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Article by: White Nation correspondent Pietermaritzburg – January 23 2016
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SOUTH AFRICA- FAILED LAND OF COMMUNIST ANC ORGANIZED CRIME , UNION CHAOS , MISDIRECTED RAINBOW MONKEYS – AND WHITE GENOCIDE
“Democratic “ SA has been through the nine circles of political hell over the past five years. But unlike Dante there will be no revelation after passing through this, the final ring — an audacious attempt made by those intent on controlling state coffers to capture the very center of our state, the Treasury.
Jacob Zuma as Dante and Virgil — his allies, the Gupta-backed Premier League — were certainly confident when they sought to replace then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with one of their own. Zuma and his cohorts were probably emboldened by how swiftly the noise died down after placing their man, Mosebenzi Zwane, at the helm of the strategic mining portfolio — whose director-general this week unceremoniously stepped down for “personal reasons”.
The plan to capture the Treasury backfired spectacularly, with Pravin Gordhan now back in the hot seat. The delicious irony is deserving of a column of its own. Zuma’s move precipitated a backlash from the markets and protests under the incongruous banner of #ZumaMustFall. All well and good — but then what? The ANC reaction to it all is instructive.
When Zuma’s Virgil, the Guptas, landed a jet ferrying their wedding guests at the Waterkloof air force base in Pretoria, the ANC reacted harshly, with a terse statement from secretary-general Gwede Mantashe. This time, Mantashe was nowhere to be found. In the face of Zuma’s biggest and most dangerous and damaging miscalculation, the ANC defended him, and described his leadership as “bold” for intervening after representations from the private sector to salvage what he still could.
That the party is willing to accept the unthinkable shows that it has little to offer by way of alternatives and that its leaders are so engrossed in self-preservation, that they remain immobilized by fear from moving against Zuma and his cohorts. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? A similar narrative played out pre-Polokwane — except there was a clear candidate for the party to rally around. This time there is none.
But back to Zuma, who is what he is, does what he does and says what he says because the ANC allows it. Recall that it was the party which overwhelmingly returned him to its helm in Mangaung in 2012, an indication that its views and his own are in full alignment, barring those whispering their discontent to journalists but wouldn’t dare do so openly. Its national executive committee are his lackeys, more so those on the national working committee. Zuma and those he has become entwined with, the Premier League, have consolidated power in the largest province, KwaZulu-Natal — despite their opponents crying foul. A few are brave enough to speak out but they have long stepped out of the power blocs active in the governing party.
Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are both tipped as candidates to replace Zuma. The former is more palatable to some and the latter is seen as a proxy for her former husband. That Ramaphosa, as has been reported, “nearly resigned” over the debacle is neither here nor there. Publicly, he said and did nothing. Neither candidate or camp is providing a platform on which those who are calling for Zuma’s fall may step to rally against him, and this is the reason he is likely to be with us until the end of his term. Zuma’s opponents and those gatvol of the way his allies are seeking to capture key state institutions for less than” savory” purposes, may have been given a shot in the arm by his latest shenanigans, but it will still not be enough to tip the balance of power within the ANC.
The period after the local elections next year and until the next party conference in 2017 will be critical. Then the party will have to choose whether it should continue to inextricably link its own fate with that of its deeply flawed president. The vultures may be circling but there will be some respite for him. However, after next year’s polls there will be no returning to Earth on Easter morning for Zuma. The gates will be shut firmly before him, trapping him inside the hell he has created for himself, by those in his own party with nothing more left to lose. (Link)
THE SPIRALING DECENT OF CORRUPTION, GREED, GLUTTONY AND NEPOTISM IN SOUTH AFRICA CONTINUES WITH ZUMA IN THE DRIVING SEAT…
BRIBING LOYALTY FOR THE COMING ELECTIONS
Provincial governments‚ notably KwaZulu-Natal‚ will face a major headache in finding almost R100 million more to pay salary increases headmen and headwomen (izinduna in Zulu‚ named differently in other languages) as determined by Jacob Zuma. The president‚ acting on the recommendation of the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers‚ has determined that the salaries for the country’s more than 5‚000 headmen and women be standardized at R84‚125 per year. Last year‚ the countrywide cost to pay headmen was R317 million. This year it will be R407 million – an increase of 28‚4%. Officials from the Department did not want to be named for fear of victimization amidst worries that the provinces will have to fork out money meant for the indigent in favor of the headmen and headwomen. Deep rural areas‚ where headmen and headwomen wield considerable power‚ are expected to remain the bedrock of ANC support in next year’s local government elections. If the ANC can replicate its deep rural success elsewhere to rural KwaZulu-Natal‚ it could once and for all pulverize the IFP‚ which has always relied on support in these areas. (Link)
THE ANC AND THEIR “RACIST” DONKEY OUT FOR CHEAP POLITICAL POINTS
ANC supporters started yet another hysterical howling on the social sites because a DA MP-Anchen Dreyer– “dared” to pose for a photograph next to a card-board cutting of the first president of the ZAR- Paul Kruger. The picture was taken on October 10 2015 during a future planning meeting by the Solidarity movement. Keith Khoza– staunch communist ANC spokesman- went on a rant on Twitter and alleged that Dreyer is yet another “racist” inclusion to the DA’s “racist brigade” that openly held a “racist” venue. The fact- according to the communist hard-liner- that Dreyer attended Krugerday ( a supposed-to-be “racist” day) – only counter the written notices by their leader Mmusi Maimane that the party is against racists- but here they refuse to act against “racists.”(sic) Khoza neatly side-stepped the issue that many pro-communist black only meetings and venues are held by the ANC across the country without anyone freaking out that the ANC is “racist.” Talk about double standards. If things are not going the ANC’s way- then it “racist.” The ANC and the DA now are locked in a battle over this “race ” again, after the ruling party took exception to a DA MP’s attendance at an event commemorating Paul Kruger. The office of the ANC’s chief whip accused DA MP Anchen Dreyer on Friday of” glorifying apartheid. “ Spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said it had come to the ANC’s attention that Dreyer attended the Solidarity Movement’s event on October 10 last year, commemorating the birthday of Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900. During the pre-1994 era, October 10 was known as Kruger Day, and observed from 1952 to 1993. TYPICAL commi ANC cheap pathetic politics. (Link)
Mothapo said the holiday was abolished in 1994 after the advent of democracy. DA leader Mmusi Maimane should fire MP Diane Kohler Barnard to prove the party is not” racist, ” the ANC Youth League said on Friday. In a petition given to DA MP Zak Mbhele on Friday, after a march to the party’s federal executive office in Gardens, Cape Town, it also demanded that deputy chief whip Mike Waters and Councillor Sam Pienaar be axed. “The failure to deal with these racist members of the DA has led to more racists finding expression in the DA and adopting it as a political home that protects white privilege,” said league secretary general Njabulo Nzuzo, reading the memorandum. This again proofs that the communist ANC and their henchmen are busy with cheap political trash operations to score votes- using the poor riddled “racism” excuses to score points. Again- the ANC and it;s cohorts openly advocate anti-white hatred. It also wanted the DA to put an end to the #ZumaMustFall campaign. (Link)
ZUMA – THE SPIN DOCTOR THAT SINGLE HANDEDLY ARE BUSY SINKING SOUTH AFRICA
This is according to economist and portfolio manager, Abri du Plessis, speaking to Bloomberg. Du Plessis made the comments in a Bloomberg Brief, speaking about sub-Saharan markets. The economist believes that, with no change in the Zuma regime, under his leadership a ratings downgrade is likely sometime in 2016, which will be swiftly followed by the rand tanking to R20 to the US dollar. In trade on Thursday morning (21 January) the rand was still reeling from another sell off, following more news out of China which hit emerging markets hard. The rand teased R17 to the dollar on Wednesday before pulling back. The currency is currently trading at R16.86 to the dollar. Du Plessis admitted he was a “big bear” on the South African market, and sees no improvement in the exchange rate under current circumstances. And he is not alone. Chief economist at Efficient Group has listed Jacob Zuma as one of the five biggest problems facing the South African economy at present, adding that a good start to fixing things would be to fire him. Economist Mike Schussler had also previously cited the R20 to the dollar mark as a likely eventuality, should current market conditions persist. Despite the pointed outcry from economists, analysts, citizens and politicians calling for significant changes in the presidency, Zuma has called the response to South Africa’s economic turmoil an “exaggeration “ and and ” overreaction. “He said that economists he spoke to could not convince him that his actions led to the current status of South Africa – a view backed up by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. “We are talking about perceptions, that is why I am saying that it was an over-reaction really, from my point of view,” Zuma said. At a recent event held by the Jacob Zuma Foundation, the president said that the criticism he’s been facing is unfair, and that critics just have it out for him because he came from a poor black background, and managed to make something of himself despite never finishing school. In our view the whole corrupt ANC mobster organization must get the boot. (Link) #ANCmustfall
A controversial Bill that’s rung alarm bells with investors has been quietly signed into law by Jacob Zuma. The Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill was roundly criticized by the European and American Chambers of Commerce in South Africa before being passed by Parliament late last year amid heated debate. Zuma’s decision to assent to the bill was published in the government gazette on 15 December. His assent to the bill went unannounced by the Presidency – it took place just ahead of his decision last month to fire Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene. The Protection of Investment Act has been stoutly defended by communist Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. But the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, Carol O’Brien, expects it to deter foreign investors. O’Brien told EWN a recent investment by BMW was held up as evidence that investors were not being deterred. “But it has to be borne in mind that decisions of that nature are made five, eight years before the time, so we will really see the results of this in the years to come, not immediately.” The American Chamber says it expects investors to think twice before deciding to plough money into the local economy. (Link)
ZUMA, PATEL & DAVIS- WHY NOBODY WANTS TO BUY SOUTH AFRICA
Apparently Jacob Zuma pulled out of the main public function he was due to participate in at the World Economic Forum 2016 in Davos. It was the annual Forum on Africa. No explanation, as usual, although one of the local newspapers perfectly summed him up with a front-page picture of him asleep during one of the speeches he did attend. So why go to Davos at all? It isn’t cheap, thanks to the president himself — but then he never pays for anything so he wouldn’t know. He’s one of those lucky people who never has to learn his own lessons. No surprise that his failure to show up for the forum coincided with the breaking news that Zuma had in fact signed into law the so-called Investment Protection Bill (a law that will make foreign investments in SA less rather than more secure) on the quiet soon after he tried to appoint Des van Rooyen as finance minister last month. Just as he fired Nhlanhla Nene on the quiet, so did he sign this bill. They were both rotten things to do and he knows it. I seriously doubt any of the business delegation supposed to make up “Team SA” with Zuma in Davos will have been told about that. It makes fools of them. The regular Davos slogan for SA is that we are “open for business”, but Zuma is in every conceivable way a deterrent to investment. As are the two senior economics ministers traveling with him, Rob Davies and Ebrahim Patel. The Orwellian Investment Protection Bill is yet another gift from Davies to the country. As a trio, they are the worst possible advertisement for the country. I am going to get this out of the way now, early in the year, so I don’t have to harp on about Davies and Patel. But I have come across an uplifting (and short) paper on industrial policy (that’s where these two gentlemen go to bury our hopes for prosperity) and why it almost always fails.
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-AND THEY STEAL PENSION FUNDS OF OTHERS AT WILL…
The African National Congress (ANC) ruling party of South Africa are now able to steal and eat the workers’ pension and provident fund money with ease, and as fate would have it, the ANC have apparently started stealing the money. The United Democratic Movement’s (UDM) Bantu Holomisa has filed a complaint with the Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela. Holomisa is alleging that the ANC took money from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), the Government Employee Pension Fund manager bequeathed to the country by the previous government of Bophuthatswana, to pay the December salaries of ANC staff. The ANC allegedly also took money from the PIC to fund its January 8 bash, held in Rustenburg two weeks ago.
South African President Jacob Zuma recently signed a new tax bill into law prohibiting workers from accessing all pension and provident funds without consultation. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is angry and has started to tell members not to vote for the ANC in the upcoming local government elections. After the ANC went on a borrowing spree, sucking the state coffers dry, they now want unlimited access to the workers’ pension and provident funds.
The ANC is doing exactly what former apartheid president P.W. Botha’s regime started doing. Although what the Botha regime did was use the money from the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF) to fund government programs. The ANC is obviously going to steal it for the party and individual benefits. The GEPF was saved by the Bophuthatswana Fund with its SEBO, what is today called the Public Investment Corporation, which invested in shopping malls, office blocks, the hotel industry, private hospitals, and other vehicles that generated revenue over and above the employee contributions. That fund took GEPF from 57 percent funded to fully funded.
The voters go around wearing “ANC 104th Birthday” t-shirts, probably bought with money stolen from the retirement savings of the public servants in South Africa. The ANC’s South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) is also in the mix, saying public servants’ retirement savings should be used to fund universities, irrespective of whether those officials have children in universities or not. It is now open season on the public servants’ pension fund. The ANC has plundered and exhausted state resources, including the money they have borrowed; now the ruling party will exhaust the workers’ money. It is like a father stealing all the family money, selling the property, and raiding the children’s money box.The stealing and eating time is upon South Africa, and it can only point to a disastrous future.(Link)
-AND THEIR BROTHERS, SISTERS & CRONIES FOLLOWED IN THEIR FOOTPRINTS-
King Goodwill – so named, because he is entirely reliant on the good will of the taxpayer – Zwelithini has a dream; to build a cultural Zulu village with himself at the center of it at a cool price of R 30 million! . Now, don’t be misled into thinking that this is a wasteful expenditure, no not at all. News24 reports that the village will house the Zulu monarch – who, incidentally already own a palace in KZN – at the site of the ‘cultural village’, Isandlwana, which has been under development for the last 16-odd years. The village will basically serve as a theater setting for the battle of Isandlwana which took place a long time ago. It’ll also show folks what Zulu life was like before the colonial era and will even have schools for youngsters. Not schools in the traditional sense, you understand. No, the millions used by the Zulu royal family won’t be spent on teaching children how to read and write or even count… these schools will educate children in how to be good Zulus. R12.5 million of the total budget comes from the National Lotteries Board – which has also just come under new management – and the rest will come from national government ie the taxpayer. Remember that the Zulu king already gets more than R50 million a year just for the upkeep of his royal household. The first phase of the development includes the king’s hut and nine others. (Link)
Dudu Myeni, controversial SAA chairperson, wanted to instate a direct flight route between Cape Town and Durban at a huge loss of R200 million a year so that ANC MPs from KwaZulu-Natal could travel in style. She was allegedly so determined to make this route a reality that she submitted her plan directly to the treasury without the knowledge of SAA’s executive committee and the group executive committee – after both these committees rejected her proposal. This revelation comes after the Mail & Guardian reported today that Myeni asked the treasury for a new route to Khartoum in Sudan on request of President Jacob Zuma. According to the newspaper, she told the SAA executives that Zuma wanted to show support to “his brother”, the controversial Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. According to SAA dignitaries with first-hand knowledge of the events, last year – during the same period Myeni made the Khartoum proposal – she submitted her plan for a direct route between Durban and Cape Town in the interest of ANC MPs who commuted weekly between the two cities. Mango and SA Express fly directly between the two cities, but Myeni allegedly said that her ANC friends in KwaZulu-Natal wanted to fly SAA because these airlines did not have a business-class option. “It was explained to her that it would mean a loss of R200 million a year for SAA,” said an SAA source, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of victimization. “Exco said: ‘Listen, what we can do is introduce business class on Mango and then everybody is happy.’ But she wasn’t satisfied. She was willing to spend R200 million a year to fly her friends from the ANC to Parliament on Mondays and back on Fridays.” When Myeni did not get her way, she apparently wrote to the treasury for approval. The treasury, which was then headed by Nhlanhla Nene, former finance minister, rejected the proposal. “Nene responded and said it does not make any financial sense,” the source said. Nene’s cellphone was off today, and the treasury did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Mail & Guardian reported that Nene also said no to the Khartoum route. The route would reportedly mean a loss of R30 million in the first two years. Myeni allegedly said the request stemmed from conversations between her and Zuma, who asked for the route as a an apparent show of respect for al-Bashir. Two reliable sources confirmed the incident to Media24. Myeni apparently also wrote to the treasury after the SAA’s executive committee and group executive committee rejected her request. “The numbers showed SAA would make a huge loss,” said the source. “Exco advised not to fly to Khartoum because there would be loss-making and a second reason was that it was too dangerous. Sudan is a war zone. Insurance companies would not let our aircraft fly there. Even if it was an incredible business opportunity, it would not be possible, but she [Myeni] didn’t want to hear it.” Myeni was apparently “very upset “ and accused the executive committee of teaming up with the treasury to scupper her plans. “She said SAA belongs to the state, the state belongs to the president (????) and therefore SAA has to listen to the president.” SAA spokesperson Tlali Tlali didn’t answer questions about Myeni approaching the treasury after the proposal was rejected by the SAA executive committee and the group executive committee. However, he confirmed that the possibility of a route between the two cities was being considered by the SAA’s executive committee. “At this stage the executives have been evaluating the viability of the route and they will follow the laid down procedure and process.” (Link)
THEN PREVIOUS PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ARE BECOMING CONUNDRUMS OF CONFUSION AND BAD SERVICE DELIVERY…
Unisa is a sinking ship, or rather, a sunken ship. A quick glance at their Facebook page or a swift HelloPeter search will help you realize this.Yes, I know they will lay the blame on ”Fees Must Fall” or the wages protest but this problem began waaaaay before all of this. Most students complain of poor service, lines that ring off the hook, emails that aren’t responded to. Many have applied but haven’t received communication on the status of their applications so that they can register. I for one, am a Unisa student. As a distance learning institution, expect exactly that, to be serviced from a distance. I wrote examinations during the October/November exam cycle. Now, this was before the ‘Fees Must Fall’ protest. On the 21st I wrote a Public Relations exam, and others subsequently. The one on the 21st was the first exam. I still have not received those results even though results for the subsequent exams have been sent to me. Notwithstanding, there was an exam where we were disrupted by the protests mid-exam but even those results have been communicated to me. I have tried numerous times, for hours on end to contact them. Pretoria as well as Durban numbers but no one answers. Even SMS’s and e-mails go unanswered. I then searched their complaints and pheeew a wave of similar complaints was what I saw. Some were even failed for those exam results that were outstanding. Now, this is not the first time. The Mail and Guardian once ran a similar story in 2013 about Unisa failing students in an exam cover up, in that instance, they had lost exam papers and therefore simply failed students. However, more than anything, this is abusive really. I would really appreciate it if you could further investigate this matter as thousands of Unisa students are in the same conundrum. One cannot wait for over three months for exam results, that is absurd. On Tuesday I decided to ‘test’ if perhaps the system was down or something. I decided to deposit money into Unisa to pay for registration fees (I have not yet registered yet because A. their online registration is faulty and when you go to the campuses, they revert you back to online registration and B. I still have outstanding results). But these monies reflect when I check them via the MyUnisa portal. So this begs a question, are we just simply being ignored as students because they know we have no alternative? (Link)
-AND THEN WE HAVE TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE ARMS DEAL WHITEWASH…
The final report from the four-year investigation into corruption in the 1996-1999 strategic defence procurement packages — known as the arms deal — has been handed to Jacob Zuma. It is now time to see whether the investigation, which cost almost three times its original R40-million budget, will lead to any prosecutions.
But any chance of recovering the estimated R1-billion allegedly paid in bribes related to the deal has faded with the years that have passed. There is already a sense that the report, if it is ever made public, will be a whitewash of the corruption and theft believed to have been perpetrated in connection with the R70-billion deal. Of particular concern, says David Maynier, a senior DA member who was subpoenaed to give evidence to the commission, is the lack of any explicit statement in the commission’s terms of reference to compel Zuma to make the report public. Zuma himself was implicated in transactions in which corruption and bribes were alleged.
Maynier says: “It is in the public interest for an unredacted copy of the final report, together with copies of the interim reports, to be made public as soon as possible and tabled in parliament. “I sincerely hope I am wrong, but after appearing as a witness I am convinced that, at least when it comes to the key issue of whether the arms deal was tainted by fraud or corruption, the final report will be a whitewash.” It was the arms deal that led to more than 780 charges of corruption against Zuma, which were withdrawn by the national prosecuting authority.
It also got his financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, sent to jail and is said to be behind the move by Zuma and the ANC to disband the Scorpions investigative unit. “Those alleged to have been involved, including Zuma, have nothing to fear,” Maynier says. Presidency spokesman Bongani Majola has condemned the criticism of the commission by the DA, saying it is “unwarranted, shocking, irresponsible and totally unacceptable”. “The president will release the report to the public as soon as he has concluded the necessary processing thereof,” says Majola.
Corruption Watch head David Lewis says it is vital to release the report, “even if the intelligence and sensitive commercial aspects are redacted”. Critics of the commission point to the way it was run by appeal court judge Willie Seriti, whose behavior during the commission’s hearings quickly put him at the center of the story. Seriti’s decisions as the commission’s chairman influenced what information could be heard and who would be allowed to give evidence. Witnesses and those who provided information were severely curtailed, and some information was completely ignored. Such was the criticism of these decisions that the commission felt compelled to warn “members of the public and interested parties” that it was a “criminal offence to disparage or insult the commission or its members”.
That the commission and its own conduct became the focus of so much attention and criticism all but rang the death knell for its credibility and anything that it was likely to produce. Such was the unhappiness over how the commission was run and how the information was managed and shared that many people involved in the process resigned, including researchers, investigators, evidence leaders and commissioners.
Richard Young, a vocal critic of the arms deal who has spent at least R20-million investigating it since his company lost a bid for a technology contract, says that after all the time and money invested in pursuing the truth it would be “self-defeating” to deny Zuma the “benefit of the doubt”. “Zuma has said he will release the report,” Young says. “Let’s give them time to, as they say, process the report.” What is a reasonable length of time? “Six weeks would be too short, six years … far too long; even six months would be too long, but they have to be given time. It took three months for the Farlam Commission report [into the Marikana massacre] to be released.”
The ANC government may want to keep the report under wraps until after the local government elections, due any time from May to August. Expectations of the report, however, may already be far too high. Young says the commission of inquiry has no power of sanction. It can find, for example, that there is plausible and credible evidence that would need thorough investigation by the Hawks. “Judge Farlam recommended investigations into individuals [in the Marikana report],” he says. The most prominent person Farlam identified for investigation was police commissioner Riah Phiyega, who has been suspended.
Many witnesses in the army and the navy who could have provided direct knowledge of the process were never called to testify. Young says this could mean the entire commission process was illegitimate. No matter what the report does say, it is unlikely that the arms deal scandal will go quietly into the night or be forgotten. It provides opposition parties with too valuable a political weapon.(Link)
THEN ZUMA MADE HISTORY OF BEING THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY BEING CHARGED WITH HATE SPEECH…
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has confirmed that President Jacob Zuma was charged with hate speech charges. Isaac Mangena spokesperson for the SAHRC said that the Freedom Front Plus laid the charge. The charge relates to comments that Zuma allegedly made during a fundraiser for the ANC. He apparently said that “all the trouble started” when Jan van Riebeeck arrived in the Cape in 1652. “The FF Plus claimed that the negative comments had an effect on the descendants of Jan van Riebeeck and white people in South Africa in particular, and that the statements demonize Afrikaners on the basis of a wrong historical view.”
Mangena said the SAHRC is currently working to evaluate the charges and decide whether they have the mandate to continue. Anton Alberts, spokesperson of the FF Plus said his party had felt forced to lay the charge as they believe that the statements made by Zuma were a form of hate speech. “He was speaking on the basis of race” “He (Zuma) has said the ANC was a formation of indigenous people … which implies that other people cannot be regarded as indigenous.” Alberts referred to the preamble of the Constitution which states that South Africa belongs to all who live in it.
According to Alberts, whites, coloreds and Indians are referred to as “non-native”, degraded to second class citizens and considered to be “colonists”. He claimed the remarks that were made by Zuma, are not historically accurate. “We ask that the SAHRC compel the ANC to pay for advertising in mainstream newspapers where they apologize and that Zuma (from his own pocket), and the ANC, each pay R1 million in a fund to people who are part of the minority and victims of crime,” said Alberts. Mac Maharaj presidency spokesman referred inquiries to the ANC. The ANC could not be reached immediately for comments (As usual.)
On an international level Front National, in a joined effort with the social media sites “Save the white people-stop the killing” and South Africa Today launched an online petition with the aim of preparing formal charges against the South African President, Jacob Zuma, for committing crimes against humanity. The crimes include: Hate Speech, Racism, Denial of Basic Human Rights of minorities and Incitement to Genocide. (Link)
-AND LASTLY- IF THE COMMI REGIME WASTED TOO MUCH MONEY- THERE IS ALWAYS THE OLD PROVEN SOLUTION….TAX ‘EM TO DEATH….
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has a big problem on his hands: he has a huge hole in his budget (Thanks to Zuma & co.) – and the options available to him to fill it are politically fraught or counterproductive to economic growth. To cut a very long story short, falling GDP growth means tax revenues have been coming in below expectations. Despite a R5.2-billion reduction in the government’s estimate of expenditure in last year’s medium-term budget policy statement, the books still aren’t quite balancing.Under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t be so much of a problem — simply run a bigger deficit for a few years — but in a situation where global economic conditions are tough, your political credibility in global capital markets is stuffed, and the rating agencies are threatening to junk your credit rating if you can’t keep your deficit under control, running a bigger deficit simply isn’t an option. An alternative approach is to use a combination of cutting expenditure and raising taxes to plug the hole, but in an election year, when the International Monetary Fund has just slashed your economic growth prediction to a miserable 0.7%, neither option is politically or economically palatable. If Gordhan attempts to rein in expenditure by cutting capital investment, he will be withdrawing much-needed support from the economy at a time when it most needs it, setting us up for even slower growth in future due to infrastructure constraints. He could also cut expenditure in the public sector by freezing wages or capping allocations to essential services such as health, education, and social grants, but that would go down like a lead balloon in an election year. On the other side of the equation he could raise taxes, and it was strongly hinted in the mini-budget in October that this is on the cards. The question is which taxes will rise and by how much?
As Sasfin Securities director and deputy chairman David Shapiro says, “We have to realize that capital flows freely and our companies are competing in a global environment. If we raise corporate tax any more, companies will either find ways around it, or leave.” Shapiro paints a bleak picture of declining revenues and laments the fact that a significant portion of the value of the firms that hold the top spots in the Top 40 index is generated outside SA. Tax is just another cost weighing on the bottom line, and if our companies want to grow and compete on international markets, they need to remain competitive. (Link)
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