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Op-Ed: Khoisan have been overshadowed in the land debate Contemporary political discourse around the land question barely mentions Khoekhoe and San people. It is absurd to think you can understand land dispossession associated with colonial expansion in South Africa without reflecting on the near extermination of Khoisan people. By RAMABINA MAHAPA. A key institution used by Dutch-speaking pastoralists to dispossess San people, particularly in the former Cape Colony, of their land during the 18th and 19th centuries was the commando system of voluntary and mostly part-time civilian militia. There are two books of utmost importance on this subject. One is The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari. This book speaks of the way Dutch-speaking civilians organised themselves into para-militia units for the sole purpose of exterminating hunter-gatherer societies in order to dispossess them of their land, as well as to capture surv...

Cold meat industry blocked compulsory specifications for 4 years JOHANNESBURG - Parliament has responded with shock to revelations that the cold meat industry blocked compulsory specifications on processed meats for four years by complaining about high levies. The revelation comes in the wake of a listeriosis outbreak that has led to the death of 183 people in South Africa and which has been traced to cold meats. In a statement, Parliament said it's Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry heard from the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) that no compulsory specifications exist for processed meat products and that the NRCS only regulates canned goods and not processed meat products. According to the statement, a standard was developed with the view to regulate meat products; however, due to disagreements with the industry, the regulation was referred back to the Department of Health. The committee heard that the final draft of the processed meat comp...

WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING AND DISMEMBERING PENSIONER   Cape Town - A young woman who admitted to decapitating a pensioner who was helping her was found guilty in the Western Cape High Court on Monday. Sheree Prince, 22, from Citrusdal, looked nervous in the dock as Judge Bruce Langa handed down his judgment. Prince is accused of breaking into the home of Sandra Malcolm, 74, in Capri Mews, Lakeside, in April 2015 and beheading her. She was also found guilty of two charges of housebreaking and one of theft. On 14 April 2015, she broke into a house in Portlands, Mitchells Plain, where she stole items to the value of R18 000. Earlier, prosecutor Advocate Liezl Herbst argued the murder was premeditated. But Prince's defence, Advocate Leandra Adams, disagreed and said it “happened on the spur of the moment”. Langa said the “horrifying” way in which Prince killed Sandra would count heavily against her. “I accept the report by the forensic pathologist that the decea...

PARENTS WHO ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPPED THEIR DAUGHTER MAY NEGOTIATE PLEA DEAL Plea negotiations may be in the works for Menachem and Rachel Cohen, the Montecello, NY, couple who allegedly duct-taped and kidnapped their own mentally troubled 19-year-old daughter on the Lower East Side. On Friday, lawyers for the couple waived the six-day deadline for a Manhattan grand jury to convene on the case, often a sign that they are negotiating with prosecutors. The attorneys, both public defenders, declined to speak after a brief appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court. A spokeswoman for the DA’s office would only say that the investigation is continuing into the felony kidnapping charges faced by the Cohens. They have been in custody since their arrest Sunday night, when the mother, 38, and father, 40, allegedly held the teen captive in their car on Forsyth Street. I think that they did not kidnap their child they just took her without informing anyone. I don't think that these paren...

Injured man robbed while waiting for help A man who was seriously injured in a car crash, has been robbed by unscrupulous bystanders while waiting for medical assistance. Rescue Care’s Ceron Meadows said the man sustained serious injuries after his vehicle hit a pole on Cato Manor Road on Wednesday afternoon. “The driver who had serious injuries as a result of the collision was then approached by bystanders who he thought were coming to assist him however they robbed him of all his valuables,” said Meadows. When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found the badly damaged vehicle on the roadside. The man was stabilised by paramedics on the scene before being transported to a nearby hospital for further care. heeeh people are so self centred how can you rob someone crying for help? I just wonder how this bystander will look at himself in the mirror knowing that he robbed someone who was seriously injured who was calling for help. people these days are so selfish they can...

NGCOBO HORROR AND CHURCHES AS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. Attackers enter the Ngcobo police station in search of guns; they kill five policemen and a soldier, and escape with weapons. Police track those involved to a mysterious church, the Seven Angels Ministry, and shoot dead seven. The church is subsequently described as a cult, and it is reported that at least 100 girls and women between the ages of 12 and 21 were rescued from its premises. the case of seven angels ministry in Ngcobo has gripped the country , as the stories tend to do when they involve a sinister cult, stolen guns, police killings and alleged sex slaves. Trafficking of young women is another form of abuse which can lead to trauma, anxiety, depression , low self-esteem, persistent fear etc. I see the shooting massacre but to abuse women was the worst horror ever in this Ngcobo terror especially torturing them in a place where it is believed that it is the safest place because the is presence of the lo...