Last newsletter of the year.

Last bulletin of the year.
For contact details for other ratepayers, please go to CONTACTS on the
NTU/NBU website www.ntu-sa.net
Please pass this on to all interested and affected parties.
Number 26
December 17, 2009

During this year one thing has become very clear: ratepayers
associations are the only organizations that are effectively combating
the non-existence of service delivery. The laws regarding local
government are fair and equitable. But municipalities are not abiding
by these laws. On the one hand, citizens are expected to pay rates
and taxes, and are punished if they don't. On the other hand, local
governments are expected to be transparent and inclusive and
accountable, and there has been no evidence of that this year from any
municipality. It is easy to collect a debt, not so easy to demand
responsibility. This last year has shown that ratepayers need to
become a lot more active in order to make sure that this one-sidedness
doesn't become the norm.

For instance, new legislation sets out remuneration for ward
committees, but also sets out their duties. There should be no
remuneration without performance. Ratepayers should decide if ward
committees are working or not. Do ratepayers work with the ward
committees or do they demand that they be replaced? If anyone would
like to start a debate or seek consensus on this, this forum is
available for that purpose.

• Electricity tariff hikes: Alan Smaldon has compiled an objection
letter and you can contact him to ask how you can lodge a complaint:
asmaldon@chillibyte.com
• The ratepayers of Kirkwood, in the Eastern Cape, got a court
interdict to remove their municipal manager, who had been dismissed
for fraud and then re-instated by the ANC council. The costs of the
action are to borne by the municipal manager. So – it CAN be done!
If you would like to find out how the Kirkwood Ratepayers managed it,
contact Louise at kowiegrand@intekom.co.za
• FEKRRA (Kouga and Jeffrey's Bay) is growing with the addition of
Humansdorp. The issue here is misuse of taxpayers' money.
• The Tshwane Metro council has been found guilty of contempt of court
after they failed to reconnect the electricity of a resident who has
declared a dispute.
• The Louis Trichaardt ratepayers have applied to the municipality to
become external service providers in order to clean up the sewage
works that are discharging raw sewage into nearby rivers.
• Nersa has published the approved electricity charges for each
municipality. This is a list of what your municipality should be
charging you for electricity. The list cannot be loaded onto the
website as it is the wrong format, but it can be obtained by sending
me a mail.
• Residents of Heilbron won an interdict against the council to
prevent electricity cut-offs in the case of disputes, but the legal
costs (for the council to pay) have run to almost R100 000. This is
money that could have been far better spent in fixing things rather
than fighting the residents in court.
• The Special Investigating Unit (SUI) will be investigating all 24
municipalities in the North West, where local government has all but
collapsed. The main culprit is named as the ANC cadre deployment
system, which has stripped municipalities of all skills and experience
and given jobs to party loyalists. This is the first investigation of
its kind. It might be an interesting precedent for other regions.
• In Durban, I reported the municipality to the office of the Public
Protector, as I have been trying in vain for eighteen months to get an
explanation of the 'interim' charges on my Metro Bill. All my
numerous letters have been ignored, and my services have been
disconnected four times. And all I want is an explanation! I
received an acknowledgement of my PP complaint after two months. I
will be taking this up next year so watch this space.
• The Kroonstad municipality is R32 million in arrears with Eskom.
The ratepayers want to know what has happened to the money that was
paid by residents to the council for electricity. No answer yet from
the Premier's office.
• Good news from Dullstroom is that the municipality is working
together with ratepayers to solve problems, and the co-operation is
having great success.
• A resident of Johannesburg has called a dispute with her
municipality because her rates went from R60 per month to R1 555, an
increase of more than 2 000 per cent. According to her complaint, her
rates should be closer to R134 per month. At the time of writing,
there is no further news about the outcome of the dispute.
• Judging by the number of alarming news reports, pollution of our
water sources has reached crisis proportions. Even the government has
noticed, although their response has been to appoint committees and
working groups, and not actually to do anything about the pollution.
The NTU has an active water committee and appears to be the only body
that is concerned with direct action. Details for the water committee
are on the website.

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Have a good end-of-year break, and we look forward to picking up the
cudgels again in 2010!

--

Remarks from CBS Sunday Morning - Ben Stein

I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday
Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does
not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up,
bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel
discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don
t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In
fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters
celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there
is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in
Malibu .. If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the
Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think
Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people
who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.. I
have no idea where the concept came from, that Americais an explicitly
atheist country.. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it
being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we
should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we
understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there
are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and
where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a
little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's
intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham 's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson
asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding
Hurricane Katrina ).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and
insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this,
just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our
schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And
being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we
expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave
us alone?'

In light of recent events... Terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I
think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body
found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and
we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The
Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor
as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they
misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might
damage their self-esteem (Dr.. Spock 's son committed suicide). We said an
expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don
t know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers,
their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.
I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world
s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question
what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they
spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord
people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and
obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of
God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on
your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they
will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than
what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it..... No one will know you did. But, if you
discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad
shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

SA Today: The New Erasmus Commission

I was attending the Western Province Rugby Awards dinner on Tuesday
night when I received this SMS from my son: "Mom and dad, our water
has been cut off. What do we need to do?"

I smiled to myself and replied: "You obviously used too much water
today. Wait until midnight and it will come back on again."

The "cut-off" was the result of the water management device I had
installed in my home earlier this year. These devices provide each
household with 200 litres of water a day, free, at the normal flow
rate. People who register on the City of Cape Town's indigency
database get 350 litres per day, free (the most generous free
allocation in the country). Whatever is not used gets carried over to
the
next day. You can get additional water every day if you specify how
much you are prepared to pay per month.

The purpose of the device is to save water (crucial in light of the
growing shortages), to help residents avoid running up huge bills they
cannot afford (often because of leaks), and to ensure that the
municipality can viably provide every member of the public with access
to free, clean water, as is their constitutional right.

Contrary to the ANC's propaganda, the City does not cut off water to
domestic properties. In the most extreme circumstances, when people
have failed to respond to overdue bills for months and months, they
may be put on the trickle system. If your toilet cistern is filling
up on the "trickle system" it will seem as if nothing is coming out of
your tap until the cistern is full. That may be
irritating and inconvenient, but in every instance where people are
placed on the "trickle system" they could have avoided it by taking a
small measure of personal responsibility. They could have gone to
their local council office and made fair arrangements to pay off their
arrears. Or they could have registered on the City's indigency
database and had a free water management device installed.
Then they would continue to get their generous free daily allocation
on full flow. People who end up on the "trickle system" have made no
effort to do either.

If people experience problems they can use the City's SMS line
dedicated solely to dealing with water and sanitation problems. There
is a 24-hour call out service for emergency cases.

No other City in the country offers this kind of comprehensive service.

And yet the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional
Affairs, Sicelo Shiceka, is devoting his energies to proving that the
City of Cape Town is cutting off people's water and not delivering
services.

Why is a national Minister targeting a municipality which is a model
of good governance and efficiency in comparison with most ANC run
local authorities? And why now?

For those who understand how the ANC works, the answer is obvious. The
whole affair gives me a distinct sense of déjà vu.

It was a strange synchronicity that in the very week that we closed
the final chapter of the Erasmus Commission, I received a letter from
Minister Shiceka requesting me to report to a newly established
Ministerial Task Team on Water Cut-offs, Electricity, Sanitation and
Housing in the City of Cape Town.

This is another unlawful political witch-hunt, make no mistake.

Like the Erasmus Commission, it involves the abuse of state resources
by the ANC for the purpose of smearing a DA-led government in the
run-up to an election.

Like the Erasmus Commission, it reveals the ANC's underlying
intolerance of democracy when it loses an election and its willingness
to ride roughshod over the Constitution to achieve its political
objectives.

And, like the Erasmus Commission, the Task Team is based on a flimsy
pretext. According to Minister Shiceka, in a letter he wrote to
Provincial Local Government Minister Anton Bredell, he decided to set
up the Task Team because of a single letter from a member of the
public with a water-related grievance. "This [letter] clearly
demonstrates the problem is bigger than we have discovered.
Consequently, I have decided to establish a Task Team comprising
representatives from the three spheres, that is National, Provincial
and Local Government," wrote Minister Shiceka.

The only other 'evidence' that Minister Shiceka has of water cut-offs
are from his visit to Cape Town last month when he discovered that
some people in Mitchells Plain were without running water. The fact
that it later emerged that this was the work of ANC activists has not
deterred him.

When I went to Mitchells Plain to investigate, people told me that ANC
activists had requested them to switch off their water at the
stop-cock before the Minister's visit. The people I spoke to were so
sure of their story that they were willing to make sworn affidavits to
this effect.

It is worth quoting one of the affidavits in full:

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 at about 09h15, I heard a person calling
on a loud hailer. I saw [name of ANC activist] and he was asking
people to come to a meeting and bring along their water accounts.

He then approached me and asked me if I can turn my water off at the
stop cork (sic) and when some one ask me about my water, I must say
that my water was disconnected.

I then told him that I am not interested because my water is only
R00.00 cents; I've only have to pay the connection fee of about
R420.00 and that I also receive about 350 litres a day free.

I also state that this is not the first time that he is calling for
the community to give them their water bills and to turn off their
water.

The ANC's willingness to engage in dirty tricks knows no bounds. But,
as with the Erasmus Commission, there are those who will argue that,
if the City has nothing to hide, it will welcome the opportunity to
'clear its name' by participating in the Task Team.

We refused to testify at the Erasmus Commission because it would have
given credence to a process designed to impugn a DA-led administration
for political purposes. Lies and distortions would have been presented
in the press daily as if they were fact. The ANC are masters of the
Goebbels school of propaganda: if you repeat a lie often enough, some
people may begin to believe it.

It is for this reason that neither the City nor the Province will take
part in the open session in Parliament arranged by the Task Team. Even
the Erasmus Commission attempted to present a veneer of legality by
appointing a judge to head it. The Task Team, by contrast, solely
comprises ANC deployees such as former MEC for Local Government and
Housing Richard Dyantyi (who played a key role in
driving the Erasmus Commission).

If Minister Shiceka was really concerned about the state of service
delivery in local government in general and Cape Town in particular,
he would appoint an independent body to undertake a service delivery
audit of every municipality in the country.

In fact this study has already been done. In a recent survey of 231
local municipalities, 46 district municipalities and six metropolitan
municipalities, independent economic empowerment rating agency
Empowerdex found that Cape Town was the best performer in terms of
housing, water, waste removal and sanitation delivery. And this is
despite the fact that there are 222 informal settlements,
mostly on invaded land -- primarily the result of thousands of
people fleeing the conditions in ANC governed provinces.

So why the obsession with Cape Town when it is obvious that the real
problems are elsewhere?

Why is the Task Team not investigating the death of eight people from
Mpheko village in the Eastern Cape after they drank tap water that had
been polluted with faecal matter due to the municipality's failure to
maintain the water treatment plant?

Why is the Task Team not investigating why sewage runs like a river
down the streets of Odendaalsrus in the Free State (as I witnessed
during the election campaign this year)?

Why is the Task Team not investigating the fact that Thokoza informal
settlement in Gauteng has only four water points for tens of thousands
of households?

The answer is that these things are happening in ANC-governed
provinces and municipalities, so they are being covered up. Meanwhile,
the DA is selectively targeted and smeared.

According to the legal advice we have received, the Task Team is
unlawful because it disregards the principles of co-operative
governance set out in the Constitution. I have today written to
Minister Shiceka requesting that we meet to resolve the matter, as
envisaged in the Intergovernmental Relations Act. I hope that we can
avoid an intergovernmental dispute. But, if necessary, I am willing to
fight this power abuse all the way to the constitutional court. The
ANC's abuse of power is the single greatest threat to our democracy,
in every context, and we have to take a stand to stop it.

Minister Shiceka has reportedly put the hearings on hold until he
receives legal advice on the matter. To assist, I would be quite happy
to furnish him with a copy of the Erasmus Commission Court Judgment.
After all, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

SA Today: The truth about cadre deployment

Various important developments this week form an interesting political
pattern. They seem unrelated, but if one joins the dots, the
implications are clear. the ANC's policy of cadre deployment is
coming home to roost, with devastating consequences for our emerging
democracy.

The DA has warned for over a decade that cadre deployment is the root
cause of the "failed state". But these criticisms have never been
taken seriously. The ANC has managed to disguise cadre deployment as
"racial transformation". Anyone who opposes it, therefore, is labeled
a racist. This has bludgeoned many critics into silence.

For a democracy to work, power must be held to account. Power abuse
must be checked and prevented. For this reason, the institutions of
state, (such as the courts, the electoral commission and the public
broadcaster) must be genuinely independent from the ruling party.
They must be accountable to their constitutional mandate. They must
protect the public interest, not the party's interests.
This is where the notion of the separation of powers comes from. The
concept covers both the distinction between the party and the state,
and the separation of powers within the institutions of the state:
the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. The "separation of
powers" is the cornerstone of accountable democracy.

Cadre deployment is deliberately designed to destroy the "separation
of powers" and ensure that the institutions of state act in the
party's interests. The "party's interests" are defined by a small
inner circle, responsible for "deploying cadres" to all positions of
power. That is why the battle of Polokwane was so pivotal. It
determined which faction in the ANC would define the party's
interests and deploy its "loyal cadres" to control the institutions of state.

Cadre deployment is justified by a deceptively simple argument: the
people voted for the ANC. Therefore in deploying its cadres, the ANC
is acting on the mandate of the people. But the lessons of history
are clear. Inevitably, and immediately, the absence of effective
independent institutions leads to power abuse. On our continent, the
trajectory to the failed state has been direct:
centralization of power and "cadre deployment" lead to cronyism,
corruption and the criminal state.

In this context, the front page article in the Sunday newspaper, City
Press, was very significant. The newspaper reported that the ANC was
rethinking its cadre deployment policy because it was the "key reason
for the collapse of local government".

"Deployed cadres are perceived to have crippled service delivery in
many municipalities" the newspaper stated, noting that a culture of
"patronage and nepotism" had become so rife in municipalities that
they have become inaccessible and unaccountable. "The lack of
values, principles or ethics…indicates that there are officials and
public representatives for whom public service is not a concern,
but accruing wealth at the expense of the poor is"

It is a huge step forward that the root cause of the failed local
state is being recognized -- at least in some ANC circles.

It is also a good thing that the national government is reportedly
planning to strip ANC provincial and regional executive committees of
their powers to deploy party officials rather than appoint
professionals to municipal positions. The problem is that, instead,
the ANC plans to centralize its deployment powers nationally --
which will predictably make the consequences of cadre deployment
even worse.

This was dramatically and powerfully illustrated as events unfolded
during the week.

On Tuesday, President Zuma convened a meeting to discuss the crisis in
local government with mayors and municipal managers from throughout
South Africa. The most interesting aspect of this meeting was the
frank analysis by various mayors, of the impact of "cadre deployment"
on service delivery. One mayor complained that the local ANC
structures in her town regarded her as a deployed cadre.
This meant she could not fulfill her functions as mayor. When she
sought to take an impartial decision in the interests of good
governance, she was countermanded. She was told that unless she
followed the party's instructions she would be "redeployed". The
party's instructions, of course, come from a small clique of local
leaders, usually seeking to promote their personal wealth and
influence.

Another mayor received applause when she described service delivery
boycotts as a manifestation of faction fights within the ruling party.
If one local ANC faction controlled "deployment" into local
government structures, an opposing ANC faction would deliberately
disrupt service delivery (by blocking the sewage system, for example)
in order to create a reason for people to protest in the
streets. This was then dressed up as a "service delivery" protest,
with the express purpose of achieving the redeployment of local
leaders, and replacing them with their rivals.

Before the week had ended, this prediction had come to pass.

Julius Malema was given a hero's welcome in Standerton, when he
arrived to announce the "recall" of the Lekwa mayor, the speaker, the
chief whip and all members of the mayoral committee. Significantly it
was not the Minister of Local Government, Sicelo Shiceka, who went to
Lekwa to issue instructions. It was Malema, the populist demagogue,
who showed he was in charge. Malema's visit to Lekwa
this week demonstrated exactly what the ANC meant when it said it
would remove "deployment powers" from local ANC structures, and
centralize them nationally.

Ironically, as Malema was firing the Lekwa mayor, an independent
ranking of local authorities placed the municipal district in which
the Lekwa council is situated, in fourth position -- a very good
ranking -- on the service delivery improvement index of local
government throughout South Africa.

Irrespective of whether the Lekwa mayor and the mayoral committee were
doing their jobs properly, or whether their removal from office was
justified, the implication of their firing is clear. As the ANC's
faction fights intensify, they will increasingly manifest themselves
as "service delivery protests" with the aim of repeating the Lekwa
precedent. It is not far-fetched to imagine Julius
Malema and his cohorts controlling a centralized "deployment"
committee, determining which ANC cadres will control every
municipality. Any mayor or municipal manager that acts independently,
or that differs from the ANC's Malema faction, can expect to face
"service delivery protests" resulting in redeployment.

This is the inevitable result of the cadre deployment policy.
Centralising cadre deployment will make things worse, not better. It
is time to abandon cadre deployment completely and appoint or elect
people to positions on the basis of their capacity to do the job, not
as a return for political favours. It is time to restore and respect
the distinction between the party and the state.

The greatest irony of the week was that this point was stressed by
none other than Mr Joel Netshitenzhe, as he announced his resignation
from the President's office. It was Joel Netshitenzhe, as the ANC's
chief policy guru, who first articulated and promoted the cadre
deployment policy in 1997. Writing in the ANC mouthpiece Umrabulo, he
said "transformation" meant "extending the power of the
'National Liberation Movement' over all levers of power: the army, the
police, the bureaucracy, intelligent structures, the judiciary,
parastatals, and agencies such as regulatory bodies, the public
broadcaster, the central bank and so on."

He approved of this approach while the Mbeki faction was in power and
controlled cadre deployment. When this faction lost power, Mr
Netshitenzhe changed his mind. When people who abuse their power lose
their power, and become victims of power abuse themselves, they become
instant converts to the cause of preventing the abuse of power. The
wheel has turned and the man who was the architect of
the policy to fuse party and state, argues for their separation as an
essential element of democracy. Every convert is a victory in this
battle. But there is still a long fight ahead.

State of Local Government Overview Report

Fortnightly bulletin for rates and tax payers.

For summaries of all news, please go to the NTU/NBU website www.ntu-sa.net
<http://www.ntu-sa.net/>

Please pass this on to all interested and affected parties.

Number 24

October 23, 2009

Our news this week is all about the Government Report on the state of local
municipalities.

There are no surprises: the report reveals issues that have been agitating
ratepayers for years. However, this report has now brought all these issues
into the open, and ratepayer associations can now begin to pressure
municipalities to bring in change. This document would be a very important
resource for ratepayers to identify problems within their municipal
districts.

There are two very important aspects to this report:

1. The report makes mention of the fact that municipalities have been
allocated a one-size-fits-all responsibility, which not all municipalities
are able to fulfil because of factors such as their tax-base, geographical
locations, etc. (Large metros with businesses and industries fare better
than small towns with high unemployment, for instance). The report also
mentions the need for better communication between the three tiers of
government. However, you as a ratepayer should not allow your municipality
to use this as an excuse for non-delivery. Local government is going to try
everything in their power to shift the blame onto someone or something else
(it is a human response) - if they try to do this, you must point out the
second item:

2. Through-out the report, in every section and under every heading,
the point is made again and again and again that service delivery has been
compromised by political deployment, infighting, corruption, nepotism, party
loyalty and incompetence. This has been underplayed by almost everybody in
government connected with the report. However, you must not let them get
away with it - these issues have now been publicly stated and the time is
right for ratepayers to demand that something is done about it. Highlight
these issues in your own municipality and demand action.

Here are some more elements of interest out of the report:

The report ranked municipalities on various delivery mandates, such as
services, water quality, maintenance, financial controls, fiscal discipline,
debt recovery, community involvement, etc.

The worst-performing province is KZN, followed by Eastern Cape and Limpopo.
The best-performing provinces are Western Cape and Gauteng. The worst of
all the municipal districts is Mbashe in the Eastern Cape, followed by
Msinga in KZN. It was difficult to identify the best-performing
municipalities, as the top few all excelled in different areas. However,
78% of the highest-performing municipalities are in the Western Cape.

75% of municipalities cannot function without government grants. Many
municipalities have so few skills that only a fraction of the municipal jobs
are filled, and there are several municipalities that have created
extra-numery jobs with no relation to service-delivery (clearly in order to
create jobs-for-pals). In one extraordinary case, the tea lady was given
the job of Municipal Finance Manager. Another huge problem was the lack of
communication between officials in municipalities and communities.

Of the six Metros, Cape Town was the best-performing in terms of service
delivery, while Ethekwini was the worst.

I cannot post the whole report, as it is a huge document, but if anyone
wants a copy, please mail me with 'Government Report' in the subject line
and I will send it to you.

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" SUPPORT THE ANTI-TERRORIST!! JOIN THE NEW WORLD ORDER RESISTANCE."

YES "YOU" ARE THE RESISTANCE AGAINST "THEIR" NEW WORLD ORDER.

YOUR LIFE AND HEALTH,AS WELL AS MOST BASIC RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS MAY BE
IN SERIOUS DANGER,NOT NECESSARILY FROM THE H1N1 VIRUS,BUT RATHER FROM
THE THREAT OF FORCED VACCINATIONS WITH INSUFFICIENTLY TESTED AND
UNPROVEN TOXIC VACCINES,AS MANDATED BY THE NWO'S WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION AND SOME UNSCRUPULOUS VACCINE MAKERS WHO ARE MOTIVATED BY
MAJOR PROFITS AND WHO MAY BE UNBURDENED FROM ANY POTENTIAL LEGAL
LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES THEY MAY CAUSE.
IF YOU BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND THE RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS TO
SAY NO TO ASSAULT ON THEIR PERSONS, WITH UNWANTED VACCINES, PLEASE DO
YOUR PART! DO NOT ASSUME THAT SOMEONE ELSE WILL DO THIS FOR YOU, NOR
THINK THAT THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO. NOW PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!

PLEASE DO ALL YOU CAN TO PROTECT YOURSELF and YOUR LOVED ONES by:
1. informing yourself and others about ALL these issues we all face,
from all sides, from all available sources,
2. protecting your own health through good nutrition, living habits,
hygiene, and by using common sense,
3. stocking up on essentials for possible periods of self-quarantine
(voluntary or mandatory),
4. protesting publicly by signing related petitions, writing letters,
making phone calls to government members,
and / or filing civil court injunctions, etc and resisting all
attempts or suggestions of forced vaccination,
5. by taking it upon yourself to organize meetings locally, in your
town, and your neighborhood to
discuss and to educate your fellow citizens about your concerns with
H1N1 and Vaccine issues.
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YES "YOU" ARE THE RESISTANCE AGAINST "THEIR" NEW WORLD ORDER.

We ask that you all swear an oath to defend we the people and
everything our four fathers died and fought for.

Gen. George Washington, to his troops before the battle of Long Island
- "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether
we people are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any
property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are
to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of
Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them.
The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage
and Conduct of this army" -- Gen. George Washington, to his troops
before the battle of Long Island

Such a time is near at hand again. The fate of unborn millions &
millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of
this Resistance Army.

" A wise person knows good self defense and good home defense is very
important to protect everything important." Good Self Defense = Mixed
Martial Arts, etc.... Good Home defense = Guard Dogs, Alarm systems
that release Dogs and other things ;), and when all else fails
AR-15's, AR- 10's, etc......

NOTE : To all Oath Keepers currently serving military, reserves,
National Guard, peace officers, fire-fighters, and veterans who swore
an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies,
foreign and domestic … and meant it.

won't "just follow orders."

Below is our declaration of orders we will NOT obey because we will
consider them unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral
violations of the natural rights of the people. Such orders would be
acts of war against the American people by their own government, and
thus acts of treason. We will not make war against our own people. We
will not commit treason. We will defend the Republic.
Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey

Oath Keepers : Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey
http://www.facebook.com/l/f5e2d;oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/

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"Canadians" I want you to check into a very dangerous bill called :
Bill C-6, because if it passes Canadians and their Freedoms and Rights
are in major trouble. Harper is a puppet to the "Bilderberg Group"
(NWO Elites). If you use google and investigate you will see that
Harper was photographed at a secret Bilderberg Group meeting in 2003
before he was put into power. Just so you Canadians know, Harper also
owns into some pharmaceutical companies. That is why these fascist
bills like Bill C-6 are trying to slide through. Think about it!
Notice how they get NO MAJOR MEDIAS REPORTING ON THESE BILLS. Look
into who owns most of all the medias and news papers in Canada and
America. Mostly all Jewish people. You think that is a coincidence?
NOT A CHANCE.

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They just disabled 3 more New World Order Resistance Groups and
Cancer truth groups that had thousands and thousands of members. JIDF
( Jewish Internet Defense Force ) was also involved in hacking,
hijacking and then disabling all groups. They do not want the truth to
get out you guys. Why do you honestly think there is a Jewish Internet
Defense Force? Think about it! Please Boycott Zionist products and
corporations. It is time we stop giving them our money to fund them
and their agendas. It is up to you all to do your part more now than
ever. It is the truth that is going to help us, so please step it up.
We need you all.

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I'm still amazed that even to this day, people refuse to believe that
a New World Order agenda exists. The Key players in the G20 and the G8
as well as other private interests are leading us down this path and
make it no secret. Why still the debate then? Why do people who try to
warn others of this agenda still get called conspiracy theorists or
nut jobs?
The time for debating whether this agenda exists or not is now over.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15794609634#/video/video.php?v=1125492057009&ref=mf

Head of FBI J. Edgar Hoover quotes:
We must now face the harsh truth. The individual is handicapped by
coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe
it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of
the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

The Illuminati consist of the Jesuits and some of the world's richest
families including the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Warburgs and the
Windsors. While they pay lip service to religion, they worship
Lucifer. Their agents control the world's media, education, business
and politics. These agents may think they are only pursuing success,
but success literally means serving the devil. Prisoners of their
wealth, the Illuminati prefer hatred and destruction to Love.
Understandably, they can't go public with this. They pretend to be
moral while working behind the scenes to degrade and enslave humanity
in a "new world order." Hiroshima, Dresden, Auschwitz, Cambodia and
Rwanda were sacrifices to their god Lucifer. They are responsible for
the two World Wars, the Depression and the Cold War. Sept. 11, 7/7,
the War on Terror and the Iraq War are their latest achievements. The
Illuminati Conspiracy Against God by HENRY MAKOW PhD

Below is another NWO Resistance Group under construction that needs
more members and support

The New World Order Resistance Movement. Join The Movement"We Need You All"
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1256647404&gv=12#/group.php?gid=17999704846&v=wall

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Thank you for everything

Love you all

NWO Resistance
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DA@WORK 19 October - DA reveals how huge Eskom hike could have been avoided

Sejamothopo Motau, DA Shadow Minister of Energy last week vocalised the
publics' concern and justifiable outrage at the prospect of a threefold
increase in electricity costs over the next three years.
"It is unacceptable for Eskom and government to expect the costs of their
failures to be covered by ordinary South Africans. In an economic
environment which has placed the public under immense financial pressure,
these increases are simply not affordable," said Motau

Motau then outlined a practical solution to Eskom's problems: to allow for
independent power producers (IPPs) to contribute to electricity
generation.
He added that this solution had been blindingly obvious to government for
some time
Motau described how Eskom alone did not have sufficient capacity to meet
all power requirements and that the IPPs were the only long term option
that would provide sustainable and affordable electricity production
"If IPPs were allowed into South Africa, there would be no threat of load
shedding or a trebling of electricity prices – greater competition in
electricity production and distribution would lead to lower prices for the
consumer," said Motau

Motau then revealed how despite the obvious advantages of allowing private
firms to supply electricity, the ANC government had done everything in its
power to exclude these suppliers.
He added that problems with the awarding of tenders, approval of licenses
as well as a lack of a coordinated energy policy had all conspired to
create the current situation.

"It is ultimately the taxpayer, and the consumer of electricity, who is
paying for this lax attitude towards such a crucial policy area. It is
infuriating to realise that the enormous costs for the public emanating
from the proposed 45% electricity tariff increase could have been avoided
if IPPs were allowed." Motau added

The DA will be posing questions as to why this has not happened already,
and will request a fast track plan for the introduction of IPPs into the
power grid.
Read more http://www.da.org.za/newsroom.htm?action=view-news-item&id=7412

Ratepayers Newsletter - October 17th

Fortnightly bulletin for rates and tax payers.
For summaries of all news, please go to the NTU/NBU website www.ntu-sa.net
Please pass this on to all interested and affected parties.
Number 23
October 17, 2009

It's all bad news, I'm afraid.

The number of riots and violent protests over bad service delivery and
collapsed municipalities is growing: Sakhile township in Mpumalanga
is calm, but protests are erupting in Sabie, Belfast, Nelspruit,
Alberton and Diepsloot in Johannesburg. In Tshwane townships, the
problem is that the council cannot apply credit controls because
whenever they attempt to recoup outstanding service charges their
officials are attacked.

Power-struggles within municipalities have crippled the functioning of
the councils of the Orange River district, almost all the towns in the
North-West where infighting and rampant corruption in local councils
have led to the collapse of almost the entire province; and Qwa-Qwa.

A lack of capacity means that 15 out of 61 councils in KZN are
unsustainable and will shortly collapse. The Auditor –General has
also revealed that out of the 283 municipalities country-wide, only 3
have their finances in order. The MEC for Local Government in
Mpumalanga has revealed that all the municipalities in the province
are on the brink of collapse.

There is a growing crisis over the quality of water. 24
municipalities are pumping sewage directly into their local streams.
32 municipalities have been warned about the collapse of their sewage
systems by the national department.

And then of course there are the implications of the electricity
tariff increases. Have a look at the website to see what your
municipality is entitled to charge.

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"Free Clive Derby-Lewis"

I should have been released one year ago today, but certain
politicians have succeeded in keeping me locked up in prison
unlawfully.

Justice is not available to those in South Africa who are deemed to be
"from the wrong political order". Notwithstanding the price I have
paid in prison time for being convicted of killing Chris Hani, I have
been "left to rot in jail" by individual ANC politicians and some
bureaucrats, who have taken it upon themselves to effectively block my
parole by political means.

People from across the entire political spectrum, from far left to far
right including scores of black and white prisoners, tell me that
"everyone knows" I am being kept in prison regardless of the merits of
my parole recommendation and that if I had been anyone else there
would have been justice for me.

This parole was recommended by the parole board who recommended that I
be released on 15 October 2008. Now, one year later, I am still in
prison with little hope of being treated fairly.

Clive Derby-Lewis, 15 October 2009
Prison Number: 93623417
Pretoria Central Prison
Potgieter Street
0001, PRETORIA
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SA Today: Cosatu wants to abolish property rights. The DA wants t o abolish poverty

SOUTH AFRICA TODAY
A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER BY THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE, HELEN ZILLE
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2009

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Cosatu wants to abolish property rights. The DA wants to abolish poverty

How would you respond if you learnt that the South African Government
had been infiltrated by an organisation that had never been elected,
and whose aims were to eliminate private property, nationalise the
mines and food, and abolish parliament? What if you learnt that this
group had inserted ministers in government to drive policy objectives
that have brought disaster everywhere in the world
where they have been implemented?

In South Africa there are two such groups -- the South African
Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions
(COSATU). This week's SA Today focuses on Cosatu following its recent
Congress.

The DA unequivocally supports the rights of workers to form trade
unions to protect and promote their interests. Cosatu does not
confine itself to this role. Having received no votes from the South
Africa public, it is seeking to take over an elected party from
within, and to dictate policy in the highest councils of the state.

It is interesting to compare media coverage of Cosatu's 10th National
Congress last month with what actually happened. The newspapers and
TV covered the standing ovation for President Zuma, the calls to do
away with inflation targeting and the personal attacks on Trevor
Manuel.

What they did not cover were the actual resolutions passed at the
congress. These make chilling reading. They are freely available on
the Cosatu website.

In its "Draft Workers Manifesto Framework for a Socialist South
Africa", Cosatu says that "As part of the revolutionary proletarian
movement, Cosatu must develop its own guide to the struggle for a
socialist revolution". The revolutionary programme must have "A
Marxist dialectical and historical materialist approach".

The most dangerous element of Cosatu's rhetoric is the myth that its
policies will benefit the poor. Quite the contrary. The history of
the last century has demonstrated that this path inevitably leads to
the dead-end of dictatorship and impoverishment.

The lessons of history have escaped Cosatu whose "Long Term
Revolutionary Demands" include:

· Abolish bourgeois private property.

· Nationalise, socialise and democratise all key strategic means of
production in South Africa such as land, water, minerals, mines,
banks, oil companies, shipyards, telecommunications, transport, food,
housing, etc, etc, etc

· Abolish the bourgeoisie executive, parliamentary and justice system,
and replace them with working class state structures.

Presumably, these "working class state structures" will resemble those
set up by Comrade Lenin in Russia in 1917 and carried on so
enthusiastically by his faithful acolyte, Comrade Stalin. In North
Korea such working class structures are now headed by Comrade Kim
Jong-il (known in revolutionary circles as "The Dear Leader").

The policies promoted by Cosatu have always and everywhere been
disastrous. Always and everywhere, they have bought brutal, crushing
poverty to the people and exclusive power and privilege to a small
ruling elite. Always and everywhere, people have tried to move away
from communist countries: from East to West Germany, from North to
South Korea, from Cuba to the USA, from Communist China to
Hong Kong - there are no exceptions.

Cosatu particularly admires "the Cuban Revolution". In 1959, despite
the fact that reforms were urgently needed under the deeply corrupt
President Batista, Cuba was one of the richest, most developed
economies in Latin America. People wanted to come to Cuba. Castro's
revolution progressively wrecked the economy and impoverished Cuba.
The average wage is now $20 (R150) per month, although
Castro himself is ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the world's
richest men. Free trade unions are banned, only one party is allowed,
homosexuals have been persecuted, people with AIDS are reportedly
interred, and human rights have been crushed. People want to leave
Cuba: hundreds of thousands have fled; thousands have died while
trying to flee. Fidel Castro, after more than three decades
as dictator, has handed power over to his own brother. Such is the
model that Cosatu wants us to emulate.

The media gives the impression that the battle lines within the ANC
coalition are drawn on matters of personality and detail between
Trevor Manuel, head of the National Planning Commission, and Blade
Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and head of the Communist
Party. (Incidentally, the one thing these two agree on completely is
the need to drive million Rand BMW motorcars at the tax-payers'
expense.)

This obscures the real battle within the ruling alliance, which is
over economic policy. The ANC's Polokwane Conference in 2007, where
Jacob Zuma replaced Thabo Mbeki as leader of the party, did nothing to
resolve the internal conflict. Cosatu was instrumental in Zuma's
coming to power, and now demand their pound of flesh. They seek to
present the economic debate as a simplistic contestation
between the "markets" and the "state".

This characterisation is obsolete and wrong. Successful market
oriented economies have strong and competent states. The real debate,
in every policy sphere, is about the specific role of the state and
the appropriate role of the market. In South Africa, the role of the
state should be to support people accessing the market economy, rather
than creating barriers to entry. All policies -- from
education to transport -- must be designed to open opportunity. Yet
Cosatu wants to shut down the market economy and prevent access to it.

When it pretends to be "pro-poor", the reality is that its policies
are pro-poverty. South Africa is now in the precarious position of
having 5 million personal registered tax-payers and 13 million people
dependent on social grants. This trajectory is unsustainable.

There are many leading figures in the ANC who understand this. The
growing tension between them and the "entry-ists" from Cosatu and the
SACP will escalate. This will, in all likelihood, culminate in
another split -- this time over economic policy -- within the next
five years. Indeed the period between now and the next general
election in 2014 will be fraught with risk for our developing
democracy. The greatest danger is that demagogues will increasingly
win the battle for control of the ANC, using race and populist
promises to mobilise support. Their cause will be driven by the
tragic fact that South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in
the world.

We urgently need a serious debate on the factors that make it so
difficult to reduce these inequalities. This is a complex debate, but
if we do not engage it, we leave the field wide open to the populists
who seek to enforce equality by destroying the economy, and thereby
ruining prospects of development.

We also need reliable research into the factors that continue to
increase inequalities. The populists claim that it is the result of
the "market". It is far more probable that the state has become the
primary driver of inequality in South Africa today. The extent to
which the ANC and its allies abuse the state for the accumulation of
wealth by a small elite with strong political connections
has increased, rather than reduced inequalities in our country.

Instead of removing the barriers to entry into the economy, the ANC
government built barriers, ironically in the name of "transformation".
This is a code word to justify the manipulation of tenders and
contracts in favour of the well-connected few.

The newspapers are regularly filled with reports of deals such as
those that enabled Gijima AST (with key links to the Zuma inner
circle) reportedly to turn over R3bn last year, 44% of which was
business with government. Sandile Zungu, another key Zuma associate,
recently received an outrageous R60m plus settlement from Transnet on
a case that he was considered unlikely to win. Procurement in
parastatals like the SABC is under investigation for crony deals, as
is SAA and as should be Eskom and Thubelisha. They all involve some
allegation of privileged relationships with service providers and/or a
political connection. It is routine for politicians and civil
servants to start their own companies to which they award tenders.

As the ANC's favoured inner circle gets smaller and smaller (and
richer and richer), inequality grows exponentially, especially as
educational outcomes decline and employment escalates during a
recession. But by blaming "apartheid" or "whites" or the "market",
the ANC and its allies in Cosatu can shift the blame and hide the
truth.

Odendalsrus protest march

Media release

Early in March two women were tortured and murdered in the most
inhuman way thinkable. Mrs. Allice Lotter (78) and her daughter Helen
(57) of Allanridge in the Free State (South-Africa) were attacked with
knives and pieces of glass. After the three terrorists cut the elderly
women with their knives, broken glass was forced into their private
parts. A friend of the family said that one of the women's breasts
were cut off, and anti-white slogans were "painted" (with the breasts)
on the walls. These barbarous methods were also used in the late
1950's in the Belgian Congo.

This barbarous attack led to the K.OB (Committee of Public Relations
of the Boerevolk) initiating a protest march in front of the court
where the bail application of the attackers would be heard.

A simulation of this barbarous attack was staged and a dummy of a
murderer was set alight in front of hundreds of people. A poster with
the words "burn in hell" was placed on the dummy.

The reality that there are only about 2 million white people left in
South Africa, is slowly sinking in. Of the more than 100 000 white tax
paying Boer farmers that fed the country before 1994, there are now
only 13 500 left !

White Genocide in South Africa is a reality.

The K.O.B. of the Boervolk as well as the BVS will continue to stage
such protest actions against Boer genocide.

A copy of the Boerevolk's "Majuba declaration" was also delivered to
mr. Ban Ki-moon of the UN.

Edwin Leemans
Chairman of K.O.B (Committee of Public Relations) of the BVS

'White dogs will be killed'

08/01/2009 08:42 - (SA)

Tom de Wet

Welkom - An elderly farmer was allegedly called a "white dog" by
police officers, and told that "all white dogs in South Africa will be
killed".

For several weeks now, Volksblad has reported complaints from the
community about poor service delivery and alleged brutality by the
police in Odendaalsrus.

Apparently they even stood watching while a woman was cruelly
assaulted by the father of her child, despite her having a domestic
violence interdict against him.

Rudi van Vuuren has visited the new station commissioner, Senior
Superintendent MB Mbongo, to discuss what happened to his father, Gert
van Vuuren, 68, on his farm on Saturday. Gert was the head of the
Odendaalsrus police reservists for many years.

He was advised to file a complaint against the police officers involved.

Called a racist

Rudy said three police officers arrived on the farm Hilton in a police
vehicle at about 14:00 on Saturday. They told his father they were
there to bring the R100 which a former farm labourer owed him.

One of them asked why Gert would take money from a poor man, whereupon
he answered that the man owed him the money.

One of the constables then allegedly called Gert a racist and also
cursed his mother.

Gert told them to leave the farm immediately, whereupon they allegedly
pulled out their guns and called him a white dog. They then left.

When they returned later on, Rudy's mother telephoned her son.

Upon his arrival on the farm, the policeman once again cursed his
parents and his sister.

They tried to leave when he arrived, but he blocked the road with his
vehicle and took a pen and paper to get their names.

They apparently refused to identify themselves at first, but after he
told them that he used to be a major in the commandos and that he knew
his rights and the law, one of the policemen identified himself. The
driver of the vehicle, who was doing the cursing, also identified
himself.

Reinforcements

Rudy said he then tried unsuccessfully to call the police station in
town and 10111 in order to file a complaint against the policemen and
get them off the farm.

While he was on the phone, one of the policemen allegedly told Rudy he
could call Welkom, Bloemfontein and Pretoria; but no one would or
could touch him.

After Rudy had moved his vehicle and ordered the policemen to leave
the farm, they refused to do so and said they were waiting for
reinforcements.

The reinforcements then arrived, in no less than eight police vehicles.

When Rudy questioned this, he was told they had been called out to the farm.

Apparently they were told that a farm worker was being assaulted by
the farmers on the farm and that the policemen who had wanted to help
the man had been attacked, cursed, threatened at gunpoint and that the
dogs had been set loose on them.

Rudy said he would like to know, among other things, why charges of
defeating the ends of justice and crimen injuria were now being
investigated against him and his father.

He would also like to know what the police had to do with private
matters such as the return of R100 and, to top it all, how they could
use a police vehicle to do so while they were on duty.

Complaint

Provincial police spokesperson Superintendent Sam Makhele said people
should first take their complaints to the station commissioner,
whereupon the matter would be handled through the right channels.

Police management understood the gravity of the allegations, but a
complaint should be filed against those police officers who commit
offences so that the offences could be investigated, he said.

- Volksblad

Source:News24

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2450016,00.html