Saving Penny

A short entry today. I’d like to share how my afternoon turned out:  

The book store that I work at (part time) is in the front of what was once a larger store, our sub-division was done with chipboard walls. At 12 today my friend who’s a manager there heard a cat meowing on the other side of the office wall and informed centre management that there might be something stuck in the disused section… 

Fast forward to 16h00.  I step out of the store to get some fresh air and decided to peep through the windows to see if they got the cat out. Turns out they did SFA and I could see a kitten in there. Grabbed one of the security guards (“locals”) then got another and another. After I had gone through 4 of these rather useless chaps (now 40 minutes after I saw the kitten) and then getting asked by their controller via radio what padlock was used on the door as they couldn’t find the keys I managed to “affect” an entry…. 

Now I’m inside but it’s nearly pitch black, ask the security guard if he has a torch. NO. Useless honestly. I managed to get a headlamp from Cape Union mart (an outdoors supplier) and after moving heaps of stored metal tables and running around I, with the help of my buddy, caught our little friend. I estimate that she was trapped there between 24 and 48 hours.  She was scared witless but is a perfectly healthy 10 to 15 month old tortoise shell kitten with white, orange and grey markings.

My buddy’s family had decided to adopt her which makes me exceptionally happy as she won’t have to go through the whole adoption thing! She was last seen tucked into a blanket for the evening… 

Now as soon as I have a pic of her I’ll post a pic of Penny  

‘Twas a good way to spend the last hour of my time at work…

Its ok to “rape” men and boys! Only in South Africa!

In South Africa we have a Constitution; apparently it is the highest law in the land. In reality this is far from the truth as we all found out on the 10^th of May 2007 when the highest court in our land, the Constitutional Court, ruled that a man cannot be raped.

To begin with enshrined in out “most holy” of laws is the Bill of Rights. Under this we have the equality clause that states in section 9 that,

1.     Everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law.

2.     Equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms. To promote the achievement of equality, legislative and other measures designed to protect or advance persons or categories of persons, disadvantaged by unfair discrimination may be taken.

3.     The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.

4.      No person may unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds in terms of subsection (3). National legislation must be enacted to prevent or prohibit unfair discrimination.

5.     Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.

All of the above makes perfect sense as it is written in plain English. In fact the above section was used in a recent Constitutional Court decision which ruled late last year that the then definition of marriage was unconstitutional and that if Parliament did not change it then the definition would automatically change on the 1^st of December 2006.

YAY!!!

Notice that the Court had forced the Government (i.e. the Legislature) to change the law with its decision as that will be VERY important to the following rationalization of the whole “men cannot be raped” deal.

In the “man rape” case our enlightened and august Court bench warmers ruled that the non-consensual penetration of a man’s anus does not constitute rape but that the same non-consensual penetration of a female’s anus does in fact constitute rape. The reasoning for this is that our Constitutional Court found that extending the definition of rape encroached on legislative terrain.

HOLY DOUBLE STANDARDS BATMAN!!!

Go and re-read that. 

 Yes you were right. In the case of same-sex marriage the Constitutional Court encroached on legislative terrain, there is no other way one can view it, they forced the Government to change. In the second instance they backed away due to legislative encroachment. Not only that but they took a great big shit on the Equality clause above as sub-section 1, 2 and 3 are now completely ignored in terms of protecting the men and boys of this country.

So as it stands if you as a man, your son or any other male has your/his poopschute forcibly penetrated you are indecently assaulted and not raped.  This means that if your 10 year old boy gets raped so badly that he cannot walk and that his rectum does not function, instead of getting the mandatory life sentence for the rape of a minor the perpetrator will get a lesser sentence as there is  no prescribed sentence for indecent assault.

Xolani Mbambani stands accused of just such a crime. I hope his 10 year male old victim is comforted by Justice Nkabinde’s decision…

Makes you feel safe and secure doesn’t it?