Eyebrow Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 I cant imagine how this poor guy must have felt.The article is unfortunately in Afr, it did not even seem to get covered by the English news.Short summary in Eng.Guy on bike gets hit by bakkie near taxi rank in Krugersdorp. He falls off, badly injured. Arm broken and protruding through clothes. 20 people from taxi rank storms him, grabs him by broken protruding bone arm, drags him into bushes and janks off his helmet and shoes. There is a tussle for ownership of the stolen shoes within the mob. Shaking him, they try to remove his backpack, but it is proving difficult as he is lying on his back, in order to steal that as well.The guy in the bakkie who had hit him rings a friend to come and help, gets out himself to help the guy who fell off the bike. The taxi rank people turn on him and steals his cell phone and laptop. The friend he rang. also came driving up to help, and also gets robbed. When the airlift ambulance helicopter comes, the mob tried to rob it too. Community police forum people come and hold the mob away, so biker can be taken to hospital.The police came and drove past initially. Then one van and 2 officers came. They did not help, nor did they take any statements, let alone arrests.This all while the poor biker witnessed his father being shot dead earlier that year during an armed robbery.http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2014-09-08-beroof-wyl-hy-bloei Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robyn3 Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 I think my jaw just fell to the ground! Why am I even shocked though? It seems that mindless violence and animal-like people are the norm here in SA. Please God get us out of here before it's too late.That poor man! The trauma from living in this country will stay with him forever. I pray that he manages to heal, not only physically, but emotionally too...if that's even possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossedover Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Boy this is unbelievable.... I am still shaking my head. Is it really so far fetched for us to expect compassion for our fellow man in need. I am so saddened by this lack of humanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chzaau Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 It a very sad story... There was a current affairs story this week that I also shook my head at...http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8904006/cash-reward-offered-as-granddad-faces-life-in-wheelchair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurferMan Posted September 14, 2014 Report Share Posted September 14, 2014 Disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donovan83 Posted September 14, 2014 Report Share Posted September 14, 2014 Savage animals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranzy Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 The scary thing is that it is happening more frequent.... just read this article as well http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Accident-victims-robbed-as-they-lay-dying-20140929 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dapora2014 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Freshly posted on Facebook now And so it keeps getting better today!!!! One last one for now Eskom’s so broke, they’re getting electricity handouts from Namibia21Jan, 2015by Gerhard Jacobs in NEWSFont size -16+ Despite Namibia’s own temperamental electricity supply, the desert state is supplying us with around 200 megawatts as their hydro-electricity project runs like clockwork. inShare Ok true, they’ve only got around 2.3 million people in their country so what would they have done with the surplus anyway; that’s not the issue here though. For most of the year Namibia imports more than half of its electricity from its neighbors — it must be really hard to power three houses and all of an airport by themselves –, but the rains have been good and power is a plenty.NamPower, inventively named after the country it operates in, give us around 200mw that’s generated at its Raucana power plant, built on the Kunene river in the north of the country. The only problem here being that once the rains stop, the electricity dries up andEskom will have to make up the difference alone. Now, 200mw is hardly a lot to make up, but considering our energy supplier’s issues in maintenance and crumbling infrastructure… well then you can see why this is worrying.The 200mw is a symptom of a much bigger problem and possibly a looming grid collapse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OubaasDik Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 It a very sad story...There was a current affairs story this week that I also shook my head at...http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8904006/cash-reward-offered-as-granddad-faces-life-in-wheelchairIt's back!The advocate of "everything you see as everyday violence in South Africa can be seen at least somewhere in Australia, no matter how seldom" - so if something appears in RSA 50 times and it appears in Aus once it's the same scale of thing. I sorta think that the influx of Saffas may be influencing the upturns, myself, but I'm a happy Aussie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dapora2014 Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Hey Guys been A while sorry But you know Load shedding and telkom lines stolen = No Internet!!! What the hell is happening to this country Intelligence Bureau SA added 2 new photos.Havoc in JHB CBD kids marching!!! Other areas Groups of kids in dinwiddie high clothes raiding Grocery store and attacking... Now on kritzinger going over N3 into alberton they are on a mission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurferMan Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 PMSL @ OBDYour mate chzaau, when you said "It;s back!" I heard jeremy Clarkson in my head. The Jerry Springer of Aus crime, rofl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OubaasDik Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Dapora - "this country" is fine - thanks .... oh, I suspect you mean "THAT country" - yes it's messed upAnd as for SurferMan - Chzaau isn't "my mate" by any means.If I was in a lifeboat I and saw him gurgling and drowning nearby, I would save him, since I'd have no idea when I was to be rescued, and might need fresh food .... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurferMan Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 :boxing: I know, I know, just could NOT resist. :jester:We all secretly love chzaau, with his sunny disposition and lucid views on Aus, crime in particular can be his forte - when he lifts his intellectual wings to the skies and dazzles us with sweeping portraits of sparklingly truthful brilliance. Or something. (With respect to Beavis and Butt-head)SOME HUMOUR AHEAD: One can only take a long pull on an old briar pipe in front of a lovely fire (I believe this to be the new trend in SA, after going out of fashion some 100 odd years ago due to the arrival of pesky electricty. I understand the ANC are working very hard to reintroduce err, older traditions...anyways)Our intrepid friend chzaau is hard at work, beavering away at some radical new design that will revolutionalise SA as we know it. I suspect it may be as far advanced as the wheel, but cannot confirm that as yet, since they have ditched the internet and chosen to go back to runners.Which is not problem of course, unless you note that the runners have been cruising in Beemers, Muckcedes, and the like for some time. The stamina and endurance capabilities have therefore diminished somewhat. I am told the current range of the best runners are around 450m, or about the distance to the nearest KFC. I am advised that once the runners have gorged, err eaten a meagre meal at said KFC, that any further effort to ellicit any labour from them is futile for some time, unless it's to demand that Zooma783 #PAYBACKTHEMONEY. It is therefore a moot conclusion that most messages never make it, and those that do, either are irrelevant, or out of context, much like Zooma783. And are therefore binned, like Trevor's FIX the Nation document.I have flashes of "I am Legend" of Will Smith fame, where due to err, laws being passed to ensure that former motorists can enjoy more scenic views whilsit travelling, like trees growing out of roads, weeds as tall as a man, antelope roaming the barriers etc, to make sure there is a positive environmental change going on.SANRAL (Does "Roads" get replaced with "Path"?) Goes on to implement the far superior Robin Hood tax. Fesity agents man the dusty paths and garner coin from travellers for both state and private coffers. Perish the thought of an equitable system, why, when all in power can beneift at the expense of the sodding middle class? Class? Class my @ss. The only way to get rid of them Stanley, is to tax the b@stards to death! And that my dear friend, is my humble and feeble contribution to some humour, a play on words, an ode to my birthplace and it's current trevails. I'll probably ruffle a few tail feathers on the way through with this one, but as always, I speak truth to power. Well, in my view anyways.I am no bard, but I tell a tale about a tail, and in the lie, lies the truth. Good night people. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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