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.