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: 2008-03-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Karen Breytenbach
Petitions condemning the police raids on three Stellenbosch pubs on Friday were circulating in the Neelsie student centre and the Red Square on the Stellenbosch University campus on Wednesday and Thursday.
This as those affected by the “excessively violent” action gear up for a rally on the Red Square on Friday.
According to a tentative plan, the rally, scheduled for 1pm, is to be addressed by Stellenbosch Mayor Loretta Maree, SRC chairperson WJ le Roux, Lennit Max, the former Western Cape police commissioner and the DA’s spokesperson on community safety, and a representative from entertainment venues – Bohemia, Die Mystic Boer and Springbok Pub, among others.
The rally is being organised by Johan du Toit of the Democratic Alliance Student Organisation, but a campus circular emphasised that the event was not along party lines and that all concerned students, citizens and organisations were invited to attend.
“The petition and event are considered to be an inclusive initiative aimed at bringing together students around rights violations,” Mike Leslie, the SRC member for community interaction and environmental affairs, said in a letter.
Meanwhile, the police have confirmed that the raids were conducted by members of the Stellenbosch police, assisted by the National Intervention Unit – a fact that surfaced on the Facebook group, “Police raids in Stellenbosch”, this week.
Police spokesperson Andre Traut said the Intervention Unit was trained to “defuse and neutralise dangerous and potentially dangerous situations, such as search and seizure operations and hostage situations”.
Traut also said the investigation was handed over to the Independent Complaints Directorate and therefore the police were “no longer in the position to comment on the issue”.
Public opinion has been divided on the raids, with some people congratulating the police for cracking down on drug dealing and debauched behaviour in the campus town and others condemning the police for the alleged assault, sexual assault and intimidation of the patrons of the pubs.
The international press and literary circles have also expressed their shock at the raids, in which Flemish poet Dirk van Bastelaere and Dutch author Tommy Wieringa, guests at last week’s Woordfees 2008, hosted by the university and sponsored partly by Dutch money, were caught up.