Just a thought

I wonder how many people would agree or not?

 

A Rainbow Nation Burns

By Gareth Cliff:

Between a rock and a hard place….

Thabo Mbeki was right: There really are two South Africas. Most people jump to the conclusion that we’re a nation divided along racial lines.
Others think it’s about the haves and the have-nots.
The events of the past few days have made it abundantly clear that the real divide is between those who want law and order; and those who see the law only as a means to make themselves more powerful.
Those are the two South Africas.

Before you read any further, let’s take a moment to appreciate context and perspective, because nothing happens in isolation: We have been living on a powder-keg of unsustainable, teetering and disdainful politics since about 2009 (the seeds of which were germinating in the ugly part of our pre-1994 history). While Jacob Zuma was a big part of the overall toxic mixture, he was not the only reason we have found ourselves in this situation. A combination of the ANC’s inability to bring itself to order; the constant public narratives used to divide us; an economy that has been mismanaged in a destructive alliance between unions, the ruling party and crony corporations; and ultimately a devastating and unpredictable pandemic have created a perfect storm that just needed an excuse to break.

Let’s be very clear: what we’re experiencing isn’t about Jacob Zuma, inequality and poverty, or a lack of vaccines. While those things may have contributed to the overall power vacuum, they’re symptoms, not causes. That all of this started in KwaZulu-Natal isn’t a surprise either: weak political leadership, confusion in the Zulu royal family and an overpopulated province of young people with no reason to wake up every day, no sense of purpose or hope, this was inevitable.

We’re witnessing the final unravelling of the ANC, and especially the elite criminal coterie who have been manipulating the institutions and authority of government for their own purposes for at least the last decade. Their reluctance to act against each other, abide by the law or do what is good for South Africa is a can that was kicked down the road until they ran out of road. Unimpressive and incoherent fools, promoted far beyond their competence in a system that rewarded greed, party loyalty and failed ideology have brought them to a breaking point. That’s what ultimately precipitated this orgy of looting, criminality, violence and stupidity. That has been predicted by much smarter people than me for much longer.

So if you stop reading here, you’ll probably wish you hadn’t read any of this at all – but fortunately that isn’t all.

The heartening and hopeful evidence of good people standing together, taking up arms and looking to protect each other from criminals and scum is everywhere. I saw a group of old and young; rich and poor; black, white and Indian neighbours on the news last night, determined to look after the suburb of Montclair in Durban. Their eyes betrayed not a spark of fear, but a resourceful, determined and strong sense of community – in the best sense of that word. Those men had something powerful to fight for, and they weren’t in it to steal a TV.

We’ve always had poor people in this country (sadly, far too many) who battle through every day – and none of them partake in arson and theft, even if they’re desperate. There’s a moral majority of granny-headed, religious and decent rural families who have as much disdain for the carnage they see as any angry taxpayer does. Together, they’ve watched crooks plunder the land Mandela promised them. Today, they stand united against the mob.

The great divide in South Africa is and will continue to be between those who want a future for themselves and their children, who believe we are a civilised people with enormous potential – and those who have given in to the chaos of destruction, hopelessness and self-loathing. On the one hand we have the steely resolve of the better part of our nature, and on the other the vacant yellow eyes of opportunists and monsters. The real looting (of some R500-billion or more) has already taken place. Those who took it are now deploying their vassals and playing the only card they have left.

It’s time you asked yourself which South Africa you want to be a part of, and what we need to clear out of the way in order to share our place in the sun. It’s always darkest before the dawn.

 

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.

 

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?

 

SUNDAY MURDER

On Sunday a 62 year old caretaker of a small holding in Brits, North West Province, South Africa, was murdered.

He was attacked outside his house and it seems that only the house keys are missing. His car which was parked nearby wasn’t even stolen.

This is the second attack on farmers this weekend where nothing was stolen, but they were still murdered. The percentage farm attacks that result in arrests or prosecutions in relationship to attacks is very small. The ANC did away with the local Commando forces which for years ensured stability in rural areas. The local SA Police dont have the manpower or expertise or tackle farm murders and are left floundering away without concrete results.

The attacks on legitimate white and black farmers seems to my view to be focused on removing the farmers from their farms and then distributing these farms to cadres of the ANC and the members of COSATU and the SACP. Brings back memories of what happened in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

 

Another Farm Murder.

Niel Mckay was 26 years old when he was attacked while working as a foreman on a farm. He was shot leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair.

His late father helped him set up a farm about 3 years ago in Winterton, Kwazulu,  South Africa where he continued farming even while being in a wheelchair.

On Saturday 10th April 2021 Neil McKay was murdered on his farm.

His mother arrived at the farm late is Saturday and found him tied up in his wheelchair.  He had been beaten and allegedly strangled to death. From investigations it seems he had been attacked outside the house and dragged into the house where he was allegedly murdered.

This was no robbery. The television and other electronic equipment were not taken as happens in 100% of robberies here in South Africa. THIS WAS A SENSELESS FARM MURDER ON A HELPLESS PERSON