As Mr Edmund Burke say : The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”
It come to my attention in the Kempton Express of July 10, 2014 the second Palm burn on PA du Plessis Street;
This is the photo of the left overs of the first Palm: go to......the news page
http://kemptonexpress.co.za/37386/fire-crew-on-their-way-to-fire-diverted-to-accident/
Fire crew on their way to fire diverted to accident
The victims, with the help of their neighbours, had to put out the fire themselves
Nolwazi Dhlamini | 30 June 2014 06:51
NORKEM Park residents were left to struggle on their own for almost an hour to put out a fire in a 35-year-old palm tree, as fire department had been diverted to an accident scene on their way to the fire.
The incident happened on June 11 shortly before 10pm at the home of Shauneen and Jack Dippenaar.
Shauneen said: “I was sitting in my lounge when all of a sudden I saw everything light up, literally. It looked like the sun suddenly came out and it was daylight again. I panicked and called my husband, who was in the bathroom.”
The couple went outside and discovered a palm tree, which Jack planted in their garden more than 30 years ago, was on fire.
“I called the fire department and they said they would send out a vehicle but it never came,” Shauneen said.
Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services spokesman, William Ntladi, said one phone call from the house phone of the victims was logged on their system, indicating the crew had been dispatched. On their way to the scene the fire crew was re-routed to a serious car accident on the R21 where people were entrapped.
“They remained at the scene for more than two hours, using specialised rescue equipment to free the accident victims. One patient had to be airlifted.
“After completion of the accident call, they proceeded to the Norkem Park home to assist but the fire was already out.”
In the meantime, some of the neighbours came out to help the couple put out the fire, which took about 45 minutes.
“By the time we put it out at 10.30pm, the fire department hadn’t arrived,” Shauneen said. This made the couple feel uneasy.
What concerned them even more was that something more dangerous could have happened; the whole house could have burned down or the neighbour’s home could have caught fire, because of its thatched roof.
“What is most worrying about the situation is that the fire department didn’t come at all. Even after we eventually went to bed at about midnight they still hadn’t arrived,” Jack said.
“Lives could have been lost, all because the emergency people failed to come when we called them.”
The cause of the fire, which also damaged the home’s water meter box, is still unknown.
This is the photo of the left overs of the second Palm: go to..... the news page
Second palm tree ‘mysteriously’ burns down
This may be the work of an arsonist ( I don't think so, this is the work of the "White Vigilantes")
8 July 2014 05:00
SOMEONE could be setting trees in Norkem Park alight.
Another resident of the suburb’s palm tree burned down on Tuesday last week, a mere two weeks after a very similar incident. Both incidents took place in PA du Plessis Street.
Patty Ferreira said she woke up at about 2.45am. While in the bathroom, she saw it was very light outside. Just then, she said, her phone rang. It was her neighbour, telling her that the palm tree in their garden was burning.
She woke up her husband, Jan, mother Emma Jordaan, and daughter Emelia, and went outside.
They saw their palm tree, standing next to their fence, was on fire. Ferreira suspects someone is setting these trees alight.
The family called the fire brigade and started to dowse the flames themselves with a hose. They struggled for about an hour to put out the fire.
Ferreira said the fire brigade never showed up. When the first tree burned down, the fire brigade also did not show up, as the truck was diverted to a serious accident, according to William Ntladi, emergency services spokesman.
Ferreira would like to thank Norkem Park SAPS who immediately came over and waited with them. She also thanked her neighbours, Victor and Janine Rudolf, who alerted them of the fire and helped to extinguish it.
The disaster and emergency services failed to comment at the time of going to print.
For sure the will be no comments from emergency services, they are covering for the Metro Police (white vigilantes) like Mr J M Van Heerden that after the events that happen to my best friend on the 28 of September 2011 at around 12:00 search for : http://neversurrender.iblog.co.za/2014/07/02/kempton-park-metro-police-sa-almost-kill-a-biker/
and you will see what these EMPD white vigilantes done to my best friend and they continue try to victimize him for exposing them to the public knowledge;
" We are define by the decisions we make "
The white vigilantes friends of Mr J M Van Heerden that set the palms on fire in Norkem Park as a way to victimize my best friend make a big mistake.
We bikers are a very close community an attack to one is an attack to all.
After the brutal assault inside the police van my best friend promise me to expose these white EMPD vigilantes then it follow a lot of intimidation and my friend become victimize by the white vigilantes on Saturday night 29 /10/2011 at about 23:00 the Palm right in front of his house in Glen Marais, Geelhak Str was set on fire, from EMPD friends (vigilantes) of Mr J M Van Heerden and partner, got statements from the people staying next to my friend that they saw a vehicle stop next to the palm spray some liquid and set it on fire then this people staying next to my friend help to put the fire down , this happen to try to scare my best friend & stop him from try taking the civil case forward against the EMPD ; The burn of the Palm happen on the weekend after the lawyer of my friend done the application to go against the EMPD in a Civilian Court for the Brutally assault that Mr J M Van Heerden and partner let it happen inside the Police Van where they put my friend inside injure and in handcuff, letting an White Afrikaner officer friend (vigilante) of them in civilian clothing open the Police van and brutally assault my best friend.
We bikers are a very close community an attack to one is an attack to all.
After the brutal assault inside the police van my best friend promise me to expose these white EMPD vigilantes then it follow a lot of intimidation and my friend become victimize by the white vigilantes on Saturday night 29 /10/2011 at about 23:00 the Palm right in front of his house in Glen Marais, Geelhak Str was set on fire, from EMPD friends (vigilantes) of Mr J M Van Heerden and partner, got statements from the people staying next to my friend that they saw a vehicle stop next to the palm spray some liquid and set it on fire then this people staying next to my friend help to put the fire down , this happen to try to scare my best friend & stop him from try taking the civil case forward against the EMPD ; The burn of the Palm happen on the weekend after the lawyer of my friend done the application to go against the EMPD in a Civilian Court for the Brutally assault that Mr J M Van Heerden and partner let it happen inside the Police Van where they put my friend inside injure and in handcuff, letting an White Afrikaner officer friend (vigilante) of them in civilian clothing open the Police van and brutally assault my best friend.
Photo of the Palm burning in the night of 29 /10/2011 :
Note: in camera phone fire appears purple,
How this still happening in South Africa, are we living in a Gangster Paradise?? Where is the justice? If we can’t trust the police to do their job “Protect & Serve”, Who do we trust with our security?
How this still happening in South Africa, are we living in a Gangster Paradise?? Where is the justice? If we can’t trust the police to do their job “Protect & Serve”, Who do we trust with our security?
Coming back to the burn palms, you don’t need to be a brilliant detective or Sherlock Holmes to put these events (the burn palms) together. My best friend move to Benoni after the incident of the burn Palm in front of his house in Glen Marais, I knew this EMPD white vigilantes will keep on try to get him, I told him to exchange SIM cards and Laptops so he can keep working without been trace. These white vigilantes fall for my trap and burn palms 2 streets away from my house, not surprise, tracing a cell without GPS give you a wide cell zone where that person could be and in Norkem Park there are so many houses in a small area; My friend is safe in Benoni and that is what is important for me .
First page of Kempton Express indicating my friend been rammed of his bike:
More photos reporting the brutal assault done to my friend by the white vigilante friend of Mr J M Van Heerden and partner
Injuries done to my friend by the white vigilantes!
After the brutal assault to my friend it happen again a few days later to someone else:
‘He was going to kill me’
November 2 2011 at 07:17am
By Graeme Hosken
By Graeme Hosken
Willie van Zyl claims that Gauteng traffic police officers deliberately knocked him off his superbike and tried to kill him. Photo: Thobile Mathonsi
Allegedly chased at high speed and deliberately knocked off his superbike by members of an elite unit within the Gauteng Traffic Police Department, a Pretoria motorcyclist, who spent a week recovering from his injuries in an intensive care unit, is demanding justice.
Willie van Zyl claims he narrowly cheated death when members of the provincial traffic police department’s high-speed pursuit unit deliberately rammed him off his BMW S1000RR.
Van Zyl was on his way to Hartbeespoort Dam on a weekly breakfast run with friends. Officers were driving a white unmarked VW Golf GTI when the incident occurred on the R511 (Sandton/Hartbeespoort Road).
Van Zyl, who has lost the tip of his right thumb and is still recovering from his injuries, said he had been waiting for friends on the N14 at a Total garage near Diepsloot.
“As I waited, my friends rode past me with a white VW Golf following them. I didn’t think anything of it and rode after them,” he said.
Spotting a roadblock on the highway, Van Zyl decided to take an alternative route to the prearranged meeting spot.
“I turned around and started riding along the R511. A blue motorbike tore past me at high speed. I didn’t think anything of it until I saw a white Golf racing up behind me in my mirrors.”
Thinking the driver of the unmarked traffic police car would pass, Van Zyl began to panic when it sped up with its driver trying to nudge his motorbike’s back wheel.
“I didn’t know what was happening. I couldn’t turn around to look who it was because there were potholes all over the road. I couldn’t see any blue flashing lights and there were no sirens. I was panicking. I thought that those inside wanted to hijack me,” he said.
Deciding to outrace the car, Van Zyl sped off, losing the vehicle until he neared the R514 (Brits-Pretoria Road).
“As I approached the intersection I slowed down, because the robot was red and I could not see if any vehicles were approaching the intersection.
“It was only when the lights went green, just before I reached the intersection, that I sped up,” he said.
It was as Van Zyl turned on to the R514 that the traffic officers collided with him, apparently on purpose, striking his handlebars and front wheel, forcing him to crash.
Van Zyl was thrown across the VW Golf and into a pavement and traffic light, smashing his rib cage and tearing ligaments.
He claimed one of the traffic officers from the car walked up to him and began pistol-whipping him before shoving his gun into his helmet and threatening to execute him.
“I couldn’t move. This traffic officer was screaming that he was going to kill me.
“It was only after another motorist stopped to help me that the officer walked off,” he said.
Spending days in hospital, Van Zyl is now determined to make the officer pay for what he did.
“They can’t do this. They are meant to uphold the law, not break it. If I had done something wrong, then arrest me,” he said.
He said what was worse was that they had learnt that the attempted murder charge that his lawyers had opened against the officer, whom they had tracked down, had been changed to a charge of reckless and negligent driving.
Van Zyl’s lawyer, Delia de Vries, of De Meyer and De Vries, said they would continue to argue for an attempted murder case until police investigated the matter.
“This is not negligent. This was deliberate; the officers involved were intent on trying to kill my client. Not only are we suing the relevant government minister, but we are also lodging claims against the Road Accident Fund through a Constitutional Court challenge.
“Those who are responsible need to realise that they do not have a licence to kill and that they are not above the law,” she said.
Gauteng Traffic Police spokeswoman Busaphi Nxumalo said they were conducting an internal investigation into the allegations.
North West police spokeswoman Captain Aafje Bothma confirmed a case reckless and negligent driving had been opened.
“No arrests have been made and there are no suspects,” she said. - Pretoria News
According to EMPD spokesman Chief Superintendent "@"Wilfred Kgasago, “no officer is allowed to assault anyone, no matter what the offence was that he or she committed”.
There is a rogue element in police, because they have been allowed to go ahead with all of this stuff for such a long time that they feel that they are untouchable
By "@"Graeme Hosken and "@"Patrick Hlahla
Corruption has become a “hobby” within the Metro Police Department). This was revealed in a report by the Institute of Security Studies three years ago.
The report, “City Blues: Corruption and Corruption Management in South Africa’s Metropolitan Police Departments”, dates back to 2007, but nothing, sources in the department said, has changed in the past three years. Corruption remains a problem within the organisation, they said.
The Eyewitness News in an investigation into alleged corruption within the city council revealed that more than 25 percent of metro police officials – including office-bound staff and those out on operations – were under investigation.
A total of 350 dockets have been opened by the Internal Investigations Unit against the department’s over 1 200 police members.
The report says the department is South Africa’s second largest metro police department with 1 914 employees, 1 220 of whom are police members.
The revelations come as the Independent Complaints Directorate is investigating the operations of an alleged organised crime syndicate within the department’s ranks.
The apparent criminal network, which uses State resources, sees members from the department’s Region 6 using strong arm tactics such as assaults, kidnappings and torture, to extort money from victims who include motorists, those using the services of prostitutes, and hawkers.
Region 6, which apparently accounts for more than 40 percent of investigations into metro police members, is the department’s city centre area of operation. It includes Sunnyside, Hatfield, Marabastad and surrounding areas.
Besides criminal investigations, members are also facing misconduct charges which range from the illegal pointing of firearms, disobeying orders, dereliction of duty and insubordination.
Some of those being investigated are facing multiple investigations while some dockets are for more than one suspect.
The report states that the department’s civilian oversight committee and inspections unit does not believe corruption to be a major problem in the department, but senior managers view it is as a serious problem, particularly at traffic rule enforcement level.
“The Conduct Investigations Unit sees it as a ‘very big’ problem, and states that ‘corruption has become a hobby’.
“According to the investigate unit’s head, traffic-related bribery complaints are received daily, nepotistic bias is prevalent throughout the department and corruption in the licensing department is rife.
“Some control dispatchers allegedly earn R30 000 a week tipping off towing companies about accidents before reporting these over police radios, while some operational officers allegedly earn R6 000 a night extorting money from drunk drivers.”
The report revealed that by the end of 2008 “The Code of Ethics” was meant to be in place, but setting up a complaints desk, hotline and vetting system had been delayed due to a lack of funds.
The lack of funds, a traffic source said, has also led to vitally needed equipment such as specialised cameras for entrapment operations remaining unavailable, despite repeated promises from the department’s top management that such equipment was a priority.
The report says the unithas been unable to realise its goal of sending a strong message to the bribing public and corruptible policeman.
The report’s author, Andrew Faull, said victim surveys showed the sphere of government officials most receptive to receiving money, favours or gifts in return of service were traffic related members.
“This points a big finger at metro police departments that are responsible for traffic enforcement.
Faull said there appeared to be a pattern with the Gauteng metro policing areas of Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Joburg as having the worst reputation when it came to petty roadside corruption. He said recommendations from his paper, calling for various changes to stop corruption, had not been implemented.
“A workshop by the Independent Complaints Directorate and the Institute of Security Studies attended by Tshwane and Ekurhuleni metro chiefs and senior staff discussions showed that metros are facing the same problems as three years ago. Discipline within metro police departments is often handled by the metro councils and those who are disciplined are held accountable to codes of conduct and rules.
“A police chief, who has all the best intentions of stamping out corruption, has his hands tied if disciplinary processes involving council are beyond his control and not conducted timelessly and effectively.”
DA community safety spokeswoman in the Tshwane Metro Council "@"Karen Meyer said the DA submitted an urgent motion to the council in May, based on information the party had received, “in which it appeared that at least 22 percent of the total number of Tshwane metro police officials had either already been convicted, were awaiting trial or disciplinary hearings.
“It is clear proof of the total collapse of our city’s law enforcement. The standard procedures used in the appointment of metro police officials, leaves a lot to be desired.”
Meyer said residents cannot be “saddled with metro police officers” they cannot trust. “The council is not doing anyone a favour by not viewing this growing situation in a serious light, or simply launching an internal investigation. By not addressing the problem correctly it will mean shutting down the whole department at the end of the day.”
Remember :
” The People that Forget the Past are Doom to Repeated” !!
Regards: Paul Mackena (see my details in google +).
