Monday, June 5, 2017

Heinrich van Rooyen - A Travesty of Justice

I met Heinrich van Rooyen’s children and parents last week.  They had come from Knysna to visit Heini, bringing his two sons with them.  They then came to meet me at my home.  What a privilege … what an honour.   Now that I have met the people who parented Heini, I am no longer surprised by the kind of person Heini is; soft, gentle, compassionate, honest, strong …
Heini’s father was the Head of Correctional Services for Knysna, now retired.  His brother, Franklin, is a warden there.  Heini’s youngest brother is in his final year at Police College.  His eldest son is going to the South African table tennis championships.   His mother is the kind of woman who will work her arse off to see that her family are cared for.   He has an amazing family – so traumatised by Heini’s wrongful imprisonment and yet, so humble, kind, compassionate and gentle.   When you look a little deeper you can see the damage that has been done.  They have been broken.
Although our afternoon was filled with laughter, it was not without private tears shed in my bedroom with his mother.   Through the cops who framed Heini, the van Rooyen family lost everything; including their home and all that money went into the pockets of Advocate Terry Price and his minions.   They are tired, they are broken and they are living a nightmare that they never wake up from.
The fact that Price did not ask or even mention important facts that would have played a major role in the outcome of the case, or question the validity of the so-called ‘eye-witness’ is criminal.    The legal costs for this case to defend Heini came to one million, eight hundred thousand rand. 
How could Terry Price do such a shoddy job of defending him?     Not only did he lose the case when it was so easy for him to have changed the course of justice in the favour of real justice, but he pocketed hundreds of thousands of rands for his pathetic defense of Heini.   That is thievery, in my opinion.   Who to blame?  The lawyers who did not give him the information he needed to defend, or is he just a useless advocate.  The justice system is flawed and corrupt.   I would not employ him to defend me against a peg on my washing line.
Herald Live reports Terry Price thus: “His presence is somewhat larger than life. His booming voice can be heard in the corridors of the courthouse before he is seen…He is hot-headed, cocky and a bit bullish, but his colleagues and clients will tell you that he has a heart of gold and will go to the ends of the earth to prove someone’s innocence”. (Really – I know of two he did not go to the end of the docket, let alone the ends of the earth)… Price was a junior advocate on the team representing Stellenbosch murder accused Fred van der Vyver, who was tried for the 2005 murder of his girlfriend, Inge Lotz.
While the evidence against him seemed overwhelming, his lawyers managed to turn the tables on the police, accusing them of fabricating evidence”.  (So why did he not do the same for Heini?  Is it because he was only the junior and he did not contribute much?)
“In 2007, Judge Deon van Zyl acquitted Van der Vyver of Lotz’s murder”.
Interestingly, the cops who investigated the murder of Inge Lotz and pinned her murder on Fred van der Vyver, were the same cops who investigated the murder of the two girls in Knysna in 2005.    In both cases, they used the same kind of shenanigans.  
Why did Price not turn the tables on the police when it was blatantly clear to everyone that the cops had framed Heinrich van Rooyen?  Terry Price was Advocate in both cases.  Was the defense different for both cases because the van der Vyver’s had more money than the van Rooyens?
Heinrich was sentenced to 2 life terms and 28 years.  He has now served 12 years.   He was arrested on 10 December 2005 and sentenced on 14 May 2008.  
Because he was sentenced after October 2004, he can only ask for parole after 25 years. But, in sentencing Heinrich van Rooyen’s to thirty (30) years imprisonment with no parole, the judge also refused leave to appeal.    The Constitutional Court did not overrule the Supreme Court’s decision.
In Heini’s case, the police committed perjury, broke the chain of evidence, took eye-witnesses who could not possibly have seen anything, let alone Heinrich and planted or failed to find clothing at the crime scene that was only found days later by the cops who were involved in the Fred van der Vyver case.  If cops can plant evidence with impunity, fail to follow accepted investigative techniques and frame an innocent man, under the conditions of his sentence, he becomes a political hot potato.  The police are not going to investigate thoroughly their own, are they?  Are they not going to cover up for their colleagues, particularly since Director Trollip was leading them?  It is not without sadness that Director Trollip has died, but at the same time, without him – who can we blame?   The police who followed his direction MUST be taken to task so that we can right a very bad wrong.  An innocent man is spending his life in prison because of crooked cops.
Who murdered Jessica Wheeler and Victoria Stadler?   They are still walking the streets of Knysna. 

Friday, June 2, 2017

Medicine Control Council Instrumental in Human Rights Abuse leading to Death and Morbidity


The Medicine Control Council (MCC) closed the laboratory at the Western Province Blood Transfusion Services (WPBTS) that made Stabilized Human Serum (SHS); the immunoglobulins that are made from approximately 40 000 units of blood and that is transfused into a patient who has Primary and/or Secondary Immune Deficiency.   It is also used for burn victims.  The transfusions of SHS save lives and without it, the patients are at great risk of developing a bacterial infection that can be fatal. 
Sadly, because the WPBTS is a non-profit organisation, they do not have the money to build a new laboratory to the specs of the MCC.  And even more sadly, they have decided to not to even try to raise the funds because the cost of a new laboratory is exorbitant.
The cost of immunoglobulin treatment is now imported from the USA and the cost is too high for the sufficient number of treatments per month needed for patients.  The medical aid schemes, Discovery included, are reticent to pay for one treatment a month, meaning that we are only getting half the required dosage to keep us from having a life-threatening infection.  My own particular immunoglobulin treatment is called Octogam.  Most of these treatments are done as an in-hospital treatment due to the severe side-effects it can have and also because the treatments are infusions.
With-holding Immunoglobulin replacement therapy due to the high cost of imported immunoglobulin medication and the resultant shortages that occur is a human rights problem.  We all have the right to life, according to the Constitution of South Africa. 
A statement from the Primary Immune Deficiency Working Group (PIDDSA) of the Allergy Society of South Africa sent this statement out to all the medical aids in the hope of alleviating the situation:
Failure of regular replacement therapy will lead to a dangerous decline in protective antibodies within 1 – 3 months, given a half-life of approximately 21 days of IgG (Immunoglobulin).  A single serious bacterial infection can lead to death or serious morbidity, such as the neurological impairment that may result from bacterial meningitis.  Primary immune Deficient patients cannot discontinue life-saving Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapy.
And what did the Medicine Control Council think the people were supposed to do who need the immunoglobulins to live?   They have contravened the most basic of human rights – and the medical aids are continuing to uphold that human rights abuse.



Saturday, May 27, 2017

Chilling – Violent South Africa is part of the plan. Beware the karma. Marxists will be killing Marxists and that too is part of the plan.

Our country is in the third part of a takeover by Lenin/Marxism and few people realize the truth or know how to come to sensible conclusions regarding the disintegration of our country.
 I have just watched a chilling interview with ex-KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov who was born in Moscow in 1939.  He worked for a press agency, which was a front for the KGB and defected in 1970.  Few people realize that the work of the KGB was (now the SFB) was only 15% intelligence and espionage.    The real work of the KGB is propaganda so that they can put their own people in charge of different countries. 
Propaganda is ideological subversion or psychological warfare so that only those who are open to seeing and hearing will know the truth.   And in South Africa, there are very few of these kinds of people.  This subtle manipulation is to change the perception of reality so that despite an abundance of information, no one is able to come to any sensible conclusions to defend self, family, community and country. 
This is done in four steps.
The first step is to demoralise a nation and pump Marx/Leninism to at least 3 generations of students.  It usually takes between 15 and 30 years to get to the point where people who are challenged on the truth refuse to believe it even if it is shoved into their faces or they are shown the facts.   This is so clearly what has happened to our people during these 22 years of so-called freedom.  Our younger generations refuse to see anything other than what they have been brainwashed to believe.
The second step is disinformation.  This takes 2 – 5 years where ideas of Marxism/Leninism are pushed in the media and all other social institutions regarding economy, defence systems and foreign relations. 
The third step can bring a country to crisis and violent change.  This is where we are now.   It can take as little as six weeks for the untethered violence to erupt where nothing makes sense anymore.
The final stage is called normalisation. This is cynical normalisation.  The county’s economy has been destabilised, free markets have been eliminated and a new government will be put in place with a dictator who will do what Marxism/Leninism wants and who will promise the people of the country a lot of things that they never get.
Leftists and human rights are instrumental in the process of subversion.  When they have been used, they will be put up against a wall and shot.  They will no longer be useful.  But they in turn, turn out to be the most bitter of enemies – a Marxist who thinks he is better than the other Marxist and the KGB/SFB will help Marxists to kill Marxists.
And that is why I dislike FW de Klerk intensely for selling us out to the SACP who covered their heads with the ANC flag so no one would notice.  How stupid was FW de Klerk that he was hoodwinked and now we all suffer for it – white and black alike?  The state sponsored hate and racism is part of the requirements to bring about violent change. 

AND WE DON’T SEE IT !!!   Like sheep to the slaughter … like the Jews to the gas chambers … we will walk unknowingly into our genocide that no one understands or can make sense out of.  

Monday, May 22, 2017

Knowing the Truth, Seeing the Truth but still Believing the Lies



White consciousness should have the following aims:
·        To crystallise the needs and aspirations of the whites and to make known their grievances.
·        Where possible to put into effect programs designed to meet the needs of whites and to act on a collective basis in an effort to solve some of the problems which beset them.
·        To heighten the degree of contact not only amongst the white but also amongst these and the rest of the South African population to make the whites accepted on their own terms as an integral part of the South African community.
·        To establish a solid identity amongst whites and to ensure that they are always treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.
·        To boost up the morale of the whites to heighten their own confidence in themselves and to contribute largely to the direction of thought taken by various institutions on social, political and other current topics.
While these aims might appear to be couched in radicalistic language, they are in fact a sign that the white community has at last lost faith with their black counterparts and is now withdrawing from the open society.   The whites are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing.  They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
A time has come when whites have to formulate their own thinking, unpolluted by ideas emanating from a group with lots at stake in the status quo.  It is difficult not to look at black society as a group of people bent on perpetuating that status quo.  All suffer from the same fault basically of accepting as a fact that there shall be black leadership and even worse, that they shall occupy themselves predominantly with problems affecting black society first.   We need to adopt the principle that whites should work themselves into a powerful group so as to go forth and stake their rightful claim in the open society rather than to exercise that power in some obscure part of the Kalahari.
It is a painful waste of time to engage in any dialogue with racially-bigoted organisations.  Hence, this belies the belief that our withdrawal is an end in itself. 
(Written by Steve Biko in 1970.  I only inserted the word “white’ where he had written ‘black’. But so apt for where we find ourselves today – a group with no identity) 

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Heinrich van Rooyen - framed by the cops

I am sick and tired of people telling me that prisoners deserve to be treated as sub-human.  They are so judgmental – so many say that prisoners deserve to be there, that they are criminals and they did the crime so they must do the time. They say that they don’t deserve anything better than what they are getting, even if it is a gross human rights violation.  The horrifying thing is that the people with the most to say about this line of thinking are Christians.   Do they not realize that these prisoners are people too?    I have also come to a realization.  Putting a prisoner in prison is not only punishment for the alleged criminal, but a punishment for a whole family.  Everyone in the family is punished – not being able to see their loved ones is a terrible punishment for the family.  And it is so easy to end up in prison – how many people have done something wrong and got away with it … but even worse for me is the number of prisoners in prison for crimes they did not commit.   Those who see prisoners as sub-human – how would they feel if it was their father, their son, their brother?  How would they feel?
I am particularly concerned about Heinrich van Rooyen because he has been framed by the police and convicted of two murders of which he is innocent.  William Blackstone: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”  I am in agreement with that.
Here is a chilling thought:  In a country like South Africa where justice depends on how much money you have, what is the percentage of innocent people in prison?  Researches in the USA write that there is an error rate of 4 percent in death row prisoners.  Still, with an error rate of 4 percent, the researchers write, “it is all but certain that several of the 1,320 defendants executed since 1977 were innocent.”  This research only concerns those who are on death row.   What percentage of the general population of prisoners are innocent in South Africa?  From discussions I have had with numerous people involved in the criminal justice system, I have been told that it is definitely not below 14%. 

I would love to get an Innocence Project off the ground and raise funds for investigators, good lawyers and better advocates to take on cases where the prisoner is innocent of his crime.   But I can’t do that alone.  Want to help me? 

How prisoners manage to maintain their dignity,humility and gentleness in the midst of such disgusting treatment from the wardens is astounding.

Today, Sunday 21 May 2017, I went to St Albans prison to visit Heinrich van Rooyen.  I have been a number of times and each time there is a different problem in getting to see him.  Either he is not called until the last minute, or we are sent from pillar to post but today I decided to tell it how it is.  The majority of wardens (everyone in prison calls them members, irrespective of how many pips they have on their lapels, which makes me laugh because another word for a penis is a member) are disgustingly uncooperative, speak to everyone, visitors included, with total disrespect, stand or sit together eating chips, smacking their lips together, sucking their fingers, chewing with their mouths open, playing on their mobile phones and shouting conversations to one another as though they are all deaf.    If you ask them for assistance you are told “Go sit and wait”.  Today, once we were in the area where visitors see prisoners, we were sent to sign in again with our ID books.  The wheelchair could not fit into the doorway. 
 So Patrick took our ID books and waited in line.  There were no wardens in sight … it was being run by the prisoners themselves.  He was told to go and wait with his wife (me).  While we were waiting, a warden sauntered up to us and told us to go and register with our ID’s.  We told them that we had been told to wait where we were.  She insisted that we go and register with our ID’s again.  By this time, Patrick was fuming.  He went back with the ID’s and was told to go back to his wife.  Another three female wardens with bright red lipstick and huge arses came and told us to go and register with our ID’s.  When Patrick told them we were going backwards and forwards they sat in a corner, ignored us and opened their crisp packets and started eating, having a long and loud conversation about us, thinking I would not understand.  One of the prisoners who happened to walk past me while Patrick was on his fourth trip to have our ID’s checked asked me who I was coming to visit.  I told him and he said he would call Heini for me.  Then I saw something that sent chills down my body – a group of prisoners shackled to one another carrying their belongings and being herded like animals past the visitor’s area.
The prisoners do the work.  The wardens walk around, eating, talking and playing on their cell phones or sitting doing sweet fuck all; and if they are female, they are constantly putting bright red lipstick on their lips.    They look stupid and they make themselves look more stupid than they are.    
At our last visit, Patrick lost it and told them that “I am not one of your fucking prisoners.  Get me the man in charge right now”.   It happened to be a woman, but even then, she did not call Heini.  Every time we have been to visit, a prisoner has been the one to call him for us. 
I can honestly say that the prisoners make the prison work, at least in Medium B.  The wardens walk around, feeding their faces and occasionally throwing their weight around in one direction or another just to make things difficult.  I have yet, after all my visits, seen a warden do any work, other than the Head of Medium B on my second visit to St Albans.
The prison is dirty, and in dire need of some paint.  The visitor’s area is a large room with a cement floor and a fibreglass roof.  There are rows of steel benches on which the prisoners sit on one and the visitor sits on the opposite bench ... with up to three prisoners and their visitors on one bench.  The benches last saw a coat of paint in the 90’s. 
What burns my arse is this:  It can take up to two hours to get to see your prisoner – and the visit is  one hour in Medium B.   The rules change every week, dependent on who is on duty.  But the eating, shouting, sitting and doing fuck all except smacking lips and playing on phones by the wardens never changes.    If the prisoners did not do the work, then no one would have a visitor.  These fat, lazy and paid prison wardens walk around like they are royalty, throwing a spanner in the works at every turn.  That is the only time they stop eating and shouting and playing on their phones … is to literally chase a visitor from one place to another.   Put a uniform on an arsehole and you have King Kong.  The Scottish say “Give a beggar a white horse and he will ride himself to hell”.   Same thing.   No one wants to complain for fear of the prisoner being victimized.  But enough is enough – and I am talking now.
This time, Heini’s uniform was just damp.  Last time it was wet – because he only has one uniform that fits him.  Prisoners are given uniforms that would fit the Michelin man, so they take them apart and sew them by hand to fit them properly. 
I asked Heini’s family to please email me photographs of his family.  Patient Patrick took them on a flash drive and had them printed out.  I wanted Heini to have something to put up on his cell wall that could remind him of his family.   I wish I had had a camera to capture the look on Heini’s face when I gave him the set of photographs.  His face lit up – with so much pride when he saw his boys and the longing he saw his parents.  Never have I seen such a bright, happy and astonished face – for something so small. 

I love being in Heini’s company – he is an amazing human being; so gentle, humble and polite. And he is funny – he makes me laugh.  I have met other prisoners during my visits and I would be unafraid to spend time alone with any of them.  How they have managed to maintain their dignity and humility and gentleness in the midst of such disgusting behaviour from the wardens is astounding.    Heini has counted the weeks since my last visit – 7 weeks.  I have been too ill.  My first visit to him was his first visit in 7 months.  How sad is that?

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

ANC is Right to Fear the Minority

South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favour of the majority who has complete political control.  The fact that the political majority requires AA to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth making structures, such that their only solution is to take it from others.  This is not my exact words, but taken from a UK newspaper.  It is however, my exact sentiments.  The only reason why this is still in place is because of fear.  The racism is because of fear.  The threat to take the land we own is because of fear.   The state sponsored race hate is because of fear.   The underlying anger and hatred we see in the eyes when we have to deal with government departments is because of fear.
That a government fears only 9% of the population shows a great deal about the strength of the minority that we once had.   But, beware Mr Zuma – you will push us so far and no further.  You will then have something real to fear.