New ranks a slippery slide to a police state or total control of the masses?

Whats with Africa and it's need to militarize everything and wear fancy Bling Bling when you head of anything?

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It's official. All ranks will be changed to military ones, from national police commissioner downwards. Bheki Cele will be known as General Cele and our provincial commissioner, Mamunye Ngobeni, will be Lieutenant-General Ngobeni. The new ranks go all the way down to inspector - now warrant officer.

For those at the bottom of the chain, the ranks of sergeant and constable will remain untouched.

How quickly we have forgotten our past. Do we want a return to PW Botha's total onslaught and a police force that gave what should have been an honourable profession a bad name? From the security police to Vlakplaas and hit squads - that was our nightmare never to reoccur.

But a mere 16 years into our democracy, a new breed of securocrats - many with firm roots in this province - are in charge. We are told that reverting to the military ranks of old is necessary, because of the lack of discipline that supposedly accompanied the demilitarisation of the police after apartheid.

General Cele - as he insisted on being called even before the new system came into operation - says it's part of a new approach of being "fierce" towards criminals while "lenient" to citizens' safety and maintaining good discipline. Yet we all know a mere name change is not about to result in improved policing, better discipline or a more effective fight against crime.

General Cele need only look at our SA National Defence Force - with its military ranks - which has not bred the disciplined and professional soldiers we expected in a modern South Africa. What the new system might well do, though, is give some of our policemen and women a licence to act with brutality and violence, alienating our communities further.

So will the new emphasis on a police "force" result in a decrease in crime? Not one iota I should Imagine.

Oh hell I am flying Comet air from now on

Flight attendants owed up to nine months' wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday.

The calendar, numerous excerpts of which appeared in the Spanish media, shows the Air Comet attendants, all female, posing provocatively in and outside airline cabins, and in one case on top of a jet turbine.

"We are just demanding our rights to receive what is ours, we each have eight or nine months of unpaid salaries," attendant Adriana Ricardo, who appears in the calendar, told Reuters.

A satisfying Easter Meal like a Chicken Tagine with its Morrocan Influence is good

Chicken Tagine

Making use of the following ingredients, a slow cooked meal will be ready for you to enjoy for 2 people:


Ingredients
2 free range chicken thighs
2 free range chicken drum sticks
oil for browning
1 onion cut into quarters
2 cloves of garlic - crushed
8 mushrooms - sliced
1 cup red wine
1 sprig fresh thyme
salt and freshly ground black pepper - to taste


Brown the chicken pieces in oil - I use olive oil. Once browned season and remove from the pan. Add the red wine and bring to the boil, and boil for 30 seconds. Add the onions, garlic, mushrooms, chicken and thyme. Cover and allow to cook for at least 40 minutes to ensure the chicken is cooked thoroughly. Serve with brown and wild rice.

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 Show me your Pussy its so cute and Fluffy

FIFA is nothing but an 800-pound Gorilla being a Pathetic Bully

Three South African calendar manufacturers say they will fight Fifa in court over the soccer body's claim that it has trademark rights to the date "2010".

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We are obliged to act in the interests of our licencees, who have paid substantial amounts of money to share in the branding around the cup

The dispute, which has been simmering since the beginning of the year, came to a head last week when Fifa's marketing arm issued the businesses with lawyers' letters demanding a total of R2.7 million in royalties.

Fifa maintains that use of the date for commercial purposes, such as in calendars, is a breach of the special legislation approved last year to protect its branding ahead of the world cup.

However managing director of Cape Town publishing firm Paragon, Goolam Allie, said on Thursday that the claim was "spurious".

"They are definitely chancing their arm," he said. "We have spoken to our lawyers, and we will fight them all the way."