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Maybe in laa-laa land the government works for you, but in reality most governments have ulterior motives and only serve their own agendas, so much more so in our country.
 
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As I said once before, the less work you do and the more corrupt you are, the better you will succeed in this country.
 
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Fudzy said:
What's more worrying than the housing development is that sewage plant. On that note, why do they always refer to it as raw sewage? Do you get cooked sewage? :D
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Compared with treated sewage that can be released back into rivers. So Nope you do not get cooked sewage but you do get treated sewage :)
 
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Developers want to build upmarket housing around a dam that will be constantly polluted by the Mayor of Kimberly's sewerage. Sounds like an upmarket investment!
 
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quik said:
Maybe in laa-laa land the government works for you, but in reality most governments have ulterior motives and only serve their own agendas, so much more so in our country.
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I suppose that is the reality, but it is our responsibility to make them work for us. The only reason the government is there is to enforce our Rights, and the only reason they are written down is because the government has to have "it on paper" that we actually have them, even though they are inherent in every single person on Earth, regardless.

You can kill someone but you cannot take away their right to Life.
 
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Carte Blanche footage has also been removed from the Mnet website... Someone must have complained about it
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Either that or the ANC told them to take it down. Nothing really surprises me anymore....
 
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This is great news as this is one of 4 sites in Africa that the Lesser Flamingos breed
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20081128122047710C188394

Conservationists are popping the champagne corks to celebrate the arrival of more than 100 newcomers to the world who, with a bit of luck, could be followed soon by a thousand or more others of their kind.

These newcomers are Lesser Flamingo chicks that have just hatched on the specially-constructed artificial island at Kamfers Dam, a large pan just north of Kimberley - the second successful annual breeding effort since the S-shaped island was completed.

January was the first time chicks of this species have hatched naturally in South Africa, and the massive breeding effort currently underway - conservationists have reported "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of eggs on the island - has started significantly earlier this season.

"The breeding event is six weeks earlier than last summer, perhaps an indication of the flamingoes' acceptance of the new breeding site," says the Save the Flamingo Association that is battling controversial housing and sewage concerns.

The Lesser Flamingo is a threatened species known to breed at only three other sites in Africa - Lake Natron in Tanzania, Etosha Pan in Namibia and Sua Pan in Botswana - and occasionally at two in India.

This species only breeds successfully at Etosha Pan once every 12 years, and all five breeding sites are threatened by a number of factors, including dam construction in the catchment areas and a soda ash plant at Lake Natron.

Conservationists are hoping the birds will now breed annually at Kamfers Dam.

"This will almost certainly reverse the current negative population trend that has been observed in southern Africa during recent decades," the association notes.

During the previous breeding season an estimated 9 000 chicks were produced.

"If one considers the southern African Lesser Flamingo population only numbers about 100 000 individuals, Kamfers Dam contributed significantly to this relatively small population during the past summer."

Recenly, the dam has been shrouded in controversy.

Conservationists raised serious concerns about a malfunctioning sewerage works which supplies the dam and a proposed housing development a few hundred metres from the dam. The project has been authorised by the Northern Cape government, although an appeal is pending.

Three conservation scientists were suspended in August because of their involvement with the flamingo association and their outspoken concerns.

One of them, Eric Herrmann, is now back at work, and a second, Mark Anderson, has taken up a senior position with BirdLife South Africa. The third, Julius Koen, remains suspended.
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I though flamingos had taste.

Must be the only bit of colour in the whole town.
 
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The F*ckwits have authorized the development around the dam to go ahead.

Money wins again.

It makes me sick.
 
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Mikroz said:
The F*ckwits have authorized the development around the dam to go ahead.

Money wins again.

It makes me sick.
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Once again. So where is idiot Marthinus Van Schalkwyk now. Oh sorry I forgot he can't say anything against any ANC member because then he doesn't have work anymore.....Makes me sick!
 
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Slaine73 said:
Once again. So where is idiot Marthinus Van Schalkwyk now. Oh sorry I forgot he can't say anything against any ANC member because then he doesn't have work anymore.....Makes me sick!
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Ah kortbroek. Pathetic little man :eek:
 
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