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South Africa tells us that something is wrong – but we don’t listen anymore

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Is it really so that we don’t listen any more? In the aftermath of the Tumi Morake debacle that was one of the main accusations – we don’t listen any more. I don’t know if this is true, all I know is that we have certainly stopped listening to what South Africa herself wants to tell us Because when a white farmer is murdered in the most gruesome way on his farm, and the media keeps quiet about it – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When coloured children on the Cape Flats are murdered and tortured by gangs and the provincial government keeps quiet about it – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When an elderly woman is raped and her rapist says: “I did it because she is white” – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When an Indian shopkeeper is robbed and stabbed – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When a radio broadcaster openly offends a minority group by calling them bullies and gets away with it because she “only said what she felt” – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. How can it ever be right to offend and then justify your refusal to apologise? And when I look at a man and hate him purely because he is black or white or coloured, not for what he says or does, but for what he was born to be – then South Africa tells us that something is wrong When we then respond by saying: “No, things are not ideal, but life is much better for many people”, then there must be something terribly wrong with us, because then we don’t listen to South Africa any more. If a better life for some must come at the cost of blood and humiliation and blame and hatred and racism and prejudice and injustice and crime, then we cannot justify that improvement any more. The cost of believing that South Africa is doing well, is becoming too much now. It is not me saying this, it is South Africa saying this. Because if we have to destroy each other in this country, then we have to admit that we are on a course of destroying ourselves as well. We have always lived together in this country. I, as a white man, was born here and I love this country above all others. I belong here. And I am more than prepared to admit that so does the black man and woman, the coloured man and woman, the Indian man and woman. But then we must stand up, white South Africans and black and coloured and Indian and immigrant South Africans and say in Afrikaans and English and isiXhosa and in Zulu and Pedi and Fanagalo: There is something very wrong! When I have to live in fear and suffer humiliation and stereotyping and insult for who I am and what I believe, that cannot be right. Let us take the lessons which we have learned from the past 23 years and go back to the drawing board and start all over again! We need to figure out a way in which no man in this country has to live by the grace and the rules and the judgements of another. We need to have the right to be who we are, associate with whom we want to and each to call his own little piece of land under this great Southern sun: “Home.” And for that we cannot look to those career politicians in Parliament with their corrupt attitudes and their fancy old suits and diabolical fake smiles on posters when it becomes election time, only waiting for the time to pass to retire with their pension and their loot. We need to look to ourselves and say: If we are prepared to accept the status quo and to keep on justifying it with empty words, we have to accept that we are not listening to what South Africa tells us – and then there must indeed be something terribly wrong with us. We need to stop saying what is owed to us by the other person, and start asking: What do I owe myself and the people I am part of? This weekend we celebrate Heritage Day. Is this not the day on which we must now ask: What heritage will we leave behind? Will it be said of us: They were the last South Africans? If we have to admit the failure of the current dispensation and get rid of the causes of this failure, then that is what we must do. If we have to sit down and redesign South Africa to give each and every man and woman their due, their right, their heritage – then that is what we must do. And if every person in this country have to swallow the humiliation of admitting that we went wrong over the last few years, for our own sakes, then that is what we must do. If we cannot recognize and admit that some things, too many things, in South Africa are not right, then indeed something must be very wrong with us. Read the original article by Daniel Lötter on Front Nasionaal SA – blad South Africa Today – South Africa News

Is it really so that we don’t listen any more? In the aftermath of the Tumi Morake debacle that was one of the main accusations – we don’t listen any more. I don’t know if this is true, all I know is that we have certainly stopped listening to what South Africa herself wants to..
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Fikile Mbalula: Most farmers are not a “bunch of racists”

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Fikile Mbalula: Most farmers are not a "bunch of racists"

Most farmers are not a “bunch of racists”‚ says Police Minister Fikile Mbalula. “There are rotten potatoes which from time to time play themselves out in different episodes‚” he told a media conference in Pretoria on Wednesday. “There will be from time to time episodes that play themselves out in terms of racists attacks‚” Mbalula..
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Senzo Mchunu gives explosive details on KZN killings

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The manipulation of how councillors are selected stoked political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, said former provincial premier and ANC chairperson Senzo Mchunu. Mchunu, who was fired as premier after losing the November 2015 elective conference to current chairperson Sihle Zikalala, made the explosive disclosures at the Moerane Commission into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal. The elective conference..
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Mbalula warns crime intelligence over its own ‘criminal’ elements

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Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has warned the country’s crime intelligence unit that he is going after rogue elements within it, and that they are not immune to the law. News24 can reveal that it is suspected that rogue crime intelligence activities are linked to, among other matters, the underworld nightclub security takeover which has resulted..
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MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH FORMER SPRINGBOK CAPTAIN SON’S MURDER

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MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH FORMER SPRINGBOK CAPTAIN SON'S MURDER

Former springbok captain, Hennie Muller’s son, Steven, was brutally murdered in Brackenfell on Friday. The 64-year-old pensioner’s body was allegedly found with severe head injuries, although it is not yet known what weapon was used. In an interview with Netwerk24 Muller’s brother Len said it was believed that Steven had known his attacker. “The police..
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Ventersdorp is defaced with graffiti of hate speech on road signs and walls

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Ventersdorp is defaced with hate speech on road signs and walls

The police in Ventersdorp are investigating a case of intentional property damage after road signs and walls in the town has been defaced with hate speech on. The hate speech appeared on Tuesday after Black First Land First (BFLF) supporters attended a Steve Biko day. Residents attacked social media on Wednesday with regards to the..
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Hijacking gone wrong: Hijacker from KwaZulu-Natal accidentally kills accomplice

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Hijacking gone wrong: Hijacker from KwaZulu-Natal accidentally kills accomplice

A hijacking went wrong when a hijacker accidentally shot his accomplice after forcing the occupants of the car to drive to Cornubia, north of Durban. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane said on Tuesday a victim and his passenger had stopped at Palmview robot near Verulam, when they were approached by two armed men. “The..
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Pupils from Esokheni Secondary School torch ‘ugly’ school and demand breakfast be served! Say no more!

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Pupils from Esokheni Secondary School torch 'ugly' school and demand breakfast be served: I will say no more!

Pupils from Esokheni Secondary School near Greytown are reportedly unhappy with the aesthetic appearance of the school in relation to others in the district. More than changing the school’s infrastructure‚ protesting scholars want breakfast served as part of the existing school nutrition programme. Education Department spokesperson‚ Kwazi Mthethwa‚ said that a delegation of officials had..
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Port Elizabeth businessman’s night out ends in six hours of terror – They were going to kill me

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Port Elizabeth businessman’s night out ends in six hours of terror - They were going to kill me

A Hijacked Port Elizabeth businessman was stabbed more than 20 times, stripped and forced to kneel in the bushes, with his attackers poised to slit his throat, in six hours of raw terror that ended with his escape near Coega yesterday. “I thought it was my last day on this planet. They were getting ready..
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A UNIQUE CULTURE OF RESISTANCE IN SOUTH-AFRICA

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A UNIQUE CULTURE OF RESISTANCE IN SOUTH-AFRICA

There is a remarkably unique culture of resistance in South Africa which basically works like this: The price of a train ticket goes up by 50c – annual increase. Because they have to pay R10 instead of R9-50 now, a group of unhappy citizens, usually representing a particular segment of our population, decide to set..
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Man slits girls throat and eats her flesh, Mount Frere

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Man slits girls throat and eats her flesh, Mount Frere

On 9 September 2017, at 13.30 in Mount Frere CBD a young man of about 23 years took a girl by force from the main street to his home near the Engen garage. He killed her with a knife by cutting her throat. When the mother of the suspect saw what was happening she rushed..
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Colonialism is back with a vengeance in South-Africa

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Colonialism is back with a vengeance

We are slowly becoming used to Julius Malema and other like-minded, equally foolishly misguided, individuals who catches a word, has no concept of its meaning, and then decides to use it to suit their own purpose and interpretation. Colonialism is the latest. Destroy statues, it reminds us of colonialism. Rename towns, it reminds us of..
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Elderly woman from Phalaborwa brutally attacked- stabbed and bound with duct tape and left to die

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Elderly woman from Phalaborwa brutally attacked -no arrest have been made as of yet

There have still been no arrests in connection with the brutal attack on an 82-year resident from Phalaborwa, last week. Julie Haremse was viciously attacked in her home at around 13:00 last week Thursday by an unknown man who accosted her inside her home in Monna Street and stabbed her multiple times in the throat…
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‘You can’t be loved by everyone’ – Kunene on Twitter criticism of shooting

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Kenny Kunene has brushed off criticism on social media over the alleged hit against him. “Maybe they wanted me to die, but whatever people are saying, you can’t be loved by everyone. It is by the grace of God that I am alive today,” Kunene told News24 on Wednesday morning. Kunene was shot at in..
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Weapons disappear from Western Cape police station

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Weapons disappear from Western Cape police station

Several firearms, serving as evidence in criminal cases, went missing from a Bellville South police station storage room. The police are investigating the disappearance, and a possible connection is also being investigated with the surge of violent gang operations in the Western Cape. Apparently, as many as 20 weapons are gone, although the police do..
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