[Fwd: 8-year-old bitten, gouged, raped]

Gingindlovu residents are walking their children to and from school and
asking them to be extra-vigilant after an eight-year-old girl was
dragged into a sugarcane field by a 15-year-old fellow schoolboy who
raped and strangled her, bit her neck and tried to gouge out her eyes.

The child, who cannot be identified, was still in the Ngwelezane
Hospital in Empangeni on Wednesday night after undergoing an emergency
operation. Her right eye was heavily bandaged and still swollen. Doctors
said that she would make a full recovery.

The child had been on her way home from school on Monday with the
teenager, who attended the same school as her, when he pounced on her.

Police spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker said that a teenager had been
arrested and appeared in court in Gingindlovu on Wednesday.

"The suspect claimed that he was possessed by a demon as he heard
voices that prompted him to carry out the attack."

There is one intelligent comment: "What happened to our rainbow nation?
I certainly don't see these poor kids in any colour. The girl will be
traumatized all her life and the boy will live with this guilt, if any,
for the rest of his life behind bars. By the story, this 15 year old
boy is very disturbed and probably lives in a shack with other people
who copulate & rape day in and day out infront of him. It is a shame
that yet another youth slipped between the cracks."

Fwd: A pic from 29 February's Beeld newspaper

This captain of the Brooklyn station of the SA Police marks the accident
scene with his R-5 assault rifle. You need to be this dumb to get
promotion and reach captain in the SAPS. Competent officers from other
races have been waiting up to 14 years for a single promotion while
these bright sparks are escalated up the ladder. Obviously nobody told
this sod that a rock from the curb will also mark the tar in the absence
of accident marking equipment they should have. No wonder that 27,000
members of the SAPS have repeatedly failed the government's firearm
competency test which civilians have to pass before they can get a gun
licence, yet such policemen are let loose with guns on society...

[Fwd: Robber returns to crime scene for job]

A man was arrested when he tried to get a job from the owners of the
house he had robbed earlier in East London, according to a report on
Tuesday.

The Nahoon Valley Place house owner told The Times newspaper the man
knocked on his front door asking for gardening work on Sunday morning.

"When I opened the door I was surprised because he was wearing our
clothing," the man, who did not want to be named, was quoted as saying.

The job seeker was wearing the owner's shoes, socks, belt, a pair of
trousers and *one of his fiancé's blouses*.

The couple was busy moving and had stored most of their clothing and
linen in a storeroom in the back garden. The owner said after the
robbery he immediately went to check the storeroom and saw it had been
looted, he told the newspaper.

"I could not believe the audacity of this guy. I detained him after that
and called the police, but they did not pitch for 45 minutes," the owner
was quoted as saying.

The man managed to escape but was later caught by a security guard. - Sapa

[Fwd: Witch Doctor]

Accepts requests for health, prosperity, lottery wins and satellite
installations...

[Fwd: Girl dies after exorcism attempt]

March 15 2012 at 03:44pm
By Yogas Nair

An Umlazi teenager, accused by relatives of being possessed by demons,
was tortured for three days and then brutally murdered.

Sinethemba Dlamini, 15, was left lying on the lounge floor with her
intestines next to her at her home in K-Section.

Five relatives, who allegedly killed the teenager during a bizarre,
three-day exorcism, have been charged with murder.

KZN police spokesman, Captain Thulani Zwane, confirmed the incident and
said a case of murder was being investigated. "She was allegedly killed
after her attackers accused her of being possessed by demons."

A police source said the accusation of being demon possessed came after
she had become very withdrawn in recent weeks.

Her ordeal began last Wednesday when she returned home from school. She
was allegedly repeatedly assaulted with a broom, the source said.

People believed a demon was living in her and kept hitting her all over
her body with a broom in an attempt to get the demon to leave her, the
source said.

Sinethemba died after her intestines were pulled out through her vagina,
the source said.

After the intestines were removed, they allegedly waited for her to wake
up and be free of the demon. They claimed that by removing the
intestines she would be cured.

[Fwd: LMFGA]

Lag my fokken gat af

Fwd: Malema went out for drinks...

Malema went out for drinks with some of the ministers.

After a few hours of drinking Malema calls the waiter to bring the bill:

Malema       R400
Cele             R250
Mbalula       R450
Vavi             R200
TOTAL        R1300

Malema says, "Hai man! I will pay for everyone else, but Total must
pay for himself! I didn't invite him. Plus he owns a lot of garages
all over the country. He has enough money!"

[Fwd: Piece work]

Nothing interesting happened to me this past holiday...

...but after we returned, my garden boy, of many years, had taken two
weeks holiday, as was the norm.

This of course meant that I had to mow the lawn myself!

So on Saturday I was cutting the lawn on our verge, in my oldest PT
pants and T shirt before I cut the main lawn.

I was in a hurry but wanted to do a decent job, and was not keen on
having any garden boy do it for me on this occasion, and still have to
teach him how I wanted it cut.

But as always, when you DON'T need any help, all the help in the world
is there for you.

Constant appeals as every one who passes by wants to know if you have
some "piece work" for him.

When the fourth one appeared, with his hands in his pockets, and asked
if I had some piece work for him, the conversation went something like
this...

HIM: "Baas, I knows how to cut him the grass, mays I cut it for yoos?"

ME: "Sorry man, I don't stay here, I just work for the people who stay
here!!"

HIM: "Hau, the peoples here employs a whitey in da garden?"

ME: "Yes, and they don't even give me any food at lunchtime!"

End of the story is, he takes out his packet of Kent Cigarettes, and
offers me one.

I took one and he lit it for me, I took about three drags, and nipped
the cigarette and stuck it behind my ear.

As he walks away, I hear him mumbling, "Yisslaaik, the ANC haff really
come and fucked up everything!!"

Last Dictator Standing

[Fwd: Black Tuesday 2]

The controversial Protection of Information Bill has been attracting
international attention, most of it unfavourable, as it heads towards
adoption in Parliament.

Newspapers in the US and Britain especially have written about the
so-called "secrecy bill", focusing on sharp criticism of it by people
such as Nobel Prize for Literature winner and ANC member Nadine
Gordimer.

Britain's Daily Telegraph said Gordimer had warned that, through the
bill, the ANC was taking South Africa "back to the suppression of free
expression" of the apartheid era.

"Her intervention is hugely significant," the paper said. "Gordimer was
a close friend of Nelson Mandela (he read her novel Burger's Daughter in
jail in Robben Island and asked her to visit as soon as he came out) and
she helped lead the fight against apartheid in her native South Africa."

The Telegraph also quoted Gordimer as saying: "People have fought and
died to gain the opportunity for a better life, which is ruined and
dirtied by corruption. The corrupt practices and nepotism that they
allow themselves is exposed if we have freedom of expression."

The Voice of America said: "The measure would update apartheid-era
provisions, and punish those who publish classified information with up
to 25 years in jail.

"Critics say the proposed law is extreme, and have argued for a clause
that allows revealing state secrets in the public interest."

The Washington Post noted that Gordimer was one of many critics of the
bill, who also included "prominent ANC members... among them a former
state security minister (Ronnie Kasrils)".

Critics "within and outside the governing party" had warned the
legislation "would smother freedom of expression and make it harder to
fight corruption".

The Washington Post also noted the fears of activists that for South
Africa - "known for one of the continent's freest and most open
constitutions" - to pass such legislation - "could influence other
countries in the region".

When the bill was introduced last year, along with a proposal for a
media tribunal, the Wall Street Journal said the measures "could reshape
South Africa's media industry".

As the bill got closer to being put to the vote, the newspaper said the
"tensions over the media are part of a searching national debate over
the political course of a key African democracy".

It quoted Anton Harber, head of the Wits Journalism School, as warning
that other African countries looked up to South Africa and the bill was
a "bad example for the rest of the continent".

The Christian Science Monitor said the ANC was "close to dramatically
restricting the rights of citizens to monitor the actions of their
government officials".

It had earlier quoted Karin Karlekar, managing editor of the Freedom of
the Press report for Freedom House in New York, as saying: "We see this
as part of a broader trend in South Africa, and it's very worrying."

The Monitor said Freedom House had downgraded South Africa from "free"
to "partly free", in its Freedom of the Press rankings.

"Historically, South Africa was one of the top performers in the past 15
years, as a model for other African countries," Karlekar said. "In South
Africa, as in other countries, the media are one of the watchdogs of
society in support of good governance in institutions, and to take (it)
away... weakens democracy as a whole."

The Monitor also noted: "Curiously, some African countries - notably
Kenya and Nigeria - have moved in the opposite direction... enshrining
the freedom of information... Nigeria enacted a Freedom of Information
law."

But it also quoted analyst Steven Friedman, director of the Democracy
and Governance programme at the University of Johannesburg, as saying
although the bill was "horrible", there was "no way this legislation is
going to shut down investigative journalism".

Friedman cited the clauses "that say you can't classify information in
order to cover up government incompetence, or to protect the government
from embarrassment".

US embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said: "The US supports the
freedom of the press, and the public's right to hold governments and
government officials accountable. We hope the government, civil society,
activists, NGOs and media continue a dialogue to seek common ground on
this critical issue."

http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/sa-back-to-the-days-of-apartheid-1.1183460

[Fwd: Black Tuesday 1]

The catch phrases are difficult to ignore: "right to know", "no to
censorship", "freedom of the press", "don't gag the media". Though the
colour black might be quite trendy today and #BlackTuesday will be
trending on Twitter, it's important that we look a little deeper and not
be distracted by the fanfare - even as we all dress like waiters,
bouncers and Goths.

We the media often portray this as our battle and at times purport to be
the sole victim when the truth is that the only victim here is you, dear
citizen, the one who buys our newspapers, who visits our websites and
who tunes into our news bulletins.

You're the victim not because we won't be able to tell you who screwed
whom or who got tender-rich overnight. No, you're the victim because you
will be denied those everyday truths that make up the world we live in.
Simple snippets of information that form the basis of our reality will
be almost impossible to find. Our cash-strapped media houses don't have
the money to go to court to every time they need to gain information
under the current Act. We would have to contend with "information
officers" who are full of everything but information. They are an
oxymoron just waiting to happen.

Yes, information is the lifeblood of journalism. This is what we do, we
disseminate information in what we believe is, the public interest.
Sometimes we get it wrong. By passing the Protection of State
Information Bill today, government is not so much gagging the media as
it is blindfolding you, not from the sensational, but from the mundane
like Records of Decisions, environmental impact studies and task team
reports. A nation of blind followers is easier to control, easier to
influence - more subservient. When the only reality you know is the one
created for you by misinformation, lies and denials, what reason do you
have to challenge the status quo? The lack of a public interest clause
in the Bill means any whistle-blower faces certain jail, so who would
dare cross the line?

The people of Libya, Egypt and Tunisia were fed lies from the mouths of
corrupt politicians and dictators. They lived and breathed the fallacies
presented to them for decades by state-owned media houses. Only truth
broke that spell, and it wasn't the media who spurred it on. It was
ordinary citizens who simply decided to stop believing the lies from a
government that was running out of excuses. They found a common cause
and disseminated their own version of the truth through social media and
the foreign press; the same truth that Anton Hammerl and scores of other
journalists died pursuing.

We understand that there is information in the hands of government that
would genuinely affect national security but a government that denies
basic truths and openness is a government that is saying it is not
accountable to you and me as citizens. So how do we trust them? How do
we believe anything they say from now on? How do we know if they have
our interests at heart?

By now you're probably wondering what the big secret is. Well, there
isn't one. You clicked on this link out of curiosity or a need for
knowledge. It is a basic human function that has propelled our species
to greatness. The pursuit of knowledge has inspired us and helped us
become better at what we do - survive. The hunger for truth has brought
about democracy, toppled dictators, destroyed lives and saved millions
more. How dare you let anyone take that away from you?

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/pssst-let-me-tell-you-a-secret-1.1183468

[Fwd: Julius Malema goes into a gallery]

Julius Malema goes into a gallery.

He looks at the paintings, and then he turns to a lady standing next to
him and asks, "Did a white person actually paint all this shit?"

The lady turns around and responds, "No sir, that's a mirror".

[Fwd: Winnie in London]

While visiting the United Kingdom, Winnie Mandela was invited to a
cocktail party which was also to be attended by Margaret Thatcher.

When Winnie saw the ex-prime minister on the other side of the room she
barged past everyone, spilling the drinks of several invited guests on
the way.

Winnie elbowed her way to Maggie, stood brazenly in front of her and
declared, "I hear they call you the Iron Lady!"

"I have been referred to by that name, yes," replied Maggie, peering
down her nose at this impudent upstart. "And whom, may I enquire, do I
have the honour of addressing ?" asked Maggie icily.

"I am the iron lady of South Africa !" bragged Winnie, waving her fist
in the air.

"Oh, yes," replied Maggie dryly. "And for whom do you iron?"

[Fwd: This is why we don't speak Dutch in SA]

[Fwd: Certified and declared]