WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-10-04 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[My God! Can you believe this nonsense?
Oh and by the way… you can look in the shops everywhere and meat and fruit prices are SKYROCKETING. They talk about 5% and 7% inflation. Well… not for those items! It is WAY HIGHER! Jan]
Cape Town – A trade union has called for truth-commission type hearings to expose what it says is the “devastating situation” of farmworkers in the country.
The Food and Allied Workers’ Union (Fawu) made the call on Wednesday, following the Supreme Court of Appeal’s overturn last week of the “lion murder” conviction of Mark Scott-Crossley.
Fawu said the ruling was a miscarriage of justice, and that it was increasingly evident that in cases where farm workers were murdered and tortured, the perpetrators got off with light sentences.
“We therefore call for a process similar to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to unearth the devastating situation of farm workers in this country,” Fawu said.
| ‘Scott-Crossley is … still guilty of a very serious and gruesome offence’ |
“Maybe such a process would start to address the endless murders and other atrocities committed against defenceless victims on farms.”
Fawu is active in the agricultural sector.
In a separate statement, union federation the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said justice had been “ill-served” by the court’s decision.
“Scott-Crossley is… still guilty of a very serious and gruesome offence, which deserves a much more severe sentence than the five years he has now been given,” Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said in a statement.
He said Cosatu was also concerned that the appeal judges had criticised the trial judge for his comments that the relationship between farm workers and their employers was characterised by a “domineering and overbearing attitude” on the part of the master.
| ‘It is to curb such brutality that we need exemplary sentences for those found guilty’ |
“Cosatu believes however that the judge’s statement accurately describes the nature of labour relations in rural areas, which explains the widespread abuse of farm workers by their employers,” Craven said.
“Nelson Chisale was a tragic victim of this kind of relationship…
“It is to curb such brutality that we need exemplary sentences for those found guilty of committing or being accessory to violent acts against workers.”
Three appeal court judges last week set aside Scott-Crossley’s murder conviction and life imprisonment, imposed after he was convicted of throwing former employee Nelson Chisale into a lion enclosure in January 2004.
The appeal judges substituted a conviction on the lesser offence of being an accessory to murder after the fact, and sentenced him to a backdated five years’ jail. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20071003154705918C298343