December | 2012 | South Africa News
‘Dis nou anders’
Beeld het besoek afgelê by pensioentrekkers en ander inwoners van die woonbuurte Vrededorp (onder inwoners bekend as Fietas) en Jan Hofmeyr (Jan Bom) in Johannesburg.Die meeste is werkloos of ontvang ’n karige staatspensioen. Nelius Rademan het die foto’s geneem.
Alet Parsons (61) het pas in haar kamer ingetrek. Sy moes reeds in Oktober ingetrek het, maar die mure was donker geverf en haar voordeur kon nie sluit nie. Sy het self betaal om die mure wit te laat verf en die voordeur reg te maak. Van die vensters is nog stukkend en die balkondeur en veiligheidshek kan ook nie sluit nie. “Toe ek die eerste keer hier aankom, het ek sommer begin huil en uitgehardloop,” sê sy. “Jy kry nie baie geld nie, dan moet jy dié betaal en daai betaal (om reg te maak). Dan het jy nie geld vir kos nie. Ek ken nie die mense hier nie en ek wil nie vra nie; jy het jou trots.” Parsons het voorheen by haar dogter in Johannesburg gebly en na haar kleinkinders gekyk. Sy het nog ’n dogter in Pretoria. Sy en haar man is reeds vroeg in die 1990’s van mekaar vervreem. “Ek weet nie waar hy homself bevind nie.” Sy het nog nie elektrisiteit in haar kamer nie en moet krag met ’n verlengingsdraad van die gang kry. Foto: Nelius Rademan Elizabeth Moroosi (77) woon in ’n kamer met ’n kombuisie en badkamer. Haar man is vyf jaar gelede dood. Sy is ’n diabeet en loop swaar vandat sy geval en haar been seergemaak het. Die huur is al weer opgesit, kla sy. “Hulle maak ons dood (met die stygings), weet jy.” Boet Rudolph (64) bly dekades al in Jan Hofmeyr. “Eers het ons probleme gehad met inbrake. Toe kry ek vir my die groot hond en die klein hondjies, en nou is dit bietjie stiller.” Kathrina Ralph se kleinkinders speel in haar voortuin. Voor staan Jana (3). Die gebied is nie meer veilig nie, sê Ralph. “Die polisie patrolleer darem nou gereeld, maar as jy hulle bel, is hulle baie stadig.” Frances Venter (20) help ’n buurvrou om haar voortuin skoon te maak in Gousblomstraat. Inwoners kla hul buurt het met die jare al hoe meer vervalle geword. Paul Rudolph (regs voor) staan buite sy broer se huis in Gousblomstraat in Jan Hofmeyr, Johannesburg. Jannie van Niekerk leun teen die motor en Lukas van Niekerk staan agter die deur. Petro Rich (23), Lourens de Lange (22) en Chrisjan Havenga (23) is drie van Jan Hofmeyr se jonger inwoners. “Dis oukei,” sê Lourens. “Jy kan nie meer alleen loop nie, hier’s dronk mense. Maar dis lekker om hier te bly.” Petro voeg by: “Dis nog nie so bad nie.” ‘Op die oomblik is daar nie ’n toekoms nie.
Maar ek sê dankie in die oggend en ek sê dankie in die aand.”
Dít was die woorde van Alet Parsons (61) van Jan Hofmeyr drie dae nadat sy in haar huurkamer in munisipale behuising ingetrek het.
Die pensioentrekkers wat hier woon, sê die plek het die laaste paar jaar verander. Daar is oral misdaad en dwelms.
Die meeste van die huise is verwaarloos, met lae baksteenmure of doringdraad wat die erwe omhein. By elke huis waar Beeld aangeklop het, was daar minstens een hond.
Ella Rudolph (51) woon al langer as 40 jaar in Vrededorp.
“Dit was baie nice toe ek grootgeword het. Ons kan nie meer in die straat loop nie. Ek kan nie ná ses winkel toe gaan nie, want hulle wag vir jou op die hoek.
“Hulle het al drie fone van my geneem.”
Vol asblikke staan in Gousblomstraat en die reuk van verrotting hang swaar in die lug.
Hierdie vullis moes al die vorige dag verwyder gewees het, sê Nico Hattingh, wat by die Jan Hofmeyr-gemeenskapsprojek betrokke is.
Dit gebeur dikwels dat dit nie verwyder word nie, voeg Rudolph by.
“Jy moet die asblik net so vuil inbring, anders steel hulle hom. Dit was altyd baie skoon hier.”
Sylvia Patrick (50) woon die afgelope 23 jaar in Fietas.
“Dit was altyd stil hier. Jy kon laataand in die strate loop en jou deure ooplos. Nou is hier meer dwelms en sjebiens.
“Ons leef nou ’n lewe van vrees.”
Osman Cassiem van die DA is die nuutverkose raadslid vir wyk 58, waaronder Vrededorp, Pageview, Fordsburg en Mayfair onder meer val.
Hy beoog om misdaad te probeer bekamp deur saam met die polisie te werk om patrollies meer sigbaar te maak.
Hy is bewus van die probleme met die vullisverwydering, sê hy.
“Ek probeer op hul rug sit om my wyk skoon te hou. Dié wyk is die afgelope 18 jaar afgeskeep.
“Die mense verdien beter dienslewering as wat hulle tans kry.”
Bron – ‘Dis nou anders’
Tagged with Afrikaners, Armoede, Fietas, fordsburg, Jan Bom, Jan Hofmeyr, Vrededorp	Afrikanerhart: Bok van Blerk
Source – Afrikanerhart – Bok van Blerk
Tagged with Afrikanerhart, anglo boer war, Bok van Blerk	An overview of 2012 Zapiro cartoons
A list of Zapiro’s top 10 most viewed cartoons in 2012.
Source – Zapiro’s top 10 cartoons of 2012
Tagged with 2012, Cartoons, Zapiro	Fears of an SA massacre
With streamlined firearm legislation making deadly weapons more accessible to the public, thousands of illegal weapons still unaccounted for in South Africa, violence monitors and anti-gun lobbyists warn that mass killings like those at Sandy Hook and Columbine are a real threat.
A string of mass shootings across the globe has pushed the debate on gun control into high gear, an issue made more topical in the South African context because of the country’s violent past.
In the 2011 to 2012 year, the police received a total of 125 388 new firearm applications, but with an existing float of illegal guns in the country, it is impossible to pinpoint how many firearms are in the hands of South Africans.
by Jeff Wicks – December 30, 2012
Source – Fears of an SA massacre
Tagged with ANC, Firearms, Violence Legislation	Mediese fondse gaan sneuwel in 2013
Tagged with Mediese Fondse, Suid-Afrika	2012 in review for South Africa News
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Owning dog not part of African culture: Jacob Zuma
South African president Jacob Zuma got into a spot of bother on Thursday when he suggested that owning a dog was not African and belonged to white culture.
Criticism of Zuma littered social networking sites like Twitter, where one user tweeted: “Zuma says owning dogs is un-African. Unlike those old African traditions of owning German cars, Italian suits, and Irish whiskey.“
The presidency later tried to fend off some of the criticism, insisting Zuma had been trying to “decolonise the African mind“.
“The message merely emphasised the need not to elevate our love for our animals above our love for other human beings,” said spokesman Mac Maharaj.
“He made the well-known example of people who sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather.
“Others do not hesitate to rush their dogs to veterinary surgeons for medical care when they are sick while they ignore workers or relatives who are also sick in the same households.”
Source – Zuma in doghouse after pet comments
Tagged with Jacob Zuma	‘Why is Miss South Africa white?’
Johannesburg – A white girl representing South Africa was the most jarring thing for some beauty pageant watchers to witness this week.
Former Miss SA – Melinda Bam
@omgitzvanessa wrote: “(When) Miss South Africa came on my mom was like: ‘Why is she white?'”
‘Donald Trump hates Obama’
@Rachel_Keaunani commented: “Miss Universe! South Africa’s interview question should’ve been: ‘So if u’re from Africa why are u white?”
Source – ‘Why is Miss South Africa white?’
Tagged with 2012, celebrities, Melinda Bam, Miss South Africa, Miss Universe	Cape Town’s top 10 accolades for 2012
Tagged with 2012, Awards, climate, DA, Democratic Alliance, nature, South Africa, Western Cape	Song about South Africa
A song that illustrates the ambiguous feelings that South Africans have for their beloved country.
It uses images of township violence during the late 80’s and early 90’s when ANC activists tried to make the country ungovernable by destroying schools, houses and community centres. Of the 20,000 people that died in political violence during the 40 years of the Apartheid-era, 15,000 died in the last 4 years, as a result of black-on-black violence, after the ANC was upgraded from a banned terrorist organization to a political party in 1990.
During the same period, about 400 people died as a result of security police action. Police action was purely aimed at maintaining law and order, not to oppress black people in their townships, as has been propagated widely in the media.
Today the death toll from crime is 20,000 murders per year, and this is what causes ordinary, law-abiding South Africans to fear their country.
The song uses images of violence and the natural beauty of South Africa to contrast the feelings of love and fear that we have for our country.
Source – Song about South Africa
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