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HOP huise word gebruik as onderhandelings wapen Die Demokratiese Alliansie is woedend ten opsigte van die Departement van Koöperatiewe Regering, Tradisionele Sake en Huisvesting se taktiese pogings om wettelose jeug wat die ANC gedurende die aanloop na die plaaslike verkiesing ondersteun het, met HOP huise te beloon. Dit het aan die lig gekom dat die departement die Loeriesfontein behuisingslys probeer manipuleer. Voldoende en deursigtige prosesse was gevolg toe die prioriteitslys van 100 name deur DA raadslid Gizella Opperman, sowel as die gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerker en wykskomiteelede wie nie ‗n persoonlike belang by die HOP huise het nie, opgestel was. Dit was in opvolg op ‗n versoek vanaf die departement dat ‗n prioriteitslys bymekaar gestel word vir 100 huise wat leeg staan. Soos voorgeskryf word, was alle name vanaf die prioriteitslys afkomstig van die oorspronklike behuisingslys. Verder was voorkeur gegee aan bejaardes, mense in informele nedersettings, gestremdes, mense wie al vir tussen 17 en 30 jaar op die waglys is, ensovoorts. Die gefinaliseerde lys is toe aan die publiek beskikbaar gestel. Maar vandat die prioriteitslys gefinaliseer is, het lede van die gemeenskap wie na hul eie belange omsien, amok gemaak. Polisielede vanaf Upington was ingeroep om die plaaslike polisie by te staan en gedurende twee verskillende optogte is derduisende rande se skade aan die HOP huise aangerig. Die betogers het verder die HOP huise onwettig beset. Bogenoemde kostes plus addisionele kostse vir die huur van ses sekuriteitswagte om ‗n ogie oor die huise te hou, moet nou deur die Hantam munisipaliteit gedra word. Die opstokers word deur familielede van die vorige raadslid wie nou deur raadslid Opperman vervang is, gelei. Dit blyk dat die vorige raadslid beloftes aan die betogers gemaak het dat hulle HOP huise sou ontvang in ruil vir hulle ondersteuning aan die ANC. Intussen het die departement ook hul agter die betogers geskaar. ‗n Lys van 15 name wat hulle wil hệ op die prioriteitslys geakkomodeer moet word, is aan die Hantam munisipaliteit gegee. Die DA is geskok dat dié 15 name dieselfde persone is wat skade aan die HOP huise aangerig het. Dit is heeltemal onaanvaarbaar dat die departement die regerende party se politieke belange dien deur kiesers wie hulle stemme aan die regerende party gegee het, met HOP huise te beloon. HOP huise is nie ‗n onderhandelings wapen nie. Die huise is bedoel vir die armste en mees behoeftige mense van ons samelewing. Die DA sal die feit dat staatsfonde weereens vir politieke doeleindes misbruik word aan die Openbare Beskermer rapporteer. ANDREW LOUW, LPW DA NOORD-KAAP: LEIER Een vyfde van land woon in HOP-huise Ongeveer ‗n vyfde van Suid- Afrikaanse huishoudings woon luidens Statistiek Suid-Afrika se algemene opname oor huishoudings, wat Donderdag bekendgestel is, in staatsgesubsidieerde huise. ―Teen die tyd van die opname het 18,9% van Suid-Afrikaanse huishoudings in "HOP"-, of staatsgesubsidieerde, huise gewoon,‖ het Statistiek Suid-Afrika in ‗n verslag gesê. Uit hierdie is vroulike huishoudings meer geneig as manlike huishoudings om subsidies vir behuising van die regering te kry. Dertien persent van die respondente het gesê minstens een lid van die huishouding is op ‗n waglys vir ‗n HOP-huis. ―In 2010, net soos in vorige jare, was huishoudings waarvan vroue aan die hoof staan (11%) meer geneig om ‗n behuisingsubsidie by die regering te kry as dié waarvan mans aan die hoof is (8,8 persent).‖ Sommige inwoners is egter besorg oor die gehalte van hierdie gesubsidieerde huise. Sewentien persent van inwoners het landwyd gesê die mure is swak of baie swak en 18 persent het dieselfde van die dak gesê. Statistiek Suid-Afrika het egter gevind daar is ―aansienlike variasie tussen provinsies in terme van hoe mense behuising-gehalte beskou‖. Die meeste klagtes het uit die Wes-, Oos- en Noord-Kaap gekom. ―Huishoudings in Gauteng en Mpumalanga blyk die mees tevrede met die gehalte van hul huise en dakke te wees.‖ Die proporsie mense wat in informele huise woon, is 13 persent – dieselfde as in 2002. ―Terwyl die proporsie informele huise afgeneem het in provinsies soos KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo en Mpumalanga, was daar toenames in Gauteng, Noordwes en die Wes- Kaap." Gauteng het die hoogste persentasie inwoners in informele huise (22 persent), gevolg deur Noordwes (19%), die Wes-Kaap (17%) en die Vrystaat (13%). A silent epidemic of rape A silent epidemic of rape is devouring our young girls 16 in the townships. Lost Girls in South Africa is a documentary currently on circuit, tracing the effects of rape on girl children, their mothers, their families, right through to the ineffectual responses of the police and the courts. Offenders are no longer just fathers, brothers, uncles, and brothers; they are much younger, many of them schoolboys in the neighbourhood, known to the girls. Life is a nightmare for thousands of girls as they grow up in informal settlements and the rural areas, the targets of men and boys who cannot keep their sexual urges under control. One of the worst aspects of these stories is the collusion between the rapists and their mothers against the raped and their mothers. Exemplifying worst types of complicity, one cannot help but feel enraged at the gross incompetence of an emasculated state that does not care. Profiling the lives of Ntombi, Fuzeka, Gretchen and Nozuko, aged from 11 to 13, the documentary exposes the inner trauma suffered by girls, who lose their childhood and become old way before their time. The portrayal of the disruptive effects on their school life, on the relationships between mothers and fathers, and amongst neighbours is wrenching. Ntombi's rapists, who are virtually her neighbours, stalk and taunt her while released on bail, knowing full well that the criminal justice system is as futile as the police who routinely fail to maintain their grip on offenders. The terror in her eyes is palpable as she navigates her way from school, to her home, or run errands for her mother. Social workers and the police admit that they are powerless in executing their duties, blaming the courts as much as the courts blame their ineptitude. Fuzeka who is sexually molested by her father is caught between her distraught mother who must act to stop the abuse but who knows that in doing so, she must leave her home for a shack with no running water and electricity. Happier under horrible conditions, her husband harasses them day and night and daily they have to run the gauntlet of a patriarch who could not cope with a wife who removed from him the source of his sexual terrorism. Fuzeka feels crushed as she has to deal with the guilt of separating her parents as well as tending to a mother riddled with AIDS. Gretchen who claims that her father molests her while her mother goes out to work at night, seeks the custody of her school until a safe place is found for her. Denying the charges, the father blames his misdemeanours on drugs, refusing to take responsibility for any of his actions. I Nozuko lives with the guilt of a father jailed for murdering her rapist. Carrying this burden denies her the space to mourn her own violation. The most searing scenes in this movie are the predicament these girls face, having to juggle their own survival with dealing with the consequences of disclosing the sexual violations to their parents and the authorities. Robbed of the joy of being children, they are constantly thrown into situations where they are compelled to philosophise about the meaning of life, or whether death is not a better option. As a mother of a young woman, this documentary was hard to watch and it starkly exposed the destruction of the moral fabric of SA. A more appropriate title would 16 be: How SA loses its Girls Every Day! This article first appeared in Die Burger Rhoda Kadalie 16
GIGBA SPILLS HALF TRUTHS ON ALEXKOR CEO EXPENSES Yesterday Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba responded to my question on the remuneration of the Alexkor CEO, Khetiwe McClean, whose contract came to an end in September this year. The Minister stated that CEO Maseko- McClean was paid R2.3-million over her three-year contract as CEO of Alexkor and that a total of R178 628 was spent to charter her from her Sandton office in Johannesburg, to the mine in the Northern Cape. On 19 November 2010 the then COPE head of communications, Phillip Dexter, stated after the Minister‘s response to his question, that the Alexkor CEO was paid R2 343 559 p.a., (not for the term of the 3 year contract) and that she spent on average 4 days a month on the mine. Gigaba also said that from April 1, 2010, and April 7, 2011, the chartered flight costs between Guateng and Alexander Bay amounted to R178 628.50. If a chartered return flight each cost R45, 020.78, it means that the CEO did not spend 4 days a month at the mine, but that she only made four visits to the mine in the year as quoted by the Minister. Nobody mentions the costs of running her office in Sandton and who paid for it. Perhaps the Minister should spill a bit more. Did Alexkor carry the costs or were these costs shared by the people of the Richtersveld? It has been a known fact that Maseko- McClean first served as an Alexkor Director before being appointed CEO of Alexkor. We are also investigating the alleged 8 or 9 other directorships she held while CEO of Alexkor. The question arises of how many directorships one can hold simultaneously with a clear conscience adding value to the company one is supposedly serving. We will continue to hold the Minister accountable for Alexkor and other state mining activities as it clear that oversight in this case is a necessity. We are awaiting the appointment of a new Alexkor CEO and will write to the Minister to request a full job description and clarity on the remuneration package for the position. It is taxpayers‘ money after all! (Elza van Lingen DA MP, NCOP) In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. Richtersveld Waterprobleme wil maar net nie wyk nie! Die watervoorsienings krisis op Beauvallon en Spogplaas net buite Alexander Bay in die Richtersveld wil maar net nie wyk nie. Alhoewel die kragtoevoer na ingryping deur die Minister herstel is, blyk dit dat die toestand van die pompe is so ‗n swak toestand is dat inwoners steeds op ‗n byna daaglikse basis met water tekorte sit. Na die vloede vroeër vanjaar was die boorgat oorstroom en gemors het in die gat beland. Die pompe en pype is egter nie na die vloed opgetrek en skoongemaak nie met die gevolg dat die pype gereeld verstop en die vloei van water belemmer. Hierdie blokkasies verkort ook die lewe van die pompe drasties en kan groot koste implikasies tot gevolg hê as dit nie spoedig gediens en skoongemaak word nie. Dit blyk dat die nodigheid van kundige bestuur dringend nodig is om hierdie krisis op te los wat nie net die lewenskwaliteit van mense beinvloed nie, maar ook hulle vermoë om ‗n inkomste te verdien. (Jolande Pretorius) Alle Richtersveld Inwoners Langs hierdie weg wil die DA in die Richtersveld aan een en almal ‗n baie Geseënde Kerstyd toewens. Na ‗n baie gebeurtenisvolle jaar is die Feestyd ‗n geleentheid om rustig saammet u familie te raak en die geboorte van Christus te herdenk. Ons wens is, dat almal weer tot besef sal kom, dat Jesus ons Redder is en oneindige genade aan elkeen van ons skenk. Gebruik die geleentheid om te rus en kwaliteit tyd saam met u geliefdes te geniet. Ons as Raadslede van die Richtersveld gaan ook ‗n welkome blaaskans geniet, maar wees gerus in die wete dat ons in 2012 terug sal wees om met nuwe ywer die uitdagings aan te pak en te verseker dat een en almal die geleentheid sal kry om die visie van die DA te deel. Ons is egter steeds altyd tot u beskikking en diens. “n Samelewing met oop geleenthede vir almal.” Kersgroete Raadslid Jolandé Pretorius Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens, Kamieskroon het op Woensdag 23 November 2011 in samewerking met die Wyksraadslid, Hilgard Links en verskeie staatsdepartemente, `n IMBIZO gehou in die Gemeenskapsaal te Kroonsig, ter ondersteuning van die 16 DAE VELDTOG van GEEN GEWELD teenoor vroue en kinders. Rld. Hilgard Links pryk hier op die foto saam met antie Tarries Joseph en Liezel Magerman van Kamieskroon. DA Namakwaland Op Saterdag 26 November 2011 het die DA 17 Namakwaland ‗n kiesafdelingsvergadering gehou. Die kiesafdeling bestaan uit die volgende munisipaliteite Nama Khoi, Richtersveld, Kamiesberg en Kheima. Raadslede, Takvoorsitters asook verteenwoordigers van elke DA Tak in die kiesafdeling het die vergadering bygewoon. Die verrigtinge is deur Dr. Allan Grootboom asook die uittredende voorsitter Mnr. Cyrill Warne gelei. Die afgevaardigdes asook Raadslede het ‗n oorsig oor die jaar se aktiwiteite ontvang en almal is bedank vir hulle insette gelewer spesifiek met die oog op die Mei 2011 Munisipale verkiesing. Daar is ook aandag gegee aan die rigting wat die kiesafdeling gaan inslaan met die oog op die komende Provinsiale kongres wat in Januarie 2012 gehou gaan word asook die 2014 verkiesing. Die kiesafdeling het dan ook ‗n nuwe bestuur vir die volgende twee jaar termyn verkies en die volgende persone is tot die bestuur verkies: Mnr .Cyril Warne is herkies tot Voorsitter. Mnr. Raphael van den Heever tot Onder – Voorsitter; Mnr Wouter Jordaan tot Tesourier Mnr. Timo Swartbooi tot Nie - Publieke Verteenwoordiger, Sekretaresse Me.Wilmien Louw en Me. Jolandé Pretorius tot Publieke Verteenwoordiger (ADAC) Alle sterkte aan die verkose komitee wat die Party tot groter hoogtes in die 2014 verkiesing moet lei. As die Namakwaland kiesafdeling se kandidaat tot Provinsiale Onder – Voorsitter is Me. Veronica van Dyk verkies. Die verkiesing vind plaas in Januarie 2012 tydens die Provinsiale Kongres. Die DA kiesers van Namakwaland staan verenig agter Veronica van Dyk as ons verteenwoordiger op Provinsiale vlak. Die geslaagde verrigtinge is afgesluit met ‗n heerlike braai wat deur die Kiesafdelings Bedryfsbestuurder Mnr. Rodney Kritzinger en sy eggenoot gereël was. Alle dank aan die jong egpaar vir die puik reëlings, ondersteuning en onbaatsugtige diens aan die Party. ( Jolandé Pretorius) Wouter Jordaan, Jolandé Pretorius, Raphael van den Heever, Cyril Warne &Veronica van Dyk Change in a country begins with one person. Each country reflects the inner peace or turmoil of its mass population, and so as one person changes they affect the rest of the population. One person has the power within them to bring massive change to their country through immense love and peace within themselves. But we cannot bring about peace and well-being to our country unless we have conquered that in our own life. Do you see? You cannot give what you do not have. Each 17 person's job is to bring utter harmony into their own life, and then they will become the greatest human gift for their country and the world. 17
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