I recorded this at a Mandela exhibition in Joburg that also included the Robben Island letters from Nelson Mandela to his wife, Winnie.
Madiba's 28 years in jail, and now this.
It's easy to forget the iniquities of apartheid when everything around us is falling apart. Truth is, you can't compare apartheid to the prevailing Wrecking and Looting. Though both represent a rapacious scourge. And perhaps where we are now is a natural consequence of our past, a deepening of dehumanisation, where life is cheap, and everyone and everything is fair game. Our nation. So much. Yet so little. Bruised. Bloodied. Brave. Forever in battle.
It's time to end all race laws. Preferential treatment must go. It's time for a reset.
Politically. Economically. Ethically. Morally. Spiritually.
It's time to pause, reflect, and Start Again.
And Together move away from a centralised unitary state to direct elections in possibly a federal kind of structure where politics is truly for the people by the people, and a better life for all.
Equal rights mean equal responsibility. Amen.
Top o the mornin, me darlins. It's Rietbok day!
Fifty eight years since a Vickers Viscount crashed into the sea off Kaysers on its descent to landing in EL.
Monday, 13 March, 1967. A murky evening. After a long day of flights, bad weather, and mishaps.
Plane Wreck Hunter Wouter Botes reckons a wing clipped the water, and that was it. Boom!
Pilot error.
Judge Cecil Margo's report, the Margo Commission, pointed to a heart attack as the cause of the crash. In his memoir though, he suggested a wing spar failure.
His career was marked by a notable number of probes into aircraft crashes, not without controversy.
Wikipedia says: "Margo was criticised for discrediting testimonies of black witnesses during the investigation into the 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 Crash that killed Dag Hammarskjöld. "Charcoal burners of the township of Twapia testified that they saw a second plane in the air, but were considered unreliable. Board secretary of Twapia, Timothy Kankasa, testified to Margo that he alerted the Rhodesian authorities of the location of the wreck, six hours before the wreck was found. This testimony was "ridiculed" by Margo."
And so the Rietbok Unsolved Mystery persists.
Oh, it was agents of the Nats that blew up the Rietbok. The spooks of the National Party did it.
Because there was a prominent Afrikaner onboard who, God forbid, was turning verlig; Prof Bruwer of the secret Broederbond was changing his mind about apartheid, the Afrikaner policy of separate development and white supremacy.
Also on the Rietbok was American Audrey Rosenthal. She was in ZA for her work with the International Defense and Aid Fund. This money machine was created by John Collins (https://www.presidency.gov.za/canon-l-john-collins-1905-1982) during the high-profile 1956 Mandela (et al) Treason Trial. It was setup to pay for legal costs and support the families of the accused.
The ANC was banned in 1960 and by 1967, the year of the crash, the political temp was rising.
The ANC in ZA and Za
#KaysersChiefs KBRA MIA or what? Kayser's Connect trying hard to introduce the new seven-person Res Assoc to you, really hard, me darlins.
But, alas. No response. Since Kayser's Connect's Deep Throat told us who's on the committee, on Saturday, and we published the names... all schtum.
No response either to cries on WA for information about the dire water situation in Kayser's Beach.
What's happening? When will there be water again? What's the story?
The Kidd's Beach Res and Ratepayers Association took the bull by the horns and went to see the muni / city manager yesterday. Voila!
They got water. Last night.
That's what a res association is about: communication with muni and res, and action.
Where are you, KBRA?
We need to work together so you can get more than 5,5 percent voter buy-in! And... Kayser's Connect can help you tell residents what's going on! Mahalla.
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Take charge of your BCMM Water meter readings:
Deadline Feb 5.
Send to [email protected]
Include: the date, your name and address, your erf number, account number, the reading, Plus photo of the meter and the reading indicating consumption.
Perhaps cc yourself too. #KaysersRising #NewDaysNewWays #LuckyFishINFO brought to you by Kayser's Connect
The borehole testing site will move to the area of the social club, on about Sunday, once they've finished near the shop.
Groundwater Solutions is in Kayser's Beach to test three boreholes for capacity and drinkability.
The first borehole ran for eight hours then dried up.
But it would be pumped again to gauge a recovery period.
This, the second borehole, is also being tested.
The pump is scheduled to run for 24 hours until tomorrow morning.
Once work is concluded here, the team of three will move to the borehole near the club.
"We're helping the municipality to check how much water is in the ground," Takalani Mbadaliga told Kayser's Connect.
"We'll also take samples to the lab to see if it's suitable to drink. If not, we'll have to purify it."
The team travels around ZA testing water.
"Some water is very bad. It just stinks," he said.
"Some water is the colour of coal. And other water smells like rotten eggs."
He said Kayser's water was "clean and looking fine".
He and I took a sip.
It tasted sweet. And soft.
Beautiful day in Kayser's. Why spoil it moaning about No Wa-wa-Water?
The taps are dry. Again. Where's cllr Shabana?
Perhaps she's watching the ANC's 113th birthday rally in Khayelitsha.
Coterie of wreckers and looters, if ever there were one! Talking about the ANC's heyday and kxk about Cape Town.
Where every sanddune is the fiefdom of slumlords letting land that's not theirs to squatters.
#ANCvrotpatat #VoetsekANC
No tanker at the shop. But boy, there's beautiful fruit.
At last. Thank you, Sharief.
In other news, the waves are champagne mousse today.
Sublime.
So... instead of getting grumpy about The Great Unravelling, I'm taking the boogie board that the mouse chewed, and heading to the FlatSands.
I'll leave the dogs at home.
Spotty and Beentjies are resting nicely after our walk to the mussel rocks. The beds are Rather Denuded, it seems. Alas. Plunder is not only the prerogative of fat cat carpetbaggers....
Anyway, nothing can dampen a day in the sun.
Surf's up, hun. Mx
Meanwhile... here is what's left of the Shelber's flow under the bridge that links Khala and Kayser's.
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It's all happening at Buffs
ANC hides massive BCMM increases in tariff book
DA REP Sue Bentley has made a video to pinpoint how the ANC is going to make you pay MUCH MORE for your electricity.
It's not 15.31% as we've been led to believe. No! Extra charges can go up to a whopping 35%, and charges turn out higher the less you use.
That's ANC brains for you.
Increases of tariffs in cost of supply:
Prepaid from zero to R465pm. What? Really? In this economic climate?
Other categories noted in video
R70 to R782 and R108 to R1083pm.
The tariff increases likely to increase Muni debt, says Sue.
She also points out that ANC passed the budget at a meeting attended only by themselves and one opposition member.
There also was no public participation process as required by law. What's more, opposition received docs too late for judicious perusal before meeting. And some did not get them at all.
Naturally. The DA is escalating this egregiously tone-deaf matter to try and stop BCMM residents from having to pay these exorbitant fees to a Muni that's bad at service delivery and revenue collection. Thanks, ANC. We can rely on the fat guts Eastern Cape ANC to rip us off.
Fortunately, we can rely on DA to try and do something about it.
2026 here we come.
Ps. I just wish our Super Civic, from Cove Rock to Chalumna, were up and running. (I'm working on it) Because, if ever there were an issue that affects us all, it's this. Don't agonise, mense. Organise!
Damon is an accomplished and knowledgeable person but what I really like about him is that he doesn't think he's the bee's knees! I'd like him to give a talk at The Lucky Fish once there's nectar for the bees in the hives and his Ambrosia is in the bottles. Roll on spring time. Fascinating thing this beekeeping and the honey is delicious too.
Magic Made in Kayser's.
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