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It seems like our justice department has its hands full with people who do not believe in justice, but rather personal expediency!

Recently, a magistrate in Kimberley, K Padayachee, as usual decided that it was 16:00 and that she does not work after that hour. What was unusual was that she scrapped 13 cases off the court roll, effectively freeing all the people related to these cases. She set these people free because she did not want to work after 16:00. No, she did not roll these cases over to the next day as before! She set these people free!

These cases included 2 rapists, a robber, stock thieves and other men accused of breaking and entering! Police had been searching for one of the rapists since 2000 and now he was set free without ceremony! The other rapist is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl.

As a citizen of this country, I call upon the justice department to deal harshly with this so-called magistrate, since she has trampled upon the law of this country, while not for a moment thinking of the consequences of her actions. It is clear that justice is not her main concern, but rather a day job. She should rather have sought for a job where there would be no stress and leaving at 16:00 would make no difference. As a magistrate she was charged with serving this country justly and effectively, yet she does not want to serve, act justly or be effective in her handling of court cases!

She should be fired and disbarred from practising any law in this country ever again. Added to that she should be charged with obstruction of justice in each of the 13 cases she scrapped. In the case that any of those that were released commits a further crime after release, she should be charged as an accomplice to the crimes committed.

Those who sit on the bench in this country must stop treating the bench as simply a job or a seat of power. Humility is needed on the bench. It should be seen as a great honour to serve this country and its law. This is not the place to prove how powerful you are! On the bench, the country, its people and the rule of law is represented. No more!

The justice department must remove all those on the bench who do not serve in their positions with pride and honour with humility!

The whole story about this incident can be read here.

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ACDP stand on Marriage Act Amendment

This statement was emailed yesterday on the ACDP's Parliament News email list.

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Statement by Reverend KRJ Meshoe, MP
President: African Christian Democratic Party
11 September 2006

The ACDP believes that marriage, as is known all over the world, is a voluntary union between a man and a woman.

We believe that calls to amend the Marriage Act to include the so- called same- sex marriages should not be headed or supported by both government and the general public. Not a single person making or supporting such a call is a product of such an unnatural and sinful relationship. We are all products of heterosexual relationships and not homosexual ones.

The ACDP rejects the notion of the so- called homosexual marriages based on our biblical and cultural beliefs as African Christians. The fact that not a single cultural group, religious group, tribe or nation on the African continent agrees with the promotion of homosexuality as a normal lifestyle, is a clear proof that the concept of homosexual marriage is foreign to us and should therefore be rejected.

The ACDP believes that the best way to address concerns raised by the Constitutional Court’s decision in the Fourie case in 2005 is to amend the Constitution of our country and not to amend the Marriage Act. We will table a constitutional amendment in Parliament which will protect the traditional view of marriage from legislature or judicial challenge by stating that marriage in section 39 of the Constitution should read that “a marriage is a voluntary union of a man and a woman.” Those who want to continue with their sinful unions have a right to do so, but they should not interfere with the definition of marriage as it is known and accepted throughout the world.

The ACDP calls on all Christians in SA who believe in the traditional and Biblical definition of marriage to support a demonstration called by the Marriage Alliance of SA planned to take place in major SA cities on Saturday 16 September 2006 at 10:00.

Reverend K. Meshoe, MP
ACDP President

Steven Makhanya
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South Africa is given a window of mercy

Philip Rosenthal of the ChristianView Network wrote a very interesting piece called Using Our Window of Mercy.

Read this article very thoughtfully and think where you may be of assistance in helping to take South Africa forward to righteous government.

"Over the past few weeks, four major moral issues have recently converged to take centre-stage in the political arena: state involvement with homosexual unions, abortion, AIDS, and witchdoctors. Is God trying to get our attention? And if so, how should we respond? I believe we now have before us a 'Window of Mercy', we must use to avoid God's judgement.

"From scripture we know that one of the ways God judges both individuals and nations when they stray from him is to hand them over to greater and greater wickedness. Ezekiel says of the Israel of his time "I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; I let them become defiled through their gifts--the sacrifice of every firstborn - that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 20:25-26). In the New Testament, the same frightening principle is repeated "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones." (Romans 1:26)."
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Do not simply sit back and expect someone else to do the work for you! The future of South Africa, and indeed YOUR children, depends on you!

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Yengeni on the march

I've been wanting to write about the Yengeni fiasco in which he was found guilty of fraud and yet was so well supported by the ANC's top structure, that now even when he has become a convicted criminal, he is still a darling of the ANC.

However, I have been fairly busy and thought I'd let Robert Kirby do the talking in his Mail &Guardian Online article called The passion of the Yengeni.

It seems that the ANC is willing to march for criminals and not justice!

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Police force to bring own transport!

It never ceases to amaze me how our government ministers keep putting their foot in it. I mean in their mouths. It seems that the only time their feet aren't in their mouths is when they are changing feet. They really give new meaning to the idiom "to put your foot in your mouth!"

If it isn't our Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who is busy exchanging feet it is our Safety and Security Minister, Charles Nqakula!

Of all the daft things he has said before, I suppose this ranks quite high!

Everyone in South Africa knows that our police are under-staffed. In fact it is really bad! Apart from being under-staffed, the police is also desperately in need of resources. The basic resources that police might just need at some or other time! Something like cars and fuel. DUH!

When the police started complaining about the lack of resources, our illustrious, caring and wise Safety and Security Minister responded with "if you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey!" There you go! If you want to join the police in South Africa, be sure to check the application form and tick the question "Do you have your own transport?" It doesn't matter what it is. Just as long as you have something. Anything... bicycle, roller-blades, scooter, donkey, etc. Oh, yes! Remember, if you have a donkey, bring along a donkey cart so that you could transport the criminals!

Is our Safety and Security Minister for real? Sometimes I wonder if he hasn't escaped from The Simpsons!

After his last racist comment (see Nqakula makes racist remark), you would think that he has learnt to temper his remarks with a little "before-thought," but it seems that it is not going to happen soon!

It is one thing not to tolerate apathy among our police, but it is a totally different thing to brush their concerns aside by comments that show how little he is really interested in his job and the safety and security of all South African citizens!

It is time that Minister Nqakula is held accountable for his statements and for the performance of his department.

While 20,000 South Africans die a year as a result of murder, all he can say to his own police force is "get your own transport!"

It is time this man and his department is taken to court for not doing their job in securing the constitutional rights of safety and security for all South Africans!

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Introduction

As an introduction I would like to say that this blog is not new. Not new in the sense that it has been in existence since March 2006. However, its existence started elsewhere, but due to technological constraints I felt that I would rather move it over to Blogger.

So, it is new to Blogger, but not new to blogdom!

If you would like to know what this blog was about there, and will be about here, then please visit the first post at the previous site.

One of the main reasons I decided to move BiblioPolit to Blogger is that here at Blogger, someone who is not a Blogger blog owner can still leave comments, whereas at the previous site only those who were blog owners at that site could comment to blog posts.

Another reason for moving is that in order for me to post to my blog at the previous site, I have to go to their site to enter the post, whereas here at Blogger I can simply email my post to a special email address and the blogpost will be published automatically.

So, I hope that you, the reader, will at least be provoked to thinking differently if you do, or else to encourage you to start making a difference in your country!

In order to see what I have posted on the issues before, simply have a look at my side bar under "MY FAVOURITE POSTS."

God bless!

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