Foreign guests at Diwali celebration in Pretoria called 'coolies and k*****s'

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Zoomzoom said:
All is fine until someone gets hurt. Fireworks cause hundreds of horrific injuries and deaths every single year to people and animals. They are a relic of a by-gone era and should be banned.
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Replace fireworks with guns or cars wait use people. Should we also ban all people?
 
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Hamish McPanji said:
If he booked the venue, I'm sure that nobody would have stopped him
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Usually these venues in estates you can book but you cant exclude other members from using the facilities, ie you dont have exclusive access. We've had estate venues booked but others were free to pitch and do their own thing. It's more to just let others know there's something on.
 
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Lol they should've thrown fireworks on that loud mouth in that video.
Typical grumpy old man, sucks the fun out of everything.
 
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Hamish McPanji said:
No, it shouldn't. Some unit owners are total schitheads. And they should not be afforded the right to veto things, as they have no lives and get upset with anyone who does.

If we had these kind of rules, we would never have had fiber installed in our complex, or be able to book the pool for anything....because some dick would say no
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The job of the trustees of a complex is to keep the peace in a complex by following the rules. Installing a fibre network, whilst disruptive, is equally disruptive to everyone, and everyone benefits from it.
That is the test the ombud will look at when deciding whether the conduct of a complex is fair or not. The trustees of a body corporate or HOA are not dictators, they have to abide by the principle of the rule of law (unlike the government ironically). They cannot make an arbitrary decision to allow an extremely disruptive event that only a few people will benefit from.
THere would have to be a rule in the complex's constitution that specifically allows them.

And I can bet you this crowd didn't follow the by-law, so it will be interesting to see what the SAHRC will say when the victims are breaking the law.
As our Hindu residents will be celebrating Diwali, the City of Tshwane would like to inform all participants that private firework displays need to be approved by the Tshwane Emergency Services Department.

The following requirements must be adhered to before the application will be considered by the Fire Safety Section for the private discharge of fireworks on the premises:
-The area where the fireworks are to be discharged must be at least 100 m from buildings, roads and railway lines.
-The area where the fireworks are to be discharged must be at least 20 m from telephone lines, telegraph lines, power lines, trees and overhead obstructions.
-An area extending 50 m from the front and to the sides of the point at which the fireworks are to be discharged is to be clear of persons.
-The area to be kept clear for falling residue that is expected to drop from aerial fireworks must extend for at least 100 m to the rear of the discharge point.
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https://rekordeast.co.za/189750/city-tshwane-laws-discharging-fireworks-diwali-festival/
 
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sox63 said:
Joburg bylaws state they can between 7pm to 10pm. In the article they stated the start time, so they were not doing anything wrong. Assuming Tshwane bylaws are similar...
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Cray said:
Also depends on the rules of the complex, I get an e-mail letter every year stating that fireworks are banned anywhere inside our estate.
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ponder said:
Yes that would be correct and 100% legit. You cannot have the reverse though.

Bylaws state 19:00-22:00 fo guy fawks & diwali, complex rules can say, no none whatsoever no fireworks period. This will not be in contravention of the bylaws.

Bylaws state zero tolerance for fireworks, complex rules say it's ok from 17:00-01:00 guy fawkes, new years, diwali or anytime a national sports team wins a match. That is a clear contravention of municipal bylaws.
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Tshwane and Joburg bylaws are similar - you need written approval from the council prior to discharging fireworks. Bylaws cannot be overridden by estate/complex rules. Estate/complex rules can be more restrictive than bylaws.
 
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Spontaneous spinach said:
Lol I hope that piece of shít gets his asś thrown in jail
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You don't achieve anything by throwing "racists" in jail.

Our jails are over crowded and it is pointless.Violence and racism,yes but just racism no.

Community service is better.

Make them work for a NGO

Make them work at a morgue

Throwing a racist in jail is the same as throwing a drug addict in jail.

It doesn't achieve anything
 
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No excuse for this blokes racial remarks (if indeed he did, couldn't pick any up), but he does seem super worried about the animals which I can support.

People in our suburbs as well, going mad with fireworks - fortunately my dog is ok and not bothered, but I could hear my neighbour's dogs howling.
 
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lucky there was no youngsters there that guy would have got klapped so hard
 
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quovadis said:
Tshwane and Joburg bylaws are similar - you need written approval from the council prior to discharging fireworks. Bylaws cannot be overridden by estate/complex rules. Estate/complex rules can be more restrictive than bylaws.
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That's what I've been saying, complex/estate rules dont count here. T
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Besides go back to india what else were there?
 
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