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ANC amends the constitution to eliminate the opposition

<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352027407777762754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuhZDbggWBGQRLReYNXfYZVw5wtGKDzILhR7YXHQR-kJfjuDG710MlU6ITCa9ceSFcBcUofMi1dxadbH9rUw-MghaWhJ-sE1gaQsoTyVeNLzYo8jV40OP2AT13hTL-rWvn8rrwSvQl2zE/s320/ancwilllosewesterncape.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px" />***SIGN THE PETITION*** <a class="Ktext_bold" href="http://www.mypetition.co.za/index.php?page=my_pet_details&petition_id=365&user_id=654">YOU CAN HELP STOP THE 17TH AMENDMENT BILL 2009 </a><a href="http://www.therightperspective.org/2009/06/23/south-africa-may-erase-provinces/" rel="bookmark" rev="post-4692" title="Permanent link to South Africa May Erase Provinces">ANC to SCRAP SA's nine Provinces</a> South Africa’s ruling <a href="http://www.therightperspective.org/tag/anc/" target="_blank">ANC</a> party is looking into <a href="http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=73876" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.businessday.co.za');" target="_blank">changing</a> the country’s provincial and local government structures and may scrap its province system all together, a move some say is being done to eliminate political opposition. Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka says the scrapping of <a href="http://www.therightperspective.org/tag/south-africa/" target="_blank">South Africa</a>’s nine provinces would be in an effort to structure local government more efficiently.However, some provinces have become strongholds for opposition parties. This is most notably seen in the Western Cape, where the <a href="http://www.therightperspective.org/tag/Democratic-Alliance/" target="_blank">Democratic Alliance</a> has removed ANC rule from the province. DA leader <a href="http://www.therightperspective.org/tag/helen-zille/" target="_blank">Helen Zille</a> has shown up ANC incompetence by curtailing violent crime, lowering unemployment, and improving government services in the Western Cape.Shiceka has been seen by some as fascist, who also came out strongly in support in the Constitution 17th Amendment Bill (which can be downloaded <a href="http://www.pmg.org.za/files/bills/constitution17amendmentbill.pdf" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.pmg.org.za');" target="_blank">here</a>), which will give the government increased powers of intervention in both provincial and local government. He adopted a strongly unitary position, saying that South Africa was one country with one President and “nobody is expected to be out of tune.”The intentions of the 17th Amendment have been strongly questioned and opposed, particularly in Cape Town and the Western Cape. The amendment has been characterized as a means for the ANC to maintain control in areas it has lost at the ballot box.Shiceka says a decision would be made by March next year. Legal challenges are almost certain to follow.Click on the link below to SIGN THE PETITION - PET#00365<a class="Ktext_bold" href="http://www.mypetition.co.za/index.php?page=my_pet_details&petition_id=365&user_id=654">YOU CAN HELP STOP THE 17TH AMENDMENT BILL 2009 </a>

ANC amends the constitution to eliminate the opposition

***SIGN THE PETITION*** YOU CAN HELP STOP THE 17TH AMENDMENT BILL 2009 ANC to SCRAP SA's nine Provinces South Africa’s ruling ANC pa...

10:13 AM

Elderly couple attacked on dairy farm

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq8HTv5aKutJk8eB2afaZbyORGgeKPp5Fzde3rUuRVxkemnTcgo5oCoc5VsqPA4XXU2rZfqauDW4ACTSVc9HzrdncRscz9W_sbBIXPTzRCh8JQvnlPX6fz_8So2gxB3SSaTONfRL_twbI/s1600-h/farm-ermelo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350826312010298306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq8HTv5aKutJk8eB2afaZbyORGgeKPp5Fzde3rUuRVxkemnTcgo5oCoc5VsqPA4XXU2rZfqauDW4ACTSVc9HzrdncRscz9W_sbBIXPTzRCh8JQvnlPX6fz_8So2gxB3SSaTONfRL_twbI/s400/farm-ermelo.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 293px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" /></a>An elderly couple were attacked and robbed at their daughter's dairy farm in Chissismeer on Tuesday, Mpumalanga police said. Sonette Selzer, on her farm near Chissismeer Mpumalanga. She always carries a rifle over a shoulder and a pistol on her belt. Captain Leonard Hlathi said three men entered the farm belonging to Tracy Pemberton, 41, at 9:30am. "The suspects accosted her father, Donald Gubb, 65, while he was outside and forced him inside the house. "They tied him up before doing the same to his 65-year-old wife, Yvonne, their daughter, and their employee, Samuel Lukhele, 57." He said the men demanded money from the victims. "When they were told that there was no money, they stabbed Mr Gubb in the head, took a piece of metal and hit him on the head, and then stabbed him in the chest. They also hit Mrs Gubb with a piece of metal on the head." The men then took three cellphones belonging to the victims and a R50 note before fleeing the scene. The couple were taken to the hospital and were in a stable condition. Police were investigating, Hlathi said.

Elderly couple attacked on dairy farm

An elderly couple were attacked and robbed at their daughter's dairy farm in Chissismeer on Tuesday, Mpumalanga police said. Sonette Sel...

2:10 AM

SADC Makes Fools Out Of The MDC-T

<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRIdLiYYxxyV7Fy76SzZk4snYyqu0iRtCp8rGfcds1w2arqLec3O5DsnVlb-fMcpagh_swZite8LphxgrDHJPiA1kS8oGMasSj6ry6jpe-OnIUs62GjU8pt7aeNHccbjBpnHV5Pn0yPo/s1600-h/Mugabe_and_Zuma.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350669989793460674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRIdLiYYxxyV7Fy76SzZk4snYyqu0iRtCp8rGfcds1w2arqLec3O5DsnVlb-fMcpagh_swZite8LphxgrDHJPiA1kS8oGMasSj6ry6jpe-OnIUs62GjU8pt7aeNHccbjBpnHV5Pn0yPo/s400/Mugabe_and_Zuma.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 302px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a> This was the last straw desperate MDC-T and Tsvangirai apologists were clinging to, that Jacob Zuma would read Mugabe the riot act, unlike the hated Mbeki. On Saturday, Mugabe was pallying around with Zuma at the SADc Heads of State meeting in Johannesburg as can be seen here. Then King Mswati emerged to tell reporters that no one had written to them to complain about Zimbabwe and they will, therefore, not be discussing it. The MDC-T leadership meets today in Harare in a panic response to this development. They will only issue more meaningless deadlines and resolutions that are not very resolute at all.</div><div align="justify"> It is now official. King Mswati, who was living it up with Mugabe and Gideon Gono at Gono's Farm a couple of weeks back, has said that "no official" complaint has been lodged with SADC about Zimbabwe's new government and that he was in Zimbabwe, where he saw for himself that everything is just fine. Tsvangirai, through his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, wrote last week to President Jacob Zuma , who is the Sadc chairman, urging him to intervene in the stalemate, and to get Sadc to intervene in the deadlock over the appointment of Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono and attorney-general Johannes Tomana, who are Mugabe loyalists. Now SADC say they never received such a letter. No "official" communication. There is nothing to investigate, SADC says. King Mswati, the despot of Swaziland, is the Chairman of the SADC Organ on Defence and Politics. This is the Organ that deals officially with the Zimbabwe issue. The MDC-T has been rattled enough by the jeering in London and this latest rebuff from SADC to call for a special meeting of its Executive today. </div><div align="justify">They will meet today, yes. But nothing will come of it. SADC was meeting at the weekend to discuss Mauritius, whose exiled leader is cooling his heels in South Africa and there had been talk that Zimbabwe would be discussed, especially since the MDC-T claimed they had sent a letter to the regional body. Tsvangirai sabotaged his own party on this one. He bought Mugabe's argument (flawed) that only if there is agreement amongst ALL the Principals in the Unity Government that there was an impasse could the matter be referred to SADC. Unfortunately for the MDC-T, their principal agrees with Mugabe that not swearing in Roy Bennett, not swearing in ambassadors, Governors etc can not be considered an impasse. As Tsvangirai drags them towards the cliff, there to fall off into oblivion and irrelevance, all the MDC-T can do at the moment is consult and discuss. </div>

SADC Makes Fools Out Of The MDC-T

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