[Fwd: Burglar on Facebook]

KwaZulu-Natal - When James McCall of Hillcrest logged on to his computer
on Monday after a weekend break-in, he found that the burglar had posted
a picture of himself on his wife's Facebook site.

"I wanted to log on to change our passwords. I was surprised to see
activity on Barbara's profile and the picture of the man. "At first I
thought one of our relatives had posted it," said McCall.

McCall said they believed the man had mistakenly uploaded the picture,
because he (the burglar) had also uploaded others that the family had
taken but not put on Facebook.

"He probably did not realise he was doing it. Usually you never log off
from a tablet, so it could have happened quite quickly."

They handed the picture to authorities and hoped this would bring them
closer to apprehending the culprits.

He said his wife's Samsung tablet had been taken on Sunday, the latest
of five recent burglaries and a robbery at their Highway guesthouse. The
couple have lived in and run The Brackens B&B in Hillcrest since 2002.

"Since March last year, we've been burgled five times," said McCall.

[Fwd: Die goeie ou dae]

[Fwd: Madam and Eve's Christmas Catalogue]

[Fwd: Zooooma!]

[Fwd: Jobs]

[Fwd: Robbers give victim R50 for petrol]

Durban - After being held up in her ransacked Durban North home by two
robbers, a 24-year-old woman was then forced to drive the men to
KwaMashu because they didn't know how to drive and needed a getaway car.

The robbers also gave their startled victim R50, from the R3 500 they
had stolen, to buy petrol.

A combination of criminal inexperience on the part of the
screwdriver-wielding robbers - one in his 20s and the other a teenager -
and the calmness and quick thinking of their victim, photographer Simone
Holmes, meant she and her domestic worker Princess Makhaye, escaped
unharmed during the robbery.

Holmes returned home at about 11.15am, walking in while the robbery was
in progress and found that Makhaye had been tied up.

"A guy walked towards me with a screwdriver and gestured to me to keep
quiet. He told me not to scream and said if I did not scream he would
not stab me," Holmes said on Wednesday.

Although her heart sank when she saw him, she remained calm.

The intruders stole money, Holmes's French passport, three laptops, a
computer, and some of her and her housemates' clothing.

When the pair were ready to leave they wanted to lock Holmes in a bedroom.

Holmes, fearing this might lead to violence, quickly said the doors did
not lock and they should take her car and go.

That's when the robbers came unstuck.

"They said they could not drive... and that I must drive them," Holmes
said.

The men told her to take them to "the market" - Warwick Triangle in
Durban's CBD - but Holmes did not know where that was and asked them to
direct her.

The pair got lost and they ended up on the N2 north.

"I started to freak out because I had no petrol and told them I was
going to run out. So the guy gave me R50 of my money back."

The man said they stole her belongings as they also wanted "nice
things", so Holmes advised him to get an education. He said he dropped
out of school in Grade 10.

During the drive Holmes negotiated to get her laptop and pocket camera
back, which the robbers agreed to. She also kept her phone after telling
them she would blacklist it, so it would be useless to them.

Eventually Holmes was made to turn off at KwaMashu and told to stop at
the taxi rank.

After unpacking their loot, they told Holmes to leave. Holmes asked them
to hand back her laptop and camera as they had promised, but they would
not do so.

After reporting the crime to two police officers nearby, Holmes returned
with the police to the taxi rank, but the two men could not be found.

Police confirmed that a docket on house robbery had been opened.

Robin Candy, chairman of the Greenwood Park Community Policing Forum,
said Holmes was lucky that she had managed to keep her cool and that the
criminals were inexperienced.

"These were entry-level criminals, and she is very lucky," Candy said.

Candy said it was sad that people took such incidents in their stride
and saw it as "a normal way of life", while people overseas were shocked
at the stories emerging from South Africa. - Additional reporting by
Yusuf Moolla

[Fwd: ConCourt gets ‘urgent’ end-of-world application]

The Constitutional Court has received an "extremely urgent court
application" for the appointment of an "investigative task team" to
prepare for the end of the world on December 21.

Robert Sefatsa (38) a Soweto resident, also stated in papers handed in
at court that the government needed to form a new department to prepare
for judgment day next Friday, Beeld reported today.

He suggested that the new state department should be called the
"department of paranormal and esoteric sciences".

Sebatsa pointed out that according to the Mayan calendar, judgment day
would be on December 21, and it was therefore a matter of extreme
urgency that South Africa and other countries make their preparations
for the apocalypse.

A commission of inquiry should include geologists, statisticians,
astronomists, economists and extra-terrestrial technologists, and should
be competent to cope with evacuation procedures, sea and air logistics,
and resettlement, he said.

Sapa

Fwd: Mini Taxi Wars

[Fwd: R10 rape]

A Limpopo teenager was allegedly abducted and held for nine hours by a
gang of six youths - who raped her, then offered her a R10 note.

But she turned down the offer and instead headed straight to the
Letsitele satellite police station to report the attack.

Six youths were arrested and charged with rape. Four of them are 17
years old, one is 16 and the other is 15.

'nuff said.

[Fwd: Changing Pretoria Street names]

[Fwd: Expats dilemma]

In Toronto I saw a bumper sticker on a parked car that read:

"I miss South Africa."

So I broke the window, took the radio and left a note that read:

"I hope this helps."

Shit South Africans Say

Jaa, Boet, it's a shame, hey?

[Fwd: A proud day for South Africa]

The controversial "The Spear" painting has been defaced.

Two guys (one white, one black) were arrested.

The ANC's court case is going ahead on Thursday to force the gallery to
remove the artwork.

- A 17 year-old mentally challenged girl was gang raped & the video went
viral. No one marched.

- An 8-year-old girl was raped by a 15 year-old boy & her eyes gouged
out. No one marched.

- Entire provinces are without school text books - it's almost June. No
one marched.

- Our imminent police chief is a gangster & has brought our police
service to its knees. No one marched.

- Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. No
one marched.

- Our democracy is going down the toilet but no one marches.

But our country goes hysterical over a painting!

We threaten lawsuits, protests & violent reprisals.

Where are our priorities???

What are we thinking??????!!!!

We have now proven beyond doubt that our collective mentality doesn't
rise above the waist.

[Fwd: Too much dagga]

[Fwd: PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE]

ROAD RAGE, AFRICAN STYLE