Sunday, April 1, 2012

Lang frustrasie oor geld lei tot bloedbad





Niks gebeur toe hy swart pistool in sy mond druk
2012-03-31 23:17


Mnr. Louis du Randt wys hoe mnr. Martin van Deventer een van die die drie mans tydens ’n vergadering geskiet het nadat hy gehoor het hulle kan hom nog nie die geld betaal wat hulle hom skuld nie. Foto: Craig Nieuwenhuizen

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Nadat hy twee sakemanne en ’n regsadviseur doodgeskiet het, het mnr. Martin van Deventer sy swart 9 mm-pistool in sy mond gedruk en die sneller getrek.

Net ’n klikgeluid.

Verwilderd het hy toe die magasyne van sy pistool omgeruil, weer die loop in sy mond gesit en die sneller getrek.

Dit het aan die lig gekom dié afgetrede struktuur-ingenieur van Gordonsbaai moes eers sy pistool herlaai voor hy homself om die lewe kon bring nadat hy oomblikke tevore die drie mans doodgeskiet het.

Van Deventer het saam met sy prokureur, mnr. Deon Beukman van Somerset-Wes, met sy skuldenaars, mnre. Johan Griessel (50) en Pieter Erasmus (53) van Mayborn Investments 75, en hul regsverteenwoordiger, mnr. Wimpie van Heerden (56), vergader.

Saam met hulle was mnr. Louis du Randt, wat namens ’n prokureursfirma vir Mayborn opgetree het.

Die oorsaak van Van Deventer se frustrasie was die trae terugbetaling van sy miljoene nadat hy in 2009 sy plaas Groot Valy in Springs vir R12 miljoen aan Mayborn verkoop het.

Volgens mnr. Douglas Richards, direkteur van Du Randt Richards Ingelyf, sou Mayborn, volgens die koopkontrak, R6 miljoen by die oordrag van die eiendom betaal en die balans by die uitreiking van ’n dorpstigting-sertifikaat.

Beukman het eergister aan Rapport gesê Van Deventer het spesifiek Gauteng toe gevlieg om by Mayborn te hoor hoe hulle die altesame R16 miljoen gaan betaal.

Hy het nog net R2,5 miljoen gekry.

Beukman het gesê Mayborn het ’n skulderkenning van R6,64 miljoen onderteken én ’n koopkontrak aangegaan van vaste eiendomme ter waarde van R12 miljoen, “met nog rente”.

Na verneem word, wou Mayborn op die Villa Valy-ontwikkeling bekostigbare wooneenhede bou, maar het met talle probleme gesukkel, waaronder hersonering.

Dit was so erg dat me. Cheryllyn Dudley, ACDP-LP, in 2010 namens die ontwikkelaars in die parlement gevra het hoekom dit so lank sloer om die nodige regte toe te staan om ’n ou mynhostel in 499 wooneen­hede te omskep.

Van Heerden het in Maart 2010 in ’n e-pos aan Dudley geskryf ’n deel van hul grond was sedert 1929 al vir die bou van ’n pad geoormerk.

Toe het die Ekurhuleni-munisipaliteit ook geëis dat Mayborn om ’n padsluiting aansoek doen én die grond koop.

Dit sou glo ’n lang proses wees “en ons kan nie bekostig om meer tyd te verloor nie”, het Van Heerden toe geskryf.

Du Randt het eergister gesê sy kliënte het die pad ’n “oorbrugbare probleem” genoem.

Die grootste struikelblok vir hul dorpstigting-aansoek was ’n vereiste bestralings-impakstudie omdat die grond naby ’n goudmyn is.

Dit kon tot R500 000 kos en die inligting was moeilik bekombaar.

Intussen het ’n finansier, wat R20 miljoen vir die beginfase van die ontwikkeling aan Mayborn geleen het, regstappe begin om hul terugbetaling te eis.

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Mnr. Louis du Randt, prokureur vir Mayborn Investments:

Ons ses sit om die lang tafel en bespreek moontlike oplossings vir die vertragings met die Villa ­Valy-ont­wikkeling.

Ná ’n driekwartier staan mnr. Martin van Deventer op en sê vir mnr. Pieter Erasmus: “Ek is 65 jaar oud, my geld is op, kan julle my maandeliks afbetaal?”

Erasmus antwoord dat hy ook van die ontwikkeling vir geld afhanklik is en hom dus nie kan betaal nie.

Van Deventer draai dan na mnr. Johan Griessel en vra: “Kan jý my betaal?”

Griessel sê dat hy in dieselfde si­tua­sie is.

Waarop Van Deventer hom vra wat hulle met die R20 miljoen gedoen het.

Griessel draai na my en sê-vra: “Ons hoef dit seker nie vir jou (Van Deventer) te gee nie.”

Voordat ek kan antwoord, hoor ek ’n skoot klap en sien hoe Griessel getref word.

Hierna volg die skote vinnig op mekaar en word mnre. ­Pieter Erasmus en Wimpie van Heerden ook afgemaai.

Ek staan op, maar Van Deventer beveel my om te sit.

Daarna gee hy sý prokureur, mnr. Deon Beukman, opdrag om by die deur te gaan staan.

Nadat Van Deventer die drie geskiet het, stap hy na hulle, sê hy wil “seker maak” en skiet elkeen ’n tweede keer.

Op my versoek laat hy my ook toe om by die deur te gaan staan.

Dan sê hy vir Beukman dat hy sy eie lewe gaan neem en vra Beukman om na sy “vrou” te kyk en sy boot te verkoop.

Hy gaan sit in die hoek van die kantoor, sit die loop van die vuurwapen in sy mond, trek ’n skoot, maar daar is net ’n klikgeluid.

Hy kyk verwilderd op, haal die loop uit sy mond, sit ’n ander magasyn in en trek weer die sneller.

Mnr. Deon Beukman, prokureur van Van Deventer:

Die skietery was nie op die ingewing van die oomblik nie en die ding (frustrasie oor nie-betaling) kom al lank aan. Ek sou nie die skieter, geklee in ’n blou geweefde hemp, kortbroek en sandale, in die kantoor kon konfronteer nie, want ek was bang dat ek geskiet kon word.

Ek kan nie enige drasak onthou waarin Van Deventer sy vuurwapens kon weggesteek het nie.

In ’n restaurant het ons ’n glasie lemoensap gedrink voordat ons na die vergadering is.

Me. Jean Parker, Van Deventer se 68-jarige vriendin, ’n afgetrede dans-instrukteur van Gordonsbaai, wou by navraag nie kommentaar lewer nie.

Sea Dog, die boot wat Van Deventer besig was om te restoureer, het gister verlate in die Gordonsbaai-hawe gelê.

Ere-kolonel 'n 'verneuker'









2012-03-31 23:17
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“Kolonel” Prins Sam Hamade in een van die talle uniforms waarmee hy op sy Facebook-

Jacques Pauw

’n Flambojante “ere-kolonel” in die weermag wat beweer hy is ’n Libanese prins, het glo vir sy seuntjie ’n militêre vertoning met soldate en ’n pantservoertuig by sy luuksemeenthuiskompleks gereël.

Inwoners van Glen Erasmia in Kempton Park aan die Oos-Rand sê toe hulle een Saterdag in Maart hul oë uitvee, daag ’n lorrievrag soldate en ’n Eland-pantserkar op hul netjies gesnyde grasperk op.

Die inwoners het oopmond toegekyk terwyl soldate oorlogspeletjies uitvoer – alles tot vermaak van die “Libanese prins” se kinders en hul maatjies.

Dié “erekolonel”, prins Sam Hamade, is ’n voormalige nagklub-uitsmyter en skuldinvorderaar wat verbind word met verskeie karakters in die onderwêreld.

Nogtans beweer hy me. Lindiwe Sisulu, minister van verdediging, het hom onlangs as ere-kolonel van die Regiment Oos-Rand aangestel.

Lt.kol Rodney Steele, bevelvoerder van dié regiment, bevestig dat Steele sy ere-kolonel is en sê hy speel ’n “onmisbare rol”.
Hamade het die afgelope week aan Rapport beweer:
* Hy is ’n multi-miljoenêr en lid van Libanon se koningsfamilie;
* Hy ken pres. Jacob Zuma goed;
* Hy is ’n ondergrondse en belangrike polisie-agent; en
* Hy is ’n geheime lid van die BBP-beskermingseenheid.

Die Libanees gebore Hamade is in 2007 in hegtenis geneem op klagte wat verband gehou het met moord en geweld.

Voormalige vennote van Hamade beskryf hom as ’n skaduagtige onderwêreld-karakter en verneuker met bande met van die land se mees berugte bendeleiers.

Hamade ontken dit, maar gee toe dat die vermoorde Kaapse bende­leier en uitsmyter-baas Cyril Beeka ’n vriend en vennoot van hom was totdat hulle ’n uitval gehad het.

Hy erken ook hy is verskeie kere in hegtenis geneem op klagte wat met geweld verband gehou het, maar sê hy is nog nooit skuldig bevind nie. Sy inhegtenisneming op ’n aanklag van moord in 2007 was ’n “polisiefoefie” om sy ware identiteit as polisie-agent geheim te hou.

Hamade spog met ’n vloot sportmotors, waaronder ’n Lamborghini en ’n Ferrari.

Hy beweer voorts hy besit vyf huise in die Glen Erasmia-kompleks, asook ’n string ander ­eiendomme.

Sy Facebook-blad wys hoe hy, geklee in ’n verskeidenheid militêre uniforms en met pistole aan sy sy, voor sy luukse huise rondstaan.

Hy werk glo net drie maande per jaar, het ’n familie-fortuin geërf, is lid van een van Libanon se vier koninklike families – “die een wat van die berge afkomstig is” – en besit die grootste olyfolie-fabriek in daardie land.

Rapport kon geen bewyse vind dat so ’n familie in Libanon bestaan nie.

Volgens Steele het Hamade toestemming gehad om die militêre vertoning vir die kinders op die grasperke van Glen Erasmia te hou.

Die regiment hou glo dikwels sulke vertonings vir kinders.

Ander inwoners van die kompleks sê hulle sien Hamade dikwels in sy kolonel-uniform en dat hy beweer hy is ’n lid van militêre intelligensie.

Hy het al aan verskeie van hulle ’n kluis gewys wat met kontant volgestop is.

Mnr. Chad Thomas, ’n voorma­lige weermagsoldaat en reserwedienslid, het verlede week aan Sisulu geskryf om te sê Hamade se aanstelling “maak ’n belaglikheid van die professionalisme binne die weermag”.

Thomas, ’n forensiese ondersoekbeampte, sê hy is bekommerd dat iemand wat bande met georganiseerde misdaad het as ’n ere-kolonel aangestel is.

Thomas sê Steele het hom die afgelope week gebel en gesê hy sal hom “regsien” en dat hy hom inmeng in die werk van die regiment.

Hamade kap terug dat hy Thomas vir R3 miljoen vir naamskending gaan dagvaar.

Kol. Vish Naidoo, polisiewoordvoerder, ontken dat Hamade lid van die BBP-beskermingseenheid is. “Ons sal hom nooit aanstel nie.”

Mnr. Siphiwe Dlamini, weermagwoordvoerder, sê die weermag het geen inligting dat prins Sam Hamade ooit as ere-kolonel aangestel is nie.

“Daar is nie so ’n naam op ons databasis van ere-kolonels wat onlangs aangestel is of reeds dien nie.”

Rapport

Kommentaar deur Sonny

Binnekort sal Suid-Afrika n Ere-Staatspresident bekostig!!

ONS VIR JOU SANDF!!

AS DIT NIE 1 APRIL 2012 WAS NIE, SOU EK DINK HIERDIE BERIG IS SNERT/BOG/TWAK!!

Ek sou eerder vir Lydia Guevara as n Ere-Kolonel in die SANWM sien!

Wortels is meer eetbaar as goud!

DG’s R1.4m ‘bribe’













April 1 2012 at 11:02am
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Director general of human settlements Thabane Zulu is accused of signing binding agreements without the contract being put out to tender, according to an internal audit report. (The Witness)
Soon before director-general Thabane Zulu took part in the awarding of a R10 billion contract, a mysterious R1.4 million was deposited into his personal account.

The Sunday Independent traced the amount from a black economic empowerment company that stands to benefit from the multibillion contract awarded in January by the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) – a unit of the Social Development Department – to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to dispense social grants.

The BEE company is known to The Sunday Independent.

The Sunday Independent followed the money trail after the awarding of the contract.

According to documents in our possession, an intermediary deposited R2m into the business account of African Access Information and Communication Technology, on behalf of the BEE company. The deposit was done at the beginning of October last year.

A few days later, on October 10, 2011, African Access transferred R1.4m into Zulu’s account.

The transactions between African Access and Zulu took place a few weeks before the process to adjudicate the contract and three months before the successful bidder was announced.

Zulu is a former director of African Access. A month after the money reached Zulu, he and three other adjudication committee members awarded the tender to CPS.

According to a Sassa memorandum, dated November 25, 2011, the four-member committee signed a letter in which they “individually and collectively accepted the bid evaluation committee” recommendation that CPS be awarded the contract.

Zulu has denied any wrongdoing.

In a terse SMS, Zulu dismissed the allegations as “preposterous” and challenged critics to report him to law enforcement agencies if they had proof of wrongdoing on his part “to avoid speculative innuendos, whose motives are unknown (sic)”.

His lawyer, Naren Sangham, also emphasised that “there is absolutely no basis for these allegations”.

“My client treats these allegations with the contempt that they deserve and invites any person or group of persons or any organisation or organisations, who claim to be in possession of any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of my client to conduct whatever investigation that they may so desire. My client maintains his innocence and further stands by his impeccable reputation and honesty,” Sangham said.

He twice refused to respond directly on whether Zulu received the money or not.

On the third occasion, he finally said: “My client categorically denies receiving the money.”

CPS is wholly owned by Net1 UEPS Technologies.

The Sunday Independent has established that Zulu was appointed as a director of African Access on August 19, 2008.

He was appointed director-general of the Human Settlements Department in April 2010.

Monwabisi Ludonga, one of African Access’s directors, denied that the company transferred R1.4m into Zulu’s account.

He insisted that no such payment was made to Zulu, since he left in 2010 and he was no longer a director and did not render any services to the company.

“I am a signatory of everything that goes out of my account at African Access and have never paid Zulu that money. I do not even know about it. If there was something that was paid (out), I would have known about it.

“Even if you can come to my company and check our books, we do not have that kind of transaction,” said Ludonga.

Net1 UEPS Technologies CEO Serge Belamant dismissed as baseless claims that her company’s partners paid Zulu.

“I must say that the unsubstantiated attacks on our company are getting a little tiresome as invariably the accusations made never seem to have any foundation or substance.

“I assure you, however, that if you provide me with the proof of ‘reliable source’, I will commence a full investigation into this matter,” Belamant said.

“I will also consult with my attorneys as I believe that it is in the public interest that you disclose your ‘credible source’ so that all can determine if there is any truth to these allegations or if these are simply made up in order to attempt to derail the tender’s implementation.”

Some key players in the awarding of the contract could also be linked to the companies that benefited from the contract. Some directors were influential in the evaluation of the contract.

The Sunday Independent has also learnt that R600 000 was paid towards a mortgage bond of one of the committee members soon after the contract was awarded.

The contract has led to a tug-of-war between CPS and the losing bidders, led by Absa subsidiary AllPay. Senior politicians have been dragged into the controversy.

AllPay and Empilweni were contracted to dispense the grants for the past decade, but the deal expired yesterday.

Some of the losing bidders have since taken the department to court demanding a review of the CPS contract, alleging irregularities and conflict of interests.

Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has been sucked into the saga.

The Mail & Guardian linked Sexwale to the contract through Mvelaphanda Resources’ former director and employee, Brian Mosehla.

The businessman’s company, Mosomo Investment Holding, has apparently acquired a 20 percent stake in CPS.

CPS announced two weeks after winning the tender that it had brought in Mosomo as one of its BEE partners. However, The Sunday Independent can reveal that the two had sealed a deal in October last year already.

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini’s spokeswoman, Lumka Oliphant, has refused to say whether she was aware of any payment to Zulu by the beneficiaries of the tender.

“It may well be that Mr Zulu sits on different directorship positions and/or is a shareholder of different companies which may have been declared to Sassa, but you have not given us anything to work on in order to verify the information at your disposal,” Oliphant said.

Last week we reported that Absa allegedly ripped off the social grants beneficiaries as the battles for the billions gets uglier, and political and business heavyweights get dragged into the fracas. Absa has denied the allegations. - Gcwalisile Khanyile and Piet Rampedi

IOL

Comments by Sonny

Funny that these guys are mostly from one State Department.....?

They must also all have shares in the Security Company which will transport all the CASH!!

Is the Public Protector, NPA and SIU all on vacation!

A future breed of SA presidents?

Cosatu cashes in on toll road








JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Apr 01 2012 08:51



Trade union federation Cosatu has benefited from plans to introduce toll roads to Gauteng, City Press reported on Sunday.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions' (Cosatu) investment arm Kopano Ke Matla has shares in construction company Raubex, the paper reported.

Raubex won a tender to build the R21 highway, which forms part of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project. These roads will be tolled to pay for their construction.

Raubex received R800-million for the project.

Kopano Ke Matla holds 3% of Raubex, so it would have received R24-million as a result, according City Press.

Raubex also unsuccessfully bid for both the second phase of the project, and the N1/N2 Winelands toll roads in the Western Cape.

This week, the ANC confronted Cosatu about the trade union's involvement in tolling.

Vavi told the newspaper he was unaware of Kopano Ke Matla's activities.

"That was only brought to our attention in the meeting with the ANC. We were not aware of that," he was quoted as saying.

"When we checked, we established that they didn't win the contract. We are not beneficiaries and we, accordingly, asked Kopano to withdraw any further attempts to bid for any of the contracts related to the privatisation of the roads."

Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven was not immediately available for comment on Sunday morning.

Uphill battle
Motorists who refuse to pay for the use of Gauteng's freeways have again been threatened with legal action, but there is no law in place to govern or enforce e-toll payment.

The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) announced in March that motorists who use the freeway but refuse to pay will be unable to renew their vehicle licences without first clearing their debts.

But Howard Dembovsky, national chairperson of the Justice Project South Africa, a motorist lobby group, said: "I'm not the only one who has turned around and said 'lock me up' because, quite frankly, I could use the money -- I will sue them blind for unlawful arrest. In the beginning I was mildly amused because they have no legal standing, but I am incensed now."

Sanral has said road users will have seven days to settle their tolls from the day they are incurred, after which debt collection and legal processes will follow. - Sapa and Staff reporter

MAIL & GUARDIAN

Comments by Sonny

Looks as if Vavi wants to share the 'hotseat' with Zuma!!

COSATU's double agenda exposed?

Top cop accused of covering up shooting









BRETT HORNER | 01 April, 2012 00:49

Nine explosive affidavits detail how SA's acting national police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlan-hla Mkhwanazi, admitted to colleagues that he helped cover up the killing of an unarmed suspect - which he had witnessed.


The Sunday Times has seen extracts of the damning statements, which were compiled by shocked police officers present at the meeting in Durban last month.

The affidavits have been filed with public protector Thuli Madonsela.

The police officers state that, on March 5, Mkhwanazi told the meeting that he would take to the "grave" details of the shooting by an elite special task force, which he headed at the time - unless called to testify at an inquiry.

Madonsela is contemplating an investigation. Her spokesman, Kga-lalelo Masibi, said: "The public protector is not in a position to comment about the fate of the police commissioner."

Her office added that a decision on the investigation would be made this week.

This week, Mkhwanazi refused to comment. But his spokesman, Brigadier Lindela Mashigo, said there was another version to the story.

"Please note that, as it should be obvious to you, there is another side to this story, namely the version of the acting national commissioner," he said. He refused to provide the Sunday Times with Mkhwanazi's version.

It's believed the incident occurred after 2005, when Mkhwanazi became head of the elite special task force.

Mkhwanazi headed the force, which he commanded for six years, before his appointment as acting national police commissioner in October last year.

Extracts from affidavits given to the public protector by DA police shadow minister Dianne Kohler Barnard confirm Mkhwanazi's admission.

One read: "Mkhwanazi then unequivocally confessed to being present when this deceased was arrested 'unarmed' and then later shot and killed in his presence, and to date has done nothing about it."

Said another: "He mentioned an incident where the subject was neutralised wrongfully in his presence ... he was part of that operation where a suspect was murdered in cold blood."

Each of the nine accounts contains similar allegations, and all corroborate Mkhwanazi's refusal to sign a statement after the killing.

"He stated that he will go to his grave with that incident, as he refused to make a statement," wrote another officer.

None of those who authored the affidavits have been identified for fear of reprisals, after Mkhwanazi recently vowed to fire those responsible for leaking a report to the Sunday Times that revealed more than 27000 officers were incompetent to handle firearms.

The affidavits were compiled by junior and senior cops with ranks "across the board", said Kohler Barnard. She added the statements were signed and notarised, and the originals given to Madonsela's office.

She said: "The acting national police commissioner must be suspended with immediate effect."

This comes four months after a Sunday Times investigation exposed an alleged police hit squad operating in KwaZulu-Natal.

The shocking exposé revealed that the Organised Crime Unit at Cato Manor operated as an alleged hit squad, executing suspects and then holding booze-fuelled parties.

About 51 suspicious killings have been linked to the alleged hit squad, which has since been closed down by police top brass.

Following the meeting on March 5, Mkhwanazi led a delegation to the family of killed taxi boss Bongani Mkhize, who was allegedly gunned down by the Cato Manor unit in 2009, and promised to act against police brutality.

Two weeks ago, he released a statement saying: "Such officers must face the full brunt of the law, and their incarceration must be a reminder to other police officers of the consequences of abusing their powers."

In October, when the Sunday Times compiled a profile of Mkhwanazi shortly after his appointment, a former task force operative, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, conceded that Mkhwanazi, who joined the police service in 1993, had personally joined major raids and the unit's signature operations to ambush criminals during robberies.

"He has been on the ground outside a lot, so you can say he's an action man," the operative said.

"It's just hard for me to see how [Mkhwanazi] has the experience to run the entire police force."

The special task force has rescued scores of hostages under Mkhwan-azi's command and used unorthodox methods to catch criminals.

In December 2007, 11 cash-in-transit robbers were shot dead by his crack team in an incident close to the Carousel casino near Pretoria.

Former colleagues describe him as a man who hates bureaucracy and "red tape" and is suspicious of the media.

Mkhwanazi - who is trained in the use of explosives, holds bomb-disposal certification and has completed a counter-terrorism course with the FBI in the US - also said: "What I know best is fighting crime."

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has previously defended his appointment, hailing him a "tried-and-tested cop" who had "excellently distinguished" himself.

This followed criticism of President Jacob Zuma for installing Mkhwanazi in the hot seat after national commissioner General Bheki Cele was suspended.

"For the record, the minister at the time the acting national police commissioner was appointed was stating the commissioner's policing career CV because some in society had questioned his credentials," said Mthethwa's spokesman, Zweli Mnisi.

Times Live

Comments by Sonny

The Great Zuma conspiracy!

Zuma appoints Cele as SAPS Commissioner, Cele gets to powerful, Zuma suspends Cele who has appointed Makwanazi as acting commissioner, Zuma then appoints Mdluli to take over from Makwanazi..... and so the plot for dictatorship thickens!

Zuma backs Malema, Malema wants to share in Zuma's greed, the ANC suspends Malema and the next line of Hyenas wait to take over from Zuma after his demise..... The circle of life and death of the ANC continues!

Minister heard yelling k-word




Minister heard yelling k-word
2012-04-01 09:34


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Cape Town - Lulu Xingwana, Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, shocked fellow passengers on an SAA flight when she swore at cabin crew and used the k-word.

She was furious because SAA crew wouldn’t upgrade her ticket from economy class to business class on the Thursday night flight from Accra in Ghana to Johannesburg.

A fellow passenger said he saw how Xingwana yelled at a white air hostess: “Shut up! Shut up! Is it because I’m a k****r?”

Business class was apparently full.

When the air hostess tried to calm her down, Xingwana apparently said: “But I’m a stakeholder in this company.”

She was offered a seat in the front row of economy class.

“The minister was like a naughty child. She put her bag on her lap with her arms around it,” said the fellow passenger.

“I was shocked and embarrassed. It is a national minister.”

SAA spokesperson Dilesang Koetle confirmed the incident and apologised for being unable to upgrade the minister.

Xingwana’s spokesperson Cornelius Tanana Monama denied that the minister had yelled at anyone and denied that she had used the k-word.

He also said she never said anything about being an SAA stakeholder.

He said she had politely requested to be upgraded and had been shocked by the rude and disrespectful behaviour of the SAA staff member.

RAPPORT

Comments byu Sonny

THE TRUE RACISTS IN SA SOCIETY.

THE ANC's MP's Government and Cronies.....!

Lulu Xingwana ANC Mampara for APRIL 2012.

80 arrested in Denmark











2012-04-01 08:29


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Aarhuis - More than 80 people were arrested on Saturday as protesters hurling rocks and bottles tried to interrupt an anti-Islamic demonstration by far-right groups from across northern Europe, Danish police said.

There were numerous brief scuffles throughout the day as police tried to separate some 2 500 counter-demonstrators from a few hundred people attending the anti-Islamic rally in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city. One police officer received minor injuries after being hit by a bottle, police spokesperson Georg Husted said.

Police said about 200 to 300 people from Denmark, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Poland took part in what was billed as a "European counter-jihad meeting" to protest what they called the Islamisation of Europe. They were met by a 10-times larger counter-demonstration by left-wing groups under the banner "Aarhus for Diversity."

The anti-Islamic rally started with a moment of silence for the seven people killed by an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman in France.

Among the speakers was Tommy Robinson, the head of the English Defence League, a far-right group that has staged rowdy protests in Britain, and has inspired smaller offshoots in a number of European countries.

Both demonstrations were peaceful until a group of black-clad, mask-wearing youth from the counter-demonstration tried to break through police lines, but officers in riot gear held them back.

After the rally finished, protesters hurled rocks and bottles at a bus carrying the far-right sympathisers as police vans escorted it out of the city centre.

The defence leagues and other counter-jihadist groups that have sprung up in Europe in recent years distance themselves from neo-Nazis and say they don't accept racism or anti-Semitism. Opponents say they are just a new manifestation of xenophobia in Europe, targeting Muslims instead of Jews.

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian gunman who confessed to slaughtering 77 people last July, cited the English Defence League and other counter-jihadist groups in the anti-Muslim manifesto he released before the killing spree. Those groups have condemned his actions and dismissed him as a lunatic.

Mari Linolkken travelled from Norway to join the counter-demonstration in Aarhus, 200km northwest of Copenhagen, saying she felt compelled to stand up against the far-right movement after what her own country had gone through with Breivik's attacks.

"The English Defence League, Danish Defence League, the Stop Islamisation of Europe - we have experienced what their ideology means in practice," she said.

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comments by Sonny

Too little too late!

The great awakening of the Danes...... Similar to the situation in SA?

Yes, the Afrikaners will never stand together!