Another South African Story

Clear and Present Danger a story shared by a South African.

Tom (not his real name) was born and grew up in Rhodesia. Before 1980, he moved down to Umhlanga Rocks, in Natal as it was known then.

He sold properties and that is where he made his money.

2015, at last, he made enough money to buy a Toyota Land Cruiser and all the necessary equipment to go on a long awaited hunting trip to Limpopo.

He had long-range fuel tanks and he filled up at a Umhlanga Rocks for his long maiden trip to Thulani Game Reserve (not its real name) near the Limpopo River. His next stop would be Pietersburg.

He took three different calibre rifles to shoot game from Duiker to Buffalo.

He was taking his cell phone, laptop, a digital camera which he could send photos from Thulani Game Reserve to his wife, son and daughter, onto their computers.

As he was leaving the Umhlanga Rocks filling station, the attendant said to him, "Have a good trip to Petersburg. . ." He was shocked but dismissed the remark. He wanted to know how the attendant knew where he was going. He Did NOT tell the attendant where he was heading for. He had a long trip so he got onto the N2 to start his long trip to Pietersburg.

He drove through the night and at about 9 the next morning, keeping to the speed limit, he got to Pietersburg. He went to the filling station. As he was paying the attendant for the fuel, the attendant said to him. "Are you going to Thulani Game Reserve? Take the Cecil John Rhodes Drive (not its real name) turn right to get onto the Robert Mugabe Road (not its real name) and then turn right at the Tzaneen sign post and go East".  How did he know where he was going?

When he applied to go to Thulani Game Reserve, all his correspondence was through Post Net, and not using the Post Office.

The owner of Thulani Game Reserve insisted that when he gets to the entrance he MUST not tell the guard who he is. No names no pack drill. He must show the pass that the owner posted to him using Post Net. The pass did not have his name on it.

He arrived at Thulani Game Reserve gates at 3 in the afternoon. He was tied. He showed the pass and the guard opened the gates and as he drove off the guard said to Tom, "How was your trip from Umhlanga Rocks, Mr. Tom?"

Tom was shocked.

He arrived at the Thulani Game Reserve central office to register. The owner invited Tom to his home for the night and Tom would link up with the hunting team the next morning.

During the evening meal, Tom mentioned to his host what the gate guard said. The owner and his wife were shocked. They looked at each other and could not give an explanation to Tom. . .

Tom's cell phone had been hacked and everything he said was listened to, and even his exact position on his long trip was known. GPS of a cell phone was activated and he did not know it.

Those at the filling station and the gate guard had been warned that he was coming……………

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Chaka, the Zulu king, had Mzilikasi as one of his indunas. Mzilikasi did not declare his loot to Chaka, so Chaka wanted to kill him, so Mzilikasi decided to run away.

He went to Rhodesia and founded the Matabele, aka Ndebele.

Not sure exactly where Mzilikazi's original tribe came from, the ones who went with him to Rhodesia.

Between Greytown and Stanger during the 1980s was a lot of unrest and violence. The reason, that area is where all taxi routes in South Africa are controlled from. When a dispute develops/happens, even in the Western Cape, they then come to this area to settle the dispute.

Toyota, Japan, approached the many chiefs in this area to sell fleets of minibuses. The Chiefs got a commission when these vehicles were resold. The Chiefs did not, or never will, pay tax to SARS.

They got very rich.

Sbu Ndebele was a car cleaner at a filling station in the Durban area. He got involved with taxi wars and after 1994 he rose to be Minister of Transport and Roads. Not sure where he is now.

He controls all roads and taxis routes in South Africa. To ensure control, his organisations hack into cell phones of road users. Not all cell phones are monitored, just a few whom they deed that is necessary to watch!

Switch off mobile phones when going hunting game at game farms. And don't rely on them. Go hunting and enjoy no interference.