How South Africa Risked Becoming a Criminal Enterprise Under Zuma

Bloomberg reports as follows:

For the past eight years, South Africa was heading down the road to being run as a criminal enterprise.

That’s the picture emerging from a judicial commission of inquiry into the alleged theft of public funds during former President Jacob Zuma’s tenure -- a practice locally known as state capture. The first witnesses have implicated members of the Gupta family, who are Zuma’s friends and were in business with one of his sons, in plundering billions of rands from South Africa’s coffers with the tacit assent of the president and law-enforcement agencies.

While much of the information was already public, the testimony has highlighted how widespread the looting was and how deeply compromised state institutions became. Former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan,who now looks after state companies, previously estimated that more than 100 billion rand ($6.7 billion) may have been stolen.

"What has emerged so far gives an indication of the brazenness with which Jacob Zuma betrayed his constitutional duties for petty personal interests,” said Mpumelelo Mkhabela, a political analyst at the Pretoria-based University of South Africa’s Department of Political Sciences. “We also got the indication that more is still to come. It provides confirmation of what many people expected.”
The ruling African National Congress forced Zuma, 76, to step down as president in February and replaced him with new party leader Cyril Ramaphosa, 65. Zuma and the three Gupta brothers, who have left the country, have denied wrongdoing. Their lawyers have yet to cross-examine witnesses, and it’s unclear whether they will testify.

Here’s some of what the inquiry, led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, has revealed so far:

• Government tender procedures were deliberately and regularly flouted, resulting in much of the state’s 800 billion-rand annual procurement budget being squandered, according to Willie Mathebula, the Treasury’s acting chief procurement officer.
• Former Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas said the Guptas offered him the top ministry post and a 600 million-rand bribe on condition that he fire four senior Treasury officials who were obstructing the family’s business interests. They threatened to kill him if he spoke of the offer, he said.
• Ajay Gupta, the eldest of the three brothers, boasted that the family had made 6 billion rand from its dealings with the state, controlled the National Prosecuting Authority, intelligence services and the police’s Hawks investigative unit, and that Zuma would do anything they told him to, Jonas said. The Hawks police unit told Jonas they intended to block a probe into the alleged bribe attempt and presented him with a pre-written statement about the incident, which he refused to sign.
• Former lawmaker Vytjie Mentor recounted how Ajay Gupta suggested she could become public enterprises minister on condition she agree to scrap South African Airways flights to India, which would enable the family to decide on an airline to run the route. She refused the offer.
• Themba Maseko, the former head of the government communication service, testified that Zuma asked him to help the Guptas, and they told him to direct the government’s 600-million rand advertising budget to the family’s newspaper and television channel. Maseko said he was fired on Zuma’s orders after he refused to comply.
• Phumla Williams, the acting head of the government communication service, revealed how procurement and appointment processes were flaunted on instruction from Zuma’s communications minister, Faith Muthambi, and other officials, and that the Guptas unfairly benefited as a result.

The commission expects to take two years to complete its work. Future testimony will focus on looting from power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. and other state companies, as well as how law-enforcement agencies were compromised. Public hearings are due to resume on Sept. 6, when a senior treasury official is scheduled to testify.

While the commission doesn’t have the power to prosecute anyone, it can recommend that law-enforcement agencies take action against those implicated in wrongdoing. Bart Henderson, the chief executive officer of the Africa Institute of Corporate Fraud Management, isn’t optimistic all those responsible for the plunder will face justice.

“The National Prosecuting Authority, in particular in the pursuit of illicit funds, has not exactly covered itself in glory,” Henderson said. “When it comes to getting stolen money back, I wouldn’t hold my breath.”

 Bloomberg

The Truth About Nelson Mandela

I stumbled up this YouTube video by Stefan Molyneux. Watch the video at the end of his summary of his video.

Video Summary:

Nelson Mandela is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist.  But what is the truth about Nelson Mandela?

Correction: For decades, Mandela supported nationalization, but abandoned his plans after being informed of the negative effects they would likely engender.

60% of South Africans felt the country was better run under apartheid, with both blacks and whites rating the current government less trustworthy, more corrupt, less able to enforce the law and less able to deliver government services than its white predecessor.

Transparency International released its 2013 Global Corruption Barometer report. It found South Africa to be among the most corrupt countries in the world. According to its findings, an astounding 83% of South Africans believe that the police force is corrupt. And 36% of respondents admitted to paying at least one bribe to the police.

A 2010 Medical Research Foundation survey found that more than 37% of men admitted to raping at least one woman. 7% said they had participated in a gang rape.

In response to growing violence, South Africa's minister of safety and security, Steve Tshwete, says: "We can't police this; there's nothing more we can do. South Africa's currency, the rand, has fallen about 70% since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994. Emigration from South Africa (mainly of skilled people) is now at its highest level ever."

The tragic fact of business is that ordinary Africans were better off under colonialism. Colonial masters never committed anything near the murder and genocide seen under black rule in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, and other countries, where millions of blacks have been slaughtered in unspeakable ways, which include: hacking to death, boiling in oil, setting on fire and dismemberment.

The National Bureau of Economic Research found that the average income of all races in South Africa dropped 40% between 1995 and 2000. The UN 2006 Human Development Report found that over the last 3 decades Africa has had a "virtual reversal" of human development; South Africa dropped 38 places on the Human Development Index since 1994. (UN Development Programme, 2007). The country of the world's first heart transplant (Christian Barnard, Dec., 1967), the Union of South Africa, is now the rape and murder capital of the world. [15]

At the start of the year 1900, the number of African South Africans was found to be 3,5-million according to the British colonial government census. By 1954, our African population had soared to 8,5-million — and by 1990, there were a full 35-million of us.

In the decades prior to the official policy of apartheid, (which was started in 1948), the average life expectancy of African South Africans was only 38 years. 

Double Standards of MIWay Insurance CEO

This what Rene Otto CEO of MiWay Insurance tweeted about Afrikaners:

 “The Lost Boys of Bird Island” is a must-read for white Saffas -especially Afrikaners who believe they are God’s chosen people - who are stillin denial about the destruction of the Apartheid-era. It left me gutted. Whatdo we learn from this and can we ever make amends?”

 

Accusing Afrikaners  of believing they are God's chosen people - the bloody audacity of Otto! In effect he also said that Afrikaners are in denial about the Apartheid era. If so Otto, then the no- vote would have won - about this fact he is quiet, very quiet.

 

At first I believed Otto that he made a mistake and apologized for his tweet.  But then it was picked up that the same Otto was prepared to forgive a black man for a racial tweet way back in July 2017 and he went further on to mention that we all should follow the example of terrorist Mandela for his forgiveness, which incidentally is hogwash.  Read Here

 

That is why I say that Otto has double standards - one standard of forgiveness for  non-whites and another standard of unforgiveness for Afrikaners.

 

Shame on you Otto!!!! 

 

PS: I he was sincere in his forgiveness, why did he block  Afrikaners on Twitter and Facebook who criticized him for his anti-Afrikaner tweet???

 

This Time The CEO of of MIWay Insurance Really put His Foot in His Mouth

 

White Dog Eating White Dog in South Africa

 

My Sweet Wonderful Language - AFRIKAANS!!!!

 I am a South African and my language is Afrikaans of which I am very proud of!!!! English is only my second language. Here is the story of my beautiful language: 

The story of Afrikaans is a rich and diverse one with a complex history and a sense of cultural distinctness. Afrikaans, also known as Cape Dutch, is a West-Germanic language. In South Africa alone, Afrikaans is spoken by about 7 million as a first language and by approximately 10 million people as a second language. It is also spoken in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia as well as other continents as a home or second language.

Afrikaans is a creole language that evolved during the 19th century. The majority of its roots can be found in Dutch. While the rest is a mixture of seafarer variants of Malay, Portuguese and Indonesian and the indigenous Khoi-Khoin and San languages.

In 1860 the Muslim community established a school (madrasah) in the Bo-Kaap. Fragments of an exercise book (called a ‘koplesboek’ then) that survived the times, contain text written in Cape Malay dialect. Cape Malay dialect was the colloquial language of the time. The writing style is phonetic spelling and written in Arabic script. Afrikaans readers will recognise this as a form of modern Afrikaans. Arabic-Afrikaans was also used in daily communication. During this time several Islamic religious texts were translated into Arabic-Afrikaans. The first Afrikaans translation of the Quran came from this school and was done by Achmat van Bengal.

For Cape Dutch speakers, their language was one of learning, writing and upper-middle-class culture. Though this sentiment was not shared by everyone. Chief Justice Lord JH de Villiers described Cape Dutch as “poor in the number of its words, weak in its inflexions, wanting in the accuracy of meaning.” (Source: The Afrikaners: Biography of a People by Prof Hermann Giliomee).

In 1858 a private school, De Gimnasium, with Dutch as the language of instruction, was established in Paarl. This school was for the Afrikaans-speaking children. In 1866, a teacher called Arnoldus Pannevis realised that the language spoken by the people were far removed from Dutch. Pannevis was the first person to call it by its name: Afrikaans. He wanted to establish Afrikaans as a written language too. The deeply religious Pannevis was eager to translate the Bible into Afrikaans. The Bible Society instructed SJ du Toit to look into this.

Around 1870 the first steps towards the battle between various views on the nature of Cape Dutch were taken. This lead to the establishment of The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (GRA) in 1875. The objective was to promote Afrikaans as a language and to support the Afrikaans culture as a whole. The GRA declared their own version of Cape Dutch as “Burger Afrikaans”. They wanted to write Afrikaans as it was spoken and drafted a set of spelling and grammar rules. The newspaper, “Die Patriot” (The Patriot), originated in 1876, to be a spokesman of these language rules. Worth noting is that the first Afrikaans newspaper was published in 1859 already. The newspaper, “De Bode”, was published by the Moravian Mission station in Genadendal. It already then printed articles and letters from readers in Afrikaans.

In 1882, an Afrikaans school, the Gedenkschool der Hugenoten, was established on the farm Kleinbosch in Daljosafat, Paarl. This gave Afrikaans an important boost and was an important step towards recognising Afrikaans as the official language of instruction at school.

Many Afrikaans-speaking people still believed that Afrikaans was an inferior language, though they themselves did not speak Dutch. To them, Dutch was a status symbol – a connection to a world of literature and science outside of South Africa. In 1906, Eugene Marais trumped the argument of the pro-Dutch that Afrikaans had no literature value with his poem Winternag. Jan FE Celliers followed with Die Vlakte as did many other writers and poets.

From 1908, Afrikaans flourished in the arts. In 1909 the Zuid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Lettere en Kunst deur Afrikaners was established. Their objective was to establish Afrikaans as a higher-order language. They managed to regulate language matters through a Spelling Committee, later called the Die Taalkommissie (The Language Commission). Gone were the days of the GRA’s write-as-we-speak. The first Woordelys en Spelreëls was published in 1917. Through this, the pro-Dutch got what they wanted. Afrikaans displayed a strong Dutch influence in the way sentences and words were constructed. Afrikaans dialects and the language as spoken by the so-called workers class were deemed inferior. The result of this pro-Dutch movement is that even today many Dutch words can be found in Afrikaans, which creates the impression that Afrikaans originated from Dutch – though untrue.

Afrikaans was established as the scientific language at four universities. It was also the language used in the civil service, courts, in literature, films and for broadcasting.

The Afrikaanse Taalmonument in Paarl was inaugurated in 1975 – 100 years after the founding of the GRA. The idea to build a monument for the Afrikaans language was first mentioned in 1942. However, construction only started in late 1972 and was completed at the end of 1974.

After 1994 Afrikaans was one of the 11 official languages. In 2010 Prof. Kwesi Prah from Ghana described the development of Afrikaans as one of the three language wonders of the world. In only 50 years, Afrikaans evolved from the vernacular, or so-called kitchen language to a higher order academic and economic language that can hold its own on the world stage.

Currently Afrikaans as an instruction language in schools and universities is under immense pressure from the ANC government because just like the British colonialist of the 1800’s and 1900’s they believe that if you can suppress a language you also suppress the people speaking that language. However, just like the British the ANC will learn the hard way not to suppress the Afrikaner language or the Afrikaner!!!!!

Afrikaans is my Mother Tongue and nobody, but nobody will deny me the right to speak it! 

Danie de Villiers

This time the CEO of MiWay Insurance really put his foot in his mouth

The CEO of MiWay Insurance, Rene Otto (@reneotto5901) tweeted this:  

“The Lost Boys of Bird Island” is a must-read for white Saffas -especially Afrikaners who believe they are God’s chosen people - who are stillin denial about the destruction of the Apartheid-era. It left me gutted. Whatdo we learn from this and can we ever make amends?”

It is a pity that a CEO can tweet such utter rubbish. I can only think that he really hate Afrikaans-speaking whites and that he tweeted it on purpose to show Afrikaans-speaking whites that they are not welcome as MiWay clients? Surprize for Rene Otto and MiWay, the bloody Brits tried for how many years since they set foot in South Africa as a colonial power to kill Afrikaans without success, instead Afrikaans just grow stronger. Since 1994 the ANC are trying their best to undermine Afrikaans and the Afrikaans-speaking white culture and traditions without any success. So, Rene Otto you do not stand a chance in hell to undermine my beautiful language!!! I see you dig around in the past, so spend your time positive by researching the history of the 1961 movie “Doodkry is Min” by Jamie Uys. I was with my parents in 1961 at the Voortrekker Monument when this movie was premiered! I am proud of my past and my heritage and you will never succeed in letting me feel any guilt!

PS: It is not Afrikaners who believe they are God’s chosen people but rather Rene Otto thinking that he is God to judge them.

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COMMENTARY:

Why are we not surprised? This is the real South Africa where the incompetent terrorist organization called the ANC destroying a beautiful country handed over to them on a plate in 1994. The ANC has a built-in self-destruct button, and everything they touch turn into sh*t!

Danie

 

Look who is talking . . . .

ANC accuses DA-led Tshwane metro of corruption: Read story here

The ANC is the most corrupt government is the world but it has the audacity to point the fingers to the DA?

In any dictionary, if you look up the word corrupt/corruption there is a photo of an ANC-flag as well as a photo of Zuma. as description.