This blog deals with political and social issues in South Africa, mostly from the perspective of Constitutional Law. Written by Pierre de Vos
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February 8, 2012 | 17:27 pmMogalakwena municipality in Mokopane, Limpopo, is facing legal action over the re-instatement of a senior official who was dismissed after being found guilty on several charges. A report in the Sowetan says this follows allegations that the decision to re-instate the official was done on instruction of the ANC. The council has been dragged to the North Gauteng High Court over the reinstatement following allegations that the official was found guilty on 26 different charges. The papers filed with the court by Mahwelereng civic leader Piet Pale show that the ANC in the Waterberg region wrote to Mayor Esther Mothibi, instructing her to convene a special council meeting to reverse the disciplinary hearing’s findings and re-instate municipal director for corporate services, Henry Thobejane. Pale seeks an order to set aside the resolution by the council to re-instate Thobejane because ‘it fails to pass the test of rationality and reasonableness’. Thobejane was charged with, among others, fraud, theft, gross dishonesty, dereliction of duties, unofficial removal of official documents and destroying official information, financial misconduct and failure to carry out lawful instructions. The hearing, chaired by Advocate AP Laka, found him guilty on all 26 charges and recommended that he be dismissed with immediate effect. – Legalbriefs
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Uh-oh! Batten down the hatches: I sense yet another Islamic rampage coming up!
Maybe it’s time all the religious fundamentalists were flushed out – great stuff Zapiro and all the others who show us how to exercise freedom of speech.
It strikes me that something rather interesting is going on when one condemns satanism. I don’t think I misstate the case when I say that most level headed people of any religious/political/social persuasion would find the concept of ritual sacrifice of innocents (animals/people) and the other forms of physical violence which appear endemic to Satanism as a particulalry abhorrent means of demonstrating one’s religious beliefs, and, I would imagine, it is in recognising these features in satanism that the satanism condemnors seek their justification. What these same condemnors fail to recognise, however, is that Satanism as a religion holds no monopoly over the ritual sacrifice of innocents and other forms of demonstrable violence in the name of religion (most effectively demonstrated through that most ritualistic of man’s activities: war). Perhaps a proper analysis of what we find abhorrent about Satanism reveals what we should find abhorrent about all religion!
Roy, it is of course interesting that in our society it is unacceptable to sacrifice an animal but not to kill it inhumanely at an abattoir and then burn it on flames and then it it. We are not always logical in these things, I suppose!