Invitation to disaster.

I dont know what form or shape house invasions, home break-ins, home robberies, or whatever you call them, take in the area you live.

But here in South Africa we no longer have the miscreants waiting until you leave your residence before they break in. They now wait until you are home before breaking in.

Most of the time the robbery is accompanied by extreme violence against the family living in the house.

Now the ANC government here in South Africa wants to take away “self defence” as a reason to own a firearm. So can we now expect more break-ins when the population cannot defend itself?

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Physically Challenged.

Yesterday I accompanied my wife to the Watloo Licensing office in Pretoria.

Generally speaking the queues outside the building were keeping their social distancing and keeping their masks on in the correct manner. There are still those few who have their masks pulled down to below their noses as if viruses only get to your lungs through your mouth.

Personally I can’t forget that somebody told me it reminds them of a little boy who has pulled his underpants down and his little willy is hanging over his underpants 🙂

But that was just by the way

While I was there I had to stay outside the building due to Covid19 restrictions. I then took an amble to just have a look at the state of the property compared to what it was like when I last visited some years back.

The first thing I noticed was that the bathrooms for wheelchair access was locked. On enquiring as to where the key might be I was informed that it wasn’t available, and that nobody had asked to use the bathroom for a long time.

Now I might be mistaken but I thought all government or municipal facilities are supposed to have bathrooms easily accessible, to all people who have physical constraints?

Continuing round the building I noticed that all the CCTV cameras where either pointing straight up or down. Not one was even remotely pointing at an area of potential threat. Then I saw this one camera that wasps had built their nest on.

Wasp nest on back of CCTV camera

I was wondering if the security even know that their cameras aren’t working. Or are they sitting watching how the wasps are building their nests?

Apparently the staff inside the building are quite polite and helpful so that is a major plus in a country that doesn’t rate very high in these departments.

 

Wise saying

George Washington grew up in a time when most of the citizens went about armed and the country was still changing. What he said is such a basic truth that all governments around the world should take notice of it.

For some time now the gun owners in South Africa have had this feeling that the government doesn’t want any private individuals to own any firearms.

The excuse given by the police is that they want to reduce the number of illegal firearms in the hands of criminals. Yesterday Beke Cele open his mouth long enough to change feet, and he suddenly said that the new law that self defense would no longer be a valid reason when applying for a firearm license, WAS TO REDUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND TO KEEP FAMILIES SAFE!

Now I ask with tears in my eyes, how is it that the reasons for trying to disarm citizens here in South Africa keeps changing and is not consistent? Is Cele actually scraping the barrel for what he thinks are valid reasons to make it impossible for people to obtain firearms?

I can actually prove to the minister of police that the majority of shootings during domestic violence is caused by off duty policemen using their service pistols! Now why doesn’t he focus on sorting out the problems with his department first?

The gangster trouble in the Cape Flats where firearms play a major part, is laid squarely at the door of the police. Thousands of firearms that were handed into the police and were SUPPOSED to be destroyed, suddenly ended up in being given to gang members.

Deaths of gang members being killed with these firearms are included in the statistics issued of the number if people murdered by firearms. Sadly nobody reports on the number of firearm owners that possess firearms for self defence and DIDN’T use them at all.

 

Zuma and Magashule.

How true

 

It is Biblical

He said: “he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one”. (Luke 22:36) …

Since way back it has been a right to obtain a weapon with which to defend yourself.

 

Dirty Diplomat?

It was in the news a short while ago, albeit on a very low key. So many people missed the article.

Now it has once again surfaced with additional information which means that more focus is now being given to the case of the dirty diplomat.

It seems that David Kweti Nkosi who represents South Africa as a diplomat, is leaving a trail of filthy, damaged rental premises behind him.

Previously he was stationed in New Deli where the costs of repairs and cleaning the unit he and his family stayed in, came to R53 612,20. The government paid the bill for the damage (with tax payers money) but this has not been repaid by Nkosi as yet.

Now Nkosi and family have outdone themselves. While staying in Vienna it seems that the cleaning of the rental flat they were staying in amounts to R714 000,00!

Now my question is, is this the caliber person we have representing South Africa? Why was no investigation done immediately after the New Deli damage was reported, and why wasn’t he recalled?

Now after the damages were reported to the flat in Vienna there should be big red warning lights going off that Nkosi isnt fit to hold any diplomatic position.

Once upon a time it was frowned on if any member of an embassy even got a parking ticket. If you did anything that would reflect badly on the South African government, or people, your career in foreign countries quickly came to an end.

Now I’m hoping that minister Naledi Pandor will do her job properly and ensure that Nkosi is recalled and never given a post outside of South Africa again. Our reputation overseas is already so besmirched that we dont our diplomats having no respect for other people’s properties.

 

Food for thought

According to the statistics for the year 2019 supplied by the South African police, there were 21,325 murder victims of which 49 were white farmers. Now for a small country like our those figures are horrific. This does not include violent assaults, torture or rapes. Only murders.

So if the government takes away self defense as a reason to obtain and own a firearm, what will our figures escalate to?

The current process for obtaining a firearm license is nearly as bad as applying for a security clearance to work for the government. Only problems is the police dont have sufficient trained staff to process the applications and do the required checks that they put into law.

Food for thought?

 

No Defense.

On Friday 21 May, the South African government published changes envisioned to the firearms act. If passed this law would no longer make it possible to use self defense as a reason for owning a firearm. It would also also make it illegal to reload any ammunition.

These changes are over and above the current draconian laws that are already in place.

The minister of police, Beke Cele, has already stated that the police are not able to fulfill their constitutional duties of protecting the population from previous bodily harm. So why are they trying to stop citizens from protecting themselves and their loved ones? The excuse of removing illegal firearms from circulation by making it impossible for law abiding citizens to own firearms is ludicrous. Criminals will always be able to obtain firearms on the black market. Whether obtained from the police, SANDF, or smuggled across our open borders these firearms continue to flood the market.

Could it be that the ANC is planning to move South Africa into a dictatorship? Then it makes sense to me to disarm the population. Then there would no uprising against the dictators and their armed forces. Or is it that the ANC still fears the few remaining whites in the country? Is it a legacy of what the old SADF did to the ANC during the Bush wars, are they scared that their arses could be kicked again by a few old men armed with handguns obtained for self defense, and a few rifles used for the annual hunting of meat for biltong?

It is also a concern that the police have admitted that there are nearly 250,000 applications scattered all over the floors at the Firearm Registry. Now by passing this new law the majority of the applications become invalid, because they are mostly for self defense. What an easy way to clear the backlog even though there are people out there that have been waiting for two or more years to hear about their firearm application.

The police have admitted that some firearms applications have been chewed by rats while being stacked in passages! Could it have been done by some large, two legged rats trying to reduce their work load?