Just a Victim (of Crime)

The globalization of the fur trade has made it impossible to know where fur products come from. Skins move through international auction houses and are purchased and distributed to manufacturers around the world, and finished goods are often exported. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. Even if a fur garment’s label says it was made in a European country, the animals were likely raised and slaughtered elsewhere—possibly on an unregulated Chinese fur farm.

Because a fur’s origin can’t be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all shares the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms.

On these farms, foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals pace and shiver in outdoor wire cages, exposed to driving rain, freezing nights, and, at other times, scorching sun. Mother animals, who are driven crazy from rough handling and intense confinement and have nowhere to hide while giving birth, often kill their babies after delivering litters. Disease and injuries are widespread, and animals suffering from anxiety-induced psychosis chew on their own limbs and throw themselves repeatedly against the cage bars.

Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.

Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.

shocking undercover video. Please watch video of horrors of the fur trade.

Everything in South Africa is so politically correct
Answer the following questions and you will realise why South Africa is fast becoming another African basket case country.
Who is gang raping and murdering the farmers wives on the farms?
Who is murdering the farmers on their farms on almost a daily basis?
Who is murdering, raping and killing the people in the townships?
Who are the policemen involved in murder and bank heists?
Who is guilty of looting the State coffers with impunity?
Who is hijacking motorists, often killing them for no apparent reason?
Who is forcing all our law abiding folks to live in fortress like homes in fear of their lives, whilst the criminals control the streets?
Who cuts up body parts to make muti?
Who consults witch doctors to protect them against evil spirits?
Who rapes little babies and young children, believing that this will prevent them from getting Aids?

As soon as we face up to these facts, we can only come to the conclusion that we will have to take the necessary steps to rectify this sordid situation.
The time for paid politics is past and it is time for ordinary law abiding citizens to wake up and realise that the future is in their own hands.

A policeman was seriously wounded following a shootout with robbers who had just bombed an FNB ATM at the Bracken City Shopping Complex.
Robbers, armed with AK47s, managed to take the ATM safe. The 12 robbers drove off in three stolen BMWs.

Two days ago, on Wednesday 24 January, a White family became the latest victims of a hijacking and violent house invasion. Sandy Stoltz, of Newlands in the east of Pretoria, was busy on her computer when she noticed these images on her recently installed CCTV camera system. Her brother-in-law had just arrived home, but failed to notice that he was being followed.

“After my brother parked his car, I noticed how unknown black savages slipped in through the automated gate just before it closed - I tried to focus on what I’d just seen, and thought it could not be possible” Stolz said. (the car in the back was that used by the criminals)

“When I realised a crime was in progress, I tried to gather my composure, and ran to the alarm system where I activated the panic button.”

“The criminals were quite unperturbed by the alarm siren going off. They simply continued tampering with the gate, and then yanked it off its rails.”

“At this point, all four criminals had gained access to the property. The two who sneaked in first, were holding my brother-in-law hostage, taking his cell phone, car keys and wallet. They demanded to know if there were other people in the house. According to the Brooklyn Police, this is the typical scenario for an armed robbery. Fortunately my brother said nobody else was home. In the meantime, my three children were already asleep, blissfully unaware of the danger lurking outside their bedroom windows.”

“Next, the neighbour started yelling & screaming about the wailing siren - he was unaware that a crime was in progress.”

“I then phoned one of my police friends and he immediately summoned help.”

“My brother-in-law started screaming in panic, at which point the four criminals decided to run away. At the same time, my neighbour realised what was going on and he also started yelling at the criminals. They responded by firing two shots at him while they were running away. One of the bullets almost hit my neighbour’s son while he was standing at the second storey window, watching what was going on”

“A neighbour across the street fired on the robbers, at which point they climbed bak into their car and sped away into the night”

Police and the private security firm ADT were on the scene within five minutes. Stoltz had the CCTV system installed barely a week before this incident. “I thank God that I looked at the CCTV screen at that moment, it could have turned out very differently for me and my family”.

Residents of Pretoria have in recent weeks been terrorised by armed robberies where homes are looted, and families are raped, tortured and murdered.

Source: (Afrikaans)

31 January 2007

Cape Town - The wording of department of defence advertisements calling for job applications from people who have no “serious” criminal record is an error, according to the defence ministry.

“I’m advised by the department that that is a mistake,” spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi said on Monday. The adverts, for recruitment into military skills development programmes in the navy and air force, were placed in the Sunday Times on Sunday. Under “minimum requirements”, the ads say applicants must have “no record of a serious criminal offence”.

However, Mkhwanazi said he was informed that this wording was carried over from an earlier, also erroneous, advert, and that the new ads had not been approved at a senior level. He said “any sort” of criminal record would disqualify an applicant.

Earlier on Monday, Democratic Alliance defence spokesperson Andries Botha said it was disgraceful that the defence force and the department, both of which were designed to uphold the law, should be willing to take on people with criminal records. “It sets the wrong example and undermines the department’s desperate need to build a better, more effective and accountable defence force,” he said. “There are millions of law-abiding unemployed citizens in South Africa whom the [department] should instead look to recruit.”

He said he would ask Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota a parliamentary question to establish how many people currently employed by the defence force and department had criminal records. Botha said he also wanted to know which specific crimes the department did not regard as “serious criminal offences”.

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THEY KILL CHILDREN DONT THEY ?

As South Africans we are often tagged with becoming desensitized to the crime in this country; getting used to the levels of brutality because of their frequency, adjusted to a way of life imprisoned in homes that offer little real security.

But this – the cold-blooded murder of two children in Centurion who were bravely trying to prevent intruders entering their home – their little bodies pushed against a door trying to keep out a grown man, their little hands trying desperately to keep the door handle closed.

How can anybody be desensitized to this kind of thing? Amongst the insanity of this God-forsaken criminal hell-hole every now and again there is a crime like this that stands out and burns itself into your memory, Stompie Sepei, Lee Matthews, the young girl in Margate over Christmas, the young girl murdered by that animal dubbed the “mine dump killer” and now these two little children

They were two little heroes in the true sense of the word.

In South Africa we have two types of heroes, kids like these and the “Struggle Heroes” The history of the “Struggle Heroes” shows only that they their heroics were confined to engaging passive targets – bombing civilian establishments and churches. Using these and other cowardly hit and run tactics, their activities by any definition could only be defined as acts of terror. Yet somehow, the rest of the world and like-minded sycophants have deemed the cumulative outcome of these terror activities a “Liberation Struggle”

I’m a layman, but my understanding of “Liberation” means freedom from or for something. In SA we have been led to believe that the freedom struggle was for the right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom to strike, freedom of association, freedom and the right to live blah blah blah…

But when one considers what level of freedom has actually been achieved in South Africa there is not much – same as Zimbabawe; they have the vote, they have the land but they have precious little else. They have no employment, no money, no viable political alternative to ZANU-PF, no food, no housing, no fuel, but they are free.

The only freedom in South Africa is the freedom of criminals to run amok and do as they please with absolute impunity.

What a noble “Liberation Struggle” this was – what noble heroic people these are?

After all where in the world would you find people so brave that they can heroically gun down innocent unarmed children, innocent unarmed senior citizens, rape babies and octogenarians and heroically defy justice on every count?

I seems that the heroes of the new South Africa have defined a new level of heroism – long may their heroism be remembered so that one day when somebody wakes up the situation in South Africa will be seen for what it is – ANARCHY – and they will be seen for what they really are – COWARDS WHO KILL CHILDREN !

South Africa”s VIP prisoners have been having a whale of a time – Tony Yengeni served a mere 4 months of his four year sentence for fraud and corruption, and in the time he was incarcerated, had a double bed & big screen TV delivered by a local furniture shop, (installed in the sick bay where he slept) which was right next to the OFFICE they rigged up for him, where he received a daily stream of SA regime ministers, ANC luminaries and various other communist groupies. His loving wife had home-cooked or restaurant-prepared food delivered to him daily, after which Yengeni enjoyed conjugal rights, all with the blessing of the SA Correctional Services department.

As for Shabir Shaik, things are just dandy, thank you! Shaik, who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for fraud and corruption, was sent off to the slammer in November 2006. Barely a week after his arrival, Shaik was transferred to an expensive private hospital (St Augustine’s) WHERE HE HAS REMAINED SINCE. Yes dear reader, Mr Shaik has spent more than sixty days in private hospital stay, with an (conservatively) estimated cost of R 60 000 which will likely be footed by YOU, the conscientious tax payer. Mr Shaik, formerly the epitome of health, has suddenly developed numerous ailments, such as hay fever, a mild depression, blood pressure, sore gums and a whole host of serious, life-threatening maladies.

As with Yengeni’s prison life of privilege, St Augustine’s hospital has become Shaik’s de facto corporate headquarters, where he receives an endless stream of regime ministers, party apparatchiks, family and friends. The Pretoria News reports that despite hospitals being grim places where people sit around and worry about the condition of their loved ones, this is not the status quo at all – it claims that an avalanche of letters and phone calls to newspapers (by stunned visitors, doctors and nurses) are reporting quite the opposite – Mr Shaik is having a huge jol!

According to one staffer, Shaik goes for a daily walk to the hospital car park at around 5 PM, where he holds court with numerous friends and associates. Then, at around 7 PM when it’s nice and dark, a big black Mercedes swings into the parking lot, collects Mr Shaik who then disappears home for the night – every night. Judge Nathan Erasmus, who heads up the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons, coyly said that he was “monitoring the situation”. A medical practitioner working at St Augustine’s was quoted as saying “In my opinion this is a case of a crooked patient and crooked doctors.”

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“Come, I’ll beat you to death.”

A motorist claims a Naledi traffic official said this to him during an argument about the traffic cop parking his car in the middle of the town’s main road.
Henk de Jager, 32, and his wife, Elmarie, from the farm Leliefontein, were in town for business on Saturday and they wanted to get something to eat.

A traffic official had parked his car in front of the driveway to the KFC in the main road.

Serious injury

“I hooted at him, but he just got out of his car and made an obscene gesture. We stopped next to him and I spoke to him angrily,” said De Jager.

The traffic official then threatened De Jager with death.

“I got out and approached him. He hit me on the chest. Then another person approached us from the side and hit me. I stumbled. The official held my hands behind my back while the other person beat me,” he said.

A large number of curious onlookers gathered and encouraged the traffic official and the man beating him.

“I heard them shouting. I then really feared for my life,” said De Jager.

Gerrit van Straaten and his brother Japie heard the noise from the opposite side of the road and came to De Jager’s aid. Gerrit was also assaulted. Japie stepped in and the three men made their way to De Jager’s car.

De Jager and the Van Straaten brothers went to the police station. Shortly afterwards the traffic official also turned up.

“He stood there laughing and boasted that his brother would get him out soon,” said Gerrit.

The official also taunted eyewitnesses at the police station, threatening he would “get them”.

A Beeld reader who happened to be at the police station said the “smiling traffic official” joked with police officials while the bloodied De Jager made a statement nearby.

“Shortly afterwards another traffic official turned up at the police station and scolded the policemen,” said the Beeld reader, who wanted to remain anonymous.

De Jager, his shocked wife and the Van Straaten brothers went to hospital for treatment. “I suffered serious facial injuries,” said De Jager.

David Sikhomba, the local traffic chief, had not reacted to Beeld’s messages by late on Tuesday.

The police confirmed that a charge of assault with the intent to do serious bodily harm was being investigated against the traffic official.

The official had in turn laid a charge of crimen injuria against De Jager.

Lydenburg - Barely four months after she found her murdered fiance’s body, a young woman was assaulted and raped in her flat in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga.

Mariska Louw, 22, said a man waited for her inside her flat in Lydenburg when she returned from a party on Friday evening.

Louw gave permission for her name to be published, but didn’t want a photograph published for fear of being recognised in public.

She moved from Centurion to Lydenburg in an attempt to make a new start after the trauma she had experienced last year.

Police ‘could’ve helped her’

Louw’s car was hijacked in September last year. Ten days later her fiance, Werner van Jaarsveldt, saw people driving the car. He phoned the police and pursued the car, but was apparently shot dead by the hijackers. Louw found his body in Midrand. They would have married in November.

About the rape she said: “I went home at about 00:20. The front door was locked when I arrived. I locked it again and took an ashtray upstairs (the first floor of the duplex). When I opened the bathroom door, a naked man stood there. He grabbed me by the throat.”

Louw, who has several scrapes, bruises and bitemarks to her body, said she hit the man over the head with the ashtray. During a struggle the man dragged her by the hair to the bathroom and broke her perfume bottle against the side of the bath.

“He said: ‘Shut up or I will kill you.’ He tore clothes he had thrown from the laundry basket and tied up my mouth, legs and hands.’

After he had raped her on her bed, he wrapped her head with the torn clothes and tied her to a pipe.

“I heard him locking my bedroom door. I couldn’t breathe.”

Louw said she managed to untie herself and screamed for help from the window. She saw the man get out of her Toyota Yaris and run away. She didn’t scream again as she was afraid he would return. The man took her cellphone.

She waited inside her bedroom until later on Saturday morning. She then borrowed a cellphone from workers at the premises to phone her parents and a friend with a spare key to her flat.

Pieter Louw, her father, said what bothered him most was that police didn’t turn up after neighbours had phoned them during the incident on Friday evening. The neighbours heard her daughter’s screams.

“The neighbours later went to the police station to fetch them. The police shone a torch on the flat and walked around it before leaving again. The rapist was still inside the flat at the time.”

“My child could have been dead and the police could have saved her,” he said. His daughter was receiving antiretroviral treatment.

The United Kingdom is “likely” to strip SA of its “visa-free” status this year because of rampant corruption in the Department of Home Affairs, the Sunday Times reported. South Africans would have to pay £63 (nearly R1 000) and provide fingerprints, “facial biometrics” and travel documents to obtain visas, the newspaper said.

Now for those of you who say so what, think again. This is simply the first step in another long process that will reduce South Africans to the same legal status as say a refugee from zimbabwe.

If you are even remotely thinking about getting out of sa do it now before its officially too late.

More than 250 000 tourists, business people and family visitors to Britain would have to apply for visas each year.”The door is being shut because corrupt Home Affairs officials have been dishing out genuine passports to people smugglers, foreign asylum seekers and - allegedly - suspected terrorists wanting to enter Britain,” the report said.As a result, British immigration experts said, the South African passport was “no longer worth the paper it’s written on”.

South Africa leapt to the top of the British government’s visa “hit list” last month following a British trial that heard that at least 6 000 illegal Asian immigrants had been smuggled into Britain on South African passports. Last week Sir Stephen Lander, chairman of Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, told Britain’s Home Affairs Committee that the case “is likely” to lead to visa controls being placed on all South Africans, the Sunday Times said. British immigration authorities are currently subjecting South Africa, with other countries, to a “Visa Waiver Test”, expected to end this year. Experts said South Africa was almost certain to fail on three of the six key criteria due to crime and Home Affairs corruption. On Friday, the British Home Office insisted a decision had not been made but admitted that the issues raised by a recent police operation “will be of concern to both governments”.

Cleo Mosana, spokesperson for Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, acknowledged on Friday that there were “major issues about the integrity and credibility” of South African passports, the Sunday Times said. She said South Africa had met Britain to discuss the review. South Africa was attempting to deal with the passport corruption.