Terre'Blanche-moordenaar sit lewenslank

2012-08-22 – Die man wat vroeër van die moord op Eugene Terre’Blanche skuldig bevind is, is in die rondgaande hof op Ventersdorp tot lewenslange tronkstraf gevonnis.

Chris Mahlangu het tereg gestaan op aanklagte van moord, huisbraak en roof met verswarende omstandighede.

Regter John Horn het die regse leier se voormalige plaaswerker ‘n lewenslange vonnis vir moord opgelê.

Horn het Mahlangu in Mei op al dié aanklagte skuldig bevind.

Patrick Ndlovu, die tiener wat aanvanklik ook van die moord op Terre’Blanche aangekla is, maar later op dié aanklag en aanklag van roof vrygespreek is, kry twee jaar in geheel opgeskort vir vyf jaar vir huisbraak.

Joernaliste wat vanuit die hof getweet het, berig die regter het gesê Ndlovu het berou getoon en tekens van rehabilitering gewys.

“Jy’s al twee jaar in aanhouding. Ek dink nie jy moet tronk toe gaan nie,” het Horn aan Ndlovu gesê.

Mahlangu en Ndlovu is daarvan aangekla dat hulle die voormalige leier van die AWB op 3 April 2010 in sy plaashuis buite Ventersdorp in die Noordwes doodgeslaan het.

Mahlangu het beweer hy het uit selfverdediging opgetree, terwyl Ndlovu enige betrokkenheid in die misdaad ontken het.

Die tiener se naam is destyds met die regter se uitspraak vir die eerste keer genoem, aangesien hy toe eers 18 jaar oud geword het. Sy naam is in die verlede nie bekendgemaak nie, aangesien hy as ‘n minderjarige verhoor is.

Horn het tydens sy uitspraak Mahlangu se bewerings verwerp dat Terre’Blanche die plaaswerker gesodomiseer het.

Die regter het ook bewerings verwerp dat die polisie die semenagtige vloeistof op die regse leier se lyk doelbewus verwyder het.

Dit het tydens vorige hofverrigtinge aan die lig gekom dat daar geen forensiese bewyse was wat die tiener by die moord betrek nie.

Horn het destyds gesê daar was goeie getuienis dat Ndlovu by die huis ingebreek het en waarskynlik wou steel.

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Pretoria: Straatnaam Veraderings

Die volgende straatname in Pretoria gaan nou verander ... Hoe absurd?

The following streetnames in Pretoria will change ... How ridiculous?

• Zambesi to Sefako Makgatho
• Hendrik Verwoerd to Johan Heyns
• Beatrix/Mears/Voortrekker to Steve Biko
• Hans Strijdom to Solomon Mahlangu
• Walker/Charles to Justice Mohammed
• Proes to Johannes Ramokhoase
• Duncan to Jan Shoba
• Generaal Louis Botha to January Masilela
• Esselen to Robert Sebukwe
• Vermeulen to Madiba
• Schubart to Sophie de Bruyn
• Potgieter to Kgosi Mapuru
• Prinsloo to Sisulu
• Skinner to Nana Sita
• Jacob Mare to Jeff Masilela
• Queen Wilhelmina to Florence Ribiero
• Van Der Walt to Lillian Ngoyi
• Andries to Thabo Sehume
• D F Malan to Eskia Mphahlele
• Mitchell to Charlotte Maxewke
• Schoeman to Francis Baard
• Church Street to Stanza Mobapa/Helen Joseph/WF Nkomo/Elias Motswaledi
• Michael Brink to Nico Smith
• Leah Mangope to Peter Mangope
• Lucas Mangope to Molefe Makinte

Verander die straatname, maar die BOERSIEL sal jy nie verander nie ...

Change the streetnames, but you will never change the "BOERSIEL" (Spirit of the Boer nation)

Pretoria Straatname: ‘Afrikaners sal ook ingesluit wees’

2012-02-23 22:19

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Sarel van der Walt 

Daar sal steeds Afrikanername wees onder die 27 Pretoriase straatname wat verander gaan word, het mnr. Kgosientso Ramokgopa, uitvoerende burgemeester van die Tshwane-metro, gister gesê.

Hy het op ’n raadsvergadering gesê wanneer die naamsveranderinge oorweeg word, sal daar veral gekyk word na die name van Afrikaners wat tot die “demokratisering en bevryding” van die stad bygedra het.

Tshwane het in 2008 bekend gemaak 27 Pretoriase straatname “wat aanstoot gee weens hul koloniale en apartheidsverbintenisse” gaan verander.

Dié lys het onder meer Pretoriusstraat, Schoeman­straat, Andriesstraat, D.F. Malanrylaan, Genl. Louis Botharylaan, Hans Strijdomrylaan, Hendrik Verwoerdrylaan, Kerkstraat, Duncanstraat, Paul Krugerstraat, Potgieterstraat en Voortrekkersweg ingesluit.

Veral name in die middestad is in die gedrang omdat hulle volgens die ANC nie meer die demografie van die stad weerspieël nie.

Ramokgopa het gesê hy sal met die politieke partye daaroor praat wat in die metroraad verteenwoordig word.

Dr. Conrad Beyers van die VF+ het daarna gesê hy weet nog nie wat die ANC se voorstelle vir straatnaamsveranderinge gaan wees nie.

“Ons het in die komende week ’n afspraak met die burgemeester. Ons is bereid om te onderhandel vir ’n langtermyn-oplossing.” 

Right wing fragmented and demilitarised, edperts say

Right wing fragmented and demilitarised, experts say
KWANELE SOSIBO - Mar 02 2012 00:00


Law enforcement officials and race relations analysts have downplayed the prospect of a security threat emanating from right-wing extremists.

Frantz Jooste, the head of the so-called Kommandokorps, claimed to have trained more than 1500 boere-Afrikaner jongmanne in defence skills in the past 11 years. The group also claimed to have signed a unity pact with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging and the Suidlanders to co-ordinate their "security".

The article drew an incredulous reaction from police spokesperson senior superintendent Vish Naidoo, who said that if the Kommandokorps was a credible military group planning a military uprising, it would not expose itself as it did to the press.

"For me, that story was just too good to be true," he said. "We are fully aware of any threats, but we will not divulge any information and expose those who are busy gathering that information on our behalf."

Dirk Kotze, a professor of political science at Unisa, said there were more than 100 small organisations to the right of the political spectrum, ranging from quasi-religious groups to civil society organisations, with some existing and soliciting support only via the internet.

"One of the biggest problems they face is fragmentation based on personalities," he said. "In some cases you will find that the divisions that have existed since the Sixties [when the Nationalists split over Verwoerd's sport policy, leading to the formation of the breakaway HNP] still exist today."

Ideological splits over the configuration of a Volkstaat also persist to this day, he said.

Kotze said the single biggest cause of the demise of the military option was the dissolving of the formal military commando system, which had provided a natural infrastructure for a "semi-military" culture to thrive. The commando system was disbanded during Thabo Mbeki's first term as president.

"The commando system was in all rural areas and had given all the farmers weapons in a legitimate way. A key objective for its disbandment was to take away that infrastructure, or at least many farmers saw it in that way." What a camp like Kommandokorps represents then, is a yearning for a more militarised period, when conscription was the order of the day, providing a ready pool of combat-savvy manpower.

However, it is important to note that very little research appears to be available on right-wing extremism, especially since 2002, when the Boeremag co-ordinated eight bomb blasts in Soweto, leading to the arrest of several members who were later charged with high treason and sabotage. Jackie Selebi, police commissioner at the time, said some of the members were prosperous farmers and had access to defence-force weapons.

Last year Henry Boshoff, a military analyst at the Institute for Security Studies, was killed in a car accident. Boshoff had been consistent in his monitoring of right-wing activities. In an article published after the death of AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, titled "Volk, Faith and Fatherland: The Resurgence of the White Right?", Boshoff wrote that the concern was "the actions of lone riders who could seek revenge [for Terre'Blanche's murder] and trigger further racial tension and violence, in ways reminiscent of the murders by 'Wit Wolf' Barend Strydom in 1988".

Lucy Holborn, a researcher at the Institute of Race Relations and the author of the book The Long Shadow of Apartheid: Race in South Africa in 1994, said hate groups were isolated, "but when it makes headline news, it creates the impression of prevalence". Holborn said that even moderate groups like Afriforum could be escalating the problem of racial polarisation as they contributed to a growing portrayal of victimisation by white groups.

http://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-02-right-wing-fragmented-and-demilitarised-experts-say/