Die haas neem oor!

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Haasliefhebbers het hulself na Twitter gewend in ‘n poging om die oryctolagus cuniculus in die oor van die standbeeld van Nelson Mandela by die Uniegebou te red.

Sommige bronne beweer die haas is eerder ‘n pedetes capensis, of lepus saxatilis en ander sê weer dis die lepus californicus.

Maar ‘n vlakhaas of kolhaas is nie van brons nie en volgens ingeligte bronne bestaan die paashaas nie.

Dit is ironies dat Suid-Afrikaners enersyds spook om op Robbeneiland die getalle van ons ingevoerde konyne te verminder en terwyl een van ons eie konynsoorte, die oewerkonyn, stadig maar seker van die aangesig van die aarde verdwyn.

Die standbeeld pryk aan die voorkant van die Uniegebou in Pretoria en is op Geloftedag, 16 Desember verlede jaar onthul.

Die soort konyn wat hom op ons ghwano-eilande en ook op Robbeneiland aan ons kus tuis gemaak het, is geen Afrika-boorling nie, maar van oorsee ingevoer en word as een van die wêreld se ergste indringerspesies beskou.

Op Robben­eiland het die Europese konyn naamlik so geil aangeteel dat drastiese stappe nodig geword het om die plaag te bestry. Die aankondiging dat sowat tienduisend van die konyne van kant gemaak sou moes word, is nie goed ontvang deur diereliefhebbers nie. Maar wat, word gevra, is die alternatief?

Robbeneiland, ’n Wêreld­erfenisgebied, ervaar ’n geweldige ekologiese krisis. Diere soos springbokke en bontebokke vrek by die hope omdat daar te min groenigheid oor is om te vreet.

Die konyne is al eeue op die eiland: die eerstes is soheentoe gebring enkele jare nadat Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 aan die Kaap geland het, hoofsaaklik sodat die ou pioniers hul vleis kon eet. Die konyne het aangeteel, maar katte wat ook na die eiland gebring is, het hul getalle in toom gehou.

Die katte het op hul beurt egter boonop kwaai onder die seevoëls gemaai. Eindelik word toe besluit om die katte van kant te maak… iets wat op sy beurt die konyne die vrye teuels gegee het om te vermenigvuldig.

En as al die konyne uiteindelik dood is—só waarsku ’n kenner—kan die groter beskikbaarheid van voedsel dalk weer tot ’n ontploffing in die eiland se rotbevolking lei.

Waar eindig so ’n onheilige kettingreaksie? Dit kan ’n mens wel vra.

Maar só kan een ding tot die ander lei waar die mens in die gang van die natuur inmeng.

Diegene wat ten gunste van die beeldhouers se verborge handtekening is, hoop twiets gaan die haas red.

Die klein hasie wat kunstenaars Andre Prinsloo en Ruhan Janse van Vuuren by die 9m bronsoorgeblaasde Mandela-figuur gevoeg het, se lewe is weliswaar in gevaar.

Die departement van kuns en kultuur se woordvoerder Mogomotsi Mogodiri sê die haas moet weg. Dit sal egter ‘n skending van die integriteit van die kunswerk beteken.

Die departement het net bewus van die bestaan ​​van die haas geraak na ‘n medianavraag en het daarna die maatskappy wat die twee beeldhouers opdrag gegee het, gekontak om te kla.

Koketso Growth, ‘n kulturele erfenis en toerisme liggaam is in Mei 2013 deur die departement aangestel om die skepping en installasie van die standbeeld te onderneem. Alhoewel daar beweer word dat dit weer ‘n nuwe geldstelery was, word daar ook gesê dat ‘n standbeeld onontbeerlik was vir die mediasirkus met Mandela se begrafnis.

Dali Tambo is onthuts deur die ontdekking van die haas. Tambo, die seun van wyle Oliver Tambo, is heel toevallig, verbasend genoeg, die HUB van die maatskappy en beskryf die handtekening as ‘n “sinnelose lawwigheid”.

Die vraag bly steeds hoekom die kunstenaars in die eerste plek verbied is om hul handtekening op die beeld te plaas.

Bronne sê dat die ANC wou nie Afrikaanse name op die beeld hê nie. Die beeldhouers wou dalk self nie hul name toevoeg nie.

“Die maatskappy het gesê die beeldhouers het om verskoning gevra aan die Minister, die departement en die familie. Ons het dit op rekord.”

56 thoughts on “Die haas neem oor!”

    1. A rabbit means something different to Nguni speaking people. It is associated with cowardice, running away and failing to confront issues. This is not what Mandela stood for. He confronted issues, and never ran away which cost him heavily in freedom. We so hold on to our cultural biases that we forget to listen and understand. We always end up in a full blown racial bun flight because we hear but don’t seek to understand. Mandela was also Nguni speaking and I doubt he’d appreciated what is being suggested here.

      1. Maar dis nie ‘n Nguni wat die beeld gemaak het nie, nê? Want hulle kan nie. Haastige hond verbrand sy mond. Toe die Dali booi die swart haas uit die hoed wil trek kry hy ‘n witte. Madiba was ‘n haasteler en ‘n terroris. Sonder sy haasteel instink sou hy nie nou met die pes in sy oor gestaan het nie. Onthou dit. Kry vir julle en julle spies kunswerkies

      2. This
        letter was written by Dr Peter Hammond from Australia

        MASS MARKETING THE MANDELA MYTH

        Film Review

        The new Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom film presents a selection and distortion
        of the history of South Africa and Nelson Mandela as the secular humanists of
        the New World Order would like us to perceive it. The film rushes through
        the life and times of Nelson Mandela, completely ignoring the Cold War context
        and threat of Soviet communism on the borders of South Africa at that
        time. It glosses over the murders and massacres of the Marxists and
        presents scenes that stereotype whites as racist and blacks as noble
        revolutionaries only seeking for justice.

        Political Propaganda

        Producer
        Anant Singh is recognised as South Africa’s pre-eminent anti-apartheid film
        producer. Previous productions of Singh include: Place of Weeping,
        Sarafina!, Red Dust and Cry the Beloved Country. Heavily funded by the
        South African ANC government and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, this 22
        million Pounds authorised biopic presents a selection of incidents from the
        history of South Africa and the life of Nelson Mandela that will go a long way
        towards further marketing the Mandela myth.

        Emotive Speeches Backed
        by Orchestras

        Shot for spectacle with impressive crowd scenes, the legend of Nelson Mandela
        is presented with numerous speeches backed with swooning orchestration that
        climbs to emotional peeks whenever Nelson Mandela addresses any crowd.

        English Born Actor Plays
        Mandela

        London born actor, Idris Elba, plays Nelson Mandela from his early days as a
        smooth lawyer through his recruitment to the African National Congress (ANC), to
        his arrest, imprisonment, eventual release and election as president.
        Naomie Harris plays Winnie, the fiery revolutionary love interest and second
        wife of Nelson Mandela.

        Animistic Circumcision
        Rituals

        The
        film begins with Nelson Mandela as a teenager going through the Xhosa
        circumcision ritual where witchdoctors prepare youth for initiation rites.

        The painting of their naked bodies in white chalk, passing through the smoke of
        burning everything relating to their childhood and washing off in the river,
        with full frontal male nudity, is disturbingly depicted.

        Anachronism

        Next we see the Nelson Mandela character depicted as a smooth lawyer in a three
        piece suite walking past anachronistic security gates and burglar bars (which
        did not exist in South Africa in the 1940s).

        Shallow Stereotypes

        The film is a mythic and heroic story of man against man. In this case it
        is a black man leading all black people against white people who are depicted
        as uniformly racist, shallow and stupid. The film makers apparently
        believed that the best way to exalt Nelson Mandela was to depict all whites as
        narrow-minded, selfish, racist bigots. The first scene of whites in the
        movie is of them sipping champagne on a balcony, while the black workers bustle
        around on the streets below. Numerous fictional incidents and comments
        are inserted in order to reinforce this stereotype.

        Reluctant Revolutionary

        The time worn cliché of the reluctant revolutionary is inserted into the story
        turning Nelson Mandela from a happy-go-lucky smooth lawyer confounding a white
        woman in the witness box, to a frustrated and angry revolutionary fighting for
        justice, peace and equality for all.

        Police Brutality

        Numerous incidents of mindless police brutality are depicted, giving the
        impression that, without any provocation, or reason, they would beat up, or
        shoot, black men, women and children in cold blood.

        Adulterous Affairs and
        Abuse

        Nelson Mandela’s pattern of adulterous relationships and repeated beating of
        his first wife are briefly touched on in a few fleeting scenes. Then much
        attention is given to the romance with Winnie, who became his second wife.

        Preferring Paganism

        In contrast to the repeated, respectful treatment of animism, Christianity is
        dismissed in a few striking statements and scenes. Mandela states that
        God only seems to answer the prayers of the Boers and Winnie declares that
        there is no God who will save us, we must save ourselves!

        Necklace Murders

        Later Winnie Mandela gives a revolutionary call to violence from the front of a
        church, where the cross is obscured. With much anger and expressions of
        hatred, Winnie Mandela repeatedly calls for using stones, boxes of matches and
        petrol to ‘necklace’ the informers and kill the enemy. One brutal burning
        to death of a supposed informer through the ANC’s signature necklace method is
        depicted. Actually, over 1,000 black people were burnt to death by the
        brutal necklace murder, so publically promoted by Winnie Mandela. Many of
        these were elected black town councilors and mayors – but that is not
        acknowledged in this film, which claims that blacks had no rights, no votes and
        no elected representatives.

        Ignoring the Cold War
        Context

        Significantly there is no mention of the Cold War context and not a scene or a
        reference to communism, the Soviet Union or the Russian and Cuban troops, at
        that time engaged in conventional warfare on the border of Angola and South
        West Africa.

        The Missing Victims

        No mention is made of the Cuban training in terrorism received by Nelson
        Mandela. Nor are any of the victims of his bombing campaign
        depicted. From the film one would get the impression that his armed
        struggle consisted of nothing more than night time bombings of unoccupied
        municipal offices and a power station. In fact none of the ANC’s car
        bombings are depicted, not even the Church Street bombing bloodbath. None
        of the ANC assassinations, such as of Bartholomew Hlopane, are depicted or
        referred to. Nor the Shell House massacre when Nelson Mandela, as head of
        the ANC, after his release from prison, ordered his security to open fire on
        unarmed Zulu protestors belonging to the INKATHA Freedom Party.

        The Communist Connection

        At
        no time does one even see a hammer and sickle. The huge Soviet and South
        African Communist Party flags that Nelson Mandela spoke in front of are nowhere
        to be seen in this film. Neither are any of the white Russian communist
        members of the ANC, such as Joe Slovo and Ronnie Kasrils, depicted in any way
        in this film.

        The Making of a New
        Religion

        It is disturbing that this film is due to open across the United States on
        Christmas Day. With songs of praise and hymns glorifying Nelson Mandela
        being sung by choirs and taught to school children, we seem to be seeing a
        beginning of a new religion.

        Icon of the New World
        Order

        Certainly
        Nelson Mandela is the pre-eminent icon and idol of the New World Order.
        The United Nations General Assembly has even declared 18 July, Nelson Mandela
        International Day!

        Strategic Timing

        The
        timing of this heavily state-funded propaganda film is interesting as the ANC,
        mired in corruption scandals, is heading into an election year.

        Many see the timing of this film as a distraction from the disastrous failures
        of the ANC, by rewriting history to depict the past in the worst possible light
        and rally the voters of South Africa behind the party of the revered Nelson
        Mandela.

        Blame Everything on
        Apartheid

        The violence of the ANC is mostly blamed on Winnie Mandela, with Nelson Mandela
        apparently disapproving. Even when referring to Mandela’s divorce from
        Winnie, Mandela’s character blames it on the apartheid government!

        The Missing Opposition
        Parties

        There are disturbing and shocking scenes of the black on black violence in the
        townships with axing, macheting, shooting and hacking of men, women and
        children, but no explanations given as to who was doing what to whom. At
        no time is any hint given that there were actually other black political
        parties in South Africa, such as the INKATHA Freedom Party, with whom the ANC
        were locked in deadly turf wars.

        The Last Word on
        Everything

        Throughout
        the film, Nelson Mandela dominates the screen and always has the most
        intelligent and profound things to say. He always has the last word, even
        in court and in prison. No one else ever seems to have a reply for his
        dogmatic statements.

        A Redemptive Message

        After
        all the depictions of white racism and evil, the film concludes with Nelson
        Mandela commenting: “If I can forgive them – you can forgive them!”

        He asserts “peace is the only way”. The film ends with
        a quote from Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom book: “My country is not meant
        to be a land of hatred. People are taught to hate and they can be taught
        to love. Love comes more naturally than hate”.

        Divorced From the
        Historical Context

        If the message of the film is forgiveness then it is a good message.

        However, divorced from the context of the brutal war being waged by the ANC to
        intimidate the people in the townships and terrorize farmers and civilians,
        this film turns communists into heroes and Christians into villains. It
        also denies the depravity of man, claiming that love (apart from God) is
        natural and dismisses God as irrelevant.

        Presidential Performance

        The film wisely stops at Mandela’s Presidential Inauguration in May 1994.

        That is understandable, because at two and a half hours long, the film drags
        and sags at times. It is quite episodic. However, it would be
        relevant to note that the Nelson Mandela presidency was a disappointment and a
        failure in many ways. Nelson Mandela reintroduced race classification for
        Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment and job reservation. He
        legalised pornography and abortion. Violent crime exploded with rape and
        child abuse increasing 400% during his presidency. The currency imploded
        and the ANC looted the country of billions of rands through chronic corruption.

        The Abortion Holocaust

        Over one million babies have been killed, officially, legally, in South Africa,
        with taxpayer’s money, since Nelson Mandela forced through the Termination of
        Pregnancy Bill 1 February 1997.

        Crime Wave

        Under Nelson Mandela’s presidency, an average of 25,000 people were murdered
        each year. Yet, to celebrate his birthdays, Nelson Mandela would
        regularly open prison doors and set many convicted criminals, including armed
        robbers, murderers and rapists, free. Some of these were murdering and
        raping within 24 hours of being released. Well over 100,000 people were
        murdered under Mandela’s term as president.

        The Growth Industry of
        Murder

        To put this into perspective, in 44 years of apartheid, 18,700 people were
        killed in politically related violence. This included soldiers, police,
        terrorists, civilians, necklace murders, rioters – all victims. However,
        after Mandela became president in 1994, an average of 25,000 people were
        murdered every year. Over 67,000 whites have been murdered in South Afica
        since 1994, 3,000 of them farmers. Many fear that this film will incite
        further race hatred and targeting of whites for murder. Genocide Watch warns
        that South Africa is already in the Genocidal process stage 6 targeting white
        Afrikaners for extermination.

        Economic Deterioration

        In the 1970s, even while facing terrorism, riots and engaged in a border war
        with the Cubans in Angola, the SA Rand was stronger than the US Dollar.
        In Mandela’s first four years as president, the Rand lost 80% of its value and
        more than 2.8 million man days were lost to strikes. The national debt
        doubled under Nelson Mandela’s presidency.

        Financial Failure

        Therefore, under Mandela, even with no war, no sanctions, no riots, no
        conscription and with massive international aid and investment, the Rand
        plummeted to R10 to the Dollar. Economic deterioration and sky-rocketing
        crime marred his presidency. The Economist at the time described Nelson
        Mandela’s presidency as: “a failure”.

        Do Not Let the Facts Get
        In the Way of a Good Story

        However,
        we are not meant to allow facts to get in the way of a good story.

        So, this Mandela film calls us to forget all these facts and to shelve our pro-life,
        pro-family, moral convictions and bow before this new idol, sing this
        politician’s praises and effectively burn incense before the image of a new
        Caesar.

        Rewriting History

        Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom presents a selection and distortion of the
        history of South Africa and Nelson Mandela as the African National Congress
        (ANC) would like us to remember it. This heavily state-funded biopic is
        politically correct propaganda which markets the Mandela myth by ignoring the
        Cold War context and threat of Soviet communism on the borders of South Africa
        at that time. Stereotypical and episodic, it includes numerous
        obscenities, nudity, occultism, pagan and humanist worldviews, anti-Biblical
        and anti-Christian sentiments, immorality, adultery, drunkenness, smoking,
        extreme, brutal and disturbing violence, revisionist history and racism.

        See: http://www.movieguide.org for reviews on all films
        from a Biblical perspective.

        Summary

        Mandela:
        Long Walk to Freedom markets the Mandela myth by demonising white South
        Africans, dismissing Christianity and God, promoting paganism, occultism,
        humanism, socialism and justifying violent revolution. The film is a
        mythic and heroic story of man against man. Despite ending with a call for
        forgiveness and love, the rest of the film seems more inclined to incite hatred
        and racial stereotyping. It does not allow the facts of history to get in
        the way of their story of this icon and idol of leftist causes and the
        socialist New World Order.

        Dr Peter Hammond

      3. Uhmm, Guest, wil jy nie oorweeg om ‘n naam tot jou skrywe by te voeg nie – dis ietwat onpersoonlik, alhoewel die funksie wel daar is.

        Terloops, wat Dr Verwoerd in gedagte gehad met APARTHEID, word ook deur Mandela en sy meelopers verkeerd vertolk.

        My wens – hierdie standbeel moet met ‘n stootskraper vernietig word, want ek kan NOOIT ‘n terroris vereer nie – NOOIT !

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        Some famous members:

        ·
        Silvio Berlusconi
        (Italian PM)

        ·
        Tony Blair
        (Former Prime Minister of Britain)

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        George H.W Bush
        (Former President of the USA)

        ·
        Heinrich Himmler
        (Nazi SS)

        ·
        J. Edgar Hoover
        (Former President of the USA)

        ·
        Thabo Mbeki (Former President of South Africa)

        ·
        Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa)

        ·
        Franz von Papen
        (Nazi SS)

        ·
        Ronald E. Reagan
        (Former President of the USA)

        ·
        Cardinal Francis
        Spellman

        ·
        Amschel Mayer von
        Rothschild

        ·
        Henry Kissinger

        ·
        Nelson
        Rockefeller

        ·
        David Rockefeller

        ·
        Joseph Kennedy

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        Ted Kennedy

        ·
        J Edgar Hoover
        (Former President of the USA)

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        George W. Bush
        (Former President of the USA)

        ·
        Jeb Bush

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        Precott Bush, Jr.

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        Juan Carlos (King
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        Queen Elizabeth
        II

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        Barack Obama

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        Adolfo Nicolas Pachon (Black Pope)

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        Vatican Popes

          1. he he he Riempies dit was eintlik net n lys van “bekendes” Hoover was mos die baas/president van CIA as ek dit reg het?
            Skerp van jou

      5. “He confronted issues, and never ran away” …. yeah right!!! he was asked on numerous occasions, before and after, his deserved imprisonment to renounce violence and stop singing his “Kill The Boer” songs….he ran away
        Stop being blinded by the mass media, they make money out of stupidity.

      6. Mandela het knape soos Ivor en Eric Ichkowich in staat gestel om die staat te plunder en Afrikaners in ‘n tweede volksmoord te teiken om hulle van hulle geboortegrond te vervreem. Snaaks hoe die Rooinekke skielik in Ngunies verander as hulle kan skep. Buite wit, binne swart. Ek hoop die regte Ngunies fock julle goed op

          1. Plesier Andrea. Maar as ek sy niksseggende kommentaar so lees wat eintlik nie die moeite werd is nie dan blyk dit my hy is onopleibaar.

          1. Plesier Riempies. Haha jou mannetjie lyk al beter. Amper so mooi soos myne. ;~)}

            NS: Trek net jou been.

      7. so why? if the rabbit means cowardliness, do the Nguni’s eat it?
        Why the big debacle in the 80’s with Chris Ball and the Barclays Bank logo with the rabbit in it?
        Gaan loop slaap op n ander plek, maybe die EFF se facebook of 7de laan, sjoie sjoe. hamba of soos ons in Afrikaans se:”Voertsek.”

          1. Wily, dankie, ek heel kalm, daar nog honderde artiekels vir die libs. my pa altyd gese: so toe soos n klei-os se g..”

  1. Ek dink die ajensie idiote het eintlik die pot baie vêr gemis met hulle ongelukkigheid, i.p.v. net stilbly, maak hulle so ‘n donnerse bohaai oor die dêm haas dat die HELE WêRELD nou weet twee WIT mans het die werk gedoen. Hoekom? Geen talent in 46milj gifpote nie? Is die afrika-tyd ding heeltemal te na aan die waarheid? Sou sy laagheid nie so lank kon “vasbyt” vir ‘n swarte om die job te doen nie? Wel gedaan!

    1. Toe FNB as Barclays Bank in 1987 kon handeldryf, het PW Botha die destydse besturende direkteur Chris Ball daarvan beskuldig dat hy koerant advertensies finansier om die verbode ANC te wettig.

      Botha het ‘n kommissie aangestel om ondersoek in te stel.

      AP het berig dat Ball uitgevang is dat hy gelieg het toe hy ontken dat hy ‘n lening vir die advertensies goedgekeur het.

      Barclays het in 1987 landuit geskarrel om politieke punte aan te teken.

      Maar die bank se beeldprobleme het aangehou toe sy nuwe doringboom logo net soos ‘n verbloemde ANC-haas gelyk het.

          1. wha ha ha ha ha ha ok ek gee op, haas beeld sal dit wees ek soek nou twee Nguni kunstenaars om te commission om die takie af te handel

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