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Good point Covie. The other thing is the roads are so badly potholed as t make most traffic and travel unsafe. Riding along the roads this AM, I was appalled at a) all the dirt and litter in the streets. b) the number of missing manhole covers, c) the number of potholes d) the state of disrepair of virtually every single road, e) the number of sewers that are blocked up to overflowing and that stinking sh!t going into the storm water drainage. It is terrifying to think that this useless bunch of thieves and renegades believe they are governing the country. What is even more incredible, is that the masses think that guv-munt are actually managing and governing. If not WTF do they continue to vote for this cunch of bunts? Are the masses that stoopid that they cannot see they are being ripped off and that our leaders are only interested in making themselves rich. They are obviouly all related to Bob.

Band together, intimidate the masses and change guv-munt.

Could not agree with that more. Have to try to do something. So, anyone know the bigwigs of Metro. We should be taking to them. In fact, we should roast their nuts.

Excelent idea Shaun. I just can't help thinking though, that where the road splits at the top of the koppie, there is a big No-Entry sign that is difficult even for the dumbest dumbass to miss. The staff are all to aware of the road traffic direction so I see little point in putting up additional signage. The problem as I see it is far more deeply rooted. The SAPS do very little about major crime and are likely to do less about petty crime. Even Metro are as usefull as an ash-tray on a Harley. They are too busy manning speed cameras and are no-where to be seen when it comes to tackling the idjits using the emergency lanes and driving on the wrong side of the road. When we can get this issue sorted, maybe motorists in general, will pay more attention to road signage. I do hope that your venture is sucessful though. Maybe we shouldbe talking to metro since people in general ignore road and traffic signs. All those signs you have along Klip River. Damn fine mate, damn fine. It does not, unfortunately, stop idjits from taking to the emergency lanes to get the jump on traffic stopped at the Panorama Traffic light. It also doesn't stop the f%ckwits from using the emergency lane going up butchers hill. There needs to be a fundamental shift in attitude before your signs will have the intended effect. Just my opinion.

Load a remote detonated pipe bomb in the downtube / saddle tube. Blow the scumbags legs apart so he can't walk around to get another bike to jack, and he also cannot ever ride one. Thats if the scuzzbal lives. Problem Sias, is that in order for them not to talk, they haveto be dead. Are you willing to take someone elses life? I used to think I could, but I sold my gun the day I realised that maybe I would do it too easily. So now some of you used pepper spray and "disabled" your attacker. Why didn't you call me so I can try out a few interesting ideas on human torture?

Isn't there a thread like this in cycling safety?

Clearly, the SAPS are not doing their job. But then how can we expect them to deal with petty crime when the head honcho of the country should probably be in jail for corruption and who knows how many other things? At the very least, he should have gone to court to prove his innocence instead of fighting so hard to keep his matter out of court. But I digress. Criminals, just like most other human beings,will take the path of least resistance. It is becoming impossible to break into houses today because of alarsm, armed response, security. Even vehicles are highjacked because of sophisticated security systems. Easiest way to get the cars, is to get the keys. Owner has keys so ..... Cyclists on the other hand, are weight weenies. How many will actually carry a gun around and even if you do, what are the chances that you can use it? So we make a nice soft target. Are we going to do anything about it? What can we do? I know what I'd like to do, but that's more likely to get me in jail than a bike jacker. So until we can get into the thick skulls of the masses, that their guv-munt is not doing their very best for the electorate, and we can get them to vote for an opposition party to keep the gum-munt "honest", I'm afraid we have little choice. Either accept the problem, or get the vigilantes out there to band together and do something about it. But like that's just my take on this. I say we should kick their asses. Clearly no-one else is going to.

So that would explain why I'm getting timeouts. I need to renew and pay for my subscription. ****, judging by my addictometer, it's going to cost plenty this year.

Can he read? You think? Oh, well, if he is a hubber, there goes the neighbourhood. The average IQ just dropped about 20 points.

I got all exited voted. At first I though it was about voting for something else. So it turns out voting him him out if a non existent position is only second prize. Can we start a petition to vote him out of life?

A tool is useful. So is a ****. Madlema is USELESS.

Happened up north a while back when the Shona attacked and committed genocide on the Matabale. Also recall that it happened in Europe between 1939 and 1945 when the Nazis wiped out 6 million jews. Call it what you like,it is symptomatic of a savage society that is too lazy to do anything for themselves. It is easy to say that the foreigners are stealing their jobs, but if they weren't so lazy, they would have been doing the job that the foreigners are doing. I can't help but get the feeling that most people today are worse off than they were pre 1994. Poverty is far more widespread than it used to be. The question uppermost inmy mind right now is why? These dumbass people keep voting for the same crowd that are empoverishing them on the basis of promises that cannot be kept and then they get angry. Imagine the international outcry if the Brits decided to wipe out all the Pakistanis that were living in Britain? Surely the Pakistanis have found some kind of employement. I think these dumbass locals want to sit in the sun and do bugger all and have everything handed to them on a silver platter. (Apparently not all of them, but certainly a lot of them.) If these people are starved of opportunity, it is only because they did not reach out and grab the opportunity when it was available. This is certainly not what the likes of Nelson Mandela would want for his peeps. They have undone every bit of good he ever did. H3ll I was all for giving it a chance and now I wonder. I'm also terrified for the future and what it will be like. How far will this ethnic cleansing go? Xenophobia is just a polite word for savagery. I have long held the notion (opinion) that this SWC is going to be a complete failure. The current instability in this country just cannot make it attractive for any of the tourists. Surely some smart person will step up to the plate and silence this wayward savage.

We witnessed this xenophobia a few years ago and it seems to be raising it ugly head again. Only true savages can act in this manner. And when the savages are "led" by the ilk of our current "leadership, it is hardly surprising that this is happening again. Our esteemed president is corrup and the "leader" of the youth league is ....... (words fail me.) It is going to be scary when they turn their xenophia on the whites. Should we be preparing for war? It looks very much like this is going to become a reality in the future. Especially after Madlema's attack on the journalist yesterday. A bit like the kettle calling the pot black.

Depends on if they send JM on another mission to Zim to find out how to rig a lost eleksheen. I somehow think the winning margin would be much higher without the need for a recount. A recount would be something like the last GE just north of here.

Just like guv-ment, I too have a policy. Never vote for the party in power. That way, I get to criticise them to my heats delight. The way I see it, the AWB are on the right fringe. Always saw the ANC as being on the left. I did vote for Inkhata Freedom Putty once before.

Sias, I'm too poor to pay attention. Allow me to re-phrase that statement then. Some of them (farm murders) may have been reported in the papers and maybe even more than one reported on TV. New question: Where are the 20 odd page threads dedicated to their demise or murder? (i.e. There was no huge debate about their deaths or murders.) This is only big news because of the "status" of ET. I am not in support of farm murders (or any murders for that matter) but WTF? 2999 go by relatively peacefully and now suddenly, there is furore? I said what I believe is my stance on Farms being taken over for whatever reason. It is just an economic disaster waiting to happen if this trend is not reversed immediately. During the 1980's when I had the dubious distinction of being one of those SADF consripts, it was ANC policy from abroad (since they were a banned organisation in SA) to destabilise the farming community. Landmines, farm attacks and the like were common. It may be that this policy has now just been perpetuated and been going on for long that we are desensitised to it and don't pay much attention to the problem. Another policy was to make the country "Ungovernable". Crime was encouraged to fill the jails and make the system grind to a halt by making the prisons over flow. Maybe this is another policy that has just perpetuated. Poverty has affected both white and black in SA. The only thing is, that since Mandela has stepped down, that the poor have got really poor. They have less now than they had before. And the leaders, beingwhat they are, keep blaming the past to deflect any blame from themselves and their own inability to improve the lot of their voting masses. I hear daily how unhappy the "workers" are with the government. They threaten not to vote because they are disgusted. Even a few have mentioned that they were better off under the old "regime". Yet, come election time, they flock off to go and vote for the same government that is impoverishing them. Just as someone mentioned that there should be minimum standards for being elected as a leader / president / whatever, so too, should there be a minimum standard for being allowed to vote. At least a basic education. H3ll if I had all the answers, I would run for president myself. Unfortunately, I am just another moderately educated honkey who is trying to be a moderate. Just some people like JM make it very hard for me to stay on the road. The fringe groups, thankfully, are in the minority, but if it's 20% of 30 million, the number is far greater than 20% of 5 million. Ok, time for me to get off my soap box now, since I seemto have wandered off topic. ET is dead, get over it. He was murdered by some illiterate fckuwit and now there are all sorts of opinions about it. Yes, it can create big problems. But not if the moral majority stand together and refuse to let wedges get driven between us. We live in a land full of opportunity. The suns shines and we can ride our bikes. Let's all stand together against the loony fringe and work towards making SA better. As Mahatma Ghandi put it, "An eye for an Eye, will make the whole world blind.

Someone asked what would happen of the boot was on the other foot? I want to know what would happen if there was a white youth leader and he / she stood up and sang songs about killing the local population? (Especially if the "K" word was used.) Why is it that the singing of "Struggle songs" is acceptable on one hand, yet it's racist to say anything about the blacks? So Malema sings struggle songs, our esteemed president sings "bring my machine gun". This, as far as I know, is also a struggle song. Is this not a case of "monkey see, monkey do? As far as I can see, if the numbers are correct and 3000 farmers have been killed, then maybe it was a good thing that ET was a famous one. No-one said a word about the other 2999. It is s problem (as experienced in our norther neighborhood) when the farmers are killed. If the farms are handed over to the locals, they stop being productive (commercial) farms and become used for subsistance farming. This can only lead to less wealth for SA as a whole and lead to further poverty. Perhaps it is necessary for a true leader (the likes of Mandela) to step up to the plate and stop this thing before it spirals out of control and casues more harm than good. Farm killings have to stop. Crime has to stop. And the pas is gone. Like it or not, no amount of hanging on will change what happened. This is not arrogance, it's fact. What is done is done and we all have to move forward or get bogged down in the mire and not go anywhere.We either build or we break down. Why is this so difficult?

But we're not one nation. We're extremely polarised with some good souls like yourself standing in the middle pleading for sanity. I used to be there too but I gave up on it long ago. Good luck on the nation building thing. You can't build a building with faulty bricks. How can a nation be built with faulty people?

Did you get his badge number to report him?