Another year has passed, filled with the bitter trails and tribulations the White Man has to endure here in primitive Africa. And it will only get worse….as the fateful fury of our savage environment unfolds to lay bare the true Heart of Darkness. Rejoice and celebrate another year of survival in the most beautiful country in the world…but please observe a moment of silence for the 3018 Farmers that have been slaughtered….as well as all the other victims of the brutality of Darkest Africa here in our Fatherland. Steel your hearts, arm your souls and prepare to engage your enemies head on……for the Day of Reckoning will soon come!  

Prost!

MY NEW YEAR’S WISH FOR YOU

The sun will soon be rising on the morning of another day, the first day of the New Year. What can I wish that this day, this year may bring? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer; Nothing at the expense of other men, but just those few things which, in their coming, do not stop with me, but touch me rather as they pass and gather strength.

A few friends who understand me, and yet remain my friends. A work to do which has real value, and without which the world would feel the poorer. The return for such work, small enough not to tax unduly anyone who pays.

I wish this New Year to bring me a mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed. A heart that understands, and in understanding, better able to help you carry your load in life. May I understand the meaning of the tears that sometimes dim your eyes. May I never be the cause of that deep hurt which I have seen in your eyes.

May the New Year bring a sight of the eternal hills and the unresting sea, and of something beautiful the hand of man has made. Bring me also – and this is important – a sense of humour and the power to laugh. A little leisure with nothing to do but spend my dreams when evening descends and encloaks us in a robe of deep velvet.

I wish those who are away a speedy and safe return, and for those who return not, the reward they sought in the house of our Father. I ask also for a few moments of quiet meditation in the knowledge of the presence of God.

May I never be the cause of one tear to fall, one heart to ache, one friend to lose. And I ask for the patience to wait for the coming of these things with the wisdom to know them when they come.

And that is my New Year’s wish for you.

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I asked the man who stood at the Gate of the Year: “Give me a light so that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way.”

Minnie Louise Haskins 1875-1957

Found this on News24 – good article, and if you want to read all the comments from the “pros & Cons,” then clink on the link – very ‘educational,’ especially from the blecs…

Stupid and Lazy Sefricans
by George Annandale
2009-12-30 13:19
The logic displayed by striking workers in South Africa never ceases to boggle the mind. In a country with where more than one in every four economically active people are unemployed, one would expect those with jobs will go on their knees night after night and thank God that they are fortunate enough to have a job.

Not in South Africa – here we have workers, thinking their jobs in industries, beverage and hospitality, are so critical that the timing of a strike around holidays, will give them enough muscle to leverage an exorbitant, well in excess of the inflation rate, pay increase. Here the unworthy resort to blackmail, intimidation and lies to obtain what they do not deserve, in the process displaying a distorted perception of their own worth.

The brave and clever workers, all members of the Food and Allied Workers Union and SACAWU, affiliates of Cosatu, needless to say, think their services are irreplaceable, a notion only shared by some ANC government members with the combined intelligence less than that of a moron.

The facts speak for themselves, those of us who are not unionised, who work hard and compete for jobs, many who did not get increases this year, actually did not suffer any inconvenience because of their clowning around and only found amusement in their liberation aerobics. Many of the “customers” the union tried to use as leverage in their blackmail attempts, had no money for hotels and expensive cold drinks anyway. The only ones who will suffer are the brave, lazy strikers and their families, come payday.

Truth is the majority of the strikers are unskilled or low skilled workers – cleaners, sweepers, chambermaids, dishwashers, gardening assistants, loafers and the like. The brave strikers can be replaced at the drop of the hat with people far keener to work at lower but globally competitive pay. The lower paid replacement workers will work harder and earn more than people, doing similar work, in countries like India and Indonesia. At a much-reduced cost, ABI and Southern Sun can get themselves a friendly workforce, not the sullen toyi-toying lot they currently have.

Imagine checking into a South African hotel and finding a friendly face, not the sullen bastards giving you that I-wish-I-can-slit-your-throat-look, or the bottling guy who, by looking at his face, you know he has been spitting Coke bottles just to be spiteful.

My call, to all out there who do not see fault in having to compete for jobs; go out of your way to support those who resist this lazy, government supported hostage taking beast called Cosatu.

http://www.news24.com/Content/MyNews24/YourStory/1162/30de3fe203944981a4a8970aa54bedc3/30-12-2009-01-19/Stupid_and_Lazy_Sefricans

by Antoinette Slabbert

Pretoria – Funerals are the third major reason for South Africans’ travelling within the country.

This has emerged from a survey on domestic tourism published by Statistics South Africa (SSA) on Monday. The survey took place between February and July 2008, with personal interviews being conducted with almost 24 000 South Africans regarding journeys undertaken in the previous six months.

Some 13% of day trips and overnight journeys were due to funerals, compared to 15.2% for holidays. Most (37.9%) of the respondents, however, travelled to visit friends and family.

According to SSA, there were more than twice as many funeral journeys than business trips.

Taxis are used for most day and overnight journeys, with cars coming second, except in the Western Cape where 65.1% of the trips were taken by car. Not even one-tenth of the day trips across the country were by bus.

In the case of overnight journeys religious activities and nature excursions were popular.

Those aged between 25 and 29 travelled the most and in the six months preceding the survey they undertook 1.2m overnight trips and 29 000 day excursions.

According to SSA, women travelled more than men and 75% of the journeys were undertaken by black South Africans.

- Sake24.com

http://www.fin24.com/articles/default/display_article.aspx?ArticleId=1518-25_2564430

(And the Great White Liberal of the West said, “Set thy savages free….for then you’ll all find eternal Peace and Prosperity in the Garden of Eden called Mandelatopia”! And freed they were…….to die in misery. O wise the Great Liberal of the West was!)

-Knorrig