Enongqai vol 5 no 6 by Hennie Heymans, Nongqai Publications

The eNONGQAI

Die eNONGQAI

Unofficial Police Gazette for Veterans of the former South African Police Force and for those interested in the history of our Police, Defence and National Security. A gratis publication.

Nie-amptelike Polisiekoerant vir Veterane van die ou Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiemag en vir diegene wat belangstel in die geskiedenis van ons Polisie, Verdediging en Nasionale Veiligheid. ‘n Gratis publikasie.

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Your national security history magazine without malice. U nasionale veiligheidsgeskiedenistydskrif sonder kwaadwilligheid. Om die verlede te bewaar sonder om in die verlede te leef.

To preserve the past without living the past.

WIE IS ONS? / WHO ARE WE? We are an informal group of police and defence veterans who would like to foster an interest in South Africa’s police, defence and national security history from 1652 with cut-off-date 1994; when the new South Africa came into being. We only tell and explain what we did; for we were the “on the spot” eyewitnesses! In fact we are the ones you saw in the news reels of the time following orders from parliament. However we have to debate the incidents because our memory is fallible as we grow older. In the terms of the day "we earned the T-shirt and right to tell our stories for you to enjoy with malice towards none." In the suburbs we see so many gardeners wearing those T-shirts! We all can learn from the past.

HBH

R.I.V. Johan Jacobs

Ronnie Beyl

Anemari Jansen

Lt-Col W Marshall

Adv Len Els

The Editorial Team  Editor: HB “Hennie” Heymans, MA (SAP & SSSC - Ret)  Ass-Editor: J Jacobs (CPO SA Navy & Marines - Ret) – Sadly passed away on 2014-06-11  SA Railway Police: Brig R Beyl  Legal Advisor: Col Len Els, MMM, LLD, SC  Special Correspondent: Anemarie Jansen (MA)  Defence: Lt-Col W Marshall LEGALITIES This publication is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in policing/ national security or to cover all aspects of those referred to. Readers should take legal and other advice before applying the information contained in this publication to specific issues or transactions. The eNongqai contains various and sundry personal opinions of different correspondents and neither the compiler of eNongqai nor eNongqai will be held responsible for any of their comments which is entirely their own and not necessarily that of eNongqai or its publishers. To all future correspondents This condition must be placed at the end of your article: "The author of this article shall indemnify and hold harmless eNongqai and its publishers from any and all third-party claims, proceedings, actions, expenses, and damages (including attorney fees) in connection with a breach or alleged breach of the representations and warranties made in this article." 3

This is not a literary magazine, but a magazine by and for veterans of the SA Security Forces; we want to capture the words and moods as written by our former veterans.

Contents WIE IS ONS? / WHO ARE WE? ........................................................................................................ 2 The Editorial Team ........................................................................................................................... 3 LEGALITIES.......................................................................................................................................... 3 To all future correspondents ....................................................................................................... 3 WELCOME / WELKOM............................................................................................................................. 7 DEVOTIONAL ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Editorial / Redaksioneel .......................................................................................................................... 8 PERSONALIA ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Afsterwe: Johan Jacobs adj-redakteur van die eNongqai: Fanie Bouwer........................................... 9 PERSONALIA VANAF 01 MEI TOT 31MEI 2014: OPGESTEL DEUR WYLE JOHAN JACOBS ..................... 10 

Afsterwes .............................................................................................................................. 10

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Siekboek ................................................................................................................................ 11

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Verjaarsdae ........................................................................................................................... 11

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Kennisgewings en reunies ..................................................................................................... 12

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Verlowings, huwelike en geboortes ...................................................................................... 12

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Allegaartjie: Bob Smith ......................................................................................................... 12

Personalia (Cont) Phil Devlin: Col Terry Schwartz................................................................................. 13 COURT TELLS JUSTICE MINISTER TO CONSIDER PAROLE FOR DE KOCK ............................................... 15 1960: VERBETERINGS IN DIE MAG: MINISTER SPREEK POLISIE TOE .................................................... 17 POLICE MUST LEARN TO MAKE PROTEST WORK................................................................. 22 Polisie uit die “Ou-dae” deur HBH .................................................................................................... 25 No 30861 Maj “Harry” du Preez via Paul du Preez ........................................................................... 28 CAPE RURAL POLICE: FRANCOIS GUNTER ............................................................................................. 30 SERIOUS FOR PEOPLE TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN: VIA DR DREYER VAN DER MERWE ..................... 31 GANGS /BENDES ................................................................................................................................... 32 The Cape’s youth gangs: Bigger, deeper, more dangerous .............................................................. 32 Bendebedrywighede – Kaapse Vlakte: Fanie Bouwer ...................................................................... 37 ‘N UITTREKESEL UIT FANIE BOUWER SE STORIE – 2003 ................................................................... 38 SY INDRUKKE OOR BENDES OP DIE KAAPSE VLAKTE ........................................................................ 38 4

THE STUDY OF FINGERPRINTS: SIR FRANCIS GALTON (HBH) ................................................................ 41 Francis Galton and Fingerprints:.................................................................................................. 44 INTELLIGENCE: FBI................................................................................................................................. 45 FBI admits it spied on Nelson Mandela during his first visit to U.S. after 27 years behind bars ...... 45 JUSTICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: REGSPLEGING .............................................................................. 47 First Secret British Court Case........................................................................................................... 47 TEAR GAS VS BOW AND ARROWS IN BRAZIL ........................................................................................ 51 Tear Gas vs Bow and Arrows: Indigenous protesters clash outside Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national stadium less than three weeks to go before World Cup ....................................................................................... 51 Hof Humor: : Adv Len Els ..................................................................................................................... 64 Not convinced, M'Lord? .................................................................................................................... 64 Whiskey, M'Lord? ............................................................................................................................. 64 A SOUTH AFRICAN- FLAG HISTORY: DR NC LAMPRECHT ...................................................................... 65 Portugal ............................................................................................................................................. 65 Dutch States General ........................................................................................................................ 65 The British ......................................................................................................................................... 66 The Batavian Republic....................................................................................................................... 66 The 2nd British occupation ............................................................................................................... 67 Cape Colony .................................................................................................................................. 67 The Voortrekker flag ..................................................................................................................... 67 Republic of Natalia ........................................................................................................................ 67 Natal Colony .................................................................................................................................. 67 Orange Free State ......................................................................................................................... 68 Republic of Stellaland.................................................................................................................... 68 ZAR ................................................................................................................................................ 68 Battle Flag ..................................................................................................................................... 68 ZAR ................................................................................................................................................ 68 South Africa....................................................................................................................................... 69 The Red Ensigns ............................................................................................................................ 69 3rd South African Flag .................................................................................................................... 69 The 4th South African flag............................................................................................................. 69 SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY: HONG KONG: DEREK WALKER ................................................................... 70 ANTHROPOLOGY / VOLKEKUNDE: FANIE BOUWER .............................................................................. 73 COVERT ACTION / KOVERTE AKSIE: PATRICE LAMUMBA .................................................................... 74 5

The Question Arises: ......................................................................................................................... 75 DIE ROOIGEVAAR: 40% IS KOMMUNISTE: DIS DIE OPPOSISIE .............................................................. 75 Nog ‘n rooi gevaar? ........................................................................................................................... 77 Die jong Joseph Stalin ....................................................................................................................... 77 HUMOUR IN UNIFORM: .................................................................................................................... 78 Police Dogs: Johan Jacobs ................................................................................................................. 78 BOOKS / BOEKE ..................................................................................................................................... 80 Bloody Lies – Citizens Reopen the Inge Lotz Murder Case ............................................................... 80 LETTERS / BRIEWE ................................................................................................................................. 84 

Anonymous ............................................................................................................................... 84

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William d. du Plooij: Engeland .............................................................................................. 84

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Louis Lubbe: Gauteng ........................................................................................................... 86

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Rudolf Murray: Kaapstad ...................................................................................................... 86

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Brig Johan Giliomee: Suid-Kaap .......................................................................................... 87

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Genl Daan le Roux: Handelstak ................................................................................................. 88

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SAP 55: Stan Stander................................................................................................................. 88

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Genl Ben Groenewald: Mark Newham: Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie - Afgetrede Lede ................... 89

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Polmed-verkiesing: Gideon Serfontein ..................................................................................... 89

OOR ‘N KOPPIE-KOFFIE ......................................................................................................................... 90

Die Slagtersnek Rebellie Volgende maand begin ons ‘n reeks oor Slagtersnek Rebellie deur dr JC van der Walt. Daar is baie stories en mites oor diè voorval in ons geskiedenis. Jaycee het na Slagtersnek gereis en ter plaatse ook ondersoek ingestel. Baie van ons kan ons familie naspeur en baie se familie was te Slagtesnek betrokke op een of ander wyse. Dit beloof ‘n interessante reeks te wees!

Francois Gunter

Dr JC van der Walt

WELCOME / WELKOM Baie welkom by die hierdie uitgawe van die elektroniese-Nongqai. Ja, die “ou” Nongqai gaan terug na 1907 toe eerste tydskrif die lig gesien het. Ons as ‘polisiekinders” het grootgeword met diè naam. Selfs hier in die 1970’s het die “ou” polisiemanne nog gepraat van die “Nongqai” as hulle na die destydse polisietydskrif verwys het.

Bo die Nongqai van 1907

Bo No 5 van Vol 1

DEVOTIONAL "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me". Rev.3:20 (N.I.V.) Suppertime! We all have those kinds of days that challenge all of our personal resources. The haunting images may still remain, but with a sigh, we look forward to suppertime, and to put the day behind us. There is a knock at the door. Not the door of our home, but the door of our heart. It is not an angelic messenger, but our visitor is Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. He is very aware of the kind of day that you have endured, and wants to talk to you about it. He is there to console and to encourage you! Do you remember those wonderful times, when Ouma and Oupa came to visit for a supper meal? You could always pour out your heart to them and they listened carefully, because they always cared .... and because they loved you. Now a greater person than your grandparents wants to hear you pour out your heart to Him. He poured out his own blood on the Cross at Calvary, to remove your sin, to demonstrate His Love for you, and that he REALLY cares for you! You need to open the door of your heart to Him, and let Him in, not just for this supper, but for every day of your life as well. He wants you to tell Him about all your problems so that He can intervene with a miracle in your life. 7

Pray to Jesus now, and ask Him to become your Lord and Saviour. Let him break "the Bread of Life" to you, as you dine with Him, and He dines with you. What a Meal .... what a Feast .... as you enjoy this Special time with Jesus! Amen. Devotion by Bob Smith

Editorial / Redaksioneel Ten eerste is dit met hartseer dat ons afskeid neem van Johan Jacobs ons adjredakteur wat skielik oorlede is. Dit was my voorreg om hom te ken, ja redelik goed te ken. Hy was ŉ matroos of te wel ŉ 1ste bootsman in die mariniers van die ‘ou’ SAW. Ons het baie dinge gedeel – skryf, braai, liefde vir geskiedenis en treine. Johan was dan ook ons adj-redakteur van ons treine-tydskrif. Hy het ook in vliegtuie belanggestel. Baie keer as ek iemand op die lughawe moes ontmoet het ek eers vir Johan geskakel en hy kon my presies die ligging van die vliegtuig gee en of dit betyds sou land. Hy kon inluister na vliegtuie se gesprekke. Johan het ons polisiewerf op Facebook gesien en my gekontak of hy mag aansluit, sy vader was immer polisieman gewees het hy vertel. Sonder aarseling is sy aansoek aanvaar en hy was ŉ man wat sy plek vol gestaan het. Daar is ‘n berig oor kol Eugene de Kock: Het u al op ŉ lughawe of treinstasie gewag? Wel, die wag om vrygelaat te word sou my doodmaak! Hy het sy pak soos ŉ man gevat. Ons kan net vir hom bid dat die uitkoms voor 28 Jun 2014 gunstig sal wees! Daar is ŉ artikel deur ŉ dame van die universiteit van die Witwatersrand, Julia Hornberger, onder die opskrif “Police must learn to make protest work.” Ek dink dit is belangrik vir die polisie om te weet hoe protes werk en dat mens as polisieman moet weet dat mense nie ‘in ‘n bos’ of buite sig ‘bo op ŉ mynhoop’ protesteer nie. So terloops amper 100 jaar gelede het ons Boere ook geprotesteer. Party het dit ‘n rebellie genoem ander weer het dit gewapende protes genoem. Genl Koos de la Rey is deur konst Drury van die SAP te Langlaagte doodgeskiet toe die generaal en sy geselskap geweier het om by ŉ padblokkade te stop. Die padblokkade was vir die Foster-bende opgerig. Die offisier wat die padblokkade moes aflas kon nie SAP Laaglaagte bereik nie – hy het selfmoord gepleeg en twee SAP-lede is deur die Foster-bende doodgeskiet. Kol Truter moes die staatsbegrafnis van genl De la Rey reël. Dan kmdt Jopie Fourie; hy en sy manne het op die SAP en SABS geskiet en hy is gefusilleer in Pretoria gevangenis. Hy het ‘n kommissie as offisier in die UVM gedra. Het die Brits-georiënteerde “nuwe” SAP begrip vir die Boere getoon, kon dinge baie ander uitgedraai het. Dink maar aan die toekoms; as die dae gaan kom as ons kinders eendag begin protesteer .... 8

Daar is ‘n foto van die 1950’s by die artikel “Police must learn to make protest work” wat my aan die skryf gesit het. In 1960 het ons ‘n nuwe kommissaris gekry en die minister het nuwe dinge aangekondig om die Mag aantrekliker vir “wit” seuns te maak.... Weens fanatiese optrede en ander redes word reisgeriewe en die uitreik van visums opgeskerp. In die 1990’s het ek as lid van die IPA onder meer Kenia sonder visum besoek – vandag moet RSA-burgers eers visums bekom. Iets oor vingerafdrukke wat u miskien, as oudpolisieman, interessant sal vind. Fanatieke persone in die VK het daarvoor gesorg dat Brittanje se eerste geheime verhoor plaasgevind het. Ons het in terme van veiligheidswetgewing sekere dele van verhore in camera gehad, maar ons het nie geheime verhore gehad nie. U sal ook sien hoe die FBI van die VSA ook op mnr Mandela gespioeneer het. Brasilië sit met sy unieke opstande – mense uit die steentydperk wat die beredepolisie met gifpyle aanval. Dan die “Rooi Gevaar” – die SAP is in die verlede beskuldig dat ons ŉ kommunis agter elke bos en onder elke bad gesien het! Kyk na die 40% “Rooies” in die parlement. Lekker lees.

PERSONALIA Afsterwe: Johan Jacobs adj-redakteur van die eNongqai: Fanie Bouwer

IETS UIT MY HART OOR ONS VRIEND JOHAN JACOBS Ek gaan later vandag die pad vat om in die Suid-Kaap te gaan besoek. Voor ek dit doen, het ek ’n behoefte om net weer so ietsie kort oor Johan te skryf – Johan, die man wat van julle ‘Sailor’ genoem het. Ek het hier aangesluit toe hier slegs ’n paar honderd lede was. Dit was lekker dae op hierdie blad; toe ons oor polisie-dinge, geskiedenis, aktuele sake van die dag, politiek en ander sommer ander nonsens geskryf het. 9

Doeriertyd al was Johan saam met ons – hierdie man wat so lekker in Afrikaans kon skryf en altyd iets lekker-leesbaar kon aanmekaar timmer. Ek het hom as ’n vriend hier aanvaar. Hy was iemand wat by my – ek dink almal – respek afgedwing het. Daar was ook dae wat ek iets per ‘message’ van Facebook met hom opgehaal het. Ek is so spyt dat ek hom nooit in persoon kon ontmoet en ’n paar gedagtes kon gewissel het nie. Vir die wat dalk nie weet nie, hy was ook een wat die volgende artikels op die blad gehanteer het: OPPI-KOLE – hy dit altyd met foto’s daarby versier, wat dit so heerlik laat lyk het. KLAP ’n PALM – dit was artikels (tipe CV) oor een of ander lid van hierdie blad. Dan weet ons ook was hy nóú betrokke met hulp aan Hennie Heymans met die maandelikse opstel en publisering van die eNONGQAI. Johan se skielike heengaan is dus nie net vir sy vrou en familie ’n hartseer gebeurtenis nie, maar óók vir my spesifiek en óók vir ál die lede van hierdie blad. Namens ons almal van hierdie blad: Dankie vir dit wat jy vir ons gedoen het. Rus in vrede, ou Grote. Ons gaan jou beslis mis.

PERSONALIA VANAF 01 MEI TOT 31MEI 2014: OPGESTEL DEUR WYLE JOHAN JACOBS  Afsterwes Dit is met innige leedwese dat ons die We deeply regret to announce the afsterwe van die volgende oudlede deaths of the following former van die Mag of die van ons vriende members of the moet aankondig: force or those of our fiends: Maandag 05 Mei: Sarie van Niekerk berig: Dit is met groot hartseer dat ek vandag hierdie aankondiging skryf om te sê oom FRED NIMB is in die naweek oorlede na 'n lang siekbed. Maandag 05 Mei: HANNES ROSSOUW SANAB Upington op 03 Mei oorlede. Donderdag 08 Mei: Nico Frylinck berig: Lt kol LOURENS BADENHORST het sy stryd teen kanker verloor en is oorlede!. Heelwat lede het tot sy beenmurgoorplanting fonds bydraes gemaak. Donderdag 08 Mei: Kolonel BOKKIE VIVIERS is vandag oorlede. Donderdag 08 Mei: AO FRIKKIE VAN WYK van Roodepoort, is die 8ste Mei oorlede na 'n siekbed Vrydag 09 Mei: Former Det./ Sgt Michael IAN LOGIE of the Fraud Branch, John 10

Vorster Square in the late 1960's passed away in Johannesburg on 23 April 2014 from cerebral malaria. He entered the Air Freight business and was CEO of a number of companies until his retirement 15 months ago. Former Capt. ALEC HOLMES of the Gold & Diamond Branch, John Vorster Square died of a heart attack on Tuesday 6 or Wednesday 7 May 2014 in Johannesburg. He left the police to go into the Insurance industry in the late 1970's and was recently the representative of Lloyd's of London in South Africa. Sondag 11 Mei: Brigadier J.H. (BOBBY) STEYN van Oudtshoorn is vanmiddag 11 Mei 2014 oorlede. Dinsdag 20 Mei: Lt.kol. KOOS ERASMUS van Nigel is vandag oorlede! Donderdag 22 Mei: Sers EMILE VAN RENSBURG, voorheen van Middelburg (T) is na baie jare se siekbed, oorlede!  Siekboek Ons wens die ondergenoemdes alle beterskap toe: Woensdag 07 Mei: KOOS BRITS is weer opgeneem in die Linmed hospitaal in Benoni. Donderdag 08 Mei: GAWIE BOTHA se vrou HERMA ondergaan ‘n kniegvervangings operasie vandag! Vrydag 09 Mei: KOOS BRITS sê hy is ‘okay’, sy hart bokspring nog bietjie en sal maar tydjie vat om weer terug te keer na normaal. Vrydag 30 Mei: Kolonel LOUIS MALHERBE is vanmiddag opgeneem in Vereeniging Medi Clinic. Hy het geval en sy L3, L4 en L5 lae rugwerwels gekraak. Hy is al 86jr oud!  Verjaarsdae Ons wens die volgende hartlik geluk: Vrydag 02 Mei: LORRAINE TERBLANCE verjaar vandag! Sondag 04 Mei: Die volgende lede vier hulle geboorte dag vandag; EDUAN LIEBENBERG NAUDE, PIETER OBERHOLZER EN ANTON THERON Maandag 05 Mei: LYNETTE SPIES verjaar vandag! Dinsdag 06 Mei: Is DENNIS MAHONEY se verjaarsdag vandag! Vrydag 09 Mei: Dit is vandag MARIANA BRITS se verjaarsdag! Woensdag 13 Mei: POTTIE POTGIETER geluk met jou 67ste verjaardag vandag! Sondag 18 Mei: Baie geluk aan WILLIE DU TOIT van George (Radio Tegnies George) met sy verjaarsdag. Maandag 19 Mei: FRIK BRUWER vier sy verjaarsdag vandag! Dinsdag 20 Mei: Vandag vier JOHAN JACOBS sy geboortedag! Saterdag 31 Mei: NEELSIE BOREA verjaar vandag!

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Kennisgewings en reunies

Saterdag 12 April: Die SAP-AFG LEDE blad beplan ‘n naweek uitstappie na die Vaalrivier vir die naweek van 01-02 NOVEMBER 2014. Navrae kan aan JOHAN JACOBS gerig word.

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Verlowings, huwelike en geboortes

Ons wens die volgende hartlik geluk: Sondag 03 Mei: FRANS DIFF DE VILLIERS berig; Nuwe aankomeling tot die 'versameling' van kleinkinders vir die de Villiers gesin. Gebore vanoggend teen n almintige 3,45kg. Derde kleinkind en tweede kleinseun. Woensdag 14 Mei: TINY NORTJE het oupa geword van sy derde agterkleinkind! 

Allegaartjie: Bob Smith Bob Smith was born in East London in the 1940's and grew up in the Eastern Cape and the Orange Free State. Early influences from many Afrikaners, Boer descendants, gave him unique insights into their culture and heritage. He has walked a long road, showing respect to all the many different people of South Africa. Bob enjoyed a long and successful career with South African Airways, attaining the rank of International Marketing Manager. After retirement, he continued his travel career, working for a travel wholesaler and later a travel agency in Johannesburg.

Bob was a committee member of the S.A. Military History Society for over 10 years, 2 years of which he was the National Chairman. 12

Bob is happily married for 25 years to his best friend, Joyce, and has two sons, & 3 grandchildren. Saamgestel deur Johan Jacobs: Kontak besonderhede; selnr 0769287320/Epos=jhnjacobs65@gmail.com GROETE TOT DIE VOLGENDE PERSONALIA

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SSB Sqdn Commanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jeep1

Personalia (Cont) Phil Devlin: Col Terry Schwartz Members of the British South Africa Police Regimental Association, (Transvaal), family and friends gathered together on 5 June 2014 at the Rosebank Union Church, Sandton, to bade farewell to our oldest member, namely No 5526 Philip Percy Devlin. Phil as he was commonly known passed away on 20 May 2014 after a short illness, his wife Robin pre-deceased him in November 2013. Phil joined the British South Africa Police on 5 August 1956 and served in the Midlands/Fort Victoria Provinces until 1964 when he left on gratuity. Prior to his service in the BSAP he served in Malaya with the British Army and was later a member of the Palestine Police. Phil attended informal gatherings of former members of the South African Police and the British South African Police, where he often held court recalling his past experiences in the Forces in which he served.

Photos via Mr Gerald Prinsloo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SANDF Archive

A well respected and affable man who was admired and respected by many. He is survived by his daughter Maureen and granddaughter Dana to whom we send our condolences. He will miss him, RIP. A poem Blacker.

ex-member

Dave

“Our numbers dwindle now and fade, Will history prove a mark we made? I doubt we’ll merit but a line – Just memories which are yours and mine. But in our hearts we thought it right To make a place for black and white Our cause thought just, our spirits strong, Oh history, will you prove us wrong? Let men deride and have no care, we can with pride state “I WAS THERE”

Left: Funeral letter of Phil Devlin. We salute an old Police Friend!

Kitty Hawk in N-Africa

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Photos via Mr Gerald Prinsloo – SANDF Archive

COURT TELLS JUSTICE MINISTER TO CONSIDER PAROLE FOR DE KOCK 28 MAY 2014 20:51 SAPA The high court has ordered the justice and correctional services minister to consider parole for former police death squad commander Eugene de Kock.

The high court in Pretoria has ordered South Africa’s new justice and correctional services minister to consider parole for former police death squad commander Eugene de Kock. Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday granted an order giving Minister Michael Masutha 30 days to make a decision on whether the man nicknamed Prime Evil should be released on parole after two decades in prison. The National Council for Correctional Services apparently made a recommendation about De Kock’s parole in November last year. The recommendation was sent to the then Minister of Correctional Services S’bu Ndebele, but when he failed to make a decision De Kock approached the high court early this year for an order to force him to do so. The case was settled when Ndebele’s legal advisers undertook that the minister would make a decision by May 12. No decision had been made by the deadline and when Ndebele lost his Cabinet post after the May 7 general elections this year, De Kock again approached the court for a ruling. Death squad

The former apartheid-era police colonel, who was in charge of a police death squad at Vlakplaas outside Pretoria, was arrested in mid-1994, but was only convicted and sentenced in the high court in Pretoria in 1996. He was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment for two particularly gruesome murders and to a further 212 years imprisonment on a range of other charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, culpable homicide, kidnapping, assault and fraud. Many of his former colleagues who committed murder under his command testified in return for indemnity from prosecution. He testified in detail before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the inner workings of the apartheid-era police force but was refused amnesty on some of the murders that were not deemed to be politically motivated. – Sapa http://mg.co.za/article/2014-05-28-court-tells-justice-minister-to-consider-parole-forde-kock Kommentaar: HBH Persoonlik beskou ek kol AE de Kock as ŉ “krygsgevangene” – die laaste gevangene van die “ou” bedeling. Laat my toe om te verduidelik: Hy is die produk van die SAW- en SAP-geweldsomgewing waarin ons almal groot geword het. Onthou hy het as kind sy diensplig in die SAW gedoen voor hy by die SAP aangesluit het. Hy was lank in Rhodesië, Suidwes-Afrika en te Vlakplaas gestasioneer. In ŉ gesprek neuroloog is dit baie duidelik dat kol De Kock daagliks aan geweld blootgestel was en dit het gewis ŉ uitwerking op sy gemoed en wese as mens en “vredesbeampte” gemaak. Konstante geweld en trauma eis op die lang duur sy tol. Hy is so ver ek weet nooit “ontlaai” of het hy ooit berading ontvang nie. Lees gerus – onbevange en objektief – die WVK se verrigtinge. Daar sal u sien dat ons so vroeg as 1972 al sekere koverte aksies uitgevoer het waarvoor amnestie aansoek gedoen is. Ons is as jong polisiemanne, op impressionistiese ouderdom, aan “sekere dinge” en “sekere helde” blootgestel. Baie van diè dinge het ons geglo is “reg” - bv ‘Might is Right’ en ook dat God ons steun in die uitvoering van ons pligte. Ons was immers ŉ Godvresende Mag want geglo het dat ons die swaardmag van die staat verteenwoordig. Geweldige verantwoordelikheid is op ons skouers geplaas. Ek onthou hoe die kapelaan vir ons by die Sanhedrin uit die Bybel gelees het en vir ons gebid het! As God met ons is, wie kan teen ons wees? Ek onthou brig (destyds majoor) Neels du Plooy, tydens ‘n veiligheidskursus, wat vir ons gevra het wie die hoof van die veiligheidspolisie was? Na ons almal antwoorde verstrek het, het hy gesê: “Generaal Jesus Christus is in bevel van die veiligheidspolisie!” Ek was ŉ 23 – 24 jarige AO in 1970, toe was oom Neelsie ŉ majoor en onthou as die MAJOOR 16

“iets” gesê het, het ons hom geglo! Offisier se woord was wet. As hy Christus so bely is dit mos reg? Die “Rooi Rus” het vir ons ŉ lesing kom gee: Hy het ŉ staande en dawerende applous van kursusgangers ontvang – dit was na Ongulumbashe en die toekenning van ŉ SOO is aan hom gemaak. Al berading waarvan ek weet is “braaivleis, brannas en Coke” onder ŉ boom! Dis tyd dat ons hand in eie boesemsteek en probeer verstaan waarom kol De Kock in die gevangenis verkeer? Eugene verkeer in goeie gesondheid en ek hoor indirek van hom deur vriende. Net een versoek van sy kant af: Moet as nie sy naam aan ander persone koppel nie. Hy staan alleen. Hy hou ook nie daarvan indien mense “nonsens” oor hom skryf nie. Dink asb twee maal voor u goed op Facebook skryf – onthou alles wat u skryf word deur ander mense ook gelees. Ek kan net noem dat die kere wat ek vir Eugene besoek het, hy netjies en fiks voorgekom het – sy tronkuniform sit netjies aan hom; dit kon maar net sowel sy ou SAP-Tin kamoefleer uniform gewees het! Hy is ŉ intelligente en merkwaarde persoon. Indien u hom wil ondersteun, bid vir hom net daar waar u nou sit en lees. Dankie.

1960: VERBETERINGS IN DIE MAG: MINISTER SPREEK POLISIE TOE Op 9 AUGUSTUS 1960 is op luisterryke wyse by die SA Polisiekollege afskeid geneem van luit-genl CI Rademeyer en is luit-genl HJ du Plooy as nuwe kommissaris verwelkom. Dit was ook die eerste geleentheid waar Sy Edele mnr FC Erasmus, sedert hy Minister van Justisie geword het, as eregas van SA Polisie teenwoordig was. Benewens Polisie-offisiere en hul eggenotes was daar ook hooggeplaaste verteenwoordigers van ander departemente en as gaste. Die Minister is op gepaste wyse deur die bevelvoerende offisier van die Polisiekollege verwelkom. Die Minister het hierop geantwoord en gesê: "Daar is tye van verwelkoming en geleenthede om tot siens te se. By hierdie geleentheid vandag moet ons met leedwese afskeid neem van die hoof van die SA Polisiemag en wil ons terselfdertyd sy opvolger hartlik welkom heet. Generaal Rademeyer "Generaal Rademeyer was sedert 1954 Kommissaris van die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie. Om gesondheidsredes het hy reeds op 31 Julie vanjaar die tuig neergelê. Hy 17

gaan hom, so verneem ek, in sy geliefde bosveld op die beesboerdery toe lê. Ons wens hom aIle sukses en voorspoed met hierdie onderneming en hoop dat hy spoedig in die rustige bosveld sy gesondheid volkome sal herwin. "In 1925 het genl Rademeyer as 21-jarige boereseun van die Vrystaat, op Fouriesburg by die Polisie aangesluit. Reeds in die begin van sy opleiding aan die S.A. Polisiekollege het sy speurvernuf, bekwaamheid en deursettingsvermoë aan die lig gekom en het die sonderlinge onderskeiding hom te beurt geval om, na voltooiing van sy opleidingskursus, direk in die Speurdiens opgeneem te word, sonder dat hy die gebruiklike diens in uniform verrig het. "Op sportgebied het hy hom ook onderskei. Hy was 'n knap rugbyspeler en het in die Polisie se eerstespan diens gedoen. Hy is dan ook 'n lewenslange visepresident van die Noord-Transvaalse Rugby-unie. "Hy het die rang van luitenant reeds op die jeugdige ouderdom van 32 jaar verwerf. Geleidelik het hy sport na sport bereik totdat hy in 1952 Uniale Hoof van die Speurdiens geword het. Die Kroningsmedalje is in 1953 aan genl. Rademeyer toegeken. "Generaal Rademeyer het sy pligte dwarsdeur sy loopbaan met hoë onderskeiding volvoer. Vandag kan hy met trots terugkyk op daardie vrugbare deel van sy lewe waarin hy sy hoogste ideale verwesenlik het en terselfdertyd 'n groot diens aan SuidAfrika gelewer het. "Nou gaan hy die boeie vir die vangriem verruil. Maar in denke en wese sal hy altyd lid van die Polisiemag bly. Die ou gesegde ‘eenmaal 'n Polisieman, altyd 'n Polisieman' sal hom ongetwyfeld hier laat geld. "GenI. Rademeyer se bydraes tot die opbou van die Polisiemag is wydvertak. "Hy het ook saam met wyle professor Willemse 'n waardevolle boek oor Kriminologie die lig laat sien. "General Rademeyer has reason to look back with great pleasure and satisfaction over a long period of 35 years public service. During his interesting career in the Police Force he has made his mark as one of the most competent detectives this country has so far produced. For more than six years he occupied the highest post in that branch of the Service. "Those members of the Force, who had the opportunity of coming closely in contact with General Rademeyer and knowing him intimately, will remember him best for his modesty and simplicity, his direct and honest approach, his unassuming manner in conducting the affairs of the Force and, above all, his inclination always to sympathise with the less fortunate ones. He was a real champion of the underdog in the Service.

"It was probably due to this characteristic that he consistently pursued a policy in the department of eliminating the human factor wherever feasible in endeavouring 3 to ensure justice and fairness to all members concerned. "Hy het veel tot stand gebring. Benewens die gebruik van die twee amptelike tale in die Mag, die toekenning van amptelike wonings volgens 'n puntestelsel, het hy onder andere die eenheidswaardestelsel ingevoer wat die postestruktuur in die Mag aan die begin van 1958 reggestel het. Hierdie is slegs enkele van die verbeterings wat hy in die Mag teweeggebring het waarvoor die lede hom altyd dankbaar sal wees. "Uit waardering en erkentlikheid vir sy uitstaande dienste het ek die rang van luitenant-generaal aan generaal Rademeyer by sy aftrede toegeken. "Generaal, aan u en mev. Rademeyer wil ek, namens die Regering en myself en namens ons almal, opregte dank en waardering uitspreek vir u getroue en onbaatsugtige diens wat u oor al die jare aan die S.A. Polisie en terselfdertyd aan die Staat gelewer het. In besonder wil ek mev. Rademeyer bedank vir die wyse waarop sy altyd u so getrou bygestaan het. Ons wil u beide gesondheid, voorspoed en die rykste seĂŤn van die Alwyse op u verdere lewenspad toewens. "Namens die SA Polisie oorhandig ek graag as blyk van waardering en toegeneentheid hierdie geskenk aan Generaal Rademeyer. Genl JH du Plooy "In 1926 het nog â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Vrystaatse seun vanuit Kroonstad tot die SA Polisie toegetree. Min het hy toe geweet dat hy 34 jaar later generaal Rademeyer as Kommissaris van die SA Polisie sou opvolg. "Dit is luitenant-generaal Du Plooy wat met ingang van 1 Augustus 1960 met daardie rang as Kommissaris aangestel is. "Generaal, ons wens u en mev. Du Plooy van harte geluk met die aanstelling. "In Desember 1928 is generaal Du Plooy oorgeplaas van die Uniform- na die Speurafdeling van die Polisiemag. Na aflegging van die voorgeskrewe eksamens het hy geleidelik gevorder totdat hy in September 1954 generaal Rademeyer opgevolg het as uniale hoof van die speurdiens. "General Du Plooy was awarded the African Service Medal and in 1946 the Kings Police Medal for outstanding ability in the execution of his duties. In 1947 he was awarded the M.V.O. (Member of the Victorian Order) for meritorious services rendered in his capacity as commanding officer of the unit to which during the Royal tour in South Africa the safety of the Royal household was entrusted. "In 1953 the Coronation Medal was awarded to him. 3

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"Soos ek reeds gedurende die afgelope Parlementsitting gemeld het, word daar veral, ten einde die Polisiemag meer aantreklik te maak, verbeterings van uitgebreide aard beoog. Goeie vordering is sedertdien gemaak om sekere skemas te finaliseer. "Die Departementele Komitee van die departement, wat ondersoek ingestel het hoe om die Polisiemag aantrekliker te maak, ten einde veral meer rekrute vir inlywing te lok, het gevind dat die Polisiemag tans nie 'n aantreklike loopbaan vir die blanke jeug van Suid-Afrika bied nie. Van daardie beoogde verbeterings. "Onder andere kan ek reeds op die volgende stappe wys (ander sal later aangekondig word): 'n Verlengde opleidingskursus vir Polisierekrute in die Polisiekollege word tans uitgewerk. 'n Merietestelsel vir die bevordering van kapteins en luitenante sal toegepas word. Die aanstelling van senior offisiere sal op 'n basis van seleksie geskied. Die eksamenstelsel vir ander range bly onveranderd. "Die funksies van gereorganiseer.

die

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senior

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aan

Polisiehoofkwartier

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Die Inspekteur-generaal; die Speurder-generaal; die Adjudant-generaal; die Kwartiermeestergeneraal.

Die Inspekteur-generaal, bygestaan deur vier provinsiale inspekteurs wat alreeds aangestel is, is verantwoordelik veral vir inspeksies in die Unie en Suidwes-Afrika. 'n Adviserende Polisieraad om die Minister en die Kommissaris van Polisie met advies te bedien, is in die lewe geroep. Die Raad is as volg saamgestel:       

Die Kommissaris van Polisie tree as voorsitter op; die Inspekteur-generaal; die Speurder-generaal; die Adjudant-generaal; die Kwartiermeester-generaal; die Hoofkapelaan, en die Senior Stafoffisier, sekretaris.

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Die poste-struktuur van die S.A. Polisie word tans ooreenkomstig die eenheidswaardestelsel in hersiening geneem. Dit sal 'n aanmerklike verbetering meebring. 4 Verder is die amalgamasie van die range sersant klas I en sersant klas 2 in die rang van net sersant goedgekeur. Dit sal een bevorderingseksamen uitskakel. Opknappingskursusse vir offisiere en ander range sal weer van tyd tot tyd aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiekollege gehou word. Van belang is ook dat 'n Polisiereserwe weer in die lewe geroep sal word. Pogings word tans ook aangewend om beter koĂśrdinasie, skakeling en samewerking tussen die SA Polisie en die SA Weermag te bewerkstellig. Interdepartementele samesprekings vind tans in die verband plaas. Dit word byvoorbeeld, onder andere, oorweeg om die SA Polisie-afdelings en die S.A. Weermagkommandemente se territoriale grense in ooreenstemming te bring. Dit sal 'n aansienlike vermeerdering in die getal Polisie-afdelings in die Unie en Suidwes beteken wat 'n baie noodsaaklike uitbreiding sal meebring. Ander aangeleenthede wat finansiĂŤle implikasies inhou, sal eersdaags deur die Regering oorweeg word. "I have no doubt that in discharging these and other most responsible and onerous duties as Commissioner, Lieut Genl Du Plooy will be considerate and impartial, but at the same time fearless and resolute. One of his primary responsibilities will be to put the improvements referred to, and others contemplated, into operation as early as possible with the object of attracting more young men of the right type to the Force. Particular attention will, for instance, have to be paid to the thorough training, discipline, equipment, morale and relations between the Force and the general public. Events in Africa and particularly events in our own country make it absolutely essential that our national Police Force shall at all times be properly trained, well-equipped for its difficult and exacting tasks and above all a content Force, so that it will always be ready to cope with any eventuality. "Om af te sluit: Generaal Du Plooy, aan u en mev. Du Plooy wens ons aile sukses en voorspoed toe op u belangrike en veeleisende loopbaan as hoof van die SuidAfrikaanse Polisie." 5 4 5

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POLICE MUST LEARN TO MAKE PROTEST WORK 23 May 2014 00:00 Julia Hornberger They must assume that people want to deliver messages – and help them to do so.

On April 13 2011, Andries Tatane was killed by officers of the South African Police Service (SAPS) during a protest in Ficksburg. This brutal killing was a watershed moment, marking the return of repressive police violence. It drew public awareness to a chain of similar incidents of police brutality during protests including, of course, the Marikana shootings. These amount to a frightening picture of police failure to deal with public protests in a democratically acceptable manner. Ironically, in the past 15 years the SAPS has been substantially disinvesting from public-order policing in order to deal with the pressure to reduce crime. In an effort to increase its legitimacy it has been putting the bulk of its resources into “ordinary” crime fighting. Under the Thabo Mbeki government, the public order unit began to be dismantled and by 2007 it was reduced by more than 64% in terms of personnel. Officers were relocated to bolster everyday police station work and to major crimefighting operations. In the light of history this could be considered an unprecedented and even a progressive move. From inception, a primary role of the police in South Africa was not to keep peace among people but to police territory and suppress internal resistance to colonial rule. Prior to Union in 1910, a multiplicity of units proliferated, such as mounted military police and special police for key infrastructure.

Even the municipal police, which supposedly subscribed to a more civilian outlook, supported the mining industries in forcefully managing workers. The enforcement of the Liquor Law, the Gold Law and the Pass Law in particular led to ongoing raids on mining compounds and black living quarters, and the mass incarceration of an otherwise innocent black population. Throughout the 20th century, the police was concerned with urban unrest. At times it was almost fully absorbed by the task of quelling protests and strikes. Many of their interventions involved the killing of people and left protesting groups more united and politicised than before the intervention. The task of suppressing protest drove a process of militarisation of the police, with a bias towards drill-and-weapon training and the introduction of military ranks in 1919. Where the police was trying to deal with so-called ordinary crime, which threatened white people’s lives and property in the growing and industrialising cities, it was deeply inefficient and entangled in corrupt relationships. Implausible as it might seem, police management tried to maintain a language of modernisation and an aspiration towards professionalism and independence. Yet this was often only the wishful thinking of official documents. And even where white citizens, who might have had some influence on what kind of police they wanted, expressed their unease about armed police officers patrolling their area, such liberal concerns were quickly overruled – with the very consensus of these citizens – when confronted with a growing black urban under- and working class. This bias toward crowd control reproduced itself over the years in different variations. By the 1980s the effect was a militarised police with little capacity for ordinary crime control. This political bias left black areas to their own devices in terms of creating ways of safe living. This gap was filled with formations of informal justice. It was a form of self-rule that was sometimes politically legitimate, sometimes a menace. And for the state, it was often instrumentalised as a useful evil in a divide-and-rule policy. It normalised the lack of security, and legitimised highly authoritarian and immediate forms of punishment. After 1994, with democratic promises of inclusion, this produced a highly ambiguous and individualised yearning for the force of the state – the hope that the police intervene forcefully in one’s own favour. We could draw an analogy here between public-order policing and the policing of domestic violence. Domestic violence is symptomatic of conditions of (gender) inequalities and economic disempowerment, structural conditions that the police alone cannot change. The call for help from the police expresses the desire for a protective but authoritative figure, who can at least match the husband’s violence. The municipalities’ relationship to public-order policing is not very different. It is mostly 23

not the legitimacy of the government as such that is at stake, but rather the working of the local state that leads to protest. The police become the most tangible manifestation of the state, and the addressee to receive the message (of anger). The issue of policing thus serves as a rallying point to hold government accountable and make the suffering heard. This marks a huge difference compared with the late apartheid era: there is a demand for actual policing. Yet the police response to this demand mostly disappoints and in fact aggravates the situation. It is not only that the police cannot solve the situation, but that the very act of policing produces retaliation. Protesters might feel shut up and the sense of violence suffered is recast as a political sacrifice, meaning that people go into subsequent protests with the expectation that further sacrifice might be necessary. Police intervention is crucial to what happens at a gathering; it has the possibility of either giving people the sense that movement is possible or that a horizon is closed; and police can themselves be responsible for escalating hostility. There is always a broad spectrum of people in a crowd, from individuals who are quite willing to police themselves to those who are more prepared to use violence. It is police action, which confuses the acts of a few with the acts of a whole crowd, and creates the crowd as a homogeneous (and violent) entity, that leads to a crowd uniting and halting communication. To avoid an escalation of violence the police would always need to assume that the crowd is there to deliver a message. The police cannot change inequality and unemployment, but it can choose the side of the protesters and help to deliver the message. Here is a good example of how this should go, taken from policing expert PAJ Waddington, who was observing the negotiations between representatives of a farleft anarchist group and Metropolitan Police officers during the early 1990s in Britain. The declared aspiration of the protesters was to “tear down the fabric of capitalism”, to which the superintendent conducting the meeting replied: “And how can we help you?” Yet little in the way of such a radical mind shift in the approach to police intervention seems to be on the horizon in South Africa. Instead the promise has been to bring back and even build more public-order capacity than ever before. Soon there are supposed to be 9 000 police officers ready to deal with community protests all over the country. Because nothing much might change in terms of people’s demands, the role of the police is likely to be that of an occupying army. Unless, maybe, they stick instead to their course of getting ordinary crime-fighting right, and at least to make sure that protest does not increase because of their interventions. And so they had better 24

learn how to make protest work. What we need is a complicit police; complicit not in inertia, but in making things move. Julia Hornberger is a senior lecturer in the anthropology department of the University of the Witwatersrand and the author of Human Rights and Policing: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg (Routledge).

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Polisie uit die “Ou-dae” deur HBH

Bostaande foto bring baie herinneringe terug; dit is die polisie wat ek geken het. Hierdie foto dagteken uit die middel 1950’s. Ek kan onthou toe ek by my Oupa en Ouma op Van Reenen gekuier het dat die polisie ŉ soortgelyke bakkie gehad het. Dit was die eerste keer dat ek so ŉ bakkie gesien het wat deur die polisie gebruik was. Ek het “Oom Koos” of te wel sers Coetzee gevra waarom die polisie met so bakkie ry aangesien ek as kind gewoond was aan die “Swart Meraai”-tipe polisiebakkies wat destyds in gebruik was. Sy antwoord was komies: “Hier ken ons almal – dis nie Durban nie, hier hardloop mense nie weg nie!” Later het ek en Oom Koos se paaie weer met sy aftrede in distrik 75 (Durban-Suid) gekruis toe ek sy stasie by hom oorgeneem het. Hierdie foto “vertel baie” en is tydens die bekamping van onluste geneem. Al die manne in kakie is “beredemanne” let op die eerste-klas-sersant; hy dra sy strepe 25

slegs op die regtermou. Bokant die chevron is die kroon; dit beteken hy is die “groot sersant” – hy was in rang die senior van die tweede-klas-sersant en die ondersersant. Tot en met die 1960’s het jou ervare 1ste klas sersante in die aanklagtekantoor gewerk; die “tweedeklas” was die wyksersant; gewoonlik op die trapfiets om die manne op rondtes te besoek. Beredemanne kon destyds sonder ŉ tuniek werk. Later toe die swart-blou uniform onttrek is, kon polisie in kakie ook sonder tuniek werk. (Ek onthou my Vader se chevrons (met press-studs) was op sy hemp met lang moue gedra.) Die konstabel in swartblou uniform was ŉ “magal” genoem. (Ek het al baie in woordeboeke gesoek na die betekenis van die woord. Al wat ek tot dusver kon kry was dat “magal” die “Voortrekker-naam” vir ŉ renoster was!) Let op die diensstrepe – chevrons wat onderstebo - op die onderste regter mou gedra was. My Vader het as senior konstabel ook diensstrepe gedra voordat hy in 1952 na 2/sersant bevorder is. Hy het aan my genoem en ek mag dalk verkeerd onthou het; dat hulle die diensstrepe soos volg gedra het; na 3 jaar – 1 streep, 5 jaar – 2 strepe, 7 jaar – 3 strepe en 9 jaar diens – vier strepe. Hy het 14 jaar diens gehad voordat hy 2/sersant geword het. Met 18 jaar diens het allemanskappe, onder- en adjudant-offisiere hul 18 jaar medalje verwerf. Offisiere het nie vir trouediens medaljes gekwalifiseer nie maar die senior-konstabel met die trouediens medalje het ‘n £10-00-00 (R20-00) toelaag per jaar ontvang. Tot en met die 1960’s was bevordering in die Mag baie stadig en was daar nie altyd poste beskikbaar nie. Tydens die dienstermyn van genl JM Keevy is baie gedoen om salarisse te verbeter en meer poste te skep. (hy was die SAP se eerste ‘vol” generaal.) In my jong jare het ek bv saam met sersant Tandjies van der Merwe gewerk – hy was eers ŉ 1/sersant maar in 1960 is die sersantsrange van 2de-klas en 1/klas geamalgameer. hy was my AKsersant en sy magsnommer was in die 14xxx-reeks. In 1962 en 1963 het talle jonger manne offisiere geword – iets nuut in die Mag - en almal het groot en bekende offisiere geword. In die 1970’s was dit algemeen dat manne van 24 jaar oud as offisiere aangestel is. Ek noem net hierdie om te bewys hoe die Mag uitgebrei het. Gedurende 1964 was daar net een brigadier (en wel ŉ 26

assistent-kommissaris) te Pietermaritzburg en hy was oorhoofs vir Afdelings Natal, Port Natal en die Transkei aangestel. So ook was daar net een kapelaan in Durban gestel – maj Jansen. Hy het gemelde drie afdelings bearbei en al die militêre begrafnisse waargeneem. Die grensoorlog of bosoorlog het in 1966 afgeskop en meer en meer kapelane was nodig omdat daar meer sterftes was en omdat maatskaplike probleme toegeneem het. Die konstabel in die swart-blou uniform dra ŉ bandelier met 50 patrone en is gewapen met ‘n 303. Aan sy boonste baadjieknoop het gewoonlik ŉ silwer ketting gehang en aan die einde van die ketting was ŉ fluitjie. Die fluitjie met ketting het afgehang na onder en was rondom die derde – vierde knoop versteek. Polisie het tot en met die 1960’s gereeld op- hul fluitjies geblaas wanneer hulle inbrekers edm gejaag het. Later het alle konstabels en lede van die Mag ŉ fluitjiekoord (in die plek van silwer ketting en fluitjie) om die regterarm gedra. Waarom ‘regs’ wou ek weet? Aan my is vertel deur ŉ voormalige voorsitter van die raad op heraldiek dat die polisie eintlik ŉ berede mag was - daarom regs. Voetsoldate se fluitjiekoord is links het hy vertel. Na 1961 toe die blou-en-grys uniform ingevoer is, tydens die bewind van adv FC Erasmus, het sersante hul chevrons slegs op die regtermou gedra en so ook het die hoofkonstabel (AO) die kasteel onder op die regter mou gedra. Later is die AO se rangkentekens verander van die kasteel na die Republiekwapen binne in ŉ lourierkrans op beide arms. Ons het hoofkonstabels en later AO’s as “meneer” aangespreek – die gebruik is gestaak en die AO is as “adjudant” aangespreek. Die senior offisier op die foto: Die senior offisier (links) lyk na ‘n majoor veral as mens na die pettuit kyk en dit lyk of hy ‘n Sam Browne-lyfband dra met sy rewolwer wat aan sy regtersy hang. Omdat hy bewapen is dra hy geen stokkie nie. Die majoor lyk baie bekend, hy kan brig IPS Terblanche of ene maj Pienaar wees.

Die laaste opmerking oor die rang van brigadier: Daar was ook twee klasse van brigadier nl brigadier(assistentkommissaris) en brigadier (adjunkkommissaris), eergenoemde was ŉ junior-brigadier en laasgenoemde was ŉ senior-brigadier op die selfde salariskerf as ŉ generaal-majoor (adjunkkommissaris).

Gedurende die begin 1980’s – ek sou sê circa 1984 het mnr Adriaan Vlok by die SSVR diens aanvaar as beide adjunkminister van verdediging asook van wet en orde met opdrag op die rewolusionêre klimaat te probeer stuit en die NVBS te bedryf. Hy het die anomalie raakgesien en gesorg dat die polisie se brigadiersrange saamgesmelt het. Die SAW het slegs een rang van brigadier gehad. Wanneer ŉ lid van die SAP bv die seksiehoof van ŉ afdeling by die SSVR was; met die rang van brigadier (assistentkommissaris) en ‘n lid van die SAW op dieselfde personeel word bevorder na brigadier dan het die SAW-brigadier onmiddellik bevel oorgeneem.

 Dankie aan Adriaan Vlok vir die instellling van die volwaardige brigadiersrang.

No 30861 Maj “Harry” du Preez via Paul du Preez

1957 Appointment certificate – 1903 Silver whistle & chain

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CAPE RURAL POLICE: FRANCOIS GUNTER Oom Hennie Heymans, ek soek so bietjie hulp i.v.m. die arm-kenteken. Dit was op die arm gedra deur die swart lede van die ou Cape Rural Police, en is nou in my versameling. Ek soek nou net foto’s waarop lede dit dra om te bevestig. Ek het nog net foto’s van die Natal Native Police gesien met dit en wil graag sien of die Kaapse lede dieselfde was. Ek het 'n gevoel daar was swart kleur om die letters (of dalk enemmel), en wil graag bevestig met foto’s.

Frik Bruwer, Tom van Rensburg and Jacques Van Heerden like this. Jos Chadinha Nog nooit gesien nie. 30

Francois Gunter Dit was in gebruik voor 1900 deur die ou Cape Rural Police. Jos Chadinha Wat n goeie stuk om te besit en in die versameling te wees. Hennie Heymans Hallo Francois Gunter - wat in die ou dae gebeur het is, swart lede van die polisie het hul "kenteken" op die arm gedra - ek het gelees hoe bv die Natal Mounted Police gesukkel het met hul swart speurders - diè wou destyds nie die koper arm kenteken 'wegsteek" nie. Ek stem saam goeie stuk om in versameling te hê~! Francois Gunter Dankie Oom Hennie, indien oom op enige foto’s afkom van Kaapse lede wat dit dra sal ek belangstel. Hennie Heymans Ek sal deurwerk - daar is baie foto's op FB met Zulu Polisie wat dit dra - sal vir jou laat kry. Nog iets interessant soos die Chiefs in Rhodesië - het die Duitse Militêre Polisie ook 'n brons plaat op die bors gedra met ketting om die nek weet glad nie wat dit genoem is nie! Francois Gunter Die Duitsers s'n word 'n "gorget" genoem (Ringkragen" in Duits) en is hoogs versamelbaar. Ek sien gereeld van die Rhodesiese Chiefs nekplate, maar omdat dit nie militêr is nie dit so gesog onder militêre versamelaars nie. Hennie Heymans Dankie! Ek sien in Engels word die kraagpatte van senior offisiere "Gorget Patches" genoem. Dankie so leer mens elke dag! Francois Gunter Ek verstaan ook nie daai een nie, maar dit is seker omdat "gorget" van die Franse word "gorge" (throat, keel) kom en die kraagpatte is ook naby die keel. Ons verwys baie verkeerdelik na die kraagpatte as net "gorget", maar dit moet soos Oom sê "gorget patch" wees om verwarring te voorkom.

SERIOUS FOR PEOPLE TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN: VIA DR DREYER VAN DER MERWE This is serious for people traveling with children. Undue child removal over borders and child trafficking has necessitated this. A child is someone under the age of 18 years old. As from 1 Oct 2014 a full birth certificate (unabridged) would be required at ports of entry or exit – to and from the RSA – even if the child has an own passport. It could cause big financial and other strains if parents are turned back at airports and border posts like Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia etc. Where only one parent travels with a child authentic permission documents, allowing child to travel, from the other parent must be shown. If travelling is to countries where English is not one of the official languages the above mentioned documents should 31

be translated into a language acceptable for that country, registered with the embassy of that country in SA and a codicil should be obtained from the Dept of International Relations (Foreign Affairs) authenticating the said documents. Where the other parent does not give permission to travel and travelling is for good reason a court order may be obtained to overcome that burden. 

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The Cape’s youth gangs: Bigger, deeper, more dangerous Shaun Swingler: SOUTH AFRICA; 26 MAY 2014 09:07 (SOUTH AFRICA) SHARE ON TWITTERSHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON EMAILSHARE ON GOOGLE_PLUSONE_SHARESHARE ON LINKEDIN Gangsterism in the Western Cape is rife. In 2013, 12% of the 2,580 murders in the province were gang-related (2nd behind arguments turned violent), according to the South African Police Service. This is an 86% increase from 2012. In addition, children as young as 14 are being arrested on gang-related murder charges. If the social and environmental factors that nurture gangsterism are left unaddressed, there will be small hope for the children and young adults gripped by gangs in the Western Cape. By SHAUN SWINGLER. The Apartheid relocation of coloured and black people from the Cape Town inner city to the Cape Flats and surrounding townships had a powerful effect on those relocated. The social dislocation nurtured conditions for the burgeoning street gangs of the early 1980s to thrive, according to criminologist Don Pinnock, in his 1997 book Gangs, Rituals, & Rites of Passage. Suburbs on the Cape Flats such as Manenberg, Elsies River and Parkwood have deeply entrenched, decades-old gang structures. And there are now fledgling gangs forming in the townships of Khayelitsha and Nyanga. Just how to deal with this problem has become a much-debated and highly politicised subject, with Western Cape premier Helen Zille recently calling for the SANDF to be deployed to the Cape Flats to do the work the police have seemingly failed to do. Gangs were most often formed by children seeking physical protection from threats in their communities, according to Major General Jeremy Vearey, Provincial Commander of Operation Combat – the specialised SAPS Western Cape anti-gang strategy unit. 32

However, Vearey argues that these youth groupings now get “perverted in a gang environment – with the money, the drugs, the girls,” and the children become easy targets for recruiting when so-called Cape Flats ‘super gangs’ such as the Americans and the HLs (Hard Livings) require hitmen for their drug and turf wars. “It’s very different to how it used to be,” says Rodney Amanshure, ex-leader of the Naughty Boys gang in Parkwood. “We used to get together in these smalls groups when we were 10, 12 years old. Then one clique would start fighting with another – it was a slow thing. But now it happens too fast. These kids are rushing.” Parkwood is now run by the Americans, where children as young as twelve have been seen by the Daily Maverick with the Americans’ gang motto ‘In God We Trust’ tattooed across their chests. Amanshure recruited many children because he says they were eager to prove themselves and often got off lightly when caught. “They want to show me who they are because they mos now want to go up in the ranks.” Youth gangs on the Cape Flats are well established; however, there are burgeoning youth “proto-gangs” growing in size in Khayelitsha and Nyanga as well. This is according to Dr Kelly Gillespie, an anthropologist at the University of the Witswatersrand, who has engaged in research into criminal justice in the Western Cape for the past twelve years and has more recently researched the growing youth gangs in Khayelitsha. She describes these proto-gangs as groups which are not yet fully formed gangs, but which exhibit many of the characteristics of formal gang structures. Wars between proto-gangs such as the Vuras and Vatos have been spreading fear among Khayelitsha residents in recent years. “What I found… is that a lot of these groups are forming less through safety and more from issues of style and commodity,” she says. “One day a group of kids started wearing their caps in a particular way and then that style caught on. The style and commodity between groups slowly turn into competition and then hostility.” If left unchecked, Gillespie warns that these proto-gangs will become more sophisticated. “Most gangs in Cape Town have started in similar circumstances with very similar dynamics as the ones that are happening in Khayelitsha. “There is already an incredibly sophisticated gang and drug economy in this city – there’s no reason why Khayelitsha can’t be a part of that,” she says. “It’s actually amazing that it’s taken so long.” There are 12 recognised street gangs and three prison gangs in the Western Cape, according to the SAPS; however, there are tens of smaller gangs, says Vearey. An estimate from the early nineties lists the total number of gangs in Cape Town at 130,

and gangsters at 100,000, according to Andre Standing in a 2005 Institute of Security Studies policy discussion paper. Vearey argues that a combination of drugs, lack of safe common spaces, and the intergenerational transmission of violence lead to the creation of teen gangsters. He also argues that children often look to emulate their fathers or uncles when joining gangs. Amanshure left his gang life behind for fear of his son following in his footsteps. “I’ve used my experience to tell my son who’s in matric now that this life is not going to pay,” says Amanshure. Others are not as fortunate. “On the Cape Flats, your first experience with violence is not on the streets, it’s in the house,” says Vearey. “By the time that you’re 14, 15, 16, you’ve seen a hell of a lot more than what you’ve seen on the street when it comes to gender-based violence, when it comes to fighting.” In 2003, Western Cape police’s specialised gang unit was disbanded by then-police commissioner Jackie Selebi. Subsequent rising levels of gang-related violence forced the creation in 2010 of a focused cross-departmental anti-gang strategy headed by Vearey, known as Operation Combat. Operation Combat’s objective is to take down high-ranking gangsters in the province and prosecute them under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (Poca). Poca was put in place to target organised crime and gang activity, specifically money laundering and racketeering, and put in concrete terms the strict definitions of gang activity, to better enable successful convictions of gang members. Operation Combat and Poca have already seen success with the high-profile convictions of 16 high-ranking members of the Atlantis Fancy Boys and six highranking 28s from Valhalla Park and Bishop Lavis – convictions made possible by two years of intelligence gathering by the SAPS and careful work by the NPA, according to Vearey. Poca gang cases will be in court throughout 2014, including the first-ever prosecution of imprisoned gangsters – an attempt to dent the firmly established gang structures in Western Cape prisons. In Operation Combat, Vearey believes that community mobilisation is crucial to success. “Gangs make business on areas that we call the commons. The commons are your schools; your parks. Our job in terms of community mobilisation is to get the community to take back [the commons]. We direct our neighbourhood watch, we build street committees.”

He also argues that the success of the strategy can only be fully realised if there is cross-departmental co-operation between the SAPS and the departments of development, education and community safety. He says that this collaboration has been slow to be realised at present, but with concerted effort, greater synchronicity between departments can be achieved, resulting in greater impact in the affected communities. The developmental approach is intended to be a more sustainable solution to the gang problem. It avoids what Vearey calls the “fire-fighting approach”: alleviating the symptoms rather than addressing the cause. This is essential because merely throwing young offenders in prison is ineffective, argues Dr Gillespie. “We really want to keep kids out of prison,” she says. “I’ve seen so many young men get arrested when they’re early on in their engagement with formal gang structures and they go to prison and there they become deeply entrenched in those gangs.” The Child Justice Act of 2008 attempts to address this problem by limiting a child’s exposure to the adverse effects of the formal justice system by prioritising diversion programmes for juvenile offenders. One such diversion programme is the Ottery Youth Care Centre. The centre provides a CAPS curriculum and vocational training to 40 boys between the ages of 10-17 years. Youths who have received court orders may enrol. Sherwin van der Westhuizen is a student at the school. At the age of seven, he joined a central Cape Town-based gang known as the Junior Mafia Syndicate. “You get chosen. They see your talent and if they see you’re good looking, you’re clever, they’ll bring you in,” he says. “If you’re disadvantaged in life, the Mafias will come to you and help you. They’ll give you everything you want just for that short period of time.” Now 17, Van der Westhuizen has spent most of his childhood moving between juvenile detention facilities. He was originally sent to a reformatory for robbing his school at the age of nine, but was later transferred for offences ranging from drug dealing to stabbing a warder. After his behaviour improved, he was moved to the Ottery Youth Care Centre. He speaks with ambivalence about his gang life. He is “prepared to die” for his gang “brothers” but realises that, after a recent attempt on his life by a rival gang member, this lifestyle will ultimately only bring him harm. “Mostly the thing is I don’t want any more to be a part of this because I can see it won’t benefit me in the long run. One day I will have children, my children will be influenced by these people and maybe my child will be in a rival gang, then one of my friends’ children will shoot him.” Van der Westhuizen is head prefect of his hostel and is making good progress, according to his teachers. 35

Other initiatives are also in place to address the problem. The Department of Community Safety is investing in job creation and youth enrichment in high-risk gang areas. According to MEC of Community Safety, Dan Plato, in a letter dated 7 April to the Cape Argus, the Youth Work Programme run by the department has seen a further 1,400 job opportunities created for at-risk youths, and almost R2.5m provided in financial assistance to religious organisations working to address youth crime in high-risk areas of Cape Town. Even with initiatives such as these, many members of gang-ridden areas who spoke to Daily Maverick have argued that not enough is being done by government departments and the police. One such community member is Stephanie, 24, who became wrapped up in the gang lifestyle when she began dating an Americans gangster in her early teens. She quickly learnt it would come at a price. “They [rival gang members] don’t just hurt the gangsters that they’re trying to get to,” she says, “They go for the girlfriends or the other people that the gangsters love. “I have a lot of regrets. It’s something you can’t get out of easily,” she says. “When you know too much there’s basically no way out.” “For any teenage girl to get involved with a gangster, they must consider this,” says Rashad Allen, an ex-26 and teacher at Ottery Youth Care Centre. “The gangs worry that maybe the girls will get involved with the enemy and they will give them all their secrets.” And if she does that, “they’ll rape and kill her,” says Rodney Amanshure. “They must do that.” The problems facing the gang-plagued areas of Cape Town are many and nuanced. But with gangsterism so deeply entrenched in the lives of so many children and young adults on the Cape Flats, only a solution which forces the co-operation of all relevant departments and institutions is likely to succeed in making a difference to these children’s lives. DM Photo: A teenage gangster with the Americans' gang motto tattooed across his chest. Parkwood, Cape Town. (Shaun Swingler) http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-05-26-the-capes-youth-gangs-biggerdeeper-more-dangerous/#.U4cY06vzuHA

Bendebedrywighede – Kaapse Vlakte: Fanie Bouwer Bendegroepe met die name Junky Funky kids; die Corner Boys; die Mongrels en die Americans is weer besig om die gemeenskap van Lavender Hill hier in die Kaapse Vlakte dag en nag te terroriseer. Die Wes-Kaapse minister van Polisie, Dan Plato (voorheen Burgemeester van Kaapstad) het Lavender Hill verklaar as die mees gevaarlikste plek in daardie gebied (Tot onlangs was dit Hanover Park wat dié titel gehad het). Plato maak ook maar die uitlatings wat ek jare gelede gehoor het, nl. die mense moet standpunt inneem teen bendes; dat die misbruik van alkohol aangespreek moet word; dat vaders ’n voorbeeld vir hulle kinders moet wees, ens. So voel hy dan dat hy, soos ander voor hom (NP, ANC en DA), sy raadgewing en ‘politieke plig’ gedoen het. Sedert die begin van Junie is ongeveer 64 mense gedood in die sg. bendeverwante voorvalle. Volgens berigte gebruik van die bendes ook nou masjiengewere! Ek wonder waar dít vandaan kom? Na bewering finansier dwelmbase hierdie bende-oorloë. Verder word daar gesê dat die mense nie weet hoeveel bendelede in die gebied is nie, want dit is nie meer ’n voorskrif dat hulle getatoeëer moet wees nie. Hierdie fenomeen – bendebedrywighede – is iets wat die Staat (Polisie, Weermag, almal) met ál hulle gesag en middele tot hulle beskikking oor die jare heen, geen hond kon haaraf maak nie. Dit blyk nog steeds die geval te wees. My Kommentaar: Dit is ’n diepgewortelde sosio-maatskaplike probleem, waar selfs kinders van kleins af in die web ingetrek word en waarteen meeste ouers – en die gemeenskap – hulpeloos is. Dít is ’n bewese feit. In die SAP was daar ’n Bende-Eenheid (getrek uit uniformgeledere) wat pro-aktief probeer optree het en ’n Bende Ondersoek-Eenheid wat bendeverwante moorde ens. ondersoek het. Dan was daar nog die Narkotiese Buro (SANAB) wat spesifiek na dwelms omgesien het. Al hierdie eenhede is met die misplaaste ‘wysheid’ van die nuwe polisiestruktuur post-1994 in die SAPD (Jacki Selebi & Kie) ontbind en almal moes stasies toe, want die stasiekommissaris en sy personeel sou – so het hulle gedink – ge-‘empower’ word om dinge beter te doen en met die denke dat hulle beter sal weet wat in hulle stasiewyke sal aangaan. Hierdie, tesame met die onopgeleide, onkundige bevelvoerders wat weens regstellende aksie en in ongekende haas aangestel is, het nou ná jare bewys dat die besluit ’n ramp (daar is nie ’n ander woord nie) was wat verhoogde en ongekende ellende in 37

die Kaapse Vlakte veroorsaak het. Jy vra wat my voorstel is? Wat ek ook al in die teorie of prakties mag voorstel, sal nóú ’n geblaas in die wind wees – die Staat (polisie ingesluit), soos hy nou in sy peetjie in ‘getransformeer’ is, het doodeenvoudig nie die vermoë en kapasiteit om enigsins ’n duik in hierdie buitengewone probleem te maak nie.

‘N UITTREKESEL UIT FANIE BOUWER SE STORIE – 2003 SY INDRUKKE OOR BENDES OP DIE KAAPSE VLAKTE Dinge het skaars tot ruste gekom na die 1994-verkiesing, toe die bendegeweld in die Kaapse vlakte op ‘n stadium weer ons ernstige aandag begin verg het. Veral in die Manenberg omgewing. Daar is seker so ‘n stuk of 40 bendes in die Kaapse Vlakte, met gesamentlik oor die 100 000 lede. En hulle het interessant name soos: die Hard Livings, die Americans, die Jesters; die Nice-Time Kids, ensovoorts. Ons het toe besluit om ‘n groot groep lede daar te ontplooi om die situasie te stabiliseer. Die aksie wat ons geloods het, het taamlik nuusdekking in die koerante gekry. Ek het heimlik geweet ons aksies sal nie ‘n oplossing vir die probleem van bendes as sulks meebring nie, maar ons moes darem ten minste wys dat ons “iets” doen. Die Cape Argus het op ‘n stadium na die operasie verwys as ‘n “damp squib”. Ek het in my binneste nie veel daarmee gestry nie. Ons het by die Manenberg polisiestasie ‘n spesiale operasionele kamer laat inrig, van waar ons die omgewing intens laat patrolleer en op bende-aktiwiteite gekonsentreer het. Ek het ook heelwat van my afdeling (ABS) se lede vir dié doel beskikbaar gestel. Dit is hier waar ek die berugte tweeling Rashaad en Rasheed Staggie ontmoet het. Rashaad was die onbetwiste leier van die Hard Living bendes. Ek het later Rasheed in 1996 by Soutrivier in die straat dood sien lê pas nadat hy deur lede van PAGAD geskiet en daarna aan die brand gesteek is. Dit was groot nuus oor die TV. Hy is die een wat eendag in ‘n dokumentêre program oor bendes gesê het; “Whose nose?” in plaas van “Who knows?” Ek het op ‘n stadium elke dag na Manenberg gegaan en as’t ware met die polisiemanne vir ‘n ruk op die grond saam gewerk om vas te stel wat werklik aangaan en om die kultuur, as ek dit só kan stel, van bendegeweld van naderby te aanskou en te ervaar. Die bendeleiers maak groot geld. Dit is ‘n bewese feit. Die ekonomie van die onderwêreld het ‘n omset van miljoene rand per jaar. En dié aantrekkingskrag sal maar altyd daar wees.

Ons, in die wit woongebiede in die Kaap, lees maar net hieroor of sien iets van bendes op TV, maar het inderdaad nie ‘n baie goeie idee oor wat werklik daar in die Kaapse vlakte aangaan of wat die mense as gevolg daarvan moet deurmaak nie. En hoeveel mense en kinders het nie al oor die jare gesterf het in die bendegevegte nie? Nie net gevegte tussen mekaar nie - die wreedste moorde en verkragtings denkbaar word deur hierdie mense gepleeg. Ek dink die meeste moorde vind plaas wanneer die bendes mekaar takel wanneer hulle sien dat ‘n opponerende groep in “hulle gebied” verdowingsmiddels probeer verkoop. Dit is gewoonlik tydens hierdie oor en weer skietery waar onskuldige omstanders ook raak geskiet word. En dan is daar sommer baie ander redes wat ook ‘n skietery tot gevolg het. Ek het al gewonder wat hier in ons wit woongebiede sal gebeur as daar sê byvoorbeeld 2, 3 of 4 kinders dood geskiet word. Die hel sal seker los wees. En sal daar uitroepe vir massiewe polisie-optrede wees en sal die koerante letterlik dae aaneen daaroor rapporteer. En sal alle pogings aangewend word om toe te sien dat dit nooit weer gebeur nie. Tog, in die Kaapse vlakte, is dit al vir dekades lank amper ‘n daaglikse belewenis. Raar. Ek noem bendes en bendegeweld ‘n “kultuur”, want dit is maar seker wat dit is. Of is dit ‘n verskynsel? Oor dekades heen probeer die staat, die polisie, NRO’s, die Kerke en gemeenskapsleiers om “iets” aan die hierdie probleem te doen, maar sonder enige noemenswaardige sukses. Veral op die langtermyn. Daar word baie van die polisie verwag in hierdie verband. Die argument is: Vang hulle en stuur hulle tronk toe. Maar dit is nie so maklik nie. Dit is ‘n diepgewortelde sosio-maatskaplike probleem. Die polisie kan nie net daar invaar en links en regs arresteer nie. Hulle moet minstens ‘n misdaad teen iemand kan bewys. Jy kan ook nie soos met terroriste “arrest or shoot on sight” nie. Dit is ook nie ‘n misdaad omdat jy toevallig of vrywillig ‘n bendelid is nie. Dit is bekend dat baie sake in die howe skipbreuk lei as gevolg van die feit dat party ooggetuies wat verklarings aan die polisie afgelê het, eenvoudig op ‘n stadium voor die verhoor deur bendelede dood geskiet word. En omdat die mense bewus is hiervan, kom van die ooggetuies dus nie na vore nie. Hierdie hele spiraal van geweld veroorsaak ‘n gevoel van hulpeloosheid in die gemeenskap. Dan dink ‘n mens aan die gedwonge verskuiwings van mense na die Kaapse vlakte tydens die implementering van die groepsgebiede wette. Dan is daar die armoede wat heers; die swak behuising en die werkloosheid en gepaardgaande armoede wat tot vandag toe nog ‘n ontsettende probleem is. Gin wonder dat die Kaapse digter Adma Small die volgende in sy gedig gesê het nie: “die Here het gaskommel 39

en die dice het verkeerd geval vi’ ons daai’s maar al ….” Dit is hierdie maatskaplike en ekonomiese faktore wat die bende kultuur net eenvoudig van geslag tot geslag laat gedy. ‘n Mens sien die blokke woonstelle wat ook destyds deur die vorige regering gebou is om die mense tydens die verskuiwings te huisves. Hierdie woonstelle – die mense verwys daarna as die “flêtse” – is broeiplekke vir bendes en misdaad. Daar is gewoonlik te veel mense per vierkante meter opeen gehoop. En sonder ‘n behoorlike infrastruktuur soos parke, sportvelde en dies meer. Die omstandighede is eenvoudig haglik. Om hierdie rede sien jy so baie kinders in die strate. Dit is vir hulle aangenamer in die straat as binne die huis of woonstel self. Ek is van mening dat hierdie ou woonstelblokke stelselmatig afgebreek en met behoorlike huise vervang moet word. Dit is raar, maar waar – eintlik tragies – as jy byvoorbeeld sien hoe sekere plaaslike inwoners die Staggie broers as helde aanhang en bewonder. Dieselfde geld vir ander leiers van die tientalle bende groeperinge wat elders in die Kaap bedrywig is. Hierdie bendeleiers betaal byvoorbeeld die mense se huurgeld; voorsien hier en daar kontant aan die mense om kos aan te koop of verleen finansiële hulp in geval van nood. Ons het selfs op die TV gesien hoe lede van die plaaslike gemeenskap ten behoewe van die bendeleiers by die Howe vir hulle betoog. Vir wat? En dit terwyl die bendeleiers vir ernstige misdade verantwoording moet doen. Dit was onlangs weer die geval toe die bekende Ernie “Lastig” Solomons in die Hof verskyn het. My persoonlike mening is dat hierdie mense finansieel afhanklik is van die betrokke bendeleier. Dáárom is hy hulle held. Tragies. Die teenpool is natuurlik dat hierdie mense die bendes in hulle bedrywighede moet help. Hoe? Deur verdowingsmiddels vir hulle te verkoop, hetsy self of hulle kinders. Of om dit by hulle huise weg te steek. Of om hulle van die teenwoordigheid van die polisie te waarsku. Vuurwapens word ook partykeer deur die vroue op hulle persoon vir die bendelede gehou omdat die polisie hulle nie sommer sal visenteer nie. Ensovoorts. Op hierdie manier word die mense in die in die hele kultuur vasgevang en kan hulle nie daaruit ontsnap nie. Dit kan ook hulle dood kos as hulle dalk probeer. Die jong kinders sien dat die bendelede vinnige karre ry; genoeg geld het; goed aantrek; duur ringe dra en seker dáárom gewild is by die meisies ook. Dit is net doodnatuurlik dat ‘n kind wat in haglike ekonomiese omstandige leef, aangetrek sal word deur hierdie lewenswyse van die bendelede en mettertyd daarby sal wil inval, meesal vrywillig, maar baie keer ook gedwonge as gevolg van sy persoonlike omstandighede. 40

Tog is duisende kinders wat vanuit hulle moeilike omstandighede uitstyg en voorbeeldige volwassenes word. ‘n Mens kan net hulle ouers bewonder; dat hulle in weerwil van die omstandighede waarin hulle die kinders moes grootmaak, tog goed daarin geslaag het om die kinders heeltyd teen die gevare en omgewings-invloede te beskerm en ‘n goeie opvoeding te gee. Wat is die oplossing vir hierdie probleem? Daaroor het ek al baie gewonder en nagedink. Werkloosheid en armoede is natuurlik dié grootste oorsaak. Maar daar moet tog seker ander maniere ook wees om hierdie bendekultuur te beveg. Word daar genoeg gedoen? Is daar al behoorlik daaroor besin? Om miskien op ‘n gekoördineerde wyse deur alle betrokkenes, d.w.s. die Staat, die Kerke en die gemeenskap, spesifiek daaraan aandag te gee. Hoekom is dit byvoorbeeld nie ‘n vreeslike issue tydens verkiesingsveldtogte nie? Ek het al gehoor hoe die regering en ander politieke partye sê dat hulle sal werk skep. Dit is eintlik maar meesal bog en word dit veral tydens verkiesingsveldtogte verkondig. ‘n Mens kan miskien in ‘n baie beperkte mate sê, ja, soos byvoorbeeld groot openbare werke, maar die eintlike werkskeppers is die entrepreneurs en ander besigheidsmense – die sogenaamde “captains of industry”. Ek het al gehoor dat daar gesê word dat hierdie mense eintlik die helde in die samelewing is – hulle wat werk skep en kos op die mense se tafels sit. Die regering behoort eerder te sê dat hulle alles in hulle vermoë sal doen om ‘n omgewing daar te stel waarin meer werksgeleenthede deur sodanige besigheidsmense geskep kan word. En ook aansporingsmaatreëls aanbied om juis dít op groot skaal te kan doen. En die arbeidswette verslap - in die mate wat dit die besigheidsmense strem. Ongelukkig het die werkloosheidsyfer in weerwil van die beloftes van werk deur die politici, die afgelope dekade teen die verwagting in taamlik gestyg. Die vooruitsigte wat betref werksgeleenthede in die nabye toekoms, lyk ook nie te waffers nie. En sal bendes en bende-aktiwiteite seker maar nog vir die onvoorsienbare toekoms voortduur. Wat ‘n vooruitsig.

THE STUDY OF FINGERPRINTS: SIR FRANCIS GALTON (HBH) Introduction I must admit that I did not know anything about Sir Francis Galton until I watched a TV-program where the detective-actor told his actor-wife about Sir F Galton. I was under the impression that Sir Edward Henry was the man who played a major part in the classification of fingerprints. I “googled’ Galton and found that he was actually a predecessor to Sir Henry. Wikipedia has the following information: Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton6, FRS, 16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian polymath, psychologist,[1][2] anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist,proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for hisanthropometric studies. He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself [3] and the phrase "nature versus nurture".[4] His book Hereditary Genius (1869) was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness. [5] As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology and the lexical hypothesis of personality. He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science. [6] As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of shortterm climatic phenomena on a European scale.[7] He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability.[8] He was cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton and half-cousin of Charles Darwin. Early life Galton was born at "The Larches", a large house in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham, England, built on the site of "Fair Hill", the former home of Joseph Priestley, which the botanist William Withering had renamed. He was Charles Darwin's half-cousin, sharing the common grandparent Erasmus Darwin. His father was Samuel Tertius Galton, son of Samuel "John" Galton. The Galtons were famous and highly successful Quaker gun-manufacturers and bankers, while the Darwins were distinguished in medicine and science. Both families boasted Fellows of the Royal Society and members who loved to invent in their spare time. Both Erasmus Darwin and Samuel Galton were founding members of the famous Lunar Society of Birmingham, whose members included Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood, Priestley, Edgeworth, and other distinguished scientists and industrialists. Likewise, both families were known for their literary talent: Erasmus Darwin composed lengthy technical treatises in verse; Galton's aunt Mary Anne Galton wrote on aesthetics and religion, and her notable

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autobiography detailed the unique environment of her childhood populated by Lunar Society members. Galton was by many accounts a child prodigy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was reading by the age of two; at age five he knew some Greek, Latin and long division, and by the age of six he had moved on to adult books, including Shakespeare for pleasure, and poetry, which he quoted at length (Bulmer 2003, p. 4). Later in life, Galton would propose a connection between genius and insanity based on his own experience. He stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanityâ&#x20AC;?[9] Galton attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, but chafed at the narrow classical curriculum and left at 16.[10] His parents pressed him to enter the medical profession, and he studied for two years at Birmingham General Hospital and King's College London Medical School. He followed this up with mathematical studies at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, from 1840 to early 1844.[11] According to the records of the United Grand Lodge of England, it was in February 1844 that Galton became a freemason at the so-called Scientific lodge, held at the Red Lion Inn in Cambridge, progressing through the three masonic degrees as follows: Apprentice, 5 Feb 1844; Fellow Craft, 11 March 1844; Master Mason, 13 May 1844. A curious note in the record states: "Francis Galton Trinity College student, gained his certificate 13 March 1845".[12] One of Galton's masonic certificates from Scientific lodge can be found among his papers at University College, London.[13] A severe nervous breakdown altered Galton's original intention to try for honours. He elected instead to take a "poll" (pass) B.A. degree, like his half-cousin Charles Darwin (Bulmer 2003, p. 5). (Following the Cambridge custom, he was awarded an M.A. without further study, in 1847.) He then briefly resumed his medical studies. The death of his father in 1844 had left him financially independent but emotionally destitute,[14] and he terminated his medical studies entirely, turning to foreign travel, sport and technical invention. In his early years Galton was an enthusiastic traveller, and made a notable solo trip through Eastern Europe to Constantinople, before going up to Cambridge. In 1845 and 1846 he went to Egypt and travelled down the Nile to Khartoum in the Sudan, and from there to Beirut, Damascus and down the Jordan. In 1850 he joined the Royal Geographical Society, and over the next two years mounted a long and difficult expedition into then little-known South West Africa (now Namibia). He wrote a successful book on his experience, "Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa". He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal in 1853 and the Silver Medal of the French Geographical 43

Society for his pioneering cartographic survey of the region (Bulmer 2003, p. 16). This established his reputation as a geographer and explorer. He proceeded to write the best-selling The Art of Travel, a handbook of practical advice for the Victorian on the move, which went through many editions and is still in print. In January 1853 Galton met Louisa Jane Butler (1822â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1897) at his neighbour's home and they were married on 1 August 1853. The union of 43 years proved childless.[15][16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton Francis Galton and Fingerprints:

Although Galton was not the first to propose the use of fingerprints for identification (Sir William Herschel had used them in India for this purpose) he was the first to place their study on a scientific basis and so lay the groundwork for their use in criminal cases. He was able to collect a large sample of prints through his Anthropological laboratories, eventually amassing over 8,000 sets. His study of minutiae in prints provided the foundation for meaningful comparison of different prints, and he was able to construct a statistical proof of the uniqueness, by minutiae, of individual prints. Galton also provided the first workable fingerprint classification system, which was later adapted by E. R. Henry for practical use in police forces and other bureaucratic settings. Most of all, Galton's extensive popular advocacy of the use of prints helped to convince a sceptical public that they could be used reliably for identification. For the popular controversy over the role of Henry Faulds in the discovery of fingerprinting, see the following review of the evidence. Not also that the major works on fingerprinting by E. R. Henry, William Herschel and Henry Faulds are now available here in full-text facsimile form. Galton published two major works about fingerprints. The cover of the first, Finger Prints, contained a full set of his own prints He also published an important booklet on decipherment of blurred fingerprints.

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INTELLIGENCE: FBI FBI admits it spied on Nelson Mandela during his first visit to U.S. after 27 years behind bars    

Agents recruited an insider from the South African leader's own circle A memo dated May, 30, 1990, confirms the FBI had an informant CIA accused of providing information which led to Mandela's arrest in 1962 The 334 page document was released following a Freedom of Information request by campaigner Ryan Shapiro

By Tara Brady Published: 08:35 GMT, 30 May 2014 | Updated: 08:45 GMT, 30 May 2014 The FBI has admitted it spied on Nelson Mandela during his first visit to the U.S. after he spent 27 years behind bars. Agents recruited an insider from the South African leader's own circle who provided the FBI with his itinerary for the trip in June 1990. A memo dated May, 30, 1990, from the Atlanta office to the then FBI Director William Sessions confirms the FBI had an informant.

Nelson Mandela stands with his wife Winnie (left) after placing a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King Jr on June 27, 1990. First-left, Coretta Scott King, the widow of M. L. King At the time the CIA had been accused of providing information to apartheid authorities in South Africa which led to Mandela's arrest in 1962. Mandela was the leader of the African National Congress which was deemed by the U.S. to be a 'terrorist organisation' and was only removed from the list in 2008. According to the memo, a member of Coretta Scott King's staff had the itinerary drawn up for Mandela's trip to Atlanta. Coretta Scott King was the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The informant also said Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan wanted to meet Mandela but this did not happen until 1996 when Mandela was South African president. The 334 page document was released following a Freedom of Information request by campaigner Ryan Shapiro. However, 169 pages were withheld on national security grounds. Mr Shapiro is suing the National Security Agency, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency for the records on Mandela. He told Al Jazeera: 'What's missing from these documents is often as illuminative as what's disclosed. 'Not only did the FBI heavily redact and withhold documents, but there's virtually no discussion of U.S intelligence community involvement prior to Mandela's 1990 release from prison.' It is likely the FBI was concerned about keeping Mandela safe during his visit. A letter dated May 26, 1990, to a Houston newspaper read: 'Remember John F. Kennedy in Dallas?? Bring this black murderer to Houston and we will give him a welcome the world will not forget!!!' Fingerprints were taken from the letter by the FBI but the person who wrote it was never caught. A memo sent to an FBI agent on June 18, 1990, read: '[Department of State] representatives have classified the threat level for this visit as "high," and threats to harm Mr Mandela have been received.' One log specifically said Mandela would be assassinated 'either in Atlanta or Miami.' Thousands of Americans gathered to see Mandela during his 11-day stay in the U.S in 1990. The South African leader died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home in December last year after a prolonged lung infection. His nation and the world were plunged into mourning for the man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant. Politicians and celebrities posted their tributes to the great South African upon hearing of his death. U.S. President Barack Obama said the world had lost 'one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth'. After almost 50 years of ruthless segregation, Nelson Mandela brought black and white South Africans together as equal partners in a new democracy.

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JUSTICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: REGSPLEGING First Secret British Court Case First trial to be held in secret: Closed terror case branded 'outrageous assault' on open justice... and it's only thanks to a free Press you know it's happening at all Two men accused of terror plot are to appear at the Old Bailey in London Identity and details of alleged crimes not made public 'for reasons of national security' Trial disclosed because Daily Mail, Press and broadcasters fought for reporting restrictions to be lifted Critics have described the move as an 'outrageous assault on British justice' Decision on whether to restrict secrecy order expected within days By Chris Greenwood Published: 21:21 GMT, 4 June 2014 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 4 June 2014 A trial is to be held entirely in secret for the first time in British history. Two men accused of a terror plot will go into the dock at the Old Bailey in weeks. For undisclosed reasons of national security their identities, as well as details of their alleged crimes, will not be heard in public. The very existence of the trial can be disclosed today only because the Daily Mail fought with other media groups to have the reporting restrictions lifted.

Two men accused of a terror plot will go into the dock at the Old Bailey, pictured, within in weeks - but their identity and alleged crimes will not be made public due to undisclosed reasons of national security The casting aside of the centuries-old doctrine of open courts sparked anger last night. ‘To hold trials entirely in secret is an outrageous assault on the fundamental principles of British justice,’ said Clare Algare of Reprieve. ‘This Government’s dangerous obsession with secret courts seems to know no bounds. Unless it is resisted, we risk ending up with a justice system that will not be worthy of the name.’ Keith Vaz, Labour chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, said: ‘For a parliamentary democracy with our reputation for a fair legal system, this sets a very dangerous precedent. ‘For an entire trial to be heard in camera, this is unprecedented, very serious and worrying.’ The Court of Appeal was urged by the media groups’ lawyer to restrict the secrecy order because it represented a ‘totally unprecedented departure from the principles of open justice’.

The existence of the Old Bailey trial has only come to light because the Mail and other media groups have campaigned for reporting restrictions to be lifted Lord Justice Gross, Mr Justice Simon and Mr Justice Burnett said they would make a decision within days. The Mail has campaigned to expose the threat to democracy and openness that secret courts represent. There has been huge controversy around closed family courts, super injunctions and civil cases involving national security. Prior to yesterday, the media was banned from even reporting that the trial of the two men, known only as AB and CD, was due to take place in conditions of total secrecy. AB is accused of ‘engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts’. 48

Both men are accused of possessing terrorist documents, including a file named ‘bomb making’ held on a memory stick. CD faces a fourth charge under immigration laws of improperly obtaining a British passport.

Chairman of the Commons home affairs committee Keith Vaz said the 'serious and worrying' move set a 'very dangerous precedent'

Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti was also critical of the move, saying transparency was not 'an optional luxury in the justice system'

Senior prosecutors claim the trial may not go ahead if it has to be held in public. But they have refused to disclose publicly the need for total secrecy. Anthony Hudson, representing the media organisations, branded this position ‘unreasonable’ and ‘unrealistic’. He said national security should not be pursued without regard for the values of the society it is trying to protect. ‘This appeal raises important issues relating to not only the constitutional principle of open justice, but also the equally important principle of fairness and natural justice,’ he added. ‘This case is a test of the court’s commitment to that constitutional principle in the admittedly difficult and sensitive cases where the state seeks to have trials involving terrorism heard in secret and relies in support of that on the grounds of national security. ‘It is unprecedented that the trial of two defendants charged with serious terrorism offences should take place entirely in private with the identities of both defendants withheld. ‘No order has ever been made which requires an entire criminal trial to be held in private, with the media excluded and defendants anonymous.’ Commenting on the case, Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty said transparency was not ‘an optional luxury in the justice system’. She added: ‘This case is a worrying high water mark for secrecy in our courts. ‘There must be clearer explanations before the door is shut on press and public.’ Criminal cases are heard in open courts which the public and media can attend. Reporting restrictions sometimes cover specific parts of cases, but no previous trial has been held entirely in secret. The Official Secrets Act enables cases to be heard behind closed doors but the legislation is rarely used in this way. 49

The power to hold a trial in secret comes from common law and is not covered by recent terrorist legislation. Richard Whittam QC, who will prosecute the two men, said the Crown Prosecution Service supported open justice. But he said ‘exceptional circumstances’ had led to the request for secrecy. In 2008, the Old Bailey heard parts of a murder trial in secret on grounds of national security. But the defendant, Wang Yam, who battered recluse Allan Chappelow to death, was named and most of the case was heard in public. The trial of Britain’s most notorious double agent, George Blake, was held partly in secret in the early 1960s. Charged under the Official Secrets Act, he was sentenced to 42 years for passing secrets to the Soviets.

The Mail has campaigned to expose the threat to democracy and openness that secret courts represent. Last year, the president of the Supreme Court launched a stinging attack on secret justice, saying it is ‘not justice at all’. Lord Neuberger said hearing evidence behind closed doors was ‘against the principle of justice’. He said that other than in exceptional circumstances judges should treat requests to hear cases in closed courts with ‘distaste and concern’. His comments came after a bitter row over Government plans to introduce the Justice and Security Act. This formally enshrined secret hearings and judgments in the legal system, a radical departure from centuries of tradition.

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TEAR GAS VS BOW AND ARROWS IN BRAZIL Tear Gas vs Bow and Arrows: Indigenous protesters clash outside Brazil’s national stadium less than three weeks to go before World Cup   

One police officer shot in leg with arrow after indigenous people protest outside Brasilia's new World Cup stadium Riot police used tear gas on crowd of 300 during violent clash over plans to shrink the size of some tribal reserves A ceremony to open the exhibition of the World Cup trophy was cancelled as a result of the televised demonstration

By Julian Robinson Published: 20:41 GMT, 27 May 2014 | Updated: 09:41 GMT, 28 May 2014 Indigenous people armed with bows and arrows have clashed with mounted police armed with tear gas, helmets and riot shields - just weeks before the World Cup begins. Protestors wearing traditional tribal dress squared up to police in Brazil's capital, Brasilia - and one officer ended up being shot in the leg with an arrow. The violent scenes unfolded next to the Mane Garrincha National Stadium, amid a climate of increasing civil disobedience by groups looking to disrupt the event saying it will cost too much for a developing nation.

Standoff: Mounted police, armed with tear gas and riot helmets, confront native Brazilians, brandishing bows and arrows, to stop them from marching towards the Mane Garrincha stadium during a demonstration in Brasilia

Boiling point: Native Brazilians stand their ground carrying sharp sticks and bows and arrows and wearing their headdresses, as police, carrying batons and wearing protective outfits ride their horses towards the protesters

Taking aim: An Indigenous protester in traditional headdress sits on the grass and leans back as he gets ready to fire an arrow at the military police forming a line in the distance. One officer was shot in the leg during the violent clash

Hitting back: Military police use riot shields as they advance on the demonstrators outside the national stadium while the officer on the far left unleashes a tear gas canister as demonstrations turn violent In clashes broadcast live on television, riot police fired tear gas into small pockets of protesters as they approached Brasilia's new stadium that will host Cup matches. Protesters were seen picking up the gas canisters and throwing them back at officers, along with stones and pieces of wood. Some of the demonstrators were armed with bows and arrows, and fired a few arrows at mounted police, one of which hit an officer in the leg. Authorities said surgery was required to remove it. Activist groups told the newspaper Globo that at least two indigenous people were also injured, though it was not clear how it happened or the status of their condition.

Flash point: With arrows drawn indigenous tribesmen take aim at mounted police as they attempt to advance towards the Mane Garrincha soccer stadium where the World Cup trophy was on public display

With the national stadium in the background, an indigenous protester takes a risk as he approaches a live tear gas canister fired by military police 54

Brazil's indigenous communities are calling for the federal court to demarcate indigenous lands - but they were also protesting against the 2014 FIFA World Cup amid wider concerns about the cost of staging the tournament

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With tear gas coming out of a canister on the ground, many protesters turned and fled but some men, dressed in tribal outfits stood their ground amid rising tensions outside the National Stadium in Brasilia

A military police officer advances on protesters as the air turns thick with tear gas. Activist groups told the newspaper Globo that at least two indigenous people were injured during the clash, though it was not clear how it happened or the status of their condition The clashes, which drew about 300 demonstrators, ended by nightfall. But the violence forced officials to call off a ceremony just outside Brasilia's stadium where the World Cup trophy was to be exhibited. Indigenous activists were there to complain about legislation before congress that threatens to shrink the size of some reserves for indigenous groups. They were joined by demonstrators rallying against Brazil's hosting of the World Cup. Many Brazilians are angered about the billions being spent on the tournament, saying the money should have gone to improving Brazil's woeful public services. Brazil has seen almost daily protests in the weeks leading up to the World Cup, which begins on June 12.

Indians have routinely protested in Brasilia against efforts to change the rules around how Indian reservations boundaries are determined. They invaded Congress while it was in session on several occasions last year

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Chaotic scenes: Police wearing gas masks patrol the area outside the stadium with tear gas drifting across the road. Mounted police move off in another direction as violence resulted in the cancellation of a planned exhibition of the World Cup trophy

With his face covered, a demonstrator takes aim at police during the violent clashes. Protesters were also seen picking up gas canisters and throwing them back at officers, along with stones and pieces of wood

A tribesman holds his arms out wide as he leaps towards a line of mounted police during the clash. Others follow his lead carrying bows and arrows and waving placards

A man in a yellow t-shirt prepares to fire his bow and arrow, left, while a woman and two men, one wearing traditional blue headdress and holding a stick, watch on as tear gas fills the air Last year, huge anti-government protests took over streets in dozens of cities during the Confederations Cup, which is international football's warm-up tournament for its premier event, the World Cup. Recent protests have been far smaller than those seen last year, when a total of a million people took to the streets across Brazil on a single night. Elsewhere in Brazil yesterday, about 500 teachers peacefully rallied on a main avenue in Sao Paulo, South America's largest city. They have been on strike for about a month, demanding higher salaries. Brasilia's stadium will cost 1.9 billion reais (ÂŁ500million) when the surrounding landscaping is finished after the World Cup, city auditors said in a report published last week, almost three times the price tag first budgeted.

The native Brazilians flee as tear gas streams out of canisters during the latest of a number of protests in Brazil ahead of the World Cup, which starts in just 16 days time

Riot policemen huddle together as they try advance on protesters during the violent clashes. One officer ended up with an arrow in the leg while two indigenous people were also injured 60

A police officer blasts a tear gas canister towards protesters while another takes cover behind a shield. Despite the violent scenes, recent protests have been far smaller than those seen last year, when a total of a million people took to the streets across Brazil on a single night

Tensions rise as protesters line up opposite riot police in Brazil's capital, Brasilia. The Brazil government has warned that it will call in troops if necessary to prevent protests disrupting World Cup games

Fire power: While military police like the one pictured were carrying tear gas and wearing protective clothing, protesters were wearing traditional clothes and brandishing sharp sticks and bows and arrows Though they have not previously joined anti-World Cup protests, Indians have routinely protested in Brasilia against efforts to change the rules around how Indian reservations boundaries are determined. They invaded Congress while it was in session on several occasions last year. Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has promised the Homeless Worker's movement that squatters who have gathered around some of the stadiums will receive low-cost government housing. But her government has warned that it will call in troops if necessary to prevent protests disrupting the soccer games. Some 600,000 foreign football fans are expected to travel to Brazil for the World Cup.

Indigenous people were not the only ones demonstrating yesterday. Here a woman shouts out at a bus station in Brasilia in front of a banner reading: 'FIFA go home'. They were protesting against the billions spent so far on staging the upcoming tournament

The protests came as it was revealed that Brasilia's stadium will cost 1.9billion reais (£500million) when the surrounding landscaping is finished after the World Cup, almost three times the price tag first budgeted

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Hof Humor: : Adv Len Els Not convinced, M'Lord? Om voor die Appèlhof te verskyn, was altyd senutergend. Ek meen, daai geleerde regters was in sy (SC) toe ek nog in doeke was. Nou moet jy hul oortuig die reg moet sus en so uitgelê word. Ek argumenteer 'n regsbeginsel voor die geleerde here, wetende dat my gesag op die punt effe dun is. Op 'n stadium onderbreek appèlregter Calgot (skuilnaam) my: "Mister Deputy, I am not going to cut you short. You can have the whole of today to argue this point. If need be I'll give you the whole of tomorrow as well. All I'm telling you right now is that you will never convince me. And remember: the buck stops here. But carry on, carry on." Eish... As mens uit daai hof gestap het, het jy jou toga uitgetrek en soos 'n nat handdoek uitgedroog.

Whiskey, M'Lord? Na 'n aanvanklike drie maande in die verkeershof, word ek ‘promoveer' na Oom (Landdros) Buks Malan (skuilnaam) se hof. Dit was 'n ope geheim in die hofgange dat Oom Buks van sy Bachhus voggies gehou het. Elke oggend alvorens hy die bank bestyg vul hy sy staatsdiens water kraffie sorgvuldig met half water en half gin. "Dit ruik nie,ou seun." Deur die loop van die dag word die kraffie dan ook teugie vir teugie deurgewerk. Dit het egter geen (sigbare) invloed op Oom Buks gehad nie; hy kon drie uur in die middag 'n puik ex tempore uitspraak voordra. Ek kla 'n Tuks student aan vir besit van pornografie. Die gewraakte item is 'n fotoverhaal aka Mark Condor styl. Die 'verhaal' begin met 'n dame wat haar woonstel deur oop maak vir 'n loodgieter wat na haar 'pype' moet omsien. Sy is vars gestort en het net 'n handdoek om die wilgerlatlyf. Alvorens onse loodgieter na die pype kan omsien, bied sy hom eers 'n alkoholiese versnapering aan, skink self een en gaan sit 64

langs hom op die rusbank. Die handdoek val af en die res van die verhaal is wim en wierook. Ons verdaag vir oggend tee en ek en Oom Buks (soos dit goeie amptenare betaam) vergewis ons eers deeglik in sy kantoor van die inhoud van Bewysstuk Een. Ek merk dat Oom Buks met tye 'n foto of twee van nader betrag en dink by myself dat die 'Ou Toppie' nog groot belangstelling in die vleeslike toon. Dan merk hy droog op: "Gods, sy drink nogal 'n donnerse duur whiskey." Met die merk ek vir die eerste keer die bottel Johnny Walker Blue in die fotos op. 'n Kwessie van prioriteite...

A SOUTH AFRICAN- FLAG HISTORY: DR NC LAMPRECHT Portugal (1487 - 1510). A skirmish in 1510 between Portuguese and Khoi in Table Bay, resulted in the death of Francisco d’ Almeida (the Viceroy of Portugal), and a number of his officers and men; afterwards the Portuguese avoided unnecessary contact with the S A coast, preferring to initially frequent the island of Kilwa, off the coast of Tanzania and ultimately settle on Mozambique and Sofala islands off the coast of northern Mozambique.

Dutch States General In 1602 the Dutch States General granted the newly constituted VOC (the Dutch East Indies Company) a formal charter, with exclusive rights to literally set up shop and trade in Africa and territories east of the 18 ° 30’ E longitudinal drawn through the Cape Point / of the Cape of Good Hope, up to longitudinal 150° E drawn through the extreme east of New Guinea now known as Papua New Guinea.

In 1621 the Dutch States General granted the WIC (the Dutch Chartered West Indies Company) similar formal rights to trade in Africa, the Americas and Pacific and territories west of the longitudinal 18 ° 30’ E granted to the VOC, up to the eastern extremity 150° E of New Guinea in the Pacific. The WIC did not exercise their rights in the extreme south of Africa which included Table Bay and the west coast. They did briefly take possession of the Portuguese fort St Paolo Luanda, in Angola which they briefly occupied from 1641 until 1648. It was their closest settlement to the current South Africa. In 1652 the Dutch East Indies Company settled in Table Bay (contrary to the VOC charter, though at a time the VOC and WIC were negotiating amalgamation) and the remained in the Cape until 1795 (143 years) as well as maintaining a brief presence in Delagoa Bay, (Maputo) Mozambique from 1720 1729, and in Walvis Bay, Namibia in 1793.

The British 1795-1802 – First British occupation (7 years).

The Batavian Republic 1802 -1806 – The Dutch return as the Batavian Republic (4 years).

The 2nd British occupation 1806 – 1872 -1910 (104 years) 2nd British occupation followed by colonisation. In 1878 during the final European Powers’ scramble for Africa, Great Britain annexed Walvis Bay now in Namibia.

Cape Colony (1872 -1910) Cape Colony’s flag under responsible government.

The Voortrekker flag 1832 - The Voortrekker flag of the Great Trek.

Republic of Natalia (1838 – 1843/5) Republic of Natalia. (7 years).

Natal Colony (1843 -1893) Natal Colony (50 years).

1893 – 1910) Natal’s flag as a self governing colony. (17 years).

Orange Free State (1854 – 1900 - 1902) Orange Free State flag (46 years) until occupied and then annexed by Britain.

(1900 – 1904) The flag of British occupation of the of OFS.

(1904 – 1910) Orange Free State colony (6 years).

Republic of Stellaland (1882 – 1883) Republic of Stellaland. (2 years)

ZAR (1857 - 1902) The “Vierkleur” of the ZAR – “Transvaal” (45 years)

Battle Flag 1899-1902) The “Vyfkleur” - A 5 colour battle flag of the ZAR & OFS forces)

ZAR (1900 – 1904) The flag of the initial British occupation of ZAR Transvaal.

1904 – 1910) The Transvaal colony (6 years)

South Africa A territorially united South Africa from 31st of May 1910; South Africa became a Republic on 31st of May 1961 The Red Ensigns (1910 – 1912) The first flag of the Union of South Africa with the coat of arms of the previous colonies, with new status as provinces in a unified South Africa (2 years) (1912 - 1928) The 2nd flag of the Union of South Africa The inclusion of the oval white background for the combined coat of arms, was a cosmetic change. (16 years)

3rd South African Flag (1928 – 1994) The 3 rd South African flag, with the colours of the (Prince of Orange’s), a flag under which the Dutch war of independence against Spain had been waged, identical to the later Dutch West Indies Company flag. It included a British flag and two smaller “Boer” republic flags.(66 years)

The 4th South African flag 1994 - The 4th South African flag

With regard to the design, choice and incorporation of colours; Fred Brownell, previously the RSA State Herald and the designer of the 4th South African flag, refers of a convergence of colours. The colours Red/White/ Blue/Green are to be found in the flag of the ZAR – Transvaal’s “Vierkleur” (1899-1902) while the Black, Gold & Green feature prominently in the flag of the African National Congress and other Africanist parties.

ZAR-Transvaal

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Since 1596, black, green & gold, has featured prominently in the flag of the Arch Dukes of Saxony, Germany and from 1809 a flag identical to that of the ANC was used by the German duchy, Sachsen Weimar Eisenach (Saxony) until after formation of the German Weimar Republic in 1918. An aside and a complete coincidence, the combined emblem of the Rugby Unions of (New Zealand, South Africa and Australia) competing in the Southern Hemisphereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rugby competition similarly constitute black/green & gold

Nico Lamprecht is a former Sergeant of the SA Police, Durban. He left the SAP to go teaching.

SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY: HONG KONG: DEREK WALKER Howdy Hennie, Here is my Sai Wan trip account. When I heard that I had to go on business to Hong Kong I immediately thought about visiting Sai Wan War Cemetery. Unfortunately time was against me, but I was determined that if ever I went to Hong Kong again I would make the pilgrimage In 2010 I was once again in Hong Kong, and I set aside one day to make the trip to the cemetery. After a long MTR ride I finally arrived at the correct station and then followed my directions to the cemetery. It was a hot and sticky day, with not a lot of sunshine, but lots of humidity. It must have felt much worse to those soldiers who fought the invaders all those years ago. They were burdened with weapons, rations, ammunition and the thought that they were facing a very determined and unbeaten Japanese force. There were two separate hills to climb, the first leading straight into the Cape Collison cemetery complex, and once that was reached a further (and steeper) hill to Sai Wan proper. Most of those buried in this cemetery were killed at the time of the Japanese invasion of the Island, or died later as internees or prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at Sai Wan in 1946. There are now 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Sai Wan War Cemetery. 444 of the burials are unidentified. There are special memorials to 16 Second World War casualties buried in Kowloon (Ho Man Tin) No 3 Muslim Cemetery, whose graves were lost. There are also 77 war graves of other nationalities from this period, the majority of them Dutch and 7 non-world war graves 70

that the Commission maintains on behalf of the MoD. The cemetery contains special memorials to 12 First World War casualties buried in Kowloon (Ta Sek Ku) Mohammedan Cemetery, whose graves have since been lost. At the entrance to the cemetery stands the SAI WAN MEMORIAL bearing the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died in the Battle of Hong Kong or subsequently in captivity and who have no known grave. Additional panels to the memorial form the SAI WAN CREMATION MEMORIAL, bearing the names of 144 Second World War casualties whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith, and the SAI WAN (CHINA) MEMORIAL, commemorating 72 casualties of both wars whose graves in mainland China could not be maintained. Both the cemetery and memorial were designed by Colin St Clair Oakes. (Text from Commonwealth War Graves Commission website).

The cemetery entrance is set atop a slope that originally had a spectacular view of the harbour, but which is now dominated by high rise apartment blocks. Its a very humbling place, row on row of white headstones, with the Cross of Sacrifice right at the bottom of the rows. I was overwhelmed because this was the first military cemetery that I had visited that contained so many casualties from a single campaign. These people died defending this place. Amongst the rows gardeners tended to the flowers and trimmed and watered the grass. I started to walk, randomly taking photographs, reading names and musterings. There were many naval casualties buried here, and there were all ranks and male and female from all nationalities. There are two South Africans that served with non South African units buried here, and I was fortunate to find the grave of one of them. I threaded my way down towards the Cross of Sacrifice, then turned to look upwards towards the Stone of Remembrance. Those rows of graves just did not seem to be real, I could not really get my mind around the sheer volume of graves. This cemetery was 10 times larger than the dedicated war cemetery I had photographed in Palmietkuil a few years previously.

I walked up to one of the gardeners and thanked him for what he was doing. He smiled and gave a half bow and then returned to his work. Our language barrier was too big for me to have a conversation with him, but he clearly understood my inadequate words of thanks. Once again I threaded my way up towards the entrance and sat on one of the benches and paged my way through the Roll of Honour that was kept in a niche. I drank some water from my bottle, full well knowing that I could get a replacement bottle at any shop or vending machine. The soldiers who died here would have only had as much water as they had in their water bottles. I also signed my name in the visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, glancing at the nationalities of those who had come here before me. They were from all around the world, and some just said "thank you for caring..."

Some last random images and I was about ready to go home. I paused at one of the many Merchant Navy graves. There was no name here, only a simple "A SAILOR OF THE 1939-1945 WAR" inscription. I rested my hand on the headstone, it was rough and warm from the diluted sunshine, and it was surrounded by others who rested at this place. It was a comforting place, and as I walked away I knew that this unknown seaman was not alone, his sacrifice had not been in vain, and this cemetery and his resting place would be like this long after I am gone. I bid Sai Wan a final farewell and feeling very humble walked down the hill back towards the bustling place that is Hong Kong. A bus passed me as I walked, but somehow taking the bus would have been cheating. I could freely walk away from here, those defenders that survived would surrender to their captors and have to undergo a brutal imprisonment until the end of the war. Many would not survive, and some would find their rest in this place. I went from Sai Wan to the Cape Collison complex, it was massive, and from it I could see the serried rows of graves of Sai Wan. That was hallowed ground, and the cemetery was one that I would always remember

DR Walker 19/05/2014

ANTHROPOLOGY / VOLKEKUNDE: FANIE BOUWER

Fanie Bouwer 15 January · Edited Ek lees weer van so ongeveer 22 sterftes van jong seuns in die Oos-Kaap ná hulle besny is. In my herinneringe het ek oor dié kwessie as volg geskryf: “Ek het selfs die Abakhweta inisiasie (besnydenis) seremonies bygewoon, met ander woorde wanneer hulle “bos toe gaan”. Dit word gedoen enige tyd bo die ouderdom van 16 jaar. Ek het byvoorbeeld bygestaan en gesien hoe die “snydokter” (“Ingcibi”) tydens ‘n besnydenis met een vinnige beweging die voorhuid verwyder en dan, wat ons genoem het, geneesbol, blitsvinnig om die wond draai. Nooit het ek gehoor dat enige van die ouens se wond ontsteek het nie, of selfs gesterf het as gevolg daarvan nie. Dit gebeur deesdae baie. Ek wonder hoe die ouens intussen dan die kluts kwyt geraak het? Wanneer die ouer swart seuns op die plaas geïnisieer is, en hulle in die gras makhweta-hutte (“Iboma-labakhweta”), wat spesiaal vir dié doel opgerig word, gewoon het vir die voorgeskrewe tydperk, het ons daar gaan inloer. Geen vrouens is daar toegelaat nie. Die voorhuid is binne die makweta-grashut begrawe. Wanneer die tydperk van ‘n paar weke verby was, is die gras hutte afgebrand en moes hulle na die rivier gaan om die wit klei verf af te was. Ek het dit alles gade geslaan. Hulle het dan kakie klere gekry en was dan as jong volwasse mans in die gemeenskap aanvaar. Dit is vir hulle so belangrik as ons 21-ste verjaarsdagvieringe” 73

Frik Bruwer Fanie en kyk dan na Kokstad waar dit die afgelope 3 jaar deur ‘n dokter uit gevoer word geen sterftes nie. Frik Bruwer Fanie ek het nou net ‘n vriend gebel die 22 waarvan jy praat is slegs Mt Ayliff en nie die hele Oos Kaap nie want by Lusikisiki is ook 32 dood. Fanie Bouwer Hygent hert! Fanie Bouwer May 2014 - The practice of initiation has become open to abuse by people seeing it as an opportunity to make money, the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA said on Friday. "People charge almost R3 000 an initiate, and some of these unscrupulous people are graduates from initiation schools who are unemployed and see an opportunity to make money," Contralesa president Setlamorago Thobejane told reporters in Pretoria. "These issues are crippling and are undermining the culture that we are so proud of." Initiation has been marred by illegal schools and botched circumcisions resulting in deaths of initiates over the years. The organisation would conduct road shows before the start of initiation sessions. "In the same vein, we will also be educating traditional leaders about relevant legislation governing or related to the practice, including contravening such laws in particular," he said. The first group of Contralesa leaders would visit all provinces from next week. Eduan Liebenberg Naude Genade Fanie - wat 'n voorreg om so iets te kon aanskou - Jy moet dit bietjie aanteken presies soos dit gebeur het. Ek dink nie baie wit mans het ooit die voorreg gehad om dit te kan aanskou! As jy dit in die geheim kon verfilm, sou jy miljoene gemaak het.

COVERT ACTION / KOVERTE AKSIE: PATRICE LAMUMBA Nico Lampecht skryf: “”””Volgens Google het die sluipmoord op “Patrice Lamumba”, op February 11, 1961 plaasgevind. Terwyl Wikipedia die datum van die moord/sluipmoord/ teregstelling gee as 17 January 1961) Patrice Lumumba Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo. Wikipedia

Born: July 2, 1925, Katakokombe Assassinated: February 11, 1961, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Spouse: Pauline Lumumba Party: Mouvement National Congolais Patrice Émery Lumumba (born Élias Okit'Asombo; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo). As founder and leader of the Mouvement National Congolais he helped win his country's independence from Belgium in June 1960.

The Question Arises: To a question whether there is any significance in the discrepancy? Well the 17th January date would support the allegations of the complicity of the Eisenhower administration but an assassination carried out as result of a supposed executive order under Dwight Eisenhower, on 11th Feb 1961* means it took place under JF Kennedy who had been sworn in on 20th Jan 1961. ( Mens kan nie glo dat Dulles dit sou waag sonder om JFK in te lig nie). Eisenhower's CIA director A W Dulles continued serving under JF Kennedy, who was satisfied enough to award him the National Security medal at the end of the same year? Is daar enige leser wat met die korrekte sterfdatum van Patrice Lamumba kan help? [Kort-kort word Suid-Afrika ook beskuldig vir die moord op Dag Hammarskjold in dieselfde geweste. Maar dis weer ‘n ander riller.]

DIE ROOIGEVAAR: 40% IS KOMMUNISTE: DIS DIE OPPOSISIE FRANS CRONJÉ Die rooi gevaar is terug (of was hy ooit weg?) 2014-05-31 23:20 / Kry Rapport op

Steve Hofmeyr het die politieke spyker op die kop geslaan toe hy ná Sondag se aankondiging van die kabinet op Twitter gesê het dat die ou apartheidsera se ooms en tannies nog korrek bewys sal word oor die “rooi gevaar”. Ondanks talle verkiesingsontledings oor die afgelope twee weke is die SAKP se naam amper nooit genoem nie. Maar kyk na die kabinet en parlement, en dit lyk of 75

die SAKP die verkiesing gewen het. ’n Uitstekende stuk navorsing deur een van ons interns, Yolanda Andrag, het gewys dat meer as 40% van die kabinetsposte aan huidige of vorige SAKP-lede gegee is. Lank geïgnoreer as ’n irrelevante “bangmaak-storie”, is die “rooi gevaar” nie net terug nie – hy is in beheer. En dit het nooit verdwyn nie. ’n DA-LP het verlede jaar aan my verduidelik dat die meeste ANC-LP’s die parlement sien as ’n groot restaurant waar hulle elke dag kom kuier voordat hulle weer huis toe gaan. Hul standpunte word vir hulle voorgesê uit Luthuli-huis – waar die voormalige SAKP-voorsitter Gwede Mantashe in beheer is – en lewer geen persoonlike bydrae oor beleidstandpunte nie. Daar is net een uitsondering op die reël – die kommuniste in die parlement. Hulle werk glo geweldig hard om idees voor te stel wat beleid sal beïnvloed. Dit is glo die geval in van die parlement tot die kleinste stadsraad in die land. Stilletjies sit hulle agter die troon met geweldig groot invloed op die denkrigting van die ANC. Sulke invloed maak ook uit ’n historiese oogpunt sin omdat die kommuniste lank as die enjin van idees in ANC-geledere gedien het. Die afgelope jaar wys hoe enorm daardie invloed geword het. Sedert die Nasionale Ontwikkelingsplan te midde van toejuiging van die sakegemeenskap as regeringsbeleid aanvaar is, het die volgende beleidsveranderings plaasgevind: * Nuwe, strenger, rasgedrewe regstellende-aksie-wetgewing is voorgestel; * Nuwe swartbemagtigingswetgewing, insluitend tronkstraf vir oortreders, is voorgestel; * Beleggingsooreenkomste met 15 Westerse lande is gekanselleer; * Die staat het wetgewing voorgestel wat dit moontlik sal maak dat hy enige kommersiële bate sonder vergoeding kan gryp; *’n Nuwe tydperk vir grondeise is oopgegooi; *Daar is voorgestel dat boere 50% van hul grond “weggee”; * Wetgewing is voorgestel om dele van die private veiligheidsektor te onteien; * Wetgewing is ingestel om sekere nuwe olie- en gasbeleggings te onteien. Dit is alles gerig op staatsoorname en beheer. Daar kan geen duideliker uitbeelding wees van die invloed wat SAKP-denke op beleid het nie. Natuurlik sal vele ontleders – ondanks die harde bewysstukke – die invloed ontken. Maar hulle moet versigtig wees. Net soos die duiwel is die SAKP se gevaarlikste bate die vermoë om die wêreld te oorreed dat hy nie bestaan nie. Maar vee jou oë uit, en jy besef dat die party se invloed nou so ver strek dat ’n mens sou kon redeneer dat hy beleidsvorming oorgeneem het. Daar moet geen twyfel wees nie dat ons as land vinnig op pad is na die SAKP se visie van eers ’n sosialistiese en uiteindelike ’n volle kommunistiese staat. Die wonder is dat die SAKP se naam nooit op ’n stembrief verskyn nie. 76

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HUMOUR IN UNIFORM: Police Dogs: Johan Jacobs

BOOKS / BOEKE Bloody Lies – Citizens Reopen the Inge Lotz Murder Case Inge Lotz murder: Nine years later, two amateur forensic sleuths once again point fingers at Fred van der Vyver - Marianne Thamm (South Africa) 12 Jun 2014 12:12 (South Africa) SHARE ON TWITTERSHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON EMAILSHARE ON GOOGLE_PLUSONE_SHARESHARE ON LINKEDIN

Two brothers, amateur forensic sleuths, one based in the Cape and the other in Canada, are determined to find justice for 22-year-old Stellenbosch University masters student, Inge Lotz, nine years after her violent and brutal murder on 16 March, 2005. Thomas and Calvin Mollett have spent two years poring over evidence and have published a book, “Bloody Lies – Citizens Reopen the Inge Lotz Murder Case”, challenging the notion that the case for the prosecution was flawed and asserting there is compelling evidence “implicating” the ornamental hammer later found in Lotz’s boyfriend Fred van der Vyver’s car. By Marianne Thamm. Thomas Mollet is a short, solid man with cropped hair and a face set in the defensive expression of a soul who has become accustomed to being “vilified” and attacked. And one certainly can’t blame him for being nervous at this point. Mollett, a selfconfessed amateur forensics investigator who lives in the small Swartland town of Piketberg, is today facing an audience of some of the country’s most illustrious and eminent forensics experts including Professor Lorna Martin, head of forensic medicine and toxicology at UCT, Dr David Klatzow, forensic scientist, author and goto-guy for the media as well as forensics legend, Emeritus Professor Deon Knobel. Klatzow, in a chapter in his biography, Steeped in Blood – The Life And Times Of A Forensic Scientist (Zebra Press) describes the Lotz case as “one of the worst police investigations ever to take place in South Africa, leaving her killer roaming free”. 80

(Klatzow later said the same thing about the Brett Kebble murder investigation, but we digress). At the time of the murder Klatzow had been employed by the chief suspect, Inge’s boyfriend, Fred Van der Vyver’s family to investigate on behalf on the defence team. This lunchtime, however, Klatzow is seated in the front row of the auditorium wearing a German army parka holding a tape recorder aloft right under Mollett’s nose. Everyone who knows the irascible Klatzow can’t wait for question time later when we anticipate that he will tear into Mollett and metaphorical blood will splatter. Others in the auditorium at the Wolfson Pavilion at UCT’s Division of Forensic Medicine are few uniformed police officers (seated at the back), forensic scientists and students, filmmaker and producer, Matthew Brown, and a few other interested parties in the field. The department has invited Mollett, says Professor Martin, in order to demonstrate just how much the devil in the detail can derail or make a case and that this instance, with all the contested evidence, served as an excellent example. Mollett, who announced that he would be signing copies of his book, Bloody Lies (Penguin), in the foyer afterwards describes himself as “a freelancer in the publishing industry”. His older brother Calvin, a civil engineer, lives in Canada and for the past two years the brothers have spent every spare moment poring over, dissecting and testing the evidence in the Inge Lotz murder trial. They even went as far as setting up their own blood splatter tests in Thomas’ flat in Piketberg, ordering from Canada an ornamental, almost identical hammer to the one found in Fred Van der Vyver’s car some time after the murder and performing “similar hitting exercises on a pig”. “Look, it’s not like it was an obsession because we still lead normal lives but every spare minute that we get we try and spend on it [the case]. I have not watched a rugby game in three years,” Mollett told the amused audience. He offered that it was difficult to explain to people “who are not creative” why he and Calvin felt compelled to so rigorously pursue the case but that the impulse “comes from a deeper place”. “You know some people pick up on the rhinos as their cause. Well, our cause is Inge Lotz,” said Mollett. Thomas said that he had always been interested in the case and had been prompted to explore it in more depth after reading Antony Altbeker’s bookFruit of A Poisoned Tree. A True Story of Murder and the Miscarriage of Justice (Jonathan Ball 2010) and feeling “there was something about the story that bothered me and I could not put my finger on it”. “Then I started fiddling around on the Internet and I came across Pat Wertheim’s (a fingerprint expert) report. I certainly wasn’t a fingerprint expert then, and I am certainly not one now, but I could sense something was very wrong.” Six months later, Thomas said he decided to involve his brother Calvin “to help me with the science behind it because it is always very important for me to look at the science.” 81

Just to recap: Inge Lotz, the talented 22-year-old only child of radiologist Professor Jan Lotz and his wife Juanita, a physiotherapist, had enrolled as a master’s statistical mathematics student at the University of Stellenbosch in 2005. At the time she was in a relationship with a fellow 22-year-old student, Fred Van der Vyver, the youngest son of wealthy Eastern Cape cattle farmers, Louis and Carien van der Vyver. Both Inge and Fred were devout Christians. Then, on the evening of 16 March 2005, Inge was found brutally murdered in her flat in Stellenbosch. Three months later Fred was arrested after an ornamental hammer – which could have been the murder weapon – as well as other incriminating evidence (a letter) was discovered. Nine months later after one of the most sensational court cases, Van der Vyver was acquitted. Van der Vyver’s defence attorney was Dup de Bruyn, who is currently representing Reeva Steenkamp’s family. Mollett began his afternoon talk to the forensic experts by passing the replica hammer around for the audience to grip and feel and weigh. The court ultimately found that the equivalent tool found in Van der Vyver’s car later was not the murder weapon, but Thomas is not convinced, and there are many who agree with him. Until now the talk had been very detached, scientific, unemotional. We were, after all, in a building that probably housed cadavers somewhere close and most of us in the audience had had professional experience with crime and violence. But the sudden sight on the auditorium screen of Inge Lotz’s severely battered body on the white couch of her flat where she was bludgeoned to death on 16 March 2005 still came as shock – well, to this writer at least. One wants to look away, not only because of the horror (there were at least 15 blows to her head and chest and around 20 stab wounds to her neck), but also because of the intimacy of the moment. A young, talented woman who was killed, it is quite clear from the multiple wounds to her head and body, by someone who must have been in a terrible rage. There is something so desperately vulnerable about her lying there covered in her own blood, and now the object of our attention. Whoever did this to Lotz, we must bear in mind, is still free, and it is this that drives Mollett, as well as those (like Klatzow) who continue to believe Fred van der Vyver was falsely accused and that the real killer is yet to be apprehended. Altbeker and many others believe that Lotz was murdered, tragically like most other women in South Africa, by someone she knew intimately as she would not, being a conservative person, have worn the “skimpy” attire she was dressed in at the time of the murder if a stranger had been with her. (This of course does not take into account that Lotz could have been surprised by an intruder while watching The Stepford Wives, an ironic choice of film considering Lotz’s promise to Van der Vyver in a letter she had written earlier that day that she had wanted to be a “good wife” to him). The difference between Lotz and most other murder victims is, of course, that she is white and comes from a wealthy family and that the man accused and acquitted of the murder is also from the same background. Apart from this there are many other 82

layers to the Lotz murder that offer a view or an understanding of other aspects of South African life and death. And that is why filmmaker and producer Mathew Brown attended Mollett’s talk. Brown, who produced the award-winning Glitter Boys & Ganglands, directed by Lauren Beukes, is interested in what the Lotz case reveals about justice, race, violence and crime in South Africa. His documentary, as yet untitled, is due for release in September. “Twenty years later I am interested in exploring the justice system. If I ask people what they think would have happened if Fred van der Vyver had been a black man, across the board everyone says he would have ended up in jail,” said Brown. Brown says that the Lotz case stands out as being one that has caused much disagreement between experts. “Even experts around the world in various fields disagree with each other on the evidence and we are kind of brought up to believe that evidence and CSI is absolute but it isn’t. In this case these experts are arguing against each other based on the same evidence. And that’s crazy,” said Brown. He also said the Lotz case, like the Pistorius trial, got wrapped up in the “high profile” label but the point is these cases are exactly that because the victims are pretty, white Afrikaans girls and the suspects white men who are/were their boyfriends. There is an interesting aspect to what Inge Lotz, who fitted the saintly blonde virgin trope, evoked in the men who surrounded her in life (and in death). In Fruit of a Poisoned Tree Altbeker writes: “There was evidence, for example, that Inge inspired interest in many of the men with whom she and Fred were friends. Her best friend, Wimpie Boschoff, testified that Marius Botha who was Fred’s flat mate, had been so in love with Inge when they first met that he had, on occasions, written her poems. Wimpie also said that Jean Minnaar, to whose flat Fred had delivered the cupboard on the evening of the murder, had been in love with Inge. Finally he also testified that Jean’s flat mate, Braam Kruger, had dated Inge…” Inge, it appears has come to represent some sort of feminine ideal, and Brown says that the Mollett brothers are very “protective” of her. “What I get is that she maybe represents, subconsciously, something more to them. She is more than just someone who has died. They are trying to find out the truth and it is almost as if they are protecting her in death,” said Brown. The Mollett brothers begin their book with the line “you are now the soloist in the angels’ choir” quoting Boschoff’s eulogy at Lotz’s funeral and there is something about the continuing notion of her as “an angel” or “pure” that snags consideration and is asking for exploration on a deeper psychological level. The rest of Mollett’s talk to the forensic experts yesterday revolved around the minutiae of measurements of Lotz’s mortal wounds, the angle of camera used by the forensic photographer and the convincing possibility that the hammer was indeed the murder weapon. 83

The Mollett brothers would like to see the case against Fred van der Vyver reopened “considering new and compelling evidence”. The Western Cape DPP, Advocated Rodney de Kock, has informed the brothers that this is not going to happen while admitting that nine years later there are no new or other suspects. “We believe, however, that a retrial should be considered and granted,” the brothers conclude their book. In the end, Dr Klatzow didn’t – surprisingly – take on Mollett. Later the good doctor was seen leaning against a wall chatting with colleagues. “So, they find out the hammer did cause the wounds. What then? It could have been any hammer in the Western Cape,” he said, to much agreement. Ultimately the Molletts ask us to consider one thing. “Imagine Inge Lotz was your daughter”. DM Photo: Amateur forensic investigator and author Thomas Mollett at his talk about the Inge Lotz trial in Cape Town yesterday. (Picture Marianne Thamm) MARIANNE THAMM SOUTH AFRICA http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-06-12-inge-lotz-murder-nine-years-latertwo-amateur-forensic-sleuths-once-again-point-fingers-at-fred-van-dervyver/#.U5rb_6vzuHA

LETTERS / BRIEWE  Anonymous Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Tribute to the Commissioners of the former South African Police" I salute them! I have so many GOOD childhood memories of the police as my father was in the police. And today my heart is broken for all their hard work they did protecting the country ... all gone. It was my brother’s biggest dream to join the police, but yes that dream was also broken. Luckily we still have our memories and our father’s stories..... Posted by Anonymous June 13, 2014 at 11:26 AM  William d. du Plooij: Engeland Geliewe Hennie, In verband met al die drygemente en kwaad en woede waarmee julle te doen het by Enongqai. As dit nie vir die Publikasie was nie sou my vader, oud Sers. Willem du PLOOY, nie 84

die noodsaaklike Mediese hulp ontvang het vanaf Polmed wat hom geregtilik toegekom het nie. Sedert se dubble-hartomleining wat ‘n erge beroerte meegebring het, wat hom in ‘n Insensiewe Sorg Eenheid behou het vir ongeveer 4 maande, was die nood in my ouers se huis baie erger, aangesien my vader gestremd geword het as n gevolg, en nou baie sorg geneem moet word om hom te help om te probeer loop, en selfs deur buise te voed ens. As gevolg van julle het ek die kontak besonderhede vir Gen. WESTRAAT bekom, wie met Polmed dinge bespreek het en wat verseker het dat my vader sy nodige voedsel kon bekom en behou, en ook om ‘n sorgpleeg werker te bekom om my vader te hulpe te wees; veral nou aangesien my moeder ook baie mediese probleme ervaar, ondermeer erge Ostiopiorose (Vergewe my spel foute assebief, ek is diep verengels hier in BRITTANJE waar ek in die Vloot gedien het en waar ek nou my gesin het). Hou koers! En laat die Politikuste stry en aan-neek as hulle wil; ons is Diensknegte van die HERE en Diensknegte van ons medemense - waar is die man wat geen sonde het nie - laat hom die eerste steen gooi! Ons weet wat Genade en Barmhartige liefde is, en ek is gewis dat julle diens ‘n noodsaaklike een is van Liefde tot oud lede en ook tot hulle families en selfs nasate (Ek doen juis my eie Familie Geskiedenis en leer juis baie vanuit julle werk omdat ek ‘n lang lys Militêre en Polisiemense in my voorsate en hulle huisgesinne het - onder andere heel moontlik "Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Philippe Villiers de l'IsleAdam", heel moontlik "Jean de Villiers, Lord of L'Isle-Adam, Governor of Paris, a Marshal of France and Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece, who successfully defended the city from a French attack by Jeanne D'Arc.[aka Joan of Arc]"; en ook ‘n klomp soldate aan die KAAP, Voortrekker Vedlkornette, Veldkommandante, CMR, en ZAR Staatsartilliriste, OVS Kommandoes, moontlike SAC, Unie van SA Polisie, Unie van SA Weermag en Commandos, SWAPol, SAP, en dan het ek self in die BRITSE Vloot gedien... Soos ek se baie Diensknegte en BAIE Geskiedenis wat my verryk en ek seker is my nasate sal inspireer en verryk. Ek kan eintlik glad geen sins by bly met dit alles nie, sodat ek nou en dan moet "hap" en dan laat voordat ek terugkeer na my aanlyn navorsing en e-poste wat my oorweldig van dag tot dag. Maar julle Publikasie kry gewoonlik redelike aandag van my en ek as nasaat van menigte SA Dienskegte in die Leer en Polisie wardeer dit ten sterkste; ek sou se dat julle die Publikasies ook kan meedeel met Familie Navorsers soos die by GGSA (Genealogiese Gemeenskap van SUID-AFRIKA), wie ook dinge meedeel op die Internet soos Grafte, Dokumente en ander dinge van Familie Geskiedenis belang 85

wat gepaard gaan met Militêre en Polisie Geskiedenis. Konteks is mos alles as mens iets probeer verstaan - so dink gerus daaraan om GGSA te kontak en te vra of hulle julle Publikasie wil bewaar en bekend maak aan die Familie Navorsers wat belang sal hê in "The people behind the Badge". Met hartlike dank en groetnis, William D. du PLOOIJ Baie dankie William, jou Afrikaans is nog goed - HBH  Louis Lubbe: Gauteng Beste Hennie, Halfpad deur dieleesvan jongste uitgawe van e-Nongqai (Mei 2014) roep ek my vrou nader,(want sy weet van die publikasie ofskoon sy dit self nie lees nie ) en maak die opmerking teenoor haar dat hierdie “tydskrif” ontwikkel het van ’n nederige wegspring, met ’n uitleg wat soms duidelik spreek van iets waaraan geskaaf moet word, tot ’n publikasie waarop die redakteur en sy span nou opreg trots kan wees! Die uitleg is goed, die artikels het pitkos en ek glo meeste lesers sien uit na die volgende uitgawe. Ek het so pas my boek, Van Ovamboland tot Masjonaland, wat handeloor die SA Polisie se bydrae tot die bosoorlog, se laaste proeflees laat doen en dit sal eersdaags beskikbaar wees. Dit het my net mooi vyf jaar geneem en ek het daarom‘n baie goeie idee hoe hard jy en die redaksie moet werk om elke liewe maand ’n publikasie van e-Nonqgai se omvang te kan uitgee. Dit getuig van volgehoue hardewerk. Teen die einde van die tydskrif, egter, sou ek tot my ontsteltenis die berig lees waarin jy duidelik ontsteld is oor ’n insident wat die toekoms van e-Nonqgai in gedrang kanbring, en jy wonder of jy moet voortgaan. Dit sal baie jammer wees as die tydskrif moet ophou bestaan! Wat my betref is dit ’n maandelikse reünie (ofskoon een vanskriftelike aard) van polisiemanne van die ou bedeling. Reünies is kosbaar en daar is altyd so baie om te deel. Ons almal weet jy het ’n passie vir die polisiegeskiedenis endit is ’n onderwerp wat menige ander oud-polisiemanne ook na aan die hart lê. Jy leef jou uit hierin en al jou lesers kry ook die voordeel daarvan. Dit maak nie saak wat’n mens aanpak of hoe sorgvuldig jy te werk gaan of hoe goed die bedoeling is nie , kritiek sal daar wees. Moenie dat dit jou en jou span stop nie; julle doen kosbare werk.Groete  Rudolf Murray: Kaapstad Waarde Hennie Dit was met ontsteltenis dat ek in die tydskrif van Mei 2014 moes lees hoe jy aan ongevraagde en onredelike kritiek blootgestel moes word. Hierdie gebeurtenis laat inderdaad `ŉ wrang smaak in die mond. 86

Wees egter verseker dat die uitstekende werk wat jy en so span so onverpoosd uitvoer, nie ongesiens verby gaan nie. Ek wil so vêr gaan om te sê dat julle ŉ roeping navolg – die ou SAP word tans deurgaans verguis en derhalwe is julle taak tydig en gepas. Kollega – moet ook nooit vergeet nie – dit is die hoogste bome wat die meeste wind moet trotseer. Met agting en opregte beste wense. Rudolf Murray  Brig Johan Giliomee: Suid-Kaap Goeiemiddag Brig. Hennie en kollegas, Ek hoop en vertrou dat dit nog goed met almal van u gaan. Met verwysing na die jongste eNongqai, ‘Oor ’n koppie koffie’ (p.130 – p.133) is ek van mening dat dit ’n absolute ramp sou wees indien die publikasie gestaak sou word na aanleiding van hierdie ongelukkige voorval. Alhoewel ek glad nie tyd het om Facebook te gebruik nie en dus nie regtig ’n mening oor die meriete daarvan kan uitspreek nie, is ek diep geskok deur die negatiewe opmerkings/kommentaar wat klaarblyklik teenoor u gemaak is. Hennie, ek sal graag by herhaling aan jou en die span medewerkers van eNongqai wil sê dat ek, in my persoonlike hoedanigheid, net ongelooflik baie waardering het vir die deursettingsvermoë, integriteit en bereidwilligheid om op te offer, wat deur almal van julle openbaar word in die uitvoering van hierdie groot taak wat julle vrywillig verrig. Ek is ook bewus van talle voormalige kollegas wat heelhartig met hierdie opmerkings saamstem. Ek het begrip daarvoor dat mens in hierdie omstandighede sal twyfel of dit die moeite werd is om voort te gaan, maar ek wil pleit dat julle sal voortgaan soos in die verlede, vir solank as wat dit vir julle moontlik is. Ek dink Langenhoven is woorde is veral gepas en van toepassing op u almal, nl.: “....Elke nederige onerkende offerdiens, elke liefdegawe sonder berekening van terugkeer, is `n bydrae tot die vermensliking van die mensheid....” Groete, Johan Giliomee 

Baie dankie aan almal vir die ondersteuning ons sal, indien dit die Heer se Wil is, voortgaan met die tydskrif. Natuurlik mag ons van mekaar verskil! Maar speel die bal – nie die man nie!

 Genl Daan le Roux: Handelstak Intussen skryf genl Le Roux soos volg aan diegene van die Handelstak oor wie se adresse hy beskik: Geagte vriende Ek verwys graag na die e-pos wat ek aan u gestuur het waarin ek u ingelig het van die projek om die geskiedenis van die Handelstak op skrif te stel. Ek het enkele insette ontvang en glo my dit was ‘n openbaring en belewenis om dit te lees. Heelwat lede het laat weet dat hulle wel ‘n bydrae sal lewer. Ek vertrou dat almal van julle hard besig is om in jul geheues rond te tas en besig is om jul ervarings op skrif te stel. Ek is baie deeglik bewus daarvan dat elkeen van julle daagliks baie besig is met baie meer belangriker take en nie werklik tyd het om aan hierdie projek aandag te gee nie. Maar ek dink tog ons is besig met iets besonders. As die eindproduk eers daar is, gaan u dit baie geniet. Dit sal iets wees wat u met trots aan u kinders en kleinkinders kan gee om te lees sodat hulle ook sal weet waarmee Pa- / Ma / Oupa- / Ouma-hulle hulself besig was en hoe ons dit gedoen het. Dit word nie beoog om geld te maak uit die gedenkblad / boek nie, behalwe miskien (as dit regtig nodig is) ‘n klein bydrae om van die kostes te help dek. Die plan is om dit mettertyd ook in Engels te vertaal. Skryf in elk geval in die taal van u keuse. Dit is nogal groot werk om ‘n sinvolle geskrif uit al die inligting op te stel. Kan ek die vrymoedigheid neem om u te versoek om groot asseblief, as dit hoegenaamd vir u moontlik is, u inset teen middel Junie 2014 (of so gou as moontlik daarna) aan my te voorsien? U sal seker verstaan dat ek dalk daarná weer met u kontak sal maak om onduidelikheid oor enkele aspekte op te klaar of meer inligting te verstrek ens. Ek sê by voorbaat baie dankie vir u positiewe belangstelling. Onthou tog om ter aanvang van u bydrae te meld waar u gebore is, skool gegaan het, verder studeer het, u kwalifikasies, u magsnommer, jaartal in Polisiekollege, stasies waar u gedien het, datum uit die Mag is, al u kontak besonderhede (mense gaan my daarvoor vra), u huidige beroep of waarmee u uself besig hou ens. Handelstak groete Daan le Roux (Lt Gnl Afgetree)

 SAP 55: Stan Stander Henry John Leslie skryf: Ek wil graag uitvind of u ŉ kol Stan Stander geken het. Hy was ek dink in die jare tagtig die DK in Durban-Noord. Ek sal graag wil weet waar hy hom bevind. Is verlangs familie van my vrou en was ook ons seremoniemeester op ons troue. Hy het ŉ seun Hein wat as ek reg onthou in Koevoet was. Baie dankie.

Gesoek: Stan Stander

 Genl Ben Groenewald: Mark Newham: Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie Afgetrede Lede

 Polmed-verkiesing: Gideon Serfontein POLMED TRUSTEE VERKIESING : 08 JULIE 2014

ALLE TAKKE, Lys van stemlokale hierby aangeheg – alle hooflede sal asb. fisies by die stemlokaal op Dinsdag 08 Julie 2014 hul stem moet uitbring – ID Dokument en Polmedkaart sal vertoon moet moet word. OP DIE STEMBRIEF SAL DAAR TWEE AFDELINGS WEES NL: “CONTINUATION MEMBER” waar my naam SERFONTEIN GIDEON JOHANNES EN “SERVING MEMBER” waar VAN WYK RUDOLF CORNELIUS JACOBUS sal verskyn en lede stem asb. by elkeen van die lede. U HET DUS TWEE STEMME OP DIESELFDE STEMBRIEF OM UIT TE BRING - EEN VIR SERFONTEIN EN EEN VIR VAN WYK.

OOR ‘N KOPPIE-KOFFIE 

It’s strange world, Master Jack!

Sit by verkeerslig: Drama in die kleine speel af: Twee munisipale voertuie, een het 'n sleepwa, daar is 7 man - 2 wit en 5 swart. Slegs een man werk met die pik! Ses kyk. Later neem twee ouens grawe en begin grond uitskep! Vyf kyk! As ek my besigheid so moet bestuur gaan ek bankrot word. Nou is die foon stukkend! Laat Telkom weet. Hier kom 'n witman! Ah! Nou is my probleme op 'n end, dink ek! "Meneer jy kort 'n paal!" Die paal kom 'n paar dae later dis nou so 'n BEE storie - Oupa, Ouma en paar kinders met bakkie en paal. Die bamboesheining word getrim en uitgekap. Die paal word geplant. En daar staan die paal – sonder draad: 'n Monument tot onbevoegdheid en verkwisting! Nou die dag is die TELKOM-goeters weer alles buite werking - modem en lyn. Kom daar weer net een ou. Hy werk self - dra die leer - ons het lang maer erf - hy dra die leer van punt tot punt. Hy maak "alles" reg. Ons drink koeldrank en gesels hoe dinge verander het. Tegnici het nie meer handlangers nie, vertel hy. ‘n Tegnikus is eenman show! Gister werk die verkeerslig by h/v Soutpansberg en Parker strate nie. Vraag: Wie reël die verkeer? – Antwoord: “Outsurance”. Waar is die metropolisie se verkeersafdeling? Ons betaal belasting - verkeersbeheer is deel van wet en orde! Kort-kort is of die water of ons ligte afgesny. ‘n Heel te maal nuwe verskynsel in ons buurt is nou “dames van die dag” wat Tom Jenkins-straat en Van der Merwe-straat “patrolleer” op soek na klandisie. Lyk my hulle kom van Sunnyside se kant. Hoe lank hulle hier sal bestaan hang van verskeie faktore af. Dinge verander so snel; tog bly die mens presies dieselfde, met presies dieselfde drange en behoeftes soos op die skeppingsdag van die mens. 

Faan se Trein

Hanlie van Straaten het ons versoek om na “Faan se Trein” te kyk. Wat ŉ wonderlike film! Alles gaan maar oor ŉ klein dorpie met die geneesheer en die polisiesersant as die leiersfigure aan die eenkant en Faan, ŉ kind in die lyf van ŉ groot man. Baie oulike storie met regte stoomtreine en Faan en sy dinge. Die rolvertolking was puik en mens kan nie help om ŉ traantjie weg te pik nie! My enigste kritiek is die sersant se kakie-uniform – op die verkeerde patroon, chevrons op beide arms maar van die verkeerde soort en die korrekte SAP-kentekens maar wat verkeerd op die lapel gedra word. Maar dis ons “soort sersant” die wat wet en orde met diskresie en gesonde verstand toepas, ondanks druk. Ons leef inderdaad in 'n interessante wêreld! However the show must go on!