I must say that I was pissed off with Thabo Mbeki's reaction at the airport leaving for the bok game about Lucky DIbe's murder.... " We must all join together to fight crime!" what a typical political statement, for over a decade the South African people of all walks of life and creeds have been suffering, while this idiot cannot see whats happening to his people....
If I lived there and my family was murdered, I would go after Mbeki and the top dogs in government.....
No wonder the people in the townships don't phone the cops anymore, they just lynch the blokes themselves....
Up in Windhoek a month back, a guy stole a cellphone from a township resident, the rest of the residents chased the thief and he jumped into a dam to escape the mob, he forgot that he could not swim and drowned, the police did'nt even bother diving for the body, and waited a week for it to float, nobody was sorry..... bring back the death penalty........
>:(
Have you realised that over the past couple of months, their TARGET seems to be musicians and actors. ???
The only good thing about that is that BedRock and myself should be pretty well safe. :o
I wonder if that is talented musicians or not?
;)
You are a possible victim even if you only listen to music, by talented artists or not.
Nearly got pushed off the road near Sannieshof recently when coming back from J'burg in mid September. Lucky for me the bastards tried to turn around infront of me to play "chicken" with me when I did'nt go off the road, then overturned their own car - at a helluva speed! I am still waiting for an answer from the police. Gave them the full details of the car, including registration number etc. How's that for follow up and in crime and protection of the citizens of this country.
The father in-law of a lady working in office with me, got hi-jacked and killed in June. They also have received no feedback from the police till this day.
And we think "How the west was won" were rough times!!
To add to the topic of crime and other related happenings. What do you guys think about the 'shooting' accident that happened at Lohatlha recently? Now that's a bitter pill to swallow for the relatives of the ones who lost their lives and for those who were critically injured. All in a day's training in our SANDF. It's scary to see the stats about the types of accidents that has happened here recently, not even to mention the amounts of times they have started fires in the vicinity, causing farmers to lose 1000's of hectares of grazing. Best of it all - the SANDF never gets called in to help put out these fires. Their answer to the farmers:- put in a claim to Government!
Nothing against you folk who did your army training here.
Dalene
Do you work in the SANDF? I have been part of the organisation for 20 years now, and believe me, the combat readiness of the SANDF is non existant. Here in Pretoria where we work and live, you dare not question a troop about his behaviour. Anything you say or do turns into racism. We will never get away from that. A General sat in the gutter at Army HQ, his shirt undone, sitting eating pap with his hands!!!!!
Nowadays I do very little at work, as the 2 Majors and Captain sit infront of their computers playing games at 0730 in the morning and the Captain does his private studies at work. So now you can see where the taxpayers money goes.
Charmain
Hi All
My house got broken into early hours of Tuesday morning. My daughter was out and my farther and I were asleep as you do in the middle of the night. Two guys broke into my daughters bedroom which is a converted garage and when she returned home from a night out confronted them. One guy ran passed her but she tackled the second. They had a fight and eventually he got away. I was woken up with her shouting. The police arrived within minutes and took statements until 7.00 am at 8.00 am the CID arrived and then the forensic team. They took photos and collected evidence, stupid guy left his cap in the bedroom, within a day they were caught and they are to appear in court when the DNA comes back from the lab, police said they will get 5 or more years. It does't always happen as quick as this but i am glad it is for me. Tarryn received bruises and a big bite mark on her leg. England might not be as bad as SA but we do have trouble
Barbara
Hi Barbara
Thats terrible when confronted with such horror.
Hope your daughter is soon ok again...
Georg
some say that the differance between SA and UK is about 10 years - in 6 years I've been here there has been an phenominal increase.
Hot bubble bath for the bruising. Lucky girl, it could have ended badly.
Yes she was very lucky it could of been worse they could of had weapons which they often carry now.
You are right Barbara. I have been here 14 yrs and it has got worse over the last few.
Barbara
I have been the intended " victim " in a few crimes in the past few years ..
1. A holdup at work .. was staring into the barrel but ended up not complying with the "dont move" instruction .. got away and alerted the factory to the fact that there was a holdup in progress and they fled ...
2. Cycling .. 4 guys knocked me over attacked me and tried to separate me and my cycle .. did not succeed , so were beating the s... out of me and trying to drag me down a side street .. my only reaction was anger and to fight back and to get a cycling shoe off with which I knew could do serious damage with... they had to abandon when another car came down the quiet sunday morning road .. I just loved their parting comment of " jou ma se ............." delivered with the last kick before they ran off
3. Hijacking .. 5 guys jumped out of car their in front of our house .. had us two surrounded and there was I facing this guy walking toward me within the metre with the gun and instructing me to " hand over car keys wallets cellphones .. no fuss no mess " thats the last I remember for a few seconds cos suddenly I was out of the crowd throwing the car keys under another car ( instinct or guardian angel ? ) and proceeded to do some serious multitasking kicking on doors screaming and at the same time getting 10111 on the line .. boy were these guys angry ,, they all jumped into their car and were chasing me down the road .. one hijacking aborted.. they had to drive off eventually as I was attracting too much attention .. all we can work out is that my right hand was very sore the next day .. again I must have got angry . lost it and hit out .. dont know which is best or worst .. but my survival instinct says that a moving target has a better chance that the person under their control as all they have to do is put the gun to your head and ... lights out forever ...
so far I have never become the victim cos I got angry and hit back ..
Barbara .. as your daughter did .. get angry .. its a double edged sword .. anything could happen but just imagine if everyone got angry .. everyone tackled the few thugs holding the majority to ransom on the trains etc etc ...
My family too have been the target of crime.
House brocken into.
Car brocken into to steal but we disturbed them.
Washing stolen (name brand,you know the kids)
My son Glen was held at gun point during a robbery at work.
My daughter Mandy also held at gunpoint at work when La Med was robbed a year ago now.Very traumatic as they were there for over 30mins.
Spier was held up as well,fortunately my Lindzi changed shifts and was'nt in that day.It would have been her as she did the cash ups.
Charmaine, to answer your question about me in the SANDF - no, but our farm is near Lohatlah, and we "see" a lot of the things I mentioned. So many competent people leave nowadays - they cannot stand the lack of dicipline and the way things are done and handled.
It's sorry and sad to read about all the things that have been happening, but still no-one gives an ear... the one's who listens to our complaints are our friends and the people in our communities. The Government is totally deaf when it come's to topics like this.
Dalene
There was a short cocky policeman, Eugene Barnes that worked with your father, Big Dirk. Any idea where he is nowadays?
Charmain
Charmain,
Yes, and he might read this also, cause he does the odd lookabout on the site. He actually got hold of me on my personal e-mail. Him and his wife are in Musina, both working for De Beers. Check the members list - he is on it and I suppose you will find his e-mail address there as well. He was the one that told me about all the other ex O'mund people who also are now in Musina. Everything fine with them - kids are grown and out of the nest. I think they will like to get a surprize mail from you.