CNN again pre-empted Madiba's death and accidently published his last Will and Testament!

Last Will and Testament of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

I bequeath:

R 20 000 to you, Winnie, for a makeover for the première of the Hollywood movie deifying you as Queen Mother of Brandfort. But you know nothing of soccer, my dear.

R1.45c to the ANC, for elbowing me out when you needed me most. I retired for quiet reflection, not general paralysis.

R 5 000 000 to the JHB Metro Council. By god, Masondo, fix those freaking roads, the ambulance ride here almost ruptured my spleen.

R70 000 per annum for the upkeep of Robben Island. Raze it to the ground, keep my old cell and build one single Afrikaans South African university. WTF.

R 20 000 000 for president Zuma to fairly divide between my three (ex-) wives. You arbitrate that so well, Jacob.

$ 55 to CNN for dusting off their pre-written obituary of my 2003 demise. Gotcha good, that time?

$100 000 for the Me-Prize. Danny, Sidney, Morgan, Dennis, Simon played me splendidly. But the role should go to a white actor with twenty-years-on-an-island experience. Sorry John, I want Tom Hanks.

R 80 000 to gag the Independent Examinations Board. There is only one thing beter than inflated matric results - quiet diplomacy.

R200 000 for the design of a new flag. The corruption and murder under the banner of this one, desecrate my long walk to freedom. I wanted to be out of breath, not out of funds.

R13.50c for epoxy glue. FW, splitting that ’93 Nobel was silly. You keep my half too.

R1000.00 to my publishers for my ideas on bomb planting. Lindiwe Sisulu can add this manual to our war library. It’s called What uncle Albert taught me.

R 2.00 for an SMS to Matt Damon. “Dear Matt. You were too short. Madiba.”

R10.00 to Desmond Tutu. You old fart. That bet we took? You win, Des.

R20 000 each, to Ampie du Preez and AB de Villiers. Please don’t sing that song again. Thank you.

R55 000 to redo my hair on that statue in that square named after me.

All the money left in the Foundation to shut up that child Julius Malema. His incoherent babble has always violated my ideals.

Grace said I shouldn’t, but to all media getting filthy rich from my demise, go fuck yourselves.

I thank you.







Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

drafted at Hofmeyr, Hofmeyr & Sons

Url Link: http://stevehofmeyr.co.za/website/

Black rule sucks

J.R. Colson

'Is South Africa doomed to follow the rest of Africa into oblivion?' The tragic fact of business is that ordinary Africans were better off under colonial -- i.e. White -- rule.

South Africa and Zimbabwe hold powerful racial lessons for all Europeans. Even though both countries are mostly-Black, they used to be run by Whites.

In fact, quite a few areas in Africa were controlled by Whites at one time or another, due to British or French rule by colonization of various parts of the world, back when those White countries had vast "empires."

Britain had colonized such African countries as Botswana, Rhodesia, Zambia, Gambia, Kenya, Mauritius, etc. The French colonized Chad, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, and so forth. Other formerly White-ruled/controlled countries in Africa include the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika [later called Tanzania], Uganda, Malawi, and Swaziland. All of those countries are now in Black hands, and all of them are now physical toilets.

When Whites were in control of those Black-majority countries, those countries were successful, even if some of those states lacked certain resources. But as soon as Whites stopped ruling those countries, they quickly became hellholes of poverty, crime and disease.

In fact, even non-African Black countries share that above racial feature: consider the Black, Caribbean country called Haiti. Haiti was built up by Whites -- the French -- back when it was called "Saint Domingue"; then, that country became "the Republic of Haiti," and after that just plain "Haiti." American military personnel were in Haiti for 19 years, to aid that country, up until 1934. But as soon as the Whites left, Haiti plunged into a cultural sewer, where it remains today.

But regardless of the country in question, the pattern is always the same: Whites build up, Blacks tear down. Over and over again. Without fail.

Whites themselves cut their own throats in South Africa in Dec. 1993, when the South African Parliament voted in a new constitution, giving "equal rights" to all Blacks, and ending apartheid - White rule over Blacks. The former White leader of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, also helpfully aided the collective mass suicide of Whites when he lifted the 30-year ban on Black revolutionary groups like the African National Congress.

South Africa's Black hero/leader, Nelson Mandela, whom the global media praised as the second coming of Ghandi, or of Martin Luther King, Jr., was actually a convicted terrorist, jailed in 1964 for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, to which he pled guilty. Mandela was the leader of the Marxist ANC -- African National Congress; he once wrote a pamphlet titled "How To Be A Good Communist," which was used as evidence in his criminal trial.

Later, during his prison term, the Whites offered to free Mandela if he would recant violence, and his Marxist beliefs. He refused.

Mandela -- again, a former Communist -- later received the Nobel Peace Prize, shared jointly with F. W. de Klerk. Amazingly, few people complained about Mandela getting such an award.

Also of interest concerning Nelson Mandela is his wife, Winnie. She was caught on videotape endorsing the terrorist tactic of "necklacing"; she was also suspected of murdering -- stabbing -- a young Black, and was later convicted in 1991 -- but not of murder, only of kidnapping and assault; her bodyguard was charged with that murder. Despite this conviction, Winnie Mandela later became the head of the ANC Women's League.

Rhodesia's -- now called Zimbabwe -- situation is similar to South Africa's. It was a British colony, named after Cecil Rhodes, and was a White, anti-Communist state until its takeover by Black Communist leader Robert Mugabe in February 1980. This takeover by Mugabe occurred partly due to U.N.-imposed sanctions on Rhodesia simply because Rhodesia was too White for the tastes of that global organization.

We must hope that all Whites will learn a lesson from this so-obvious racial pattern above. Blacks have proven themselves to be incapable of running a successful country anywhere on Earth -- even after Whites do most of the leg-work on infrastructure and agriculture prior to a Black government.

War on white South Africa

South Africa is in a 17 year massacre hidden from the western world by its liberal media. The fact is more people die in ten weeks under Mandela’s SA than died in detention over 40 years of white rule. The farm murders are only a tip of a blood spattered iceberg. Each year hundreds of urban whites are also murdered and many more are the victims of horrific violence motivated by racial hatred and deliberate genocide.The farm genocide is merely scratching the surface of South Africa's blood stained reality. The frightening truth is that the farm killings are only a part of what is actually going on. More terrifying still is the fact that today's reality may no more than hint at the nightmare which is to come.

The malpracticing media is discovering (painfully slowly) what the prototypical Black Strongman is all about.

Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) that seeks the establishment of a homeland for the Afrikaners of South Africa, was alone at his homestead over the Easter period, when two farmhands bludgeoned the 69-year-old separatist to a pulp with pangas and pipes. Based on hearsay – and their abiding sympathy for savages – news media across the West are insisting that the motive for the murder was a "labor dispute."

This the oleaginous officials of the African National Congress (Mandela's gang) must just love; they share with their admirers in the West a determination to ignore (and perhaps to encourage) the black onslaught against white South African farmers, or Boers (who happen to feed the continent).

Those of us who've been studying the systematic, race-based extermination of farming South Africa know too well the telltale signs of a farm murder. Without exception, Mr. Terre'Blanche and all 3,769 farmers murdered since "freedom" were slaughtered in ways that would do Shaka Zulu proud.

The brutality of the racially motivated murders of white farmers in South Africa, and, increasingly, of whites in general, is one aspect of these crimes. Mr. Terre'Blanche was unrecognizable. Two weeks before he was slaughtered, 17-year-old Anika Smit was raped, her throat slashed 16 times and her hands hacked off and removed from the scene.

Both acts of butchery were unremarkable in Mandela's South Africa.

The dehumanization of the victim – Crimen injuria in South African law – is another feature of these feral acts. When they were finished with him, Terre'Blanche's killers pulled down the old man's pants, exposing his privates. Slain white farmers are often displayed like trophies by their black killers.

Mr. Terre'Blanche was a victim of a farm murder, plain and simple.

Afrikaner farmers are being exterminated at the genocidal annual rate of 313 per 100,000 inhabitants. Or, in the estimation of Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, who heads "Genocide Watch," "four times as high as is for the rest of the population," making farming in South Africa the most dangerous occupation in the world. (Miners, by comparison, suffer 27.8 fatalities per 100,000 workers.)

Mr. Terre'Blanche's killers, who crept up on him in his sleep, were being hailed as heroes by black groups outside the Ventersdorp courthouse in which they appeared (in a part of South Africa now known as the North West Province) and beyond. Just in case her readers forgot who here was on the side of the angels, the Associated Press' pack animal Michelle Faul gave them a history lesson peppered with politically correct pieties. She wrote:

"Blacks outside the courthouse were singing … songs from the struggle for majority rule that finally came in 1994 after years of state-sponsored violence by the white minority regime and urban guerrilla warfare waged by the African National Congress."

As Ms. Faul tells it, the white crowd, there to protest (gasp) the slaying of Mr. Terre'Blanche, was singing (horrors) "the apartheid-era anthem in the Afrikaans language."

As hard as it is for stupid Westerners to believe, there was life before black majority rule. The white minority settled the tip of the African continent around the same time Americans settled there's. Like their American coreligionists, the puritans of South Africa built the country currently being dismantled by the black majority. And, lo – they had a national life and an anthem: "Die Stem."

Here's a verse of that old "hate speech":

In the golden warmth of summer,
In the chill of winter's air,
In the surging life of springtime,
In the autumn of despair;
When the wedding bells are chiming,
Or when those we love depart,
Thou dost know us for thy children
And dost take us to thy heart.
Loudly peals the answering chorus;
We are thine, and we shall stand,
Be it life or death, to answer
Thy call, beloved land.

"Die Stem" is a paean to God and country, and rather beautiful at that.

Western journalists hunt in packs. The AP is only aping the ANC, according to which the old anthem is unsavory. Not so the hit jingle, "Kill The Boer; Kill the Farmer." For it, says the ANC, does no more than pay homage to the Party's illustrious history. (Agreed: Incitement to murder is a fitting ANC anthem.)

In the "New South Africa," there is indeed a renewed appreciation for this old slogan, chanted at political rallies and funerals during "The Struggle" (against apartheid). The riff has been revived by ANC Youth League President Julius Malema, who stomps around the country calling for Boer scalps at every opportunity. (Malema has lived most of his life under black rule.)

Variants of the hit "Kill the Boer" have hit the social networking site Facebook. At the time Anika was taken, the country had been embroiled in a debate about posts that appeared under the name of Malema. One entry called on "fellow black people" to "take [their] land," and "rape every trespasser, namely white whores … till the last breath is out. … White kids will be burned, especially those in Pretoria and Vrystaat."

Anika, an Afrikaner, was from Pretoria.

Popularized by Mandela's men, and sung by The Man himself, the AP considers an exhortation to kill whites nothing but an "anti-apartheid song" with Liberation lyrics.

Mantras and chants have a mesmerizing, often murderous, power in African life. The West's malpracticing and mindless liberal media have forgotten this.

In its hypnotic hold on the popular imagination, "Kill the Boer; Kill the Farmer" is not unlike the "Kill them before they kill you" catch phrase that helped excite Hutus to massacre half a million of their Tutsi neighbors, whom they had dehumanized first by dubbing as "inyenzi" ("cockroaches").

Of course, banning an incitement to murder will do nothing to excise a dark reality embedded deep in the human heart.

by Ilana Mercer

Acid Mine Drainage – is this the end of life in Gauteng?

It's taken the government 14 years to take the issue of AMD (acid mine drainage) seriously and focus on finding practical solutions – and even to acknowledge the importance of enforcing compliance and regular inspection! What is lacking is the political will and commitment to implement plans and apportion liability. AMD on the Witwatersrand has now reached a crisis point.

While South Africans are witnessing the “catastrophe”, the government committees are debating the water crisis in boardrooms, and nothing has been done to prevent the decanting of acid mine water. The first AMD (acid mine drainage) decant that occurred on the West Rand in 2002, was predicted in 1996. When will the department of water affairs recognise the situation for what it is – a pending disaster! Decisive action has become imperative as acidic mine water has now reached the Cradle of Humankind from the West Rand.

In July 2010 the department stated that potential decant within the Johannesburg area could take place within 18 months, or by early 2012. Those 18 months had now shrunk to 12 months.

It is all very well that the inter-ministerial committee appointed by the department of water affairs to investigate, completed its work, but besides the announcement of a report of which the findings were never made public, we have heard nothing further.

Due to governments delays in dealing with AMD and given the huge volumes of AMD currently decanting, inadequate treatment methods (i.e. neutralisation) may have to be implemented in the short term – at the expense of our environment, health and economy! The threats are massive: Not only our water, but our health and food security is compromised. It is worrying that instead of scientific research and engineering, Ministers are calling for simplistic and quick solutions. Acid mine drainage is the most significant environmental threat facing South Africa and is going to take billions of Rands and will involve all sectors of society for many decades, if not centuries, to come.. We wait with bated breath to hear what Cabinet determines is the way forward!

Footnote:
For the record: A serious case of insufficient funds again! Government lacks the R1.5-billion needed for a 10-year rehabilitation plan. Just one pump to remove the water costs R218-million, but the current budget for this is R14-million. Which begs the question - Was the multibillion-rand Arms Deal, the R40-billion World Cup Soccer, the R21-billion Gauteng Freeway system or Cuba's R1.1-billion freebie a life and death situation? And what of our Disney World that is expected to cost R25-billion? Or is this #101 failure of government where self-help is the order of the day - 'Water is Life' - do you think this may have dawned on anyone in government?

Radioactive Pollution Acid Mine Water reaches Cradle of Mankind

Acidic mine water that has been bubbling out of an old ventilation shaft on the West Rand for the past year has now reached the Cradle of Mankind and caused the deaths of over 60 carp in a dam.

Radioactive dam left after failure to rehabilitate mine

This stream runs from the Tweelopiespruit, which springs from the radioactive Robinson lake outside Randfontein. From here it runs through the Krugersdorp game reserve, "over" the Sterkfontein Caves, right through the Cradle of Mankind up to the Crocodile River, which runs into the Hartbeespoort Dam.

Neil Norquoy from Wild Cave Adventures found the dead fish on the farm Koelenhof on Thursday.

The farm is about 10km northeast of the place where millions of litres of acidic mine water has been leaking on the West Rand since last year.

The dam is situated about 3km northeast of the Sterkfontein Caves.

The pollution had spread from the old Rand Uranium goldmine on the West Rand and has now spread north to within the Cradle of Mankind.

At this stage, it has already passed the Sterkfontein Caves as the Blaaubankspruit runs "over" the Sterkfontein Caves.

Water specialist Garfield Krige said he believed the acidic mine water of the West Rand had reached the Hartbeespoort Dam "long ago".

The heavy rains over the past two weeks have filled the underground mined-out pockets on the West Rand to such an extent that there are now about 40 million litres of sour mine water in the Tweelopiespruit each day.

Krige, who lives in the Cradle of Mankind, said stones in the area where the Blaaubankspruit flowed, are also coloured bright orange.

The whole shore area of the Tweelopiespruit is coloured dark orange.

What is AMD - Acid Mine Drainage?

AMD is a deadly cocktail of chemicals which includes various sulphates, and metals such as lead, magnesium, cadmium, bismuth, and radioactive uranium, strontium (one of uranium’s progeny) and radium which decays into radon, radon gas, polonium, and thorium.

Ministers 'simple and quick’ solution - neutralisation!

What is neutralisation?

Neutralisation is simply a pH adjustment, for example by adding lime to acid mine water. Neutralisation with lime removes some of the sulphate salts from the water, but not enough. It makes metals fall out of the water to the bottom of the water course.

In the West Rand, neutralisation of AMD has resulted in the discharge of water with high sulphate salt content and a stream lined with metal deposits. (See photo right and click here: ‘Inadequate treatment of acid water flowing into Tweelopiespruit’.)

Neutralisation also does not deal with radioactive particles from uranium in AMD.
For neutralisation to be an effective water treatment method, the water needs to settle in holding tanks and the deposited toxic sludge removed and disposed of safely.

(SEE IMAGES AND VIDEO LINKS BELOW)

VIDEO - Part 1 Western Basin flooded with acid mine water

VIDEO - Part 2 Robinson Lake declared radioactive

VIDEO - Part 3 acid mine water spillages

The thing that drove this family out of South Africa against their will

Alex and his family did not leave this country because of the crumbling public service system. Those problems were “workable”. They had their own electricity generator, purified their own water, and had private health care.

Nor were they put off by concerns for the country’s future. Quite the opposite, actually. They were “in for the fight of putting South Africa back together”.

Then why did they leave?

Alex says they were pushed out of South Africa against their will. He speaks of anger at having to see everything he worked for, for 20 years, go down the drain.

People who told him he was brave to immigrate had it all wrong. It had nothing to do with being brave: he was afraid.

Fear drove them out of South Africa:

Those of you who have been a victim of crime can attest to that cold fear, that fear you can only know once you have been through it and if you're lucky survived.

I remember one of the cops who found me tied up after one of the incidents saying to me: "You don't get a second chance like this twice in life".

After three home invasions and two shootings while shopping at their local mall, the family came to the end of their tether:

I had reached a point where I was surviving on two hours sleep a night for two years and we were literally taking shifts.

I can't say I miss South Africa because the lifestyle I missed is no longer there; one cannot braai outside without half an eye out for intruders, one can no longer simply sleep on the beach or the side of the road during holidays, nor really go for walks and enjoy nature, one cannot go out and enjoy a summers evening without constantly watching your back.

So while I do miss the days of doing that, I know that it does not exist for now in South Africa and therefore there is nothing to miss.

So for now I am happy doing my own laundry, it really doesn't take that long and is a good education for the kids, I no longer have a drunk gardener I am terrified of firing for fear of reprisal, knocking on my windows and harassing the household when he's been drinking. Or a security guard who may just turn on me one day. Yes I do miss the days when people had respect for people and life in South Africa and life was good.... but that no longer exists there black or white.

I want to point out that this family’s living standard was way above average. Most South Africans don’t employ servants and security guards. And just as well. A cop once told me that practically all house robberies are inside jobs.

Who's Fooling Who

Matric results 'manipulated'

by Peter Gibbs

It would appear to me that the pass percentage for the 2010 exam results is being manipulated to make the Department of Education (read Minister) look good.

I quote: "The Chief Director of Exams Nkosinathi Sishi said 364 513 pupils passed their exams. There were 643 546 candidates who sat for the exams, of whom 537 543 wrote all seven subjects."

If one calculates the number of learners that passed as a percentage of the learners that "wrote all seven subjects" then the figure of 67.8% is correct.

But what happened to the 106 003 learners, the difference between the 643 546 candidates, who sat the exam and the 537 543 candidates who wrote all seven subjects?

They seem to mysteriously have fallen into one of the gaping cracks in the South African education system.

Calculating the number of learners who passed as a percentage of the number who "sat" the exam one gets a new and more realistic figure of 56.6%.

This would appear to me to be the true percentage as surely those that did not complete the exams must still remain part of the statistics.

I don't know how the number-crunching was done last year, so cannot comment whether the percentage is up or down on last year.

www.news24.com/

SA Education system the 4th worst in the world according to Newsweek

Bottom of the pile - Newsweek‘s (16 August 2010) list of the world’s best countries put South Africa at 82nd overall, and ranks our education system 97th out of 100, which is 4th from the bottom. South Africa’s education performance is even ranked below countries like Mozambique, Bangladesh and Iran, states less wealthy or less free.

Let's be honest: our dysfunctional education system cannot continue as is. We've known this for a long time, and now the international community knows it. We've won a pitiful "race to the bottom", something for which we should feel ashamed. Now it's time to make the hard decisions, commit to a standard of excellence, and get our education system on track.

How To Brainwash A Nation

This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.

Please join the campaign to end this insanity at The Kick Them All Out Project http://www.KickThemAllOut.com

ANC to investigate causes of lightning.

I had to copy this. What a laugh! KwaZulu-Natal MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs Nomsa Dube on Monday called on the national department of science and technology to investigate the causes of lightning after seven people died in lightning strikes.

"We will do an investigation and talk to the department of science and technology on what is the cause of the lightning. Scientists from the department could perhaps help us and come up with instruments that could help community members protect themselves against lightning. The department has dealt with floods and fires, but lightning was new to us." said Nomsa Brightspark Dube.

That joke about having an electrifying personality is only funny for so long. It's really annoying when you get zapped every time you touch something.

Now with that new lightning thing, there's a whole new world we can barely fathom. We shall call upon the spirits for guidance, visit a sangoma, and eat the powerful medicine of human body parts, a bowl of stewed anuses and dicks, the bones will show us the way, then our ancestral spirits will send messages regarding the bird of lightning who is punishing the wicked and evildoers who are guilty of theft and murder and have been sent to a bad heaven. If all else fails we will arrange the slaughter a bull.

Arrive alive and neurotic or in a coffin

This is a warning to the people who don’t live in South Africa, but plan to travel here at some point or another. Please note, if you’re from a country where you can rely on public transport, this post is especially for you. You need to note that public transport in South Africa is not safe – and shouldn’t be attempted unless you’re really brave. Rather consider renting a car from Avis, or any of those agents…

In South Africa, yes there are buses . And yes, there are taxis. But you need to note that when you use either of these it might be the last thing you ever do.

These are not taxis in the typical Western sense of the term like you know them in the UK or the US. The industry is made up mostly of 16-seater commuter kombi buses which are more often than not unsafe or not roadworthy. Minibus taxi drivers are known for their disregard for the road rules and for dangerously overloading their vehicles with passengers of sometimes upto as many as 33 passengers. The taxi drivers have long since been notorious in South Africa. Most minibus taxis drive at high speed like the devil himself.

Quoting Thomas Thale:

“MINIBUS taxis are by far the cheapest and most popular form of public transport in South Africa, used mainly by the urban and rural poor. But if you are a visitor to Johannesburg, using a taxi can prove bewildering and even frightening.”

Buses are all the same. In the past month I have seen two bus accidents on my route to work, and three taxi accidents in Pretoria. Just to give you an idea, I live about 7km from work. All these accidents were due to speeding & reckless driving (e.g. running a red traffic light). Obviously depending on which bus driver you land up with, but most of the ones I come across drive like they stole the bus.

Firstly they endanger the passengers – secondly normal road users are subject to share the road with these people and public anger against minibus taxi drivers is reaching boiling point.

Car accidents in South Africa are as common as snow in Russia. Everyone knows someone who’s been in an accident – if they weren’t in one themself. Its strange how we just put up with it really?? Its strange how people get arrested for not paying parking tickets, but bus drivers and taxi driver get to endanger thousands of people’s lives each day – without any penalization. I have never seen the Metro police give a ticket to a taxi or a bus driver. Maybe I’m just never in the right place. The Metro police don’t intervene because … I don’t know why?…

The thugs that cause the carnage on SA roads.

The 2010/2011 Festive Season took its toll yet again - over 1300 people died on our roads and multiple others were injured in car crashes across the country.

South African road safety statistics are far from comforting. One in two out of approximately 150 000 public minibus taxis is involved in an accident every year. According to the AA, it recorded an annual total of 70 000 minibus taxi crashes, indicating that taxis in the country amount for double the rate of crashes compared to all other passenger vehicles. According to media reports, at least 74 people were killed and 203 injured in minibus taxi accidents across the country in August and early September alone. So if you're really worried about staying alive out there, do NOT take a minibus taxi.

You're much more likely to die on the road especially when Arrive Alive and the rest of the nanny-state crew can't be bothered to make a big deal of it. Too little (if any) law and order has left the public transport sector in chaos which in turn has resulted in minibus taxi drivers having scant respect for their vehicles, the safety of their passengers and no respect for other vehicles sharing the roads with them.

What gives? Why does the Arrive Alive campaign make so much noise during the holidays, and go so silent for the rest of the year? As if the government's scare-programme and its apparently opportunistic traffic law enforcement over the holidays isn't enough we get advertising campaigns threatening rape in AIDS-infested prisons. Why does anyone think it acceptable to terrify people during the festive season with advertisements that suggest gang-rape in prison as an acceptable penalty for drink-driving? Yes, there is no excuse for drunk driving. The same goes for any other dangerous driving or unsafe vehicles.

Report bad minibus taxi drivers to the national traffic call centre on 0861 400 800 (which surprise, surprise, is "in the process of upgrading its system").

Death, violence and carnage - Seeing is believing ...

And the death, violence and carnage continues

4 killed, 44 hurt in horror N1 crash - Today 2011-01-03

Four people were killed and 44 others injured when a packed minibus taxi and a bakkie collided along the N1 freeway near Bela Bela on Monday afternoon, paramedics said.

Paramedics arrived on scene and found both vehicles mangled near the roadway, Netcare 911 spokesperson Jeff Wicks said.

Ten people sustained critical injuries, 20 others suffered serious injuries and 13 had from minor to moderate injuries.

All the injured people were taken to Meulmed Hospital and various other nearby health centres.

The cause of the accident was not known. ("stupid is as stupid does")