WHO IS TO BLAME?

Lonmin strike leaves the nation mourning.



Police at lonmin mine
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The story has been to every broadcasting station (television and radio) and print media (newspapers and magazines) since last week. The Lonmin mining workers have been on strike since last week and it has turned from being a strike to an event of horror. Police opened fire to a group of striking workers on Thursday (16 august, 2012) killing 34 workers and 74 were injured (Reported on News24).



Parents of the victims at the memorial service
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The total amount of the people who passed on resulted to 44 and 260 people was arrested. Amongst the people that died were 2 police officers and 2 security guards. At a later stage, it was reported that the wives of the striking workers also joined the strike saying that they will support their men . The miners only wanted a wage increase and they took it to the streets. Today there was a memorial service  of the fellow workers who lost their lives. Amongst those who attended were :

• ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu
• Police Minister Richard Baloyi
• Rustenburg Mayor Mpho Khonou
• Suspended ANCYL President Mr. Julius Malema



Anti-violence campaign
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There is a video that was linked it shows that the protesters fired first. The reports state that they were carrying dokipiri, spears, knives and guns. At this point lives are lost and we will not point any fingers. There is a campaign to stop violence towards each other. Let us stop killing each other and violence does not solve anything it only makes matters worse.

Is that we are teaching our children as a nation that if we do not get what we want we hurt each other?

For more information please click the link below:

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Malema-union-attending-miners-memorial-20120823



JUSTICE IS SERVED ATLAST.

If this is what justice in South Africa looks like, then I am in love with it!!!



Thabo Bester
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Thabo Bester also known as the "Facebook rapist" was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, 12 August 2012 at the Western Cape High Court (Reported on IOL news). The charges that took the final straw on him were those of luring and murdering Nomfundo Tyhulu September last year. Bester and Nomfundo met in Sandton last year where she worked as a car dealer. Bester was there at the dealership and he purchased a BMW car.

He is now called a Facebook rapist as he used the site to his advantage to lure young girls who are looking for jobs. This has become a common thing for criminals to use social networks as a tool for them to assault and kill girls. He also used this site to take advantage of needy girls to assault and rape them.

Bester has been charged with other criminal offences before such as:

· 50 years in prison for raping and robbing two models

· 15 years for each count of rape

· 15 years for on each count of robbery

· 5 years of each robbery sentence was dropped



Stop Abuse Campaign
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A Public Relations campaign will be done to send out a message to other rapists who are doing the same thing. Justice is there and coming to get all of them as it has done to Thabo Bester. Let us fight against women and children abuse. HAPPY WOMEN'S MONTH.

CASTER SEMENYA HAS DONE IT AGIAN!

We accept the silver



Silver winner Caster Semenya
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Caster Semenya has experienced difficulties for the past three years concerning her gender. At the age of 18, when she won the world title in a stunningly fast 1 minute, 55.45 seconds. Today that is history she is an Olympic medallist too. She was forced to undergo tests because they believed that no woman can run as she did. She won a silver medal on Saturday 11 August 2012 in the 800m at the London Games (reported the star sport).

 As she went to accept the medal she did not show any resentment and she was quick to congratulate the winner, Mariya Savinova. Mariya Savinova, three years ago was scrutinized for issues other than her athletic performance before being cleared to compete.

Semenya gained attention in 2009 before the World Championships in Berlin, not for her athletic prowess, but because some questioned the then18 year Old’s gender. Her masculine appearance had raised concerns and complaints to the International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body for all international athletic competitions outside the Olympics. “Unfortunately it was too late. I’m happy with the silver but I know the coach is not really happy,” Semenya said. “I tried hard to get back but the body wasn’t really on fire today. But I had to fight.”

Below are the top 25 medal standings by the Canadian Press, 2012:

1

USAUnited States

46

29

29

104

2	CHNChina	38	27	22	87
3	GBRGreat Britain	29	17	19	65
4	RUSRussia	24	25	33	82
5	KORSouth Korea	13	8	7	28

24

RSASouth Africa

3

2

1

6

The event was a big success as the team SA is coming back home on the 14th of this month. Everything went according to plan and big up to the organisers and the teams.

For more information please kindly click the link below:
http://www.thestar.com/sports/london2012/athletics/article/1240856--london-2012-caster-semenya-wins-silver-medal-in-olympic-800-metres



Caster Semenya
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Gold Winner Mariya Savinova
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SOUTH AFRICA'S GOLDEN BOY.

 London 2012 Olympics.



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Washington Post, ABC, China-mike.com, CBS News,
and The New York Post

The London 2012 Olympics Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. The Summer Olympics began Friday, 27 July 2012, and ends Sunday, 12 August 2012. It was one of glorious moments when Cameron Van Der Burgh became the first person to win the Gold Medal. Reported on Sport24 (Sunday, 29 July 2012). He made history on Sunday as the Olympics took place in London. He is 24 years old, very polite and humble. After his performance every camera men and the members of the public wanted a piece of him and he just stood there, let them take photos and answered their questions. He formed a world-record time of 58.46 seconds and crushed the rest of his team mates. Cameron has been to every Newspaper on Monday to show how happy South Africa was.

"It's a feeling I can't describe right now, it has been a lot of work in the making. Everything has paid off tonight," he said. Those words he said them while holding his medal in front of the whole world. They were competing in a 100 M group and Van Der Burgh finished in a time of 58, 46 seconds and 0, 12 faster than the previous record held by Australian Brenton Rickard.

  

The top three (3) is as follows:

· Cameron Van Der Burgh of South Africa in a time of time 58.46

· Christian Sprenger of Australia in a time of 58.93

· American Brendan Hansen who was third in 59.49.

In a Communications point of view, this event was well planned in such a manner that all the participants got to London safe and so far the department have not received complaints.  

For more information click the link below:

http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Olympics2012/Cameron-van-der-Burgh-The-perfect-race-20120729



 Cameron Van Der Burgh (www.googleimage.com)