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[8 Pics] The King of Combat - South Africa's Greatest Crime Fighter!
Date Posted: Saturday 25-Aug-2007Last year, Norman Reeves and I appeared on the Jeff Rense show to discuss the despicable crime wave here in South Africa which our Govt pretends to be able to do nothing about.
I have been a supporter of Norman Reeves' Combat Security company for a long time because in this country we have a President and a Government who don't give a DAMN about the safety of the citizens or the visitors to this country. Here are two examples:-
[Photo] SA: Govt Minister: If you don't like Crime, leave the Country!
President Mbeki 'not a crime denialist'
Our President tries to play silly word games and tries to deflect the responsibility for crime. Take a look at this:-
[3 Pics] S.Africa: AWESOME! Solving Crime the Pretoria Way!
I have said for a long time that the only time crime in this country will go away is when the ANC is voted out of power. Do NOT expect this Govt to solve the crime problem. Crime is getting ever more out of hand.
Criminals are given such soft treatment that they are just getting bolder. Criminals are now murdering people for the most ridiculous of reasons:-
SA: He wanted to cut my head off, slit my throat & asked me why I'm not dying...
SA: Enraged Indian: Blacks kill Old White woman for R10 ($2)
SA: Prisons: Growing numbers of Long-Term Offenders
The Government lets criminals go by the tens of thousands and they shorten their sentences constantly. Even if you murder someone, you will probably be let out of jail within 25 years OR LESS! Convicted Serial Killers will be let out of prison within their own lifetimes!
[4 Photos] S.Africa: 63,000+ criminals to be released
It was therefore with the utmost delight that some time back I discovered that Combat Security is a really hard-hitting Security Company in S.Africa - the toughest in fact! Since Norman Reeves has spent most of his life in various armies, he has carried over his military methods into his crime-fighting and it is EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE!
In a country where criminals are hardly punished, Norman introduced the unconventional idea of shaming criminals in public. He would handcuff them to a pole with a sign around their necks saying: "I am a criminal caught by Combat Security". Most of the public really loved the idea and supported it - as did I.
The photos I got were only ever published on AfricanCrisis. Almost immediately eTV got hold of them as did Human Rights groups and they attacked Norman Reeves:-
[Photo] S.Africa: Combat Security Proves Police Love Criminals
[Photo] Combat Group's Tea Party for a Durban Thief...
[2 Photos] S.Africa: Combat: Catches Criminal before/in the Act!
[3 Photos] Combat Security catches 2 more Thieves in the act
Later the Government harrassed Norman by claiming that he had illegal weapons. He fought them and won.
The Daily News is quite a large newspaper in South Africa. It services a mainly Indian readership I think. And Indians have suffered a lot from crime too. Here is an example from an Indian friend of mine: S.Africa: Indian - 22 of my Friends were murdered by Black Criminals
They ran this large article recently about Norman.
Norman and I appeared on the Jeff Rense show in the USA. Here are some short items about that appearance:-
Norman Reeves: I can solve S.African crime in 6-weeks!!!
Someone like Norman Reeves is our Serpico
Norman Reeves re: Pongola Land invasion by 1,000+ Blacks
Norman was also interviewed by The Right Perspective in New York. Below is a link to the audio:-
[Audio] Norman Reeves Interview with The Right Perspective
I must still put up the interview Norman and I did with Jeff Rense. It was quite a kick-ass interview and I'm sure South Africans will enjoy it.
The Daily News also mentions my support for Norman.
In my view, in this country where criminals run amok and where organised crime; gang wars; taxi wars; drug cartels and ATM bombings are a daily occurrence, I think its time to take the gloves off. To hell with this Human Rights nonsense. We are losing the war against crime, and the dead bodies are piling up in mortuaries around this country.
As Norman said to one of the Human Rights Crime Lovers who attacked him: "In order to have Human Rights you have to first be HUMAN!" Go and look at the unbelievable types of crimes committed in South Africa and ask yourself how many of our criminals have human feelings of any kind! Take a look at these examples:-
[2 Pics] SA: Journalist Tortured to Death Farm Murder Style
[3 Pics] S.Africa: Woman Tortured to Death with Boiling Water
Do these criminals deserve to live?
The Laws of this country are so completely in favour of the criminal that it is a growing profession with ever greater and more unbelievable excesses. Its time for TOUGHER ACTION.
Everyone in this country wants it.
[Graph] You Magazine Poll: Death Penalty for Child Killers?
I think that Combat Security's unconventional methods are really quite mild and very reasonable given the hideous crime levels in this country. I, personally, am in favour of much tougher procedures than this. The crime rate in this country is 8 times higher per capita than the USA. South Africa is probably almost as dangerous as Iraq. In fact, more people are murdered in South Africa annually than die in the war there.
Our crime-loving Government's laws protect criminals, and make criminals out of innocent people or those who are trying to save lives and preserve what civilisation is left here.
Our Government sleeps on the job when it comes to crime. Things are so bad that now very large business organisations are taking their own initiative to try and fight crime. And when they do, like First National Bank did with its R20 million anti-crime campaign, then the Govt jumps on their case and tries to shut them up:-
S.Africa: Why Major Bank (FNB) chickened out of crime showdown with Mbeki
S.Africa: The Mass Media enter the anti-crime debate
S.Africa: The Latest Crime LIE - The Crime SPIKE!
S.Africa: First National Bank (FNB) & President Mbeki to meet on Crime
One large company set up a nationwide crime hotline which cost them a staggering R50 million!
[Pic] A Massive, private R50 million Anti-Crime Campaign...
But who can blame them? Our own Government is not interested in protecting either us or our businesses - so we have to find ways of doing it ourselves!
The bottom line is that the people and businesses of South Africa are DESPERATE! Crime is killing us and destroying our economy! Our own Government, by ignoring crime is leaving criminals to wage a Terrorist Crime War on all of us! Our own Government is PREVENTING US FROM DEFENDING US!!
Criminals have Human Rights. Don't us honest citizens have any Human Rights? What about the RIGHT TO LIFE!? Is our own Government denying us that?
I have no problem supporting Combat Security. I wish there were a hundred more Security Companies out there using the same and even harsher methods and I'd support them all. In fact, I'll bet most of the general public would support them. Our Police are there to dawdle around and do nothing except PROTECT THE CRIMINALS! The thin blue line protecting South African citizens is that of the Security Companies which are privately owned and privately run. They are the ones who rush to our houses when we are attacked.
3 years ago, an armed criminal got into my yard. When I phoned the Police they took 30 minutes to arrive. At the time I had no security company. But I quickly phoned one and told them, "I'm not a customer of yours, but if you will send someone to my house NOW, I'll join you in the morning". The security company (Top Security), was indeed kind enough to send a car to my house. They were there in 10 minutes - long before the Police - and I was not even a paying customer! True to my word, I subscribed to their armed response services. Most people in South Africa are now protected by Private Armed Response Security companies like Top Security, ADT, Combat Security, etc. These people are keeping us alive. They keep us from drowning completely in total chaos, crime and genocide. We're not protected by our disinterested Police force run by our Crime Denialist President. We're protected by private people running their own businesses.
We need to support the people who FIGHT CRIME - not those who give the vicious, ruthless, blood-thirsty criminals of this country a soft-landing and special protection and special rights over and above those which honest civilians have!
I am utterly delighted with this article by the Daily News!
Norman Reeves has been attacked by the Government and certain elements of the Mass Media in this crime ridden country. But Norman is not the criminal. He's trying to protect his clients from criminals. He's doing his job and its a good job. He is trying to save lives! I wish other Security Companies would be as tough as he is. Then maybe this country would have some hope.
Here is a link to Norman Reeves' Security Company: Combat Security
Here is the article from The Daily News.
Below is Norman Reeves wearing a t-shirt that has a sign the same as what he used to hang around the necks of criminals, which the Human Rights Groups found so despicable. He was forced to stop doing this.
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Readers' Comments
Date Posted: Sunday 21-Oct-2007
Norman Reeves passed away some weeks ago. Here is an article and photo in memory of him:-
[Pic] In Memory of S.Africa's Greatest Crime Fighter: Norman Reeves & Wife: Tersha
Jan Lamprecht
Johannesburg
South Africa
Date Posted: Sunday 14-Oct-2007
After the educated people have left South Africa the black population will either die of disease or starve to death.
if they do die of disease or starve to death it wd be a very fitting, ironic, and extremely just sentence. good riddance! i dont doubt that there are many good africans but the anc scum lets the shit run rampant and what you get is animals running around. if they die they brought it on themselves
p cick
Date Posted: Monday 08-Oct-2007
Please DO forgive me, as I naturally assumed the wonderful ex-wife & mother of 2 of the late Norman's (may his soul rest in PEACE) sons, whom I DO know personally from as far back as 1968, thru' being a VERY close nursing friend of my sister's, to have been his 1st wife. This lovely lady still LIVES in Durban.
As for those who've chosen to mention my Swiss status ... sometimes LOVE has NO boundaries. Our son was born in Switzerland, and has dual nationality, as do I (an automatic acquisition thru' marriage for a woman marrying a Swiss back in 1982), yet neither Our son nor I, have ANY intention, unlike his Swiss Dad (my ex), of ever re-locating anywhere!
Evidently ALL 3 of us KNOW where our bread is buttered best ...
Yes! We have our hiccups in SA, but EVERY other country has theirs too.
With love, light & blessings ... esp. for Norman, whom I'm POSITIVE sees the BIG PICTURE today,
@nnie
Annie
Durban
South Africa
Date Posted: Saturday 06-Oct-2007
I too know n.reeves first wife who had great faith in south africa BUT like PATON has left the country after being attacked by blks in her shop 60 metres from a police station .But i find it stange that after what happened to paton they still push the book her late husband wrote,which time has disproved ....OH ANNIE DID NOT TELL U THAT N.REEVES FIRST WIFE HAD LEFT?an oversite?
brian
dbn
south africa
Date Posted: Sunday 07-Oct-2007
Read todays 6 Oct 07 Sunday Times on Norman Reeves (Reeves Military Career exagerrated), you will see why I asked the question as to which units he claimed to serve in.A hero with clay feet, methinks.
Mike
Jhb
Rsa
Date Posted: Thursday 13-Sep-2007
"Who does not know the truth, is simply a fool...Yet who knows the truth and calls it a lie, is a criminal"
-In Galileo Galilei by Berthold Brecht 1898-1956
We all have our reasons, mostly we just want us and our loved ones to survive no matter what.
fanie
Olten
Switzerland
Date Posted: Tuesday 28-Aug-2007
Annie
I noticed you mentioned in your attack on Jan & Jeff Rense that you have obtained Swiss nationality and obviously hold a Swiss passport. Is this your "insurance policy" for when things really turn nasty in Sth Africa, you will bail out to somewhere safer, maybe the Swiss Alps?
It appears that you're not too confident about the future of South Africa, that's why you have obtained a "get out of jail for free card".
Next time you say a pray please say one for the hundreds of South African farmers that have been murdered.
Bob the Aussie
Sydney
Australia
Date Posted: Tuesday 28-Aug-2007
THANK YOU to each of you for your comments.
I have to admit that I especially appreciated reading Anne Paton's article (thanks Mike) which I'd missed when initially published, and I sincerely wish this lovely lady both health & happiness in the UK ... even if, sadly, she'll be leaving behind an enormous part of her soul and of course, much of her heart. :( The only comfort here, is that Alan (still most evidently, her ever vigilant protector) shall never be farther than a mere whisper away, no matter where in the world she ever chooses to be.
Love, light and much HOPE for ALL,
@nnie
Annie
Durban
South Africa
Date Posted: Tuesday 28-Aug-2007
(This letter is to Annie)
Annie, would you say that all the recent scandals surrounding the ruling party & it's allies are all JUST false rumours and fabricated by toublemakers who do not care about South Africa? Would you also say that a crime figure eight times higher than the World average is exagerrated/false. Someone with your mindset probably believes that this is so. You should know that unless people have proof for these sorts of allegations, (especially against high ranking Government Officials), they would not make them as these are serious allegations which would lead to a great deal of misery for those who make them falsely. General crime and degradation is threatening to destroy this country, the figures/crime stats prove this, (thank the Lord that TRANSPARENCY is practiced within our Democracy, it is done so that you and I are able to monitor the progress and 'health' of this nation).
My ENTIRE family and MANY people I know have had their rights violated by crime perpetrated against them, Bet YOU DO NOT CARE!
I am crying out against this, (it's my right), and so should you.
Your failure to do so is a clear indication of your shockingly inferior character and the lack of sense that occupies your mind. If you wish to live in a 'fools paradise', do so lady, but just remember that YOU are indirectly responsible too for the misery and current state of lawlesness in this country. Study the statistics and DO SOMETHING PRO-ACTIVE.
estelle
P.E
S.A
Date Posted: Tuesday 28-Aug-2007
Me thinks Annie doth protest too much - a frightened child calling for help in the wilderness of her mind.
And please will someone tell me exactly what would be a "thoroughbred South African"?
Geneticists have lately been telling the world that EVERYBODY in South Africa is a 'colonial". Even my most favourite people on this earth, those First South Africans, namely the San-Bushmen, apparently came from 'up north in Africa" if these modern DNA-experts are to be believed.
Mbeki's and Zuma's tribes originates from the Ivory Coast, according to them. And why did their forefathers flee towards the South? Because Arab slave-traders were hunting down them.
The rights of any humans to live in one country or another based only on their genetic appearance and their linguistic links have always been questionable - including in South Africa. At the moment, the Xhosa-tribe claims hegemony, but their history of mass-suicide now seems to be repeating itself.
Why else would their tribal leader appoint what must be the world's most incompetent,s elf-destructive 'health minister' at the very same time when the country is also being overwhelmed by two deadly epidemics?
adrianastuijt@knid.nl
Dokkum
the Netherlands
Date Posted: Monday 27-Aug-2007
Dear Jan and Annie,
You two will probably never come to terms with each others viewpoints. Here is a letter from the widow of SA's most renowned, deluded Liberal. Read it and weep.
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." George Orwell, 1984
WHY I'M FLEEING SOUTH AFRICA
by Anne Paton (widow of Alan Paton)
(London Sunday Times)
I am leaving South Africa. I have lived here for 35 years, and I shall leave with anguish. My home and my friends are here, but I am terrified.
I know I shall be in trouble for saying so, because I am the widow of Alan Paton. Fifty years ago he wrote Cry, The Beloved Country. He was an unknown schoolmaster and it was his first book, but it became a bestseller overnight. It was eventually translated into more than 20 languages and became a set book in schools all over the world. It has sold more than 15 million copies and still sells 100,000 copies a year.
As a result of the startling success of this book, my husband became famous for his impassioned speeches and writings, which brought to the notice of the world the suffering of the black man under apartheid.
He campaigned for Nelson Mandela's release from prison and he worked all his life for black majority rule. He was incredibly hopeful about the new South Africa that would follow the end of apartheid, but he died in 1988, aged 85.I was so sorry he did not witness the euphoria and love at the time of the election in 1994. But I am glad he is not alive now. He would have been so distressed to see what has happened to his beloved country.
I love this country with a passion, but I cannot live here any more. I can no longer live slung about with panic buttons and gear locks. I am tired of driving with my car windows closed and the doors locked, tired of being afraid of stopping at red lights. I am tired of being constantly on the alert, having that sudden frisson of fear at the sight of a shadow by the gate, of a group of youths approaching - although nine times out of 10 they are innocent of harmful intent. Such is the suspicion that dogs us all.
Among my friends and the friends of my friends, I know of nine people who have been murdered in the past four years. An old friend, an elderly lady, was raped and murdered by someone who broke into her home for no reason at all; another was shot at a garage.
We have a saying, "Don't fire the gardener", because of the belief that it is so often an inside job - the gardener who comes back and does you in.
All this may sound like paranoia, but it is not without reason. I have been hijacked, mugged and terrorised. A few years ago my car was taken from me at gunpoint. I was forced into the passenger seat. I sat there frozen. But just as one man jumped into the back and the other fumbled with the starter I opened the door and ran away. To this day I do not know how I did this. But I got away, still clutching my handbag.
On May 1 this year I was mugged in my home at three in the afternoon. I used to live in a community of big houses with big grounds in the countryside. It's still beautiful and green, but the big houses have been knocked down and people have moved into fenced complexes like the one in which I now live. Mine is in the suburbs of Durban, but they're springing up everywhere.
That afternoon I came home and omitted to close the security door. I went upstairs to lie down. After a while I thought I'd heard a noise, perhaps a bird or something. Without a qualm I got up and went to the landing; outside was a man. I screamed and two other men appeared. I was seized by the throat and almost throttled; I could feel myself losing consciousness. My mouth was bound with Sellotape and I was threatened with my own knife (Girl Guide issue from long ago) and told: "If you make a sound, you die." My hands were tied tightly behind my back and I was thrown into the guest room and the door was shut. They took all the electronic equipment they could find, except the computer. They also, of course, took the car.
A few weeks later my new car was locked up in my fenced carport when I was woken by its alarm in the early hours of the morning. The thieves had removed the radio, having cut through the padlocks in order to bypass the electric control on the gates.
The last straw came a few weeks ago, shortly before my 71st birthday. I returned home in the middle of the afternoon and walked into my sitting room. Outside the window two men were breaking in. I retreated to the hall and pressed the panic alarm. This time I had shut the front door on entering. By now I had become more cautious. Yet one of the men ran around the house, jumped over the fence and tried to batter down the front door. Meanwhile, his accomplice was breaking my sitting- room window with a hammer. This took place while the sirens were shrieking, which was the frightening part. They kept coming, in broad daylight, while the alarm was going. They knew that there had to be a time lag of a few minutes before help arrived - enough time to dash off with the television and video recorder. In fact, the front-door assailant was caught and taken off to the cells.
Recently I telephoned to ask the magistrate when I would be called as a witness. She told me she had let him off for lack of evidence. She said that banging on my door was not an offence, and how could I prove that his intent was hostile?
I have been careless in the past - razor wire and electric gates give one a feeling of security. Or at least, they did. But I am careless no longer. No fence - be it electric or not - no wall, no razor wire is really a deterrent to the determined intruder. Now my alarm is on all the time and my panic button hung round my neck. While some people say I have been unlucky, others say: "You are lucky not to have been raped or murdered." What kind of a society is this where one is considered "lucky" not to have been raped or murdered - yet?
A character in Cry, The Beloved Country says: "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving they will find we are turned to hating." And so it has come to pass. There is now more racial tension in this country than I have ever known.
But it is not just about black-on-white crime. It is about general lawlessness. Black people suffer more than the whites. They do not have access to private security firms, and there are no police stations near them in the townships and rural areas. They are the victims of most of the hijackings, rapes and murders. They cannot run away like the whites, who are streaming out of this country in their thousands.
President Mandela has referred to us who leave as "cowards" and says the country can do without us. So be it. But it takes a great deal of courage to uproot and start again. We are leaving because crime is rampaging through the land. The evils that beset this country now are blamed on the legacy of apartheid. One of the worst legacies of that time is that of the Bantu Education Act, which deliberately gave black people an inferior education.
The situation is exacerbated by the fact that criminals know that their chances of being caught are negligible; and if they are caught they will be free almost at once. So what is the answer? The government needs to get its priorities right. We need a powerful, well-trained and well-equipped police force.
Recently there was a robbery at a shopping centre in the afternoon. A call to the police station elicited the reply: "We have no transport." "Just walk then," said the caller; the police station is about a two-minute sprint from the shop in question. "We have no transport," came the reply again. Nobody arrived.
There is a quote from my husband's book: "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
What has changed in half a century? A lot of people who were convinced that everything would be all right are disillusioned, though they don't want to admit it.
The government has many excellent schemes for improving the lot of the black man, who has been disadvantaged for so long. A great deal of money is spent in this direction. However, nothing can succeed while people live in such fear. Last week, about 10km from my home, an old couple were taken out and murdered in the garden. The wife had only one leg and was in a wheelchair. Yet they were stabbed and strangled - for very little money. They were the second old couple to be killed last week. It goes on and on, all the time; we have become a killing society.
As I prepare to return to England, a young man asked me the other day, in all innocence, if things were more peaceful there. "You see," he said, "I know of no other way of life than this. I cannot imagine anything different." What a tragic statement on the beloved country today. "Because the white man has power, we too want power," says Msimangu. "But when a black man gets power, when he gets money, he is a great man if he is not corrupted. I have seen it often. He seeks power and money to put right what is wrong, and when he gets them, why, he enjoys the power and the money. Now he can gratify his lusts, now he can arrange ways to get white man's liquor. I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it.
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
Mike
JHB
RSA
Date Posted: Monday 27-Aug-2007
Dear Annie,
I ignore people like you who seem to live a life made up only of emotions. You just want to believe good things. Go ahead and do that. Believe what you will.
Thousands of your kind told me I was wrong about Zimbabwe and South Africa years ago. When I started this website in 2001, I had "Proudly South African" (ANC ass-kissers actually) down my neck every day telling me to give up and to stop. Your kind told me I was wrong. Your kind had my books thrown out of book stores.
Don't I have a right to FREE SPEECH? Must I be an ANC-clone like you? Does Free Speech only apply to your kind and not to me? Am I not allowed to have my own thoughts or ideas? You're all such a bunch of miserable self-righteous hypocrits.
Ask the 100,000 Whites who remained in Zimbabwe who had exactly the same attitude as you. They amassed money. In fact, one such couple who were multi-millionaires many times over and who owned a farm and about 20 businesses, are now here in SA on the verge of bankruptcy begging me to try and help them. Most of the whites who stayed behind have been wiped out.
But Annie, let me ask you a question: Why is it that an emotional person such as yourself should get to remain in South Africa and yet I must leave and "go to Holland". I have no family in Holland by the way. My forefathers came to South Africa in 1819 (from Germany) , after the Napoleonic wars. Why should South Africa belong to such a spineless person such as yourself? Does South Africa only exist for the spineless, the stupid and the criminal? Is ther some law that reserves South Africa only for blacks, the stupid and the pathetic?
Aren't people of stout character allowed in this country?
What of the Boers who fought for this country? What of the Afrikaners? Must *ALL* Afrikaners leave this country so that someone as pathetic and weak as yourself should inherit it all?
You went to Switzerland... I'd like to know about that. You went there and you couldn't stomach it so you came crying back because you couldn't make a life successfully in another country. What a sad person you are. You couldn't even go to another country and have the guts to stay there.
I too went to another country. The country I went to was South Africa. Unlike Switzerland, which is peaceful, when I came here, the political strife was just starting. But unlike you - I did not run back to my homeland even though many there were COINING IT. Many Whites who stayed in Zimbabwe did indeed become rich. I chose to struggle on in S.Africa. I'm happy I stayed. South Africa has been my home now for 27 years.
Oh, and my parents originally came from South Africa. The remainder of my roots in this country go back to the Transvaal a long way back.
I think I have as much right as the next guy to live here. If you want to pack someone else's bags - then please go ahead and do so.
I don't need your assistance. That's quite cheeky of you to suggest that I leave. What gives you the RIGHT to even suggest that! And what is so morally fabulous about you that you feel that who - Jesus himself - did he tell you to tell me to leave? Does God talk only to you and you can therefore judge me and tell me where I can and can't stay?
Yes, Annie, be as pathetically proudly South African as you want. If you want to be proud of the complete dopes who run this country - this filthy crime nest - then fine.
I've met many of your kind. You cannot face reality, so you want to infuse the rest of us with your own inability to face reality.
Annie, as for Jeff Rense. Jeff Rense is a brave man who has stood up for the truth about Zimbabwe when others in America did NOT. The State Dept attacked him for posting the news about Zimbabwe - news which is undeniable and correct and which has been proven true.
If you call Jeff Rense a naive fool, then obviously you don't know much about Jeff Rense. Perhaps Annie, you strike me as a "Mugabe-denialist" who denies the horror and ever that goes on in Zimbabwe?
You strike me as Crime-denialist too. You seem to like crime and murder. You seem to like people in this country living in hell.
As for Adriana Stuijt - Adriana did work and live in South Africa. She worked for The Sunday Times. She has stacks of contacts and deep knowledge of this country.
So you are basically attacking Adriana and myself by saying that we're not "real South Africans" and therefore we should shut the hell up and leave?
That's damned cheeky of you!! What makes you so special that you can tell us what to do? Are you saying that the vast majority of South Africans are as completely pathetic as YOU!?
I strongly doubt that.
Annie, I know the perfect place for an arrogant, morally stuck-up ass-kissing hypocrit as yourself: The perfect home for you is HCR - www.HomeComingRevolution.co.za.
This is a "hard news" website. We discuss serious nasty stuff here. If you can't handle it, then go over to HCR - HomeComing Revolution where fuzzy furry people like yourselves gather. Those are your kind of people.
You will find all the REALITY-DENIALISTS there. Oh... but you'll find yourself in DWINDLING COMPANY.
You see, HCR has been running around (with corporate funding), telling all the "good news" for the last few years. With lots of funding, they've been catering for snobby-morally-self-righteous-spineless-hypocrits such as yourself.
HCR and I have had many run ins over the years. And the fact is, despite corporate funding and lots of wishful thinking, HCR has lost most of its support. I've watched HCR's Internet rankings and nowadays they don't even feature. Nobody believes in their "goodnews" rubbish. You see, it turns out that most South Africans are not stupid enough to fall for the kind of thinking that you and HCR propound.
But I suggest you go there and join the last few hard core HCR'ers. You can all keep each other company in your Goodnews Lunatic asylum while the rest of us face reality.
Jan Lamprecht
Johannesburg
South Africa
Date Posted: Monday 27-Aug-2007
Dear Jan,
As difficult as it is, I shall maintain my dignity & composure as best as I can, & try, through prayer alone, not to allow my anger & sheer disappointment, to stoop to the depths of some of that covered in the articles which have been exposed by both yourself & Adriana Stuijt (NEITHER as far as I know, thoroughbred South Africans) about OUR most precious & beloved country ... SOUTH AFRICA!
Yes! We do have a few problems, but NOWHERE near what either of you foreigners choose to 'exhibit' to the WORLD ... and please point out, just ONE country that doesn't.
Firstly, I have to mention that I lived in SWITZERLAND for 6 years & even acquired Swiss Nationality, yet, despite finding that country & many of its people WONDERFUL, chose to return HOME to my dearest South Africa - there simply wasn't anywhere close to any race when it came to my choice, and given the enormous number of foreigners living here, such as yourself, both living & thriving here, I'm obviously not very different when it comes to knowing what's BEST for the soul and whole!
PLEASE refrain from painting such dismal pictures, often hugely exaggerated and only ever a total discredit to this country that so MANY of us are so extremely happy living in, and would ever choose to live elsewhere. With a name like yours, surely the Netherlands is willing to take you back, as they have done with Adriana Stuijt? South Africa certainly doesn't need nor encourage you to stay here dear Jan ... so please, feel free to give me a shout, & I'll gladly come along to help pack your bags. In fact, we'd ALL be so much better off without you and the likes of you.
Now what saddens me MOST, is that someone as seemingly astute & intelligent as JEFF RENSE, should A) allow himself to get sucked into your stories, and B) give both of you so much FREE SPACE to waffle your nonsense.
Little does he realize what HARM he is inadvertently causing for every loving, true, and proud South African ... such as myself!
As for:
1) "I have been a supporter of Norman Reeves' Combat Security company for a long time" ... no comment ... because it shows just how you, like Jeff, can so easily be hoodwinked!
2) "Now you might not like Norman Reeves at all - and yes he is a bit of a showman, and he probably has quite an ego too. But that is irrelevant. He is a name, a recognisable name and he stands up and FIGHTS BACK EVEN WHEN HE IS ATTACKED."
You know what Jan, ask his first wife and mother of his sons (whom I do know) for her honest opinion here! If your have straight hair it's bound to curl, and if it's curly, it's bound to straighten ... FREE of charge!
3) "Norman has appeared with me on Jeff Rense's show to discuss crime in this country."
I've already passed my opinion & sheer disappointment on JEFF'S naive and obvious overly trusting stance, and now I also realize why SO MANY from throughout the entire world, have often commented on his inability to judge the TRUTH from that which clearly IS NOT! I NOW have my own proof of that, and wish to take this opportunity to apologize to those whom I've shouted down for their rightful and accurate assessment of the man's misjudgement of character and the trustworthiness of some of his freelance reporters at times.
Oh! By the way, the ONLY ex-Rhodesians whom I've encountered, who praise South Africa & speak fondly of their 'lost' country, even now, whilst in such an obvious MESS, are those MANY, who managed to leave with their fortunes, amassed off the country's indigenous, naive and ever TRUSTING people ... now left behind without pensions nor anything to show for their dedication & loyalty ... something that churns my stomach in sheer & utmost disgust!
With love, light, abundant blessings & much hope for ONLY EVER, THE TRUTH!
@nnie / Durban ... SO, SO PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN!
Annie
Durban
South Africa
Date Posted: Monday 27-Aug-2007
This mans got balls and i admire him for that, i love to see toughies like this guy dish it out big time to the crims.
John
Perth
Australia
Date Posted: Sunday 26-Aug-2007
Hi Pissed Off,
You write:-
>er, Jan please think with the big head.
I'm not too impressed with your tone. I'm replying to you in a decent manner and being positive and supportive in what way I can so I don't appreciate your tone and manner.
If you wish to give me info about what you're doing, and you wish to remain anon - then ok, I'll respect that.
You have a point - but there are other points too to this.
When I wrote my book, I sat and thought about hiding away under a pseudonym. I decided that it would not sit well with people talking to someone "anonymous" and hiding in the dark. So I used my own name, and have done ever since.
When I encouraged my friend Robb Ellis to write about the murder of Matabele people in Zimbabwe which he saw when he was in Mugabe's Police force, he too hid behind a pseudonym. Then one day he wrote to me and told me of his decision to stand up and be counted. He would use his real name and take his hits.
Now you might not like Norman Reeves at all - and yes he is a bit of a showman, and he probably has quite an ego too. But that is irrelevant. He is a name, a recognisable name and he stands up and FIGHTS BACK EVEN WHEN HE IS ATTACKED.
I have yet to see anyone, hiding behind a pseudonym actually being able to stand up and be counted.
Yes, for your own safety you can do that. I will not criticise you for it.
But at a point in time, some of us must be counted. In that sense, I appreciate Norman. On this website, which is visited by tens of thousands, I found myself very much alone for a long time - even now. I find very few willing to advertise on my site or willing to openly associate with me. I would love to run adverts for businesses and to make a bit of revenue out of this site. I'd love to do this site FULL TIME. But for that I need revenue and support. And for as long as people are afraid to have their companies and their personal names associated in the open with me - it hobbles me. I don't whine about it, I accept it and I carry on and deal with those brave enough to stand by me in the open.
So I appreciate a man like Norman who has the balls to take his business and put it all on the line. Norman has appeared with me on Jeff Rense's show to discuss crime in this country. He did that. You did not, and neither did anyone else in the crime industry in this country. Everyone is silent. In that way, Norman did something you did not do - and he did it where it counted - with a foreign audience. That really hurts the ANC.
The ANC hates it when my articles are published in the USA and that is why I keep on publishing them in the USA and Europe. I piss the ANC off deliberately. It is my BUSINESS to piss the ANC off as much as I can. It is my business to hurt them and expose them at every opportunity. And I'll take my hits for it.
We must all fight - and we all have our own tactics and strategies. And yes, the ANC will invent excuses and try to destroy people. They will try to destroy the security companies. But they can't destroy them ALL. The people of this country will lose their minds.
If everyone cowers in the shadows... then who is going to take the first hit? Will we live in terror of the ANC forever?
For the Security Industry, I'll tell you who will NOT: Norman Reeves - because he's the *ONLY ONE* to put himself directly in the LINE OF FIRE. The ANC could DESTROY NORMAN REEVES' BUSINESS and wipe out his livelihood as they could yours. The ANC can destroy Norman's business tomorrow and make him bankrupt. That's the risk he takes. But he TAKES THAT RISK.
In politics, in power, in the things that matter, eventually a man must take some sort of risk. If you don't take a risk you can never move forward. Otherwise you will live on the defensive forever and your enemy will pick the time and place to destroy you. As my good friend Jeff Nyquist in the USA said to me years ago: Nobody ever won a war by being on the defensive all the time. At some point you have to attack. The ANC are the ONLY ONES doing the attacking. If we don't counter-attack, they'll destroy us. They will pick us off ONE BY ONE.
You may not like Norman, nor his style, but you have to admit that Norman is MAN ENOUGH to take the first bullet in the chest.
I like a man like that, and I appreciate a man too who is not afraid to stand by me.
Many people have tried to run Norman down to me. But I stand by Norman because he tries at least.
Norman might not even be the best crime fighter in this country. He might be none of these great things - but one thing which Norman IS, and that is, he is BRAVE and able to stand up and be the FIRST to take a bullet in his chest. On that score, none of you can criticise him!
For the record, Norman also stood for the IFP for election at one time. Norman does not keep his mouth shut.
I have another friend, who is not rich, but he is involved with guns ownership, crime and security companies. He is a British guy - a small balding guy - but he's a rotweiler like Norman. He's out there, in all different organisations fighting like a maniac and having the balls to put his name forward. He skirts with trouble all the time. I like him. I like his attitude. He's a scrappy little fighter. I like his attitude.
Who is going to stand up for us whites if we don't start standing up for ourselves?
If the ANC attacks us and throws us in jail - we must be prepared for that. We must support and help each other even as they are smashing us down.
No matter what the ANC does, there must come a time when more and more people have to start standing up in the shadows and walking into the light.
We're all going to take hits for it - but we must just help each other to recover from the hits as best we can.
Sometimes, it also makes us stronger.
In this country, crime is the biggest issue driving people insane. I feel there are a lot of opportunities for people to stand up on this issue and it can win MASSIVE PUBLIC SUPPORT. Maybe the Security Companies must be like Norman and be more aggressive. The Mass of the public will back them.
The ANC doesn't have everything their way. If the ANC smashes people down, my role in the game, and the role of the media and others is to highlight these hideous criminal acts by the ANC - to expose those who were destroyed. This is supposedly a democratic country and the world must be told if the ANC is kicking all of us around like dogs when we are innocent. Govts also quietly put pressure on the ANC at times. The ANC can't just rum amok (much as they'd like to).
So if the ANC smashes down those who stand us, we must make it hot and hard for them. The ANC must also think twice... what if 10 stand up, they smash them down, but now 20 stand up in their place?
Look at when Mbeki took down FNB's anti-Crime campaign. Then Pick 'n Pay and other big businesses stood up for FNB. People in this country are coming right. They're learning...
Let me tell you, I support CAPITALISM, I support PERSONAL INITIATIVE. What made the Western world great was its recognition of PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT. In Capitalism, we allow people to get wealthy. Wealthy people become movers and shakers. They dream greater dreams and the generate jobs and move the economy.
So I support Private Security Companies because they're capitalist and they serve a valid purpose.
I also support PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT. In the past, people held others up as HEROES. HEROES!! I hold Norman Reeves up as a hero. I think he deserves it. I regard Adriana Stuijt as a heroine of the first order. I would love to hold up many people as heroes and heroines. People who are brave and who stand up for us. Some of our heroes may be destroyed - either financially or physically. That's why they're heroes. We'll hold a minute of silence for them each year.
That is how the Western world was built up. The heroes lead, some die, but others, inspired by them, take their place.
We need to start INSPIRING EACH OTHER AND DEFENDING EACH OTHER, or else we'll all be destroyed TOGETHER!
Jan Lamprecht
Johannesburg
South Africa
Date Posted: Sunday 26-Aug-2007
Hi Mike,
I think I wrote that Norman was in the SAS.
I have actually asked his wife to respond to your post to give exact details.
One former Parabat (Parachute Battalion) soldier I worked with told me he knew someone who was with Norman in the SADF. Norman was a Sergeant Major in a unit here. The guy said Norman was unconventional. Apparently he had quite a reputation in his unit.
Jan Lamprecht
Johannesburg
South Africa
Date Posted: Sunday 26-Aug-2007
Good on you Norman keep on kicking the arses of these criminal scum, people should feel safe in their own homes. The more I read about the new South Africa the more I feel that it is a disaster waiting to happen in the very near future.
The western world should be offering financial help and refugee status to European South Africans to relocate to the west, the Indian Sth Africans should be be considering packing up and heading to India and the Chinese Sth Africans could head to Taiwan or Singapore.
I am worried that there is going to be a huge blood bath against the European, Indian and Asian populations of South Africa.
After the educated people have left South Africa the black population will either die of disease or starve to death.
Bob the Aussie
Sydney
Australia
Date Posted: Sunday 26-Aug-2007
er, Jan please think with the big head.
The Regime is currently monitoring all security co's as well as disarming their Alarms and Security dept with FAB (firearms amendment bill)
As securtiy companies pose the biggest threat to the regime. There is also great pressure on this industry from BEE & AA as the regime want black control of these.
Your mate Norman Reeves has already been arrested once on false charges. We dont need to give the regime grounds to arrest and harass more. The regime have the abilty to change all laws with out notice as well as a very corrupt pro regime police force, which will only make things worse for us like Zimbabwe.
Keeping a low profile is critical to our survival.
And drawing unneccessary attantion to the security industry is not good.
Pissed off
SA
Date Posted: Sunday 26-Aug-2007
I would like to know what Normans units were in Rhodesian and British army? Can anyone enlighten me?
Mike
JHB
RSA
Date Posted: Saturday 25-Aug-2007
Hi Pissed Off,
I was waiting for someone from the Security Industry to attack the good things we say about Norman Reeves.
I would be more than happy to write about what other security companies do. I would be more than happy to give publicity to any security company that is interested.
I agree that there are a lot of people working quietly to protect people. But you know it also takes some balls to stand up in public. Reeves is not afraid of doing that. He also openly supports me and I openly support him.
Few other people would do that.
At some point... people have to step into the limelight.
Jan Lamprecht
Johannesburg
South Africa
Date Posted: Saturday 25-Aug-2007
Wow ! A real fairy tale, or maybe just a love affair ?
Yeah ! The toughest Security co Norman Reeves, the guy that pulls Night Moves < stealing beach sand from others.
We take extreme exception to your comment.
There are numerous other kick Ass security co's, who perform under the most horrific conditions in this sic crime ridden sespit !
If Mnr Reeves is your Duke Nukem replica , maybe you should introduce him to the Afrikaner's as the New General De La Rey ?
Pissed off !
SA