif moet word

13-11-2014 om 18:53 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism  

The strikers – comprising of cleaners, porters and some nursing staff – have opened taps throughout the hospital, flooding the floors. Rubbish, including rotten food, has been scattered everywhere. Doctors and patients have to tip toe to avoid slipping and falling.

The newspaper was greeted by an unbearable stench on the third floor and found a dead body decomposing in a small room next to the lifts. Flies were hovering above it, with pus and blood oozing onto the floor. A source inside the hospital explained that porters have to take corpses to the mortuary and since they are striking, this obviously isn’t being done.

Several police officials have been deployed at the hospital to keep an eye on the situation as the strike turned violent on Monday afternoon. Strikers barricaded all entrances to the hospital and set rubbish and branches on fire. Dr Leif Brauteseth, a psychiatrist, was injured when he tried to remove a pole in front of the gate.

Strikers tried to prevent him from doing so during which Brauteseth lost his balance and fell.

The strikers demand new uniforms, cleaning material and compensation for overtime worked, amongst others.
EFF ward representative Mr Cyril Chuene was also at the hospital, demanding answers from both the CEO and hospital manager, who both denied that there was a crisis and called the strike “political”.

Read more about this investigation in the print edition of Mpumalanga News tomorrow.

13-11-2014 om 07:51 geschreven door Afrikaners against black racism