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Mutinous AIDS-infected soldiers are security threat

SA military mutinous due to “Turbo-AIDS”… top psychiatrist’s warning goes unheeded by ANC-regime… 

  A TOP UNISA psychiatrist’s warning at the Saldanha military academy in September 2008 has gone completely unheeded by the ANC-regime – which this week was still hiding their top-secret report about the severe problems inside the South African military. 

Extreme violence among the military is often caused by psychosis from AIDS-TB coinfections87 out of every 100,000 black males in South Africa die in violent criminality – and with the dangerous psychotic effects from AIDS combined with easy access to lethal weaponry, the SA defence force especially is posing a risk to the security of the State…’

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The top-secret government report warned that the chaotic conditions in the country’s military were causing a ‘threat to state security’. However the government still refuses to publish all the details. Some were however read into the parliamentary record by Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier – who accused “Defence and military Veterans” Minister Lindiwe Sisulu of having ‘misled’ both parliament and the country by witholding her reports. http://longwalksincefreedom.blogspot.com/2010/11/sandf-morale-be-security-threat.html

SANDF problems ‘could even threaten state security”…

Maynier, who serves on Parliament's defence portfolio committee, said he would not allow the reports' contents to remain hidden.

SANDF ordered by court to also enlist infected conscripts in 2008:

AIDS_TB COINFECTIONS CAUSE VIOLENT PSYCHOSIS IN SANDF WARNS PROF MATSHEPO MATOANE SEPT2008 SALDANHAOne of country's top psychiatrists, UNISA professor Matshepo Matoane, left,  already started warning from early 2008 that AIDS was creating a “highly dangerous psychosis among infected SA military men; that it was creating 'devastating psychological effects among such infected patients. “They are often plunged into an exceedingly self-destructive, vengeful, dangerous-mindset”, she warned. These infected soldiers were ‘forming a deadly new threat” because they have access to lethal, sophisticated military hardware.” That same year, a South African High Court added even more fuel to this fire when it ordered the SANDF to also start conscripting AIDS-TB-infected job applications - citing any failure to do so as a severe human rights violation.  Beeld reported http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2400971,00.html

  • By September 2008, when Prof Matoane issued her warnings at the Saldanha military academy, 22,000 of the 55,000 SA military people (40%) were already diagnosed with AIDS+TB
Extreme violence among the military is often caused by psychosis from AIDS-TB coinfections87 of 100,000 black males in South Africa die in violent acts:
Subculture of extremely violent criminality among young black males:
In 2008 in South Africa, the violence-related death rate among all black men in 2008 was already cited as standing at 87 men per 100,000 --  the world's highest -- according to the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System. On November 10 2010, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation said in a new report tabled at Parliament that ‘the core of the problem of violent crime in SA is a subculture of violence and criminality characterised prominently by young men who are invested in a criminal identity and engaged in ‘criminal careers’ which involve active criminal lifestyles and often incorporate multiple forms of violent crime. These criminal young male gangs make common use of weapons – firearms, knives and other ‘sharp force instruments. The ability to operate and achieve credibility within this subculture is strongly related to one’s readiness to resort to extreme violence using a weapon…’ Violent offenders who engage in armed violence present the most danger to others and are what gives the current epidemic of violent crime in South Africa its most malevolent edge. Those involved in the subculture range from criminals who operate as individual rapists or robbers – to large numbers affiliated to more formalised gangs.” http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/study/CSVRstatement091110.pdf
Thus throughout all of South African society, a powerful 'culture of weapons-use and a willingness to routinely use extreme violence' was already at work among all young black males in 2008. Add to this already volatile mix the psychotic conditions created by AIDS-TB co-infections, and this becomes even more violent and lethal. And Prof Matoane already warned against these problems in 2008.  http://www.sahealthinfo.org/violence/nimss.htm

Soldiers increasingly mutinous, self-destructive, dangerous....

In South Africa, she warned in her lecture at the military academy in Saldanha, she had found that most of the AIDS-infected military men turn “increasingly mean, mutinous, dangerous and self-destructive. They start staying away from their jobs, refuse to obey commands, and form a threat to all forms of authority. “

  • Many thousands of SA soldiers have already fallen victim to the lethal combination of AIDS and the co-infection with drug-resistant Tuberculosis - referred to in South Africa as Turbo-AIDS. A joint testing programme carried out with the SA military and the US authorities called Operation Phidisa, showed that infection levels were already measured at 40% in 2007…22,000. Special manuals were drawn up in the USA and SA on the way to identify and deal with AIDS-infected military people. The SA military then started refusing any recruits who tested HIV-positive because of their medical conditions. However in May 2008, the SA Constitutional court ordered the SA military to no longer refuse any HIV+ recruits because it was 'unconstitutional'. The defence force lawyers' arguments that these ill soldiers were unable to carry out their duties and were “dangerous around military hardware” fell on deaf ears at the country's highest law court.
  • See video of news conference, where SA general objects to this new ruling, which must be implemented by Nov 2008: Army chief lieutenant-general Solly Shoke discusses the issues around enscripting HIV-positive patients
What is Turbo-Aids?

In her Saldanha military academy lecture, Prof. Matoane painted a very disturbing picture of  the South African military forces' future abilities to defend the country and work together in coherent military-teams: the AIDS-TB infection, she said, “has a devastating effect on the psychology of all people: but in soldiers with their access to sophisticated military hardware, this aggression could become dangerous...”

Project Phidisa ‘s statistics showed that up to 22,000 (40%) of the entire SA military was at that point infected with ‘Turbo Aids’ despite all the government's claimed efforts and the many millions of dollars being poured into the country for ‘education programmes’ to try and stem the tide. In 2005, the rate reportedly had stood at 17%.

Genl. Solly Shoke arguments against the disastrous May 16 2008 Pretoria High Court ruling was that the troops 'needed to be mentally and physically fit to perform their duties, which often landed them in extreme conditions.' He said in fact that 'deploying any HIV-positive person into a hazardous situation could threaten the person's life and those of his comrades'.

The exact AIDS-infection rate among the SA military remains sophisticated guess-work to this day: the statistics are being kept a closely-guarded secret. In fact it’s still illegal for prospective employment candidates to be tested for HIV unless they give written permission. http://www.citizen.co.za/index/Article/5868.page

High absentee levels, death rates in the military due to AIDS:

Prof Mashoape did not mince her words in her lecture, describing the last stages of AIDS as follows: “… such soldiers can have 'very dangerous outbursts of anger' towards their colleagues which combined with easy access to military weapons, could cause fatalities; they could 'seriously undermine and threaten the unity of military teamwork.' http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2400971,00.html

HIV+ SOLDIERS CANNOT FUNCTION IN MILITARY CONTEXT:

"It is shortsighted if any military superiors believe that AIDS-infected soldiers -- although looking physically-fit - could ever function well in any military context,' she warned.

"In the final stages of AIDS, the disease greatly affects the central nervous system and such an infected soldier's emotional state is one of 'extreme confusion and anger,' she pointed out. AIDS affects the mental alertness of such sufferers - and this of course could also mean the difference between life and death to the military team which finds itself in a military-conflict situation.

"AIDS-infected soldiers 'require the assistance and understanding of qualified personnel to avoid possibly fatal consequences for themselves and their comrades.' After the initial diagnoses of HIV-infection, sufferers plunge into stages of depression, trauma, anger, fear and frustration. At work even a newly-diagnosed HIV-infected person without any symptoms thus shows weakening concentration abilities, short-term memory loss and mental confusion. HIV-infected soldiers thus have difficulties to fit into the 'rigid and focused pattern of any military organisation's activities,' Prof Matoane said. "In a combat-situation this could also mean that AIDS-sufferers don't have the will to fight because of their own fears.'

"And an HIV+ soldier also finds it difficult to plan, analyse and carry out intelligence operations for his unit. When AIDS-sufferers reach the 'denialist stage' they all go through, they also tend to become very self-destructive and rebellious towards their commanders.' Their anger outbursts lead to confrontations with commanders. Matoane said it was 'important that the military, as an organisation, is always aware of the psychiatric effects of HIV-AIDS on the behaviour of soldiers. If they are not managed for such behaviour, such soldiers can get out of control, with fatal consequences.'
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2400971,00.html

XDR-TB+AIDS patients 'mutiny, deliberately infect health workers'

Prof Matoane's warnings can also be widely collaborated by hospital staffers treating patients – in SA they are often coinfected with TB and Aids. For instance at the  Jose Pearson TB Hospital in Port Elizabeth, three fences topped with coils of razor wire were built to keep patients infected with AIDS-XDR-TB from escaping… Especially around Christmas time and again around Easter, dozens of patients cut holes in the fences, slipped through electrified wires or pushed through the gates in a desperate bid to spend the holidays with their families. Patients , often very aggressive and defiant, would be tracked down and forced to return. Local public health experts warned in 2008 that overcrowding and poorly ventilated hospitals “were a driving force in spreading the disease in South Africa”. However by 2010, the public health officials claimed that ‘more research was needed as the exact causes for the rapid spread of the disease have never been determined…’ In 2008 the SA government decided that ‘the public would be safer if patients were treated at home, with regular monitoring by health workers and contagion-control measures for the family” That year at a Durban seminar, health-workers launched diatribes of anger about the high levels of aggression from their patients – and that especially the XDR-TB patients ‘often tried to infect workers by deliberately coughing all over them...”. In other words – the authorities know very well that this deadly epidemic is spread by human contact – yet are disregarding all the health warnings.  http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/24/world/20080325SAFRICA_index.html  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/world/africa/25safrica.html

Background to South African AIDS-TB EPIDEMIC FUNDING:

In 1994, the then-US States' military's European Command (used to be called USEUCOM) provided South Africa's newly-reformed military with a $2.2-million emergency grant for “HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and treatment”. Altogether the US Department of Defense that year paid around $20-million to HIV/AIDS programs to a variety of African nations. This programme has continued under the AFRICOM command. In July 2008, the US voted in favour of Pres. GW Bush's emergency plan for AIDS-relief in Africa, Bill HR 5501.This allocates $48-billion for fighting AIDS on a global level - with more than half of this money alllocated to combat both AIDS and Tuberculosis in African countries alone...

However a protest movement grew inside the USA 's African-American community against this lavish funding for HIV-AIDS infected Africans after the Centres for Disease Control noted that black Americans accounted for 49% of all the new HIV-AIDS diagnoses in 2006 -- despite making up only 13% of the population. Black American lobby groups started demanding that these funds be diverted to combat the deadly syndrome inside their own community first... http://wrair-www.army.mil/

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Nov 10 2010 – PARLIAMENT, Cape Town. The Centre for Studies of Violence and Reconciliation introduced their R3,5m research report entitled ‘Why South Africa is so violent and what we should be doing about it? , commissioned three years ago by a previous minister of safety and security.

  • South Africa one of the most dangerous places on the planet…’
  • The report noted that South Africa now is one of the most dangerous places on the planet and submits recommendations to the government for tightening up their existing preventative measures and to introduce new ones. http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/study/CSVRstatement091110.pdf
  • ‘No explanations for the reasons why crime in SA is so violent..’
  • Parliamentarians were very unhappy with the report’s findings that South Africa has become one of the most violently-criminal countries on earth with a persistent culture of armed violence permeating all of society. They especially criticised the fact that the report had provided no explanations for the underlying reasons of the cruelty and violence with which South African crimes were so often carried out. They studied 1,200 murder-dockets to compile their report with.
  • More affluent regions targetted by trio robberies are more violent than poorer ones…They noted that ‘trio robberies” account for “a substantial part of the most serious violence which takes place in more affluent communities but far less of this violence occurs in poorer communities.”  http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/study/CSVRstatement091110.pdf
  • Why the torture and cruelty in farm murders where nothing gets robbed?
  • Freedom Front opposition party MP Pieter Groenewald specifically referred to the extreme cruelty and gruesomeness with which farm murders targetting white Afrikaners are so often carried out – and to which he also would like some answers. Farm murders: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/11/farm-murders-victim-names-1994-2010_06.html "Elderly people are tortured with hot irons and the attackers flee without stealing anything. Why this Cowan Renske 75 beaten by attacker Oct212010 Primrose Germistoninhumanity? The answers are absent (from this report),"  he asked.Director Adèle Kirsten said in her response to the parliamentary criticism that there is a “great variety of complicated reasons for such extremely cruel violence. You won't get one easy answer to this problem - not with us and also not with international researchers,' she said.The Institute's spokesman David Bruce also suggested that 'alternative research such as psychological profiling of violent criminals' would be needed to establish exactly what their motives are for such violence. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Wittes-te-lig-gestraf-adjunk-20101109 - contacts for journalists at the Centre for Studies of Violence and Reconciliation: Adele Kirsten – tel. 082-853-9776; David Bruce - 082-784-8616

"HIV-AIDS MORE PREVALENT AMONG US BLACKS
In a startlingly honest report from the Centres for Disease Control, they noted that black Americans accounted for 49% of all the new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2006, despite making up only 13% of the population. In addition, 69% of AIDS cases among those ages 13 to 19 and 56% among those ages 20 to 24 are black patients, the "Evening News"
reported. "Black folks bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in this country," commented Phill Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute, a lobby group. 'Nearly 600,000 African-Americans are infected with HIV-AIDS and up to 30,000 are becoming infected each year. This is a different AIDS-strain, as their death rate is two and a half times that of HIV-infected whites,' the report said. "The (hypothetical) nation of black America would rank below 104 other countries' in life expectancy." http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=53474
http://www.blackaids.org http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/health/research/30aids.html?ref=research http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/1608213/__Veel_meer_hiv-infecties_in_VS__.html

Prof Matsoana cv, born in Venda: http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=1309

The AIDS-Trojan horse" -- how liberation comrades of the ANC and black SADF soldiers brought in heterosexual AIDS from Angola, claims this controversial researcher: http://www.q.co.za/news/1999/9909/990902-aids.htm
http://allafrica.com/stories/200807251111.html

US/SA Military 'symptom manual' for dealing with HIV-AIDS infected soldiers in southern Africa

  • Detailed Description of clinical trial: People living with HIV/AIDS encounter many psychological, physiological, and cognitive symptoms, such as pain, diarrhea, fever, fatigue, depression, and confusion. These symptoms have been found to restrict a person's daily life significantly. Self-management of multiple HIV and medication side effects symptoms and maintaining optimal quality of life have, therefore, become major daily tasks for people living with HIV/AIDS. This study is a randomized controlled trial with a two-group repeated measures design to test the efficacy of the symptom management manual. Two groups (experimental and control) were assessed in a repeated measures design at 3 time points: baseline (time 0), one month (time 1), and two months (time 2). Data was analyzed using longitudinal mixture modeling. Comparison(s): HIV-positive patients receiving a symptom management manual and orientation to the manual, compared to HIV-positive patients receiving a nutrition manual and orientation to the manual. Completed: University of California, San Francisco University of Utah, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Puerto Rico Aga Khan University, University of South Africa, Universidad del Turabo, Texas A&M University - Information provided by:  University of California, San Francisco, ClinicalTrials. gov Identifier: NCT00241202 Principal Investigator:     William L. Holzemer, RN, PhD  University of California, San Francisco Responsible Party:   University of California, San Francisco ( William L. Holzemer bill.holzemer@nursing.ucsf.edu  Study ID Numbers:   H642-27289 First Received:   October 13, 2005 Last Updated:   January 14, 2008 ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:   NCT00241202 Health Authority: United States government: Institutional Review Board sponsor website:  http://www.aidsnursingucsf.org/
  • http://researchafrica.rti.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.project&p_id=760

Turbo-AIDS in Z-Afrika- 90% nieuwe besmettingen in vrouwen

South African guidelines for treating foreign Africans infected with AIDS-XDR-TB: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=71113

We are sitting on a Time bomb but nobody wants to listen - SA doctor on XDR-TB infections: http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=62613; http://censorbugbearadriana.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B6B44A5376348175!150.entry http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2426076,00.html  http://www.polity.org.za/article.php?a_id=44853

Nov 15 2008 - US government Project Phidisa: US-SA joint military AIDS-prevention and testing programme – contacts in 2008:

  • Colonel Andrew Ratsela,Chief Specialist Physician
    Internist and Head of Internal Medicine Department
    Military Hospital Pretoria South Africa
    mavivo@icon.co.za
    +27 012 314 0999 ext. 0695 (office phone)
    +27 083 265 5409 (cell phone)
NIAID Co-Principal Investigator
  • Michael A. Polis, MD, MPH Senior Investigator LIR/NIAID,
    Building 10, Room 11C103 Bethesda, MD 20892-1880 USA
    mpolis@niaid.nih.gov
    + 1 301 496 8027 (office phone)

Clinical Trials reports:

AIDS leaves its mark at the ballot box in South Africa  http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72382

WHO reports on violence and health: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241597081_eng.pdf

National Mortality Surveillance System ZA: http://www.sahealthinfo.org/violence/nimss.htm

SA military ordered to admit HIV-TB infected conscripts into the armed forces:

History of Aids up to 2005: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/overview/profile/fy2005/pdf/research_aids.pdf

Aids, TB and growing resistance to antibiotics and antiviral drugs: www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/overview/profile/fy2005/pdf/fy2005_profile.pdf

Demographics: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/sf.html

Black SA widows' purification rites: Http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81496