ILLEGAL CIGARETTE SMUGGLING

BEELD 18 AUGUST 2014 AT PAGE 6

Crime is expensive! It costs millions of rand [or US dollars if you prefer] to fund and the criminals want to be recompensed for their effort and the risks they are facing. This is only the money component to criminal activities. You should always remember that it is driven by people. Criminals are motivated by a myriad of different issues in their lives. And they do go to any extremes to execute their criminal actions. Killing of people is obviously the ultimate. In this report the police says that in many instances tobacco smuggling can be linked to international crime syndicates. It might even be linked to modern day slavery or servitude and human trafficking. These international criminal syndicates operate their "businesses" on sound business  and financial principles - besides the illegal activities. 

I have recently delivered a speech at the West Gauteng Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa on traditional slavery and modern day slavery. I am of the considered view that modern day slavery is far bigger than traditional slavery ever was. It is estimated that there are more or less 35 000 children in South Africa subject to slavery, servitude or bonded labour. 

It is a matter of great concern that the convicted drug trafficker, Glen Agliotti's name is mentioned in respect of tobacco smuggling. If you google his name you will find a host of references to this man and alleged activities he might be linked to. 

Read More

JACOB ZUMA RAPE VERDICT QUESTIONED

JUDGE ZAK YACOOB
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Judge Yacoob [the only blind judge as far as I am aware of in South Africa] from the highest court in our country, the Constitutional Court, made a staggering statement: he is of the view that our beloved President who have just dined with President Barack Obama, should have been found guilty of rape way back in 2006. Very dapper of the man to disclose this sentiment!

I agree with the judge.

I do have some problems with this statement, if it is quoted correctly and not out of context that is, why now? Judge, since 2006 you kept quiet, why? What prompted you to make it now? Why did you only see it now, may I ask?

I wonder what is your viewpoint on the verdict of that judge in Natal who quashed the criminal charges against our beloved president? What is that judge's name again? Nicholson? 

Read More

AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTOR

An attitude adjustor

And this lot tries to convince genuine peace loving and hard working people that he had a peaceful attitude.

Shall we say that on the face of it, it spells out mayhem and anarchy - What an "beeld" that is portrayed. 

Read More

FORMER ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER JAILED FOR CORRUPTION

I just read [13 May 2014: HUFFINGTON POST UK] that Judge David Rozen in Israel found the former Prime Minister the Honorable Mr Ehud Olmert guilty of corruption and sentenced him to six [6] years in jail. Olmert committed this prior to him taking the high and honorable office of Prime Minister of that country. In other words, he took the official oath with dirty hands - unashamedley. What else did he do?

The Judge went on to say: "A public servant who accepts bribes is akin to a traitor."

Will that ever happen in our rainbow nation? I am sure we can all identify people who should be in the same boat and who are in government circles?

Read More

Not the normal way of playing golf! What would the ANC say about this?

Ag siestog!! Ag shame!!

This is obviously not the way to play golf!! And I am not a golfer at all. Having said that, I link it to the way our beloved and honored State President Jacob Zuma is playing politics and playing around in his high office as State President. 

How on earth, you ask me, is that possible? 

I am not going to tell you how to play golf and what a normal golf club looks like. We know that. 

Tuli Madonsela pointed out how Zuma played/fooled around Nkandla and how the ANC is covering up on this lot. So - you begin to see how I am thinking? Madonsela tells us the correct way of playing politics and the correct way of playing around in the Presidency. 

Zuma and his party wraps it around a tree. Ag shame!!! And they push it down our throats that it is the best and only way to play/fool around the Nkandla trees. I suggest to you that even the Zuma-chickens will have a good chuckle about this lot while he is cooling his heels in his pool waiting for the fire brigade to extinguish his fires he lit.

Read More

Liefdesmoord?!!! Love-murder?!!!!

Have you read this garbage from a grandmother? Her grandson allegedly killed his "loved one" because he "... dearly loved her ..."

Read this newspaper article. If you don't understand Afrikaans please ask someone to assist you.

I am hugely upset by this utter nonsense. Does it mean that you have to kill someone if you love that person? Or, because you have not killed your loved one, the deduction is irresistible that you don't love that person?

No, grandma is not the only person punting these horrific thoughts. I encountered it years ago when Ronald Stanley Savage killed his wife in Umhlanga Rocks by stabbing her with a steak knife. The State Prosecutor told me: "He must have loved her dearly."

I relive that horror today when I read what this woman said about her grandson.

No - you cannot expect wisdom even from the elderly.

Read More

Driving with impunity? No!

Read this newspaper report and look at the photograph - this is such an everyday occurrence in our lovely country.

Driving with impunity? No!

A driver of a vehicle with a flashing light on top of the vehicle should behave like a normal ordinary citizen and still take care of his cargo and other road users. He/she may not drive without care and then hide behind "... the call of duty ..." That driver's duty extends to all road users. Of course we all will immediately concede that under certain circumstances that vehicle should be afforded the space on the road to ignore ordinary traffic rules. Having said that, it goes further that the driver of such a vehicle should still do so with reasonable care and should the situation dictate to be more vigilant, then the driver should do exactly that: be more vigilant. 

I trust that this matter will be  investigated and that it should proceed to court - remember justice must also be seen to be done!

Read More