got to fly...
Presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma has travelled more than 3 000km to wage a fresh legal battle against his prosecution for corruption.
The Star can confirm that Zuma on Thursday served notice on the Mauritian Supreme Court, asking for the right to stop 13 documents - described by the state as "damning" evidence of corruption against him and French arms company Thint - from being handed over to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
But Zuma's application, which has been scheduled to be heard next week, is expected to be greeted by fierce opposition from the Mauritian Attorney-General's office, which has also signalled its opposition to Thint's bid to intervene in the progress of the request...
According to the state, the diary details a March 2000 meeting which ended with an agreement on a R500 000-a-year bribe for Zuma from Thint in exchange for Zuma's protection from a potentially damaging arms-deal inquiry... The Star
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Zuma likes to Zuma around....
Jacob Zuma's widely anticipated rejoining the feeding frenzy at the head of the trough is nigh. What can we expect. Well Zumy Zuma loves nothing more to zoom around. Because he was naughty he was told to go sit in the kitchen for a bit, but now the man is back. So his past will now illuminate our future. Zuma used to sit one position from the head of the table. In one 8 month period he flew 126 domestic flights in an official state jet. "O3 - I just love you...."During the first four months of 2000, visits to just KwaZulu-Natal has run up a flight bill of R656,530. It includes two Air Force helicopter flights to see one of his two wives at a cost of more than R67,000. The bulk of the flights have been "official". Twice, in January 2000 and over the Easter weekend, Zuma has been flown in an air force Oryx helicopter to visit MaKhumalo Zuma, who lives at Nkandla in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal. His other wife, Kate Zuma, lives in Johannesburg. These visits alone cost R67,704 at an average cost of R16,926 an hour, according to information supplied by the Air Force. The deputy president has run up further bills of at least R743,559 on other flights this year.
Zuma's spokeswoman, Mathula Magubane, said all flights had been "necessary". "He has to go to his home sometime", she said, not quite explaining where "home" is supposed to be. (or which wife) -
{(it is also somewhat interesting to note how often he is accompanied on an international jaunt with Lindiwe Sisulu)} He has been flown on a variety of air force aircraft - including the Falcon 900 and smaller Falcon 50, a transport plane (Casa 212), Oryx and BK117 helicopters, and a twin propeller craft. Their cost in the air ranges between R4,259 and R9,038 an hour. HOME IS IN THE AIR!!!
This is not as bad as Zuma's previous flying antics: from January 31st 2004 to October 2004 he undertook 126 domestic flights in one of the state's official jets. But on January 8th, 2005 he flew from Waterkloof to Kenya and back, for which the State had to pay R197,970 to a private jet company. Zuma also undertook various domestic private flights to inter alia Durban, Umtata, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Pietermaritzburg.
One flight between Johannesburg and Cape Town cost R93,176,81.
The 03 overdose may have led to the lapses in the then VP's financial brain resulting in him writing 140 bad cheques. Cheque fraud is a crime - There is no death penalty so the law must bite. Many citizens are in prison for cheque fraud. The banks are complicit in shielding the then VP and in their actions have cost ordinary citizens hundreds of thousands. These are ordinary citizens being shafted by the VP avoiding paying what he legally owes them.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Rasool: Annual whirlybird tour of floods best EVA!
Following the successful completion of the 2007 Tour LeFlood Premier Rasool gave two thumbs up to the tour, recommending it to all politicians, especially those who love 03.
"Flying over the sea in an airforce chopper, wearing a headset, listening to the military chatter, it makes me feel like a man. By the way, are there any more of those delicious little cucumber sandwiches? "
"Lots of water..." Rasool responded to questions from attending journalists, "it's a flood you know, with lots of water."
“This is a case of déjà vu – an action replay of last year‘s flood damage, only on a bigger scale. Flood management is going to be unsustainable unless we discuss how we are going to change infrastructure, residential and environmental situations in the region,” he said.
When Rasool was asked if he had any messages for the people affected he said, "Fix your shit so we can have a normal tourist season!"
Shado Twala, spokesman for the premier confirmed that the premier himself had personally endorsed the 2007 Tour LeFlood as best organised tour in years.
"We all know that the annual Tour LeFlood is Premier Rasool's favourite event" gushed Twala, "but this year we really got to put on a show! In 2006, 2005 and 2003 we got out there, but this year was just better than ever"
"Flying over the sea in an airforce chopper, wearing a headset, listening to the military chatter, it makes me feel like a man. By the way, are there any more of those delicious little cucumber sandwiches? "
"Lots of water..." Rasool responded to questions from attending journalists, "it's a flood you know, with lots of water."
“This is a case of déjà vu – an action replay of last year‘s flood damage, only on a bigger scale. Flood management is going to be unsustainable unless we discuss how we are going to change infrastructure, residential and environmental situations in the region,” he said.
When Rasool was asked if he had any messages for the people affected he said, "Fix your shit so we can have a normal tourist season!"
Shado Twala, spokesman for the premier confirmed that the premier himself had personally endorsed the 2007 Tour LeFlood as best organised tour in years.
"We all know that the annual Tour LeFlood is Premier Rasool's favourite event" gushed Twala, "but this year we really got to put on a show! In 2006, 2005 and 2003 we got out there, but this year was just better than ever"
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
I have been aloft so long....
it's been hard not to get high, erm I mean I've been aloft so long.. ...that I can never properly be described as "down to earth"
Dear Fellow Citizen of Planet Earth...
I have to confess to not really caring about the planet. The resources I need to consume to feed my addiction to and insatiable desire and need for O3 is going to bring humanity down with me. Following is my travel schedule so far for 2007. The high O3 content flights are marked in red. Short intercity flights provide shorter and less intense highs, but I have included them anyway. If you think this list is long? Well the actual journey has been FAR LONGER than this stupid little list.
I have to confess to not really caring about the planet. The resources I need to consume to feed my addiction to and insatiable desire and need for O3 is going to bring humanity down with me. Following is my travel schedule so far for 2007. The high O3 content flights are marked in red. Short intercity flights provide shorter and less intense highs, but I have included them anyway. If you think this list is long? Well the actual journey has been FAR LONGER than this stupid little list.
| November Harare Cape Town October | Zimbabwe |
| Windhoek | Namibia |
| Johannesburg | |
| Paris | France |
| Pretoria | |
| Kgaladi Frontier Park | |
| Uthukela Mun District | |
| Pretoria | |
| September | |
| New York | USA |
| Pretoria | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Cape Town | |
| East London | |
| Pretoria | |
| August | |
| Cape Town | |
| Kinshasha | DRC |
| Pretoria | |
| Lusaka | Zambia |
| Pretoria | |
| Eastern Cape | |
| Kimberley | |
| Pretoria | |
| July | |
| Bouake | Cote D'Ivoire |
| Johannesburg | |
| Cape Town | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Pretoria | |
| Accra | Ghana |
| June | |
| Cape Town | |
| Buffalo City Heiligendamm | Germany |
| Cape Town | |
| May | |
| Abuja Johannesburg Hanoi | Nigeria Vietnam |
| Cape Town | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Cape Town | |
| April | |
| Bhisho | |
| Tshwane | |
| Johannesburg | |
| Paris | France |
| Khartoum & Juba | Sudan |
| Johannesburg Dar Es Salaam Sandton | Tanzania |
| March | |
| Cape Town | |
| Dar Es Salaam | Tanzania |
| Pretoria | |
| Algiers | Algeria |
| Pretoria | |
| Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
| Pretoria | |
| Accra | Ghana |
| Cotonou | Benin |
| February | |
| Cape Town | |
| Pretoria | |
| Cape Town January Addis Ababa Davos | Ethiopia Switzerland |
So a few words to the wise... Always travel in style... My R408,000,000 Boeing Business Jet is the business. It costs a mere R41,250 per hour to run... These days with the cost of fuel it's a tad more to be honest. On the first trip ever we had to turn around and burn 15 tons of fuel before we could land! So the pilot went flew round and round FOR THREE HOURS while I slept and the planet wept.Generating sufficient O3 at low altitudes can be difficult. The best results I have obtained have been after telling the security detail in my convoy to "drive like hell and stop for nothing" If you then recline, plug in the ipod and turn the air conditioning on HIGH the scenes outside can seem like a movie on a long flight... replete with blaring sirens and blatant disregard for the law. Blimey, I can't remember when last I stopped at a traffic light!
Your President
T Mbeki
Monday, October 1, 2007
Flying HIGH over the shanty towns - Ms DOH (dr)
African Minesterial Housing and Urban Devlopment since 2005
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu, Dr- 28/06/2001 - Lima
- Inside 2002 - Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Bisho
- 13/06/2002 - Tripoli
- 11/08/2002 - Dar es Salaam
- 30/04/2003 - Bujumbura
- 21/10/2003 - Bordeaux
- 12/08/2004 - "I did not know housing was such a crisis in the Western Cape" - despite seeing it from the air many times...
- 13/09/2004 - Barcelona
- 30/09/2004 - Shenzhen - Beijing
- 09/06/2005 - Keiskammahoek
- 21/02/2006 - Suncity
- 04/04/2006 - Nairobi
- 05/05/2006 - New Delhi
- 15/06/2006 - Vancouver
- 15/06/2006 - Vancouver - was I there? did I learn anything?
- 07/09/2007 - Rome
- 25/09/2007 - The Hague
- Oct 2007 - Lagos
- Oct 2008 - Nanjing
| Accommodation Costs (Ranked by percentage increase/decrease) | | ||||
| RANK | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | TOTAL AMOUNT | % |
| | | | | | |
| 1 | Refusal to respond | R 1,503,725.14 | R 3,623,994.84 | R 2,120,269.70 | 141.00% |
| | | | | | |
| Travel Costs (Ranked by percentage increase/decrease) | | | |||
| RANK | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | TOTAL AMOUNT | % |
| | | | | | |
| 1 | Refusal to respond | R 6,750,080.86 | R 16,441,487.10 | R 9,691,406.24 | 143.60% |
| | | | | | |
| Food Costs (Ranked by percentage increase/decrease) | | | |||
| RANK | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | TOTAL AMOUNT | % |
| | | | | | |
| 9 | Refusal to respond | N/A | R 804,147.62 | R 804,147.62 | - |
Fly My babies - Fly my babies
Saturday, September 29, 2007
OOO Health - O3 Dr DOH
Dr O3 DeepBreath...Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, Dr
Dr Garlic / Knoffil / Beetroot / Potato
Dr Vegetable
Dr Garlic / Knoffil / Beetroot / Potato
Dr Vegetable
Waiting to exhale carbon emissions (no doubt fuming with liquor or strong meds)
The Flying Vegetable has been and squeezed lemon juice in the eyes of many around the world. In search for the truth, can O3 cure incompetence? ignorance? liver cirrhosis? ... and madness? ...and stupidity? OOO is my JACKO3 @ altitude African Science?!?
Where is the holy grail - I must sup!
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Out Of Office - O3 Climate Change - Footprint
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| Mbeki leaves SA later this evening to take part in tomorrow's UN climate change meeting in the US |
September 23, 2007, 18:30
President Thabo Mbeki leaves for the United Nations later this evening to take part in tomorrow's crucial Heads of State meeting on climate change in New York.
The special session, which was convened by UN secretary-general, Ban Ki Moon, will look at ways of responding to the global challenges of climate change. Mbeki will address the session, which comes on the eve of this weeks' UN General Assembly starting on Tuesday.
South Africa is participating in the General Assembly for the first time as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Mbeki will also participate in the heads of state debate on peace and security in Africa.
Earlier today Mbeki attended a church service of St. Angenas Zion Christian Church in Moria, Limpopo.
President Thabo Mbeki leaves for the United Nations later this evening to take part in tomorrow's crucial Heads of State meeting on climate change in New York.
The special session, which was convened by UN secretary-general, Ban Ki Moon, will look at ways of responding to the global challenges of climate change. Mbeki will address the session, which comes on the eve of this weeks' UN General Assembly starting on Tuesday.
South Africa is participating in the General Assembly for the first time as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Mbeki will also participate in the heads of state debate on peace and security in Africa.
Earlier today Mbeki attended a church service of St. Angenas Zion Christian Church in Moria, Limpopo.
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