Election year 2024 (1)

Now this is so applicable during our election year. More and more we have certain parties (ANC and EFF notably) calling for exproriation of land. Now it seems that this is a popular call by most Afican leaders who want their followers to think that handing over little parcels of land is going to end all their hardships.
Well, nowhere in the world, especially here in Africa, has this ever worked. Once food productuon goes out the window, then it’s time to stand begging for other countries to step in and help feed the starving millions.

 

Jan v Riebeek

To be true to history it must be noted that Jan van Riebeek wasn’t the first white man to be sent to the Cape of Good Hope.

The Portuguese set up a refreshment station which was later taken over by the Dutch. The Dutch then built a small fort as they feared that either the Portuguese, French or British would attack them. By the time Jan van Riebeek left the Cape the fort (Castle) hadn’t been completed.

 

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.

 

Cuban Engineers

Lindiwe Sisulu, minister of water and sanitation said on Tuesday that 24 Cuban engineers would be arriving in South Africa to help with the problems now being encountered at water and sanitation plants.

Firstly this is a problem created by members of the ANC who misappropriated funds that were meant for routine maintenance of these plants. As long as the plants were working and no sewage was gushing down the streets or flowing into the dams and rivers, who cared?

Secondly, according to the ANC policy (BEE and all the other acronyms) all white qualified engineers who had for years maintained these plants, were laid off to go sit at home as there was no available work for them. The few who were able to leave the country were snapped up by other countries as they are fully aware of the quality of engineers produced at our universities. Those left here have offered their services to the government to clean up the mess. But to no avail.

Because they are white (mainly male) the government would lose face if they had to be hired to now fix up this great stinking mess which has become a country wide problem. This spillage of raw sewage is found in our great cities as well as rural areas.

Where once South Africa could pride itself on having some of the cleanest rivers and dams and drinking water in the world, this is no longer the case by a long shot. The impurities in our water have risen to such levels that it is no longer safe to use any untreated water.

So Sisulu arranges to bring in more Cubans to fill jobs that could be given to South Africans. We have already had Cuban teachers, doctors and engineers who couldn’t speak English or any African language here before. No significant help, advances or changes have occurred by importing Cubans instead of using local people. One starts to wonder if the ANC isnt busy with yet another case of siphoning off more millions of the taxpayers money? We know they have no money to really pay for the next elections so just maybe?

 

Heed This.

This is something that we as citizens need to take note of. The government uses false information and statistics to justify why private ownership of firearms is bad.

Once the individuals are defenseless they hold total power and can practically do what they want with total impunity.

 

Trying to renew

The system here in South Africa requires you to book a date, time and location to apply for the renewal of your drivers license.

The only problem with this is that when you go online to do it, there are no slots available in your area. So now the government has decided that all people over 60 can just pitch up on a Wednesday without having to make a booking. This in theory should allow me to do my renewal and be happily on my way.

Sadly, reality does not work this way!

I arrived at the licensing offices a bit after 07h00, nearly an hour before opening time. The queues for both people under 60 and those over 60 stretched for hundreds of meters round the buildings. People that were obviously in the know had brought camp chairs and refreshments for themselves. After 2 hours of standing in the queue my feet have gone numb, and my back is going into spasms. And we have progressed less than 10 meters.

Chatting to the couple ahead of me it seems that this is the third time they are here. From what they tell me is the system seems to go offline often and at times they can’t reboot it. Then everybody is told to leave, and they just close the doors. Or if the staff decide that they have handled enough people and there are still too many outside, they just close the doors and inform those outside to come back on some other day.

This ridiculous state of affairs is due to the new system that was implemented some time back. No matter how much or how loud one complains about it, nothing is done to improve the system. I wonder if this is once again an upgrade called for by some politically connected person who acted as a conduit for some tender process with all the appropriate kickbacks that go with it?