According to Zuma the Town Dubbed Zumaville Project is Moving Ahead

South African President Jacob Zuma has plans to develop a ZAR two billion city, dubbed Zumaville project. According to reports, two weeks ago, Zuma met with local businesses and discussed the concept of building a city. The official name for the town is Umlalazi-Nkandla, Smart Growth Centre.

The proposed development has been in discussion stages for almost two years, and during August 2012 Lindiwe Mazibuko, parliamentary spokesperson of the Democratic Alliance (DA) party asked the president to justify spending one billion ZAR. In the meantime, the amount of money required to complete this project has escalated to two billion ZAR. The DA called for an investigation and raised concern over the people in KwaZulu-Natal lacking the most basic services.

At the time, Zuma’s spokesperson Mac Maharaj, said the Zumaville project is one of the many proposed developments for the rural areas of South Africa. Mazibuko argued that the public funds should be directed to support more relevant rural township projects.

According to Jacob Zuma, this new project will be the first city built by black people since the beginning of democracy. The new city will be close to the Zuma homestead, Nkandla and will include a shopping centre.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform will oversee the entire property development and confirmed the problems experienced last year regarding the plans have now been finalized. It is expected to have the entire project back on track within the next few months.

Private investors are allegedly involved with the project, and no names have been given. Masibambisane, a rural development company, co-chaired by Jacob Zuma and his cousin Sibusiso Mzobe are the plan of the Zumaville project.

Tender bids for the new town planning development closed on Friday and presented a small crisis with problems arising. There was clearly confusion between government departments and private business who did not know about their involvement of the project. Meanwhile, the innovative company Masibambisane, claimed bankruptcy and said there was no money. Zuma’s cousin Mzobe said he had to use his personal funds to pay wages.

The Zumaville project will face an investigation by the Parliamentary committee to ensure that preferential treatment from government is not abused. The public protector will investigate to ensure the correct procedures are followed.

The Province of Kwa-Zulu Natal is almost the same size as Portugal and measures 57,228 square miles. The Ingonyama Trust administered by the Zulu King and eight members of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform own thirty two percent of the area. The trustees are responsible for the land record and manage the mineral rights of the region.

According to Jacob Zuma, the new development will be a first of its kind, and the president did say he would create jobs, maybe this is his way of contributing to his promise. Public outcry at the cost for this project continues to annoy the people who are still coming to terms with the Nkandla scandal.

Big businesses and government departments have implemented the beginning of the Zumaville project and according to Jacob Zuma, the development is moving ahead. Zumaville will be the first post apartheid town to be built in South Africa.

By Laura Oneale

South Africa Corruption and President Jacob Zuma

The corruption ahead of the South Africa 2014 elections continue to grow and the long and short term discord are drowning out any long term view of democracy. Corruption in South Africa started many years ago, when Bantu Holomisa blew the whistle on the Mandela's administration in the early 1990s. Blowing the whistle on corruption at that time got Holomisa expelled. The big controversy around the controversial arms deal benefits the officials of the African National (ANC) party and investigations continue to be delayed.

Another huge implication of corruption was the sale of state assets by various premiers among top officials. Eskom, the electricity giant, sold its copper drying kilns and today experiences problems drying wet coal, thereby implementing load shedding across the land.

People are not obsessed with Zuma in particular, but shadow him as the pinnacle of a system that places him as the top corruption architect. The recent Nkandla scandal has not been resolved, and this has placed the president in a precarious position. The South African perception of the ANC government policy is a corrupt system, and Zuma is both presidents of the country and of the ANC party.

The recent attempt by Zuma to win over the Democratic Alliance (DA) controlled area has indicated his concern among the green and yellow (ANC) that threatens to destroy the country if a bit of blue (DA) begins to grow. Nobody is concerned with the red (EFF), its spells blood and the walls of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will take it all should they get a foothold in the governance of the country. The power coveted in South Africa by the ANC is scary and probably all over the world.

Zuma is determined by position rather than action as the leader of the country by its citizens.. His actions have subverted his role as a preferential leader and will be remembered as a weak and strategically absent leader. Zuma a strong element of the manipulating ANC party will eventually be incompatible.

The public continues to be pre-occupied and fascinated with Zuma. Remain appalled by his criminal acts and his stance on offenders who go unpunished. The public who vigorously object to the squander of public funds is of the opinion it is a reality of preoccupation with self enrichment.

The 1994 pre-accord held one set of rules to govern the entire nation. True equality was promised to all and was the cornerstone of the constitution. The ANC has turned this rule around favoring grounds of privilege and set out different rules for the masses and another for the elite. Delusional behavior, at the expense of the taxpayer and the continued defiance of the rule of law is a real illness. The only sustainable options are persistent objections and working toward a permanent cure.

Zuma throughout his leadership has established strong social standing within the boundaries of his power and uses this polarization to achieve his goals. Had he used this influence to maximize toward a congruent and socially inclusive economic and political end game? No, he has by his direct and indirect actions condoned a different conclusion as being a clear goal. The use of public funds for personal gain and defense of poor, wrong choice is reasonable and consequently he has reinforced many of the worst traits of people ill equipped to make a full, determined decision about individual acts versus country benefiting acts.

Whether or not a suitable replacement currently exists is the moot point, rather it should be the collective party and people that produce a stop, or diversion that either excludes Zuma, or forces responsibility onto his shoulders.

Opposition parties will continue to expand their population strength, even parties with an inconsistent economic and political content. It is when those in power divert their attention and efforts inward, rather than outward that corruption continues to swell.

A comment from the public described the corruption in South Africa as the blind that will never see, the brainwashed that will never think, and the poor that will never improve. The ANC is the enemy of the sane, friend of the corrupt, illiterate and brainwashed.

Zuma is an obsession created by the media who continue to provide the public with delusional beliefs that he is none other than the most atrocious person in South Africa. The ANC party under the leadership of Zuma has displayed the worst act of corruption, and until the free and fair elections go ahead, the public continue to elect his fate.

Opinion By Laura Oneale

South Africa - Part 2 - Sins of the Fathers

South Africa - a democratic farce?

The ruling ANC claims that it has a good story to tell!

Indeed they might have a small part of a good story, such as the building of nearly 3

million houses for the underprivileged, so called RDP houses (RDP = Reconstruction and development). However, what about the houses that had been built sub – standard? Cracking and crumbling away? Not a good story!

What about water and sewage? All the aquifers between Johannesburg and Pretoria is claimed to have to been contaminated with faeces! All the service protests are about these issues! During the last couple of months, the service protests have increased to more than 30 per day, according to some observers.

The ANC on their version had learned from General Von Giap in Vietnam how to utilize violence in order to assemble a take-over. Julius Malema from the Economic

Freedom Fighters (EFF)) knows firsthand how to employ such tactics. He will certainly be a formidable opponent in the coming elections in South Africa. The ANC will not have it all its own way. In 1994 when some of us said that everyone should vote for the ANC, we were labelled as rebels. It made sense as it’s all a numbers game. For as long as it’s one man, one vote the black vote would outnumber the white vote. Having voted for the sense at that time en masse would have ensured that the ANC would have access to the skills required to set South Africa on an economic boom track. However, more and more issues are being polarised, and it’s boiling down to black and white. The sins of the fathers!

Read this article relating to the 1994 elections and the brokered deal, the peoples votes did not matter!!
Link to Guardian LV article

Inside the ANC the SACP (Communist Party) members are standing exceptionally strong; Blade Nzimande continuously makes highly controversial statements. This whilst he is a land baron in own right. His children attend private schools. No mingling for them with the poor people whose purpose is supposedly championed by the SACP contingent. The SACP has always been known as the most Stalinist communist parties. The SACP is hell bent on harnessing the private sector far socialist goals. While they enrich themselves tremendously at the cost of the downtrodden who are extremely confused to speak for themselves. However, any little bit of relief from the government is absorbed in this milieu. The grants to 17 million people along with the provision of 3 million houses all came at a financial cost. Houses need to be maintained, the grants have no provision to serve as an enticement in order to convince recipients thereof to start looking for jobs. Due to the world economic situation finding itself in a situation of dire straits for several years and only starting to raise its head, albeit at an exceedingly precarious speed, the facts are that the pains associated with such negative contractions also had a negative impact on politics.

During this period, South Africans started looking with more critical eyes at corruption and serious irregularities. The Arms Commission established to pierce the veil of secrecy and to expose the shenanigans to which specifically Andrew Feinstein in his various works refer. The fact that corruption in this matter could reach the levels it did was only because the technocrats and the securocrats could be involved. In this regard, they quote secrecy legislation, and they have managed to gain control in the courts. Judges play along with their wishes. State funds are spent willy nilly, yet the Organs as described in Chapter 9 of the Constitution does not and is not seen as to act decisively against these issues. The Public Protector in South Africa, Adv Thuli Madonsela, has delivered a report in respect of the State funds irregularly spent on the President’s private compound at Nkandla.

Officialdom had become adept at blocking investigations into issues of corruption. Corruption under the ANC has become, writes John-Kane Berman. He specifically shows that the National Development Plan is nothing else but an instrument in order to activate South Africa into a communist enclave. In this enclave, the nomenklatura will have enriched themselves tremendously at the cost of the poor. They will be totally untouchable as they control the levers of power as well as the courts.
John-Kane Berman writes about the National Party (NP): “Ministers profited from advance information about expropriations under the Group Areas Act. Other land deals also made ministers and their friends rich. Half the Cabinet sat on the board of a company to whom they swung government printing contracts.” Nelson Mandela on becoming President proclaimed “Never again.” Indeed, never again anything such as apartheid, such as the blatant corruption. Why should we accept this?

Why was there no outcry from the civil society under the NP when these actions took place? Because in the eyes of the public they got services. Wendy Luhabe, wife of Sam Shilowa (Mbasima), previous Premier of Gauteng stated some years ago that education under apartheid was better than the education under the ANC.

Would it be a mistake to state that if Pres Zuma had put his foot down and insisted on services there would be much more contentment in the civil society? Would the ANC have been seen more as the champion of the people? Would Nkandla have become such a big issue? If there was service delivery on a large scale would people have forgiven him for Nkandla or even if he had built 10 Nkandla’s?

All Zuma’s indiscretions- are because his enemies had set traps for him, and continue to do so because he gives his enemies the opportunity to capitalise on such? The lack of discipline in the South African society needs to be checked. Can Pres Zuma at long last show us that he is the man who can take care of such or will he continue to be led by his nose through his Intelligence services, which had been severely compromised or else by people such as the “brave” General Officer Commanding of the SA Special Forces?

If Pres Mugabe from Zimbabwe could stay on for such a long time and cock a snoot at the Western World, thereby exposing their ineptness, why should he then not be proclaimed a hero? Pres Putin from Russia had called their bluff in Ukraine, perhaps it is time for the world to begin to re-evaluate as to whether the way they were bought up has substance? When reading the works by Alvin Toffler who states that the Western education system is focused on producing machines for business and not to be freethinkers, then one gets to realize that maybe there is more to learn from Africa than what one might think.

Should Pres Zuma be received on the 7th of May’s elections, it will create a most compelling situation. The moment is his to grab, forget the good story, it has not yet been told, forget moving forward – over the precipice, now is the time to take action. South Africa has so much potential, but if the Captain of the ship is acting like one

of the Oceania, who was the first to abandon his ship, then a disaster is on its way.
Should the President show us that he is serious we shall praise him, failing which we shall have to comment. Mr PW Botha had failed to take up the cudgels and drowned in the Rubicon. Pres De Klerk, despite all his awards, is the one who only took up the cudgels after he had painted himself into a corner.

Water under the bridge or is it smoke on the water?

The sins of the fathers, the more it changes the more it stays the same!

Democracy – a farce?

South Africa - Part 1 - Sins of the Fathers

SOUTH AFRICA: THE SINS OF THE FATHERS – PART I
Despair

South Africa - what a hell hole? Or is it not?

Max Du Preez, a social commentator who has taken quite a bit of time to understand what he is dealing with writes in March this year and asks “What has become of the ANC?”
Prince Mashele and Mzukisis Qobo wrote a book entitled “The Fall of the ANC – What next?” One of the pertinent questions asked is if the ANC was ever ready to govern? John Kane – Berman writes in March this year; “Naught for your comfort as they loot the beloved country.”

All of these commentators express a sense or anxiety and urgency about the happenings in the RSA. While apartheid is still being blamed, the sins of the fathers? Will South Africa ever be able to stand on their own is the question to ask. Apartheid as a social experiment became a complete failure when the authorities searched to entrench it in stone. Rule one, nothing is ever written in stone, except life and death.
However, there are past references to the fact that South Africa has got to answer to, about the moneys received from the USA and the Libyan money which had gone missing.
In all these issues there have been syndicates in action stemming from the old South Africa, pre 1994 and the new South Africa, post 1994. Whilst their actions impact on society as a whole, they have not been exposed as such and so let us delve a little deeper.

The Five Star Trusts (“Five Stars”) was the medium through which the alleged billions of dollars were flowing to South Africa for infrastructural development. At the top of all these dealings allegations are that this all happened during the time of former President Thabo Mbeki. The names of Jesse Duarte, Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa are mentioned. The real fact is that money had disappeared, and even the USA authorities are starting to explore as to what happened.
But this goes much further as the following names have also been added to these allegations:

John Duarte – brother of Jesse Duarte, Razien Dangor, Christo Kriek, Louis Andrello, Carlos Ardasa, Tito Mboweni – previous Governor of the Reserve Bank, Trevor Manuel-

previous Minister of Finance, Maria Ramos – current CEO of Transnet where she stripped the pension fund which is now a case before the court for the repayment of some R 80 billion, Michael Blackbeard – Senior official at the Reserve Bank, Chris Stals – previous Governor of the Reserve Bank, Gill Marcus – current governor of the Reserve Bank, Johan De Jager – Legal Department Reserve Bank, Johan Ruper from Stellenbosch Rob Burrows – Director Reserve Bank, Michael Solomon, Martin Landman, Michael Katz, Lennie Katz, Sybrand Van Der Spuy, Col Marion Horn, Christo Wiese, Mike Brown – Nedbank, Tom Boardman – Nedbank.

The same people are also alleged to have been involved to a larger or a lesser degree in the vanishing of the Gaddafi money. The Gaddafi money was apparently handled under the AU’s (African Union) auspices. Personnel and consultants were provided with diplomatic cover from the AU according to reliable sources.
In this regard, it must be borne in mind that the British MI6 had always been extremely well entrenched in Libya. Many Libyans had been recruited as MI6 agents. Especially during the time of the Afghans fighting against the Russian invaders.
It is alleged that the rise of Gaddafi was due to the role of MI6. MI6 was also involved in the movement of the Gaddafi moneys as well as the financing of the oil explorations of the African continent. The Tar sands project in Canada is another project that was financed by Gaddafi. All of these investments were routed via British companies.

In the South African context, people such as F W De Klerk were linked to MI6.
General Hankel of the SAPS is also acutely strongly linked. Hankel has been linked as the handler of Thabo Mbeki, who apparently was recruited during his lengthy stay in the UK. Mbeki has been known as a connoisseur of the abundant life and was referred to as the Covent Garden Guerrilla due to his passion for opera of which he attended many an opera at Covent Garden. A certain Sam Buthelezi has been linked to the network which ran through to Matthews Phosa, Bob Mhlangu, Willem Lötter, Herman Crause at the SA Intelligence Service, and Lord Renwick, MI6 at its best.

In the SANDF, the link was taken to Lindiwe Sisulu, apparently a known thief and thug and trained by the former STASI (East German Intelligence). Gen Gagiano, former Chief

of the SA Air Force was also implicated. They are not the only people. The network seems to be enormous and include many role players.

The SA Reserve Bank had been implicated in many dodgy deals. In receipt of some of the hundreds of billions of US dollars of the Gaddafi moneys which were signed in by one Shaun Abrahams at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) whence he gave agents of SARS indemnity, which he did not even possess, thereby rendering such indemnity useless. The same Reserve Bank is also implicated in the movement of Gaddafi moneys to the Bank of Athens.

The question ultimately is whether there is any confirmation in all of these allegations. Prince Mashele and Mzukisi Qobo write in their book, “ The Fall of the ANC “ on Page 48 as follows : “In addition to all this, De Klerk and his henchmen depleted state coffers towards the end of apartheid in the early 1990s. Terreblanche comments During De Klerk’s tenure of the presidency from 1989 until 1994, the deficit increased from R 91,2 billion to R 237billion (in current prices).”

On page 207 of the same book, they say the following: “The dictatorship of money has seized complete hold of ANC cadres, and our society is suffering the consequences.”
So, ultimately what is fiction and what not?

The sins of the fathers……

This is only the beginning, so much more to tell.

South Africa 2014 Election - Free and Fair?

On April 27, 1994 South Africa held its first democratic election. The whole process took three days to complete, and people who never had the opportunity to vote before, stood for hours and days in queues to cast their vote of freedom.

Was this election free and fair? What actually happened during the counting process, and was there ever a true reflection of the outcome. No, there was none. The 1994 election was a brokered deal between the main contenders at that time, The National Party (NP) (the former apartheid regime), the African National Congress (ANC) (ruling party today) and some right wing parties and liberation struggle smaller parties.

Read this article posted in the Guardian LV today for the full story.

Link to South Africa 2014 Elections Focus on Free and Fair

The true democracy of elections does not matter when the political parties have the power to dominate and reach amicable agreements with opposition parties. Why waste all the money on an election when the ruling party already has the result of the election?

Does this happen all over the world or only in South Africa.