This post was originally posted by Mike Smith on his blog SAsucks
The strikes of the Civil servants are unfolding nicely. At first I thought it was only an exercise for a Communist Revolution, but it appears to unfold into the real thing. It looks as if the Revolution is here.
Now the Army threatens to join the strikes as well. Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, an affiliate of COSATU, has joined the strike on Wednesday 25th of August 2010. At the moment the police, prison services and traffic cops are still working, but they will start their strike on Saturday 28th of August 2010
… Let us pause for a moment and think about the implications of this…
In May 2010 we have seen the army taking over from the police at the borders and it being reported that the borders between Zimbabwe and Mozambique are riddled with holes. The army has to clean up the mess now at the borders they say. The entire fence between the Kruger Park and Mozambique has been removed by Thabo Mbeki to create a so called macro nature reserve.
One thing that I have learned from the Marxist terrorists is that they do everything for a reason and everything they do is a deception. They are disciples of Mao Zedong and Sun Tzu.
All these open borders are just the Marxists establishing a Truong Son Strategic Supply Route or as the American called it, a Hoh Chi Minh trail.
The Communist Master Plan, The Final Solution for South Africa is all moving into place.
Since the 1960’s the Communist have told the Blacks that they would be richly rewarded if they chase the White people into the sea…promising them a chicken in every pot, every night…
That time has now come. The people want their chickens, but the Communists say, “You have not kept up your end of the bargain yet…The whites are still there”
The Communists knows the rules of war and therefore never fight by them. If you know the rules, you also know how to break and by-pass them.
The Communists will never declare an official war. They waged war for three decades on the Namibian-Angola border and never once declared war. They know it will make them look like the aggressor. That is not what they want. They want to be seen as the VICTIMS.
It is called “People’s War”.
The Geneva Convention makes clear the rules of war. Soldiers need to wear identifiable uniforms, etc. The Communists do not want that. They do not want the people to know what their losses are. Besides nobody really cares about soldiers killed in a fair fight, do they? They want the people to think that the other side’s soldiers are killing their civilians. Every so called “Civilian” killed on the Communist side is used to recruit ten more.
The rules of war further states that soldiers are not allowed to attack hospitals…but civilians can do what they want. Soldiers are not allowed to attack schools, but there is no restrictions on what the civilian trade unions can do. It might be crime, but when the police force is on strike, then who is going to enforce the law?
That dear people are the real reasons behind these so called strikes by trade unions.
The Communists see the civilians as objects of war, therefore every person on their side, including women and children become expendable weapons of war and every person on the enemy side, old, young, babies, female or male, becomes a target. People become shields to hide behind and weapons to be used to strike the enemy with.
While a normal army tries to fight a fair and just war against this Communist People’s War, the media will be quick to point out who the Military “aggressors” and “baby killers” are and who the “innocent civilians” are. The strategy is brilliant actually. It defeated America in Vietnam.
Coming back to the Civil Servant Strike…
The Marxist Terrorist Government in South Africa sees every member of every trade union as a foot soldier. The regular army, the SANDF (South African National Defence Force) is not the REAL army of the Communists. COSATU is…and has always been.. the REAL army of the Communists.
When the Army goes on strike and dresses up in their COSATU T-shirts and civilian clothes, they will be joining the revolution. It will open the military bases for COSATU to arm themselves with military weapons.
The same with the police.
The prisoner’s in the jails are the “Special Forces”… the elite of the Communists. They will be set free and unleashed on the enemies of the revolution, read “The White Public.”
When nobody is guarding the borders, thousands of Communist reinforcements, with weapons will be streaming across the borders of Zimbabwe and Mozambique to join their revolutionary comrades in South Africa.
The president of South Africa is currently in China, discussing Communist Chinese support for the revolution and how the spoils will be divided up afterwards.
It indeed appears as if the revolution has finally arrived. It looks as even I was fooled for a moment. It looks as if the Whites in South Africa who could not get out in time are on their own now.
Johannesburg, South Africa - Residents in Johannesburg got surprised by a massive earthquake or rather a tremor just after 9pm last night. The earthquake scared a lot of people and was felt at a lot of locations in Johannesburg.
Some reports of Bedfordview, Kensington and as close as 1km from Johannesburg went out. No one was injured neither any serious damage to property but people were "shaken" because of the tremor.
The Council for Geosciences in South Africa did not measure any earthquakes on Thursday night, the last one they recorded was on Tuesday, that was the smaller 2.9 Magnitude earthquake.
Some people also reported of buildings shaking in central Johannesburg. The earthquake was felt in numerous places around Johannesburg.
The biggest earthquake that ever hit Johannesburg was
Because the Council of Geosciences did not pick up the earthquake we could attribute it to mining activities similar to the earthquakes that were felt earlier this year near Gold Reef city. They also occurred because of mining activities.
No one until now could really confirm that the earthquakes happened because of mining activities.
The biggest earthquake in history we could find, since earthquakes have been tracked in South Africa was probably the magnitude 5.7 on the Richter scale that happened 36 years ago in Randfontein a 4.5 Magnitude earthquake also happened in central Johannesburg in 1966 as well as a 5 magnitude in Alexandra near Johannesburg.
Mozambiqan father looses daughter when mistaken for beggar on Friday the 13th. It was during a joint operation between the Police and children welfare agencies to clamp-down on beggars who use children to receive sympathy from passers-by when begging. There has been criticism that the effort was done over-zealously and the children was unduly traumatized when removed from parents or guardians.
In this case Tomas Chirindza wasn't even begging. He has been occupying the same spot since 1999 doing shoe repairs, not begging. That day Tomas was forced to take his three year old little girl with to 'work', as his wife went to the clinic to give birth to their second child also a girl. Father and daughter was sitting under a tree when the police and social development officials came to them and was told they where taking his child to a place of safety. He was in tears as they took her away not knowing what will happen to her.
They went to the social workers trying to get back their daughter when he was told his passport expired and he must go see home affairs. They are fearful of deportation and they cannot get their daughter back without their passport.
The aim of the operation was child protection but it was not planned properly. It almost seems as if they took a map of Pretoria closed their eyes and pointed, then went on a 'raid' of freeing the poor defenceless children. People should not beg with their children but surely there was a better way to do it than this? And surely they should have more just cause to take a child than a person is a poor immigrant sitting next to the road under a tree?
Now a small family are traumatized by the loss, instead of celebrating the birth of a daughter, along with the threat of deportation hanging over them.
University of Pretoria's Centre for Child Law has assisted the shoemaker from Mozambique in the return of his daughter. They have made a agreement with Gauteng health and social development department that the three year old will remain in her parents custody on terms that was settle on Tuesday.
So far this has been a happy ending to a very unnecessary trauma.
Johannesburg's Golden Highway as well as some of the airspace was restricted this morning because of a massive gas leak at an ABI deopt.
The incident happened when a digger loader punctured a gas pipe according to emergency services in Johannesburg.
The gas is still leaking at the moment and firefighters are trying to maintain the leak.
There were no serious injuries like yesterday's gas leak in Epping, Cape Town, where 150 people were injured.
In dysfunctional South Africa one cant even go fishing as a hobby because then you stand the chance of getting shot. An off duty police captain was shot dead yesterday while doing something as simple as fishing.
What should of been a nice day for Kevin Marallich fishing turned out to be the day he would be shot and his fiancee brutally assaulted by armed savage criminals. The two were having a nice day at the Ashill Farm Dam in Amatikulu when two men confronted them. One of the suspects immediately shot Kevin who then died at the scene. His fiancee was then assaulted and she is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital.
The armed criminals then stole Kevin's car and vanished into thin air and police are still trying to find the suspects. In South Africa going out fishing for the day is life threatening. Normal people cant have normal lives because of the fear of being attacked.
Queenburgh - In the early hours of Saturday morning a resident of Queensburg woke up with a bang, someone was visiting but they really weren't invited. A car came crashing over their wall into their swimming pool.
Luckily the two men that drove the luxury 4x4 into the pool survived with minor injuries. Even more fortunate for the two guys is that the swimming pool was drained and the situation could of been much worse.
According to Vanessa Jackson from ER24 the driver lost control, or seem to have lost control of the vehicle on Stella Road and then he went through the wall. The car rolled over into the swimming pool.
Both men survived the accident.
The basic rights to water, health and education is now a vanishing in the biggest strike South Africa has most probably ever seen. Not only have people died because they could not go or get into government hospitals but children can't continue with their careers because they are threatened by the very people that got Jacob Zuma in power. Jacob Zuma promises to revamp the education system, this is not what he meant if one should take a guess.
If things aren't turning for the worse already with countless unions wanting to join the strike, like the mine workers, the army, the police, the prison workers there is another group of people that might join the strike on Monday, this will cause another one of South African's basics rights to vanish in the dark cloud of chaos surrounding the cities, water.
The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) now also said today that they will create a serious water crisis since their members would join the now more than a million strikers in going on strike from Monday.
They claimed South Africa will for the very first time experience a serious water crisis while forgetting that they anyway have not been doing their jobs properly because South Africa has for the past few years faced a water crisis but like many people would know, no one is picking up the phone with their fat government salaries.
The water-boarding unions of South Africa will now show us South Africans something we already know, a water crisis.
The Unions are demanding a increase of wages at 12.5%
Pretoria, South Africa - According to sources and unconfirmed reports NUMSA will join the countrywide strike of public workers which the police and army also wants to join although the Police Minister said that the reports of the police joining the strike is not true.
According to information we have the strike notice will be served at August the 28th to the Retail Motor Industry Organization and the Fuel Retailers Association.
The strike will roll out on September 1st if the information is correct. According to the information the Unions want a three year agreement as well as other issues addressed.
There were also warnings of the closure of petrol stations as well as the Petroleum Sector being widely affected.
UPDATE:
The news is now confirmed. NUMSA released a statement.
UPDATE 2: Here are their demands:
• Demand 20% wage increment across the board on Actuals;
• Demand that R20-00 minimum for the lowest paid in all sectors;
• Demand that Night Shift allowance to be at 20%;
• Demand that Afternoon Shift allowance to be at 15%;
• Demand 40hrs per week with full-pay;
• Demand Sunday work to be paid at a double;
• Demand Six (6) months full paid maternity leave;
• Demand a 1 year bargaining agreement; 1 September 2010 – 30 June 2011
• Demand prohibition and banning of labour brokers;
• Demand that Cashiers to be at grade 5;
• Demand removal of area differentials;
• Demand four (4) weeks severance pay for every year of service without limitations or ceiling; And
• Demand employer contribution of 70% for retirement and medical benefits.
UPDATE 3:
According to information we received.
Consumers will be affected. Petrol stations might be totally shut and the entire Chemical Industry as well as the Petroleum sector will see a drop in sales.
NUMSA will also be serving strike notices in the Tyre and Rubber Industry for a strike to commence on 30 August 2010.
UPDATE 4
Part of the statement reads:
The situation now compels us to take our battle to their backyards, in the opulent and for the rich Sandton. It has never been our intention to embark on to march to Sandton, where our mothers and fathers work as kitchen girls and garden boys respectively, but because of their stubbornness we are compelled to invade the streets of Sandton on Saturday, 28 August 2010. Ours will neither be a picnic nor a tourism spree but a metalworkers’ militant action until our demands are met.
The massive strike that is underway is about to be joined by the police, POPCRU the union of which most of the police is part of is also affiliated with Cosatu that's already in the strike is said to join the crippling strike.
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union blamed government of intimidation and state brutality they also blamed government of abusing the constitution and in a statement said "everyone has a right, peacefully and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket and to present petitions" which is true according to the constitution but not when this puts the lives of others in danger.
South Africans have had to deal with a dysfunctional government for a while now but things are getting out of hand when those protesters attack functioning model C schools which happened yesterday.
Today however the court prohibited all members of the police (SAPS) from joining the strike and if they do join the strike they will be fired, or could be fired. The interdict also banned POPCRU from promoting and supporting the strike further.
According to the SAPS act the people in employed by the South African Police Service may not stop working to join the strike.
The Freedom Front Plus has said that the death of innocent babies and the deaths of other people that was a result of the health worker strike in South Africa is the worst form of selfishness.
"A South African society which tolerates this kind of behaviour is a society in crisis with very serious moral and disciplinary problems"
They also said that no salary dispute justifies the death of people as well as to destroy the careers of young matriculants.
The Freedom Front Plus also asked the question whether the strike is to settle the power struggle between Cosatu and the ANC
"From the radicalism of the leadership of Cosatu it is appearing more and more that there may be a hidden agenda behind the strike. Cosatu leaders have already expressed their frustrations with president Zuma because he is not following their policy directions. After his election as president with the help of Cosatu, they believed that he owed it to them. To which extent are innocent public servants now being used to settle the power struggle between Cosatu and the ANC leadership?"