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rel="tag">Suid-Afrika</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/terrorists/" rel="tag">terrorists</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/thabo-mbeki/" rel="tag">Thabo Mbeki</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/zimbabwe/" rel="tag">Zimbabwe</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/zimbabwe-crisis/" rel="tag">Zimbabwe crisis</a> on 05/04/2008| </p> </div> <div class="entry"> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">I usually don’t like to talk politics…but feel I must voice my disgust and contempt for our President, Thabo Mbeki for what he says…. I see him as a coward… he can’t speak up…. he won’t!! We all know why he’s reacting like this…he wants to do exactly the same in SA..(already busy!) and it’s easier if he’s got Zimbabwe’s support……if you don’t know what’s going on in SA… then…read at least </span><a href="http://dienuwesuidafrika.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">THIS BLOG </span></strong></a><span style="color:#0000ff;">, but be aware, you won’t like what you read/see…but it’s the truth…don’t read this blog if you are under the age of 13.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="color:#008080;">Update: Sept 22…read this link…and read <span style="text-decoration:underline;">all of the comments</span> too….and enjoy!</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color:#800080;">Update- October 2012 – see link near the bottom with image. <em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Enjoy</span></em></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/20/thabo-mbeki-south-africas_n_127934.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/20/thabo-mbeki-south-africas_n_127934.html</span></strong></a><br /> <span style="color:#339966;"><strong>I also think you would find </strong></span><a href="http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2008/04/news-nelson-mandela-90-is-still-on-us.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>THIS LINK </strong></span></a><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>interesting…where the USA still have Mandela on the list as a terrorist! See a link on the side bar of my blog too. </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="10701" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/mandela1/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg" data-orig-size="476,542" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Mandela1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg?w=476" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg?w=476" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10701" title="Mandela1" alt="Mandela1" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg?w=500&h=570" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg?w=263 263w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mandela1.jpg 476w" sizes="(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px" /></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>Click on the image for a clearer view. Image from the link above.<br /> </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">But…not only is Mbeki a coward…but read my message at the bottom of this post…more “leaders” in this world …..</span></p> <blockquote><p><span style="color:#008000;">Update: 7th April 2008<br /> Critics say seizures of white-owned farms that began in 2000 triggered a fall in food production and the collapse of Zimbabwe’s economy.<br /> Click </span><a href="http://voanews.com/english/2008-04-07-voa26.cfm" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#008000;">HERE </span></strong></a><span style="color:#008000;">for VOA-news.</span></p></blockquote> <blockquote><p><span style="color:#008000;">News from BBC…<br /> </span><span style="color:#0000ff;">Armed police in Zimbabwe have prevented lawyers from the opposition MDC from entering a court to file a petition on the country’s presidential elections.<br /> The MDC wants the High Court to force electoral officials to release the result of the poll, held a week ago.</span></p></blockquote> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">The party believes its leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the ballot.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">His opponent President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has said it will back him if a run-off is called.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) spokesman Alec Muchadehama told AFP news agency the party was doing “everything in our powers” to have its petition heard on Saturday at Harare High Court.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">The MDC has also called for international help to prevent possible violence if a second round is held.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">But speaking in the UK, South African President Thabo Mbeki said that now was not the time to interfere, and the international community should wait to find out the outcome of the election.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">Read the entire article </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7331904.stm" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">HERE </span></strong></a><span style="color:#0000ff;">…</span></p> <p><span style="color:#800080;">Read this next article </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2007/09/mugabe_is_racist_1.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#800080;">HERE </span></strong></a><span style="color:#800080;">on the BBC’s website and there are more links to follow….this was written in Sept 2007…so, why has nothing been done by the international community to stop this crazy man!</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Mugabe is Racist<br /> Anu Anand 17 Sep 07, 04:32 PM</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">The Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu has called Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe ‘the worst kind of racist dictator’, and likened him to the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. He said Britain’s prime minister Gordon Brown should lead a coalition of countries in mounting stricter international sanctions against Zimbabwe and said the time for ‘African solutions’ is over.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">And …the next article can be read in fully </span><a href="http://ivo.co.za/2007/07/12/mbeki-crime-racist/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#008000;">HERE </span></strong></a><span style="color:#008000;">…from a journalist in South Africa… worth reading!</span></p> <blockquote><p><span style="color:#008000;">This made me angry. As it turned out, the Sunday Times changed the tone and meaning of Mbeki’s words by selective quotation. For example, it used an innoccuous ellipsis to omit a crucial caveat: “but by no means everybody who is white”. So contrary to the impression left by the report, Mbeki wasn’t calling everyone who complained about crime a racist.</span></p></blockquote> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><br /> Worth reading </span><a href="http://ivo.co.za/2008/03/28/the-ogre-of-harare/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#008000;">The ogre of Harare </span></strong></a><span style="color:#008000;">here on this link.<br /> </span> <img alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sokwanele.com/images/general/mbekimugabe_cartoon.jpg" /><br /> <span style="color:#008000;">This is a brilliant image of Thabo Mbeki …supporting Mugabe!</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">On </span><a href="http://kruidjieroermynie.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/zim-sprokie/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">THIS LINK </span></strong></a><span style="color:#0000ff;">here, you can read…unfortunately in Afrikaans only … how farmers in Zimbabwe were forced to leave their farms…despite what’s going on in the country!!! THREE news articles…but only in Afrikaans..about this outrageous situation!</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">Update: Read this article </span><a href="http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2302233,00.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">HERE </span></strong></a><span style="color:#0000ff;">…where 60 mostly white farmers have been evicted from their land…</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;"> Harare –<br /> More than 60 mostly white Zimbabwean farmers have been evicted from their land by war veterans loyal to President Robert Mugabe since the weekend, a farmers’ union said on Tuesday.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">“The situation is very severe. The evictions are continuing right round the country.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">“We have over 60 farmers evicted as of this morning.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">“Every couple of minutes my phone is ringing with another case of eviction,” Commercial Farmers’ Union President Trevor Gifford told Reuters.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">The veterans have been used as political shock troops by President Robert Mugabe. Read the entire article on the link!</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><img alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sokwanele.com/files/images/beaten2pics_b.jpg" /></span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Click </strong></span><a href="http://www.sokwanele.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>HERE </strong></span></a><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>to read about what you see on this image!</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>WHY IS THE WORLD STILL WAITING!!! I want to call the leaders of this world..COWARDS!!! Come on England…YOU are the one to do something…YOU placed Mugabe there!!! in 1980!!</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">South Africa’s President –Thabo Mbeki – has resigned as President</span></strong>….update: Sept 2008</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">By Phakamisa Ndzamela Reuters – JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki has agreed to step down after the ruling African National Congress asked him to resign, his office said on Saturday.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">The ANC’s decision to remove Mbeki, who was favoured by investors for his pro-business policies, could raise political instability in Africa’s economic powerhouse 14 years after its transition from the end of white minority rule.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">But a smooth process to replace him may calm investor fears.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">“Following the decision of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress to recall President Thabo Mbeki, the President has obliged and will step down after all constitutional requirements have been met,” the presidency said in a statement.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">The ANC’s National Executive Committee, its top decision-making body, earlier decided to recall the president following years of infighting since his decision to fire his then deputy Jacob Zuma in 2005.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">“After a long and difficult discussion the ANC decided to recall the President before his term of office expires,” ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told a news conference.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">The decision must now be ratified by parliament, which should be a formality, given the ANC’s two-thirds majority.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Mbeki, who has ruled South Africa since taking over from Nelson Mandela in 1999, was due to leave office in 2009.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">He lost the leadership of the ANC to Zuma last year.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Zuma, who is popular with leftists within the party and with its trade union and communist party allies, is the frontrunner to succeed Mbeki.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">MANUEL TO STAY</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">It was unclear whether he would immediately step into the breach left by Mbeki. He would first have to be appointed to parliament and the cabinet.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka could assume the presidency but she has signalled she will resign with Mbeki. Cabinet ministers and the speaker of parliament follow in the succession line.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">It is generally expected that parliament, which is dominated by the ANC, will elect a new president within 30 days. Baleka Mbete, the speaker of parliament and a Zuma loyalist, has been mentioned as the most likely one to lead the transition.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Mantashe said the ANC would ask Mbeki’s cabinet ministers, including Finance Minister Trevor Manuel — who is widely respected by markets — to remain in their positions in the transition period for the sake of stability.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Manuel’s office told Reuters he would not step down — a decision that should calm some investors fears.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">“If you have the continuity of the cabinet staying largely intact I would not expect a major market reaction,” Citigroup strategist Leon Myburgh said.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">“But you will have to see how individuals react…key decision-makers like Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will be key to how the market reacts.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Mbeki and Manuel have presided over the country’s longest ever period of economic growth — a decade.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Mbeki’s presidency ended after a heated debate within the ANC executive committee over his future in the wake of allegations he had meddled in a corruption case against Zuma.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Trade unions and ANC members have accused Mbeki and his aides of plotting to smear Zuma and derail his hopes of succeeding Mbeki. The South African leader has consistently denied any involvement in the prosecution.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Last week a judge dismissed the charges against Zuma, which were linked to an arms deal, and suggested that there had been high-level political involvement in the case. The ruling spurred Zuma militants within the executive to demand Mbeki’s head.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">(Writing by Paul Simao and Gordon Bell; editing by Angus MacSwan)<br /> Source:<br /> <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080920/tpl-uk-safrica-politics-mbeki-43a8d4f.html" rel="nofollow">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080920/tpl-uk-safrica-politics-mbeki-43a8d4f.html</a></span><br /> <strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">And on this link </span></strong><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20/newsid_4326000/4326975.stm" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">HERE</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> you can read about the 1983 car bomb in Church Street, Pretoria, where the ANC killed 17 people and more than 100 were injured. People like you and me… minding their own business on a normal day. Oliver Tambo admitted planting the bomb.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="10703" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/kerkstraat-bom/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg" data-orig-size="468,549" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Kerkstraat bom" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg?w=468" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg?w=468" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10703" title="Kerkstraat bom" alt="Kerkstraat bom" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg?w=500&h=588" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg?w=255 255w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraat-bom.jpg 468w" sizes="(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px" /></a></span></strong></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/apartheid1.jpg"><img title="apartheid1" alt="" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/apartheid1.jpg?w=500&h=55" width="500" height="55" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://crime-of-apartheid.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/conflict-of-past-factual-review-die.html" target="_blank">http://crime-of-apartheid.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/conflict-of-past-factual-review-die.html</a></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="15651" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/kerkstbom02whisnews21/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg" data-orig-size="600,340" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="kerkstbom02whisnews21" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg?w=500" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15651" alt="kerkstbom02whisnews21" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg?w=500&h=283" width="500" height="283" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg?w=500 500w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom02whisnews21.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p> <p>Kerkstraat bom 1983 Images: Whisnews bottom pic: people shocked by what was happening. This is what Mandela organised.</p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="15652" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/kerkstbom03whisnews21/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg" data-orig-size="600,340" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="kerkstbom03whisnews21" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15652" alt="kerkstbom03whisnews21" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg?w=500&h=283" width="500" height="283" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg?w=500 500w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstbom03whisnews21.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="15653" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/kerkstraatbom_dieburger/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg" data-orig-size="880,638" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="kerkstraatbom_dieburger" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15653" alt="kerkstraatbom_dieburger" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg?w=500&h=362" width="500" height="362" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg?w=500 500w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg?w=600 600w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg?w=768 768w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger.jpg 880w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="15654" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,678" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15654" alt="kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=500&h=331" width="500" height="331" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=500 500w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=600 600w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_maroelamedia.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p> <p>Maroela Media – 13 May 2013 – 30 years on, after the bomb of Mandela. Loved ones and victims remembered…</p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="15655" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg" data-orig-size="779,549" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="kerkstraatbom_dieburger1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15655" alt="kerkstraatbom_dieburger1" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg?w=500&h=352" width="500" height="352" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg?w=500 500w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg?w=600 600w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kerkstraatbom_dieburger1.jpg 779w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p> <p>Image: Die Burger – 30 years on, after the bomb in Pretoria by Mandela where 16 innocent people were killed. It makes me <strong>sick</strong> to think people think Mandela is a hero!</p> <p>Update: 2012 – Read on the above link more about the 1983 bomb. Also images available on this link.</p> <p>Agtergrondinligting: Kerkstraatbom – 20 Mei 1983<br /> 20 Mei 2008</p> <p>Die Polisie-ondersoek van die bomontploffing te Kerkstraat-Wes, PRETORIA, op 20 Mei 1983 om 16:28, het die volgende feite aan die lig gebring:</p> <p>Die voertuig waarin die bom ontplof het, se bakwerk het geheel-en-al gedisintegreer. Die masjiennommer is afgeskuur. Deur middel van die onderstelnommer wat tussen die rommel gevind is, is die voertuig as ŉ roomkleurige 1982-model Colt Galant geïdentifiseer. Dit is op 19 Junie 1982 vanaf die perseel van mnr. V.A. Sabattier te 6de Laan 5, Edenvale gesteel. Tussen die rommel is ook ŉ stuk van ŉ voertuigregistrasieplaat wat met ŉ “SD”-registrasienommer begin, gevind.</p> <p>· As gevolg van die ontploffing, is 19 persone gedood – 17 mans (8 swart, 9 wit) en 2 vrouens.</p> <p>Ernstige skade is aan geboue en voertuie in Kerkstraat-Wes tussen Bosman- en Schubartstraat aangerig. Die skade het ongeveer R4 000 000 in 1983-terme beloop.</p> <p>Getuienis is bekom dat ŉ roomkleurige Colt Galant met ŉ “SD”-registrasienommer op 20 Mei 1983 om ongeveer 11:00 deur ene Freddi Butana Shongwe van Blok B388, Mamelodi na die huis van Bakayi Ezekiel Maseko te Blok J 2824, Mamelodi gebring is. Shongwe het by ene Jerry Shabangu verneem of die oorsprong van die voertuig nog bepaal kan word indien die masjiennommer verwyder is. Hy het die roomkleurige Colt Galant aan Shabangu getoon waar dit agter Maseko se huis versteek was. Shongwe het aan Shabangu gemeld dat die voertuig vir ŉ “groot werk” gebruik gaan word, sonder om te sê wat die “werk” sou wees. Maseko se vrou Anna het gesien dat Maseko en Shongwe die masjiennommer met ŉ elektriese skuurmasjien afgeskuur het.</p> <p>Shongwe het om ongeveer 15:50 haastig met die Colt Galant vertrek terwyl Maseko hom in laasgenoemde se Kombi gevolg het. Hulle was so haastig dat hulle die elektriese skuurmasjien buite die huis gelaat het waar hulle daarmee gewerk het.</p> <p>Vanaf 20 Mei 1983 toe Shongwe en Maseko nie tuisgekom het nie, het hulle familie na hulle begin soek.</p> <p>Op 28 Mei 1983 is Maseko se Kombi agter die Poyntonsgebou in Schubartstraat, Pretoria gevind. Die voertuig was nie gesluit nie. Binne die voertuig is ŉ baadjie van Shongwe gevind wat hy op 20 Mei 1983 aangehad het. In die voertuig is ook ŉ papiersak met ŉ draagbare radio in, gevind. Nadat die voertuig met die inhoud verwyder is, het die familie begin vermoed dat Maseko en Shongwe onder die slagoffers van die ontploffing kon wees. Maseko se liggaam is daarop by die Staatslykhuis uitgeken. Maseko se liggaam is aan die noordelike kant van Kerkstraat regoor die ontploffing gevind.</p> <p>Na die ontploffing op 20 Mei 1983 is verskeie liggaamsdele gevind wat oor die toneel versprei was. Op 13 Junie 1983 is die voete van hierdie persoon deur sy moeder as dié van Freddie Shongwe uitgeken. Shongwe se vrou het ook ŉ stuk broek en lyfband wat op die toneel gevind is, as die eiendom van Shongwe herken. Uit die verspreiding en gedeeltes wat aan die voertuigwrak gevind is, is dit duidelik dat Shongwe tydens die ontploffing in die voertuig was.</p> <p>Volgens die verklaring van ŉ getuie wat op 20 Mei 1983 voor die Nedparkgebou in Kerkstraat-Wes, Pretoria in haar motor gesit het, het ŉ roomkleurige Colt Galant voor haar stilgehou. Pas nadat die voertuig tot stilstand gekom het, het die ontploffing gevolg.</p> <p>Op 7 Julie 1983 het Anna Maseko die elektriese skuurmasjien, asook die draagbare radio aan die ondersoekers oorhandig. By ondersoek is gevind dat die draagbare radio wat in Maseko se Kombi gevind is, van ŉ ingeboude afstandbeheerkontrole voorsien is. Hierdie afstandbeheerkontrole is deur deskundiges in werkende orde bevind. Dit was ook in staat om plofstof oor ŉ afstand te laat ontplof. Volgens deskundiges is die frekwensie waarop die afstandbeheerkontrole ingestel was, baie sensitief, en kon dit deur ander faktore wat binne die beheerafstand kom, geaktiveer word.</p> <p>In Maseko se klere by sy huis is kontant ten bedrae van R3 000 gevind, waarvoor Anna Maseko geen verklaring kon vind nie. Sy het van die geld vir die begrafniskoste gebruik.</p> <p>Shongwe en Maseko het vorige veroordelings weens “huisbraak en brandkasdiefstalle” gehad.</p> <p>Shongwe en Maseko het by meer as een geleentheid saam na Swaziland gegaan. Shongwe het Swaziland soms tot twee keer per maand besoek. Getuienis is gevind dat Shongwe aan huis van bekende lede van die African National Congress (ANC) in Swaziland gesien is. Shongwe is die neef van ŉ opgeleide ANC-lid, Johannes Mnisi. Volgens inligting het Shongwe en Maseko met bogenoemde in Swaziland skakeling gehad. Dit is ook vasgestel dat Shongwe Swaziland laas van 16 tot 17 Mei 1983 besoek het.</p> <p>Tydens die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie (WVK) se werksaamhede is amnestie vir die Kerkstraatbom toegestaan aan Aboobaker Ismail, destydse hoof van Umkhonto we Sizwe se eenheid vir spesiale operasies, en Johannes Mnisi. Ten spyte daarvan dat die ANC reeds in die verlede erken het dat die ANC se militêre vleuel, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), se optrede “ten alle tye aan die politieke leierskap van die ANC onderhewig was”, het geen lid van die ANC se NUK van daardie tyd om amnestie vir die Kerkstraatbom aansoek gedoen nie.<br /> Source: <a href="http://www.afriforum.co.za/agtergrondinligting-kerkstraatbom-%E2%80%93-20-mei-1983/" rel="nofollow">http://www.afriforum.co.za/agtergrondinligting-kerkstraatbom-%E2%80%93-20-mei-1983/</a><br /> <a title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target="_blank"><img alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" src="https://i0.wp.com/s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/coward/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Coward!">Read Full Post »</a></p> </div> </div> <p align="center"></p> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li class="sidebox"> <a class="wordpress-follow-button" href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com" data-blog="2198811" data-lang="en" data-show-blog-name="false">Follow Chessalee on WordPress.com</a> <script type="text/javascript">(function(d){ window.wpcomPlatform = {"titles":{"timelines":"Embeddable Timelines","followButton":"Follow Button","wpEmbeds":"WordPress Embeds"}}; var f = d.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0], p = d.createElement('SCRIPT');p.type = 'text/javascript';p.async = true;p.src = '//widgets.wp.com/platform.js';f.parentNode.insertBefore(p,f);}(document));</script> </li><li class="sidebox"><form role="search" method="get" action="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/" class="wp-block-search__button-outside wp-block-search__text-button wp-block-search" ><label class="wp-block-search__label" for="wp-block-search__input-1" >Search this site</label><div class="wp-block-search__inside-wrapper " ><input class="wp-block-search__input" id="wp-block-search__input-1" placeholder="" value="" type="search" name="s" required /><button aria-label="Search" class="wp-block-search__button wp-element-button" type="submit" >Search</button></div></form></li><li class="sidebox"><h2><label for="subscribe-field">Subscribe to Blog via Email</label></h2> <div class="wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__container"> <form action="https://subscribe.wordpress.com" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" data-blog="2198811" data-post_access_level="everybody" id="subscribe-blog" > <p>Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.</p> <p id="subscribe-email"> <label id="subscribe-field-label" for="subscribe-field" class="screen-reader-text" > Email Address: </label> <input type="email" name="email" style="width: 95%; padding: 1px 10px" placeholder="Email Address" value="" id="subscribe-field" required /> </p> <p id="subscribe-submit" > <input type="hidden" name="action" value="subscribe"/> <input type="hidden" name="blog_id" value="2198811"/> <input type="hidden" name="source" value="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/nelson-mandela/"/> <input type="hidden" name="sub-type" value="widget"/> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_fragment" value="subscribe-blog"/> <input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="141d5d45a4" /> <button type="submit" class="wp-block-button__link" > Subscribe </button> </p> </form> <div class="wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__subscount"> Join 291 other subscribers </div> </div> </li><li class="sidebox"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" width="440" height="417" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/welcome_0.gif" alt="" class="wp-image-10373" /></figure> </li><li class="sidebox"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" width="68" height="50" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/south_africa-flag.gif" alt="" class="wp-image-19336" /></figure> </li><li class="sidebox"> <p></p> </li><li class="sidebox"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="329" height="107" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/divider-7-.jpg?w=329" alt="" class="wp-image-19337" /></figure> </li><li class="sidebox"> <p>"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour, glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. 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