z czterech stron swiata

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i przestepczosc nasza juz jest na skale miedzynarodowa
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Artykul 12 stycznia 2009 o zbiorowych gwaltach jako kult mlodych w RPA.
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Gdziekolwiek czarnuch sie nie znajdzie Jamajka, Haiti, RPA, W. Brytania i USA beda czarnuchy gwalcic grupowo.
Gwalt zbiorowy to typowe zachowanie czarnuchow!!!

Z 15 stycznia 2009 o sprawie sadowej za zbiorowy gwalt ze Stanow
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palmela

Pare tygodni temu czarny ochroniarz blagal na kolanach czarnucha z karabinem, aby go nie zastrzelil bo on ma rodzine. I zostal zastrzelony.
Takie scenki Hollywood krecil o nemieckich zbrodniarzach wojennych. Na hollywoodzkich westernach bandy grasowaly na dzikim zachodzie i wszystkie bandy byly biale.
Na hollywoodzkich filmach piraci rowniez maja bialy kolor skory
Na filmach jak na negatywie, bo w rzeczywistosci w bandach grasujacych i terroryzyjacych ludnosc osiedlii miast sa tylko czarnuchy.
porywajacymi statki piratami w rzeczywistowsci rowniez nie sa biali.
Bezwglednymi mordercami ucinajacymi konczyny i wydlubujacymi oczy tez nie sa biali, lecz czarna afrykanska dzicz podciagnieta i obdarowana mianem czlowieka.

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20 uzbrojonych czarnuchow po obezwladnieniu sochroniarza napadlo na sklep z ekskluzywna odzieza.
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15-letni czarnuch zadzgal 16-letniego
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Polnagie cialo bialej 72 - letniej kobiety znalezlo malzenstwo, ktore poszlo odwiedzic groby swoich dzieci. Zamordowana miala na sobie tylko T-koszulke. Slady byly na ziemii, ze ja ciagnieto po ziemii
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ATM wysadzony przez osimiu uzbrojonych czarnuchow. To chyba piaty w tym roku.
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Gang siedmiu czarnuchow napadl na sklep miesny
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Czarny kierowca zatrzymal sie aby wziac dwoch autostopowiczow. Zostal zastrzelony.

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Czarnuchy strzelili w glowe bialego koszacego trawe w ogrodzie. Zabrali komorke i uciekli.

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Trzech czarnuchow o godz 2,30 Wlamali sie do sypialni 25-letniej nauczycielke zastraszyli srubokretem domagajac sie pieniedzy. Jeden trzymal dziewczyne pod srubokretem a inni przeszukali dom. Uciekli z laptopem, ipodem, bizuteria i walizka odziezy.

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Czarny Policjant (tak, tak) napadl na dom zamieszkaly przez 3 osoby. Jest oskarzony o probe gwaltu, napad z bronia w reku i probe zabojsta
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5 dni terroru w Pretorii, kiedy uzbrojone po zeby gangi czarnuchow przez 5 dni tylko w jednej dzielnicy napadali na domy, kradli, strzelali i grupowo zgwalcili czarna sluzaca.
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i grozniejsze dnie terroru w Ladysmith
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51- letni czarny policjant szedl do pracy. Przechodzil kolo sklepu na ktory napadlo trzech czarnuchow. Zastal zastrzelony.
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Chinduski lekarz w strzezonym osrodku wypoczynkowym wraz z rodzina zostal napadniety przez stado czarnuchow [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

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Adriana Stuijt napisala o mordowanych Afrykanerach. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

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o pieciu najgorszych szpitalach w RPA w ktorych szczury, karaluchy i nieuprzatniete odchody walajace sie po korytarzach sa na porzadku dziennym.
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palmela

Zadne miejsce na swiecie nie bylo tak piekne jak Durban. Ocean, klimat, roslinnosc, czysciutko i jak kolorowo. Dla turystow zagranicznych asch jaka atrakcja bo ocean i japonskie ogrody, delfinarium, park wezowy, przejazdzki ryksza, przystan, i grube murzynichy sprzedajce suveniry.

Klik na podroz po dziesiejszym, postapartheidowskim Durbanie:
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Nie caly Durban wyglada jak na zdjciach, ale odpadly spacery bo niebezpiecznie, ocean bo brudny, czesc rekreacyjna zatloczona, zasyfiala i smierdzaca szczynami
czyli powolna jazda w dol.

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z 2003 Chinczycy pisza o 'muti' morderstwach czyli obcinanie czesci ludzkich i uzycie ich jako lekarstwo
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Attackers cut off man's genitals
April 15 2009 at 05:53PM

A woman and two men have been arrested in Intabazwe at Harrismith after they allegedly cut off the genitals of the woman's boyfriend, Free State police said on Wednesday.

Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said it was alleged that the assault on the victim was instigated by his girlfriend and one of his friends.

Mophiring said the incident happened around 10pm on Monday when the 37-year-old man was on his way home after visiting a shop in Intabazwe.

"He met his girlfriend with two other men and she apparently instructed the men to assault her boyfriend."

During the struggle one man removed the victim's pants and cut off his genitals in the presence of his girlfriend.
"They left him unconscious in the street without help," Mophiring said.

The man later managed to crawl to the nearest house for help.The police were called and the man was rushed to the Mofumahadi Manapo Regional Hospital in Qwaqwa.

Residents later found the man's genitals at the scene of the assault and police were called again.

Mophiring said police arrested the two men on the same night while the woman was arrested on Tuesday.

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Coetzer was at his Moreleta Park home with his colleague, Jonathan White and friend, Cherise Venter, during the early hours of on Tuesday morning when a five-man gang of robbers forced their way into the house and attacked, beat and kicked them repeatedly.

Tying them up with electric cables, one of the men ransacked their home and demanded guns, money and jewellery while the other stood over them at gunpoint. The remaining suspects lay outside waiting for police.

Despite Coetzer's pleas for mercy and that he did not have any guns the robber refused to believe him and turned on him.

The man grabbed Coetzer and stuffed a sock into his mouth before he pulled his T-shirt over his head and exposed his naked back.

Then, the torturer sat on top of him and pushed a hot iron into his right arm and lower back repeatedly.

Despite the 15-minute attack Coetzer continued to insist that he did not have any guns.

His continued denial infuriated his torturer further and he grabbed White and Venter and assaulted them.

Coetzer said when he was forced to the ground and the gun was pushed against his head he was ready to die. "I made peace and I was ready, but I was not ready for what they did to me," he said.

White said that when he first saw the man in police uniform he thought it was a mistake and the police had raided the wrong house.

"But, when they ordered us to lie on the ground and they began to kick and beat us I knew these were not police."

As he watched the man repeatedly burn Coetzer, White said he thought he was going to die.

"When I saw what was happening I thought this was it. I thought we were dead."

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Woman shot dead after witchcraft accusation

May 08 2009 at 06:22PM

An Mthatha woman suspected of witchcraft was shot dead on Thursday night, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.

Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said the 49-year-old woman was watching television with a neighbour's 15-year-old son when two men burst into her home at Ndibela near Mthatha and killed her.

They injured the boy, who was later rushed off for treatment.

The woman was neither a sangoma nor a herbalist, and police are investigating what may have led to the claims and who may have killed her over it. - Sapa

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May 08 2009 at 04:22PM

The body of a man in his 40s was found with his right ear, lips and nose cut off in Wynberg in Johannesburg on Friday, Gauteng police said.

Inspector Moses Maphakela said police received a report that a person was lying in a park in Wynberg early on Friday morning.

Police found the man's body under a bridge on the corner of Old Pretoria Main Road and Watt Street.

His right ear, lips and nose had been cut off and were not found on the scene.

A case of murder was being investigated.

The man was wearing a white T-shirt, grey trousers and navy socks, but no shoes were found on or near him. No identification was found on the body.

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Farmer dies in land claims 'hit'
14/05/2009 22:41 - (SA)

Rietvlei - A KwaZulu-Natal midlands commercial farmer was ambushed and killed on Wednesday night, in what is believed to be a land claims dispute related hit, at his farm in Rietvlei. Bloemendal Estate farm owner, Alan Rowe, 58, was attacked by two assailants who had been hiding at a garage in his farm waiting for his return.
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Apartheid and Separate Development
Johann Wingard, Ph.D. - 6/6/2005

A common misconception exists that the Afrikaners (Whites of West European descent who lived in southern Africa for 350 years) introduced the apartheid to South Africa when they assumed political power in 1948.
This perception is widely promoted by Britain's liberal press, as well as the African National Congress, which now governs the country. The result is that Afrikaners are being demonised as not worthy of any form of self-determination, as they cannot be trusted with any power.

It also serves to justify the ANC's policies of black economic empowerment and affirmative action. Part of the ownership of all businesses, including commercial farms, should in the future be handed to black partners. A ceiling is placed on white employment, as the labour market "...should reflect the demographic realities of the country as a whole..." These measures are justified on the moral grounds of rectifying the injustices of the past, but is nothing other than a redistribution of wealth, a common philosophy in African history and based on the premise of collective guilt, widely promoted by the international liberal establishment. Politicians refer to those measures as the 'cuckoo syndrome'.

It must be remembered that South Africa became the Union of South Africa in 1910. After the Anglo Boer War, and up to 1910, the four colonies were governed directly by Whitehall in London. British Law was applicable to these colonies. The Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 as an autonomous state within the British Commonwealth.

The situation only changed in 1961 when South Africa left the Commonwealth and became the Republic of South Africa. In order to pin the responsiblility for the evolution of apartheid on somebody, it would be an interesting exercise to take a helicopter snapshot of South Africa's racial policies to establish where or when the apartheid system of racial segregation really originated.

- The Native Pass Law of 1809 was promulgated by the British Government, which required that every black person should carry an ID document, called a pass. Failure to do so was a criminal offence.
- In 1865, the British Governor, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, ruled that black people in Natal shall not have the right to vote.
- Apartheid in sport can be traced back to 1894 when Cecil John Rhodes prevented Krom Hendriks, a colored cricketer, to accompany the Cape team to England.
- The South African Native Affairs Commission (SANAC) was appointed by Lord Milner in 1903 and published their findings in 1905. Scholars today recognise their recommendations as having laid the blue-print not only for the policies of racial segregation from 1910 to 1948, but also apartheid and separate development up to 1990.
- Apartheid in the schools was introduced in 1905 when Rhodes introduced compulsory segregation of black and white children in Cape schools.
No such laws existed in the two Boer Republics, where an easy relationship existed between the Afrikaner and the African, as children were largely home taught by their parents or visiting teachers.
- Lord Balfour, intervened in the house of Commons in London and warned about the dangers of extending the franchise to the 'natives' as the black community was known at the time.
Chamberlain, Lord Milner, J.A. Froude, Anthony Trollope and Lord Bryce, among others, were dead-set against extending the franchise to the 'natives.' The South African colonies were to join the 'white' commonwealth in the form of the Union of South Africa to become 'a white man's country like Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
- The South African Act, which was adopted by the British Government in 1907, determined that only persons of European descent may be elected to parliament in South Africa.
- The infamous Native Land Act 2 of 1913 prohibited private ownership of land by black people. That is also the official cut-off date today for the land restitution process that is currently being implemented.
- Minister H.W. Sampson introduced the concept of job reservation in the Mines and Industry act of 1925.
- Interracial marriage or sex was prohibited between whites and others by the Natal Immorality Act of 1927. The Immorality act of 1957 was based on that act.
- General Smuts, then a leading light in the British Commonwealth, introduced separate representation of race groups in Parliament in 1936 so as to preserve the British dictate that South Africa shall be a white man's country. In that Act the blacks were removed from the common voters roll and the recommendations of the Lagden Commission were implemented, namely "separation of Black South Africans and White South Africans as voters". The term 'apartheid', was coined by Gen J.C. Smuts when he was Prime Minister, and not by Dr Verwoerd as politicians would have us believe.
- During Smuts' last term of office he introduced the Native Urban Area Act 25 of 1945 which determined that a black person may not be present in a white area for longer that 72 hours without a permit. (Similar to the provision in Russia where a resident of one city needs a special permit or visa to visit another city, even today.)

The concept of racial segregation was therefore firmly entrenched in South Africa after the Second World War when the National Party defeated the Pro-British United Party of General Smuts at the polls to become the new government.

Afrikaner nationalism was skilfully mobilised by leaders in the theological, political, cultural, economic, agricultural and industrial sectors as well as in government service. A strategy of massive economic development was introduced to make South Africa less dependent on Britain and to create thousands of job opportunities. It was at that time when Britain offered autonomy to the contiguous colonies, namely Lesotho, situated in the heart of South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana. They gratefully accepted the offer and all three were newly independent by the time Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd came to power.

He realized that the political situation that evolved over the previous century under British rule in South Africa had become untenable. This led Dr. Verwoerd to extend the same offer of autonomy to South Africa's own black tribes, who in most cases were economically and numerically more viable than the three fledgling ex-protectorates Britain gave independence to. Botswana for instance had a population of only 292,755 according to the 1948 census. "…There is little opportunity for wage earning within the protectorate and most of the people live the life of peasant farmers." (P 354 Encyclopaedia Britannica 1963)

The story of Lesotho is not much different, even though the population at the time was double that of Botswana. At any one time about a quarter of Lesotho's population would be finding employment in adjacent white South Africa in the mines or on commercial farms. Lesotho's annual budget in 1960 was only ₤2 million, much less than the annual budget of a medium sized South African municipality like Germiston. Land in the protectorates was communal property and administered in trust by the local chiefs, similar to all Britain's other colonies in Africa at the time. The same land ownership philosophy applied to the black homelands in South Africa.

Dr. Verwoerd's policy of 'separate development' was implemented and is regrettably commonly confused with Gen. Smuts' apartheid. Separate Development sought to pre-empt the need for large scale migration of people to the towns and cities, by developing the economies of the homelands instead.

Verwoerd argued that a policy of economic decentralization would make for a peaceful multicultural society, with each community exercising its right of political self-determination, the political catch phrase after World War 2. Industrialists were encouraged with all sorts of tax incentives and labour benefits to establish industries on the homeland borders, resulting in a symbionic relationship between labour and capital within a common economic system. During the sixty's and seventy's, the country experienced an unprecedented economic growth. Unemployment was at its lowest in history. Each homeland had its own Development Corporation. Large communal estates were established, which provided jobs for thousands of peasant workers and which injected millions of dollars into the communal coffers. Tea estates, coffee plantations, citrus and dissiduous fruit estates with their own canning and processing faclities earned valuable foreign exchange for homelands and the region as a whole. Universities and Technikons were established for each language group, decentralised in line with the overall policy and turning out thousands or literate black professionals.

New capital cities were built, each with its own parliament and administration complexes. South Africa' taxpayers gladly paid for "...these excesses of apartheid..." as they are being called nowadays. Mother tongue education was the philosophy for primary, as well as high schools where practicable. Ironically, these intitutions became the training ground for South Africa's black rulers of the New South Africa.

The problem of international recognition for these black homelands cut much deeper than economic or political issues only. The matter of the indivisibility of sovereignty of nation states seemed to have prevented the international community from accepting Verwoerd's policy of separate development. While Britain could give independence to protectorates and colonies with historically defined borders, the same principle could not apply to a country trying to carve itself up for the same political ends. The international community determined that South Africa should remain a unitary state and retain its colonial borders as defined in the 1880's. The policy was therefore inherently flawed from an international law point of view. The same principle that provides for self-determination to nation states, also witholds that right from nations within multicultural states on the basis of the integrity of national borders.

Seen also against the Cold War that existed during the seventy's and eighty's, Africa's role in that conflict, as well as the United States' problems with its own emancipated black community, it is easy to understand why the policy of separate development, which maliciously was intertwined with racial segregation at socal level, could not be supported by the international community. In short, it was never understood that social apartheid was a distorted product of the country's colonial history, whereas separate development is the application of the modern concept of self-determination for ethnic groups to preserve their identities and to foster peaceful co-existence with others without competing for the same resources.

There is no comparison between the economic development of the South African black homelands and the development of the independent neighbouring black states outside our borders. Tragically, those 'apartheid' training grounds that served today's black leaders so well, have become relics of an apartheid past. The development corporations have been disbanded. The estates have been allowed to go to ruin. Millions of jobless and roofless people are flocking to the cities and towns and live in abject poverty conditions in tin shacks, posing serious health and security problems in breeding grounds for crime.

Is that not perhaps too high a price to be paid for a simplistic democratic system, now recognized by those familiar with the situation as a majoritarian tyranny? Is the untennable social engineering process of nation building sustainable in a country with its deep historical ethnic fault lines? I have often wondered how one could convince the authorities to stop believing their own lies about the appropriateness of the liberal dream of a unified nation perpetually served by the same political clique and to recognize the crucial role Afrikaners could play in the development this country and the African continent. All they ask for is to be accepted and respected as white Africans with their own peculiar cultural needs, which they want to transfer to their children without interference and be allowed to participate freely in the economy.

Dr Wingard is an energy consultant and retired industrialist, who chaired the Statutory Volkstaat Council from 1994 to 1996. He authored the handbooks Towards a Synfuels Economy and Technology Transfer: an Industry Perspective. In addition to the Global Politician, he has contributed several articles to the South African Financial Press. You can email him at: [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

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Robbery victim tortured with hot iron
Baldwin Ndaba
May 22 2009 at 09:01AM

Armed robbers used a hot clothing iron to torture a gagged and bound Joburg family into revealing where cash was hidden in their home.

The Johannesburg High Court heard that the robbers stormed into the main bedroom and one of them said: "We are here to rob you. When we ask for jobs, you tell us that we must go and ask for jobs from (Nelson) Mandela."

This was the evidence of Tajuddin Mohammed whose family was among the first victims to be attacked, allegedly by Mzwandile Vincent Thomas Twala, 32, of Soweto, and his accomplice.
Twala is accused of murder, rape, five counts of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, robbery with aggravating circumstances, five counts of housebreaking with intent to rob, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.

One of his alleged assault victims was a quadriplegic boy and his parents who were attacked in their home in Ridgeway on May 31, 2007.

Twala also faces other charges of attempting to kill six police officers who pounced on him where he lived at Diepkloof Hostel on June 14, 2007. He has pleaded not guilty on all charges and did not enter a plea explanation.

The State yesterday exhibited items which Twala allegedly took from his victims. These included pistols, jewellery, cellphones, bags to load clothing, and electronic equipment. Twala and his accomplice allegedly also took a two-carat diamond belonging to Mohammed's wife during the robbery at their home in Robertsham on April 20, 2007.

Mohammed said the attackers entered their house through their roof at 2am and used ties to bind them. Their mouths were covered with 4cm wide adhesive tape "so we could not scream".

Mohammed said Twala went to the rooms where his younger boys were sleeping and brought them to their bedroom.

"The boys were tied up in the same way. Twala and his accomplice then ransacked our cupboards," Mohammed testified.
He told how the robbers switched on the iron and used it on his legs in an attempt to force him to show them where he kept his money.

The robbers found R100 000 worth of US dollars and British pounds. They also took his children's shoes and wedding gifts belonging to his wife.
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Three arrests after pregnant woman raped
May 27 2009
Three men are expected to appear in court on Wednesday for allegedly raping a heavily pregnant woman during a house robbery in Yeoville, Johannesburg police said.

"The incident occurred on Friday when five armed men broke into a house, belonging to a couple in their 20s," Captain Bhekizizwe Mavundla said.

The couple were woken from their sleep and ordered to stay in bed, while the five ransacked their house.

"After they were done ransacking the house, each one then took turns to rape the woman. The husband tried to tell them that she was pregnant, but they beat him and told him to shut up."
After raping the woman, they loaded the couple's appliances into a bakkie and sped off. The incident was reported to police and three of the five men were arrested in Hillbrow at the weekend. The other two were still at large.
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Evidence was also led on a probation officer's report that stated the mother experienced conflicting emotions, not able to cope with the incident, but still loving her son.

The report said the mother was very emotional when she recalled how her son hurt her during the rape. She developed depression and was now on medication.

Both she and her husband had been in special schools.

The accused was one of 10 children and had attended a special school as he could not "learn".
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Priest bound and strangled
02 Jun 2009
Sandile Waka-Zamisa

A PRIEST at one of the oldest boys’ colleges in the Eastern Cape, Mariazelle Christian Boarding School, was strangled at his mission house at the weekend. The Austrian priest, Father Ernest Ploechl (73), was found dead with his legs and hands bound with a rope around his neck.

The Sunday morning sermon was cancelled when Ploechl did not turn up at 7 am.

Bishop Wilfred Egler said pupils and parishioners were shocked at the news. “When he did not turn up for the service we sent someone to look for him. He was found dead with a rope around his neck. It was devastating; parishioners and the boys had to be sent home”.

A visiting couple from Ixopo told The Witness about the devastation among the congregants when the news was broken.

“We were waiting in the church and then we were told that the priest had been killed and the service would be cancelled.

“We were overwhelmed with shock and sadness.”

The police said Ploechl was attacked on Saturday evening when he came back to his house from an evening meeting. SAPS spokesman Captain Motsekuou Moliko said the priest’s killers are people who are familiar with his daily routine.

“They knew he would be alone at the time and they ambushed him as he entered the house.”

It is believed that the motive for the killing was robbery. “It was a month-end, and he was supposed to pay salaries for the staff.”

Moliko said the attackers might have been angered when they discovered that the priest had already paid the salaries and strangled him.

Egler said Ploechl had excused himself from a meeting on Saturday. “He left the recreation meeting at about 6.30 pm to prepare the sermon for the Sunday service.

“We can only guess that when he opened his door the killers confronted him and forced him inside.”

Mariazelle Christian Bording School is a historic school that has produced prominent figures. Ploechl had been a boarding master at the school since 1968.

“We came to South Africa together … in the same year. He was deployed at the school and has kept an excellent record in his work with the youth,” Egler said.

Cope president Patrick Mosiou Lekota is one of the prominent leaders who went to the school and learnt under the leadership of Ploechl.

KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union security officer Koos Marais has reiterated his call on government to increase security in rural areas, noting that “criminals kill people in rural areas without fear of the police”,

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Tuesdays with Damien Carrick
Customary Law and Human Rights in South Africa
6 December 2005

We look at South Africa, and how indigenous customary law is incorporated into the country's legal system.

This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.

Damien Carrick: Earlier this year, an Aboriginal man in a remote community in the Northern Territory pleaded guilty to ‘carnal knowledge’, after an initial charge of rape was reduced.
The 14-year-old victim, who was beaten and sexually assaulted, had been contracted to him as a customary-law wife since she was four.

Back in August, the man was sentenced to one month in prison, and given a two-year suspended sentence after the defence argued that the child had been promised to him under traditional law. The sentence caused an outrage and has been appealed. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, or HREOC, unsuccessfully sought leave to intervene in the case.

[Archived news clips: The Commission submits that in this case, the correct balance was not achieved between the accused’s traditional beliefs and the rights of the child. With great respect to the Chief Justice who was confronted with a …

Under Article 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or ICCPR, the Committee has confirmed the importance of upholding women’s rights. Inequality in the enjoyment of life by women throughout the world …

States should ensure that traditional, historical, religious or cultural attitudes are not used to justify violations of women’s rights to equality before the law, and to equal enjoyment of …

Specific mention is also made of the obligation under Article 24 of the ICCPR, to protect female children from all cultural or religious practices which jeopardise their freedom and wellbeing. When that case is decided, we’ll be looking at it closely.

Now these sorts of issues are hard enough in a country like Australia, where Indigenous people living traditional lives are a tiny minority. But in South Africa, where many still live according to traditional ways, protecting the rights of women and children is an issue that crops up constantly in courts.

Professor Christa Rautenbach works at the Faculty of Law at Northwest University in South Africa. She was recently in Australia looking at how we deal with issues around customary and religious law. I asked her whether South African courts would have dealt with the Northern Territory case in a similar way.

Christa Rautenbach: I doubt it if the South African courts would take into consideration in a rape case that it was a mitigating factor, that she was promised to him in marriage. So without committing myself to a particular viewpoint, I do think our courts would have looked upon that particular incident more harshly. At this moment in South Africa we’ve got a very huge debate going with regard to child molestation, and violence towards children. So the courts at this moment tend to give harsher sentences to offenders where children were involved. And I think that would have been a perfect example where he would have got a harsher sentence in South Africa. But not because of custom, but because of the fact that we are at this moment having a lot of instances with children; people being hurt by older people. So I think we would have handled that in another way.

Damien Carrick: More generally, since the end of apartheid, customary laws and traditions have been welded into South Africa’s national legal framework and have even been given recognition in the Constitution.

In some African communities there are courts which rule on issues like marriage, divorce, custody, even some crimes, according to traditional law. And even mainstream courts have to apply customary law to cases involving individuals who describe themselves as traditional.

And when there’s a conflict between traditional values and modern concepts about basic universal human rights, which most of us would agree should be absolutely non-negotiable? Well, that’s decided by reference to South Africa’s Constitutional Bill of Rights, a document which was drafted and signed up to by all South Africans, both traditional and westernised.

But Professor Christa Rautenbach says when it comes to criminal law, South African courts do take into account traditional values as mitigating factors, up to a point,.

Christa Rautenbach: A few examples I can think of is there is in customary law in some of the traditional communities, the Ukatuala custom, which means that you abduct a girl from a family, you have intercourse with her and then go back to the family and say well I want to marry her because of this. And then the two families get together and they decide on the marriage, and libolo (that is bridal gifts between the two families), but the lady’s wishes aren’t really relevant when they decide that.

What she can do, and sometimes has done, is to go to the police and say, well I’ve been abducted and I’ve been raped, she would go to a western court as a complainant, the court will adjudicate and then it is definitely not a defence in terms of the South African criminal law, so if there’s enough evidence, he will be found guilty of abduction and rape, and then the court has to decide whether this is a mitigating factor, because it is a custom of that particular community. And there have been cases where the court did say it is a mitigating factor.

Damien Carrick: So they’re now reduced sentences for perpetrators where those conditions... ?

Christa Rautenbach: Yes, where they perpetrate in the name of custom. Another example is traditional healers, the witch doctors. Sometimes people would kill somebody else on the advice of a witch doctor. There was one case where a witch doctor said to somebody, ‘Listen, you will become a very successful person if you kill a very strong successful person and then drink his blood,’ and that is what he did. And then he was arrested for murder. He was found guilty, and then the court had to decide whether the fact that he acted on the advice of a witch doctor, in which he believes, is a mitigating factor or not. In that particular court case, the court said no, it is not. But there have been other cases where the court did indeed say it is a mitigating factor.

Damien Carrick: A genuine belief in...

Christa Rautenbach: A genuine belief in witch doctors.

Damien Carrick: Even if that involves killing of another human being?

Christa Rautenbach: Yes.

Damien Carrick: I know that in parts of Africa there is a traditional belief that if someone who is HIV-positive has sex with a virgin, then they will be somehow miraculously cured. Is that kind of belief ever used as a defence or a mitigating factor when those cases come to court?

Christa Rautenbach: I think the court would deal very harshly with offenders using that defence, because it’s been inside Africa also said – by some of the traditional communities as some traditional healers – it’s been noted in the media that they were saying to people ‘Have sex with a virgin or with a baby, a small child, and that could help against AIDS’. So we’ve had a lot of instances where babies under a year old have been raped by people having AIDS, and they’ve been dealt with very harshly, and I don’t think the court would take that belief into consideration when sentencing.

Damien Carrick: In Australia there’s been over the years debate about how to incorporate customary law or customary values either as defences or as mitigating values. Do you see that there’s a real tension between the rights of women, often, and these notions of customary law?

Christa Rautenbach: Definitely. That is usually the cases that end up in court, and that courts have to decide, how can we deal with this? While it has been one of the focal points or some of the issues, we recently had a very controversial case, it regards the Rule of Male primogeniture, which is applicable in terms of customary law succession. The case was decided in the Constitutional Court; it was B versus the Magistrate of Kayalitcha. In that particular case, a Miss B was excluded from succession after her husband died, and also her children were excluded. They didn’t have much property but that property went to one of the male members of the family, and he said quite clearly, well he wants to sell the house to pay for the funeral costs. So that would have left her and her two daughters destitute.

Damien Carrick: And that was in accordance with traditional law?

Christa Rautenbach: That was in accordance with traditional law, because the male primogeniture rule says the oldest son must inherit. Because there weren’t any older sons, it had to go to the father of the deceased. There wasn’t a father, and I think eventually it went to other male family members of the family. So for very many years there was a debate that this is unequal, because females are excluded from inheritance. A lot of court cases said, well it’s a customary rule, you must apply it, you can’t do anything about it. The male usually has the responsibility to maintain the other family members, so he should get everything. And then in the Constitutional Court, the court said no, customary law must also develop to be in accordance with human rights principles, and because it is not equal because of gender, it should be scrapped. And now they’ve changed the Rule of Male Primogeniture. It is too early to say if it is going to be applied in the rural areas where people still live according to customary law, but at least it is now.

Damien Carrick: If there’s a contradiction between western law and customary law, and somebody chooses, if you like, to defend themselves in those courts, then the western or the national law will trump the customary law in this particular point?

Christa Rautenbach: I don’t think it’s the national law, I think it’s more human rights principles. If there’s a conflict between western law and customary law, the courts will look and see whether this is unconstitutional or not. In order to see whether it is constitutional or not, the courts must look at the values of human dignity, quality and freedoms. So that should actually be the basis against which they test it, not really it is contrary to common law, because common law isn’t necessarily constitutional in all ways. They should use the constitutional values and the constitutional principles in order to decide whether it I constitutional or not.

Damien Carrick: In other words, the constitution applies to national laws and customary laws.

Christa Rautenbach: That’s supreme law in law in South Africa, yes.

Damien Carrick: Before, we were talking about witch doctors and traditional medicine. I understand that there’s new legislation in South Africa which is going to perhaps, depending on which way you look at it, clarify the situation or muddy the waters. Can you tell me about that?

Christa Rautenbach: Yes, we’ve got about 200,000 traditional healers, or witch doctors as we call them, but are not supposed to call them. It’s actually quite interesting: the term ‘witch doctor’ comes from the fact that they also are able to sniff out witches, and that’s where the term came from, they doctor witches, so it’s a witch doctor. Quite interesting. But anyway, we’ve got 200,000 but they’ve never been recognised by government as also part of the medical system. So they’ve enacted legislation recognising the traditional healers, but then they must register in terms of that Act. There was an Interim Council that’s going to be established, they must register, and then that would mean that they are entitled to operate side by side with the western medical schemes. They will be able to issue sick leave letters which can be given to employers, the employer –

Damien Carrick: So, a doctor’s certificate?

Christa Rautenbach: Yes, the same. They will be able to issue invoices which can be deducted from the medical insurance companies; but there will also be regulation, because a patient can also complain about maltreatment, which beforehand they couldn’t do,. There was no forum that they could go to and complain and say ‘Well this witch doctor did this and this, and this.’ Now they will be able to do that, they will be able to complain at this particular council which is going to be established. The legislation has been signed by the president, but no date for operation has been pronounced yet. So it’s not in operation yet.

Damien Carrick: I understand that recently in South Africa, you had a conversation with a witch doctor about these new laws. Can you tell me about that?

Christa Rautenbach: Yes, it is quite interesting. I was looking around for a witch doctor to have an interview with, and I discovered that there was one in the local prison. I went to him and I spoke to him, and he said no, well he and his girlfriend (who’s also a witch doctor), had a fight, and she went to the police and alleged that he had human body parts in his possession, which he denied, but the police did get stuff in his possession, and it was sent away for ballistics. When I left the country it was still not determined whether it is indeed human parts or not, but he’s still in custody because he can’t pay the bail. I think bail was about 5,000 Rand, and I was discussing the Act with him. He is a herbalist and diviner. It is somebody that’s been called upon to become a witch doctor. I asked him how he was called upon, and he said, 'Well it is my physical stuff.' He heard voices, he had constant headaches, and then he realised okay, he must become a witch doctor. But he’s also a herbalist. He is registered at one of the non-recognised associations for traditional healers. He said he didn’t know about the Act. He would register if the Act allows him to, and if he’s not able to register, he would still continue without registering. So the government will definitely not stop him to do what he’s busy doing, and that’s quite interesting.

Damien Carrick: You mentioned there are allegations about him using body parts in his medicine; is that a real or even a widespread problem in South Africa?

Christa Rautenbach: Yes. There’s been a lot of media releases of people using body parts. There are a lot of what we call ‘mooti murders’, where people are found dead without their body parts, and usually that is referred to as a ‘mooti murder’, because it’s been known that some traditional healers do use body parts in their healing processes.

Damien Carrick: And there have been trials and convictions for that...

Christa Rautenbach: If they find them, they will be tried for murder.

Damien Carrick: The dark side of traditional culture in some African communities. Professor Christa Rautenbach is from the Faculty of Law at the Northwest University in South Africa. That’s The Law Report for this week. A big thank you to producer Anita Barraud and to technical producers Brendan O’Neill and Alec McCloskey.

Guests on this program:
Professor Christa Rautenbach
Faculty of Law Northwest University in South Africa

Presenter: Damien Carrick
Producer: Anita Barraud

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Mark Shaw: Crime and policing in post-apartheid South Africa

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Residents set toilets on fire
July 21 2009 at 07:30AM

A new range of bucket toilets has caused a stink among Gugulethu residents, who set them alight in the street to underline their demands for better sanitation.

The toilets were introduced into the Tambo Square informal settlement community almost two months ago.

Ward councillor Belinda Landingwe of the ANC said the toilets were intended "for the betterment of the community", which had previously used larger black buckets in a long-drop - toilets referred to as the black bucket system.

But the system has not met with everyone"s approval in the community, and yesterday afternoon police had to be called in to monitor the situation as angry residents confronted Landingwe.
As the residents sang and danced in front of the burning toilets, the overwhelming stench of burning faeces filled the air.
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SA security gates torn down

Fear of crime is widespread in Johannesburg
The authorities in Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city, are proceeding with the dismantling of fences and gates across roads despite protests from residents who erected them for security purposes.

The authorities say they are acting to free up movement in the city and create a friendlier atmosphere.

City workers have been using cutting tools and welding guns to remove some 1,100 gates, fences and swing barriers which have been erected on the city streets.

This follows the passing of a deadline a week ago for residents to get legal approval or have them removed.

We have had 35 crimes since January and I feel that we are at threat

Johannesburg resident

"(These residents) haven't made any attempt to legalise the booms and the gates that they have erected," Liam Clarke, operations manager for Johannesburg's roads agency told Reuters news agency.

"Gated communities"
Authorities say they have received about 300 applications from residents hoping to keep their blockades around their so-called "gated communities", which tend to be seen as safer and more exclusive.

The barricades also help keep poor people away
The BBC's Hilary Andersson, says thousands of residents who have installed the fences and gates to protect themselves in Johannesburg, one of the crime capitals of the world, are not pleased with the government's move.

"We have had 35 crimes since January and I feel that we are at threat. That is why we have taken these measures," one resident told our reporter.

In the last year for which statistics are available there were nearly 1,000 murders in Johannesburg - a murder rate some 16 times higher than London.
There were also over 15,000 house burglaries and nearly 8,000 serious assaults.

Another Johannesburg resident, called Charlene, who has been burgled 12 times at gunpoint in her home, has decided to lock every room in the house behind her when she is not in it.

SA authorities say they want to create a "friendlier atmosphere"
"If you took our gates away, I probably would not sleep because you would feel totally naked - you would feel that security is gone," she says.

Concern is expressed that although apartheid is over in South Africa, these fences can perpetuate racial and economic segregation.

"On the face of it is appears to be an issue of safety and security. But I think when one looks deeper it has a real danger of dividing us as a nation," Charlene said.

Fear of the city's high crime rate is the most-cited reason behind the blockades, which began mushrooming shortly after the 1994 elections that brought democracy to South Africa.
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A sangoma was hacked to death with an axe before being covered with paraffin and set alight in front of her ten-year-old niece at the Khayelitsha informal settlement outside Butterworth on Sunday afternoon, Eastern Cape police said.

"When police arrived at the scene they were informed that a 58-year-old female sangoma who also runs a spaza shop was attacked with an axe by her student sangoma," Captain Jackson Manatha said.

"It is alleged that the 30-year-old suspect, who is believed to have fled to Willowvale, attacked the sangoma with an axe around her upper body.

"It is alleged that he further poured paraffin on the body of the deceased and set her alight."
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Teen skinned in North West

November 14 2012 at 03:58pm
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Teen skinned in North West

November 14 2012 at 03:58pm
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German police freed a kidnapped French girl, 15, from the boot of a car after a high-speed car chase.

North West - A murdered teenager was skinned and some of his body parts removed in Mmakau Village, near Brits, North West police said on Wednesday.

The face of Neo Ramaswe, 13, was skinned and his throat, tongue and kidneys were removed, possibly for making muti, said Captain Amanda Funani.

Muti is traditional African medicine.

Ramaswe's body was found on Sunday in an open field by a passer-by in the area, but police only disclosed the information to media on Wednesday.

“He was last seen by his friends (last Thursday)... after playing soccer,” said Funani.

Police have launched a manhunt for two men suspected of involvement in his death, after they were seen talking to him.

A case of murder has been opened

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Teens held for brutal child murders
2012-11-15 22:24

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Three orphans stoned to death

Johannesburg - Six teenagers were arrested on Thursday for the murders of three children in Limpopo in August, said police.

"They are being kept in a place of safety and will appear before the Mookgopong Magistrate's Court on Friday.. .," said Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi.

He said the six were aged between 12 and 14, and would face three charges of murder, and rape.

Brothers Bafana Kekana, nine, and Hosea Richard Kekana, 10, and their cousin Johana Kekana, 12, were found dead in Mookgopong on 18 August.

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Ex-employee sentenced to life for boss’ murder

8.6.2018

Her lifeless body was found in the boot of her car parked on the premises. Her mouth was wrapped with bandages, and an electrical cable was found around her neck.

A 28-year-old man had been sentenced to life imprisonment at a High Court sitting in Breyten for the murder of his former employer, Mpumalanga News reports.

Banele Sihlali, 28, of Thusi Village was convicted guilty of murder, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, robbery with aggravating circumstances and four counts of fraud.

This follows the crimes Sihlali committed after the termination of his employment contract in 2015 after stealing his boss’ vehicle at No 70 Klein Street in Ermelo.
He also stabbed his employer with a screwdriver on the same day.

Again in November 21, he attacked his employer in her house. During the attack, Sihlali stole R2 500 cash and a Standard Bank card from the deceased’s purse.

He further withdrew R5 000 from the deceased’s account at three different ATMs. “After the investigations commenced, the accused became a suspect, and he tried to evade arrest on several occasions, but was eventually arrested at his house. He pleaded not guilty during trial, however, the state, represented by advocate David Pudikabekwa, led an evidence of eight witnesses including the the son of the deceased.”

He told the court that after the death of her mother, he realised that an amount of R2 500 was missing together with her Standard Bank card. During sentencing, the presiding officer, Judge Strydom told the court that the deceased was brutally killed in the sanctity of her own home.

“It is disappointing to see how the accused betrayed the relationship of trust with the deceased, as the accused had worked for the deceased for approximately 10 years,” Judge Strydom said when passing the sentence.
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