In 1994 the whole of South Africa voted for a new government, something to get away from the oppressive regime of the brutal Apartheid government. South Africans united against this inhumanity, and heroes were born.

The man who without a doubt is the most respected leader and polititian in the world is the great Nelson Mandela.

However, it appears that South Africa, with its population of just over 40 million souls… was only able to produce one good man. Nelson Mandela was able to prove the reasoning and actions behind Apartheid wrong.

Then along comes Thabo Mbeki.. at first the people of South Africa where happy. They believed that Thabo Mbeki would continue the healing and rebuilding legacy that Nelson had left behind and take South Africa and its new public image to new heights.

Our public image at the end of Mandela’s leadership was one of tolerance… a new nation of hope that pushed off the tyranny of fascism and embraced that of human rights, decency and understanding. A type of government never before seen on the African continent. A real and true roll model for the entire continent to follow.

Then along comes Thabo Mbeki. The greedy corrupt president of South Africa. He has basically being everything Nelson Mandela was not. He showed in his HIV/AIDS denialism that he is an easily led fool.

Under his leadership and denialism, the people of South Africa had to sue the government to get ARVs… and people died.

Under his leadership, South Africa used its vote to veto a call to help the Burmese people to escape their dictatorship and get basic human rights. Yes.. South Africa’s first vote on the UN security council is vote against the people of Burma and for their dictatorship. What a wanker.

We also have Thabo Mbeki to thank for corruption in big arms deals. For ham stringing South Africa’s education and health systems and for supporting and not punishing his corrupt officials.

Under Thabo Mbeki a climate of ultimate corruption… up to the top levels of our government has being allowed to spread. You all know the stories… if he is not supporting a crooked head of police, he is firing people for doing their jobs well.

None of us will forget him firing the Deputy Minister of Health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge for actually doing her job. For those of you who don’t remember her… she found out that one of our hospitals (The Frere Hospital in East London) was being so badly run .. that babies were dying left right and center simply because the staff at the Frere where too stupid, too uncompassionate, too corrupt and simply too evil. She tried to do something about this. She was fired by Mbeki.

Lets skip ahead to another chapter in Mbeki’s Satanic cookbook of success. One of Mbeki’s best boys.. our top policeman in the country… Selebi was found by our anti-corruption unit to be corrupt. There’s a surprise! What does Mbeki do to the person that uncovers the corruption? He fires the head of the unit.. Vusi Pikoli… unconstitutionally!!! (You will notice I use more exclamation marks as I get more upset)

So you would think the mayhem and evil from Thabo Mbeki would hopefully get ironed out with age. You would be wrong if you thought that. If anything, the evil of Mbeki’s legacy is spreading.

South Africa’s single greatest shame though (for me personally).. is how we have treated our neighbors. Thabo Mbeki has taken everything that the ANC and Nelson Mandela had built in its reputation, and then threw it out the window with his completely and unforgivable stupidity with how he has handled Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe situation.

Mbeki with help from his boyfriend Mugabe, has done more damage to the people of Zimbabwe and South Africa than Apartheid and the colonials ever did. Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have being slaughtered under the current ZANU-PF regime.

That’s almost one hundred fold more damage and death than the racist regimes of South Africa’s Apartheid and Smiths Rhodesian forces ever did. If anything, Mugabe and Mbeki have made people like Ian Smith and Verwoerd look like decent, compassionate and honest people.

Tens of thousands of people in Zimbabwe are right now… at this moment, being tortured, abused and murdered by Mugabe. What does Mbeki do? The single biggest thing he has done throughout his entire leadership. Fuck all.

To the people of the world.. I know South Africa has let you down, and I know right now we must look like a stinking pile of dog poo to the international community as our corrupt leaders throw human rights out the windows, turn away from decent honest allies and embrace the corrupt and deadly governments of China, Russia and the Middle East.

Most of our current leadership are a bunch of corrupt thieves who don’t care one bit for the people of South Africa and are completely dedicated to their own greed. The South African government has shamed the people of South Africa and the only thing we can ask the world, is to please forgive us.. while we learn to deal with the evil and corrupt.

In closing, I would like to say as a South African. Dont trust the South African government and certainly dont trust Thabo Mbeki... It is trust wasted.

Since my last article I wrote about Russia and its president Putin, things have evolved much further and I have more perspective on why Putin and Russia are behaving like the school yard bullies again. I wanted to write this article about some of the insidious actives Russia has being up to in the last couple of years and how it is abusing its power, but as I learnt more, and as I learnt the politics of each independent state bordering Russia I realised how big and complex the issue is, so I will do my best to condense the information into a useful summary and back story of some of the events.

When Putin came to power, he was young, energetic, strong and sober... (all things Yeltsin was not), Putin not only promised democracy but also strength, and that's what millions of Russians longed for after the chaos of the Yeltsin years. At first almost everyone was happy with this. The Russians had a strong leader that was going to change and modernize their country and the West were happier with a united Russia rather than a divided one (simply because of Russia's immense nuclear stockpile).

However, events where set into motion when a group Islamic religious fanatics attacked the United States by flying passenger aircraft into the Twin Towers in New York on 9/11. Russia's President Putin was the first head of state to contact the United States and President Bush to offer both the condolences of Russia and any support Russia could offer... including allowing forward military bases in central Asia states.

Putin thought that by showing his support, and offering out an olive branch, the United States and NATO would understand the integral border problems it was having with its own religious separatist conflict in Chechnya, and together they would fight Islamic religious extremism. Working along side America and the European Union on such a project with benefit all involved.

Bush took Putin's offer and set up more military bases in central Asia, which in turn angered a lot of powerful Russian leaders who were also concerned about the expansion of Russia's long time nemesis... NATO. In 2002 seven more nations were invited to join and Bush had to fly to St Petersburg to try calm down an agitated Putin. Russian-American relations took a dramatic turn for the worse when Bush ordered the attack on Iraq against the Kremlin's requests.

The United States and European countries were also involved in financing a lot pro-democratic reformation movements in the former Soviet states. These were called to the Color Revolutions and lead to democratic revolutions over autocratic authorising rule such as Ukrainian Orange Revolution and the Georgian Rose Revolution. In all these revolutions the people of those countries spoke and ousted their corrupt pro-Russian leaders for more transparent pro-West democratic leaders as the people of each country took control and responsibility for their futures.

Increasingly Putin felt like a jilted bride with Bush making small concessions while he was at the same time expanding NATO influence over countries that Russia still regarded as its own charges. Russia also considered the eastern expansion of NATO to be in contradiction of an earlier NATO/Soviet Union agreement for NATO not to expand eastwards. To add to this was the fear within Russia's ruling party that pro-west influence may spread into Russia itself, and the FSB (the new KGB) were quick to stamp out the flames of dissent within its own borders so that Russian leaders would not lose control of Russia like what had happened in the Ukrainian Orange Revolution.

In process to wipe out political pro-west opposition from with Russia, Putin moved forward and took control of Russia's Gazprom and its other large corporations and in turn was able to use these companies to further what his future political ambitions. Over half of Gazprom's shares are now owned by the state and its Chairman Demetri Medvedev will be Russia's next president (at the time of writing this article, Russia's 2008 elections are underway, but I still have not seen the official results).

For Putin a strong Russia no longer meant a Russia that would be a worthy partner for America, it meant a Russia that would defend itself against the West and offer a more authoritarian political model.

To put this new attitude into perspective lets have a look at current and ongoing abuses of Russian power, and when you look at the selective use of its authority you will get a better idea of why you should behave more critically to Russia's ruling parties policies and actions;

Let me start with a situation that has been ongoing since 2006 and by yesterdays news, had resurrected its ugly head. With the Ukraine considering halting payment to the Commonwealth of Independent States (a lose collection of states with shared policies that was created to allow a civilised divorce of some previous Soviet Union countries) and its growing support for EU acceptance and NATO defence... Russia has responded. After the Ukrainian Orange Revolution Russia showed its displeasure by getting its state asset Gazprom to cut the gas line that supplies parts of Europe and parts of the Ukraine.

This was done for three reasons. Firstly to punish the Ukraine for its EU ambitions, secondly to try convey a perspective that the 'rebel' republics are too unreliable for the delivery of energy from Russia to Europe (and in so promote the Nord Stream pipeline). At least nine European countries (and these included, France, Germany and Italy) registered a 20% to 33% drop in their gas supply from the Ukraine. Which leads us to the third reason that it very much intertwined with the second reason. To show the European Union that Russia was displeased with the Color Revolutions and Europe's support of democratic and human rights orientated political movements.

The Ukraine was not the only country to suffer this economic and energy supply bullying. Belarus, Moldova and Georgia all had their gas supplies threatened or cut due to their political policies of democratic reformation and accountability. Gas is not the only economic weapon used against neighbouring states that do not follow the Kremlin's demands.

Lithuania, Belarus, Poland and Latvia have had their oil supplies threatened or cut off by Russia. In more stranger abuses of economic power, Poland has being on the receiving end of a Russian ban on imported Polish meat, and Georgia and Moldova have had their wines and mineral waters banned from entering the country.

These changing republics are not just the victims of Russia ability to use its economic power to bully them... recently, when Estonia moved the graves and statue commemorated to honor solders who died during the Soviet era, Russia found a perfect excuse to test its cyber warfare capabilities and in a way showcase them to the world.

On April 27, 2007 a cyber (hacker attack) blasted the online services of Estonian organizations, including the Estonian parliament, telecommunications, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters bringing the countries communications to a grinding halt. While Russia has managed somehow to keep its hand clears of being directly responsible for the attack, experts (including top Russian hackers ... some of whom were involved in the attack), confirmed that such an attack with its sophistication and coordination and the shear use of resources could not have being orchestrated or allowed without Kremlin involvement.

As all these event unfolded, I kept expecting massive resistance to the Russian governments actions by the people of Russia. The Russian people are smart... "any moment now they are going to reign their leaders in and take back control of their country", I thought. I was disappointed. Putin and his party have popular support in Russia as a lot of the Russian populace feel that Putin is putting forward good economic reforms that are helping the country, and that Putin is showing Russian strength by standing up against America and western policies. You see, the sad thing for the people of Russia is some how they equate respect with fear. Russians tend to believe that if the EU and the US fear Russian power and aggression that they will earn respect they feel they deserve.

Its at this moment I have to put the above perception of the Putin supporting Russian into perspective with an analogy. A weak man beats his wife into submission so that the wife respects him out of fear and self preservation. A good man builds her confidence, looks after her feelings and supports and protects her. To me... a Putin supporting Russian is a weak man. I can have no respect for someone who reasons like that.

Not all Russians are for Putin, Russian Grandmaster chess players, heads of business, political opposition parties and many human rights organizations are shouting foul, however their voices are not enough. Critics of Putin are quickly and efficiently ridiculed, abused, threatened and killed.

One can not but compare the economic and political situation of Germany and the end of world war one, and the decline of the Soviet Union after the Cold War. You will also notice a lot of similarities to how Germans felt after world war one, and the feeling of defeat the Russians felt when communism fell.

Hitler was able to convince a country that it could regain its power in the world through economic power and military strength. For a short while... he was not wrong. The Germans, noglastic on the memories of its power and stature before the Treaty of Versailles, quickly stood behind the dreams of Hitler in what they considered was the right way to take their place as again as leaders in (and apparently of) Europe. The same can be seen happening in Russia. The Russian people felt defeated with the fall of the Soviet Union, and the drunken debauchery of its political leaders before Putin came to power. Putin came into power when the corruption and mismanagement of the past left much to be desired and Russia was almost in a state of economic collapse. Putin has managed to take control of the country, and like Hitler is offering the elixir of previous power and strength through economic reform and military might.

There are many many more similarities and warning signs than the ones I have briefly mentioned. Even Hitlers Nazi Youth has a Russian counterpart, the Nashi youth movement (who claimed part responsibility for the cyber attacks launched against Estonia. I am also not the only person to link the similarities between Hitlers Youth and the Nashi Youth.

Perhaps I am being to harsh with comparing Russia's mood and politics to that of Hitlers, but from where I am sitting, I see Putin using Russia to commit attacks on weaker nations... and mostly nations with pro democratic, EU and NATO ambitions seem to be specifically targeted, and I have to wonder why Russia is so scared of the reformation happening in these smaller countries. After all, the reformations have lead to more accountability and transparency in those governments.

My perspective so far based on the balance of evidence is that former secret and security services members have managed to take control of Russia through political manipulation and intimidation after the KGB (now the FSB) failed to take control of Russia in a military coup they attempted. Using the FSB (KGB) to bully big money in Russia assured the compliance of businessman to tow the new Kremlin line, and use of special services skills were used to destroy any real political opposition. Over the last couple of years, Putin has centralised power and has an extremely strong autocratic method of rule.

The old KGB now has control of the Kremlin and Russia, and the people behind this organisation are not going to give up that power easily.

Russia leaders are scared of real democracy and the concept of accountability for one simple reason. To quote Hitler, "You can not keep with a democracy what you have taken with force"

The nice thing about having my own blog is I really can express my own opinion about someone who I think is acting like the back end of a cow in a less than diplomatic maner. In this case the simpleton I wish to expose is a journalist by the name of Lennox Mabaso.

In a recent article on IOL (The Independent online), Lennox played the all popular and over used,'Apartheid card'. The Apartheid card is a lot like the Hitler card, and is only really used in arguments today by journalists with diminished mental capacity, and almost always by a black supremacist racist with no real argument.

Th article written by Lennox was titled, "Apartheid planning resulted in blackout"(4), which is a lie. What Lennox is trying to do here is use racism to try excuse the incompetency of the ANC government for its direct roll in the energy crisis South Africa is experiencing today. Lennox is so blinded by his racism that he seems to have completely missed Mbeki apologizing (1) for the lack of energy which he was warned about several years ago!

The ANC were aware of the looming energy crisis since the early 1990`s and in 1998, the Department of Minerals and Energy released a detailed energy review. It explicitly warned that unless “timely steps [were] taken to ensure that demand does not exceed available supply capacity”, generating capacity would reach its limit by 2007.(2)

This review was completely ignored by the ANC government and not a SINGLE power station was built from the end of Apartheid till 2004. In fact, to make matters worse, a lot of the competent, experienced white staff were racially purged from Eskom.

At the time Apartheid ended South Africa was producing excess energy. So much so in fact that the ANC government decided to mothball a lot of the power stations as they did not believe they were necessary at the time.

Now, as predicted by so many organizations and people... South Africa has run out of energy. However, to blame Apartheid would be naive and ignorant. The power stations built during Apartheid are still the same ones powering the country today. The people who built the power stations during Apartheid did a good enough job that their creations powered the country effectively until 2007. The racial purges, the ANC government and a corrupt Eskom is the reason we dont have power today.

However for people like Lennox... its easier to blame the 'whitey' instead of accepting the truth of the situation.. that the government HE voted into power is responsible for hospitals (also mostly the same ones built during Apartheid), schools, business and residential being without energy today.

Lennox is so blinded by his racial hate that he is unable to see any of this. Instead he seems to use Robert Mugabe as a roll model and blame the white man.

For those of you reading this in the future, the reasons why we have this energy crisis is as follows:

1) Bad governing and planning by the ANC government
2) Racist purges of competent skill and experienced staff from Eskom simple because they are white (due to AA and BEE).
3) Corrupt Eskom officials mothballing any private attempts to produce energy capacity

I think Lennox should follow the advice of Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica and go to bed earlier (due to the power cuts)... so he can get "cleverer" and perhaps contribute an article to the news media that actually has being thought out. (3)

1- http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn20080205062606498C840787
2- http://energycrisis.co.za/?p=63
3- http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=695349
4- http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn20080205062606498C840787

Claudette Perry from the Global Afrikan Congress (some black elitist group trying to make political gain and money of racial issues... and they spelt Africa with a "k") on SAFM just before 3pm on the 25th of December informing the people of South Africa that Africans can only be black. That means all the white Africans, colored Africans, eastern Africans and any other African with a different color pigmented skin to her own... cant be African by her definition. She was very clear about this point and even informed some old African (white) lady who phoned in... that she was not African but rather european.

Claudette Perry would make the German Nazi`s with their ethnic profiling so proud. Claudette, generally... around the world.. its accepted that if you are from Africa... you are African, or if you want to be African... you are African. Someone from America is not considered Native American... but they're considered to be someone who is from... America! Australians are Australian, South Americans from South America and so on. Its a freekin regional title you silly dumbat... its not a skin color.

If you want to use that stupid definition of Claudette's that only people with great ancestory from Africa are Africans... well there's kinda a technical fluff up with that. Africa is the cradle of humanity, if were going way way back... why just stop where she wants it to stop... why not go further back and include the rest of humanity? The reason why would not use her mind does not go that far back in her reasoning is because she is a black elitist. No different from her white counterparts in the Klan. They see the data and the facts as they want to see them and try create their own little segregated elitist realities and groups to make themselves feel more special. Basically it sounds like she wants Apartheid.

Then Claudette goes on this whole shcpeel about how "Africans" must be "African", and how all culture in the world are being "europeanised" (she uses the word "europeanised in a very derogatory way"). I don't know if Claudette knows how society works. It changes... therefore it evolves therefore it is subject to one of the mechanics of evolution.. that being natural selection.

Europeans came up with the concept of the car... it was a good idea, so therefore Africans (and the rest of the world) adopted the concept, it sure as heck beats walking. We take what is best from every culture and ethnic group which is why we have things like biltong, sushi, the Internet and ubuntu. From the sound of things she wants some type of anti white society... what.. you want all black people to go back to mud huts and tribalism? Should they not so as they are doing at the moment? choose whats best for them? Rather than have someone like Claudette telling them how they should be?

Then Claudette played the Apartheid and Slavery card. She clearly doesn't know how over played the Apartheid card is now and I kinda think her point on slavery is stupid. Let me explain my reasoning on that point. If she is going to play the slavery card, can I not play it as well? Cant most of Europe use the same line any time they deal with the Italians (Roman slavery)? If you use the Bible as a reference you will see Egyptians (Africans) had slaves way back.

Going back to that social evolution thing I was talking about earlier, it has has being ALL of humanities sin in the past to enslave those weaker than themselves. This is prevalent through ALL histories (except perhaps the Aborigines and the Khoi San.. I am not too sure about them).

Over time humanity has evolved mostly for the better. We decided the wheel was a good idea, we decided that slavery was a bad idea, we think the Internet rocks, we think human rights are a good idea (mostly), and were still working on the whole war part of things... but I am sure we will get there. People are people Claudette, no matter where they come from... they're all capable of the greatest acts of compassion and the most terrible acts of evil.

You gotta love Claudette`s comment on SABC broadcasting, she basically said its all european (white rubbish), she mentioned things like the song, "Silent Nights" and other Christmas carols. What a tosser she is... seriously. Why was she looking at the european TV in the first place? Using Claudette's logic the problem is easy to solve. No european TV, no European carols. Voila! Once again she wants to cherry pic whats considered, "european".

However, the rest of us Africans are going to continue evolving and hopefully for the better while Claudette and her racist buddies can go build their own little racist separatist state next to Oranje. To Claudette and anyone else who reads this... I am African. I was born and bred in Africa and I am going to die an African, and if you are going to tell me I am not African, I am going to call you a liar.

Claudette, if you really want to do something for Africa get your ass into Zimbabwe and help Africans who really need help. Don't stop there there's Sudan that's also in a right mess. Why are you spending so much of your energy trying to segregate society instead of actually getting down to where its at its worst and trying to heal from the ground up? Why? Because you are a hypocrite. Too much work and not enough money for you.

Something pretty interesting is happening on the Internet at the moment. Once again its ability to spread information is allowing free speech to survive as it should. The current set of events that brought this particular post on is about the infamous Alisher Usmanov becoming to controlling owner of the Arsenal football club. The problem here is the guy himself, Alisher Usmanov, who by all accounts is a pretty nasty piece of work.

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray (we will get back to more on Craig later) describes Alisher Usmanov in his blog (original post follows at the end oft his article) as, "Alisher Usmanov, potential Arsenal chairman, is a Vicious Thug, Criminal, Racketeer, Heroin Trafficker and Accused Rapist". Enough said.

Alisher Usmanov is one of those nasty oligarch's who exploited the communist ideals and the people of the USSR for his own greed, and he certainly has not slacked off with his criminal activities with the fall of communism. Today he is the 187th richest man and runs a major corporation called Metalloinvest, he still traffics in heroin and human misery. Forbes magazine estimates his value to be around US$5.5 Billion.. almost all of it blood money.

Now back to Craig Murray... this bloke spent a lot of time in Uzbekistan and got to know Alisher Usmanov very well. In fact, he wrote a book about Alisher Umanov called, "Murder in Samarkand" in which he writes about Alisher`s criminal activities. The book has so far sold 25,000 copies and while Alisher Umanov's lawyers have claimed the book is, "grossly libellous and defamatory"... and has being out for over a year... no legal action has being brought against Craig Murray yet.

Moving onto present day events, Craig Murray recently wrote a scathing article about what he considered as blood money buying out a famous English football club like Arsenal. However Alisher Usmanov is not without resources and he contact a law firm by the name of Schillings to serve David Murrays host company with a take down notice, threatening the host of David Murrays website if they did not.

David Murray had being hosting his blog website the the host company 'FastHost'. They received the legal threat from Schillings and took his website offline. Another political blogger by the name of Tim Ireland, and author of bloggerheads.com responded to this take down by re-posting David Murrays article on his blog. The host of his website was also Fasthost. They also took down his website. So now the blogosphere is responding and blog writers around the world are re-posting David Murrays original article. In the great words of, 'The Mentor', "you may be able to stop one of us, but you can not stop us all!"

If you have a blog out there, join us and get the word out on how English football is being sold to criminal cartel leaders. Show that trying to take on free speech and the blogosphere is like trying to nail Jelly to a wall. As an Arsenal supporter I would be very worried. If your club represents you, and your club is owned by such a disgusting individual... what does that say about you? Which criminal is going to purchase the next club? How long until Robert Mugabe buys out a club like West Ham United? How can supporters of the great game allow their game to be bought out with money that was earned on the deaths and misery of others? Is there a line?

To end this off I would also like to suggest to anyone hosting with the company Fasthost to cancel their hosting accounts and move to hosts who are more trustworthy.

Find out more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/murray_usmanov_defiant/
http://b-heads.blogspot.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/usmanov_vs_the_internet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/380565.html

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Due to a take down notice sent by Schillings Lawyers to my hosting provider I have had to remove the information I had here. Legal notice can be found here: http://newz.co.za/blood_money/stupid_legal_notice.pdf

However, the only reason I am doing this is because "The Planet" My host, tends to just switch off servers without any real legal reasons to save their own bacon. So I am REPRODUCING my original article at this location: http://www.newz.co.za/blood_money/blood_money.html

Which is hosted in South Africa and is not under The Planet's control

Its not often I am a supporter of assassination as a method to deal with a problem, but the actions of the South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang have put her up there with disgusting people like Robert Mugabe and Dr. Josef Mengele.

Manto is without a doubt the most dumb and openly corrupt health minister South Africa has ever had, (and if you know anything about our history you will realize this is a pretty tall order to achieve). In the past her actions have hampered the efforts of the compassionate and thinking world to get treatment to people suffering from HIV/AIDS, but the world quickly realized she was an agenda pushing alcoholic that had sold herself out to the vitamin companies. Manto completely threw any international credibility she had out the window at a recent HIV/AIDS conference when she suggested the use of the African potato and beetroot on suffering patients instead of anti-retroviral drugs. I will pause a moment for the reader of this article to get over their hysterical laughter. Pause. (1)

Since almost no one believed her information dishonesty and thanks to intervention from the Constitutional Court forcing Manto to hand out anti-retrovirals, this lie from her, hopefully, did not lead to too many more deaths. I wrote about this woman's stupidity in the way she dealt with the HIV/AID’s problem a couple of months back so right now I want to move forward and talk about a recent issue that would make Dr Josef Mengele proud.

The Frere Hospital in East London in the Eastern Cape has come under a lot of fire recently thanks to an exposé by the East London newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, (2) showing the dreadful conditions of the hospital and exposing the high infant death rate. How to our health minister and president respond? The normal thing any tyrannical leadership would do! Mbeki and Manto attack the Dispatch for exposing the story and then whitewash the results to pretend that everything is okay. So basically, Manto is allowing young children to die for her own popularity and our President's denialistic approach to everything. These actions by Manto are so sick and decrepit that this single act escalates her into category of, "People I would like to shoot if it was legal"

I can just imagine Mengele looking up from hell with big doe like eyes saying the words, "You make me so proud" to Manto. It’s at this point in this article that I have to use a lot of restraint from breaking out into endless sentences of profanity and resisting the urge to go out an purchase a firearm. I have major issues with baby killers.

A couple of you might wish to explain that all this information is second hand knowledge and the Daily Dispatch may have got the facts wrongs, so I thought I would recount my last personal experience with the Frere Hospital. A friend of mine, Joeleen, gave birth in that hospital a year or two back and I made sure I was there to assist her in any way I could. I remember arriving and working my way through the packed throng of human misery and on my way up to the ward in which Joeleen resided. I remember arriving in her ward and being shocked by the conditions.

Her hospital gown and bed were soaked in blood, not a single nurse or doctor was around to assist. In a bit of a panic I ran around the hospital trying to find a doctor or nurse to help her, but the time was “lunch time” and the staff were clearly not interested in helping my friend. I tried to get the required items to help clean her up but the nurses would not even give me a roll of toilet paper, so I jumped in my car, drove to the chemist and purchased all the items that she would need for both her and her baby that was to be born shortly.

Joeleen is now the proud mother of a very healthy son, and I can honestly say that it is due to sheer human endurance and not the “sanitary” conditions provided by the Frere hospital. If anything they could have contributed more towards the possible death of the infant than to the survival.

Manto is an alcoholic, as we have stated before, and her recent drinking binge (3) put her in hospital for a liver replacement (must be so great to drink through at many livers as your want because you are the minister of health). When Manto goes to hospital she only uses private hospitals (Why not use a public hospital if you believe in the system Manto?) and she was constantly requesting alcohol be brought to her hospital bed.

A wonderfully intelligent woman who was the then deputy minister of health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was given the reigns (while a liver was being wasted on Manto) of the Health Department.

Nozizwe made the fatal mistake of actually trying to do the right thing… something Mbeki appears unable to tolerate. She believed that the Health Department needed to take a scientific approach to dealing with health issues and even used her intuition to make an unannounced trip to the Frere Hospital to see for herself the conditions in the hospital. Her report slammed the Frere Hospital for their gross misconduct as the conditions she found there were unacceptable. (4)

Her reward for this was to be fired by Mbeki for not towing the government line of denial. Her crime according to Mbeki was that she was a politician and she should not have attended a HIV/AIDS conference with only 'technocrats and scientists'. Gosh... Mbeki is an idiot.

I hope this event has woken up many South Africans who thought there was any good coming from Mbeki and Manto as it is pretty clear there is none. Manto, our lying potato pushing alcoholic is allowing babies to die for her own popularity and Mbeki who appears to have his head so far up Mugabe`s ass is allowing this to happen. Mbeki, Manto, Mugabe and Mengele not only share the letter M in their names, but also are cut from the same cloth when it comes to human right’s abuses!

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, I salute you for your dedication towards the interests of the people of my country. History will judge you kindly and the people of this country will not forget what you tried to do for us. As for Manto and Mbeki... well I am sure you and Mengele will have a lot to chat about after you die. History will remember your crimes against the people of our country for your own greed.

1 - http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A249459
2 - http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/07/31/Leader/lp1.html
3 - http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=539071
4 - http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3978278

I have been following the Russian story closely for a number of years. One of my best friends at school was a Russian who's father was a professor in Physics. They had defected to Ethiopia in the 80`s when Russia was still the Soviet Union (USSR), and by the 90`s his father ended up as a professor here in South Africa and he attended my school.

I spent many weekends at his house and in the process learnt to read the Russian alphabet and a smattering of the language, but I did spend a lot of time reading up on their history and politics.

I was once told that the Russians were the most over educated under employed people in the world, and in a way I could understand this. Most of the Russians I have met are extremely intelligent people, and their conversation and insights are very informative. However it seems they have a major flaw in their cultural way of thinking. Russians seem to have this S&M fetish for tyranny.

We all hoped that comparing penis *cough* sorry I mean missile size would have ended at the end of the Cold War. I hoped with the fall of the Soviet Union and the introduction of democracy that the Russians as a people would become a great nation again. This time without the need to kill millions of people.

It seems I was wrong. It looks like the Russians are well on their way to repeating the tragedy of their history again. Uncontrolled capitalistic greed and corruption with the fall of communism has lead to a state whereby corporate and criminal cartels were able to take over the country.

Before I continue with the order of events I would quickly like to share some information about one of the main architects and leader of the cartel. President Vladimir Putin. Putin's father was conscripted into the Russian Navy to fight in World War 2 and was a member of the NKVD, and one of Putin's brothers died in the siege of Leningrad. Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather was also the personal cook to both Stalin and Lenin.

Putin managed to get a qualification called a Candidate of Science (Apparently similar to a Ph.D) from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University with a dissertation (similar to a Ph.D thesis) called "The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations". It was later found out that 16 of the 20 pages that open a key section of Putin's work were copied either word for word or with minute alterations from a management study, Strategic Planning and Policy, written by US professors William King and David Cleland. Deception started early for Putin.

Putin was quickly recruited into the KGB in 1976 where he was able to achieve the rank of Major before the KGB was disbanded in 1991. It was in the KGB where Putin was able to make some very important political contacts and get together with future collaborators such as Sergei Ivanov. Putin resigned from the KGB when it failed to seize control of Russia from Gorbachev in the 1991 Putsch (coup).

Putin had a very interesting political career after that and with about the most noteworthy being his appointment as head of the FSB ( a successor to the KGB) just before he became President of Russia. It was during this time that he alledgidly framed Yury Skuratov who was trying to clamp down on corruption at the time. Putin as we will find out... likes destroying other people's lives to support his own.

I am going to stop writing about Putin now and move onto one of his largest instruments for manipulation. The corporation Gazprom. In 1998 Putin realised what a valuable resource Gazprom was. Suddenly, Russia under Putin's authority started demanding billions of dollars in back taxes from Gazprom, and Putin replaced Chernomyrdin who was head of Gazprom with his own man.

Under Putin's command, tax collectors started seizing Gazprom assets and the company gave into the political pressure and paid Putin. For the first time ever Gazprom started showing a loss. The main reason for this was the unbridled corruption Putin introduced to Gazprom, though the official excuse was "an aging pipeline"

Putin's Gazprom then initiated a series of deals with companies like Purgaz and scandal followed it. Large-scale asset-stripping of Gazprom by its corrupt board members nearly sank the company in the 1990`s.

In 2001 Gazprom took over Russia's only nationwide state-independent television station NTV which meant that Putin now had control of a well oiled tool for future propaganda purposes. I will come back to this because I had something interesting happen while watching Russian television not too long ago.

The main reason the KGB attempted a coup-de-tat in 1991 (as mentioned earlier) was that it did not like the decentralization of power to the republics Gorbachev was trying to achieve with his reforms. I can imagine the failed Putsch upset top level KGB officers... including Putin who did not want to loose their power.

Once Putin had majority control of Gazprom he was able to use it to bully opponents of his whether they be people or countries. In 2006 Putin worried about pro-west sentiment in the Ukraine, used the company to politically manipulate the situation by threatening to stop the flow of gas which is a life blood to the Ukrainian people.

Putin and Gazprom have also used energy blackmail with the countries who have showed pro-west sentiments such as Estonia, Belarus and Georgia. Strangely enough all countries that were part of the previous Soviet Union and all countries that Putin and his KGB cronies did not want to have power. Belarus was at the end was able to strike a deal after threatening to stop the flow of Russian gas in their pipes through the country of Belarus.

I would just like to bring in 3 quick power plays that are also of importance in regards to Putin's Gazprom that may interest you. In July 2006 with the help of Putin, Gazprom was able to become a monopoly by getting Russian Federal Law to grant Gazprom exclusive rights to export natural gas. Also, later that same year Putin was able to fud with an environmental permit to hostilely take control of 50% and one share of Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin-II project.

The 3rd and latest power play by Gazprom and Putin seems to allow Gazprom to build up its own private army. In February 2007 a group of State Duma deputies proposed to give the Putin controlled company Gazprom the right to form special armed units. The main task of the new oil military will be to protect production facilities and transport infrastructure. If adopted by the parliament, Gazprom officials will be allowed to use weapons and arms for self-protection and for the execution of “service obligations”. We all know about dodgy Russian “service obligations”.....

Now that I have mostly got Gazprom out of the way I would like to get back to Putin and what he has been up to lately. In October 2006 a journalist and human rights activist by the name of Anna Politkovskaya was investigating the corruption of Putin's government as well as the savagery of Russian troops in Chechnya. She was assassinated in a contract killing. No prizes as to which cowardly Russian president was behind her killing.

Now onto the part of the story I am sure most of you will be familiar with. The assassination of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210 by Putin (yes, I will call a duck a duck). Polonium was discovered in Poland while it was under Russian control. The substance is extremely unstable and dangerous and very hard to manage. 1 gram of polonium is dangerous enough to kill 50 million people. Polonium is also used in nuclear triggers on nuclear weapons. Its not the type of stuff that everyone has access to. In fact, its not the type of stuff most countries have access to. The rarity is compounded by the fact that the planet currently is only able to produce about 100 grams of the stuff a year.

Alexander got on the bad side of Putin when he found out his superiors were planning to kill billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky (who was a vocal critic of the 2nd Chechen War), whom he was charged to protect. When he found out about the plot he went to the media to warn everyone about it and was subsequently arrested. Alexander was later released and fled to Great Britain to claim political asylum.

I do believe what got Alexander into the most trouble was him revealing some of Putin's dirtier but expected tactics. Alexnader informed the world that Putin's FSB was bombing Moscow apartments and blaming it on the Chechen terrorists to legitimise reprisals using military force in Chechnya. Boris, Alexander and Anna were all opposed to a second Chechen war. Alexander and Anna have lost their lives apposing Putin.

Back to control of the media and the little bit of information I wanted to tell you earlier. I had just watched a piece on Sky News regarding the death of Alexander Litvinenko, so I decided to switch over to the Russian channel to see how Putin's propaganda machine was spinning the story. Two things caught my interest. When the announcer on TV started informing the people of Alexander Litvinenko's death she said the following, "Alexander Litvinenko has just been assassi..... has just died". Seems she knew the truth as well.

I also remember about how in the next 20 minutes of the show the Russian presenter kept going on about, "how free Russian media is", and that they, "have no one here in the studio with a gun telling us what to say". Very strange things to say do you not think so?

Putin it seems is almost uncontrollable. What surprises me about all of this is the Russian people are allowing this rubbish to happen all over again. Surely the Russians are tired of presidents with small manhood issues? Surely they are bright enough to shake the yoke of this tyranny?

Things are not getting better. Putin is comparing penis size with the USA and Europe again and is trying to use every dirty tactic it can to control the current world political situation. Poland (rightfully so) wishes to protect itself from Iranian and Russian attacks so they have managed to score a Missile Shield from the states. Putin's response borders on the melodramatic and he really should get an Oscar for his performance. Putin has managed to turn the situation around to make a defensive weapons system appear to be an offensive (which I am sure it could be with a little imagination) attack on Russian statehood or something like that. Again I am sure it has something to do with manhood size.

Putin is also in Iran supplying that wheel-tapper of an Iranian president with nuclear capability as well as offering all the militant locals in the area access to weapons with nicely reduced price tags. It seems Putin wants the Middle East area as unstable as possible.

Just in case you missed the hypocrisy of Putin in the above two paragraphs... in Putin's mind, its is okay to supply Iran with nuclear technology which in turn can be used to create offensive nuclear weapons... but its NOT okay in Putin's eyes for countries around Iran to want to setup a missile defence system? Thats not counting the millions of AK-47 rifles the world has had to suffer from. Please Putin... that's pathetic. Really it is. I am sure your new buddy Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe could come up with a smarter story than you.

They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps and the friends that Putin seems to be getting into bed with all appear to be dictators of dodgy 3rd world countries where human rights are abused the most and freedoms are at a minimal. Zimbabwe, Venezuela, China and Iran... all countries suffering under terrible dictators seem to be the in thing for Putin.

The latest bit of news I have heard (other than Putin's over reaction to the missile shield), is that Estonia has accused Russia of launching large scale cyber attacks against it, Russia of course has denied this. I honestly completely believe Estonia on this one. Nothing in the last couple of years has given me a single reason to trust Putin or the current Russian government. Putin is a man completely without honour or scruples so I am more likely to trust what comes out of the silly Iranian presidents mouth than I am out of Putin's.

As I mentioned earlier on, the Russians I know are rather smart, so I have to ask any Russian readers out there... why are you allowing a tyrannical leader into power again? Do Russians get a kick out of pain and suffering? Do Russians like being exploited? I am trying to reconcile in my mind how such a smart people can make such an obviously repeating stupid mistake.

Well the good thing about having Putin in control of Russia is it is allowing Africa to catch up economically and surpass Russia socially while Putin keeps draining the country dry of everything it has.

Come on Russians. You have a wonderful country, stunning woman and from what I can see.. smart people. You can do so much better if you wanted to.

I am busy listening to Redi Direko's show on 702 streaming through my PC, and I have just heard another one of those stories that make me sick in the stomach. It seems not only are our Metro Cops in E Jozi lead by a ex kid bombing terrorist, but the cops under his command are just as debase.

In the story on 702 a young lady who runs a street kid shelter is been interviewed. She is on air for an appeal for more blankets, as the cops in their retarded 'boere*' wisdom have taken the blankets and the kids clothes to burn!!! This is while we are having such serious issues with the cold front that has moved through Jozi killing 17 people.

The Metro cop informed the lady who ran the shelter that the reason they burnt the blanket and clothes is so that the shelter kids will "go back home". They seem to forget that street kids have no homes.

So what we have here is an incident whereby the cops seem to have the authority to steal the clothes off your back and the blanket off your bed with no impunity. These Metro cops should be hauled in front of a Judge as soon as possible for charges on destruction of property and Crimes against Humanity.

As soon as I find more information on how to donate blankets to this shelter, and more information on whats happening, I will update this post so you know how you can get involved.

* Please note, I use the term 'boere' in the context of a retarded cop, and it has no ethnic connotations.

I read a news article yesterday about Patricia De Lille of the Independent Democrats reaction to a defamatory post about Simon Grindrod in some blog somewhere on the Internet. What is De Lille’s response? To go all George Bush Patriot Act on us!

De Lille fires off some slimy old lines about terrorists, pedophiles and the boogeyman to try take away your freedom of speech, so she can protect her little political people. I think the concept of Freedom of Speech completely evades Patricia De Lille. Freedom of speech does not mean censoring people. Freedom of speech does not mean centralization of information or power. Sure, there are some disgusting people on the internet, but on the same token we have disgusting people in parliament. Are we going to ban parliament because there are woman abusers in it?

What Politian’s like De Lille do is the same old story time after time. Something will upset them like this defamatory incident, and the next second they are on their soap box trying to incite the ignorant rabble for their “I-am-not-doing-this-for-personal-gain” crusade. One would think that Patricia De Lille would catch a bit of a wake up, especially after noticing how Freedom of Speech was thrown out the window during Apartheid, but one would be wrong.
De Lille seems to be a bit on the slow side when it comes to understanding the power of social networking and instead of dealing with rumors and the blogosphere in the correct method; she goes all totalitarian on us.

Of course she would have us believe that the “real” reason why she is doing this is to protect us from all the evil people out there (insert terrorists, pedophiles and co), instead of the real reason… Sis De Lille… sis! Take your attempts to stifle free speech and stick them somewhere liable. You seem to so easily forget, that the most important type of free speech to allow is that which you hate hearing the most.

I know for a fact this little escapade has cost her at least one vote. Mine. I used to be a strong ID supporter but now I have decided to jump the stupid ship. I need a Politian who has a clue and knows what’s going on in my world, and not just their world. I hear Helen Zille has a YouTube like Zoopy blog going… I think I will go have a look.

Find out more information here: http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6490

Edit: The link to the Helen Zille's Zoopy page: http://www.zoopy.com/Helen
Edit: Link to the Mail & Guardian article quoting this blog post: M & G Article

My name is "Zukeka"

So I say, "I do not care"

Zukeka Jacob is a classic whiny South African that was previously disadvantage. Zu-ke-ka recently complained to the media how her name is "Zu-ke-ka", and we should all call her "Zu-ke-ka". Apparently she has problems with anyone who is not Xhosa... pronouncing her name, and in people been unable to pronounce her name she is basically calling them racist for not taking the time to kiss her ass.

We I am sorry "Zu-ke-ka", I have lived in this country all my life. My grandparents came here in the 1800`s and were of the french lot that arrived. I can honestly say that in the last 200 years, I would be surprised if ANYONE has EVER got my surname right.

Yes, I have to spell it for everyone, and so do so many of my mates. A lot of us have funny names or surnames.. its one of those, "things" about been human.

Then you take this common human character trait, and make it into a race based comment... well guess what Zu-ke-ka. GET A LIFE. GROW UP, and PRODUCE SOMETHING FOR AFRICA (instead of the whole "oh god! look at me, I need attention so I am going play the race card"... again)

I have a suggestion for you Zu-ke-ka... learn some of the other ethnic group names so you dont have to dance around the country changing them because of your stuttering.

Whiny, bias Zukeka Jacob... that's how I will remember you.

Original article here: http://www.news24.com/News24/Your_say/Your_story/0,,2-2127-2128_2110802,00.html