Robbed @ SA WCup: Tourists: Greece, Portugal, Spain, S. Korea, Japan, Colombia, China, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Tanzania, NZ......

Crime against World Cup visitors increases

10/06/2010
The Citizen

Between 30 and 40 newspaper clippings were presented as evidence of life in South Africa. “One article exhibited was published in [the Daily Sun in 2004] by Africa Ka Mahamba. [It was] entitled ‘Taking from whites is not a crime’,” Kaplan said. The article quotes the leader of the “Uhuru cultural club” as telling youngsters who attended a Human Rights Day celebration to steal from whites because “it is the right thing to do”. [IRB Ruling: MA8-04910: Brandon Huntley]

A spate of armed attacks and robberies against foreign World Cup visitors have been reported and the numbers are increasing exponentially.

The Greek national soccer squad and a group of Chinese World Cup visitors have fallen victim to crime ahead of the opening of the tournament, police said yesterday.

Armed men held up a bus-load of Chinese tourists when they stopped in an informal settlement in Germiston and made off with the digital camera and cellphone of a Chinese man with SA citizenship. The gunman and three accomplices sped away from the scene.

This followed reports a Chinese camera crew were robbed of cash and camera equipment at gunpoint outside Soccer City stadium in Soweto after the attackers smashed their car window.

NZ journalist Happy to Escape the Hellhole of Jo'burg; while a Murderous Mayhem is Brewing....

So close to escaping hellhole of Jo'burg

By Chris Rattue, New Zealand Herald
4:00 AM Thursday Jun 24, 2010

Fencing covered by razor wire is seen outside the main press centre next to Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. Photo / AP

One way or other, the All Whites will be out of this hellhole in days, and we will be off with them.

To Durban, probably, or home, and quite honestly, preferably the latter in some ways.

Johannesburg is an eye-opener, in a way that makes you want to shut the eyes tight and dream of elsewhere.

This is the most dangerous dump I have ever been in.

Sepp Blatter and his superstar Fifa mates may have been right to bring the World Cup to Africa, but they will be enjoying a luxury ride.

Tshabalala Gatvol's Rainbow Skellums Survival Guide to South Africa WC 2010

Posted on 05.28.10
Film Reviews by Spling

If candid camera were taken as seriously as Pop Art… Leon Schuster would be its Andy Warhol. Besides taking the piss and literally taking a piss on his artwork, he’s dominated South African comedy film ever since Jamie Uys dropped a Coke bottle on N!xau’s head.

The side-splitting American comedy pursuit could only go so far with lawsuits flying around, yet the world of candid camera has developed its own raw sense of local flavour and hilarity under the wing of the accomplished Schuster. Now just like Warhol, Schuster isn’t fully appreciated by everyone… but it’ll be difficult for you to walk five steps in South Africa without meeting someone who remembers a funny moment with Schucks.

Andy Warhol was daring. Well, so is Leon Schuster. He’s resorted to wearing heavily padded prosthetic disguises in his latest outing, Schucks Tshabalala’s Survival Guide to South Africa 2010, but who can blame him if he wore a bullet-proof vest too! He’s taken at least a hundred snot-klaps in his day and that’s just off-camera. On-camera, Schuster has the ability of a full-time matchstick man, roping the victim in with his utterly bizarre set of South African characters and accents in a situation even more ridiculous. It’s a surreal scenario, like watching a car crash in slow motion as Schuster builds the mark up to such extreme emotion to have them hit him in the face or bolt like the last sheep in a slaughterhouse.

Schuster has become a household name, but more than that… he’s a legend – giving a country with 11 official languages something to laugh about is anything but easy. You can hurl sticks and stones at the brand of low-brow comedy in movies like There’s A Zulu On My Stoep, Mr. Bones and Mama Jack, but the numbers speak for themselves. Schucks Tshabalala’s Survival Guide to South Africa 2010 is a return to the candid camera stuff. The grand candid master must have realised how hungry people were for reality comedy in post-recession, pre-World Cup fervor. This must have also been spurred on by a reasonable attempt from a new candid franchise called Rainbow Skellums and it’s been a while since that 50/50 mix of story and candid camera in Oh Schucks, I’m Gatvol!

FIFA Mafia B£lood$uckers: ¥he €nron of $port... Pt 2: $ABC, $occer €ity et al

SABC's R26-m 2010 WC Rental Bill

Niren Tolsi, Mail & Guardian
Apr 30 2010 13:32

The cash-strapped SABC plans to rent studio space at the Sandton Convention Centre during the World Cup -- at an astronomical mark up -- from a businessman linked to the broadcaster's head of Project 2010, Peter Kwele.

Graham Cooke, the president of World Travel Awards and a personal friend of both Kwele and his wife, Lindiwe Mahlangu-Kwele, the chief executive of Johannesburg Tourism, is the middleman from whom the SABC will rent the space.

At a cost of R26-million for 1800m2 for the duration of the event, Cooke will make a substantial profit on the deal -- according to the convention centre, its rates during the World Cup period have remained at R20 a square metre a day for exhibition hall one and R15 a square metre a day for its second exhibition hall. But in the sub-letting deal, the SABC will effectively pay about R480 a square metre a day.

Last year the SABC spurned the opportunity to rent space at Nasrec, the site of the opening and closing games. At €380 000 (about R3,7-million), the public broadcaster decided it was too expensive. The broadcaster had decided to downscale its presence at Nasrec, presenting only 12 matches from there and the rest from the SABC sports studio at Auckland Park.

But that's not what happened. In the new year the SABC general manager of sport, Oupa Mahlangu, issued an instruction calling for "big ideas", triggering a scramble for new broadcasting space. According to internal SABC documents in the possession of the Mail & Guardian, Kwele then went ahead and facilitated the deal with Cooke.

According to the documents, Kwele arranged to barter R1-million worth of advertising in a trade exchange for the use of the convention centre. On March 17 he passed on the handling of the trade exchange to Mahlangu after confirming to the technical team working on the project that it was in the region of R1-million.

ZA: Extreme-Crime Travel: Tourists vow never to set foot in SA again...

[Dutch] Tourist tells of rape ordeal

Dutch woman on antiretrovirals after horrifying ordeal in four-star hotel

Apr 25, 2010 12:00 AM
By Buyekezwa Makwabe

A Dutch tourist has vowed never to set foot in South Africa again - unless it is to give evidence against the man who gagged, robbed and raped her twice in the Cape Winelands.

The hotel said she was negligent with her own safety by not properly locking her room door Yvonne Petronella Den Hollander, 62, is suing the four-star Lord Charles Hotel for failing to keep her safe and is claiming R1.7-million in damages for the terrifying ordeal she endured.

Den Hollander, a divorced mother of two, was brutalised within hours of checking into the luxury hotel. She was put on antiretrovirals after the attack, and underwent psychological counselling for trauma.

Two years after she was raped and robbed of R3600 at the hotel on March 9 2008:

• Police have yet to arrest a suspect in the case;
  
  
• The hotel says it is not liable to pay damages because guests signed a disclaimer protecting it against claims for loss, damage or injury; and
  
  
• Den Hollander is being asked to put up R200000 as security for court costs before her lawsuit can proceed against the hotel, because she is a foreigner.

The high cost could derail her case.

In court papers, she accused the hotel of negligence and failure to put in place measures that could have prevented her ordeal.

Speaking to the Sunday Times this week through her lawyer, Luuk Rijnen, she said she would never again set foot in Africa, except to face her attacker in court.

Black African Criminals document Racially Motivated Death Threats to 'Colonialists (White)' World Cup Fans; televised on ETV News..

Reuters and Eurosport report that:

Police are hunting two men whose threats on a television programme to kill and rob fans at June's World Cup have alarmed authorities worried South Africa's reputation for violence will deter foreign visitors.

The men, whose faces were concealed, said in a weekend programme that they would commit armed robberies and murder during the month-long soccer spectacular which is expected to attract 450,000 foreign fans. They said this was justified as revenge for colonial wrongs.

Meanwhile IOL report that:

Two e.News journalists have been served with subpoenas in terms of Section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act after a story which featured interviews with two self-confessed criminals.

One of the criminals stated in the story by Mpho Lakaje - which aired on Friday - that he would rob tourists during the World Cup.

And allegedly -- according to IOL reporting on a Radio 702 News report -- the person who put ETV journalist Mpho Lakaje, into contact with the two 'World Cup Thugs', has been found murdered, after allegedly being forced to drink poision, and leaving what is alleged to be a fake suicide note:

According to Nomsa Maseko's live report from Jabulani police station in Soweto, the family of the man do not believe he killed himself and suspect he was "forced to take the poison". Traces of rat poison were apparently found in his room.

More Journalists Wondering: “Is the 2010 World Cup a Disaster in the Making?”

Danny Jordaan, Chairman of the 2010 Local Organizing Committee appears to think that purely because he has given his Teflon Safety and Security Guarantee, that all Security and Safety shall be fine at the 2010 World Cup; everyone should simply take his word as gospel, from Mt. Sinai.

But it appears that the Huffington Post forgot the ANC rule, that all liberals are to blindly and obediently accord any individual from the ANC's pronouncements as, well, gospel from Mt. Sinai.

As you probably know, the World Cup is scheduled for South Africa in June of this year. Many present and former residents see this as a potential recipe for disaster, and for good reason. Most would agree that three of the major venues, Johannesburg, Durban, and Capetown are cities where lawless mobs run rampant and threaten both classes on a regular daily basis.......

If this anecdote is hard to stomach, imagine the number of potentially explosive situations just waiting to materialize when money-spending foreigners from all corners of the earth convene in South Africa this summer. While this is but one isolated incident, the probability that naive foreigners will put themselves in harm's way is fairly high.

Clearly, soccer...or football (as it is known outside of the U.S.) fans worldwide need to know the risks that they run in trying to have a safe trip to the Cup matches. Does this really sound like a place to stage the most watched sporting event in the world? It wasn't even a safe place for Sheldie Cohen to watch his son's soccer practice.

The French and Belgian governments are incensed at how the South African Police Services botched investigations into the gang rape of a French tourist and an attack on her Belgian boyfriend, the Belgian Swimming Coach, on the Durban beachfront, during the International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championships, in December 2006. [Pro-SA Boycott 2010 World Cup Campaign on Facebook]

Meanwhile ETV decided to contact two criminals known to them, who informed the SAPS on live television, of their intentions to rob and murder naive and gullible tourists visiting for the 2010 World Cup.

The interviewed criminals have also learned the New South Africa PC lingo. They justified their robbing and murdering intentions, as repayment to colonialists (read: Europeans). Considering that 142 Academics, and the ANC elite deny that black criminals have any 'racial motivations' in regards to their criminal acts against whites, it should be interesting to hear how the ANC and liberals respond. I am unaware of any black colonialists who brought loin cloth Africans yet to invent the wheel or the written word, the colonialist gifts of the written word, medicine, literature, legal systems, etc. Clearly few Africans appear happy or thankful for these European colonialist gifts of civilization.

While the South African media may be pummelled into fear and obedience by Danny Jordaan, Martin Samuel of the Daily Mail is not similarly intimidated:

If Jordaan is wrong, however, there will be some who will make a literally fatal mistake by coming here in the summer. And Jordaan was mistaken - fatally so - about safety issues in Angola at the Africa Cup of Nations.

The chief executive officer of the 2010 World Cup was among those who assessed Angola on behalf of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in 2006 and pronounced it safe.

Following the attempted assassination of the national team of Togo in disputed Cabinda province last week, this gives him a credibility problem when he makes similar pronouncements about security in his own country. Jordaan is between a rock and a hard place.

[Note Added: 22/01/2010: It appears that the 2010 Local Organizing Committee, BrandSouth Africa & SA Marketing Council, et al, did not appreciate the sentiments in Pro-SA Boycott 2010 World Cup Campaign on Facebook. On 21/01/2010: Facebook Deleted “Boycott 2010 World Cup” & “Population Policy Common Sense”.]

On Al'Qaeda et al Terrorism at the 2010 Soccer World Cup

Protector Vest: No 1 Personal Protection Clothing for the 2010 World Cup provide for a unique protective Bullet Proof vest to communicate with fellow fans messages like "Free Hugs" or "Olé", to bring a new dimension to body armour. Your vest can be decorated with badges of your choice and Protectorvest are open to your creativity.

While SAIRR ponder what the chances are of an Al'Qaeda Terrorist Attack against US interests during the 2010 World Cup; a UK company is offering 2010 World Cup Soccer Fans designer Bullet Proof Vests. Protector Vest Security Facts for South Africa:

• During 2008/2009 a total of 72,194 (59.5%) of all aggravated robberies were street/public robberies. In 38% of street robberies, knives were used.
  
  
• Knives and other sharp objects were the most common instruments used to kill victims (52,2%), followed by firearms (28,8%) and blunt objects (12,7%) according to a new analysis of a representative sample of 1 348 murder dockets linked to cases reported nationally over the period 2007/2008.
  
  
• During 2008/2009 a total of 2,098,229 (approximately 2,1 million) serious crime cases were registered in the RSA
  
  
• Of the approximately 2,1 million cases, roughly 686,120 (32.7%) were contact crimes and 551,000 (26.3%) were other serious crimes.

[H/T: Irish Savant]

British Film Star: 'It was kill a tourist day in South Africa - and we were in the way'

I was shot at on New Years Eve. In Cape Town, South Africa. In a taxicab.

Not just me. My family were there too.

Victoria's Smurfit's taxi was shot at in Strand Street, Cape Town, by a gang. Police say the shooting was likely to have been part of an initiation ceremony.

Writing in today’s Irish Mail on Sunday, the 35-year-old actress says she was told by South African police the attack was likely to have been a gang initiation ceremony dubbed ‘Kill a Tourist Day’.

Victoria, who plays icy Roisin Connor in the ITV show, said memories of the attack have often left her tearful since returning home. Her mother, who was also in the taxi, had to be hospitalised for minor heart problems.

The shooting happened in Strand Street, one of Cape Town’s main roads, which will be thick with football fans when the World Cup begins in June.

ZA Top 20 Dangerous Travel Destinations # 2: Beware: SA is Violent: UK, US, AU et al warn citizens: “Exercise Highest Degree of Caution”

“In the last 15 years, over 45 000 Afrikaners have been murdered and over 90 000 Afrikaner women have been raped. How can you have a World Cup Soccer event in a country where one of its minority groups are being exterminated?” asks Bittereinder Boer, at his Boycott 2010 World Cup South Africa Facebook Cause

At the Boycott 2010 World Cup Page (www.boycott-2010-world-cup.co.nr/), you can find, among others the following statements:

“Backed by travel advice issued by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), London's The Telegraph newspaper has placed South Africa alongside Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Haiti, Eritrea, Pakistan, Burundi, Nigeria and the DRC in terms of danger to travellers.

According to the FCO, SA has “an underlying threat from terrorism”.

‘Avoid townships, practice safe sex and “exercise the highest degree of caution”, are some of the travel tips given to tourists visiting South Africa. The US, Australia and UK governments state websites, were updated recently to include security advice for citizens planning to travel to S. Africa for 2010 World Cup.’
[» » ZA Top 20 Dangerous Travel Destinations]

How many 2010 WC fans will leave SA burned, duped, fooled, conned, scammed and screwed over by Proudly SA Lies?

Andrea Muhrrteyn
Why We Are White Refugees

Simplistically, I'd say that when it comes to 'Proudly South Africa' there are three groups of South Africans.

There are at least two groups who do not share the 'Proudly South African' sentiments, with the centrist 'Proudly South Africans'.

If I would classify the two extremes, I'd put them into 'black' and 'white' rather than 'left' or 'right'. Because there are blacks and whites, from both 'left' and 'right', who do not inhabit the 'Proudly South African' Hypocrisy on Steroids universe.

Predominantly, I'd say those who clearly and publicly do not classify themselves as 'Proudly South African', are those who value truth and values of honesty and integrity, above fake illusions of two faced hypocrisy unity, and patriotism founded upon lies and deception.

Many of them may have been sincerely willing to commit to the principles of Truth and Reconciliation, and a truly non-racial South Africa; only to find out that they had been betrayed, and deceived by the 'Truth and Reconciliation' Dog and Pony Show, and repeatedly subsequent thereto.

They found out that the ANC and Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Illusion show, had no serious interest in exposing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Apartheid: good and bad.

Letter to Austrian Embassy, Burgstaller & Symcox Families; RE: Boycott 2010 World Cup

Peter Burgstaller, Austrian football goalkeeper

Letter to Austrian Ambassador, and the Burgstaller and Symcox Families.

RE: Sentencing of Burgstaller Murderers, and Boycott 2010 World Cup

Peter Burgstaller (Wiki):

Peter Burgstaller (13 February 1964 – 23 November 2007) was an Austrian football goalkeeper.

He played for Favoritner AC (until 1984), Wacker Innsbruck (1984-1986), Grazer AK (1986-1987), VfB Mödling (1987-1988), Austria Salzburg (1988-1991), SV Ried (1991-1992) and finally a second spell at Austria Salzburg before retiring from the game in 1993.

Peter Burgstaller

After retiring from the game, Burgstaller coached lower division side FC Puch during the 1995-96 season, and later founded an event agency in Salzburg.

Murder Charges laid against Accused of Burgstaller Murder

Burgstaller was shot and killed in on a golf course in Durban, South Africa on 23 November 2007.[1] Police suspect the murder was the result of a robbery, as Burgstaller's mobile phone and golfing equipment were missing at the scene of the crime. At the time of his murder, delegates were attending the World Cup qualifying draw in nearby Durban, South Africa.

Three men were arrested after the murder.[2] On 30 October 2009 two of the arrested men were convicted of murder and of robbery with aggravating circumstances. They received lengthy prison sentences. [3]

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