22 April 2011 - Namaqualand Information

This came in from the UK :
S.A Government makes huge profits
from crime.
Question: "What is the influence of crime on the S.A. Govt?"
Answer: Crime generates millions and millions of Rand's for
the SA Government
Here are the facts....
Example 1:
Take just one million home owners in Gauteng who pay for
"armed crime reaction" (not crime prevention) where private
security companies react AFTER the crime has taken place -
no wonder they never make any arrests!
This service costs on average R250 p.m. Therefore 1,000,000
x R240.00 x 12 months x 14% VAT, generates R403 million in
tax revenue for the SA Govt!
Example 2: A car thief steals a R500,000 car and receives
between R10,000 and R30,000 for his deed. The car owner is
paid out by insurance and then purchases another similar
vehicle, on which he pays 14% VAT of approx R70,000 as a
direct result of crime. Who profited the most? The thief, or the
SA Govt?
We must begin with a mechanism whereby the SA Govt is
forced to reconsider this unconstitutional and immoral practice
of profiting from crime! All South Africans should demand
that all payments related to protection of life and property
should be VAT free and Tax deductible!
This principle should also apply to replacement of stolen
property, as well as estate duty. If a person dies as a result of
crime we should also demand that estate duty not be paid.
How much do you think the SA Govt. has made out of estate
duty from the murders of 1300 South African farmers?
The S.A. Govt likes to compare us to overseas. Well overseas
your safety and security is covered by your income tax and is
tax deductible!
It is time that South Africans stood together and made the
Govt. and public aware of the Govt's "income" from crime. In
the meantime crime is the goose that lays the golden egg.
Is it also not unreasonable to expect victims of violence
and hijackings to pay their own medical costs? The Govt.
should pay for these expenses as well as family
counselling for victims!
Come on South Africa, ask the right questions and demand the
right answers!
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Poverty, Africa's Modern Day Slavery
Although slavery was abolished more than a hundred and forty years ago
and all countries in Africa are now politically free, there is 10 a new form of
slavery in Africa today which is cruel, harsh and severe like the one which
took place about five centuries ago. This new slavery is like unquenchable
fire ravaging in a dense but dry forest consuming everything on its path.
This new slavery which is consuming Africans and decimating them is
poverty. Despite decades of independence, availability of natural resources and
existence of technology to make good these rich resources, Africa is still the
poorest continent on earth. Today Africa is a continent where majority of the
people live on one or two dollars a day. It is a continent where people die for lack
of food, potable drinking water, and against common preventable diseases. It is a
continent where malnutrition abounds and few children under the age of five
survive the menace of the six killer diseases. It is a continent where child mortality
is high and life expectancy is low. It is a continent where people walk several
miles for water and children have no or limited access to education and medical
care.
It is a continent where rural life is nothing but a condemnation to poverty, misery,
desperation and hopelessness. It is a place where people live in mud/thatched
houses with bamboo/raffia leafs as roofing sheets. It is a continent
characterised by instabilities, tribal and religious conflicts and wars and
armed conflicts over natural resources. It is a continent where democracy
and rule of law are a myth. It is a continent full of dictators and kleptocrats;
a continent where corruption is handsomely rewarded and achievement is
shunned; a place where entry into public life/service is a means to acquiring
wealth.
The slave masters in Africa today are the politicians, their cronies, the business
elite and the well connected. Together they have hijacked and exercise full control
over all the resources including land, labour, capital and revenues from all
economic activities. They determine who should eat and who should not. They
determine who should get a job and who should get sacked. They determine who
gets a place to sell in the market and who should be kicked out. They determine
who should get a contract and whose certificate should be withdrawn. They
decide which roads should be constructed or resurfaced and which one should
not. They determine which village or town gets connected to the national
electricity grid. They determine which region or district receives funding for
projects.
The slave masters determine who should own which business and who should
have a share in that business. You cannot get a certificate to operate a business
unless you grease the palm of a politician. You cannot get a contract unless you
know a politician in the ruling government. You are treated differently if you know
the regional minister, the governor or the district chief executive (DCE). As far as
one knows a cabinet minister he can do whatever he likes and nobody dares
question him. It is always the poor and the have nots who get prosecuted and
jailed while the politicians and their cronies who commit atrocious crimes against
the state live in their mansions to enjoy their booty. Contractors do substandard
works, collect hundreds of millions of dollars, give politicians their share and that
is all. So a road whose live span is twenty years has to be resurfaced after just
two years. Like the slavery of old, the politicians, their families, the businessmen
and the well connected are not hurt by the storm of poverty in the continent but
their slaves who make up the majority of the population do. These corrupt
politicians and their associates are holding the people captive with their illconceived
economic policies and programmes thereby giving them no chance to
develop. The politicians in Africa call themselves saviour of the people and have
names and titles like Junior Jesus, Servants of the Poor, but they are all lies.
None of them cares for the poor but their own stomach.The people are poor
because the slave masters have decided they should remain so, as monies
meant for their development have been stolen and are sitting in Banks in
Switzerland, Luxemburg, Jersey Island, and Britain.(L.Adusei)
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