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Benjamin Bice

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Post by Benjamin Bice » Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:05 pm

Help the Boers: Send Delegate to Hungary UPDATE

JANUARY 21, 2016 BY TNO STAFF— IN AFRICA

The Nova Europa Project, dedicated to securing a European homeland, has launched an urgent appeal to raise $700 (equivalent to £500, or €652) in order to fly a delegate from the Boer farmer organization, TAU, in South Africa, to Hungary to investigate the possibility of moving Boer farmers to that European country en masse.

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An article on the Project Nova Europa website details the background to their appeal, noting that for the first time, local governments in Hungary had formally expressed their desire to resettle Boer farmers in large numbers on already vacant farms in order to repopulate entire regions.

The article continues:

Being a Boer farmer is the most dangerous occupation in the world. There were 250 violent farm attacks in South Africa during 2015, in which 60 farmers were murdered.

For the period 1994 to 2014, the average farmer murder rate was 62 per year.

Expressed as a percentage of the actual number of farmers (30,000), this works out to a mathematically expressed murder rate of 133 per 100,000 people.

Compare this to the national murder rate for all of America, which is 9.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Even El Salvador, the most violent country on earth, has a murder rate of 65 per 100,000 inhabitants!

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The farmer murder rate in South Africa qualifies as genocide by any measure—and they need our help.

The oldest commercial farmers’ union in South Africa, founded in 1897, is called TAU South Africa.

In November 2015, that organization’s Assistant General Manager, Henk van de Graaf, made a formal submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council Forum on Minority Issues, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2015.

That submission pointed out that the murder rate of Boer farmers is “a form of terrorism, as is being experienced in France and other parts of the world.”

“At the same time a process of land reform is initiated by our government which leads to farmers being displaced from their land and territories.

“Historically ungrounded accusations are made by governmental officials and members of the majority in the country that the Afrikaner farmers have stolen their land.

“Together with a president who sings a song: ‘Bring me my machine gun,’ a climate for violence and atrocity crimes is created, with the judicial system not attending to it as would have been expected,” the submission continued.

Mr Van de Graaf went on to point out that the main problem in South Africa was the “inability of the South African Police Services to properly investigate crimes, and in particular farm murders,” which means that they are not even capable of preventing such attacks from taking place.

There is, Mr Van de Graaf added, a “singular unwillingness to bring the perpetrators to book.” This results in only a “small percentage of perpetrators” being caught and effectively prosecuted.

“Afrikaners are not promoted in the law enforcement bodies, as a result of stringent black economic empowerment principles applied in South Africa pertaining to jobs and posts in the government. This applies in particular to the police.

“Criminal complaints by farmers and Afrikaners are not pursued with the same rigour and diligence applied to other complainants.

“Crimes against the farming community have essentially been ignored by the South African government and the SAPS. The government clearly has no political will to attend to its responsibilities in this regard and it wilfully neglects the rights of minorities in this regard.”

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This then is the situation as it exists today. Boer farmers are being murdered out wholesale in a genocidal wave of bloodlust, which can only end with their complete extinction.

Farmers have been offered relocation opportunities elsewhere in Africa, but that has literally meant jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Now however, a real and tangible opportunity has opened up—and you can play a role in helping to make the first step a reality.

In rural Hungary—a staunchly pro-European nation—many local authorities have pressing depopulation problems, and have literally thousands of now uninhabited farms. They desperately want to repopulate these farmsteads—and many of these towns have now formally expressed an interest in offering them to Boer farmers.

This would be a perfect solution: it would help the Boers escape certain extinction, and it would boost an already staunchly pro-European nation like Hungary.

The TAU-South Africa wants to send a one-man delegation to Hungary in February 2016. The purpose of this mission will be to accurately scope out the opportunities on offer, and investigate the legal formalities which will be involved in such a project.

Due to the staggering incompetence of the current ANC government in South Africa, that country’s currency continues to devaluate, Zimbabwe style, day-by-day. The TAU-South Africa needs help to send its delegate to Hungary—Can you help?

We urgently need just £500 to cover the airfare. Our friends in Hungary will take care of the rest.

Please help us to help the Boers of South Africa now! This could be one of the greatest inter-European co-operation and survival efforts yet seen, and can be historical in its impact!

Make your contribution by using the donate button below. Thank you in advance.

The New Observer has started the ball rolling with a $50 donation. Are there other concerned individuals who want to make a small contribution to a potentially life-saving gesture of inter-European solidarity? Now is your chance
UPDATE FROM THE PROJECT NOVA EUROPA WEBSITE:

THANK YOU!

We are happy to announce that due to an overwhelming response, more than the target amount has been achieved. We are therefore no longer taking donations.

In fact, so much has been collected that we have now covered the cost of the flight, the insurance, the car rental, and all other expenses as well, which were going to have to be borne by our Hungarian hosts.

We would like to thank all of you who have donated to this worthwhile cause.

A full update and report with photographs will follow. Thank you once again! The incredible response has demonstrated two things:

There is great sympathy for the Boer cause all over the world.

There is massive support for the idea of creating a European homeland.

Something big is brewing here, something history-changing.

Thank you for being part of it!

http://newobserveronline.com/help-the-b ... o-hungary/

John Calhoun

Re: News From Southern Africa

Post by John Calhoun » Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:52 pm

This is good news!

Benjamin Bice

Re: News From Southern Africa

Post by Benjamin Bice » Sun Jan 31, 2016 3:18 am

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Man dies protecting wife from robbers

NEWS/CRIME-COURTS /
26 January 2016 at 16:31pm
Durban - The sound of bricks crashing through a window shattered the peace of the quiet Westville cul-de-sac, Gardenia Place, early on Tuesday morning.

What unfolded in the next few minutes would change the lives of yet another Durban family forever.

By the time Gordon Donaldson, 55, was out of bed, a gang of robbers was already inside. In a desperate bid to protect his wife, Debbie, 54, he single-handedly took them on.

He was killed in the bloody battle that ensued and the men escaped with nothing of value.

Upon hearing what had happened, Donaldson’s son, Cameron, raced to the house from Mandeni, on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast.

Tired and dazed, Cameron said his mother had been woken by dogs barking just before 2am.

“She woke my dad and, as they were getting out of bed, the robbers threw a brick through the window.”

Police sources said two bricks were thrown.

“There was a panic button in the bedroom but my dad told my mom to push one in a different room because he was trying to protect her,” Cameron said.

Debbie apparently ran to the kitchen.

Meanwhile, Donaldson grabbed a knobkierie and a tussle ensued.

Debbie heard him screaming and rushed to his side.

But by the time she got to him, he was dead. He had been stabbed three times and shot in the stomach.

His attackers fled up the driveway.

They were aged between about 18 and 21 and might have been wearing white shoes, Cameron said.

Debbie looked to be in a state of shock as she paced the halls of the home she and Donaldson had only just moved into, in November.

Bloodstains and shards of glass covered the floors.

The knobkierie Donaldson had armed himself with had been broken in half.

The family said she was struggling and that Donaldson, a national manager for a transport company, had been “her everything”.

Other relatives, including Donaldson’s brother, had come from Mooi River to be with her.

South African Community Action Network spokesman, Andreas Mathios, was at the scene.

He said the attack could have been the work of a gang operating in the area.

“They have the same modus operandi. There are about four to five men and they throw bricks through the windows,” he said.

Police spokesman, Major Thulani Zwane, said a case of murder and house robbery has been opened at Westville police station.

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http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/ ... rs-1976055

Benjamin Bice

Re: News From Southern Africa

Post by Benjamin Bice » Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:11 am

Club-goer’s hand hacked off

BY CONNER DOYLE · JANUARY 31, 2016

A panga-wielding assailant attacked a Claremont teenager as he was walking from a nightclub to his nearby flat, hacking off his hand and splitting his head, sparking fears that young patrons leaving establishments along the popular party strip are being targeted.

Zander Vermeulen, 19, managed to run to get help while holding his severed left hand, attached by a thread of skin, with his right hand.

The teenager was attacked while walking home alone at 3am last Friday, apparently by motorists pretending to ask for directions to a nearby ATM.

They pulled up alongside him in their car in Bowwood Road, then attacked him, according to his flatmate.

Tayler Sani, who shares a flat with

Vermeulen, raised the alarm via Facebook this week.

“While walking away from the car, one man exited the vehicle carrying a panga machete (sic) and began to chase Zander.

“While running away, Zander was struck on the back of his head with the panga and tripped,” she said.

“Trying to protect himself, he raised his arm up and his hand was subsequently severed. He ran, holding his hand, back down Bowwood Road, and the attackers fled.”

Vermeulen’s hand was reattached hours later on Friday and Sani said he was doing well.

Attempts to contact Vermeulen’s father, Chris, of Somerset West, proved unsuccessful.

The incident was a third vicious attack to be reported in seven months involving patrons apparently being followed after leaving clubs in Claremont. Carl Schoombie, 27, was dragged from an Uber taxi in neighbouring Rondebosch and beaten in November after leaving Tiger Tiger.

He died in hospital days later.

This week Schoombie’s brother Lee told Weekend Argus he was shocked another clubgoer had been attacked after leaving a Claremont establishment.

“People know there are late-nighters walking home from the clubs and they target them. Every month there are muggings.”

He called for security in the vicinity of Claremont’s clubs to be jacked up.

Months before Schoombie was attacked, in July, Sanet de Lange, 18, reported being attacked while walking after leaving Tiger Tiger.

The case was finalised with no one being prosecuted.

Sani’s Facebook page said Vermeulen was attacked as he was walking home from a club in Claremont. “Before seeing Zander, his attackers were headed to Main Road by Tiger Tiger and Tin Roof, where many were still out.” She wrote that Vermeulen, bleeding profusely and shouting for help, managed to reach their flat after the attack.

“A friend, Blake Greenwood, and I were able to get Zander to the hospital in time. He had lost a lot of blood and he is truly very lucky to be alive,” Sani said.

“The doctors have reattached Zander’s hand and have placed 16 staples in his head.”

She urged anyone with information about the attack, which she suggested may have been a gang initiation, to report it to police.

“If we don’t, then many will continue to take that seemingly harmless five-minute walk home, or the trip just down the road from the clubs to the McDonalds and in reality it could cost them their life.

“It almost cost Zander his.”

Sani’s post was shared thousands of times and caused a major outcry. One mother replied to the Facebook post saying that her son was attacked outside a club in Claremont that same night.

He had been attacked from behind by four men.

Police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut confirmed the attack on Vermeulen.

He said the teen had been walking on the corner of Bowwood and Foyle roads when a car pulled up. The occupants asked him for directions to the nearest ATM.

Vermeulen gave them directions and continued walking.

“It is then alleged that one of the occupants alighted from the vehicle, armed with a panga and walked towards the victim and for no reason hit him on the back of his head with the panga,” Traut said.

He confirmed the attacker also struck Vermeulen’s hand.

No arrests had been made.

Abdul Kerbelker, head of the Claremont Central Improvement District Company and the Claremont community police forum, said there was a CCTV camera network in the central business district. “(The attacks) happen as people leave the CBD.”

He said it was possible the attackers knew about the cameras and were, therefore targeting victims in streets where there were no cameras.

Kerbelker met police on Tuesday to discuss the situation.

“Police have identified an issue on Main Road… I asked them to come up with a plan of action around clubs.”

Kerbelker said a street alongside one of those in which Vermeulen had been attacked had resident-sponsored CCTV cameras.

Bowwood Road, where the attack occurred, does not have cameras.

Kerbelker said the attacks over the seven months, on Vermeulen, Schoombie and De Lange, did not appear to be linked.

“Each case comes with its own set of circumstances.”

Benjamin Bice

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Post by Benjamin Bice » Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:23 am

Criminal struck with his own axe
A man “looked death in the eye today” when he was attacked by a man wielding an axe at the Danie Taljaard Park.


January 29, 2016
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The 40-year-old man, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation, said his planned fishing trip could have been fatal.

The Brakpan resident arrived at the Danie Taljaard Park before noon to fish.

He made his way to the water’s edge and called a fellow fisherman closer, who was fishing from a canoe.

Before long, the man on the canoe warned him of a person standing behind him.

“He screamed to me: ‘watch out’, and fortunately I could turn and fend for myself,” he said, saying the incident did not rattle him.

“He swung the axe at me and chopped me twice – on the hand and arm.

“… I managed to get the axe from him and hit him with his own axe.”

The assailant ran away and the victim is not sure how badly he is injured, saying it happened very fast.

“If that guy (the fisherman on the canoe) did not warm me, he would have axed me from behind.”

He victim said he “looked death in the eye”.

The victim made his way to Snake Road and flagged down No Jack Vehicle Tracking to assist him.

He was later given four stitches in hospital.

The man is yet to open a case with police.

Benoni SAPS acting station commander Col Martin van Nieuwenhuizen is once again warning the public to stay away from the Danie Taljaard Park, which has seen numerous robberies in the last few years.

http://benonicitytimes.co.za/243352/cri ... s-own-axe/

Benjamin Bice

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Post by Benjamin Bice » Sat Feb 13, 2016 1:13 am

South African Students Protest Tuition by Vandalizing School with ‘F--- White People’

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | February 10, 2016 12:12pm ET

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As Americans are observing Black History Month, black students in South Africa are sending a message to their fellow countrymen: “F--- white people.”

Times LIVE reports students at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa protested the existence of white people by wearing shirts decrying white people and by spraying painting “f--- white people” across campus (explicit language warning):

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According to Wits’ 2014 demographic information, the school where students are announcing their hatred of white people is only 22.49 percent white, compared to 77.48 percent black. (“Black,” by the standards of Wits, appears to also include individuals who are at least part Africans, Chinese, “Coloureds,” and Indian.)

Despite the vandalism explicitly stating, “f--- white people,” the actions appear to be part of a larger “WitsFeesMustFall” protest in support of “#freeeducationnow.”

Somehow, white people are directly responsible for tuition prices.



WitsFeesMustFall has allegedly disputed the notion that their actions against white people count as racism, claiming that “to our understanding” it is not possible to be racist against white people:

“We will not be allowed to be accused of reverse racism because according to our understanding‚ there is no such no such thing as whites being victims of reverse racism. Reverse racism is as farce as the rainbow nation [sic.]

To be racist‚ you need to possess two traits‚ which are power and privilege. The privilege that was gained by over 500 years of slavery and subjugation of black people to colonialism & oppression. The privilege is in the form of a structural‚ institutional‚ & social advantage.”

In a statement on the incident, Wits said they “strongly condemn the offensive messages being propagated and we deeply regret the insult that it may cause to members of our community.”

The university states there is a “serious methodological and intellectual problem with [the] argument” that blacks cannot be racist.

Wits also attempted to shame the students for vandalism, claiming the clean-up costs will take money away from financial aid.

Wits is encouraging students to band together to fight racism against whites by saying the attacks on whites are “#NotInOurName.”

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/south-african ... 3abfe65333

Benjamin Bice

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Post by Benjamin Bice » Sat Feb 13, 2016 1:42 am

Suspects demand hard cash and big weapons from elderly woman

http://krugersdorpnews.co.za/288412/sus ... rly-woman/
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Benjamin Bice

Re: News From Southern Africa

Post by Benjamin Bice » Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:14 am

Bogus cops reign terror on Hartbeespoort road

Hijackers, pretending to be traffic cops or policemen, have hit twice on the Van der Hoff road the past week.

February 10, 2016


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Kobus Bester, owner of Best Care Ambulance Services

Kobus Bester, owner of an ambulance service was seriously injured when two men in a white Golf with blue lights, he presumed to be policemen or traffic officials, pulled him off the road near Byenes around 21:00 on Tuesday night.

According to Xander Loubser, spokesperson for Best Care Ambulance Services, Kobus was pulled over by the men and then asked for his drivers’ licence.

“When he took out the licence the men took out a knife and told him to get out of the car.

“Kobus tried to grab a tool to defend himself and the men grabbed him and pulled him out of his bakkie. Kobus fought back and the men stabbed him on the head, in the face and on his arm before kicking him,” Xander said.

“They grabbed his wallet but fled and left his vehicle when Kobus kept on fighting them off.”

Kobus sustained serious injuries and is still in the Eugene Marais hospital in Pretoria.

“This was the second time Kobus was involved in a hijacking incident. He was shot in the stomach by hijackers in 2008.”

On Friday presumably the same bogus traffic cops robbed a motorist and his passenger at gunpoint of their vehicle and other personal belongings on Van der Hoff road near Ten Rooms.

“The man and woman were driving from Rustenburg to Pretoria around 14:30 when they were stopped by a bogus traffic cop who asked for the driver’s licence,” said Hartbeespoort community policing forum spokesperson, Romano van der Spuy.

The couple were forced out of the vehicle, tied up in the bushes and robbed of their personal belongings before the robbers fled with their vehicle.

The Hartbeespoort police and the Hercules police are investigating the two cases.

http://kormorant.co.za/19528/bogus-cops ... oort-road/

Benjamin Bice

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Post by Benjamin Bice » Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:56 pm

White students flee residences as blacks attack

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Jonathan Jansen, middle, plays the 'gangsta'
POSTED BY: PRAAG FEBRUARY 24, 2016

White students from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein had to vacate their residences on Tuesday for fear of more black assaults.

Black rioters, mostly cleaners who demand full employment, attacked the white minority, and damaged the main building and residences in the chaos that erupted on campus as a result of vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen’s lack of leadership.

On Monday Jansen fled when the black rioters interrupted a rugby match. In a statement he blamed white students who tried to protect themselves from the ensuing violence.

Black youths later pulled down a statue of South Africa’s first republican president, CR Swart, and dumped it into a fountain.

The black SRC president of the university, Lindokuhle Ntuli, said they would continue their protest action until their demands were met.

He explained the attack on whites by saying they had no place in the institution and that something had to done about “racists”.

Ntuli pointed to the CR Swart statue as proof of racism and said protests would only be ended if cleaners were given permanent, full-time employment contracts. He could offer no other examples of racism.

The university announced the Bloemfontein campus will remain closed until further notice because the safety of students, staff and property could not be guaranteed.

Some 60 additional security guards were deployed on the campus to stop the ongoing vandalism.

Jansen said on Tuesday at a news conference that the violence was a setback for transformation. He expressed his disappointment that the black protestors’ “rights were trampled”.

According to the vice-chancellor, blacks have “rights” that enable them to attack whites and damage property.

At the Fischer residence blacks attacked white students on Monday and stormed the building again on Tuesday.

The police had to escort terrified white female students from the Madelief residence to safety when blacks stormed the place shouting that “all the white man’s children will be killed!”

The police were then pelted with stones and bottles and accused of protecting only white students.

http://praag.org/?p=21752

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