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Migrant worker Adam Potgieter beaten to death by vigilante group "Mapogo"

Potgieter (31) succumbed to death last Wednesday night. His friend and colleague, Samuel Moletsane (23), survived with serious injuries after a bus-load of Mapogo members pounced on them for allegedly stealing construction equipment at a site in Botleng, Delmas.

The owner of Menlo Construction, Bertrams Pringle, his foreman Robert Van der Colff and a member of Mapogo A Mathamaga, Willie Skhosana, appeared at the Delmas Magistrate's Court on Friday in connection with charges of murder, kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The case was remanded to February next

Police Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the Mapogo A Mathamaga were summoned by Pringle after Potgieter denied stealing equipment.

The group beat their victims at the construction site and allegedly took them to Springs, where they were beaten all night. Nkosi said Pringle and Van der Colff were released on R5 000 bail after their arrest, while Skhosana remained in custody.

Sister Sibongile Masango, matron at Bernice Samuel Hospital, said Moletsane was discharged on Tuesday after being treated for serious bruises on his body.

Potgieter and Moletsane were working as migrant labourers fro

South African asylum seekers in USA seek attorney

From: Wilna Van Beek To: Adriana Stuijt Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:27 AM

Subject: Asylum progress USA - Texas

Just to let you know how things are going in my asylum process.

I applied in August and already had an interview 3 weeks ago. My application was sent to Texas. My interview was in Denver and they flew an assylum officer from Texas for the interview.

My asylum application was not denied: I just got notice from the INS that I need to appear in front of an immigration judge on Nov 12 in Denver, CO. They merely seem to have a problem with the fact that I filed more than 1 year after I entered the USA. So now I am looking for an attorney (free) to help me. I am going to Denver tomorrow to try and find one.

This in short about what is happening. Several other South Africans already got their asylum applications approved as well -- mostly in the Texas INS office. It sounds as if the people elsewhere (other than in Texas) have no idea what is happening in South Africa and they give the South Africans a hard time.I am glad I could file in Texas.

Thought you would appreciate news from what is happening.

I really appreciate all the information you sent me and I visit your website on a regular basis.

Eva Georgia: SA political refugee in USA:

Works as General Manager at radio station KPFK
Her Email:GM@kpfk.org
General Manager, Eva Georgia
Ext: 503
Email: GM@kpfk.org

website work:
http://www.kpfk.org/

Radio Pacifica 90.7 KPFK in Los Angeles, California

KPFK
3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West
North Hollywood, CA 91604
Main phone: (818) 985-2711
Fax: (818) 763-7526
Studio phone (for call-in shows): (818) 985-5735
Email: comments@kpfk.org

Background on Eva Georgia:

SOUTH AFRICAN ASYLUM SEEKER IN CALIFORNIA RAISES QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT:
Washington. - Eva Georgia, 34, ex-Capetonian journalist and activist founder of the ground-breaking radiostation Radio Atlantis (near Koeberg nuclear power station) and also a former assistant manager of Cape Talk radio, has managed to get her case mentioned in South Africa's parliament.

She was given political asylum in the United States' state of California -- because she fears for the safety of herself and her family in South Africa.

She was appointed manager of a small community radio station, Pacifica 90.7 KPFK in Los Angeles, California in June.

She said in a Los Angeles Times interview that her investigative journalism and challenging questions towards the ANC regime has brought her life and that of her family in danger -- and forced her to leave the country.

She told of a police commissioner dying in a mysterious car accident after he had been assigned to investigate

Hùge farm attack death rate led to murder of woodgatherer:

Psychologist Jacobus Francois Truter testified that 23-year-old farmer Jan Vermeulen had worked and lived in great fear on his farm and had been very security-conscious and terrified for the safety of his family due to the huge number of violence-driven stock thefts and 33 farm murders that year in the Bronkhorstspruit area, which all had been carried out by young African males.

Vermeulen pleaded guilty to a charge of murdering wood-gatherers Simon Makhabitshane and assaulting Joseph Nkosi on his father's farm at Leeufontein.

The psychologist told the Pretoria High Court that Vermeulen had been become terrified for his family, and very security-conscious due to the 33 deadly farm attacks which had occurred that year -- and all of which had been carried out by young African males.

The psychologist said Vermeulen therefore, and accurately, "saw black people as being responsible for farm murders and stock thefts". Vermeulen also suspected that strangers who were gathering wood could well be carrying out reconnaissance of the farm to plan future crimes. Farm security experts often warn farmers to be on the lookout for such strangers.

Truter said Vermeulen had shown remorse for his action - and is also deeply concerned about the fate of his elderly parents, who had received death threats and would probably lose ownership of the farm.

Vermeulen had also written letters to the victims -- Nkosi and Makhabitshane's families -- begging forgiveness.

He said Vermeulen was not an inherently violent person and had not been poli

SA Farmers hire security guards to stop looting by Zimbabwean refugees

Dec 16, 2002 -- A rising flood of refugees from Zimbabwe into South Africa is reportedly having a detrimental effect on Limpopo: policing services are apparently under such pressure that farmers are starting to train their own security guards as violent types of crime are on the rise in towns that had never experienced them before.

The SA government's poor policing of the borders and rural areas also meant that farmers are having to start to train their own security guards to stop the country's food supplies and agricultural infrastructure from being looted.

Government sources confirmed that increasing numbers of Zimbabweans were entering South Africa.

Dec 16 2002 -- Taxi drivers in Musina and shopkeepers in Thohoyandou agreed, but the official sources were loathe to blame increasing crime figures on Zimbabwean refugees. Ronel Otto, the police spokeswoman, even maintained that since there were no real statistics available, police could not summise that the flood of Zimbabweans were actually responsible for crimes. She even claimed that "crime was actually on the decline in

Limpopo" -- while being unable to supply figures.

In Louis Trichardt, the first large town on the road from Zimbabwe, sources said hijackings occurred this year for the first time: seven in the past three months. In the past month 21 vehicles had been stolen.

The increasing refugee flows were sapping police resources to such an extent that South African crime syndicates had greater "freedom of movement" in Limpopo towns.

Whereas theft was limited in the past to as many items as an individual could carry away on foot, the new trend was for houses to be "cleaned out" by syndicates.

While the sources said they had no evidence local syndicates were employing Zimbabweans to do the dirty work, shopkeepers in Thohoyandou claimed they were being used in this way because they could not easily be traced in the city.

The sources said 84 percent of people caught without legal documents at roadblocks in November were Zimbabweans. In one week up to 1,000 illegal aliens could be caught at such roadblocks in Limpopo.When asked what percentage of Zimbabweans in South Africa were illegal, Otto said she could not comment.

The Zimbabweans use connections with local clansmen and the infrequently travelled back-roads of the Venda region to find their way to the cities of the Witwatersrand. Near the larger towns such as Polokwane they sleep in bushes from 10pm to 4am, or hide on "land-hungry" South Africa's many hundreds of unoccupied farms.

The sources said the trend was for increasing numbers of Zimbabwean youths, even children, to enter South Africa. Most were "born frees", with birthdates from after independence in 1980. They had little respect for authority because of Mugabe's misrule in their home country, and were "just the right generation" for crime.

In the past farmers could cope with the odd theft of products from fields and barn

Migrant worker Adam Potgieter beaten to death by vigilante group "Mapogo"

Dec 16 2002 -- THAMI NKWANYANE of City Press reports: Migrant construction worker Adam Potgieter died after a nightlong

beating meted out to him by the notorious Mapogo A Mathamaga vigilante group.

Potgieter (31) succumbed to death last Wednesday night. His friend and colleague, Samuel Moletsane (23),

survived with serious injuries after a bus-load of Mapogo members pounced on them for allegedly stealing

construction equipment at a site in Botleng, Delmas.

The owner of Menlo Construction, Bertrams Pringle, his foreman Robert Van der Colff and a member of Mapogo A

Mathamaga, Willie Skhosana, appeared at the Delmas Magistrate's Court on Friday in connection with charges of

murder, kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The case was remanded to February next

Police spokesperson Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the Mapogo A Mathamaga were summoned by Pringle after

Potgieter denied stealing equipment.

The group beat their victims at the construction site and allegedly took them to Springs, where they were

beaten all night. Nkosi said Pringle and Van der Colff were released on R5 000 bail after their arrest, while

Skhosana remained in custody.

Sister Sibongile Masango, matron at Bernice Samuel Hospital, said Moletsane was discharged on Tuesday after

being treated for serious bruises on his body.

SA political refugee in USA: Eva Georgia

Background: Works as General Manager at radio station KPFK
Her Email:GM@kpfk.org
General Manager, Eva Georgia
Ext: 503
Email: GM@kpfk.org

website work:
http://www.kpfk.org/

Radio Pacifica 90.7 KPFK in Los Angeles, California

KPFK
3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West
North Hollywood, CA 91604
Main phone: (818) 985-2711
Fax: (818) 763-7526
Studio phone (for call-in shows): (818) 985-5735
Email: comments@kpfk.org

Background on Eva Georgia:

1 posted on 12/17/2002 9:34:39 AM PST by backhoe

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Daily Reports Rhodesia

Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie (AFRICA, HEAL THYSELF)
The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 3, 2002 | Tim Butcher
"I remember Africa in the 1960s, everyone was filled with high expectations after independence. Forty years on, Africa is a series of kleptocracies, many worse off than they were under colonial rule. Almost all of the common people in relative worse shape to the rest of the world than they were before independence. Africans after 40 years have no one to blame but their own leadership for their problems. The leaders want to deflect blame to the West. The West's not buying it anymore..."

CIA -- The World Factbook -- Zimbabwe

First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence.

-A Capsule History of Southern Africa--

Parallels between Apartheid SA & USA today

South African Crime Report

ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
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The Coming Anarchy
February 1994. The Coming Anarchy. by Robert D. Kaplan. ... All rights reserved.

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FYI, I wrote this a while back:

I don't know what will happen in southern Africa beyond a general breakdown into chaos & anarchy... the old bugbear was the Soviets gaining control of the tip & choking our fleet's movements, coupled with control of the mineral wealth. Now it look like Quaddaffi is angling to take over Rhodesia and perhaps spread to South Africa.

At this point, we are 20 years too late, but we can at least bear witness to the debacle.

Bear in mind I am a partisan- I supported ( with reluctance ) the old white-minority governments in Rhodesia and South Africa, because I knew the Communists and their puppets- including proxies like Cuba- were angling for control of southern Africa.

One big problem we have is our media. They have tried to portray the situation in southern Africa as a clone of our own civil-rights struggles when in fact just the opposite was true. Africa is degenerating into chaos and anarchy under the guise of "liberation" and "one man, one vote." All while the media here turns a blind eye to what is really happening.

What I used to tell people was that while Apartheid was an onerous, offensive system, I would prefer being a black South African under Apartheid to being a person of any color under the old Soviet system- and I still believe those words to be true and correct. Given time, the old South African government would have worked out its problems- but it was not allowed to do so.

Today, we are seeing the results of this folly in Zimbabwe- or rather, we see what tiny bits the web and small elements of talk radio cover.

The whole story of contemporary Africa is a sad tale of tribalism, class warfare, kleptocracy, and massive corruption- and one the media here "won't even talk about" because it does not fit within their template of acceptable ideas.

I would also add, that both the press and entertainment arms of the media encouraged and supported the toppling of the old governments, i. e., they were in collusion, and complicit in the fall. Now that things have worked out at variance with their idealistic fantasies, they simply "don't talk about it..."

"Why do you keep posting this stuff? Nobody cares about Africa, anyway..."

Clive, Cincinatus's Wife, blam, myself, and a few others get asked that occasionally- we are among the keepers of the "AfricaWatch" columns, and we continue to post articles about what I believe will prove to be one of the great, tragic stories of the new century.

The mainstream press never publishes more than one Africa story a day, and it's usually some fluff or dodge around how grim the situation is over there.

But the truth is archived here on Free Republic, and I maintain that one day, when things over there are too awful to be ignored any longer, those who have eyes to see will read the stories here, and be appalled at the silence.

That is all...

2 posted on 12/17/2002 1:07:45 PM PST by backhoe

But the truth is archived here on Free Republic

And I read it as often as I have time. I truly appreciate the efforts all of you make. I have a vague recollection of discussing the situation in Rhodesia with my high school students in 1967. I wonder if any of them remember.

3 posted on 12/17/2002 4:33:55 PM PST by MSSC6644

I truly appreciate the efforts all of you make. I have a vague recollection of discussing the situation in Rhodesia with my high school students in 1967. I wonder if any of them remember.

I do appreciate your looking... my wife has ( had? ) friends in South Africa; we have not heard from them since the government changed hands.

4 posted on 12/17/2002 5:33:22 PM PST by backhoe

South African President Thabo Mbeki, wearing a scarf bearing the Palestinian flag, salutes the crowd during a rally to close the African National Congress's 51st conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 20, 2002. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa)

5 posted on 12/20/2002 12:24:33 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thanks, Cincy- I thought this post was dead as a doornail!

6 posted on 12/20/2002 12:47:16 PM PST by backhoe

LOL backhoe. Speaking of dead. The downward death spiral of Africa is relentlessly driven by despots. Where is the media? Where are those self-righteous celebrities?

7 posted on 12/20/2002 1:10:32 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Where is the media? Where are those self-righteous celebrities?

I ask that at every opportunity I have- recall all those dam-fool "Live Aid," or whatever they called them, concerts? Where the "H" are those smarmy, self-righteous SOB's now?

And look at Latin America- it's catching fire once more, and I hear maybe one story a day about it from the Jackal Pack Press.

8 posted on 12/20/2002 1:16:58 PM PST by backhoe

You might begin to believe the elite media has an agenda, that they advocate instead of inform.

9 posted on 12/20/2002 1:28:37 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

"Why do you keep posting this stuff? Nobody cares about Africa, anyway..."

I appreciate your posts, as I enjoy posts from others about current events in other parts of the world. There is no reason to think that the US could not elect its own Mandella, Chavez or Castro. That’s how the devil works; people often (not always) chose their misery because the apple looks good on the outside, but it’s rotten in the inside.

10 posted on 12/20/2002 1:43:46 PM PST by Stat-boy

Thank you for looking; your comments are spot-on.

11 posted on 12/20/2002 3:18:06 PM PST by backhoe

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