In an address marking Heritage Day in 1996, former President Nelson Mandela stated:
"When our first democratically-elected government decided to make Heritage Day one of our national days, we did so because we knew that our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our new nation."
Can Nelson Mandela have an otherwise great legacy despite being pro-abortion?
Even the Pope and Cardinal Dolanhave been laudingSouth African leader Nelson Mandela following his death earlier this week of natural causes at age 95.
But I can’t.
Nelson Mandela has the blood of preborn children on his hands… lots of them. According to The Examiner on December 6:
Serving as the Republic of South Africa’s president from 1994-1999, Mandela not only signed the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996, he was also one of the most ardent supporters of what the openly pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute calls “one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world.”
As cited, the law “allows abortion on demand up to the 20th week; after it and up to birth for ‘serious medical reasons’; and, as amended in 2004, allows registered nurses and midwives to perform abortions as well before the 12th week.”…
Since the legalization of abortion in the RSA, there has been 1 million legal abortions reported to the government, with the overwhelming number being that of racially black African unborn children as cited by Spero News on Jan. 31, 2012.
I cannot get past this and cannot view Mandela as any other than a leader who engaged in mass genocide of his own innocent people.
Others are noting additional blemishes on Mandela’s record, but even if he were an otherwise all-around hero, I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to say a positive word to say about him other than, “I pray he repented.”
Interest in the development of South Africa's onshore shale gas resources is increasing. U.S. energy supermajor Chevron Corp. and Ireland-based Falcon Oil and Gas signed an agreement in December 2012 to jointly explore South Africa's Karoo Basin for shale gas. Such development of natural gas resources will help Pretoria reduce its energy dependence on coal.
Who Owns South Africa's Land?
13 March 2014, 13:16
If you've ever flown over South Africa, or even simply driven across it, you'll know that there's no shortage of land. I am yet to see a good explanation of who owns it all, however.
Land is a critical issue in this country, especially in the lead-up to elections. The reason is obvious: we are South African through the land, not simply our green ID books.
To ask 'who is South African' and then look at historical roots or skin colour is misdirected - rather look at who owns South Africa.
Can a tenant in a house claim it as his own? You might say that until we all own a piece of South Africa, we're not South African - we have no piece of the country to call our own, where we can just sit down and go to sleep and not be chased away by somebody else.
I've heard before the argument that there is no global over-population - rather, the earth is suffering from a food shortage and over-concentration of people in urban centres. However, strictly looking at the countless miles of completely 'empty' land in South Africa - not even visibly being farmed - I have to just wonder if this isn't the largest failure of resource allocation ever seen.
What would it mean for the collective psyche of all South Africans if we all owned at least a piece of the country big enough to build a house on? If we didn't have to buy that land - if we were given our own piece of land with our ID books at 16 as a right-of-passage to real adulthood.
I'm not talking about a piece of land on Clifton's beaches or the Sandton CBD. Just a block of land half a mile from Kokstad, or Pofadder would be fine. It's not about using it one day, it's just about the concept of owning it. If the rest of the world turns against you, you can still return to your little piece of land (which can never be sold) and try to grow a vegetable garden or sell crafts to passing motorists or dig for gold or anything else land-owners usually do.
Instead we're told that all the land is either bought or owned by the State, for reasons that are never explained to us. Certainly they're not doing a lot with all the land - often there's not so much as a lone goat to be spotted on acre upon acre. So who DOES own this land, and why is it just sitting there?
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Associated PressThe state owns 14% of the land in South Africa, according to the latest audit.
Johannesburg - Private individuals and foreigners own close to 80 percent of South African land, according to the latest land audit.
It shows that the state owns a mere 14 percent of the land.
Releasing the details during a post-cabinet media briefing on Thursday, the chief surveyor-general, Mmuso Riba, said 96 million hectares of land were in the hands of private individuals, companies and trusts.
By comparison, the state owned just 17 million hectares.
The amount of land in the hands of foreigners could not be determined because of problems with the Home Affairs Department’s database.
Classification of ownership by race was also impossible because the same database does not make provision for such categories.
Riba added that agriculture and fisheries accounted for most of state land - about four million hectares or 19,7 percent of the state’s total.
“That would be land registered in national, provincial or local government and parastatals.
“We were able to determine that the state owned 14 percent of land in South Africa, and private - whether it’s private companies or private individuals - owned 79 percent of land,” said Riba.
He said 1.15 million land parcels across the country had been visited as part of the audit.
According to the audit report, the state also failed to account for seven percent of land, with the former Transkei in the Eastern Cape alone sitting with four million hectares of unregistered land.
Riba said while private land was included in the audit, physical verification was done only on state properties.
“One of the things we wanted to achieve out of this exercise was to determine race classification in terms of ownership of land in South Africa. Unfortunately we could not do that because the Home Affairs database is no longer classified in terms of race,” said Riba.
He said the government would conduct further surveys to see how many blacks, companies and trusts owned land.
Cabinet spokeswoman Phumla Williams said the report on the Audit of Registered State Land and a desktop analysis of private land ownership in South Africa had already been approved by the cabinet.
“Land information is critical to the success of all land developments in the country. The purpose of the audit of registered state land is to determine how much land is owned by the state, what it is used for, and who the occupants and users are,” said Williams.
She said the land ownership information would be used to enhance the integrity of the land register and serve as the basis for enhanced land planning and administration. This included other functions relating to property portfolio management and improved service delivery.
The Freedom Front Plus’s Pieter Groenewald dismissed the audit, saying it lacked credibility.
“We say we want an external and independent assessment of land ownership because this whole thing is emotional and based on race. The government can’t tell exactly who owns what land, and that’s our problem.”
Groenewald said the FF Plus was in favour of private ownership of land “because private owners develop land faster than the state”.
The DA’s Kevin Mileham said a full analysis of the report was necessary to determine what happened to the eight million hectares of unaccounted-for land.
“Parliament and the public need to know where the missing land is and who it is owned by,” said Mileham.
Economic Freedom Fighters spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said the audit results were further evidence that the state should expropriate land without compensation.
Azapo leader Jakes Dikobo said the report was proof that “the so-called land reform is not taking us anywhere”.
Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven said the labour federation would study the report and comment if appropriate.
Agri-SA president Johannes Möller could not be reached for comment.
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South Africa's resources are valued at over USD $1.4 Trillion. However, The South African Government and it's people do not own these resources. They are owned by every other country throughout the Globe.
Associated PressThe state owns 14% of the land in South Africa, according to the latest audit.
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