Goodbye CitiGolf

Johannesburg - After 25 years of production, Volkswagen South Africa
(VWSA) is retiring its iconic budget hatchback Citi Golf.

The Citi is a South Africa-only model and over its lifetime more than
377 000 units found owners. Together with sales of the first Golf model
(the A1) on which the Citi is based, more than 517 000 vehicles have
been produced on the same platform in Uitenhage since 1978.
The Citi will be replaced by an as yet unnamed entry-level product in
the first quarter of 2010 However, VWSA MD David Powels said given the
German manufacturer's global model line-up, the new vehicle would
inevitably be priced higher than the R87 000 the Citi is retailing at.
The original Citi cost R6 700 at launch.

One of those working on the first Citigolf was designer clothing
retailer Jenni Button, who also designed the clothes used in the ad
campaigns for the first model.
To honour the brand the last Citi will be doing a victory lap around the
country to offer everyone the opportunity to come and bid farewell to
Citi by signing the vehicle.

http://www.vw.co.za/models/citi/
http://www.goodbyeciti.co.za/

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And now for the good news

[Seven robbers slain in depot shootout]

By Alex Eliseev

Responding to a shooting in Nirvana, Polokwane, paramedics from ER24
found seven bodies scattered inside a Protea Coin cash depot - the
aftermath of a robbery gone wrong.

Hopelessly outgunned, with three pistols between them, the robbers had
been shot dead by policemen who were alerted to the robbery-in-progress
around midnight on Saturday. No police officers were killed or injured
in the confrontation.

Police spokesman Musa Zondi said members of an operational response unit
were tipped off about the robbery and sped to the scene.

The robbers, clad in gloves and balaclavas, had managed to tamper with
the depot's security system and gained entry, Zondi said,

"The police arrived and tried to get them to surrender and hand
themselves over, but they opened fire and the police responded. In the
end, all seven of them were dead."

* *The original article was published on page 1 of **The Star*
<http://www.thestar.co.za/>* on November 09, 2009 *

Cop held after taxi driver shot

A police inspector was arrested yesterday after he allegedly shot a
minibus taxi driver in a fit of road rage in Dobsonville, according to
Soweto police.

Inspector Kay Makhubele said the off-duty Moroka police station officer
was driving his vehicle on the Doornkop/Dobsonville Road behind a
minibus taxi at about 7am.

"It's not clear what sparked the quarrel, but the taxi driver is said to
have stopped his vehicle, alighted, went to the officer and assaulted
him with a knobkerrie."

The officer allegedly retaliated by firing a shot which hit his 28-year
old attacker in the left thigh.

The 51-year old policeman was arrested on the scene.

*The original article was published on page 2 of **The Star*
<http://www.thestar.co.za/>* on November 09, 2009 *

The Julius Malema Song

My Revealing South African Experience

I, Afrikaner

Malema on edukashun

'n Stukkie ekonomiese insig....

Dis Augustus in 'n dorpie aan die kus van die Swart See.  Dit reen en
die dorpie lyk verlate.  Dit is 'n moeilike tyd, almal is in die skuld
en leef op krediet.  Skielik daag daar 'n ryk toeris op.  Hy stap die
enigste hotel binne en sit 'n 100 Euro-noot op die ontvangstoonbank
neer.  Hy gaan met die trappe op om 'n kamer te gaan kies.

Die hotelbaas vat die 100 Euro-noot en haas hom na die slagter om sy
skuld te gaan betaal.  Die slagter neem die noot en gaan betaal sy
skuld by die varkboer.  Die boer haas hom om met dieselfde noot sy
skuld by sy verskaffer te vereffen.  Diè hardloop gou en maak sy
rekening skoon by die dorp se prostituut, wat in die moeilike tye
selfs haar dienste op krediet aanbied.  Die vrou van die nag haas haar
om haar rekening by die hotelbaas te betaal, waar sy gewoonlik 'n
kamer huur om haar werk te doen

Die hotelbaas vat die 100 Euro-noot en plaas dit terug op die
toonbank.  Net toe kom die ryk toeris terug, neem die noot omdat hy
nie met een van die kamers tevrede is nie, en verlaat die dorp.

Niemand het enigiets verdien nie, maar die hele dorp is nou sonder skuld...

Why I didn't come to welcome the athletes at the airport

Zuma calls Malema 'leader in the making' (summarised)

By Carien du Plessis
Political Bureau

President Jacob Zuma has endorsed ANC Youth League president Julius
Malema as a future leader of the ANC.

In his most emphatic display of support for the controversial youth
league leader, Zuma praised Malema as a "leader in the making" and
someone who would be worthy of inheriting the ANC. Zuma said Malema was
made by the ANC.

"Some of us are no longer young and when we go across the mountain in
terms of age, we are happy that when we go on the organisation will
remain in real hands of (those) who will think about the people," he said.

"The ANC recognises talent and leadership and we give people an
opportunity. Julius has illustrated that he is indeed a good leader and
that he understands the people," Zuma said.

Zuma was speaking in Malema's Limpopo home town of Seshego, near
Polokwane, where he handed over a house and a church that had been built
with Malema's help.

Malema said he built the church after his mother, Florah Malema, a
domestic worker and regular churchgoer, had died before she could
accomplish her dream of doing so.

He urged the congregation not to burn the church down again when they
had disagreements, as had happened once when he was a child.

Children see mom killed by hijacker (summarised)

A woman's three children watched in horror as she bled to death in front
of them after being stabbed in the neck and heart by a hijacker who
drove off in her car.

Ulla Albertus, 38, had just returned to her Muizenberg home at around
6am yesterday after dropping off her husband Michael, an ADT armed
response officer, at work in Plumstead.

About 200m from her car, which was parked outside their flat in Rhodesia
Road, a man approached her demanding the keys.

They struggled and he plunged a knife into her neck and chest, severing
the main artery to her heart.

While he sped off in her white Uno (CA 110 800), Albertus ran inside the
block where she collapsed outside one of the flats.

The children heard the noise and came running out.

Michael rushed home to find a paramedic still administering CPR but his
wife died 15 minutes later. She wasn't able to speak to him. He said
their son Keishen, 18, who was due to start his matric exams this week,
Michaela, 10, and Kirsten, six, were traumatised after watching their
mother die.

The couple moved to Muizenberg from Athlone six months ago after
renewing their marriage vows.

He said his wife had been carrying R200 ($26 = 18€) in cash.

The hijacker had stolen it.

Sports Bar

In Boksburg there's a sports bar & restaurant that names all of their
meals after famous sports people.

They have a rice dish called "Clive Rice".

You can also get a "Schalk Burger" there.

Their latest dish is spaghetti with two big meat balls. It's called
"Pasta Semenya".

Bullets fly in mall shoot-out (shortened)

By Jacques Breytenbach and Graeme Hosken

Five gunmen, armed with an AK-47 rifle and pistols opened fire in the
crowded Kolonnade Shopping Centre (Pretoria) yesterday morning after
storming a jewellery store.

The gang had moments before held up three security guards and assaulted
two NWJ staff members, including a pregnant woman.

They then fled the store with bags of jewellery, opening fire on a Mugg
& Bean customer, who had opened fire on them as they tried to escape
through the shopping centre's parking lot.

While customers sought cover as the gunmen and the customer exchanged
fire, the robbers tried to escape in a black Volvo, which, it was later
discovered, had been hijacked in Johannesburg in *2006*.

The robbers were forced to abandon their car when the driver crashed
into a Nissan Tiida. While four of the gunmen hijacked a Ford Focus from
a motorist outside the centre, the fifth was arrested by guards as he
ran away.

The suspects abandoned the Ford in Mayville when police units boxed them
in. The men were caught as they tried to escape through thick bushes.

Mugg & Bean manager Catha Beukes said that when the first shots rang out
and security guards ran past, screaming at them to close their stores,
they had immediately locked their doors.

Clara Williams, who works in a hair salon opposite the NWJ store, said
working in the mall had added a lot of stress to her life.

"Something small, like hearing an object fall, can make you think a
gunfight between police and robbers has broken out somewhere in the
mall. Everybody is traumatised by the thought of what might happen
next," Williams said.

Kobus Kruger, Kolonnade's operations manager, said: "With all the
robberies at malls in the past couple of months, Kolonnade has put extra
security measures in place to ensure the safety of its staff and shoppers."

Consumer Goods Council of South Africa spokesman Michael Broughton said
attacks on shopping malls had not decreased despite efforts to combat them.

"The need for money is making the robbers desperate and forcing them to
step up their operations."

Police had arrested three suspects and recovered two pistols, an AK-47
and jewellery.