‘Kill the Boer’ taunt in Howick, ANC bullies Howick and Mooirivier taxpayers over forced incorporation
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May 1 2015 By Sihle Manda Mooirivier, with taxpayers paying R4million, is incorporated with Howick/Hilton (tax income: R144million).
The mayoress of Mooiriver was ululating cheerfully, singing "We want to taste the honey, people shall share'... The ANC supporters marched into the hall, singing 'Kill the Boer'. Taxpayers opposing the forced merger were told they were white racists who wanted apartheid bantustans.
--- Posters in support of the merger were held aloft, reading: “uMngeni welcomes the merger between Mpofana municipality and uMngeni municipality”.
Two men had to be separated at the hall’s entrance after almost trading blows.
The controversial and ILLEGAL Dubul’ iBhunu (Shoot the Boer) song reared its ugly head during an emotionally charged public meeting debating the merger of the financially crippled Mpofana (Mooi River) and uMngeni (Howick and Hilton) municipalities.
Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Pravin Gordhan has asked that the Municipal Demarcation Board help in “dis-establishing” Mpofana and incorporating the municipality’s wards into neighbouring councils.
The public meeting, held at the Howick West community hall on Thursday, descended into chaos about 30 minutes after it started, with ANC supporters confronting uMngeni residents opposing the change.Three wards will be incorporated in uMngeni, one in Umvoti, and a portion of Ward 2 in Impendle.
“The effect of this would be the total disestablishment of Mpofana LM (local municipality),” reads Gordhan’s request.
Tempers flared when Municipal Demarcation Board member Isobel Konyn opened the floor for the public to “air” their views.DA MP Greg Krumbock was the first to voice his unhappiness about the proposal.He received a mixed reaction from the audience - he was initially cheered before being heckled by a group of ANC supporters streaming into the hall.Krumbock said if the merger were approved, “75% of the people would come from this municipality, more importantly, 94% of the rates would come from this municipality. It is right that we have been "consulted”.He said there was something “fundamentally dishonest” about the proposal. “There’s only R9 million worth of rates that comes to Mpofana as opposed to R144m that comes in from uMngeni.”Mano Naidoo, the chairman of the uMngeni ratepayers’ association, struggled to make his point as he was booed.
Konyn struggled to contain the uproar and called off the meeting. The commotion saw ANC region leaders and supporters flood the stage, sparking a walkout by the residents who were against the merger.
WE WANT TO TASTE THE HONEY - THE PEOPLE MUST SHARE...
Mpofana mayor Maureen Magubane was in high spirits, ululating and chanting: “We want to taste the honey.”
She shouted: “People shall share.”
WHITES ACCUSED OF 'WANTING AN APARTHEID BANTUSTAN'
The ANC’s Moses Mabhida region secretary, Mzi Zuma, said: “The Demarcation Act states that the consolidation of boundaries enhances the cohesion in those communities.
“As it is stated in the act, the amalgamation of these municipalities will strengthen the financial viability of both the municipalities joined.”
He said anyone who dismissed the merger did so in support of the apartheid system of “Bantustans”.“We won’t allow that,” he said.
With uMngeni residents “bullied” out of the meeting, ANC supporters filed into the hall to fill in the critical Municipal Demarcation Board’s input sheet.
After the meeting, Konyn said: “I hope people have heard what we’ve had to say and we’ll make submissions (to the board)”.
Asked if she expected the chaos, she said “it is a political issue”.
Residents attending the meeting were given “input sheets” to fill in. The form invited them to “indicate whether you support or reject the proposed redetermination by ticking the applicable factors in the table below”.
A large group who opposed the merger left the hall after they “felt intimidated and threatened” by those in support of the merger.
The Mpofana council was dissolved and its seven councillors were relieved of their duties in September last year owing to “non-performance or political infighting”.
An administrator was appointed before Magubane was appointed in December.
The Mercury
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SOUTH AFRICA SLOWLY DESCENDING INTO RACE WAR:
Statues and foreigners loathed alike by black South Africans
May 1 2015 By Nokuthula Ntuli Cultural heritage experts have drawn parallels between the vandalism of historical monuments and the recent xenophobic attacks, saying both were symptoms of underlying
frustrations. They were sharing their insight during a seminar hosted by the eThekwini Municipality’s Libraries and Heritage Department, attended by close to 100 people, in Durban yesterday. The seminar
came a month after numerous statues were defaced around the country by perpetrators who described them as symbols of white supremacy.
While most of the monuments remained, the University of Cape Town management backed down and removed the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from its campus last month.
The seminar resulted in a heated debate over the preservation of these symbols, with some groups calling for the removal of all monuments commemorating colonial and apartheid leaders.
“Xenophobia and vandalism of historical symbols are related; they are fuelled by the same source. So people take out their frustrations due to lack of service, poverty, on what’s in front of them,” said
Professor Sabine Marschall, a cultural and heritage tourism expert from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The National Heritage Council’s chief executive, advocate Sonwabile Mancotywa, said that most of the statues people wanted pulled down were created to legitimise apartheid.
But, like Marschall, he warned against the dismantling of the symbols, saying they were part of South Africa’s history.
“(Hendrik) Verwoerd might not be part of my heritage, but he is part of my history – and history is about both the good and the bad,” he said.
He recommended that the statues be moved to theme parks where they could be used to educate people so they did not repeat the mistakes of the past.
“We should ask ourselves if it’s the statues today and if it’s the foreign nationals today, then what is going to happen tomorrow when the situation remains unchanged?”
He said it would not help replacing the old statues with new ones because “people do not eat policies, they cannot eat statues. If they have nothing to eat, they will destroy these statues”.
University of Johannesburg sociologist Professor Ashwin Desai and UKZN student representative council president Dithobe Mosane held opposing views - Mosane called for removal of “all symbols of white
supremacy” from public spaces.
“Our public space should reflect what is significant to all South Africans. It makes us uncomfortable to have to look at symbols of people who stole (land) from our grandfathers and then killed them.
“They should be moved to a museum,” said Mosane.
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comments by readers:
Teresa Williams •2 May 2015 If all symbols of "white supremacy" are to be removed from public spaces, all infrastructure in this country - right down to the sewage system - would have to be destroyed. This is
dangerously racist rhetoric. Both are diversions from the real existing problem of very very rich and a mass of very poor people, the hunt for scapegoats.As if the line is drawn where it obviously has to been
drawn some Ramaphosas and Sexwhales, Zumas and more will find themselves on the side of fence together with the other filthy rich of the inherited or unexplainably kind. To prevent the gap showing new
battlefields are opened what is easy to do.
Dr Spock: The discontent will get worse. .... In another article , it was stated that a presidential review had found that 88% of state schools were dysfunctional ..... disaster of major proportions. ......
And SADTU is okay with that. ......The future for all looks very bleak indeed. ..... The Zumanite Mafia and the African National Criminals will reap the Political Tsunami which will drown this country in a Sh@t Storm bar none. ......
In truth the white/indian middleclass, the black/colored middleclass and the shackdwellers are so much nearer together then they are near to the real rich of any color. They are made to believe that it is not so
but that is just deception and in special the old white money has long since learned not to show off. Real money comes not in a Rolls but in an A3.
Now forceful expropriation has never been really successful in elevating the poors living conditions and the doing a country good this is not what I call for. Some strong pushing for loving and giving the
country back would be better I suppose. The fields where it lacks most are clear: Education and birth control. The real rich of all kinds should be convinced and be it by threat of loosing control over their
wealth, to put a serious part of their money and influence and knowledge to good use and finance projects. Now. Fast. They can do this. state cannot, nowhere.
I believe this would prevent them fleeing the country too. Would be a shame to run with the money from where you got it when asked for help with half of it under own control. Or not?
FWDSA • 2 hours ago Apartheid, whites, colonial statues, foreigners etc will be blamed for the state of SA by those too stupid to admit that the ANC have failed. Yet, these same people will protest, damage,
strike etc but will never change their vote, their only real voice that can make difference. They vote ANC as they feel that it is their duty as Black South African's to vote ANC. The day when South African's vote
without race in mind but rather ability and performance is the day SA moves forward. Until then, the ANC will stir up race hate, deflect blame and the poor will remain poor, crime will cripple SA, the economy will
struggle etc.
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