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Original Post Date: 2002-03-30 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/30/2002 6:22:24 PM
Advice re: Stolen Cell Phones & Criminal Law in South Africa
Hi Folks,
A note for you to remember. When a cell phone is stolen you can of course have the SIM card blocked. That way they do not make calls which you pay for. But, did you know this, there is a serial number on your phone itself, the IMEI number. This is normally on the box or the original contract. If you have that number then they can blacklist your cell phone – the actual device – and it can NEVER be used again!!!! So, you can have the last laugh.
I must say, there was more fortune involved in this than you can believe. Can you believe my cell phone contract, of 2 years, expired on 15th March – just13 days before it was stolen? I was supposed to “upgrade” to a new contract to get a new cell phone – but I did not. If I had done so, I would have lost the new cell phone. Instead, they stole my rather worn old one and I got a new one today by doing the upgrade (which is hardly costing me anything).
So I was really lucky, I avoided having to fork out the money for a new cell phone.
For many years I had made a habit of always carrying very little cash on me because of the dangers of mugging. And on that day I had almost nothing in my wallet – which was quite amazing.
But I had been getting naughty and was carrying all my credit cards with me – one can cancel them of course – but it would still be inconvenient.
Now I’ll just be more careful regarding what I carry on me.
I do have a small Baby Browning pistol which is extremely small but can of course hurt one at close range. Having been through this it is easy to see that such a concealed weapon could be used to shoot at the fleeing muggers. But, as with everything in this country, one must ask oneself if it is worth it. It is illegal to shoot at someone who is running from you according to our latest laws. Even Police are not allowed to do it. Also, if you use a handgun and the criminal has a knife, that will also work against you. The current law states that if he has a knife you must counter him with a similar or “lesser” weapon. So you must use a knife too. You can only use a handgun in self defence if he has a handgun and if he is facing you. So, suppose for example, I did fire a shot (apart from it being in a crowded area), suppose I hit one of my attackers. He could in all likelihood have me up for attempted murder – period – I’d be the criminal and he’d be the victim. So with small things such as this, it is a waste of time to fight these people because our laws favour the criminals.
Do I really want to spend endless days in court? I am an hourly paid person so I would lose my income while fighting a court case in which I would be the one in the wrong.
I do believe most people who work in Johannesburg City Centre either don’t go out during the day or carry very little cash on them. Clearly this is the wise thing to do.
The bottom line is, the Police don’t care and our laws favour the criminals anyway.
But I will get my revenge in time. Incidents like this, and the murder of my one cousin in January, 2002 (shot in cold blood by blacks as he arrived at home and opened his garage door), will certainly be used by me to tell people in the outside world just what a cess-pool South Africa has become. My cousin had a 9mm gun on him and was shot to death before he could draw the weapon. He was just gunned down – nothing was stolen and the blacks fled the scene. It did not even make the local news in the city of Germiston where he lives. He was 35 years old.
As you know, Pieter Pietersen, an Afrikaans comedian, was murdered the other day by blacks – at the autopsy they found he had 28 stab wounds.
Marika De Klerk, wife of the former President De Klerk was murdered by blacks who got into her high security, upmarket home – led in by a SECURITY GUARD.
The list goes on and on. To those of you with contacts in Zimbabwe, or who have experiences of your own in SA – well, let me know about these things. I will put it on my website and spread it around. I did that for Gilbert when his sister was hijacked and beaten by blacks last year and her car was stolen.
The Government doesn’t give a damn about crime. They just count it differently and then say “Gee, crime isn’t so bad”. The Police themselves told me the Carlton Centre was a crime cess-pool – and they were exclaiming how terrible it was…. but that’s the Police for you… all they do is exclaim and do nothing…
Mind you, I reported it at Linden Police station which is in a nice area near where I live. But I watched as the Police (blacks), put on bullet-proof vests and took out rifles as they were going on patrol. Police don’t walk around with batons or even handguns – they bring semi-automatic rifles with them – now what does that tell you about the “low crime rate” in South Africa where each year, hundreds of black and white Policemen are gunned down by criminals in gunfights.
And, like I say, they’re not allowed to shoot at fleeing suspects any more because then they are up on attempted murder charges.
Let me tell you something, criminals in this country got away with a lot even in the days of Apartheid. I’ll tell you what I happened to me personally. In 1987, during Apartheid, I lived in an apartment in the centre of Johannesburg. Blacks often robbed nearby stores. One morning I heard glass breaking and I looked down from my 6th floor apartment and saw the shattered window of a pawn shop. I watched at 4am in the morning as a black man walked out on to the empty street – he looked around suspiciously to see if anyone saw him (he never thought of looking up!) then he went to the shop. He reached in and took a camera and sidled down the street. A friend of mine living with me phoned the cops and we directed them to the scene. The Police station was nearby. Within a very short time the Police were marching back with the man who stole the camera. I recognised the man by the way he was dressed and told the Police that they had caught the right guy. The Police asked the two of us for statements. End of story – we had done our civic duty. Six months later the white Policemen were knocking on our door asking for new statements. The black man had managed to get off the charges and was now suing the white cops!!! Their jobs were on the line and they wanted new statements from us so as to save their hides. This happened UNDER THE HATED APARTHEID!!!! The whole incident pissed me off no end because I had watched a criminal being caught RED HANDED and he had gotten away with it. Back then I could already see that criminals can get off scott free – but now, the situation is a dozen times worse – now the law REALLY FAVOURS THE CRIMINALS AND EVEN ENCOURAGES CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.