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Chicago Reader | Kelly McClure | 03-24-2008 | Art at 2/29/2008 11:02:00 pm 3 comments:
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Song: Get Out!
Tell the oppressor get out
And tell my people to fight
For real you need to watch out
Because you ...feel the gun blast (Machine gun sounds)
You know you really need to watch out
Because that condescending tone you drop when you talk to me could get your head blown serious
Don't mistake my kindness for weakness just like your forefathers
I'll blind you with *Heat quick (*Heat = Gun)
Understand I'm gonna get this panga to your neck
Take what is mine and I'll rob you tomorrow
Take my time'
Tell my people to fight
and tell the oppressor get out
'cause I know my rights
'cause we hate to fight
... like corner pit bulls you make us bite
The uninvited guest, we embraced him and placed ...
Now it's time to get out 'cause he violated
We gave him power and our people he annihilated
Give him the warning and grab the gun
Make sure that it's done right
There's no denying the past
But the future's in our hands right now in our grasp
Listen, they got the best of us before
Now it's time to turn the tables so we settle the score
It's for the brave living, the hate taken, the raped woman, the slave labour
The sustenance of every African is of true wealth on black man's land
There needs to be a precedent set
if freedom is ours, why is there no evidence yet?
If the majority vote, why so minority rule?
Why don't they teach knowledge in college and schools
It's about power held by the greedy and controlled by the cowards
well, I've got a message to all the fake jacks
power to the people, it's time we take it back
tell my people fight
it's not all white people that's racist,
and not all white people perpetuate the imbalance
so not all white people need to be addressed.
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Vereeniging. – ’n Regter het haarself gister hier aan ’n saak onttrek omdat sy haar werk “ernstig opneem” en “snags met ’n skoon gewete” aan die slaap wil raak.
Regter Kathy Satchwell het gister gesê sy kan nie die saak aanhoor waarin twee mans tereg staan op ’n aanklag van moord op kapt. Anna-Marie Potgieter (39) nie, onder meer omdat sy een van die beskuldigdes se pleitverduideliking as “onsinnig” beskou.
Satchwell het gister weer eens geweier om die pleitverduideliking te aanvaar van mnr. Justice Arthur Anthony (25), wat skuld op aanklagte van moord en roof ontken. Anthony erken egter dat hy ’n begunstiger van die moord was, omdat hy die moordenaar gehelp het om Potgieter se naakte lyk onder takke op ’n vullishoop te versteek.
Mnr. John Johannes Tiisetso Dhlomo (20) het ook skuld op die twee aanklagte ontken. Luidens Anthony se pleitverduideliking het hy in die straat by die huis geloop waar die oorledene kort tevore vermoor is. Die moordenaar het hom glo toe gevra om hom te help om die lyk te verwyder.
Hierop het Satchwell gesê dis baie vreemd dat iemand so iets van ’n “vreemdeling wat toevallig verby stap” sal vra.
“Ek speel nie speletjies hier in die hof nie. Ek kom hof toe met ’n oop gemoed, sonder vooroordele. Ek bring ook geen gevoelens jeens die aanklaer of die advokate vir die verdediging saam met my nie. Ek wil nie hê die beskuldigdes moet voel hulle kry nie ’n regverdige verhoor nie.”
Die saak sal nou deur ’n ander regter verhoor word tydens die volgende sitting van die rondgaande hof op 28 Julie.
Potgieter se twee susters, mee. Lorraine Holzhausen en Bessie le Roux, het albei in trane uitgebars toe Satchwell haar aan die saak onttrek het.
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Feb 17 2008 08:45:58:343PM - (SA)
Die VF+ sal nie toelaat dat haatspraak en materiaal wat geweld teen minderheidsgroepe aanwakker, uitgesaai word nie.
Daarom, sê mnr. Wille Spies, VF+-LP, het hy namens die party ’n haatspraak-klag teen die musiekvideo Get out van die hiphop-kunstenaar Zubz (Ndabaningi Mabuye) by die Uitsaaiklagtekommissie (UKKSA) ingedien.
Die lirieke beeld wit mense uit as die onderdrukker en moedig geweld teen die groep aan, hoewel aan die einde van die liedjie genoem word dat nie alle wittes rassiste is nie en dus nie gewelddadig teen alle wittes opgetree moet word nie.
Enkele lirieke – vrylik vertaal – lui: “Verstaan dat ek hierdie panga teen jou nek gaan druk. Vat vandag wat myne is en ek sal jou môre beroof. Dis terugbetaaltyd.
“Sê vir my mense hulle moet baklei. En sê vir die onderdrukker om weg te gaan.”
Die hip-hop-kunstenaar Zubz is in Zambië gebore, het in Zimbabwe grootgeword en hom later in Johannesburg gevestig.
Die musiekvideo van die liedjie, sê Spies, is Saterdag 12 Januarie net ná middernag op SABC 1 uitgesaai.
Mulder sê hy het die klag verlede Maandag by die UKKSA ingedien.
“Die rede hoekom ons ’n bietjie lank gewag het om die klag in te dien, was dat dit lank gevat het om die lirieke te transkribeer en die klag gereed te kry,” het Spies gesê.
Oor die rede waarom hy die klag ingedien het, sê Mulder: “Ons wil verhoed dat dié tipe uitlatings uitgesaai word.
“Ons kan dit nie bekostig in Suid-Afrika nie.
“Vryheid van spraak is belangrik, maar as dit geweld teen minderhede aanpor, gaan dit te ver,” het Mulder gesê.
Mulder sê die UKKSA het reeds ontvangs van die klagte erken en wag nou op die SAUK se reaksie.
Mnr. Kaizer Kganyago, SAUK-woordvoerder, sê daar is nie veel wat hy kan sê voordat die UKKSA-paneel die klagte aangehoor het nie.
“Dit is ’n saak vir die vervaardigers van die musiek,” het hy gesê.
Rapport het gister berig mnr. Collin Mokgaotsi, woordvoerder van Outrageous Records, het gesê Zubz wil nie kommentaar lewer voordat die UKKSA ’n uitspraak oor die klag gelewer het nie.
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February 18 2008 at 08:33AM
The trial of two men who allegedly killed their victim by repeatedly pouring boiling water over her head was due to start in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday.
The state alleges that Isaac Moka, 46, and Sibusiso Phakathi, 35, both of Alexandra, north of Joburg, committed their sadistic attack in a house in Buckingham Avenue, Craighall Park, on April 20 last year.
They are charged with murder, housebreaking with intent to rob, two counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances, and the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
On the advice of the police, homeowner Sandy Staats' friend - whose identity is known to The Star - has chosen to remain silent about their brutal ordeal, but is expected to take the stand only if the accused deny the charges against them.
The two were allegedly enraged when they thought the 68-year-old Staats had lied to them about there being no guns on the property.
Staats died 10 days later at Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital as a result of burns, pneumonia and renal failure.
Staats and the friend were in the house when the armed robbers stormed in and demanded money and guns.
Despite the sadistic nature of the attack, details were not released by the police - not even to the local community policing forum.
Details emerged only when news of Staats' death became known.
Last year, Penny Steyn, a friend of the dead woman, told The Star that the robbers grabbed the two women and tied their hands behind their backs.
Their ankles were also bound before they were dragged to the bathroom.
"They put something over their heads and tied ropes around their necks. They then demanded money, guns and jewellery."
The accused apparently went berserk when they found bullets in one of the drawers in the house, after Staats had said she had no firearms.
"Sandy told them she had handed the guns to the police and then offered them her credit cards. She also told them where her jewellery was," Steyn said.
The men then boiled some water and carried it to the - bathroom, where they repeatedly poured it over Staats, in full view of the other woman.
One of the neighbours became aware of the drama after hearing Staats' dog barking.
"The neighbour tried to contact Sandy, but didn't get a reply on her cellphone. She then alerted the police before ringing the doorbell.
"Police arrived and surrounded the house. They noticed one of the robbers jumping over the neighbour's fence and arrested him," Steyn said.
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Krugersdorp. – ’n Veiligheidswag wat ’n vrou in Kenmare van ’n moontlike verkragting gered het, is drie keer geskiet.
Mnr. Johan Brits, ’n wag van EPR-sekuriteit, veg tans om sy lewe in die Krugersdorpse private hospitaal.
Hy is Vrydag in die bolyf en been getref toe hy op ’n bende afgekom het wat besig was om ’n huis in Longfordstraat te beroof.
Oomblikke voordat die rowers hom geskiet het, het een van die skurke mev. Martie Pieterse (47) se broek van haar lyf afgeruk en gedreig om haar te verkrag.
Pieterse en haar man, Danie (49), is Vrydag omstreeks 22:00 deur twee rowers oorval kort nadat hulle met hul nuwe CL200 Mercedes-Benz tuisgekom het.
Toe daar te lank getalm is om in die huis in te gaan, het die alarm afgegaan.
Mnr. Pretorius is oor die kop geslaan en gedreig dat as hy nie die alarm afsit nie, sal sy vrou geskiet word.
Die egpaar is na die hoofslaapkamer gedwing, waar mnr. Pieterse “magteloos met ’n pistool teen sy kop” op sy knieë gedwing is, terwyl die rowers vuurwapens, nog geld en bankkaarte geëis het.
Mev. Pieterse is na die kombuis gedwing om na die kluissleutels te soek.
Sy is rondgepluk en aangerand toe ’n derde verdagte die huis binnegestorm het.
Rowers het buite in drie wegkommotors gewag terwyl hul makkers die huis geplunder het.
Mev. Pieterse is na haar seun se kamer gesleep en op ’n bed neergegooi.
Twee mans het haar vasgedruk en aan die keel gegryp om bankkodes uit haar te dwing.
“As jy die verkeerde nommers gee, sal ek jou verkrag,” het ’n rower haar toegesnou.
Toe een sy broekgordel losmaak en haar langbroek aftrek, het sy “net daar besluit, vandag sal jy my nie verkrag nie!”
Sy was glo vasbeslote om met alle mag te baklei, toe Brits glo net betyds op die perseel opgedaag en die rowers na buite gehardloop het.
Hulle het vanuit die tuin op hom begin skiet.
Mnr. Pieterse het sy rewolwer op ’n wegsteekplek uitgehaal en is agterna toe hy skote gehoor klap het.
Hy het Brits in die oprit gesien lê en gedink dis sy seun wat by die huis opgedaag het, toe Brits geskreeu het: “Ek’s geskiet. Ek’s geskiet.”
Pieterse, wat nie verder in die voorval beseer is nie, het sy rewolwer op die rowers “skoongemaak”, toe dié op hom begin skiet.
Die rowers het met drie selfone op vlug geslaan.
Kapt. Jacob Raboroko, polisiewoordvoerder van Krugersdorp-gebied, sê die rowers is steeds soek.
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11/02/2008 08:06 - (SA)
Hilda Fourie and Marietie Louw-Carstens, Beeld
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Feb 10 2008 11:42:13:200PM - (SA)
Mokopane (Potgietersrus). – Die 65-jarige vrou van ’n sendeling van dié Bosvelddorp is eergistermiddag in haar huis vermoor.
Veiligheidswagte van die Strikeforce-veiligheidsdienste het gesukkel om by die huis in te kom.
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Mr. John Minto, as NZ's 89th voted history maker, I wonder if your fellow countrymen know, that to this day, you have not spent one second in the country you became famous for helping to "liberate". I have lived in New Zealand for seven years and I still don’t fully understand all of its complex social issues, but you can speak with authority about South Africa? I don’t think so.
Do Kiwi's know that your 1980’s Springbok tour protests were orchestrated and run by The Workers Communist League, whose real agenda was to destabilise and “liberate” Aotearoa the same way the South African Communist Party did South Africa? From what I hear they nearly succeeded in starting a civil war during these protests.
Back to South Africa, the Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and others were harbingers of things to come, but you decided to ignore African history (do you know African history?), at not your own, but others peril, and sided with the ANC, who used, in true African style, hate, limpet mines and petrol-and-tyre necklaces to achieve their goals.
Now that Azania, sorry, South Africa is doomed, and people are starting to ask questions, you have decided to distance yourself from your ANC mates, why, because "they are not real Communists" (your words). Was Mugabe a real Communist? How many failed post-colonial African countries, one-man, one-vote, one-time “Dictocracies” (sic) does it take?
Why so quick to burn your bridges, because when New Zealand's time comes you will surely need the Azanian Communist Party to return the favour. It appears that you have already angered the regime as they have recently denied your claim (ouch!) that they nominated you for the OR Tambo award that you so nobly turned down.
Fortunately for you Mr Minto, it appears that the majority of Kiwi’s are blissfully unaware that the future of their little island in the middle of nowhere is just as uncertain as that of South Africa. That the same forces are mobilising there, and that in the blink of an eye, things can change dramatically. They should just look at South Africa, and our current global zeitgeist. But perhaps not everyone has been fooled. I hear close to forty thousand Kiwi’s are leaving the country each year.
You should think twice before visiting Azania Mr. Minto, because apart from the high risk of being robbed, raped, tortured, murdered, or all of the above while over there, simply because one is white, it also appears that you have few friends left there, black and white.
By Rudi Prinsloo.
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