Monday, October 20, 2008

Flemish MPs demand freeze on R298-m aid-funds to "bankrupt ANC-regime"

BRUSSELS. Belgium - Two MPs in the Flemish parliament have demanded that the Belgian government's 22-million Euro (R298-million) development-aid funding to South Africa's ANC-regime be frozen until the country 'gets a more responsible government which will allow an independent judiciary and respect for private property-rights.'

Parliamentarians John Vrancken (Independent, picture) and Kariem van Overmeire (Vlaams Belang party) both warned that due to the exceedingly poor and fraudulent management of the ruling African National Congress, the entire South African population has now been plunged into 'unbearable levels of violence and hunger' and that the independence of the SA judiciary has been scrapped by the ANC-regime.

Speaking many harsh words about the current meltdown of the country's independent judiciary, the murders and hate-speech targetting South African whites, and the ongoing destruction of all private-property rights; the MPs also warned that the most capable, top-educated people were now fleeing from the country en masse -- just to avoid being murdered.

Crisis, what crisis?
Contrary to these dire warnings by two fellow-parliamentarians, the Flemish parliament's minister-president Kris Peeters however didn't see any particular problem in South Africa -- it was merely a 'government crisis which we will be watching with eagle-eyes...'

He did not respond to any of the warnings about the out-of-control violence and the collapse of South Africa's independent judiciary - merely promising to prepare a re-evaluation report of the current R298-milion development-aid programme to South Africa.

He also added that 'if adjustments are necessary, they will be undertaken.' This report would be tabled for further debate as soon as it was ready, he said.

The Flemish parliamentarians Van Overmeire and Vrancken say that the rest of the still outstanding development-aid funds from Belgium to South Africa must be frozen at once - while Mrs Poleyn wants no more development-aid funding to South Africa at all any more because the country does not meet their criteria.

Ms Poleyn, left, a former teacher in the humanities, noted during the debate that South Africa did not qualify for Development-Aid funding anyway -- because it 'does not score the lowest on the Human Development Index, which is a requirement for us giving Development Aid funding.'

However it was parliamentarian John Vrancken, born in the then-Belgian Congo who as a boy, had to flee the vicious anti-Belgian violence which had wracked the middle-African region, who was the most vociferous in his criticism of the ANC's collapsing authority in South Africa. He said: "we are confronted with important socio-economic and political evolutions in that country.

"The South Africans have learned to live with a level of violence which to us (in peaceful Flanders) would be unbearable," he said. "The country has the sad honour of having the highest violent-crime rate in the world. Unfortunately this is only one of the symptoms of the deplorable state in which the economically-strongest country on the African continent now finds itself.

This proves the bankruptcy of fourteen years of rule under the African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela. Their agricultural sector is being destroyed by a programme of redistribution of farm lands, i.e. the confiscation of productive privately-owned farms which belong to white farmers to donate them to blacks.

The result is the major drop in food-production because of neglect and plunder of existing farms. The Zimbabwe-scenario is coming ever closer...'

"On the political level, the collapse of South Africa's judicial independence was illustrated by two events," he said: the acquittal of ANC president Jacob Zuma in the arms-deal fraud scandal; and the linked destruction of the public-affairs ministry's independent police force, the Scorpions - which had played a key-role in revealing the 'mafia-like organisation which is looting the state coffers and has links to the highest levels of government.'

  • "Until then, there 'had been some hope for South Africa as long as its judiciary could still operate independently,' he noted. "However now it looks very much as of the SA judiciary has been forced to succumb to the power of the ANC ruling party. These are all very negative signals which now are the hallmark of the collapsing socio-economic and political situation in South Africa,' he warned.

"Skilled employers are leaving the country enmasse, searching for more security and safety. And this increases the already massive unemployment levels among the black population even more,' he pointed out. He asked the Belgian government to immediately freeze all of Belgium's current development-aid funding to South Africa -- and that they urgently re-evaluate their entire programme for the future, too.

Flemish parliamentarian Kariem van Overmeire, left, agreed, warning that the present crisis in South Africa did not augur well for the rest of the African continent: "If South Africa is successful, then there's hope for the rest of Africa too. However it looks as if South Africa is rapidly turning into a dismal failure, and this is a very worrying evolution.

One of the phenomena now being observed is that of the 5-million whites, a full 1-million have already left the country and taking their skills with them, since 1994.

These also are the best-educated and economically-most active people - and also the people who pay the lionshare of South Africa's rates and taxes,' he noted.

"In the past we have been told in this parliament that one should not measure South Africa with European standards but rather with African ones. I cannot agree with this at all. There's only one model to assure welfare and wealth for any population anywhere: a model in which political leaders act for the greater public good and not for own clan or own tribe or whatever... A good model of governance is one with a totally independent judiciary, a system in which private-property rights are always protected and where private-initiative is stimulated.

"I fear that South Africa is now sliding into the abyss, and with each new president things are just getting worse. Eventually the country will reach a dramatic situation for the entire population - and not only for the small white minority which, if they weren't being murdered on their farms, now emigrate en masse especially to Australia and New Zealand to build up new lives there. For those many tens of millions who remain behind however, their future in South Africa looks grim."

Background Flemish parliament:
The strong European trading nation of Belgium (pop. 10-million) has 6-million Flemish-(Dutch) speakers with their own Flemish-language autonomous parliament, located at the Leuvenseweg in Brussels. However their foreign-affairs policies are still being carried out by the central (trilingual) Belgian government.

Advocate Karel de Gught, their minister of foreign affairs, is not an elitist as the former Belgian diplomats used to be, but is the son of a small farmer, known for his outspoken personality. De Gught once publicly questioned whether 'there were any capable ministers coming out of the Congo' (Belgium's late king Leopold used to own most of the Congo regions and many tens of thousands of Belgians had settled there).

Under De Gught 's leadership of the ministry, Belgium has of late, considerably increased its role in the Congo mining regions, which since their 'independence' after the violent expulsion of the white Belgian settlers collapsed into lawlessness and dispair. De Gught has also repaired their country's previously strenuous relationships between Belgium and the USA - with its NATO headquarters in Brussels The Belgian minister of development aid is the career diplomat Charles Michel, http://www.diplomatie.be/nl/

In 2005 the central Belgian government voted in 22-million Euro - to be distributed between January 2005 and December 2010 -- in development aid to three South African provinces: Limpopo, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.

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The Rooster said...

why did you post that we are the most violent country on earth without corrected the obvious error ?

We're the 9th most violent country in the world (and that's only because 80% of africa , south east asia and latin america does ot report statistics ) .....come on doberman...if you're point is worth making then you don't need to misrepresent the truth.

Doberman said...

Where do you get your shit stats?!

Here, let me help you out. Read
this.

PS: It will require you taking your head out of your arse.