Nearly 60% of the starting vehicles in this year's Dakar Rally are built in South Africa. This country has so much skill, talent, and potential. If only we had some sanity in leadership. Unions, marxists, and all that ilk keep us from rising to greatness, creating jobs, thriving
💧The DA-led City of Cape Town has invested R7.4 million in a new digital hub to monitor the performance of water and sanitation infrastructure.
The system aims to promote faster repairs, improve response times and ensure better service for residents.
Eden Yerushalmi weighed only 36kg when her dead body was found at the start of September 2024.
Hamas starved Eden, made her record a propaganda video and then executed her.
Hamas are evil personified.
May her memory be a blessing 💔 🕯️
#sapsEC After a video that went viral of a 4-year-old boy who was allegedly treated unfairly by Santa Claus at East London, Gonubie #SAPS members decided to organize a very special day for the boy.
Police members, together with external stakeholders led by the Buffalo City District Commissioner, Maj Gen Christopher Wright and the Member of Parliament Mrs Helen May, visited the boy's home on 31/12. One of the SAPS members dressed up as Santa Claus and made a surprise visit to the boy's home. #SAPScares NP
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Happy New Year from your #TeamHomeAffairs! We are determined to make 2025 the year of unprecedented progress through the ongoing digital transformation of Home Affairs. By working together, we can redefine how government works in the digital age 🇿🇦
@Leon_Schreib Secure the borders Minister. Deport all illegal immigrants. Make SA safe again. The whole of SA is relying on you to secure the borders. Something that the ANC government failed to do.
🚨"At one point she had four men inside her"🚨
She was aged 13 or 14. I fact checked @maxtempers post on a judge's remarks, they are true. It is Judge Peter Rook QC on 27 Jun 2013 on the Oxford grooming gang case. Karrar his brother Bassam, & Anjum Dogar were all jailed for life .
"You, Mohammed Karrar, prepared her for gang anal r*pe by using a pump to expand her anal passage. You subjected her to a gang r&pe by five or six men (count 30). At one point she had four men inside her.
"A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet. Not only were you both involved in the commercial sexual exploitation of GH, you also used her for your own self-gratification.
"You both r*ped her when she was under 13. When she was very young, although it is not clear whether she was under 13, you both r*ped her at the same time (oral & vaginal/anal)."
In 2019 all 3 defendants were convicted of other offences. They received life sentences with Mohammed Farrar getting a minimum of 18 years, his brother Bassam a minimum of 10 years, & Dogar a minimum of 20.
It was not only lust, this is race & religious hatred.
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Does this still happen in South Africa?
When South Africa acquired the licence to build the Impala jetfighter domestically in the 1960s, the company awarded the contract, Bonuskor (Atlas Aircraft Corporation), built two whole new middle-class suburbs for the workforce that would lay the foundation for the domestic aircraft manufacturing industry.
These two suburbs, Impala Park and Bonaero Park, still straddle OR Tambo Airport today.
This is not the only story of this kind I've read about, but I only ever read about it in history books. When was the last time a middle-class suburb (I am distinguishing this from a gated estate) was built by a private company pursuing some profit?
If this simply isn't happening anymore, what are we going to do about the regulations and politics standing in the way of it?
THIS DESERVES A FULL READ
Thirteen men, all of Somali origin, have been convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of vulnerable girls as young as 13 in Bristol and officers are investigating claims against 49 other suspects.
The victims, some of whom were in local authority care, were groomed and passed around by their abusers – often for money – and assaulted in homes, parks and a hotel.
One of the girls was raped at age 13 on the same night by three different men, including a stranger, and thought her life would be in danger if she went to the police.
Another girl was sexually exploited after a local authority outside Bristol set her up alone in a flat at the age of 16 in a deprived inner-city neighbourhood although she had been described as having the emotional development of a three-year-old.
Within hours of arriving, she was spotted by drug dealers who set up a base in her new home and forced her to work as a prostitute. The abuse continued for months even after she told care workers about what was happening; the girl’s 14-year-old sister was subsequently raped during a visit.
A serious case review will look at the case and examine whether more should have been done to protect the girls. Ten girls came forward to make allegations about the 13 men but Avon and Somerset police said they were actively pursuing nine other investigations across the force area, involving suspects from various communities and ethnic backgrounds. The Guardian has learned that 49 suspects and 48 victims are involved in these investigations.
Detectives expressed concerns that hotels were being used for exploitative sex parties and the police have worked with the Premier Inn chain because one of the most savage attacks took place at one of its hotels.
Avon and Somerset police have said the case has similarities with large-scale child exploitation cases in places such as Oxford and Rochdale, where men of Asian heritage have been found guilty of abuse. But this the first time members of the Somali community have been found guilty of such crimes.
Police said they were aware that the case could prompt hate attacks.
Six of the men, most of whom are in their early 20s, have begun jail terms for offences including rape, paying a child for sex and arranging or facilitating payments for the sexual offences of a child. Another seven – one of whom appeared in both trials – were convicted this week of offences including rape, causing or inciting child prostitution, sexual acts with children and trafficking.
Some of the offenders were members of a drugs gang that sold heroin and cocaine in Bristol. Others were well-educated men with good prospects. The lifting of reporting restrictions on Thursday means that the story can be told for the first time.
The case has caused huge concern in Bristol. Teachers have been briefed and some teachers at inner-city schools have claimed it is not uncommon for schoolgirls to boast about being paid for sex.
It has also sent shockwaves through the Somali community in Bristol. Muna Abdi, chair of the Bristol Somali Forum, said the men had committed “evil acts” that the Muslim community utterly condemned.
A joint statement from the Bristol Somali forum and the Somali Resource Centre said: “The Somali community is law-abiding and values law. The shock of this case, like a thunderbolt, has struck at the heart of our proud and law-abiding community in a way that is impossible to describe.”
Children’s charity Barnardo’s continues to care for some of the victims. Hugh Sherriffe, director for Barnardo’s in the south-west and Midlands, said the case was the “tip of the iceberg” and such abuse was going on across the UK and demanded more efforts to stop it.
Detectives began investigating last year after the 13-year-old was raped by three men on the same night just before Christmas 2012.
@simsilwana Three black ladies booked into a relatives holiday apartment in Cape Town. They urinated and defecated in the bed, shattered the blinds, and vomited on the bed and floors. In the morning, they got up and fled. Such disrespect for other people's things.
If you were silent when babies were shot in their cribs and young girls were raped and executed on October 7th together with 1,200 Israelis,
Stay silent when Israel fights back.
They brought this upon themselves.