The Destruction of a South African Farm or We had a Farm in Africa

This was our sugar/citrus/banana farm right next to Ngwenya Lodge in Komatipoort. It was sold to the SA government 3 years ago, and this is what it looked like last week when we went to attend the church's half century celebration. We matched each scene with a 'before' photo and the last photograph was taken from a helicopter where the remains (shell) of the house is visible. Even the roof has been stolen. It was the saddest day of our lives to see our well maintained home and garden totally neglected. The farming activities are similar- it will take years to get the farm productive again. The beneficiaries are simply doing NOTHING, they have used every resource left on the farm and are now squatting in small shacks all over the farm, built from IBR plates and material from our stripped house. Can you imagine how we feel towards the SA Gov???
Regards

Herman Louw
































































I also has a farm in Africa which is now also unproductive. see bottom pic.

World Populationto reach Seven Billion in the next few days.

When I was born the World Population was just two billion and when my father was born at the end of the 19th century it was only 1.5 billion. So in 112 years it has gone from 1.5 to Seven billion.No wonder I'm obsessed with population explosion.I live in a little town of just 2000 souls and wonder if we live here because we can't stand crowds of people crushing us every where we go.

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Who Killed Meredith Kercher?

Who killed Meredith Kercher seemed to be the main question the Brits were asking after the aquital of Amanda Knox and her boy friend. They seemed to ignore the fact that the murderer was safely tucked up in an Italian jail. They just couldn't believe that he was the only murderer. He was a drug dealer and a petty thief from Africa. He had to be helped by a young white middle class girl from a very balanced family who spent most of her life in the very civilised city of Seattle, and a young man,son of a urologist who had become her boyfriend. It just boggles my mind that people could think that these three could have got together to slit the throat of a room mate of Amanda Knox. This sort of thing just does not happen.

What the ANC has in store for South Africa

Research and Policy Brief: Revealing the Master Plan: What the ANC has in store for South Africa, 28th September 2011.
Address by John Kane-Berman, chief executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations, to Institute members and guests at the Country Club, Johannesburg, on 28 September 2011



In my presentation last year I argued that many of the problems confronting South Africa arose not from a few wrong-headed policies, but from the nature of the Government and the way it ran the State. I suggested that when a party with a two-thirds majority in Parliament was still committed to a "national democratic revolution” we should ask what it is that they wished to stage a revolution against. So this evening I will explore the national democratic revolution (NDR) in a bit more detail. I will define it, discuss the process of implementation, look at the implications, and then say something about its future. Read the whole address here