A few days ago i was reading the media and found 2 stories.
In one, some kids had played with the controls of an onlocked bakkie, released the handbrake and it rolled forward, killing a schoolgirl. In the second story, 2 girls had died on their first day of school, when they went to the toilets, and they collapsed on them, drowning them in an open sewer.
I think the second story is worse, both from the tragedy perspective, and the fact that people could and should be held liable.
The first story got picked up by the media, the second vanished.
Well the media have our story, and so things shall go as they will. I don't know if it is good or bad, but any publicity is good, i'm told.
2 crimes were committed, 1 at the licensing dept, in which my wife has been implicated, the second is at FLORIDA SAPS (may they all burn in hell). As to the first, she has been charged with fraud, the wrong charge any way you cut it. Fraud is by natre a crime for financial gain, and since a license document has zero value, fraud cannot be used. Second, fraud indicates INTENT, now if someone had committed a crime, they WOULD NOT walk in several months later and produce a document they KNEW to be fraudulent. That negates the intent.
The police deliberately denied her the opportunity to get bail, it's as if they decided to fuck her up legally. They have 48 hours within which they have to charge the person. But after getting all the relevant info at the time of the arrest, they decided to investigate before charging. Since when????
You charge, then investigate, the reasons given ranged from "jurisdiction" to "needing to investigate" to "we cannot find a person to charge".
The cells are filthy, i could smell it from 10 meters away. She is a stable tax paying citizen, with fixed residential address and job. She's a IT and operations manager for a call centre, hardly a streetwalker. The police (goddam their souls) are cowardly cunts. The head honcho looked like crap, everything the police should not be. Big smelly gum chewing black guy, fat too. Attitude dripping, completely dishevelled, HE decided that viv should stay put, against all principles of the constitution. Brainless little dung beetles police are, running around in other people's shit and thinking they are the kings of shit, they really think that.
Let me be clear, even if viv had bought the license, she should not have been treated in that manner. But sadly, those who bought their livcense and paid EXTRA now have a job well done, those that try follow the system .... well yar. This is the reason people buy their licenses. Viv went 3 times. The first she failed (unfairly she thought) the secod time she was ill, and despite having paid deposit, they refused to rebook her. Now this. South africans, buy your licenses, your hard cash will ensure correct documentation, god know the license dept won't.
Now she can't drive anywhere, she had to drive through a roadblock this morning, and even though they told her to pull off, she drove away. The alternative would have been re-arrest, and another day in cells. She has to get to work, already the sloth brained jewish asshole boss is already getting prissy. Fuck him. Where is humanity?
FOR FUCK SAKES where is innocent until proven guilty? She was treated as guilty from the start. No question, no doubt in anyone's mind. The judge did not even ask for bail. That alone tells me she should not have been held.
I dunno. We're all scared, hurt, confused, tramatised, angry, and just plain depressed. From here on, everything needs money. This time for the lawyers doctors shrinks etc that all hang around these cases. We don't have money, ergo chances are we will not even get justice in the courts. Pay your bribes south africa, or we will arrest you.
*sigh*
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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3 comments:
Shit man, things can only get better as the song goes... if that's any comfort?!
Some times you wonder who are the biggest crooks in South Africa; the crooks or the government/police?! Most times I feel the really bad crooks got the seats in government...
Man, this shit really sux. My condolences for you and your family.
I don't have any fancy advice or words of inspiration, as I'm sure nothing will suffice at the moment. Except maybe cash.
The whole government is just so corrupt that I consider myself lucky for not getting screwed yet.
I hope things work out for you in the end, and for your wife.
Be easy on her, (not saying that you're not) but I'm sure she needs all the understanding that she can get. I hope she's OK.
Thank you both very much.
The support people are giving us is really unbelievable! As much as i'm saying f*ck this country and all that, damn south african's really are the greatest poeple.
It was Charles Darwin who spoke of the "honest boer", and how he demands openess from any visitors.
Boers are legendary for their hospitality, although most visitors try and kill them (british, blacks, various others) :/ been that way for a while.
But the south african people have grown up strong, and good. They believe in neighbourliness, and community.
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