16 December 2012
“Onthou Bloedrivier” - Senior executives of peaceful Boer-Autonomy group arrested, ANC claims ‘right-wing bombing plot’ on Afrikaners’ most holy day:
Above: Unlike black South Africans (below) , whose ‘peaceful protests’ invariably end up in extreme outbursts of violence, Afrikaners traditionally protest peacefully and at the latest demonstration on Dec 5 2012 in Church Square, Pretoria there again were no violent incidents of any kind.
Francois Cloete, spokesman of the Federal Freedom Party, confirmed the early-morning arrests of two senior executives on December 16. He confirmed they were ‘arrested for treason’ and that their attorneys are allowed no access to them. Telephone: Francois Cloete 0769 868 195
SAPS: FOUR people arrested:
propaganda-piece on arrest of ‘seven terrorists’ – City Press: one even ‘confessed’…
Mangaung bomb plot exposed: one terrorist confessed to wanting to blow up plenary tend at ANC conference:
A right wing plot to bomb one of the ANC’s conference tents has been scuppered by police .Seven alleged terrorists were nabbed today in the Free State, Northern Cape and Limpopo by a joint task team of the Hawks and crime intelligence. They were allegedly planning to blow up one of the big plenary tents used for the ANC’s 53rd national elective conference.The police arrested them in Bloemfontein, Douglas in the Northern Cape and Mookgophong in Limpopo. The arrests by the joint task team followed weeks of investigation by the police.City Press has reliably been told that one of the alleged right wing plotters has made an admission of guilt before a magistrate.The Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court also issued search warrants for the police to raid a house owned by one of the suspects in Bainsvlei, Bloemfontein.It is expected that the seven suspects will appear on a charge of high treason in the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court soon.
ANC Jackson Mthembu said he was “not aware” of the bomb threat. “It is good they did not make us aware. This way the conference has continued without disruption. It is a good thing they have been arrested. We have ANC members, journalists, priests and ambassadors here. It would have been terrible if anything had happened.”Security was tightened around the conference, with a visible police presence and security officials on the campus of the University of the Free State today.On Saturday, delegates were informed that their vehicles would only be allowed on campus after they were accredited at the nearby Tempe Military Base.Vehicles were checked, provided with accreditation stickers and escorted by police to the campus.No unaccredited vehicles are allowed on the university’s campus and delegates go through at least three layers of security before they reach the main plenary tent. Similar security measures were put in place at previous ANC gatherings.At the party’s 2007 Polokwane congress, journalists and delegates were made to park outside the University of Limpopo’s Turfloop campus and enter on foot.Only accredited vehicles that had been searched were allowed inside. At the party’s policy conference at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand in June, there were mobile X-ray scanners vetting vehicles as they entered.Several roadblocks on routes to Bloemfontein were reported.SA Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson Brigadier Phuti Setati said he could not discuss details of their security operation.“The mandate of the SAPS is to ensure that law and order is maintained, and that the event goes ahead smoothly,” he said.City Press reported last week that crime intelligence was sending a large group of police spies to Mangaung.- Kaydene Jordaan, with additional reporting by Carien du Plessis and Paddy Harper
http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/mangaung-bomb-plot-exposed/
arrest of ‘four rightwingers’ - Cape Town– News24.com “Four ‘suspected right wingers’ have been arrested for allegedly ‘plotting to disrupt the African National Congress'(ANC) elective conference in Mangaung,(Bloemfontein). City Press has put the number at seven, saying they had been arrested in swoops in the Free State, Northern Cape and Limpopo. "The suspects are aged between 40 and 50 year-old," said Free State Brigadier Billy Jones told Sapa.He said the four people were suspected of acts of terrorism.Jones said the arrests were the result of a successful joint law enforcement operation, reportedly in response to a tip-off."Their premises were searched and evidence supporting the investigation was seized." According to eNCA, “caches of weapons” were discovered at the suspects' homes.Jones said the four would be charged and brought before a court soon.No further details about the police operation or where the four people were arrested were given.He did not say whether the ‘weapons caches’ were registered, legal weapons or not.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Right-wingers-held-over-Mangaung-plot-20121216
Afrikaner singer Sunette Bridges receives complaint from Human Rights Commission:
To The SA Human Rights Commission From Sunette Bridges:
Your ref: WP/2012/0618
20 December 2012.
132 Adderley St.
7th Floor, ABSA Building
Cape Town 8001 e-Mail: ZNair@sahrc.org.za For attention: Mrs. Z. Nair.
Re: COMPLAINT RECEIVED BY THE SA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (HEREINAFTER CALLED “the Commission”) FROM CARINA PAPENFUS (HEREINAFTER CALLED “Papenfus”) AGAINST SUNETTE BRIDGES.
Your letter regarding the above-mentioned matter and dated 27th ultimo has reference.
I will first deal with the allegation mentioned towards the end of your letter; namely that “my conduct amounts to a violation of the Constitution” with reference to:
the right to dignity (you failed to cite the relevant Section, but I presume you refer to Section 10); and
hate speech and advocacy of hatred, in violation of Section 16(2).
With regard to the provisions of Section 10, it is common cause that the right to dignity co-exists with- and must be balanced against a host of other rights - such as the rights to freedom of opinion, speech, expression, demonstration and association (Sections 15, 16, 17 and 18); and I deny that I have ever conducted myself in such a way as to transgress the provisions of the Constitution as a whole.
With regard to the provisions of Section 16(2); I confirm as follows: I never “advocated hatred based on race, ethnicity”, etc. “that constitutes incitement to cause harm”.
- I do have opinions (which I am entitled to have in an “open and democratic society based on freedom”); and deny that I ever expressed those opinions with the effect of causing others the desire to harm anyone.
Definition of ‘racist’?
With regard to the numbered paragraphs of your said letter, the following:
PARAGRAPH 1 THEREOF:
I do not know what the definition of “racist” and, consequently, “racist statements/comments” is – thus, I would only be able to respond effectively to this allegation once I am provided by such definition for your purposes. For the sake of interest, I have done a search in the “Oxford Advanced Dictionary” (Hornby, 1974) in this regard and found the following definition of “racist”: “belief that human abilities are determined by race”. Well, nowhere in the complaint against me have examples of such utterances been cited.
- Sometimes I criticise people - as I am entitled to do in an “open, democratic society” - and such criticism is directed against Black and White alike (as is already evidenced by the allegations against me regarding FW De Klerk). Furthermore, I deny responsibility for the actions of other users of social media.
PARAGRAPH 2 THEREOF:
I do not know whether same would constitute an offence or not; but nevertheless confirm that I never used the terms “kaffer”; “kafferkind” or “K4” through social media facilities. I can’t recall utilising the term “groenies” as a general reference to non-White South African citizens. I do sometimes refer to people (irrespective of their race) whose behaviour I find revolting, as “gemors”.
PARAGRAPH 3 THEREOF:
In the premises, the allegation contained herein is absurd.
PARAGRAPH 4 THEREOF:
From my understanding thereof, the Afrikaans expression “iemand wie se varkies nie op hok is nie” means someone who acts irrational – and this is exactly what I DO think about the political acts and governance of Zuma. I do not know whether I referred to him as a “dief” and request evidence thereof, with inclusion of the whole context. I did not call him a “bokslagter” (although I can not see how such a term could have been “racist” anyway). I did say that he was a herd-boy (something I still think is both true and common knowledge).
PARAGRAPH 5 THEREOF: Yes I refer to FW de Klerk as Pienk Frikkie and Vark
YES - I did refer to F.W. De Klerk as “pienk Frikkie” and “vark”.
- He destroyed my people’s legal- and moral right to self-determination by conning them into a constitutional dispensation they never approved; and contrary to the mandate he asked for and got from us - I can prove all of that. It is De Klerk’s political fraud and deception which brought about the current situation wherein my people are flagrantly being treated as third class citizens - MANY of us, maybe hundreds of thousands of my people, find his conduct nothing but despicable.
PARAGRAPH 6 THEREOF: Yes I do not want to be forced to look into images of Mandela’s face
Yes, I did make a remark to the effect that I don’t feel like looking into Mandela se gevreet with reference to the new bank-notes. The attached little tit-bit (namely the allegation that, with this remark, I encourage people to write on these notes) is absurd, to say the least.
I am fully entitled to my views regarding Mandela - I do not fall for the mass-media campaign in South Africa and abroad; wherein he is sickeningly enough portrayed as some sort of saint. For me and MANY other South Africans, Mandela is nothing but a leading figure of the organisation which advocated and perpetrated brutal, sickening violence against defenceless people of all races during the ANC’s ruthless quest to ahieve political power in South Africa - for example:
Blacks killed in the so-called “necklace-murders” of the 1980’s and ‘90’s;
White children killed by landmine-explosions on farm-roads;
Black prisoners tortured to death by the ANC in camps like Quatro and many other places;
Thousands of Black Inkatha-members murdered by Mandela’s ANC.
YES – I DO NOT WANT TO BE FORCED TO LOOK INTO IMAGES OF MANDELA’S FACE.
PARAGRAPH 7 THEREOF: Please define ‘far-right-wing affiliation:”
I do not know what the definition of “far right wing” and, consequently, “far right winged affiliation” and “right winged community” is – thus, I would only be able to respond effectively to this allegation once I am provided by the definition of “right wing” for your purposes. For the sake of interest, I have done a search in the “Oxford Advanced Dictionary” (Hornby, 1974) in this regard and found the following definition of “Right” (politics): “conservative or reactionary – opposing progress or reform – tendency to maintain a state of affairs without great or sudden change”. Should this be something to go by, I can assure you that I am anything but “opposed to change”. I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO MAINTAIN THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS in this country. In fact, I am very much in favour of a total change in this country, which finds itself in a sorrowful mess regarding basically all spheres of life, pertaining to all races, and all kinds of people (save for the privileged few on the gravy train).
‘Creating impression of alleged Boer Genocide”
Furthermore, the allegation that I am “creating the impression of an alleged ‘boere genocide’ within South Africa” is ridiculous. Thousands of farmers have been killed during the past two decades in this country, and they are still being killed almost daily. It makes frequent headlines in the news. I don’t need to “create” any “impression” in this regard – the sad facts of the situation speaks or itself.
Genocide as a crime is defined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Article 6, as follows:
“...’genocide’ means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part...”
A South African farmer has twice as many chances of getting murdered than the rest of the population:
Measure this against an article in Rapport of 14 October 2012 by Mr. Frans Cronjé (of the SA Institute of Race Relations – (they will probably not be happy to be classified as “right wing”) wherein the following is confirmed:
Research by the SA Institute of Race Relations indicated that, during 2011, there had been 422 farm attacks per 100000 farmers. This meant that the chances of men, women and children living on farms and smallholdings being attacked were THIRTEEN TIMES greater than the chances of attack against any other South African citizens.
The murder-statistics for farmers in 2011 were 68 murdered out of every 100000. For the rest of the population, it was 31 out of 100000. Thus, a farmer’s chance to get murdered was twice as high as the rest of the population.
Consider these statistics on top of the fact that the national murder-rate of South Africa is already 500% higher as that of the USA; and 3 000% ( yes – THREE THOUSAND PERCENT) higher than countries like Germany and Australia!
Therefore: SHAME ON ANYONE DENYING THAT MY PEOPLE SUFFER GENOCIDE – SUCH INDIVIDUALS (BE THEY WHITE OR BLACK) ARE WORSENING OUR SORROWFUL PLIGHT.
PARAGRAPH 8 THEREOF:
The absurdity of the vague, farfetched allegations contained in this Paragraph, demonstrates the vexatiousness of this complaint as a whole:
What is meant by “my involvement”?
Who are the “various European and American Right winged groups”?
What is meant by “my involvement” with Dr. G. Stanton of GenocideWatch (who, incidentally, vehemently opposed the erstwhile Apartheid-government of South Africa)?
What is meant by “a distorted view of South Africa”?
SEE AGAIN THE STATISTICS IN THE PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH – I DON’T “PERPETUATE A DISTORTED VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA” – SOUTH AFRICA IS A DISTORTED COUNTRY!
Yours sincerely,
Sunette Bridges.
Ref.: WP/2012/0618
Dear Madam
RE: COMPLAINT RECEIVED FROM MS CARINA PAPENFUS
The South African Human Rights Commision (SAHRC) has received a complaint against you from Ms Carina Papenfus.
The SAHRC is a state institution established to support constitutional democracy. The SAHRC is mandated to protect an assess the observance of human rights in South Africa. The SAHRC is obliged and empowered by the Human Rights Act, 54 of 1994 (HRA) to inter alia onvestigate allegations of human rights violations, mediate or conciliate where appropriate, and litegate if required.
In the complaint, the Complainant alleges the following:
That you on a daily basis and through your social media facilities make racist statement/comments against "non white South African citiznes" (direct translation from complaint - see further reference). That these statements are subsequently reiterated and or added to by your social media followers.
That you have amongst others made reference to "kaffer, kafferkind, K4, groenies, gemors" and the like when referring to "non white South African citizens".
That by making such statements/comments you are promoting violence and racism against "non white South African citizens".
That you refer to President Jacob Zuma as: "iemand wie se varkies nie op hok is nie", "'n dief" and as a "bokslagter prezzie".
You further refer to Mr. F.W De Klerk as a "pienk frikkie" and a "vark".
With reference to the new bank notes, you have posted comments on your social media that you do not feel like looking into "Mandela se gevreet vas te kyk nie". In this regard the Complainant alleges that you are allegedly encouraging people to protest against the new bank notes by writing racist terms on the bank notes.
That you continuously boast about your far right winged affiliantion with organisations from who you seek support on behalf of the right winged community in South Africa. By your actions are creating "impression/idea" (direct translation from complaint) of an alleged "boere genocide" within South Africa.
That through your involvement with various European and American Right winged groups as well as Dr Greg Stanton of Genocide Watch you are perpetuating a distorted view of South Africa.
The Complainant alleges that your conduct as detailed above amounts to:
A violation of the human right to dignity contained in section ....... of "non white South African citizens" including President Jacob Zuma, Mr De Klerk and Mr Nelson Mandela;
Hate speech and advocacy of hatred that is based on race, and that constitutes incitement to cause harm in terms of Section 16(2)
Kindly provide us with a written response to the allegations reflected above on or before 27 December 2012 to enable the SAHRC to assess this complaint.
Please feel free to contact the file handler, Mrs Zena Nair, Senior Legal Services Officer on telephone number: (021) 4.. 2..7 or via emial: ZNair@sahrc.org.za
Yours faithfully Zena Nair Senior Legal officer
The importance of December 16 2012 to Afrikaners:
Above: Dec 16 2012: Afrikaners gather around the cenotaph at the Voortrekker Monument, where a light-beam shines on the altar at noon only on that day.
By Mike Smith - 16th of Dec 2012 -- Today, like every year, I will stand true to the vow of my forefathers and honour this day like a holy Sabbath day and also teach my children and their children NEVER to forget the Battle of Blood River of 16 December 1838. here is the vow: For the sake of international readers I will put the English first and then the Afrikaans.
English:
Here we stand before the holy God of heaven and earth, to make a vow to Him that, if He will protect us and give our enemy into our hand, we shall keep this day and date every year as a day of thanksgiving like a sabbath, and that we shall erect a house to His honour wherever it should please Him, and that we also will tell our children that they should share in that with us in memory for future generations. For the honour of His name will be glorified by giving Him the fame and honour for the victory.
Afrikaans:
Hier staan ons voor die Heilige God van hemel en aarde om ʼn gelofte aan Hom te doen, dat, as Hy ons sal beskerm en ons vyand in ons hand sal gee, ons die dag en datum elke jaar as ʼn dankdag soos ʼn Sabbat sal deurbring; en dat ons ʼn huis tot Sy eer sal oprig waar dit Hom behaag, en dat ons ook aan ons kinders sal sê dat hulle met ons daarin moet deel tot nagedagtenis ook vir die opkomende geslagte. Want die eer van Sy naam sal verheerlik word deur die roem en die eer van oorwinning aan Hom te gee.
Those enemies of our people who seek our demise and commit genocide against us should also take note that we shall Remember the Battle of Blood River for all eternity.
Also read:A most holy day: 16th of December 2011 http://mikesmithspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.de