GOOD

GOOD

Dear fellow South African Citizen, I don't know whether or not you’re politically savvy or a political atheist, nor whether you've voted before or not, nor if you’re even affiliated to any particular political party. Neither do I know, whether you've read our amazing constitution or not, nor if you're interested in implementing the freedom charter of our beloved country. But what I do know, is that as a South African citizen, you ought to become politically savvy, and if you never voted, you need to register with the IEC no later than the 27th of January 2019, aligned yourself to a political party, read our progressive SA constitution  and assist in implementing the freedom charter, because it’s your responsibility. 

REGISTER

The Final Voter Registration Weekend for 2019 Elections is 26 and 27 January 2019. If you’ve a millennial who recently reached voting age, and is in possession of a green bar-coded ID book; smartcard ID; or valid Temporary Identity Certificate (TIC),  it’s imperative that you register and align yourself with the party that implements the constitution and not one that pays lip service to the constitution. Your democratic future is at stake, so make the right choice, based on your understanding. Don’t get coerced into voting for a party someone else suggested, or feels you should join, think for yourself and make an informed decision based on your own findings. 

VOTE

Then again, if you're one of those fence sitters who relinquish their right and responsibility to vote, who invariably complain afterwards about unfavourable conditions they find themselves in, then it’s your time to step-up to the plate and act as a responsible South African Citizen, and Vote! But vote for a party that you believe will be true to our constitution. What I'd like to emphasize is, that it takes just one insignificant seeming vote to tip the scales, and that one vote could be yours. So make the difference and vote for the change you'd like to see because that’s exactly what I did alongside millions of South Africans.

Jacob-Zuma as the shit hit the fan

GOOD PEOPLE

I’ve been a card carrying ANC member for many years, but over time I became disillusioned with their internal politics, strife and “corruption”. It’s unimaginable that ex-President Zuma, who ought to lead his fellow countrymen by GOOD example, have 783 charges of corruption laid against him. That’s certainly not a GOOD example because as an ANC representative at executive level, he totally and utterly disgraced the ANC with all his improprieties and indiscretions; yet, several ANC members defended him with tooth and nail. Abraham Lincoln once said "All it takes for evil to triumph is for GOOD men to do nothing" and that’s exactly what has happened. By analogy, if a school pupil in school uniform commit just one heinous act of vandalism and is identified, he or she would most certainly be expelled from school. It would be considered that the pupil brought the school’s GOOD  name into disrepute; let alone 783 acts of criminality than more than warrants extended jail time. 

An old adage says, “What's GOOD for the goose is GOOD for the gander”, it implies that both sexes should be treated equally and shouldn't be subjected to different standards. Likewise whatever is GOOD for the "prince"  is GOOD for the "pauper", but when selective law is applied that favours the “elite” under a constitution that screams, “Everyone is equal in the eyes the law”, then something is drastically wrong. It’s quite evidently that there is absolutely no accountability in the ANC, but there is definitely camaraderie. Camaraderie in corruption!

CORRUPTION

One just has to look at the fallout of the dubious 1 Trillion Rand nuclear deal with the Russians. As well as the dubious R13 Billion Rand train deal with the Canadian company Bombardier, and the separate dubious Jet deal. Not to mention the dubious R30 Billion Rand arms deal with French firm Thales / Thompsons.  Then there’s State Capture and the R5.3 Billion Rand Gupta Gate / scandal; all of which screamed financial kickbacks very loudly. All this happened purely because “GOOD men to did nothing”. 

ANC

Self enrichment seemed to have been the order of the day, and as we've seen, thieves of a feather tend to flock together. It is clearly evident that the ANC wasn’t implementing our constitution but rather a form of tribal law.  Amid the scandals of corruption, state capture, evidence of nepotism, infighting, power grubbing, rampant maladministration in several Provinces, incompetence in public offices and a general decline in the quality of leadership has also become very visible for all to see. Under ANC governance, South Africa has become a state of disaster, devoid of ethics, morals and justice.

Patricia de Lille of the new party that stands for GOOD

ANC BLUNDERS

As a consequence  I jumped ship because the ANC had failed me hopelessly. The ANC also failed Mosiuoa Lekota the former defence minister and his deputy, Mluleki George; as well as former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa, all of whom broke away and formed COPE. The ANC also failed long-time ANC member and youth leader Julius Malema, who also broke away to form the EFF. It is believed that the E & Fs are more favourable to Julius Malema’s than the G&H on his school report. 

The ANC has also failed thousands if not millions of its loyal supporters, several of whom have also  jumped ship, or are at the very least still contemplating to do so. The million dollar question now is, whether or not independently wealthy President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is sufficient of a leader to pull the ANC out of the sewers and retain its vast membership, considering his hand in the Marikana massacre during August 2012.


To make matters worse, the ANC has just committed its latest and biggest blunder —and ultimate mistake with the possibility of backfire— to allow ex-President Zuma —the worst president the ANC has ever had— to campaign on their behalf in KwaZulu-Natal for the 2019 elections.  If this ANC strategy fails, they would lose thousands of disgruntled voters to opposition parties based in KwaZulu-Natal, especially to the Inkatha Freedom Party and National Freedom Party.  One could say that at this moment in time the ANC is its own worst enemy because it had ruined a once functioning country and turned it turned into a country devoid of ethics, morals and justice.

WHITE AGGRESSION

Be that as it may, I then joined the DA, because it was the most multi-racial party in South Africa at the time. Though most of its members were remnants of the “All white” and verkramtpe,  Pieter De Klerk's National Party’s (NP), Helen Suzman progressive Federal Party (PFP) and Zach de Beer Democratic Party (DP). It is only when the DA absorbed Patricia de Lille's Independent Democrats and Ziba Jiyane's South African Democratic Convention that they became the most multi-racial party. Coming from a previously disadvantaged background, this was a very difficult decision to make, considering none of the other parties had the political will nor the amount of seats to really make a difference. So I took solace in the fact that, if Madiba could forgive his apartheid aggressors who unjustly imprisoned him for the better part of his adult life, then I could also forgive them for the atrocities they committed against me and my fellow  previously disadvantage South Africans during the apartheid era.  

Subsequently, the DA recruited hoards of South African’s across all racial lines and secured the “Coloured” vote in the Western Cape managing to secure some 89 seats.  But regardless of this, it is quite evident that despite some "black" support, the DA, even with Mmusi Maimane  at its helm will always be a White Party in the minds of the majority of black people; and that's the very reason why they’ve made little inroads in Black ANC controlled areas.  

DA RACISM

The most multi-racial party or not, breaking news in the Citizen today "alleges" that two DA members were planning to get rid of one or more of their "black"  counterparts in the DA and even called them the K-word during a WhatsApp conversation that was leaked to the press. This more than proves the "All White" ex-National Party verkramtpe, apartheid and  their racist attitudes are very much alive in the ranks of the DA.

POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE

But before I continue, let me put the political scene into perspective.  The African National Congress (ANC) is the majority party, with 249 of the 400 National Assembly seats. In the previous elections they secured 264 seat. Subsequently, their popularity decreased substantially, losing them 15 seats in the process, hence 249.  The Democratic Alliance (DA) holds 89 seats and sits in second position, having somewhat grown in popularity by 22 seats since the previous elections when they only had 67.  

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are the new kids on the block and holds 25 seats, considering it’s the first time they contested the elections. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came in at fourth place having secured 10 seats. However, their popularity also declined, considering that they had 18 seats in the previous elections, subsequently loosing 8. 

The National Freedom Party (NFP) —which is a breakaway of the IFP— came in fifth position, garnering 6 seats. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) managed to secure 4 seats, while both the Congress of the People (Cope) and the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) secured 3 seats each. Out of the 29 parties that contested the elections, only 13 parties were able to secure seats in the National Assembly. The rest just fell by the wayside. What we learn from this, is that when you wager a bet, at the very least, place it on a winning horse.

Due to ANC member disillusionment, caused by the ANC’s poor track record of non-service delivery and ex-President Zuma’s antics, the ANC is bound to lose as many as 30% of their seats. With the racist comments and physical unrest in the DA during the past month, and further prejudiced by the mayor and 5 councillors resigning, it’s quite predictable that they will most definitely loose 50% of their seats. 

EFF IN TROUBLE

Then looking at the financial trouble between AfriForum and the EFF, and the court battles between Pravin Gordhan and the EFF, and the death threats made by their members against the management of the Workforce Group in Vereeneging, they are sure to lose at least 30% of their seats, That's to say if they even manage to contest the 2019 elections. By the looks of things, the EFF is on the verge of bankruptcy due to the VBS Mutual Bank scandal in which it is alleged that Floyd Shivambu’s younger brother Brian had funnelled R10 million through a company called Sgameka Projects into Floyd’s personal bank account, of which the EFF as a party had allegedly received R1.3 million. This renders the EFF's behaviour and conduct unconstitutional and constitutes a blatant abuse of democracy.

There is a Parlimentary probe into Floyd Shivambu's role in th VBS heist.

Politically savvy or not, I'm certain that by now the grapevine informed you that seasoned politician Patricia De Lille and several other Democratic Alliance members absconded from the DA. The question that begs to be answered, is why? Especially, considering that Patricia had been the Mayor of Cape Town for the past 7 years and had done a sterling job. That by itself says, that she must have done something right in order to hold that post for such a  length of time, totally unopposed by any of her own or other party members. By implication something must have triggered this drastic exodus. 

DA LOOSING FACE

The DA voiced a vote of no confidence in Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille yet hopelessly failed to clearly communicate why they no longer have confidence in here. This inability has consequently and irreparably damaged the Party's Brand —and its going to cost them votes— because the things De Lille has been accused of aren't actual crimes.  Apparently  the DA ordered an inquest into De Lille due to allegations that she stopped City manager Achmat Ebrahim from reporting allegations of corruption against Melissa Whitehead, the commissioner of the transport and urban development authority. 

However, when Helen Zille circulated her offending controversial tweets about colonialism, the DA leader Mmusi Maimane turned a blind eye which makes it very clear that there’s widespread irregularities within the DA. Not to mention that DA leader Mmusi Maimane declined the post as premier of the Western Cape previously held by Helen Zille because of the DA's internal instability.

PATRICIA DE LILLE

De Lille is a seasoned politician and willing to tackle spatial justice, social justice, economic justice and environmental justice because no other party has done that before. She was the unapologetic whistle blower on the multi-billion rand arms deal that exposed ex-President Zuma of corruption. If she didn’t bring it to light, corruption in high places would have resulted in SA Rand being downgraded to junk status a long ago —its effects possibly creating another Zimbabwe.  Patricia has exceptional political will and her track record more than proves it.  Whilst a member of the Pan-African Congress (PAC)  in June 2003 she had the conviction and the political will to abscond in order to form her own party —The Independent Democrats. 

In 2014 the Independent Democrats  (ID) merged with the DA with each ID member having dual membership under the DA-ID. The merger was finalized to better challenge the ANC because they had 
become increasingly corrupt and was abusing the Constitution.  Consequently, Helen Zille  became the Premier of the and Patricia De Lille the Mayor of Cape Town. After seven years in office, Patricia De Lille once again demonstrates her conviction and political will by absconding in order to form a new Political Movement named —GOOD. Her reason for leaving the DA, is that the constitution was not being implemented by the DA as it ought to be and she was going to see it implemented even if it meant an exodus.  

THE GOOD MOVEMENT

The GOOD people of this movement vow not to tolerate corruption but to fight it. Not to allow racism but stand-up against it. Not spread hate but hope. Not to neglect the aged but to revere them. Not to fail our children but to educate and care for them. Not to stand idle whilst others suffer and promote GOOD business so that we can grow our economy. 

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 It's time for GOOD, Join the GOOD, SA needs GOOD, 

GOOD people support GOOD people, It's time for GOOD to win, 

South Africa needs GOOD people, Vote GOOD to make a difference.

The new Blue is ORANGE. Vote the TRUTH. The truth is ORANGE,
Vote Orange, Vote Patricia de Lille, Vote GOOD,

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Religious Prejudice

Religious Prejudice

Religious prejudice has been around for a very, very long time and implies negative behaviors and attitudes among people of different religious groups, purely because of their differing religious beliefs and practices; each claiming exclusivity over heaven. Christianity however has been the most prejudice of all, because it forced its Christian doctrine on whomever and whatever religious practice they encountered, that opposed or conflicted theirs. Even accusing Islam of converting Christians by the sword. The blame game continues and every country have religious problems to some degree or the other among their various religious groups and denominations.

Ireland has issues with Protestantism and Catholicism.  China with its belief in Buddhism have issues with Christianity; forcibly demolishing their places of worship throughout its region. India with its belief in Hindusism have issues with Islam resulting in Tamil extremist burning several Mosques to the ground. Zionist Israel has had a 70 year long, and still on going war against Islam and the Palestinian Muslims.  The closest Israel came to destroying the Al-Aqsa mosque; is that the Israeli government funded an app that visually destroys Al-Aqsa by replacing it with a Jewish Temple. In the same vane, the rest of the world also seem to want to destroy Islam at their own peril.

Islamophobia

The University of California Berkeley and the Council on American–Islamic Relations released a report, estimating that $206 million was funded to 33 groups whose sole and primary purpose was "to promote prejudice against,  Islam and Muslims". This took place in the United States between 2008 and 2013, with a total of 74 groups contributing to Islamophobia in the United States during that same period.  The Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) organisation even generated media publicity by sponsoring billboards in New York subway stations alleging that 19,250 terrorist attacks have been committed by Muslims since 9/11 and stating "it's not Islamophobia, but Islamorealism."

Islam

Islam is the belief in the Oneness of God, a religion based on monotheism.  Islam is the last of the Abrahamic religions, identical to the moral teaching of Judaism and Christianity but on a completely different level. A level to which the other "monotheistic religion's"  adherents have not ascended to as yet, or rather are ascending to, but very slowly. Muslims accept both Moses and Jesus as divinely inspired prophets, as mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Islam is also the fastest growing religion in the world, constantly winning over adherents from other religions,  however it's not just a religion; but a complete way of life. A way of life originally demonstrated by both Moses and Jesus. Muslims as a whole base their way of life on the tenets of the divinely revealed Holy Qur'an and the life examples of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW). The Islamic jurisprudence derived from Qur'an is referred to as the law - Shariah; and the real life examples of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW), referred to as the Sunnah, is enshrined in innumerable verified narrations commonly known as Hadith, that calls towards God consciousness, piety and righteousness.

Muslims

As such, there are a great many practicing Muslims earnestly striving in obedience to the Shariah and Hadith, in character, in speech, in social interaction, in kindness, in dress, in their business practices and so many other aspects of life. For example, fairness to their fellow man, observing good ties with their kinsfolk, feeding the orphans, are punctual in their prayers, give charity and pray for forgiveness, among so many other deeds of good intent. Occasionally some of them may err but their conscience and natural demeanor invariably makes them regret their poor judgement and apologize to those whom they may have aggrieved, and alternatively make restitution in some other way or form, like fasting, feeding the poor, giving charity and praying for forgiveness. The bulk of these Muslims the world over are not terrorists or jihadist as main stream would want you to believe. They are considered mainstream Muslims; however there are those "Muslims" who exist on the fringes of Islam, 

Black Sheep

Specifically those who openly profess Islam with the tongues, but outwardly exhibit their foul and arrogant ways, have rude mannerisms, practice poor business ethics, lie, cheat, steal and even deceive, maim and plunder. In a nutshell they practice selective obedience to Shariah and Hadith, if at all, thus justifying their actions with their skewed, obscure and limited or sometimes over zealous understanding of Islam. These are the black sheep of Islam. 

Hostiles

As a matter of fact, you can find them in every household, in every family, in every community, among every race, and among every nation throughout the world. Whether singularly or severally, they are the miscreants who give Muslims a bad name; and double-up as the worst poster boards for Islam per se. Their abhorrent and repugnant  demeanours makes non-Muslims frown upon the religion of Islam, judge and distrust righteous Muslims based on the actions of these miscreants, resulting in hostilities towards Muslims as a whole, to the point that some non-Muslims, vent their frustrations on the Qur'an by setting it on fire.

Extremists

Be that as it may, the American media catergorise these miscreants as "Muslim religious extremists" because of their violent activity; some even calling them jihadists; placing them in the same category as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) "terrorists", the African National Congress (ANC) "terrorists", the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) "terrorists", Al-Qaeda "terrorists" and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) "terrorists" even though  to this day, there is no International consensus on the legal definition of terrorism. Simply, because one mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist.

Christian terrorist

Having said that, the American media and its politicians are doing the American public a huge disservice by creating the impression that  terrorism is an exclusively Islamist phenomenon. According to a report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), titled “The Age of the Wolf”, more people have been killed in America by non-Islamic domestic terrorists than jihadists. Adding that even though the  “the jihadist threat is a tremendous one,” and the deadliest in U.S. history. The second deadliest was not carried  out by Islamists, but by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City. It appears that ultimate sin in America is mentioning that Christianity has a dark side. For a look at other Christian terrorist organisations click here.

Presidential Prejudice

Moving on, one just has to observe the reactions of Americans to witness their hate crimes against Muslims living in their predominantly non-Muslim societies. Especially when considering that the American President went as far as to place a ban on Muslims from 11 Muslims countries, preventing them from entering America. By implication, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has failed miserably in their mandate. USCIRF is an independent body established by the U.S. Federal Government Commission, its Commissioners appointed by the President and the leadership of both political parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives. USCIRF objectives and purpose is to advise the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress and to make policy recommendations on issues of "International Religious Freedom".

Hate Crimes

Somehow it seem that USCIRF was far too preoccupied with their "Religious Prisoner of Conscience Project" than to be bothered with the rights of the unincarcerated 3.45 million Muslims living in America. In an  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) report, namely "Hate Crime Statistics Report" dated 2015, it states that 21.9% of people assaulted in the United States, were victims of Anti-Islamic bias; and that Anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 67%, from 154 incidents in 2014 to 257 in 2015. These stats are but minuscule when compared to the fatalities of Muslims that resulted directly from the American occupation Anti-Islam wars against  Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria and Jordian etc.

Burning Mosques

To add insult to injury, look at the amount of Mosques that were bombed in places like Ypsilanti in Michiganin, Tucson in Arizona, Bloomington in Minnesota, Huntsville and Hoover in Alabama, Davis in  Roseville, Sacramento in California, Miami, New Tampa, Port St. Lucie and Tampa in Florida, to mention but a few. Alphabetically speaking, bombings took place in almost every state, from Alabama to West Virginia and just last year, 63 publicly reported incidents occurred, where mosques were targets of threats, vandalism or arson. Islamophobia  had thus become imprinted on the psyche of Americans at large, to the point that Muslims are continuously harassed where ever they may be.

Religious Freedom?

What has happened to religious freedom? Doesn't Muslims have the right and good reason to say that they feel disrespected by those in the West? As such, one also has the right to question the establishment of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Having said that, the American media and its politicians capitalize on public fear and distrust of Muslims and constantly exacerbate tensions through Anti-Muslim propaganda. Be that as it may, this level of anti-Muslim prejudice and Islamophobia isn't only confined to America nor did they invent it.

The Start of Prejudice

In the early days of Islam in Mecca, during the 7th century, the new Muslims were constantly subjected to abuse, many of them persecuted, tortured and killed by the pagan Meccans. Much later during the time of the First Crusade, due to Anti-Islam bias, the crusaders killed every Muslim inhabitant of Jerusalem. Much later during the Rule of Roman Empereor Frederick II, virtually every Muslims in Sicily, Malta and Lucera  was either massacred, forcibly converted, enslaved or exiled due to their religious bias. 

Prejudice at its height

The Iberian Peninsula under Christian rule introduced legislation to remove Islam, culminating in Muslims being killed or forced to convert to Catholicism by the Spanish Inquisition. Under the Sikh Empire and the occupation of Samana, the Sikh army massacred in excess of 10,000 unarmed Muslim men and women. And in the Siege of Sirhind, Banda Singh Bahadur ordered that all men, women and children of Sirhind be executed or burned alive. In Southeastern Europe more than 5 million Muslims were driven out of their homes by the Serb army and a further 5 million  were killed or died of disease and starvation while fleeing. Tens of thousands of  Muslims Albanians and Turks were Massacres during both the Greek Revolution and the Balkan Wars, all done in a manner that by today's standards would be characterized as ethnic cleansing. This was done so effectively that virtually no Muslims remained in Thessaly and only a few thousand in Crete.

Prejudice in the East

In Cambodia about half a million Cham Muslims were killed, exterminated by Cambodia  communists and according to Cham sources, 132 mosques were destroyed. Only 20 of the most prominent Cham clergy out of its previous 113  survived the Khmer Rouge period. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Hui Muslim county of Dachang was vanquished by the Japanese with their  policy of deliberate humiliation referred to as the "killing policy" and in the process destroyed as many as 220 mosques. After the Rape of Nanking, mosques in Nanjing were found to be filled with dead bodies. During the French conquest of Algeria approximately 850,000 indigenous Algerians were killed, because genocidal hatred was the French way of echoing "expel the native and if necessary destroy him." From the time of WWII to present day, countless Muslims have been massacred and the International community calls the massacred terrorist whereas the on a global scale, the Muslims were the terrorized.

Prejudice is learnt

1. Concerned Christians - is a Christianist doomsday cult intent on killing Muslims, who infiltrated Israel with the intention of destroying the Al Aqsa Mosque.

2. The Phineas Priesthood - is a White supremacist groups or rather  Christian Identity movement having white supremacist ideology based on Christianist terrorism agaist Muslims.

3. The Army of God - is a violent Christianists network, openly promoting killing abortion providers. Several of its members were executed by lethal injection many serving life imprisonment.

4. The Ku Klux Klan - is a white American supremacist, radical right hate group with some 8,000 Klan members nationwide, who physical assault and murder individuals whom they opposed. They are famous for burning huge wooden crosses.

5. Neo-Nazism - is a post-World War II militant movements with a international network, with representation in many countries seeking to revive employ Nazi doctrine ideology to promote hatred, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, antisemitism. 

6. The Montana Freemen -  is a "Christian Patriot movement" convicted of terrorism because of their  doctrine of individual sovereignty which rejected the authority of the federal government of the United States.

Prejudice based on Ignorance

Over a period of 29 years there has been a Mass shooting an average of every 200 days without fail.  A mass shooting is defined as an indiscriminate rampages in public places resulting in four or more victims killed. As average of 300,000 Americans have died in gun relate incidents over the past 50 years, amounting to 1.5 million Americans dead prematurely or unnecessary. America has the highest gun related deaths in the world with its suicide rate almost double its homicide rate.

Smuggling Illicit Contraband

Smuggling Illicit Contraband

The crime level in South Africa is virtually doubling annually. Therefore, most South Africans wouldn't feel comfortable carrying large sums of cash on their person due to the risk of potentially being robbed. In fact most of them wouldn't dream of transporting more than 100 thousand rands personally. They would rather use bank transfers to move money unless they have something to hide. So, who in their right mind would honestly believed that they could smuggle large sums of  money through airport customs checkpoints by just covering it up with cloths, hopping not to get caught.

Controversy

Contrary to popular believe, there are some controversial people who would in fact do just that, though it is completely legal to take R25,000 or less out of the country. However, the question that begs to be answered is, Is this real money or is it counterfeit? My reasoning is, that if fake South African money is sent to and spent in foreign counties, where International Shopping Centers and people in general do not know the security features built into the South African Currency, they would uncerimoniously accept it as legal tender. The same applies to US dollars. If for example, US Dollars are distributed in Dubai, where US Dollars are readily accepted, few people would realise that they've been conned until its too late.

Follow the money

About three months ago, a 27 year old man was nabbed at OR Tambo International Airport preventing him from departing for Mauritius. Acting on intelligence or rather a "tip-off", his luggage was intercepted by Gauteng  police and searched. After rummaging through his suitcases customs officials found 10 "cigarette carton sized" packs collectively containing R6,993 million in bank notes. The cash was made up of $199.300 US dollars and R4.5m South African rands. The contraband was impounded by the forfeiture unit and the suspect was arrested and charged with contravening the Customs and Excise Act. He appeared in the  Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court the following Monday considering the arrest happened on the Friday before.

Counterfeits - Funny Money

Based on my assumtion that I voiced above, it doesn't make logic sense for anyone to be in possesion of R2 million worth of US Dollars in cash in South Africa of all palces, unless its funny money. So as much as the above controversial case and those below made the headlines, it could be a ploy of some criminal syndicate to keep the SAPS, SSA, DPCI and the Hawks busy, chasing their own tails, while the real action is happening elsewhere. 

Hardly 5 months later, two people were once again arrested at OR Tambo International Airport with undeclared US currency worth more than R6 million. Customs officials intercepted the passengers  as they were about to board their flight enroute to Dubai. When their luggage was inspected, two manilla envelopes containing $83 000 US Dollars was found hidden under their clothing. The money was seized and criminal charges of "failure to declare as well as currency smuggling" has been opened against both passengers. 

US Dollars

Once again, its a cache of US Dollars found in South Africa trying to make its way to Dubai specifically. In September 2018 alone, there going to be 68 Trade Fairs taking place in Dubai. Whoever has a stall at any of those Trade Fairs would be fair game for these "smugglers" of counterfeit money. Why they even call it  funny money is beyond me because its really not funny when you realize that you've been hoodwinked out of your possessions in exchange for paper not fit to be even used in a toilet.

Some six months later a 38-year-old Pietermaritzburg man was arrested at Cape Town International Airport whilst trying to take more than R10 million with him to the United Arab Emirates. The Hawk’s Serious Commercial Crime Unit seized the cash and and arrested him. He subsequently appeared in Bellville Magistrate’s Court for contravening the Customs and Excise Act 91/1994 by failing  to declare the money.

By now you should be on my wavelength regarding taking large sums of money to the middle east. In the above case there wasn't any dollars involved but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a buyer who would readily buy up this money at a quarter or third of its real value.

South African Rands

About a year prior, a 30-year-old man was arrested at King Shaka International Airport in Durban with more than R12 million of undeclared cash in his luggage. Apparently the Airport Police received a "tip-off" about a certain  passenger who would be leaving South Africa with a large sum of money, this, after he already boarded the plane. After his luggage was offloaded, his bags were scanned and all 7 bags showed proof of hidden currency. The bags were subsequently opened in his presence and upon counting it, the currency amounted to a cool R12 229 200 South African Rands. The dude was placed under arrest and appeared in the Verulam Magistrate's Court on charges of contravention of the currency and exchange act. 

The above case also doesn't involve any US Dollars. So like I said before, there may be a buyer if it is counterfeit, but what if it isn't. Having said that, there has been a spate of "cash in transit heists" over the past year. I understand that banks record all bank note serial numbers before it is shipped anywere, so if this "counterfeit money" is genuine South African money, it may in fact be the spoils of "cash in transit heists" . It may be the thieves way of  attempting to render the serial numbers of the bank notes untraceable by getting them out of the country.

As recent as yesterday, a female student enroute to Hong Kong was arrested by South African Revenue Service (Sars) officials as she boarded a flight at OR Tambo International Airport. She had bundles of US dollars to the value of nearly R10 million in cash in her hand luggage. After counting the cash, it amounted to $630 700. When questioned, she admitted that she had $650 000 US dollars in her backpack but that it didn't belong to her's par se. Neither could she identify who the cash actually belonged to. She was booked for currency smuggling and for failure to declare it.  

In the above case, we only have US dollars, more than 600 000 of them. Of all the currencies in the world, it appears that US Dollars are the easiest to counterfeit. Not because it only has two colours and its security features aren't very high, but because it has a favourable exchange rate hence and presents no big challenge for the skilled counterfeiter. 

Counterfeiters

Having said all that, not too long ago three men were arrested in Pretoria. They were found in possession of a substantial amount of suspected counterfeit bank notes.  Acting on a "tip-off", the local police raided a unit inside a block of flats and arrested the suspects. They had stored the counterfeit bank in a lock-garage, packed into stacks of bags and boxes. The cash resembled US dollars and South African rands and amounted to $1.4 million but appeared to be of a low quality. 

I rest my case!

A collaboration between Acsa (the Airports Company of SA), SAPS (SA Police Service), Asset Forfeiture Unit (NPA), DPCI (Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) and the State Security Agency (SSA) are dealing with illicit cash and contraband flowing through our South African gateways and borders.

A Sad Day

A Sad Day

The democratic Constitution of South African is flaunted as the primo constitution globally. It enshrines the  most important rules of the county's political system in order to protect the rights of its peoples. In a nutshell it highlights the values that must guide South Africa and its people as a whole. 

The constitution also defines what their powers are, and how it may be use by them. It gives insight to how Parliament and the other legislatures work. It explains how the national and provincial executives are chosen and how the South African courts function. As the supreme law of the country, the Constitution established 6 institutions to support South African democracy, further flanked by 14 chapters, viz  Parliament, the Bill of rights, the Founding Provisions, the Courts and the administration of justice, etc.

The South African courts function independently, yet and only subject to the Constitution and the law, which they are compelled to apply without bias - impartially. Its Conciliation Boards and Industrial Court of old, lacked credibility among organised business and organised labour, because under their ineffective adversarial model of operation, a mere or a rather measly 20% of all disputes were settled. 

As such, the Industrial Court was subsequently replaced by the CCMA. Armed with the amended LRA of 1995 and its somewhat informal relations model, one that  promotes greater co-operation and social justice, the CCMA now boasts a dispute resolution figure of over 70%. The question that begs to be answered is, "Is that really good enough for a country the boasts the best constitution in the world"? Having said that, take cognisance that a good 30% is falling through the cracks. Or a good 30% of is people is being fed a plate of injustice. Or a good 30% of perpetrators of injustice are getting away scot free, totally unchecked.

When an employee feels that he or she is unfairly dismissed from work without any procedural conformity, or without severance pay or is sexually harassed or plagued by any other work related gripe, he or she then has the right to refer it to the CCMA. As such the CCMA provides recourse against exploitation, harassment, discrimination, unfair labour practice, disciplinary hearings  and so many other off beat practices. Employers on the other hand, also  have recourse against employees who make fraudulent declarations on CV's, sleep on the job, steal company property, have incapacity,  display misconduct and operational requirements, but the list goes on. Essentially a mechanism of the state to assisted both employees and employers against the wrath of one another.

CCMA stands for Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA); a body established in terms of the Labour Relations Act, 66 of 1995 (LRA), focused on dispute resolution. The objective of its formation was the need to bring SA labour law into conformity with the SA Constitution as well as with International Law and its guidelines are enshrined in a 333 page document, downloadable here!

So, before you refer a dispute to the CCMA, be sure that it has merit. Never refer a dispute that doesn't have any, because it would just be a waste of your and your employers time, a waste of tax payers money and serve as an injustice to fellow employees whose referrals could have been expedited. It could be worth your while to consult said document and see how it relates to your dispute and what your chances of success are.  

But and a very big but at that, dispute referrals have a time constraint, a "sell by date" if you like. To elaborate,  "dismissal disputes", fair or not, expires in 30 days whereas "unfair labour practice" expires in 90 days. In fact the entire LRA of 1995 is time sensitive to the point that whole document borders on being annul about "within 14 days", "within 21 days", "within 30 days", "within 60 days" and "within 90 days".

If for example you have a watertight case of dismissal against your employer but fail to submit within the 30 day prescribed period, you're standing on the edge of a really deep precipice. The CCMA may condone a submission if it shows "good cause", implying that you need to complete a condonation form which covers "the degree of lateness of your the referral; the reason for the lateness; the prospects of success based on its merits; and the prejudice you stand to suffer if condonation is not granted". A really slippery slope.

The outcome of condonation "showing good cause" is subject to the commissioner's leniency and it's gona be "A Sad Day" when he or she figuratively flushes your watertight case down the drain without even looking at it.  Talk about rock bottom - slippery slope - deep precipice.

But allow me to divert from the topic ever so slightly. The statute of limitations is best described as a statute that prescribes a "period of limitation" in which to bring about actions of a certain kinds. For example, murder, treason and sexual abuse of a minor child is deemed far too heinous to warrant any limitation.  Whereas, the statute of limitations for rape varies based on the severity of the assault but can be anything from  3 to 30 years after the criminal act, depending on the state and country. 

South Africa has numerous and varying laws which specify prescription periods as a "rule of law", specifically designed to bring finality to an issue. However "Prescription" is inappropriate for sexual offenses, because instead  of fulfilling its intended purpose of penalizing victims for not reporting a crime, in effect it penalized them for being unable to report the crime due to the trauma it caused, not to mention the fear of reprisal. Very peculiarly, most rape victims aren't even aware of prescription as a law, even though the law pundits tout that "ignorance of the law is no excuse", expecting all citizens to know what they know.

I can hypothetically equate this "within 30 or 90 day prescription"  to a rape case, where the raped doesn't lay a charge timeously and the perpetrator /offender goes scot free or is rather given the licence by the legal system to continue raping unencumbered. Restated, if an employer is guilty of firing employees left, right and centre and if none of them ever had any previous dealings with the CCMA they would all, more likely than not, be totally oblivious of its time frames, thus all guilty of referring their disputes late. 

If  their condonation   doesn't "show good cause", all these employees would feel violated (raped) by there employer yet unable to do anything about it, because the system is flawed. The CCMA or rather the "rule of law" hereby emphatically dismisses the employees legitimate gripe, thus further punishing him/her fairly heavily and to add insult to injury, awards criminal employers a licence to continue to dish out further injustices on as many other employees as they likes, totally unencumbered.  Where's the human dignity, the equality, the human rights and the freedoms enshrined in this all encompassing constitution? It's high time that "Prescription on dismissal must fall".

I'm certain if a survey is done on how many employees missed the deadline for referring disputes to the CCMA, because of their unfamiliarity with the law, it would be devastatingly high.  Probably much higher than their conflict resolution dispute success rate of 70% because their workload would then only constitute 30% of all cases anyway. Is this democratic progress? Or is our legal system regressing all its people to rape victims, violated by their employers, while the "rule of law" looks upon the act with a smile on its face.

Donald Trump or Donald Duck

Donald Trump or Donald Duck

The law of unintended consequences took centre stage the past few days, triggered by Donald Trump's reechoing of Benjamin Netanyahu's sentiments and speeches. Specifically saying "... It is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel ...". Palestinians both Christian and Muslim took offence to this and as a consequence US flags and photographic images of Donald Trump were set alight by protesters in the Middle East. As a consequence Israeli soldiers attacked and fired live ammunition on Palestinian demonstrators during the tree days of rage. Meanwhile British parliamentarians are calling for Donald Trump's visit to the UK to be cancelled. Not to mention that the UN thinks Donald Trump is a low life and so does Robert De Niro. Just listen to what he has to say. 

Donald Trump's utterances and actions are looking more and more like that of a comic book character than a President. The anthropomorphic white duck  known as Donald Duck comes to mind because he's done some pretty darn stupid things in his comical career. Donald Duck is famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his unthinking behaviour, so akin to Donald Trump.

Donald Duck for President

One of Donald Duck's favorite sayings goes as follows "I don’t care if you think I’m Abnormal, Strange, Weird, Crazy, Insane, Odd And Bizarre, Life is too short to be normal."  This quote sounds so much like Donald Trump its almost uncanny, besides Trumps behaviour is as temperamental as that of Donald Duck if not worse.

Another Donald Duck quote goes something like this “Don’t get confused between my personality and my attitude… my personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.” You  must agree this actually sounds as if it originated from the mouth of Donald Trump, rather than that of  Donald Duck. It's become an almost accepted norm for  Donald Trump to make ridiculous and outrageous statements that often result in populace anger and frustration even disbelief. 

Case in point, people are so disillusioned by him that slogans like "Fuck Donald Trump and Fuck You for voting for him" are emerging. The masses were already fed-up with him before the republicans voted the blabber mouth into power. Trump has labeling black people as criminals, Latinos as rapists, and Muslims as terrorists, thereby securing  the vote of aggrieved white republicans nationally. 

Fuck Donald Trump and Fuck You for voting for him

Then he does on to say the following:- “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bring crime. They’re rapists… And some, I assume, are good people.”  Here Donald Trump proves that he has the mindset of a racist.

He then continues with: - “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” Here Donald Trump sounds like he approves of incest and would actually indulge.

He then continues with: - “My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.” Here Donald proves himself to be conceited and a narcissist.

He then continues with: - “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything….Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” Here Donald Trump sounds more like a Misogynistic Sexual Pervert than a President.

It would then be fair to say that Donald Trump is a Racist, Incest Mongering, Conceited and Narcissistic, Misogynistic Sexual Pervert and everything that everyone accuses him of, is absolutely true. 

The Palistenian Peace Process

The PPP (Palistenian Peace Process)

President Donald Trump just made the biggest mistake of his political career, so much so that the White House called for an immediate impeachment vote. More correctly he  committed political suicide today when he ordered his white house staff to make plans to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In his spech Trump flatly said "... It is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel ...", and his subsequent  actions mimicks the utterance and speeches of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the tea.  One could almost say that Donald Trump was dumb enough to be played and manipulated by his puppeteer Benjamin Netanyahu - the puppet master of ISIS.

To add insult to injury, the United States of America is a member state of the United Nations and Donald Trump single handedly sabotaged its very important "impartial" role in the peace process, proving that in reality, Washington has never been an honest peace broker. Effectively this disqualifies the United States from any future peace negotiations. In his short political career, Donald Trump is becoming bolder and more controversial by the day,  in his attempt to defy 25 years of UN peace processes. Donald Trump's stand flies in the face, ignores and contradict the International peace negotiations  achievements, of the 125 nation states of the United Nations. Each of whom has condemned Donald Trump's n the strongest of terms. Trump justifies his actions by sighting that ex-presidents made promises, but were not brave enough to deliver and that he is.

Trump's foolish decision is bound to cause unrest and instability in the middle east, howbeit this may very well  be the  underlying reason for his ridiculous statements. One just has to look at travel ban Trump leveled at  six Muslim countries and his retweets of anti-Muslim Videos.  In a nut hell Donald Trump is an Islamophobe. Through Trumps stupidity Netanyahu lost his greatest ally in his "One State solution" rather than accept the 'Palestinian two-state solution based on the 1967 borders'.  In 1967 there was a minuscule amount of Jewish settlers living in Palestine but today there is in excess of half a million Jewish settlers illegally occupying Arab lands. Todate Netanyahu has destroyed Palestine, destroyed its democracy, divided the people, forced the Palestinians into exile, etc, and responsible for killing thousands of innocent bystanders.  As such Benjamin Netanyahu the destroyer will be forever shamed as a diabolical terrorist, akin to Adolf  Hitler.

Trump's speech has draw world wide condemnation and anger as well as International reaction. PLO says Trump's decision is in violation of International Law and that he aborted the peace process before it is born.   Hamas called for three days of rage starting from tomorrow.  Currently there are protest in all middle eastern counties, the masses burning Israeli and American flags. In Istanbul and Ankara Turkey the US embassy is being picketed. King Abdullah II of Jordan said Trump's dangerous statements would only incite terrorists groups. Palestinian refugees feel great anger and says Trump crossed the red line. The City of Jerusalem is considered sacred to by Palestinians and by both Christians and Muslims globally. Specifically the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter  and the Masjidul Al Aqsa as well as the  
precincts of Baitul Muqaddas. Yet, with his statements Trump has the audacity  to offend 365 million Arabs both Christian and Muslim; and two billion Muslim globally, in his support of the "Jewish rights"; as if, their rights exceeds that of the Arab and Muslim world, or for that matter an other human being.

Qatar, France, UK, Egypt,  etc, vehemently disapprove of Trumps decision and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Tukey even requested Trump to reconsider his decision. Thirteen centuries prior to 1917 Palestine was wholly Palestinian and its only through the Balfore declaration and the impetus of  Theodor Herzl with his political Zionism that Jews starting entering Palestine and illegally setting up the State of Israel.  However, it is important for the entire Islamic world to speak in one voice against Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and his absurd Zionist behaviour. The only solution to the PPP is  the 'Palestinian two-state solution based on the 1967 borders'. 

The God Particle

The "God Particle"

About a week ago I watched a movie called the "Accountant" starring Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a CPA with an extraordinary mathematics ability who has a greater affinity for numbers than for people. I dare say, that's not such a foreign concept at all because personally, I prefer computers to people, since they are reliable, efficient, accurate, pleasant, perform according to expectations and among  other things, are consistent, whereas generally people are not. 

The Hadron Collider - see the size of the construction compared to size of the man in the foreground.

But allow me return to the mathematics savant Christian Wolff. Being a strong willed army sergeant, his father wouldn't accept that Christian would grow up to be a weakling. So by adulthood he had learnt extraordinary skills, which were forced upon him by his father because as a child he was different. At a young age he displayed impatience, hyperactivity, impulsivity but instead of inattention, he was focused and became irate when he couldn't complete a task. If I had to give his mental disorder a label I would call it a combined case of OCD, autism and ADHD. Though, not every child with autism spectrum disorder can be called a mathematics whiz, a study suggests that autistic kids generally show above-average math skills. 

Be that as it may, modern opinion suggests that anyone with a disability either mental or physical may be superior to people generally considered whole and sane. This is the overall impression the Accountant seem to advocate. Just because they seem lesser or inferior doesn't meaner they're not better or superior, that insane is the new sane and that sane is over rated. This sentiment is the basis of psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher's theory, played by Betty Buckley in the movie "Split". Starring James McAvoy as Kevin; a mentally deranged individual with a dissociative identity disorder, diagnosed with 23 distinct personalities, who kidnaps three girls due to the physiological prism within his single being. 

For several decades 'dissociative identity disorder' have fascinated yet eluded science and medicine. Psychiatrist believe that DID patients can manifest unique physical attributes for each personality to the point that one personality may need medication for a specific condition whereas another personality will not need it nor show symptoms of said illness. Again implying that a mental condition of split personalities is a super-sane condition and that sanity is its underling.

Stephen Hawkins, one of the most brilliant minds in the field of Physics, yet confirmed atheist.

This brings me to the  brilliant mind of confirmed Atheist, World-famous author, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, full professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology - University of Cambridge, Stephen William Hawking. Seventy five year old Steven Hawking  was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of 21, and has been wheelchair bound ever since. But, as a real person, he by far exceeds the "fictional bullshit" of 'Split' and the 'Accountant' as a superior brain. 

Physicists are vigarously seeking for answers to the birth of our universe and how it relates to the Big Bang.  It is commonly assumed that most scientists are atheists and that most believe religion and science cannot co-exist, but not all scientists are atheists hence the 'warfare' between science and religion continues. Albert Einstein's wrote an essay called “Science and religion,” that was published in 1954, in which he says “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Yet all scientists accept his theory of relativity E-Mc2 explicitly but beg to differ with him when it comes to belief in God.

This  GOD particle image so much resembles the pupil of the eye with the iris in its centre

Be that as it may, for more than a half a century physicists have been struggling to find the missing piece of the particle-physics puzzle — "Higgs boson" aka the "God Particle". Essentially the "God particle" is the sub atomic particle that gives matter mass and is the  cornerstone of  physics theory.  Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were both awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2013, more than a year after discovering the "Higgs bason" and for theorizing about it as long ago as 1964.  They predicted it exists, based of major gaps in the "standard model" for fundamental particles matter. 

This "standard model" presents the best way of understanding particle physics regardless of the yawning gaps, amongst these gaps are gravity, and other experimental contradictions. The model also attempts to describe the forces, components and reactions of the fundamental particles that make up matter which is composed of atoms and other subatomic particles. The model predicts that there are certain elementary particles even smaller than protons and neutrons called quarks.

This ancient Mayan calender somewhat resembles the LHC

The wiring driving the electron magnets in the LHC 

The result from the recent experiments at the 27km long tunnel underground Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a  particle accelerator straddling the borders of France and Switzerland, filled the yawning gaps in the "standard model" as proof that the "God Particle" does exist.  However, there is enormous doubt among associate physicists that the "God Particle"  now discovered  is in fact  the same "Higgs bason"  found in 2012. They further who believe it may even be a techni-Higgs (a particle easily confused for the Higgs bason).  During these experiments 5 new particles were discovered. Physicists found that an atom has a nucleus, that a nucleus contains protons and neutrons, that they contain quarks in exotic multi-quark states, such as pentaquarks and tetraquarks and gluons that bind quarks together.

 In a nutshell the energy densities that are created by collisions cause ordinary matter to melt into constituent sub atomic parts —quarks and gluons. Physicists are now setting their sights on finding and seeing dark matter which is the undetectable material that constitutes 85 per cent of all matter throughout universe. It binds galaxies together yet its nature is completely unknown, purely because it belongs to the unseen. But much of what they discovered was already known to the ancients in the form of Platonic Solids,  the Egg of Life, the Aztec Calender, the Golden Ratio, etc.

The Aztec Calender  that also resembles the LHC

The beauty of all these scientific discoveries should make us acknowledge God Almighty and appreciate God’s awe-inspiring universe. Also be cognisant that none of this came together by accident but rather by His design. CERN spent $13.25 billion on finding the "God Particle" and in the process managed to find 5 more unknown particles. Meanwhile  it is estimated that in the known, observable universe, there are as few as ten quadrillion vigintillion ( 1 x 10 to the power of  79 Zeros) atoms to as much as a Googol of atoms.  

A Googol  sound similar to the name of the world's largest search engine, however a Googol  is  written as 1 x 10 to the power of 100 zeros. Literally written out as follows:-  
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.  How many millions of other particles isn't there that are still unknown to Physicists.  The amazing thing is, they are all God's particles, because He says "... And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little"  - Surah Al-Isra [17:85]. Physicists (men of little knowledge) are willing to would spend tens of billions of dollars  just to try and prove that there is no God, even though all the evidence out there, that God exists is starring them in the faces. 

With equipment like the Hadron Collider, the Hubble Space Telescope, the ELT, the Electron Microscope, and whatever else, with which to observe both the micro and macro creations of God, why do minds the like of Steven Hawking, Peter Higgs, Richard Dawkins, Francis Sellers Collins, Lawrence Krauss, Fred Hoyle, Paul Myers, Sam Harris etc... baulk at One Incomparable God, Creator, Sustainer of the universe?  In the movies discussed above both Christian Wolff and Kevin had brilliant minds yet both were a few sandwiches short of a picnic.  Is it possible that each of these Physicists is a trotter short of of pig? 

Anyway, these atheist scientist who use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments with which to study and probe the fundamental structure of the universe and its constituents of matter have analogize particle physics with  Hindu mythology because its origin can be traced back to the prehistoric time around 5000-10000 BC.  As a consequence a 2-metre-tall statue of Lord Shiva performing the Tandavam or Nadanta (cosmic dance) outside CERN Geneva, where the Large Hadron Collider is housed. In Hindu Mythology Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva is the  destroyer or regenerator. 

A Brahma day and night is 8.6 billion years long  and central to Hindu tradition is the concept of mahayuga (great cycle) lasting for 4320 000 years which is divided into four cycles which will end by flood and fire. Shiva  symbolises "Shakti" or life force and  his  cosmic dance with flame in one hand destroys and the drum in the other regenerating  everything. Physicists  witnessed the birth, life and decay of atomic particles and as such use the metaphor of the cosmic dance as the icon that unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.

Then there is also much speculation of a correlation between the LHC and earthquakes,  resulting from  alteration of the butterfly effect of the  magnetic field lines of our planet by the LHC magnetic field.  CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was also accused of attempting to  open an inter-dimensional gateway or portals for angelic and fallen spiritual beings made of "mysterious dark energy" to come into our dimension, or unlock a parallel universe,  or even discover a fifth force of nature in dark matter.