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Are Afrikaner whites not South Africans?

 

The official hate speech targetting the besieged, 3-million Afrikaners of South Africa is mounting… even with pamphlets which imply that only blacks are ‘100% South Africans’ .

This poster at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in October 2010 calls on students to vote for the ‘

  • blacks-only organisation SASCO strictly South Africans’– “a vote for the ANC is a vote for Julius Malema: ‘One Boer one bullet’… “ 

SASCO is an ANC-alligned student body. The ANC’s continuing silence – their failure to denounce such racist campaigns – is most worrying…

ANC  says Afrikaners are not South Africans Oct 14 2010

Picture above was posted on:  Petition: Remove Julius Malema As President of the Ancyl 

364.638 asielzoekers in Zuid-Afrika

Zuid-Afrika heeft de meeste asielzoekers ter wereld - VN:

14 oct 2010 -  Zuidafrikaans parlementslid Annette Lovemore waarschuwt  dat het land zo overspoeld wordt met asielzoekers (‘vluchtelingen’) uit andere Afrika-landen dat het ministerie van binnenlandse zaken maar 9,000 van de 364,638  aanzoeken binnen een jaar goedgekeurd kon krijgen. Een totaal 131,961 aanzoeken werd afgewezen – maar het grootste gros van deze asielzoekers zijn intussen doodgewoon in Zuid-Afrika blijven wonen... met het huidige personeel zou het ministerie immers 30 jaar nodig hebben alleen al om de achterstand weg te werken…

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Asylum seekers face many days of chaotic violence waiting to submit applications in sA

DA-parliamentarian Annette Lovemore: Sixty-one percent of the 364.538 asylum-applications not processed within a year - Refugees wait up to 4 years for answers from Home Affairs

The Democratic Alliance (DA) will be writing to the Chair of parliament’s Home Affairs portfolio committee, requesting that the Minister appear before the committee to detail what measures she plans to put in place to address the inadequate capacity of her department to address the overwhelming refugee influx.

Lovemore writes: “The proposed Refugees Amendment Bill will not address the substantive problems that affect refugee applications -  which are currently taking up to 4 years to finalize. This is an ominous trend considering that according to the latest UN Refugee Agency Global Report, released in June 2010, South Africa continues to be the country that receives the largest number of asylum applications in the world, with 222,000 applications submitted in 2009 alone. click for report

“All asylum seekers have to apply for an asylum seeker's permit (known as a section 22 permit) at one of only five Refugee Reception Centres in South Africa. They then have to return for an interview by a Status Determination Officer. Getting an interview can take up to a year. If this interview is successful, asylum is granted, and a certificate to this effect is issued. The certificate is valid for two years. Those granted asylum then have to apply for a refugee identity document. These documents are taking up to two years to issue.If the interview is not successful, and the application is found to be "manifestly unfounded, abusive or fraudulent", the decision must be reviewed by the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs. If the decision is not successful on the grounds that it is "unfounded", the applicant may appeal to the Refugee Appeal Board. It is currently taking up to two years to secure a date for an appeal hearing, and a further two years to secure a decision after the hearing has been conducted.

This is not surprising, given the following figures from the 2009/10 financial year :

  • 364 638 applications for asylum were received
  •       9 000 applications were approved
  • 131  961 applications were rejected
  •  223 677 (61% of the applications were not processed within the year…

Only four people from Appeals Board travel between centres:

The Standing Committee on Refugees considered 26 389 cases. This leaves a balance of 105 572 cases rejected as being "unfounded", with appeals to be considered by the Refugee Appeal Board. The chairperson of the Refugee Appeal Board told Parliament in 2008, that 80% of applicants denied asylum utilise the appeal route. Thus, during the last year, approximately 84 460 applicants would have lodged an appeal. The Refugee Appeal Board considered only 3498 appeals during this period, or 4% of the appeals lodged. (Most assessments by regional offices have been described as of such poor quality that they necessitated the Appeal Board starting the application interview afresh, thus prolonging the process.)

  • Couple this with what has been described by refugee lawyer, Fatima Khan, as a "massive, massive backlog" prior to 2009/10, and the fact that only four people are available to travel to centres around South Africa to hear the appeals.

This situation is unsustainable. Most refugees are never, in fact, granted refugee status. However, until they are finally told this, refugees face protracted periods of uncertainty coupled with manifold problems, including, inter alia, no access to banking facilities and difficulty in obtaining employment.

The Minister of Home Affairs has introduced the Refugees Amendment Bill to Parliament, which will be debated over the coming weeks. The DA has serious doubts as to whether  the Bill and the coming-into-force of the Refugees Amendment Act of 2008 will make any meaningful difference to the current situation, and, in fact, whether the drafters of the Bill have truly applied their minds to addressing the situation in a practicable manner. The following examples serve to illustrate this point :

1.    Asylum applications will no longer be considered by individuals but by Status Determination Committees at each Refugee Reception Centre.

  • In theory, this is laudable - the potential for corruption should be reduced, and the quality of assessments should improve. However, this certainly implies a large increase in the number of trained and competent staff. Current trends cast doubt as to whether the Department will be able to provide such capacity.

2.    Applications found to be "manifestly unfounded" will be adjudicated by the Director-General and not by a Standing Committee. This will only work with a proper system of delegation to properly trained and competent officials.

3.    Appeals against applications determined to be "unfounded" applications will be dealt with by a Refugee Appeals Authority and not by a Board.

  • The Authority is substantially the same as the existing Board. Quite how a new name for a body will change the situation is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the requirement that the chairperson of the Authority must attend every hearing will only serve to lengthen, and not expedite, the process. This Authority must be staffed according to the existing and projected need if it is to make any meaningful impact.

The Minister needs to urgently address these issues, which include: staff complement, the need to increase the number of Refugee Reception Centres, the monitoring of performance within her department and, in conjunction with the security services, address the porosity of our borders.

The DA will be arguing these and other points during the coming weeks of deliberation on the Bill, and will be requesting that the Minister appear before the committee to detail interim measures to address this issue. We believe in the dignity to which refugees are entitled.Statement by Annette Lovemore, MP, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Home Affairs, October 14 2010 http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=204710&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389

News Oct 16 2010

 

Summary: Afrikaner smallholders Jan and Elizabeth Smit tortured to death in ‘safe’ Stilbaai, SC; the Boer-genocide: then and now: farming is not for sissies says actor in Afrikaans farming-movie; ANC-regime is rotten to its core;

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Afrikaner smallholders Jan, Elizabeth Smit tortured to death, Jongensfontein, Still Bay, Southern Cape

“The deeply-religious couple had moved from Lydenburg to find peace at Stilbaai, where they could be safe…’

Smit Jan and Elizabeth tortured to death Stilbaai So.Cape Oct 15 2010 homesteaders 15 Oct 2010 04:45 An Afrikaner couple, Jan and Elizabeth Smit, were found tortured to death – the wife was impaled on a garden fork – on their farm near Jongensfontein outside the retirement town of Stilbaai in the Southern Cape.

A family friend found the bodies of 62-year-old Jan Smit and his 57-year-old wife Elizabeth on Thursday. The traumatised friend spotted the woman's body impaled on a garden fork when she peered through their lounge window. Police spokespman Malcom Pojie said both bodies also were “heavily bruised and bound with rope”. A man has been questioned.

"As the investigation unfolded, they took a man in for questioning late last night. He is from Riversdale and is currently being question by the organised crime investigation unit," he added. Autopsies are set to be carried out on the couple to determine the exact cause of death: this might take a while: there is a severe shortage of forensic-experts in SA.

The couple used to own a coffee shop in Stilbaai and had moved to the ‘peaceful area’  from Lydenburg in Mpumalanga a number of years ago. Dominee Willie Gouws of the NG congregation in Stilbaai said he had known the man and woman well.

"They weren't registered members of the NG Church but they were very religious people." Another Stilbaai resident, Philip Claasen, said the people of the town were shocked. "It is totally unheard-of in Stilbaai. And totally unacceptable. Keep in mind that 60% of the residents of Stilbaai are older than 60. It is a retirement town and the residents here are very exposed."There has definitely been an increase in crime recently. There are several elderly residents who live on smallholdings here," said Claassen. He described the deceased as good, friendly people.

By late Thursday, no one had yet been arrested in connection with the murders. People with more information about the murders were asked to call police's toll free StopCrime number on 08600 10111

Boer Genocide: then and now:

Rozanne Meyer writes that many hundreds of Afrikaners made emotional tributes on Sunday October 10 2010 to the many tens-of-thousands of their forebears who died for their freedom and for justice 111 years ago. The organisation was arranged by Solidarity Helping Hand ‘s charity organisation and the Heritage Foundation of Centurion. 

AfrikanerStarvingSarieRossouwSolidarityReportToZumaAug2010_ “In 1902, some 23,000 Boer children and 4,000 Boer women had lost their lives during the British government’s scorched-earth campaign against the independent Boer nation – dying miserable deaths in the inhuman Boer concentration camps which the British had erected across southern Africa after burning down their farms and marching off the women and children at gunpoint... At the outset of the Second Freedom War against the British in 1899, the total Boer-population was about 322,000. Nearly one out of every 10 Afrikaners died in these British tented hellcamps within just a few months. Click here for pictures

Rozanne Meyer writes: “Now we are faced with the same horror once again: there are more than 800,000 unemployed, homeless Afrikaners living in dismal squatter camps and slowly starving to death because they are denied all access to the job-market and even denied food-aid from the ANC-regime; nearly 4,000 Afrikaner farmers have been murdered – and more than 30,000 Afrikaner-whites have died in violence in the cities in the ‘New South Africa’ under the ANC-regime. There are 3-million Afrikaners today. Per capita of the entire population, Afrikaner whites are being murdered more than any other population group in the country.

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Farming is not for sissies in South Africa - actor David Rees

FARMING IS NOT FOR SISSIES IN SA actors David Rees and Werner Coetzer in farm-movie South African actor David Rees, who just completed his role as a sheep-farmer in the Afrikaans movie, “Susanna van Biljon, live your dream’.. said ‘farming is not for sissies in South Africa’: they understand that they are actually caring for every South African.’ http://www.landbou.com/boereblogs/susanna-van-biljon-n-lekker-sa-storie

He has been an actor for the past 22 years and is best-known to the general public in South Africa for his role as Nick in the soapie Egoli. He has already made tracks in the streets of Hollywood and Chicago, but wants to stay in South Africa to continue his acting career’ he said.

He said acting the role of Dirk, the sheepfarmer, in movie producer Karl Marx’s latest Afrikaans film, Susanna van Biljon, leef jou droom. made him realise ‘that farmers are cultured and stylish.” http://www.landbou.com/multimedia/videos/susanna-van-biljon-voorprent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jIWDGYDDRg&feature=player_embedded

Referring to the huge number of Afrikaner farmers being murdered on their homesteads under the ANC-regime, he could not understand ‘why the government does not look after its farmers better. They are supposed to take care of all South Africans,’ he said. “Farmers often themselves were raised on farms and they have a close affinity and knowledge of the production- and marketing side of the business. The government should create a cooperative with farmers because it will be to everybody’s advantage,’ he said.

Susanna van Biljon
David says the movie was filmed on various farms in the Uniondale region – but he himself also was raised on a smallholding in the Honeydew/Muldersdrift region, and his dad planted maize and had some cattle. “I had to help hold the animals during slaughter, and so he developed a natural knack which he was able to apply in his role, he said.

He had a message for those farmers who feel hopeless and powerless in their present dire situation: “I have as an actor always remembered my dreams, and many people dream of owning a farm and to farm. It’s a great privilege.’