SOUTH AFRICA HAS BEEN CAPTURED.

Actualización sobre la peticiónEND FARM MURDERS IN SOUTH AFRICASOUTH AFRICA HAS BEEN CAPTURED.

Louis GREENKRAAIFONTEIN, Sudáfrica

28 mar 2019

24 MARCH, 2019

SOUTH AFRICA HAS BEEN CAPTURED.

IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE

Dear supporter of this petition

Thank you for your unwavering support to stop farm murders in South Africa.

Our petition has grown phenomenally to 269,475 signatures and still growing each day.

When I started the petition, my main objective was to stop the murder of farmers and their families in South Africa, in particular, commercial farmers.

As I continued with this petition, I came to realize that in order to stop farm murders, in fact, to reduce the criminality in South Africa, we need to change the criminal justice system, the police service, correctional services, and several other systems.

Our present government, the ANC government, has been severely compromised. Every day, the Zondo commission reveals the utter moral bankruptcy of our present government, where it has been revealed that cabinet ministers and government officials have been, and still are, involved in graft, bribery, corruption and money laundering involving billions of South African Rands to the detriment of the many suffering ordinary South Africans, who eek out a living each and every day.

Our hard-earned cash paid to the present government as tax, is being wasted every minute of the day by this utterly corrupt South African government.

We can bear these burdens no longer.

As a Pastor and a Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (www.pawinc.org I did not want to become involved in Party politics.

But our Electoral system does not allow for an individual to stand for office as an individual in the national and provincial elections. If we want change, we must vote for a political party that will be our vehicle to bring about the change we desire.

So, my options were few; I either had to choose the Freedom Front+ or The Congress of the People (COPE) – both of these parties have committed themselves to stop farm murders, to reduce crime in general, and to stop the growing, unmanageable criminality in South Africa, if they should be elected as the new government.

I chose COPE after listening to the interview by Steve Hofmeyr of Toekomsvonk had with the leader of Cope, Mosiuoa Patrick ‘Terror’ Lekota, when Lekota explained why the radical, black, racist, Marxist, Black First Land First (BLF) should be de-registered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and why they should not be allowed to participate in the 2019 national elections.

See TV interview with BLF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3YIW5-wCA

No other political leader has publicly opposed BLF and EFF with such vehemence and boldness than Mr Lekota.

What encouraged me even more was his OPEN LETTER TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN VOTER to ask for their support when he wrote:

“My fellow South Africans,

Today, as a nation, we face the gravest CRISIS ever in our history.

The state has to borrow R6 billion a week.

Of this amount, R5 billion goes to servicing the interest debt.

Soon the full amount that we borrow will be consumed in interest payments. The crisis we face is truly enormous.

We, therefore, have no choice but to make very hard political, economic, moral and social choices.

Today, South Africa urgently needs a FRESH START.

We need to return fully to the Constitution and the Rule of Law.

We need to prosecute those who through their corrupt acts on an industrial scale made South Africa into an economic wasteland so that they go to jail.

Justice must be seen to be done.

At the same time, we need to create inclusive economic growth and job creation in keeping with the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Many of the jobs of today will no longer exist in a few years.

New technology will cause massive disruption within industries. Government expenditure on the consumption side will have to be reined in because the budget deficit has now climbed to 60% of GDP and South Africans are being taxed too heavily as a consequence of that.

With money being taken out of your pockets, the economy has stalled.

Businesses are in trouble and job losses loom large on the horizon. The government has to downsize and return to fiscal prudence so that our country does not run out of money as is happening in a neighbouring country. (referring to Zimbabwe)

At a time when we need to show maturity and stability to attract fixed direct investment into the country and present South Africa as a world leader in tourism, it is imperative that we guard strongly against the rise of populism, identity politics and festering racism.

We cannot be shooting ourselves in both feet at a time when economic growth has to be our apex concern. We need to encourage all organs of state, in particular, and South Africans, in general, to buy goods and services that are proudly South African. We need to grow jobs in every village, town and city.

When the economy is in crisis, we need to recognize that it is through fostering nation-building and continuing to extend reconciliation that we can pull ourselves out of the morass that we find ourselves in by our own bootstraps.

The need to uphold moral values and underscore our common humanity are now essential for our very survival. If we give over to our base instincts and inter-societal aggression, we will sink deeper into the morass I mentioned above.

Since our inception, COPE has consistently called for leaders who are committed to being honest and sincere servants of the people who pursue truth uncompromisingly, seek justice for all, practice transparency, demonstrate respect for the values and principles of the South African people, work tirelessly to grow the economy to achieve sustainable development; support the kind of education and skill development for our children that the times we live in demand, and ensure that South Africa remains globally competitive.

We need to be in the company of the least corrupt and most democratic nations of the world.

We also want South Africans to assist in meeting our developmental objectives, to improve the quality of our healthcare, to lend a hand in fighting crime and ensuring the safety of all of us in society.

The reasons and values that informed the establishment of COPE have become even more relevant and pressing today than they were when COPE was formed in 2008.

Indeed, history will recall that we chose to do the unthinkable by breaking away from the ANC and putting our political positions and careers on the line as the strongest way of warning our comrades and the country about entrusting the highest affairs of state to someone who would utterly discredit the party and the country.

The ongoing Zondo Commission vindicates the very strong stance we took in 2008.

Over the past decade, naked greed robbed our people of the prosperity they deserved and ravaged the lives of millions of people.

Those who trampled on our constitution and gave South Africa to connected friends to loot at will have brought the state and state entities to their knees.

What we warned about came to pass in all its ugliness.

Today, the Congress of the People reiterates what we have been saying over the past 10 years BUT now we say: SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A FRESH START.

We are sunk so low that we have to do things differently to connect with the people and empower them so that our joint efforts can lift the nation from the morass that it is in.

Our party became the first political party in Africa and perhaps the world to embrace technology to allow our registered members from their homes to elect their leaders directly.

That is how our present leadership came into being. I, therefore, have pleasure in introducing a leadership where factionalism was dealt a death blow and where democracy triumphed.

To take matters further, let me present to you the ‘COPE Transformation Charter’.

This is a policy framework for the genuine transformation of society, through the democratic involvement of all, for the full and rapid realisation of our constitutional values and imperatives.

Your challenge as a voter is to take your power back to yourself to ensure a FRESH START with honest leaders committed to upholding and advancing the Constitution and creating an environment of good governance that will encourage economic growth, stimulate demand for South African goods and services, greatly increase local content of imports, facilitate inclusivity in the economy and build a society where our diversity can manifest itself as our greatest asset in uplifting us all.

PLEASE VOTE COPE

MGP Lekota

President of the Congress of the People (COPE) “

The chief function of any good government is to maintain law and order and to protect its citizens against those who flagrantly break the law.

Not so with our South African government.

The main news dominating most South African TV channels and the country’s key newspapers, is that of the endemic corruption being uncovered by the Zondo Commission on state capture.

MY FRIENDS, THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY I BECAME AN ACTIVIST READY TO ASSIST TO CHANGE SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE GOOD.

WE NEED CHANGE.

WE ARE CRYING FOR CHANGE.

THE DAILY POWER BLACKOUTS ARE REMINDING US THAT WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE FOR CHANGE.

Our campaign to inform the world about the truth of farm murders and land grabs in South Africa continues on Facebook at the link below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/182755665608090/

Email me at: louisgreen69@gmail.com

You may STILL follow the campaign on Facebook by using the following link.

THIS LINK WILL CONNECT YOU TO THE FACEBOOK CHAT GROUP: STOP FARM MURDERS NOW:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/182755665608090/

Please PASS ON THE FOLLOWING LINK to your family and friends to support this campaign:

https://www.change.org/p/the-secretary-general-of-the-united-nations-end-farm-murders-in-south-africa to get the latest count.