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      "body": "Plea for Help:\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1776661199299517&set=a.1382746165357691.1073741828.100008669619910&type=3\n\nSOUTH AFRICA: Farm Attacks directed at the minority group of white South Africans living in rural areas of the country consequently become brutal Farm Murders and thus the term ....“Cultural Marxism”\nThe (SAPS) South African Police Service write (log) incidents under a disguised name; for example; a farm attack can be reported as a domestic dispute, or a dispute over wages which are not correct. \nThe SAPS will attempt to partly investigate the incidents and report to the media that majority of these incidents are done by foreigners; example Zimbabweans which is not entirely true. \nHow many of the perpetrators committing these heinous crimes are actually incarcerated is unknown!\n\nThe family of victims the incidents are threatened by the SAPS NOT to speak to the media and the media are forbidden to report such incidents.\n\nWHAT CAN BE DONE ? 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STOP being a victim.\n\nEFF 'killing' banner causes outrage\nNews24/Sapa\n14 October 2013\nCape Town – Social media buzzed on Monday over a picture of a banner allegedly shown at the\nEconomic Freedom Fighter (EFF) launch in Marikana.\nA picture showing a red banner with the words “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine\nmotivated by pure hate” was quickly shared on various social networks on Monday.\nAnother picture shows a banner saying \"Honeymoon is over for white people in South Africa\".\n\"I also saw 'we need to kill them like they killed us' banners yesterday,\" User Qaanitah Hunter said in a\nTweet.\n\"I'm not aware of that banner,\" EFF's national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi told News24. \"It's not\nofficial\".\nCameron Modisane, an EFF supporter who posted numerous pictures of the launch on his Twitter profile,\nalso responded to some of the outrage on Twitter. He said the banner was created and paid for by the\nKatlehong branch members.\n\"This is not to advocate for killing of people but rather equality,\" he said. \"Our greatest enemy within EFF\nis white monopoly capital.\"\nHundreds of people gathered in Marikana, North West for the launch of Julius Malema’s EFF party on\nSunday.\nMalema, once an outspoken supporter of Zuma and a former president of the ANC Youth League, formed\nthe party after being expelled from the ANC.\nAccording to its constitution, the EFF is a radical, left-wing, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist movement.\nThe party claims it provides clear and cogent alternatives to post-colonial economic systems, which in\nmany countries had kept the oppressed under colonial domination.\nThe party advocates the expropriation of South Africa's land without compensation, and the\nnationalisation of mines, banks, and other strategic sectors of the economy.\n\nSouth Africa: Where Corruption, Rape and Murder Are Normal\n\nThe unthinkable is now reality. Only in Africa? \n\nRobert Morley, The Trumpet\n\nOctober 2013\n\n \n\nI met a woman from South Africa the other day. What she said shocked me.\n\n “Not long ago, I thought I was going to get raped and murdered by the police.”\n\n What?\n\n She was on her way home to her acreage in a farming community outside Johannesburg when she approached a four-way stop.\n\n “This intersection is known for carjackings,” she said. “No one stops. You just slow down enough to make sure you are not going to hit anyone, and keep going.\n\n “You know what happens to people who get carjacked?” she asked. (read more)\n\n \n\n\n\nThose who have taken our land must not be arrogant: Malema\n\nSapa\n\n26 September, 2013\n\n\n\n\"We know once we take this land forcefully, they will use the economy to fight us,\" he said in Pretoria.\n\nMalema was speaking outside the Theo van Wijk building at the University of SA (Unisa) after management denied him and his supporters access to the hall.\n\nHe told the large crowd which had gathered to listen to him that Africa was rich, while its occupants were poor.  He said the Europeans on the continent were richer than the natives.  \"That has to change. If you take the land, you take everything that comes with it. You take the seed. It won't be the Indian Ocean in Africa, it will be the African ocean,\" he said.\n\nHe told followers to tell those who said they were punishing the wrong people; that a wound did not rot in Sesotho.\n\nHe sought to assure white people that genocide would not be committed to get the land back, and said they were brothers who had a right to live in the country. (read more)\n\n\nEmail from South African Citizen, August 27, 2013:\n\nDear Dr Stanton and Genocide Watch Interns\n\nI see you are posting regular updates on South Africa again. This is then a good time for me to again give you a broad overview of South Africa’s situation. This then will be a fairly long email on various SA-related topics. I'll try to squeeze in as much relevant info without making this an extremely long email. I’ll provide references throughout my writing. If you want to publish this email (edited or unedited), feel free to do so. (read more)\n\nDr Tom G Palmer's critique of Malema’s Economic Freedom Fightsrs Manifesto\nBy Dr. Tom G. Palmer - Free Market Foundation\n23 August 2013\n\nCato Institute fellow says Malema's programme would plunge SA into a morass of poverty\n\n\"If the Economic Freedom Fighters Manifesto were ever adopted, it would bring famine to South Africa in 10 years\" - Dr. Tom G. 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\n7 August 2013\n\nJohannesburg - Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele has described Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema as South Africa's own Hitler or Mussolini.\n\nBeeld reported on Wednesday that Ramphele made the comparison after delivering the second Frederik van Zyl Slabbert memorial lecture at a high school in Polokwane.\n\nMalema is making dangerous promises on land expropriation to desperate people, like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini had done ahead of World War II, she said. (read more)\n\nSurvey shows EFF's policies appeal to youth
\nBy Khuthala Nandipha
\n6 August 2013\n\nAt least 38% of South African youth feel the Economic Freedom Fighters’ key policies will will them support, according to a survey.\n\nThe survey of 2 339 respondents, between the ages of 18 and 34, conducted by consumer insights company Pondering Panda showed that Malema’s land reform policy and the elimination of borders in Southern Africa are key to EFF's success among young people. (read more)\n\nJulius Malema launches Economic Freedom Fighters group
\nBy BBC News
\n11 July 2013\n\nSouth Africa's former African National Congress Youth League leader, Julius Malema, has launched a political group called the Economic Freedom Fighters.\n\nMr Malema, who was expelled from the governing ANC in 2012, said the EFF wanted the redistribution of farm land and the nationalisation of the mines. (read more)\n\nNational assembly approves controversial information bill \nREPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: PRESS RELEASE \n26 April 2013\n\nReporters Without Borders is very disappointed by the South African national assembly‟s adoption of the new version of the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) yesterday with 190 votes for, 73 against and one abstention.\nAn earlier version was already adopted at the end of 2011 (http://en.rsf.org/south-africa-will-secrecy-law-approved-by-22-11-2011,41436.html) but, in response to demands for changes from the opposition, the National Council of Provinces (the South African parliament‟s upper house) made a number of minor amendments. These concessions still fall far short of what is needed.\nReporters Without Borders urges President Jacob Zuma not to sign the bill into law as it poses a serious threat to transparency, freedom of expression and accountability. (read more)\n\nThe Gruesome Reality of Racist South Africa\nFrontgate Mag\nMarch 11, 2013\nBy Arnold Ahlert\n\nFor decades, the country of South Africa was the focus of an international rallying cry against the injustices of apartheid. On June 17, 1991, South Africa’s Parliament abolished the legal framework for the practice of racial persecution. In 1994, Nelson Mandela and his Marxist African National Congress (ANC) assumed the reins of power. The international community looked away, satisfied that justice had prevailed. They continue to look away, even as South Africa has degenerated into another racist pit, best described by an Afrikaner farm owner: “It’s politically correct to kill whites these days.” (read more)\n\n\nStephane De Sakutin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images\nAnti-Apartheid Leader Forms New Party in South Africa\nBy Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times\n18 February 2013\n\nJOHANNESBURG — Mamphela Ramphele, a respected veteran of the struggle against apartheid, announced on Monday that she had formed a new political party to compete against the governing African National Congress, calling on South Africans to “join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams.”\n\nThe party is called Agang, a Sotho word meaning “build.” In recent years, Dr. Ramphele, 65, a medical doctor who became an anti-apartheid activist and a leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, has focused on social activism and business. Until last week, she served as the chairwoman of Gold Fields, a major mining company.\n\nThe new party is the latest in a string of challengers to the dominance of the A.N.C. (read more)\n\nBriton Chris Preece latest victim of South Africa's farm murders \n\nThe First Post\n27 November 2012 \n\nLondoner hacked to death and wife left seriously injured in latest attack on white farm owners The murder of a British man, Christopher Preece, on a South African farm at the weekend has reignited a debate about the alleged \"genocide” of the country's white farmers. Fifty-four-year-old Preece, a geologist from Southgate, North London, was hacked to death with knives and machetes on his Fleur de Lis farm in Ficksburg Free State, near Bloemfontain, on Saturday night, but the news only emerged yesterday. He had gone outside to look for his dogs, which are said to have been poisoned by his attackers. Waylaid by three armed men, he fled for his home but was followed inside and killed. (read more)\n\nDe Klerk lambastes ANC ‘s Marxist-Leninist policies\n\nFin 24\nNov 01 2012\n\nJohannesburg - South Africa's last apartheid president F W de Klerk has blamed the ANC for the country's spiralling social and economic woes. In a speech to business leaders late on Wednesday, the 76-year-old De Klerk lambasted the\nwealth redistribution policies of the ANC. He said they would cause \"social engineering in which people's prospects would once again be determined by race, rather than by individual merit and circumstances\". De Klerk hit out at what he called the Marxism-Leninism of some members of the ANC alliance, which he blamed for widespread unemployment and the failure to attract investment. South Africa is experiencing one of its worst crises since apartheid, as a wave of violent strikes led by miners demanding huge wage increases has highlighted the country's huge social discrepancies. De Klerk, co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, acknowledged that some of the country's woes were inherited from the apartheid but argued that the party of President Jacob Zuma was failing to deal with them. (read more)\n\nSouth Africa – Official Hate Speech\n\nStage 5:  Polarization\n\nBy Genocide Watch -\n\n12 July 2012\n\nThe African National Congress has been South Africa’s governing party since the Presidency of Nelson Mandela 17 years ago, following the end of white minority rule and apartheid.  In the years under apartheid, hate speech was used by both supporters and opponents of the apartheid system to stir up their followers.  When racial tensions in South Africa ran high, the song “Kill the Farmer, Shoot the Boer” was a revolutionary song of the anti-apartheid movement.  However, it is an illustration of the long-term impact that such de-humanizing language can have.\n\nAfter many years when such songs were no longer sung, in 2010, prominent members of the ANC Youth League, in particular Julius Malema, President of the ANC Youth League, openly sang the “Shoot the Boer” song at ANC Youth League rallies.  Not only did revival of the song strike fear into the hearts of Boer farmers, but it has actually been sung during attacks on white farmers. It is an incitement to murder white Afrikaner farmers.\n\nOver 3000 white farmers have been murdered since 1994. The South African police have not made investigation and prosecution of these farm murders a priority, dismissing them as crimes by common criminals.  The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons.  Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings. \n\nA recent outbreak of violent farm invasions has led to casualties among white South Africans. The farm invasions are direct results of calls by Julius Malema and his Deputy, Ronald Lamola for whites to give up their land without compensation, or face violence by angry black youths “flooding their farms.”\n\nIn response to Julius Malema, the Freedom Front (FF) cited Section 16.2c of the South African Constitution, which restricts freedom of speech rights by excluding as unprotected speech \"advocacy of hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and incitement to cause harm.” The FF contended that Malema’s singing of the “Shoot the Boer” song was hate speech and therefore a human rights violation. Acting Judge of the South Gauteng High Court, Leon Halgryn declared that the song is hate speech, and it is unconstitutional to either utter or sing “dubul’ibhunu” (“shoot the Boer.”) He issued an injunction against Malema, ordering him to no longer sing the song. The phrase is now considered hate speech.\n\nJulius Malema was shortly thereafter removed as President of the ANC Youth League, and ejected from the ANC.  However, Malema’s followers have defied the judgment and continue to sing the song. Even\n\nPresident Jacob Zuma sang “Shoot the Boer” at the ANC Centenary Celebration event in January of 2012.  He claimed that its use at the ANC Centenary was not intended as hate speech, but rather to commemorate the struggle against apartheid.\n\nDespite President Zuma’s proclaimed intent, his singing of the song may be contributing to an increasingly hostile environment that threatens the safety of white South Africans.  The number of murders of Boer farmers has increased each month in 2012.\n\nFor ten years, Genocide Watch has been the only international human rights group willing to declare an Alert about the high murder rate of Boer farmers, perhaps because it is not “politically correct” to defend the rights of people who once supported apartheid. Genocide Watch is opposed to all forms of racism, from whatever the source. The President of Genocide Watch actively supported the anti-apartheid movement in constitutional consultations with the United Democratic Front when he was a Fulbright Professor of Law in Swaziland.  He has visited South Africa several times since and will soon visit again.\n\nAccording to the Genocide Watch 8 stages of Genocide, South Africa remains at stage 5:  Polarization.\n\n\nWhy are Afrikaner farmers being murdered in South Africa?\n\nby Leon Parkin & Gregory H. Stanton, President – Genocide Watch\n14 August 2012\nThe following report is the result of an intensive personal inquiry in South Africa conducted July 23 -27, 2012. \n\nDeliberate inaction of the South African Government has weakened rural security structures, facilitating Afrikaner farm murders, in order to terrorize white farmers into vacating their farms, advancing the ANC/S. A. Communist Party’s New Democratic Revolution (NDR.)\n\nThe South African Government for the last 18 years has adopted a policy of deliberate government abolition and disarmament of rural Commandos run by farmers themselves for their own self-defense.  The policy has resulted in a four-fold increase in the murder rate of Afrikaner commercial farmers.  This policy is aimed at forced displacement through terror.  It advances the goals of the South African Communist Party’s New Democratic Revolution (NPR), which aims at nationalization of all private farmland, mines, and industry in South Africa.  Disarmament, coupled with Government removal of security structures to protect the White victim group, follows public dehumanization of the victims, and facilitates their forced displacement and gradual genocide.  \n\nAfrikaner farm owners are being murdered at a rate four times the murder rate of other South Africans, including Black farm owners. Their families are also subjected to extremely high crime rates, including murder, rape, mutilation and torture of the victims. South African police fail to investigate or solve many of these murders, which are carried out by organized gangs, often armed with weapons that police have previously confiscated.  The racial character of the killing is covered up by a SA government order prohibiting police from reporting murders by race.  Instead the crisis is denied and the murders are dismissed as ordinary crime, ignoring the frequent mutilation of the victims’ bodies, a sure sign that these are hate crimes.\n\nHowever, independent researchers have compiled accurate statistics demonstrating convincingly that murders among White farm owners occur at a rate of 97 per 100,000 per year, compared to 31 per 100,000 per year in the entire South African population, making the murder rate of White SA farmers one of the highest murder rates in the world.\n\nIncitement to genocide is a crime under the International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which South Africa is a state-party.\n\nThe ANC government has promoted hate speech that constitutes “incitement to genocide.”  The President of the ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, revived the \"Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer\" hate song at ANC rallies, until it was declared to be hate speech by a South African judge, and Malema was enjoined from singing it.  For other reasons, Malema was later removed as ANCYL President.  His followers continue to sing the hate song, and the Deputy President of the ANCYL has called for “war,” against “white settlers.”\n\nAfter the judge’s injunction to halt singing of the hate song, even the President of South Africa, ANC leader Jacob Zuma, himself, began to sing the “Shoot the Boer” song.  Since Zuma began to sing the hate song on 12 January 2012, murders of White farmers increased every month through April 2012, the last month for which there are confirmed figures.\n\nThere is thus strong circumstantial evidence of government support for the campaign of forced displacement and atrocities against White farmers and their families.  There is direct evidence of SA government incitement to genocide.\n\nForced displacement from their farms has inflicted on the Afrikaner ethnic group conditions of life calculated to bring about its complete or partial physical destruction, an act of genocide also prohibited by the Genocide Convention.\n\nHigh-ranking ANC government officials who continuously refer to Whites as “settlers” and “colonialists of a special type” are using racial epithets in a campaign of state-sponsored dehumanization of the White population as a whole.  They sanction gang-organized hate crimes against Whites, with the goal of terrorizing Whites through fear of genocidal annihilation.\n\nWhat is dehumanization?\n\nThe process of dehumanization has the effect of numbing and decommissioning the moral sentiments of the perpetrator group.  Polarization creates the “us vs. them” mentality, in SA the “Indigenous Black People” group versus the “White Settler Colonialist” group.\n\nANC leaders publicly incite followers using racial epithets.  By dehumanizing the White victim group, members of the perpetrator group exclude the victim group from their circle of moral obligation not to kill its members.  Dehumanization is the systematic, organized strategy of leaders to remove the inherent natural human restraints of people not to murder, rape, or torture other human beings.  Taking the life of a dehumanized person becomes of no greater consequence than crushing an insect, slaughtering an animal, or killing a pest.  \n\nThe ANC denies its genocidal intentions.  But the South African Communist Party is more open about its plan to drive Whites out of South Africa. Gugile Nkwinti, South Africa’s Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform has declared that all “colonial struggles are about two things: ‘repossession of the land and the centrality of the indigenous population.’” Mister Nkwinti is confirming the goals of the South African Communist Party’s New Democratic Revolution (NDR) and stating that the colonial struggle is not yet over in post-1994 South Africa.  He is saying that Whites are unwelcome “settler colonialists” with no role to play in South Africa’s future. \n\nThe Transvaal Agricultural Union, Freedom Front, Democratic Alliance, IFP, Afriforum and numerous other organizations have on a regular basis called for the South African Government to declare farm murders and rural policing a South African government priority.   The President, who should be the guardian of the constitutional rights of all the people, has deliberately ignored these calls for action.\n\nFormer President F. W. De Klerk, on 25 July 2012 during the De Klerk Foundation's Crossroads conference correctly accused the current generation of ANC leaders of cynically manipulating racial sensitivities for political ends.  In our analysis, the current ANC leadership also publicly uses incitement to genocide with the long-term goal of forcibly driving out or annihilating the White population from South Africa.  \n\nThis report has explained the rationale for the deliberate inaction of South African government functionaries to prevent, prosecute, or stop the murders of Afrikaner farmers.  As a group, Afrikaner farmers stand in the way of the South African Communist Party’s goal to implement their Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist New Democratic Revolution and specifically the confiscation of all rural land belonging to White Afrikaner farmers.\n\nGenocide Watch is moving South Africa back to Stage 6, the Preparation stage in the genocidal process.\n\nCopyright 2012 Leon Parkin & Dr. Gregory H. Stanton\n\n\nSouth Africa: Polarized Country\nSouth African Farm Invasions Are Threatened by the ANC Youth League\n\nGenocide Watch Report: \n4 July 2012\nIn 1961 South Africa gained its independence from the British and planning began to redistribute land owned by whites.  But Apartheid was the policy of the white run South African government, which wanted to maintain racial separation in ethnic “homelands.” The initial goal was to redistribute at least 30% of the farming land to black South Africans, but distribution of land was to be by ethnic group. South Africa’s white minority population currently owns approximately 87% of the arable farmland, with the black majority owning only 13%.\n\nFollowing the end of Apartheid, in 1994 the South African government enacted a land reform program in hopes of addressing the longstanding issue of land distribution.  Under black majority rule, the South African government’s first attempt at land distribution was through the “willing seller-willing buyer” program, which was a “buy back” program. Through this program the government would purchase land from willing white sellers and redistribute it to members of the black community. It was estimated that the program would cost the government upwards of ten billion dollars to execute, a budget it does not have the funds to meet.\n\nThe program was ultimately a failure. To date only 6% of the land has been successfully redistributed.  President Jacob Zuma has openly admitted that the “willing seller – willing buyer” model will not work. His administration has since proposed a new plan in “The Green Paper,” which critics have criticized as vague, and avoiding many existing problems.\n\nUnrest is brewing among black South Africans as the land distribution problem remains unresolved.  Warnings of “inevitable” farm invasions by the African National Congress Youth League have caused great fear among white farmers, many of whom are Boers, descendents of the original Dutch settlers, who consider themselves Africans because they have lived in South Africa for hundreds of years.\n\nFollowing Zimbabwe’s hostile land invasions, leaders of the ANC Youth League have promised to follow Robert Mugabe’s example, and forcibly expropriate farms owned by whites. Julius Malema, at the time President of the ANC Youth League, has demanded that expropriation should be without compensation. He urged his followers to “take back the land that was illegally stolen by the white man from the black man.” Malema is a racist Marxist-Leninist, and espouses an ideology contrary to the ANC’s “willing seller-willing buyer” program, which would provide farmers with financial compensation for their land.  Malema has since been removed as ANC Youth League President and expelled from the ANC.\n\nAt a Youth League Policy workshop, Ronald Lamola, declared, \"If they don't want to see angry black youths flooding their farms they must come to the party....Whites must volunteer some of the land and mines they own.\"  Lamola explained, “But white South Africans must continue to participate, they remain relevant to this process and will continue to do so.\" His comments were followed by warnings of a “Zim-style takeover.” The ANC Youth League demands that the South African Constitution be amended to permit state approved uncompensated land expropriations.\n\nGwede Mantashe, the general secretary of the ANC, has openly rebuked the ANC Youth League saying \"This is not the policy of the ANC…. It is not the ANC policy to expropriate land without compensation and personally I don't think it will work.\"\n\nGenocide Watch considers land redistribution to be a ticking time bomb in South Africa.  If the wealthy countries of the world do not assist South Africa in resolving it by financing compensation of land-sellers, the “rainbow nation” could descend into violence and go the way of Zimbabwe.\n\nGenocide Watch rates South Africa at Stage Five: Polarization, just at the edge of Stage Six, Preparation.\n\n\nGenocide Watch returns South Africa to stage 5 “polarization” on its Countries at Risk Chart\n\nBy Genocide Watch\n2 February 2012\n\n\nAfter upgrading South Africa to stage 6 “preparation” in September 2011 due to the increasing power of Julius Malema, then the Marxist racist President of the African National Congress Youth League, two quite significant developments have occurred.  The first was a South African court’s ruling that Malema’s singing of the “Shoot the Boer” song constitutes “hate speech” in violation of South African law.  The court issued an injunction prohibiting Malema from singing the song.  The second development is the suspension of Julius Malema from the African National Congress (ANC) and his removal as President of the ANC Youth League.\n\nStage 5 of the eight stages of genocide is “polarization”. Given the history of Apartheid in South Africa, there is deep-rooted polarization between whites and black in the nation. Part of the polarization in South Africa is the legacy of Apartheid and the continuing dominance in the economy of white owned businesses and farms.  There is also polarization from the black population, who feel excluded from real power and jobs, even though the ANC now controls the government. \n\nA response to this black polarization was Julius Malema’s call for redistribution of wealth from the white population to the black population, which Malema claimed to be a “correction of the injustices of Apartheid.” The current socio-economical inequalities in South Africa are leading to an increasing, rather than decreasing polarization. Since poverty and unemployment among black youth remains, tensions between impoverished blacks and wealthier whites is likely to increase.\n\nThis general polarization, which is normally non-violent, created a fertile ground for political radicalization. That was the case with the rise of Malema, former President of the ANC Youth League, when he and his followers sang the old anti-Boer song: “Kill the Boer” at rallies of the Youth League. Malema called for expropriation of white owned land when he was in Zimbabwe visiting Robert Mugabe and called Botswana’s racially harmonious society “neo-colonial”. These practices of Malema, and the slowness of the leadership of the ANC to discipline him, made Genocide Watch upgrade South Africa to stage 6 in September 2011. But now that Malema has been removed from his position of growing power, Genocide Watch is returning South Africa to stage 5.\n\nIt is very important to note that downgrading Genocide Watch’s risk assessment, does not mean that the situation is safe now in South Africa.  Unfortunately, we still think Malema has a large following among unemployed youth, and tensions between black and white people are still high.\n\nGenocide Watch continues to be alarmed at hate crimes committed against whites, particularly against Boer farmers, an important early warning sign that genocide could occur.  Those who commit such crimes must be promptly brought to justice, and denounced by the political leaders of South Africa.  Genocide Watch’s first six stages do not constitute genocide.  Genocide Watch does not believe that genocide is currently underway in South Africa.  Nevertheless, Genocide Watch will keep a watchful eye on the situation.\n\n\nUpdates\n\n27 November 2012 \"Briton Chris Preece Latest Victim of South Africa's Farm Murders\" By The First Post\n\n1 November 2012 \"De Klerk lambastes ANC's Marxist-Leninist policies\" By Fin 24\n\n1 November 2012 Shoot the Boer’ deal struck By Sapa\n\n16 October 2012 \"Malema 'not scared of bloodshed for land' By News24\n\n15 October 2012 \"SA has a lot to Learn from Zim - Malema\" By News24\n\n27 September 2012 \"Blacks Urged to Reclaim Land from Whites\" By SABC\n\n26 September 2012 \"Malema Denies Money Laundering Charges\" By Al Jazeera\n\n16 September 2012 \"Hawks to Probe Malema Over Violence at SA's Mines\" By Sapa, Mail & Guardian\n\n16 September 2012 \"NEC 'paying attention to the Marikana situation' says Mantashe\" By Maryke Vermaak\n\n24 August 2012 \"trial ends in prison sentence for life\" By Voice of America\n\n21 August 2012 \"South Africa is past the point of no return\" By The Trumpet\n\n20 August 2012 \"The implosion of South Africa-Israeli relations\" By PoliticsWeb\n\n20 August 2012 \"South African mine reopens as tensions continue\" By Voice of America\n\n17 August 2012 \"South African airways unfairly discriminates on the basis of race\" By Jacques du Preez\n\n17 August 2012 \"S. African police claim self defense in mine shootings\" By Voice of America\n\n\"Incorporation of ICC statute into South African law\" By Anton Katz\n\n17 August 2012 \"South Africa's police commissioner defends officers who fired on miners\" By The New York Times\n\n16 August 2012 \"IEA to host former South African president De Klerk\" By Modern Ghana News\n\n15 August 2012 \"MEC welcomes arrest in brutal farm murder\" By News24\n\n14 August 2012 \"Foreign intervention is now needed in SA farm murders\" By Transvaal Agricultural Union\n\n09 August 2012 'South Africa anger over beard and Bin Laden killing\" By BBC News\n\n09 August 2012 \"Kasrils condemns beard murder\" By SAPA\n\n08 August 2012 \"You strike a woman you strike a rock\" By Amore Rossouw and Anna Keegan\n\n06 August 2012 \"How the African National Congress Youth League plans to shut down Cape Town\" By The Daily Voice\n\n06 August 2012 \"Five die in KwaZulu-Natal clan shooting\" By BBC News\n\n06 August 2012 \"How the African National Congress Youth League plans to shut down Cape Town\" By The Daily Voice\n\n31 July 2012 \"Jackals and Dinosaurs\" By Dave Steward\n\n30 July 2012 \"Malema conviction for hate speech\" By Afriforum\n\n18 July 2012 \"South African farmer takes Malema complaint to ICC\" By IOL News\n\n                    \"ICC letter confirmation\" -English\n\n                    \"ICC letter confirmation\" - French   \n\n15 July 2012 \"AU elects new leader\" By Voice of America\n\n08 July 2012 \"Julius Malema interview- I am a good person, I dont wish to harm anyone\" By Telegraph Media Group Limited\n\n26 June 2012, \" World Bank provides $15 million grant\", By All Africa\n22 June 2012 \"US tourists travel to South Africa to hunt big game-witness farm murder instead\" By Jim Hoft\n\n21 June 2012 \"Africa for Africans- a call that will not go away\" By Daily Maverick\n\n19 June 2012 \"Land reform needs an act as forceful as war\" By SAPA\n\n19 June 2012 \"Land reform needs an act as forceful as war:ANCYL\" By SAPA\n\n19 June 2012 \"Land reform needs an act as forceful as war\" By News24\n\n19 June 2012 \"10 Somali businessmen killed in South Africa\" By SHabella Media Network\n\n08 June 2012 \" Kill 30 blacks for every white murdered\" Phllip De Wet\n\n06 June 2012 \"ANC begins ethnic cleansing\" By the Afrikaner Journal\n\n06 June 2012 \"ANC dismisses youth league land grab claims\" By Mial and Guardian\n\n06 June 2012 \"ANCYL warns of Zim-style land invasions in South Africa\" By Mail & Guardian\n\n06 June 2012 \"NGO's join forces in Malema hate speech case\" By SAPA\n\n06 June 2012 \"Unions to lay hate speech charges against Lamola\" By Mail & Guardian\n\n05 June 2012 \"Abductions of Zimbabweans causes concern\" By Haru Mutata -AlJazeera\n\n02 June 2012 \"Youth League warns of land grabs\" By SAPA\n\n01 June 2012 \"Land green paper is a racial attack\" By SAPA\n\n23 May 2012 \" Africa's Rainbow Nation troubled by racist time warp\" by Siphiwe Sibeko- Reuters\n\n25 April 2012 \"Julius Malema exhausts appeals and is kicked out of ANC,\" by The Telegraph\n\n7 April 2012 \"Famer, wife, daugther shot dead,\" by Eyewitness News\n\n4 April 2012 \"Malema to the ANC: Lift my suspension ... or else,\" by Michelle Pietersen, Matuma Leftsoalo and Charles Molele, Mail and Guardian Online\n\n4 April 2012 \"African National Congress Acts to Silence Malema,\" by The New York Times \n\n22 March 2012 \"Right wing seek regvenfe for farm murders\" By News24\n\n27 March 2012 \"The Ruling ANC Ideology\", anynomous e-mail to Genocide Watch\n\n26 March 2012 \"Is Cape Town a racist city?,\" by Justice Malala, The Guardian\n\n22 March 2012 \"In a Divided City, Many Blacks See Echoes of White Superiority,\" by Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times\n\n12 March 2012 \"Julius Malema begs for ANC return after expulsion,\" by David Smith, The Guardian\n\n08 March 2012 \"State to blame for land problem\" By SAPA\n\n5 March 2012 \"ANC removes clause on Constitution from discussion docs,\" by Mandy Rossouw, City Press\n\n4 March 2012 \"ANC wants new Constitution,\" by Mmanaledi Mataboge and Carien du Plessis, City Press\n\n1 March 2012 \"Exclusion de l'ANC: heurts entre pro et anti-Malema,\" by AFP\n\n1 March 2012 \"Julius Malema defiant at ANC expulsion in South Africa,\" by BBC\n\n1 March 2012 \"Malema not in political wilderness just yet,\" by Nickolaus Bauer, Mail & Guardian online\n\n1 March 2012 \"Once a Star in the A.N.C., Youth Leader Is Expelled,\" by Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times\n\n29 February 2012 \"Public Announcement on the Disciplinary hearing of  Julius  Malema,\" by ANC-NDC\n\n27 February 2012 \"Kommadokorps: Racism breeding camp,\" by Times Live\n\n25 February 2012 \"'Hate Camp' must be probed, the Democratic Alliance said,\" by SAPA\n\n24 February 2012 \"Inside the kommando camp that turns boys' doubts to hate,\" by Elles Van Gelder, Mail & Guardian Online\n\n24 February 2012 \"Hate speech complaint laid against Zuma,\" by SAPA\n\n16 February 2012 \"South Africa's ANC splits from Youth League as defiant Malema refuses suspension\" by Aislinn Laing, Telegraph\n\n16 February 2012 \"ANCYL distances itself from video\" by SAPA\n\n16 February 2012 \"Malema's uphill battle to save his career\" by Ido Lekota, Sowetan Live\n\n16 February 2012 \"ANCYL: 'Hell no, we won't go!'\" by Nickolaus Bauer, Mail & Guardian online\n\n16 February 2012 \"Malema won't go\" by SAPA\n\n10 February 2012 \"Julius Malema: the man who scarred South Africa\" by Jonny Steinberg, The Guardian\n\n6 February 2012 \"Julius Malema demeure chef des jeunes de l'ANC jusqu'à ce que sa sanction soit définitivement fixée\", by AFP\n\n5 February 2012 \"The next Malema: Is Ronald Lamola ready to lead?,\" by Nickolaus Bauer, Mail & Guardian Online\n\n4 February 2012 \"A.N.C. Keeps Suspension of a Leader\", by Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times\n\n2 February 2012 \"Country Profile on South Africa: Genocide Watch returns South Africa to stage 5, \" by Genocide Watch\n\n4 February 2012 \"Mixed-race citizens remain uneasy about black rule,\" by The Economist\n\nJanuary 2012 \"South African Human Rights Group Warns of Continuing Racism in ANC\"\n\n11 November 2011 \"South African Official Barred\", by Devon Maylie, The Wall Street Journal\n\n23 September 2011 \"Re-racialising South Africa's politics,\" by David Africa, Al Jazeera English\n\n20 September 2011 \"Cosatu leader defies song ban - again,\" by SAPA\n\n16 September 2011 \"Info bill unsafe for democracy - Sanef,\" by SAPA\n\n15 September 2011 “Malema among Africa’s most powerful young men: Forbes,” by Sapa, Timeslive\n\n15 September 2011 \"Is Julius Malema South Africa's president in waiting?\" by Justice Malala, The Guardian\n\n15 September 2011 \"Genocide Watch upgrades SA to Stage 6 - Preparation on Countries at Risk Chart,\" by Genocide Watch\n\n14 September 2011 \"ANCYL to appeal hate speech ruling,\" by SAPA\n\n12 September 2011 \"Crowd sings 'shoot the boer' at court,\" by SAPA\n\n12 September 2011 \"Words can trigger genocide - Malema judge,\" by SAPA\n\n10 September 2011 \"Malema declares economic war,\" by SAPA\n\n30 September 2011 \"South African land redristribution Green Paper proposal\" By Department of Rural Development and Land Reform\n\n30 August 2011 \"Julius Malema supporters clash with South Africa police,\" by BBC News\n\n23 August 2011 \"'We can't be seen to be weak': Mantashe takes aim at Malema,\" by Nicholaus Bauer, Mail & Guardian Online\n\n19 August 2011 \"ANC charges Malema with misconduct,\" by News24\n\n17 August 2011 \"Face-off at Free State University,\" by News24\n\n01 August 2011 “AfriForum goes to court over youth training,” by Sapa\n\n4 July 2011 \"Two arrested after murder on Gauteng farm,\" Johnnesburg Sunday Times\n\n6 May 2011 \"White grandmother brutally raped and murdered\", by Marietie Louw-Carstens, Beeld\n\n30 April 2011 \"Separating free speech from hate in South Africa,\" by Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times\n\n21 February 2011 \"How Malema made his millions,\" by Buddy Naidu and Simpiwe Piliso, The Sunday Times\n\n11 December 2010 \"He Is Going to Die in Prison,\" by Kashiefa Ajam and Noni Mokati, OIL\n\n30 October 2010 \"Malema calls Zilla a cockroach,\" by SAPA\n\n24 August 2010 \"Gov't says genocide claims 'ludicrous',\" by Jenni O'Grady, Mail & Guardian\n\n21 July 2010 \"Soccer against xenophobia,\" by iAfrica.com\n\n20 July 2010 \"Foreigners injured in xenophobia clashes,\" by BBC News\n\n16 July 2010 \"Xenophobia: SA to call in UN,\" by Hlengiwe Mnguni, News24\n\n16 July 2010 \"Mthethwa's xenophobia denial 'doesn't help victims',\" by Times LIVE\n\n15 July 2010 \"Residents urge foreigners to return,\" by Natasha Prince and Nurene Jassiem, The Cape Argus\n\n13 July 2010 \"South Africa: Xenophobia bad for business,\" by Pete Luhanga, West Cape News\n\n12 July 2010 \"Buitelanders skuil by polisiestasies,\" by Nuu24, SAPA\n\n12 July 2010 \"Cops move to protect foreign nationals,\" by Reuters\n\n10 July 2010 \"Time and date set for Cape violence,\" by The Star\n\n10 June 2010 \"South Africa braces for new attacks on immigrants,\" by Barry Bearak, The New York Times\n\n10 June 2010 \"Massive security to watch over World Cup soccer play,\" by Geoff Hill, The Washington Times\n\n8 June 2010 \"Malema may face Hague genocide charge,\" by South African Press Association\n\n5 June 2010 \"Post World Cup xenophobic attacks and farm invasions: South Africa on the brink,\" by South African Press Association\n\n26 May 2010 \"Can the World Cup bridge South Africa's sporting divide?\" by Farouk Chothia, BBC News\n\n11 May 2010 \"South African Youth Leader is given mild punishment after series of gaffes,\" by Barry Bearak, The New York Times\n\n7 May 2010 \"An open letter to Dr. David Duke,\" by Dr. Gregory Stanton, President, Genocide Watch\n\n4 May 2010 \"South African leader accused of racism,\" by Geoff Hill, The Washington Times\n\n3 May 2010 \"Be militant, senior ANC official tells youth,\" by Sinegugu Ndlovu, The Mercury\n\n2 May 2010 \"South African government officials say white crime victims are to blame for racist attacks on them,\" by EU Times Online\n\n1 May 2010 \"Malema pulls out race card again,\" by News24.com\n\n29 April 2010 \"Media Relase: Black and white racism- Extract from speech by Potchefstroom (Freedom),\" by Dr. Pieter Mulder\n\n27 April 2010 \"Swart en wit rassisme - uittreksel uit toespraak op Potchefstroom (Freedom),\" by Dr. Pieter Mulder\n\n23 April 2010 \"Protest over 'genocide' in SA,\" by South African Press Association (SAPA)\n\n20 April 2010 \"ANC will not discipline Malema,\" by Reuters\n\n17 April 2010 \"Gang attack family, dad killed,\" by South African Press Association (SAPA)\n\n17 April 2010 \"Malema: This land belongs to foreigners,\" by South African Press Association (SAPA)\n\n16 April 2010 \"Press Release on the Ramifications of the Killing of Eugene Terre'Blanche,\" by the South African Institute of Race Relations\n\n4 April 2010 \"Malema lauds Mugabe, says SA will copy Zimbabwe's land seizures,\" by Sunday Times\n\n11 March 2010 \"ANC defends 'Kill the Boer' song,\" by South African Press Association (SAPA)\n\nFebruary 2010 \"Blurring transitional justice in Orania and Pailin,\" by Kyle Delbyck, Documentation Center of Cambodia\n\n12 January 2010 \"Somalis' Shops Looted in Western Cape,\" by Cape Times\n\nDecember 2009 \"Violence, Labor, and the Displacement of Zimbabweans in De Doorns, Western Cape,\" by Forced Migration Studies Program, University of the Witwatersrand\n\n21 December 2009 \"Rising Anger at Other Africans Fuels South Africa Attacks,\" by Celia W. 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These little clauses you bypass while checking for the Nett Salary figure, when you%E2%80%99re given the contract to sign. .%E2%80%9D %0AHe took a deep breathe, %0A%E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99m not permitted to be involved with a Staff Member, Vonnie. It was clanging loudly in my ears.. The minute I offered to help you! No, the minute I laid eyes on you! I just couldn%E2%80%99t .. 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My cocksure stability wavering. %0AI had the craziest visions in my head. %0AI was thinking about Steven, remembering his lips as they curled in mock derision of something I might%E2%80%99ve said, over the second not- so - %E2%80%9CQuick drink.%E2%80%9D %0AThe thoughts were unrelenting and would not change its course! %0ANo matter how many Music magazines I picked up and glanced through to change the train of thought.. I could think of no one else. %0AMy mind was playing tricks on me. 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All of the other words, had flowed. %0AWe seemed to be bumping into each other a lot more, thereafter. I wondered if Steven had anything to do with it, but I didn%E2%80%99t mind. Simply talking to him about the weather became an intoxicating experience. %0AWe%E2%80%99d bump into each other down in Retail, in the passage way, walking up or down the stairs%E2%80%A6. %0AI found myself hoping I%E2%80%99d bump into him around every corner, to the point of silently praying that I would!%0A %0AI CAN%E2%80%99T TAKE %0AMY EYES OFF (OF) YOU %0AYES, I KNOW THAT LINE%E2%80%99S %0ABEEN SUNG, %0ABUT LOOK AT WHAT %0AYOU%E2%80%99VE STARTED NOW !! %0ALOOK WHAT HAS BEGUN !! %0A.. I CAN%E2%80%99T TAKE %0AMY EYES OFF(OF) YOU. %0A(AND EVERY DREAM) %0AOH, EVERY DREAM,THAT COMES %0ATO ME%E2%80%A6 OHH, I %0A%E2%80%A6 DON%E2%80%99T WANT TO %0ABE THAT ALONE NOW! %0AI DON%E2%80%99T WANT TO %0ABE THAT FREE ! %0AI CAN%E2%80%99T TAKE MY MIND OFF (OF) YOU %0AAS I PRAY FOR A DISTRACTION %0AWANTING TO BE OH, %0ASO BLAS%C3%89 %E2%80%98S %0ANOT THE EASIEST TO DO%E2%80%A6 %0AWISHING YOU IN, WISHING YOU OUT %0AWISHING YOU INTO MY LIFE! %0AI CAN%E2%80%99T GET %0AMY MIND OFF (OF) YOU ! %0AI CANT TAKE Y EYES OFF(OF) YOU %0ALOOK AT WHAT YOU%E2%80%99VE STARTED NOW %0ACAN%E2%80%99T FORGET THAT SMILE FROM YOU, %0ALOOK WHAT YOU%E2%80%99VE BEGUN!%0A %0AI was going on a rampage with the blame game. I blamed Steven for my seeming lapse of sanity. I founded him incredibly distracting. %0AI reassured myself, once more that I was Vonnie Tyler, this was one exciting game.. I was not going to fall. %0AAt all. %0ASometimes, I%E2%80%99d get really %E2%80%98Bold%E2%80%99- but it was my personal doodling, the incredible adrenaline rushes I found impossible to keep bottled up.. 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If he%E2%80%99d be having a bit more fun without me around, I%E2%80%99d do whatever I could to make that happen! %0AA sleepover. %0AIt wasn%E2%80%99t as if I was on a mission to seduce, I reasoned. %0ASteven was great fun to chat with, was incredibly yummy, but given the situation, that was farthest from my mind, I assured myself. %0ABesides, Seduction had hardly been my middle name. %0AI%E2%80%99d hit them hard and fast with a few straight questions and that was it. %0A%E2%80%9CI am not a seductress.%E2%80%9D It became a mantra, as it rolled from my lips for the fifth time, in that many minutes. %0AI was not being responsible, I blamed it on Steven, for the broken, startled dreams I was having, where I%E2%80%99d found myself in his arms. %0AI could not control the flow of words that came streaming from my lyrical mind. Besides, there%E2%80%99d be millions who might be going through this.. My collection started growing, and so I wrote. And thought. %0AI am not a seductress! I repeated. %0AIn fact, I honestly never purposely initiated intimacy, being totally defensive and disinterested. Other than the odd occasions, when we partied too hard, forgot where or who we were and got %E2%80%98down n dirty %E2%80%A6%E2%80%99 %0AThe thought of seduction itself, sounded like a lot of work. %0AI was over thinking again. . %0AThe one-on-one%E2%80%99s with myself happened quite frequently. It was necessary, I%E2%80%99ve been acting slightly %E2%80%98out of character%E2%80%99. %0A%E2%80%9CCalm down. Deep Breathe. Relax.%E2%80%9D I suggested, exhaling. %0A%0A%E2%80%9CGet dressed. Comb your hair and catch a train.%E2%80%9D %0AThe train%E2%80%99s were running late that morning, the trip was uneventful. %0AThe brisk walk to work from the station, felt exhilarating. %0AIt was one of those warm, breezy Cape Town mornings. %0AI once again were deep in thought, working hard at keeping the emotions in check. Adrenaline, at an all-time high. %0AI tried but could not get the %E2%80%9Ccouldn%E2%80%99t give a damn%E2%80%9D look all over my face, unable to hide the excitement. %0AFor some reason or other, Ms. Chatterbox Cheryl, had been none the wiser. %0AYes, she was a %E2%80%98Hopeful.%E2%80%99 %0AAnd no, she had not thought of any one, other than herself, most suitable to be the next Mrs. Rousseau. %0ASteve needed to make his own choice, she reasoned, but she was there at his side from day one! She supported and encouraged him when the sad news of Jan spread throughout the company. She saw him often enough at work as Jeff and Steven were more than colleagues, spending time in each other%E2%80%99s offices, discussions from the latest gig to guitar. %0AShe chatted to Storm for quite a long while at last year%E2%80%99s %E2%80%9CPicnic in the Park%E2%80%9D, a yearly function held for Staff Members, and made him laugh. %0ASo, yes, she knew Steve better than most and should he be looking for someone at R&RMUZIK, it would most probably, be her. %0AI dared not smile too broadly as I walked into R&R Admin that morning, arriving later, the shower took longer than the usual %E2%80%98two ticks%E2%80%99. %0AI stood under the steaming water that morning, unable to turn off the tap once the soap had rinsed off. The warm water rushed over my nakedness, making me feel protected. %0AI wondered about the sudden need for protection and who needed it. %0AMy mind, pulse and much everything else went haywire recently. %0AJethro%E2%80%99s party was about to happen. That problem ironed itself out. %0AI found myself wondering whether I%E2%80%99d be ready for.. whatever may happen, on my ..evening. %0AI stood and stood, not wanting to turn the water off. %0AMy thoughts was jolted back. I heard someone, from outside the door : %0A%E2%80%9CHelllooo, are you still gonna be a while?%E2%80%9D %0AIt jolted me back to the steamy shower- and a clock that said I was running late. Peak hour worked perfectly with Public Transport. %0AI left later that morning, glad there was train delays. I knew of a few staff member who would arrive later as well. %0AI stepped into R&R Admin an hour later and literally skipped to the vending machine. I arrived late and needed to get to my desk asap. I was also floating on cloud nine. %0ACheryl noticed the skip. %0A%E2%80%9CWe%E2%80%99re starting gym, one of these days..%E2%80%9D she remarked aloud, to herself, of course. %0ALooking back, she was the last person I expected encouragement from! %E2%80%9CStarting gym soon%E2%80%9D %E2%80%93 Yeah, Right! %0A%E2%80%A6Oh Vonnie, you%E2%80%99re vicious! (smile.) %0AI made the second %E2%80%98cuppa%E2%80%99 for the day and walked to my desk, switching on the computer to run the daily reports. %0AThere was mail. %3E%3E%3E %0A%3E%3E%3E %E2%80%9CEverything still on for tonight?%E2%80%9D It was Steven, leaving me tingling. %0A%3E%3E%3E %E2%80%9CWhy wouldn%E2%80%99t it be? Busy. Chat later.%E2%80%9D I replied, trying to sound as distant as possible, glad he was not in front of me, to witness the pleased smile or flush of colour to my cheeks.. %0AThat was an early %E2%80%98check!%E2%80%99 %0ABy lunch time, I calmed down. I was going to %E2%80%98go with the flow%E2%80%99 whatever that meant. %0ANothing was worth getting into a knot over, I reasoned. %0AI didn%E2%80%99t saw Steven yet but he was around somewhere. I received the mail. %0AAs if on cue, Cheryl said in her louder %E2%80%98Megaphone tone%E2%80%99 %0A%E2%80%9CHas any one seen Steve? I need to speak to him urgently! Please! If you do see him let him know %E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D %0ASo his absence was not something I imagined. I decided to %E2%80%98take it as it comes%E2%80%99 or rather.. go with the flow. %0AHe arrived at 16:55, Minutes before the close of the working day. %0AHe was with Jeff at the Expo in Sea Point. Cheryl must%E2%80%99ve known. %0AThere was a message on my phone: %0A%E2%80%9CReady To Go ?? %E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CYES.%E2%80%9D I replied. %0AWe met in the Basement Parking a bit later, as usual. %0AThere was nothing to hide. Neither of us needed to be victims of speculation. %0A%E2%80%9CTell you what,%E2%80%9D Steven said, as I slipped into the passenger side, %0A%E2%80%9CLet%E2%80%99s go and watch the Sunset%E2%80%9D  %0A%0A%E2%80%9CWow, that sounds awesome%E2%80%9D I gasped. %0A%E2%80%9CBut what about Storm? Weren%E2%80%99t you meant to pick him up this evening?%E2%80%9D I checked. %0A%E2%80%9CUmm Yes, Well..%E2%80%9D %0AI loved the way he tilted his head, almost. . %E2%80%98heaven-ward%E2%80%99, before he explained. %0AWas he an Angel, I thought, dreamily .. Angels were Beautiful, right? %0A%E2%80%9CThere%E2%80%99s a Movie he wants Grammie to take him to this evening. I%E2%80%99ll pick him up tomorrow morning, or afternoon. You%E2%80%99ll still meet him, if you%E2%80%99d like to!%E2%80%9D %0AThat smile again. It caused him to close his eyes slightly. Dreamy. Dark Lashes. No, it was not make up. %0AAlthough that was part of the Act back then. This was au natural now. %0ASo oo au natural. %0A%E2%80%9COkk .. Sunset it is then.%E2%80%9D I agreed. %0AIt was an unbelievable start to the evening. %0AThe drive to the beach was silent. It wasn%E2%80%99t awkward, or one of us would have, at least, tried to make conversation. %0AIt felt comfortable, the silence. But Electric. Comfortably tense. %0ASteven had took a right turn, drove closer to the beach front and stopped in the parking. %0A%E2%80%9CHere we are!%E2%80%9D he made the announcement. %0AThe beach cleared for the day. %0AOnce we found a comfortable spot, he opened the wicker basket he carried along, the beach became quite deserted. %0A%E2%80%9CSome Wine?%E2%80%9D he almost whispered. %0A%E2%80%9CThis is awesome Steven! Yes! %E2%80%9D %0AI clapped my hands, an excited kid on their first ride on a rollercoaster. %0AI didn%E2%80%99t want to spoil the moment with whispers%E2%80%A6 %0AWe sat, side by side, not saying a thing for a while. The red glowing sun moving further and further away into the horizon. %0A%E2%80%9CThis..%E2%80%9D I eventually sighed, taking a sip.. %0A%E2%80%9C%E2%80%A6 Is Heaven.%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CReally??%E2%80%9D Steven seemed chuffed. %0A%E2%80%9CLet%E2%80%99s not change this moment.%E2%80%9D .. I lifted my hand to silence him. %0AIt was myself I heard Whispering.. %0ASilently the sun edged its way over the horizon. %0ASteven decided it was %E2%80%9Ctime to get cracking%E2%80%9D as we packed the basket and stood up. %0AI wished the sun would wait, for at least another hour.%0AWe headed back, the cool breeze introducing the oncoming night. %0A%E2%80%9CHey Steven! ..%E2%80%9D I smiled, sleepily, %0A%E2%80%9CThis was great! When I accepted your invite to sleep over, I%E2%80%99d meant just that. You definitely didn%E2%80%99t have to entertain me!%E2%80%9D I sighed. %0A%E2%80%9CNooo!%E2%80%9D Steven laughed. That laugh. %0A%E2%80%9CThis%E2%80%99 not %E2%80%98entertainment%E2%80%99! .. I was thinking about doing this for quite some time now. Just needed someone to do it with. I hope you don%E2%80%99t mind!%E2%80%9D he reassured me. %0AHe. Was. Absolutely. Gorgeous! %0AThe trip home was disastrous. %0AWhile on the beach, I felt a playful %E2%80%98Headiness%E2%80%99, it was a lovely Topsy -Turvy feeling. %0AUnfortunately, having added movement to. . %E2%80%98Topsy %E2%80%93 Turvy%E2%80%99 had was not a good idea. %0A%E2%80%9CPleassse, Steven ..%E2%80%9D I pleaded, %E2%80%9CStop at a Garage, I need the Loo.%E2%80%9D %0AWas that concern etched over his face? %0A%E2%80%9CYes, Of Course, Vonnie! Are you ok?%E2%80%9D he asked. %0A%E2%80%9C..Hope so!%E2%80%9D I tried smiling but wasn%E2%80%99t up to it. %0AWe stopped at the BP. %0AToiletsss !! %0A%E2%80%9CAre you, ok ..Vonnie?%E2%80%9D Steven probed, %E2%80%9CCan I help you?%E2%80%9D %0ASteven. Always ready to %E2%80%98help%E2%80%99. %0A%E2%80%9CNo Thanks, I%E2%80%99ll be a sec%E2%80%9D I said hurriedly, making my way to the Ladies. I just made it in time. %0AA couple of minutes later, I left the Ladies.. Pretty much mess-free. %0AWow, I felt heaps better! %0AWas that my reaction to wine? Anyone%E2%80%99s reaction to Too Much wine, I admitted. %0ASteven smiled sheepishly when I returned to where we parked. %0A%E2%80%9CDis I give you too much wine, my dear?%E2%80%9D he asked apologetically. %0A%E2%80%9CYou%E2%80%99ve done no such thing!%E2%80%9D I answered, defensively. %0A%E2%80%9CI well remember doing most of the pouring . .And drinking!%E2%80%9D %0AWe laughed. %0A%E2%80%9CI need a mint!%E2%80%9D I announced, and fumbled around in my bag, finding some %E2%80%A6 %0AI started feeling better, already%E2%80%A6 %0A%E2%80%9C Are we going %E2%80%98home%E2%80%99, I mean, to your home now?%E2%80%9D I checked, more than ready to drift into a hopefully dreamless sleep. %0ASteven looked down at my pale face, rattled by the over indulgence, and smiled, %E2%80%9CI think that would be a good idea!%E2%80%9D he said, softly. %0AInvoluntarily, I gave into sleep, we arrived at Steven%E2%80%99s house some time later. %0A%E2%80%9CVonnie%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D He gave me a gentle tug. %0A%E2%80%9CHello! I%E2%80%99m wide awake!%E2%80%9D I quipped, waking from the nap, feeling tons better. %0A%E2%80%9CWe%E2%80%99re home.%E2%80%9D Steven whispered. %0A%0AChapter 13. %0AWe left the garage and walked to the back. There%E2%80%99s a large swimming pool on the left. Surrounding lights encouraged a soft rippling on its surface. %0A%E2%80%9CCare to skinny dip?%E2%80%9D Steven laughed, but he sounded serious. %0A%E2%80%9CI will have you know, Mr. Rousseau%E2%80%9D I informed him, %0A%E2%80%9CThat I do not jump into swimming pools, even on the hottest day of Summer!%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CWhat a Pity!%E2%80%9D He replied, smiling %E2%80%9CI imagine you%E2%80%99d fill a Bikini quite well%E2%80%9D Was that  a compliment? %0AI flopped down on the well-manicured lawn which surrounded the pool and  looked up at the stars, in a clear sky .. %0A%E2%80%9CThis is Heaven%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D I murmured. I used the word %E2%80%9CHeaven%E2%80%9D twice, in a matter of hours. %0AI also wondered where the whispers came from, falling from my lips. %0AMy eyelids felt heavy, but there was no more spinning. Only a soft cool breeze. %0AMy nipples hardened, I opened my eyes. . . .Steven%E2%80%99s face, inches away. %0AHis breathe felt warm.. I tilted my head, opening my mouth slightly, deciding not to turn away from what was about to happen. %0AHis lips came crashing down on mine. %0AI imagined it would%E2%80%99ve been hungry, hurting, needing . . %0AWe%E2%80%99d been %E2%80%98dancing around each other%E2%80%99 for long enough now, but he was gentle. Slow, purpose full... %0ASteven pulled away, looking deep into my eyes, questions dancing in his, %0A%E2%80%9CStop.Stoppp%E2%80%A6.%E2%80%9D I heard Steven groan to himself, to me, almost painfully. %0AThowing back his head in agony.. he leaned forward to nuzzle into my hair, unable to %E2%80%98stop%E2%80%99 the flow of things, and not wanting to.. %0A%E2%80%9CNo stopping now, Steven..no stopping%E2%80%9D I think I said dreamily.. %0AThere was music in my ears, in my head, in my Soul.. a Crescendo, a myriad of instruments ..clanging loudly . . %0AI groaned and arched my back in delicious pleasure, %0AWhat a sweet surrender! %0A%E2%80%9CYou are sooo Beautiful, Steven%E2%80%9D I whispered, unable to contain myself. %0AHe placed his finger across my lips . . %0A%E2%80%9CShhhh %E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D %0A%0AAnd moaning, he grabbed me closer and surrendered to the shudders of a mammoth Orgasm. It was worth the abstinence. It was worth the wait. Whatever the reason. %0AI wanted to pinch myself but I knew that This.. was Real. %0AEvery word and wild imaginings I rushed through on bits of paper over the last weeks became my reality. %0AIncredibly surreal. Incredibly real, as I turned to my side and nestled against his chest. %0AI realized this was not going to happen again anytime soon. %0AIt was fun-fun-fun, kiss-kiss .. tomorrow was go. %0AI drifted into a heavenly sleep, under the stars. %0AI awoke some time later, under cool cotton sheets. Steven must have carried me in. %0AHe huddled behind me, gently smelling my hair, %0A%E2%80%9CYou smell sooo beautiful%E2%80%9D he murmured, as he licked my back, %0A%E2%80%9CYou taste like heaven.%E2%80%9D %0AI turned around, knowing full well that I wanted to give to Steven until there was no more of me to give, He moaned as he pushed into me %E2%80%A6 %0AHow can something so commonplace be so magnificently beautiful, I asked myself. %0AHe was an Artist. Gentle, undemanding, strong. %0AI searched for his mouth wanting to confirm to my body that this was indeed happening and that Steven, yes, indeed %E2%80%93 %0ASteven, happened to me. %0ALater, we drifted off to sleep. Again. %0AI didn%E2%80%99t want the night to end.. as it continued. %0AI was gently woke by Steven who kissed me. Head to toe, Meticulous. Marvelous .. Murderous.He%E2%80%99d done this ..Again. and again . . . %0AIt was a long night. At round about 4:30 am, Steve stood up and made some Hot Chocolate. %0AI joined him, enjoying the warm, sweet drink. %0ABefore the mug was left halfway through, I succumbed to sleep. %0AThis dream I wished upon myself could not have been sweeter. %0ABut the dreams I had, when sleeping, were not of Steven. %0AI dreamed of Cheryl and how she would%E2%80%99ve reacted, and I questioned my motive. Never wanting to be second. And I wasn%E2%80%99t... 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      "body": "@@ -39112,12 +39112,18768 @@\n elluva week.\n+Chapter 8. %0AIt was still weeks before Steven%E2%80%99s departure. %0AAll the documentation in order, I emailed the final draft for a second time, ending with: RSVP%E2%80%A6 %0AI needed the assurance that it was 100%25 and there were no further amendments. %0AI knew there would not be, I just had to hear from him again! %0ASteven%E2%80%99s reply had nothing to do with the schedules, which I ensured were finally, faultless. %0AIt read: %E2%80%9Cwithout sounding lewd but %E2%80%93 doesn%E2%80%99t rsvp mean %E2%80%98are you coming or not%E2%80%99? :-D%E2%80%9D %0AI burst out in peals of laughter. Steven seemed to love laughing and knew how to get a smile out of anyone, at any time! %0ACheryl shot a panicked glance. I had a strange feeling that she had a feeling. She looked upset. %0AIn the weeks that followed, I almost wished I made a few %E2%80%98cock ups%E2%80%99, a term Steven seemed to have used often enough, during that time. %0A(%E2%80%98Cock ups%E2%80%99 usually followed %E2%80%9CNo ..%E2%80%9D !!) %0AThere%E2%80%99d been drinks celebrating the %E2%80%98job well done%E2%80%99, and the chances of any further one-on-one contact with Steven was zilch. And so What? I asked myself. %0AI did not fall directly under his management so, apart from the odd schedule or two that he might need %E2%80%93 well, I guessed that I wouldn%E2%80%99t be seeing much more of him%E2%80%A6.. And so What?? I asked myself again. %0AThese crazy conversations I had with myself did not bring any further clarity, I thought. %0AQuite frankly, I found all the new methods, Account categories, new names and faces became a bit too much for me. %0AJethro found me, fast asleep, in front of the TV. It had just gone seven. %0A%E2%80%9CMom,%E2%80%9D %0AHe gently tugged at my arm, %E2%80%9CWouldn%E2%80%99t you prefer getting into bed?%E2%80%9D %0AI mumbled that I was fine. We%E2%80%99d chat in the morning. %0AI woke up to the distinct smell of Coffee.. So close, I could almost tasted it. %0A%E2%80%9CGood Morning, Mother!!  Coffee?%E2%80%9D %0AIt was pretty unusual, to say the least. Jethro never woke up late, but seldom earlier. %0A%E2%80%9CYes Please! Wots up?%E2%80%9D I asked. %0AJethro seemed to be fidgety, unsure %E2%80%A6 %0A%E2%80%9COut with it!%E2%80%9D I smiled, almost nervously. I wondered what it was all about? %0A%E2%80%9CMom,%E2%80%9D he began.. %0A%E2%80%9CI don%E2%80%99t really know how to say this..%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CWell, that%E2%80%99s the end of the story, then!%E2%80%9D I smiled, taking a sip of the coffee. %0AJethro had not ended the %E2%80%98conversation%E2%80%99 yet, pulling all sorts of faces. %0A%E2%80%9CC%E2%80%99mon, Guy%E2%80%A6 what is it?%E2%80%9D I asked, more than curious, myself. %0A%E2%80%9CYou know I%E2%80%99ll be turning 16 soon, right?%E2%80%9D he said, almost desperately. %0A%E2%80%9CYes%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D had been the answer that had came to mind. %0A(Did he want me to answer that?) %0A%E2%80%9CWell, a few guys at College would like to come around and celebrate, we%E2%80%99ll have a Braai .. Maybe a Cider or two..%E2%80%9D was Jethro%E2%80%99s urgent request. %0AIt didn%E2%80%99t sound like a bad idea, The Cider story didn%E2%80%99t %E2%80%98sit right%E2%80%99, but I knew they were going to have some, whether I gave the Okay or not. %0AI wondered what the problem could be. %0AMy response was spontaneous, I sometimes forgot how much older Jeth was, to the image that were fixed in my mind. %0A%E2%80%9CWow, time flew! Little Jeth%E2%80%A616!%E2%80%9D %0AI ruffled his hair, and reminded myself to %E2%80%98Stop doing that%E2%80%99! - Jethro%E2%80%99s earnest plea. %0A%E2%80%9CWell, that sounds like a plan, so where do we have the problem?%E2%80%9D I quizzed. %0A%E2%80%9CWell%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D He began dragging it out. %0A%E2%80%9CJethro..?%E2%80%9D %0AIt became a waste of time and I pleaded for something concrete. %0A%E2%80%9CWell, Mom, the Guys would like to sleep over afterwards. We only have a Pad, I love this Pad but %E2%80%A6 but you can%E2%80%99t sleep here as well, then.%E2%80%9D %0AI remember I felt dazed. Dazed at the fact that my son already decided on his own celebration arrangements, without me %E2%80%93 excluding me. %0ATime had, in fact, marched on triumphantly. %0AI asked him whether he thought of a solution to the problem, as well! %0A%E2%80%9CI don%E2%80%99t really know, Mom.%E2%80%9D He replied, already sure of the solution. %0A%E2%80%9CWhat about Alice, the friend who%E2%80%99d brought you to fetch me, couldn%E2%80%99t you stay over there for a night?%E2%80%9D He thought it out already! %0A%E2%80%9COr.. Oh, forget it! You give so much and all I do is ask, ask, ask %E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D was the next response. %0A%E2%80%9CWe%E2%80%99ll think of something,%E2%80%9D I found myself saying. I knew I would. I couldn%E2%80%99t disappoint Jethro. %0AHe responded with %E2%80%9CSo I can say it%E2%80%99s OK for the following weekend?%E2%80%9D %0AHe knew already that there%E2%80%99d be no way I would let him down. %0A%E2%80%9CYes%E2%80%9D I answered. %0AHe left that morning with a skip in his step. Mission accomplished, I guessed. %0AJethro placed the first challenge I had to deal with, since our reunion, firmly in my hands. %0A%0AChapter 9. %0AI boarded the train that morning, deep in thought. %0AThe idea of staying in a two star hotel did not sounded inviting. Cape Town, being the Tourist attraction it was, had lots of hotels. Expensive hotels. %0AI loved having Jethro back! The initial start caused expenses to pile up and although almost out of the red, I was in a position to make lavish decisions, yet! I wasn%E2%80%99t parting with spare cash to spend on expensive hotels. %0AAlice left Cape Town soon after she assisted me with fetching Jethro. You either loved living in the Mother City or had a hard time adjusting to the pace of things. %0AShe went back to Pretoria. Her Mom had asked her to take over the small family business, which became a bit too much for her to handle alone. %0AMy second thought fell on Petro! We worked together using the same Agency and I had, on occasion, accepted an invite or three. %0AApart from her Dad, who swore he knew me in a previous life, and sometimes embarrassed her with the detail, I enjoyed spending time with the Parkers. They%E2%80%99d been hospitable and quite entertaining. %0AI made a mental note as the train stopped at Rosebank Station. %0AThe morning at R&R Admin rushed by, and left me with little time for personal calls but I knew that there was one that had to be made, %0AI dialed the number, recalling her jolly banter, hardly forgettable! %0A%E2%80%9CHello, Petro? .. its. .%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CYes, Vonnie! How are you, my dear?%E2%80%9D %0AShe loved the %E2%80%9CDears%E2%80%9D and %E2%80%9CDearests%E2%80%9D! %0A%E2%80%9CVery Well Thanks, and yourself, Petro?%E2%80%9D %0AI paused, almost waiting for her usual joke, before getting to the %E2%80%9Cnitty gritty%E2%80%9D as she labelled anything that was not %E2%80%98hilarious%E2%80%99! %0AThere was an unusual silence so I continued: %0A%E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99ve taken a Permanent Position now. Remember Jethro?%E2%80%9D %0A(Everyone who met me, %E2%80%98knew about Jethro%E2%80%99!) %0AA further silence. %0A%E2%80%9CWell, we%E2%80%99re back together! He%E2%80%99s attending College %E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D I boasted. %0AThe silence on the other side was deafening. %0A%E2%80%9CPetro?%E2%80%9D I asked %0A%E2%80%9CRemarkable, Dearest! I%E2%80%99m so oo happy for you!%E2%80%9D %0AI noted the smile back in her voice. A sense of relief swept over me. %0A%E2%80%9CYes, Well%E2%80%A6 %E2%80%9D  %0A%0AShe almost returned to her old self, the %E2%80%98old self%E2%80%99 I knew! %0A%E2%80%9CWell what, my dear?%E2%80%9D She laughed on the other side, %0A%E2%80%9CHe hasn%E2%80%99t made some one pregnant, has he?%E2%80%9D %0AI wasn%E2%80%99t too shocked by her response, often thinking the unthinkable. %E2%80%9CGoodness, No, Petro! .. he%E2%80%99s about to turn 16 %E2%80%A6 %E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CWell that%E2%80%99s a relief! Not all news is good news, you know!%E2%80%9D she chirped. %0A Did that remark have something to do with silence, I wondered. %0A%E2%80%9CAre.. You pregnant?%E2%80%9D I ventured. %0AThere was another short silence. %0A%E2%80%9CP%E2%80%A6?%E2%80%9D %0AI wasn%E2%80%99t sure I wanted to hear the response, but asked anyway. %0A%E2%80%9CNo%E2%80%A6 of course not!%E2%80%9D I seemed to have irritated her. %0A%E2%80%9CDad and Mom,%E2%80%9D She said, rather soberly.. %E2%80%9CThey%E2%80%99re %E2%80%98calling it a day%E2%80%99 %E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CAre you Serious?%E2%80%9D I asked. Unsure of whether I heard correctly, but she sounded serious. %0A%E2%80%9CYes. I%E2%80%99m serious. We%E2%80%99ve been trying to get them to reconsider, but there%E2%80%99s just sooo much tension at home, one wonders if that wouldn%E2%80%99t be the better option%E2%80%9D. %0AI recall wondering whether I was more upset for them.. or for myself. %0AThis was not happening! I flinched, replying %0A%E2%80%9CI am so, so sorry Petro%E2%80%A6. Never in a million years%E2%80%A6 %E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CYes%E2%80%9D she answered %E2%80%9CNever in a million years.%E2%80%9D %0AI felt as inflated as a broken balloon and bad, at my selfish reaction. There%E2%80%99d be no more fun %E2%80%98n%E2%80%99 games at the Parkers%E2%80%99. I couldn%E2%80%99t suggest another get together %E2%80%A6 and I had Jethro , well.. He was relying on me. %0AI took a deep breath, genuinely sympathetic. %0A%E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99m so sorry about the news, Petro. I really hope things turn out %E2%80%98Just fine%E2%80%99 - We must get together again, sometime soon.. But %E2%80%98gotta hang up now..%E2%80%9D %0AMy mind had already started racing, what was the next option? %0A%E2%80%9CYes, Yes my dear.. We must! %E2%80%9D Petro added but not suggesting a date. %0AI bid my friend a fond farewell. I also bid the chance of a cozy %0Asleep-over a fond farewell, too! %0AR&R Admin was deathly silent and I wondered where Cheryl were. %0AI was placed in a tight squeeze. All the obvious things that was supposed to have happened, such as Petro%E2%80%99s warm invite to %E2%80%9Cjoin them some time%E2%80%9D did not happen! %0AI hadn%E2%80%99t readied myself for the seemingly impossible fact that Bill and Dot Parker  called it Quits. %0A%E2%80%9CDamn!!%E2%80%9D I said in exasperation, I honestly could not need Petro at a worse time. %E2%80%9CIt can%E2%80%99t be that bad!%E2%80%9D Steven replied. He stepped out of Jeff%E2%80%99s Office. Engrossed in conversation, I didn%E2%80%99t notice his entrance to R&R Admin, earlier. %0AHe walked passed, in time to hear the exasperation. %0A%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s Worse ..%E2%80%9D I grimaced, leaning back with my arms behind my head, a usual reaction when I tried to %E2%80%98figuring something out%E2%80%99. %0A%E2%80%9CHow many guest rooms do you have?%E2%80%9D I blurted, surprised at my own voice and question. %0A%E2%80%9CWhy?%E2%80%9D Steven frowned slightly, this really got his attention. %0A%E2%80%9COnly Kidding!%E2%80%9D I smiled and wished I could%E2%80%99ve retracted my question. %E2%80%9CJust in a bit of a situation%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CReally?%E2%80%9D Steven asked, %E2%80%9Ca bad one?%E2%80%9D %0AI looked at him, glumly. Not sure of my next plan of action with the dilemma I%E2%80%99d found myself in. %0A%E2%80%9CA quick drink after work? %E2%80%98Want to talk about it?%E2%80%9D He offered. %0AI thought about the previous %E2%80%9CQuick drink%E2%80%9D %0AWay too %E2%80%9CQuick%E2%80%9D for me. %0AI did not clearly remember what we spoke about that night. %0A%E2%80%9CThanks, but Nooo Thanks.%E2%80%9D I replied, and added %E2%80%9CThis%E2%80%99ll sort itself out, I%E2%80%99m sure!%E2%80%9D %0AThese offers for %E2%80%9CDrinks%E2%80%9D came way too frequently. %0AThe day raced by, as with most days since I started at R&R MUZIK. The position  posed many challenges! %0AI%E2%80%99d been successful at starting the procedure of clearing long overdue, outstanding claims which the clerks seemed comfortable carrying forward month by month, sometimes year after year. It wasn%E2%80%99t happening on my shift, I explained!  Not a clock-watcher, I eagerly awaited the end of the working day. %0AI checked, once more. Four forty five. %E2%80%98Home time%E2%80%99 soon, I thought. Thanking my Lucky Stars, It had been %E2%80%98one of those days%E2%80%99! %0AI still had one unresolved problem though. What was I going to tell Jethro? %0AThe phone had been buzzing, I wondered whether I could deal with another call. %0AIt was Steven. %0A%E2%80%9C %E2%80%98Sure you don%E2%80%99t want to accept my offer? I%E2%80%99m all ears! Storm is spending the evening with Grammie - so, there%E2%80%99ll be no rushing off tonight.%E2%80%9D %0AHe sounded confident, refreshed and ready to take on another challenge. %0AIronically, it was everything I had not been feeling.  %0A%0AOohh.. And it sounded so good. Anything but Account names, numbers, Dept. codes and lists of unresolved queries%E2%80%A6 %0A%E2%80%9CYes%E2%80%9D I found myself saying.. %E2%80%9CWhy not?%E2%80%9D %0AIt was a week night. The Pub, quiet. The music softer. %0A%E2%80%9CSo..%E2%80%9D Steven began, %E2%80%9CYou have a problem- I%E2%80%99m all ears!%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9COh Steven%E2%80%9D I sighed, wishing every problem would simply %E2%80%98go Away%E2%80%99! %0A%E2%80%9CThere are no problems%E2%80%9D. %0AI found myself swimming in those intent blue eyes, %0A%E2%80%9CNo problems, at all.%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9COkk..%E2%80%9D He replied, %E2%80%9CLet%E2%80%99s have a less rushed drink, anyway!  I%E2%80%99ll get you home in one piece.%E2%80%9D %0AHe ordered, and we sipped, not talking. %0ASteve eventually broke the silence.. %E2%80%9CLet%E2%80%99s take it a little slower this time%E2%80%9D %0AOhh, that slow, leisurely smile! %0A%E2%80%9CSo, tell me about yourself, who%E2%80%99s Jethro?%E2%80%9D he enquired. %0A%E2%80%9CMy Son%E2%80%9D I replied. %0AHe acted surprised %E2%80%9CYou have a son too, how old?%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CMuch older than Storm,%E2%80%9D I took another sip, %E2%80%9CEither you started late or I started too early!%E2%80%9D %0AI found myself smiling, everything was going to be Ok. %0A%E2%80%9CI started late%E2%80%9D He admitted. %0A%E2%80%9CWe had Storm when I was 40, too much else went on in my life before then. My wife was much younger though.%E2%80%9D He sipped, indicating that it was my cue. I obliged, %E2%80%9CJethro is, well, he%E2%80%99ll be 16 one of these days%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CReally?? How young did you start then?? %E2%80%9D He joked, laughing. %0AHis eyes questioning, as he took a long sip. %0A%E2%80%9C20%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9COk%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D He was doing the math. %0A%E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99m 36%E2%80%9D %0AHis eyebrows shot up. In Surprise? %0A%E2%80%9CYou%E2%80%99re kidding me, right?%E2%80%9D he placed his glass back on the table. %0A%E2%80%9CNo, I%E2%80%99m not! Too old for you, then?%E2%80%9D I shot back. %0AHe said his wife had been much younger. I was unable to resist the jab. %0ASteven burst out laughing. A genuine %E2%80%98Belly laugh%E2%80%99. %0A%E2%80%9CWhatever made you say that?%E2%80%9D he chuckled. %0AI remembered another flush. It was not a blush. 36 and blushing sounded ridiculous. %0A%0A%E2%80%9CI don%E2%80%99t know!%E2%80%9D I roared with laughter, it felt so good! %0A%E2%80%9CI don%E2%80%99t know at all! Cheers!%E2%80%9D I laughed, surprised at my own joviality. %0A%E2%80%9CCheers?%E2%80%9D he quizzed. %0AI responded with a raising of my glass %E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99m having a great time, Steven! Cheers to that!%E2%80%9D %0AOur glasses clinking. %0A%E2%80%9CThat%E2%80%99s good to know!%E2%80%9D he grinned, becoming more serious.. %0A%E2%80%9CJethro%E2%80%99s father?%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CLong Story. Let%E2%80%99s not waste time.%E2%80%9D I sighed. %0AAnother stretch of silence and deep sips of Draft. %0A%E2%80%9CWhat is the problem, Yvonne? You can talk to me.%E2%80%9D Steven ventured. %0AIt was another long day%E2%80%A6 Before I knew it, I explained to Steve about Jethro%E2%80%99s plans and how I%E2%80%99d not been able to meet my side of the bargain. %0A%E2%80%9CIs that why you asked me earlier about guestrooms?%E2%80%9D he asked, becoming suddenly quite alert and eager to be of any assistance. %0AI felt stupid. I recalled asking that, I did not know why I had. %0A%E2%80%9CI have three Guestrooms,%E2%80%9D he announced. %E2%80%9CYou are more than welcome to spend the night. In one of them.%E2%80%9D He added. %0AHe sounded so genuine. %0A%E2%80%9CSteven%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D I sighed. %0A%E2%80%9CNo, I%E2%80%99m Serious, Yvonne. No hidden agenda. Promise. I just want to help you. %0AIt%E2%80%99s One night! You%E2%80%99ll meet Storm, too!%E2%80%9D %0AHe did not prepare himself for a %E2%80%9CNo%E2%80%9D. %0AIt  sounded %E2%80%98Safe%E2%80%99 enough. Why safety had suddenly become an issue was beyond me. %0AI replied, rather sheepishly, %0A%E2%80%9COh, I don%E2%80%99t know, Steven. Why make my problem yours?%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CBecause I want to.%E2%80%9D He became a whole lot more serious. %0AI paused, thinking.. Well, why not? %0A%E2%80%9COk,%E2%80%9D I announced, having had more drafts than I thought I was able to, %0A%E2%80%9CThat settles it then!%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CThanks!%E2%80%9D he smiled. That smile. %0A%E2%80%9CWhy are you thanking me?%E2%80%9D I asked curiously. %0A%E2%80%9CBecause you%E2%80%99re accepting my help.%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CCheers!%E2%80%9D I raised my glass, taking a huge sip. %E2%80%9CSteven, can you take me home, now. Please?%E2%80%9D %0AI gave directions, I lived close enough and fell asleep on the way home. %0A%E2%80%9CYvonne?%E2%80%9D Steven%E2%80%99s  voice interrupted the snooze.. %0A%E2%80%9CHmmmm?%E2%80%9D I managed. %E2%80%9CI think you%E2%80%99re home now%E2%80%9D he said softly. %0AI roused myself awake, a little embarrassed, and blurted %0A%E2%80%9CThanks Steven, I%E2%80%99ve totally embarrassed myself. Thank you for the lift. See you tomorrow.%E2%80%9D %0AHe did not pull away until I was safely indoors. %0AOohhh, I remember just how welcoming that bed felt. %0A%0AChapter 10. %0AI woke up the next morning with a pounding headache. Not a Good Start. %0A%E2%80%9CCoffee, Mom? %E2%80%A6. You got in a bit later last night%E2%80%9D %0AJethro chirped, he surprised me with yet another %E2%80%98very early morning%E2%80%9D rising. %0A%E2%80%9CYes, thank you!%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%98Coffee%E2%80%99 sounded great. Glad for his offer of temporal but immediate help. %0A%E2%80%9CSo! Have you managed to contact Alice?%E2%80%9D %0AI was sure the question was burning on his lips, since five that morning. %0A%E2%80%9CJethro,%E2%80%9D I sighed %E2%80%9CAlice left Cape Town some time ago%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D %0AI knew what to expect next. That little pout%E2%80%A6 %0A%E2%80%9CBut! I%E2%80%99ve made an alternate plan, the weekend is yours!%E2%80%9D %0AI sounded %E2%80%98 triumphant%E2%80%99! %0A%E2%80%9CWeekend?%E2%80%9D Jethro asked, over-the-moon! %0A%E2%80%9CSorry! Wrong choice of words!%E2%80%9D %0AI%E2%80%99d been doing quite a bit of that lately. %0ASmall Pout. %0A%E2%80%9COnly kidding, Mom! One night is all I need.%E2%80%9D He grinned, %0A%E2%80%9CThank you, Mom%E2%80%9D %0AHe hugged me, tightly. It had definitely been the biggest hug I%E2%80%99d ever received from Jethro. %0AAlthough I had to admit, he grew by the day, and that was almost a %E2%80%98manly hug%E2%80%99. %0AImmediately, my thoughts went to Steven. He haven%E2%80%99t even tried to hug me, once. %0AShould he have? What would it.. %0A%E2%80%9COh, CUT IT OUT!%E2%80%9D I said aloud. %0A%E2%80%9CMom?%E2%80%9D %0AI laughed. %E2%80%9CTalking to myself, Jethro!%E2%80%9D %0AHe smiled and once again, it was %E2%80%9CThanks, Mom!%E2%80%9D %0A%E2%80%9CThanks, Jethro!%E2%80%9D %0AThanks Steven. I couldn%E2%80%99t resist the thought. %0AJethro had not much else to say, given everything had now been comfortably arranged. %0A%E2%80%9CI%E2%80%99m going over to Carl%E2%80%99s Place Mom, is it Okay if I slept over tonight? %E2%80%93 we%E2%80%99ll leave for College from his place.%E2%80%9D He announced. %0A%E2%80%9COkk .. Don%E2%80%99t forget your toothbrush,%E2%80%9D I smiled. He never forgot a thing.. If I didn%E2%80%99t know better, I could%E2%80%99ve sworn he%E2%80%99d been born in September, Meticulous to a fault. %0A%E2%80%9COk then, Good Bye, My Angel!%E2%80%9D I smiled, %0A%E2%80%9CTake the bin bag and drop it off on your way out. Please%E2%80%9D I asked sweetly. %0A%E2%80%9CWill do too%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D he answered, obedience dripping from his lips. It was the least he could%E2%80%99ve done! %0AHe blew me a kiss and was gone. %0AI was a happy Mom, Jethro%E2%80%99s the best son ever! ... %0AAt times I felt as if I was crazy, deeply, madly in love with him. %0AIt%E2%80%99d not been anything %E2%80%9Cweird%E2%80%9D. %0AHe reminded me so much of Brendon and yet being so much %E2%80%98himself.%E2%80%99 Quietly Confident. %0ANo Rules unless we needed them. Very Intelligent. %0AAs a youngster, I once mentioned how %E2%80%98clever%E2%80%99 he was, given he memorized so well, at an early Age... %0AHe answered that monkeys were %E2%80%98clever%E2%80%99 and that he was intelligent. Did I mention confident? %0AI found the being alone too liberating that evening. I had a mind crammed with data I did not want to process. %0AIn two days, two sleeps time, I%E2%80%98d be sleeping in a Guest room in Steven%E2%80%99s house! %0AI promised myself earlier on in the day: NO more thoughts about %E2%80%98Steven%E2%80%99. %0ASo I disappointed myself but it was just so hard not to think of him. %0AWith Jethro absent, absolutely nothing demanded my attention.. except Steven. %0AActually, It had been the abode I found myself thinking about. %0AI wondered whether it would be %E2%80%98Posh%E2%80%99. He didn%E2%80%99t come across as snobby but he wasn%E2%80%99t broke, that was obvious. %0AWell, I said, gathering my thoughts, and shelving them. I learned the signs of my overthinking, I would see soon enough. %0AWhat Did  I Get Myself Into, I thought panicking. My heart pounded hard against my chest, everything happened so fast. %0AThose past few months came with so much change. %0AI reassured myself that, all I needed to do was.. %E2%80%9Cgo with the flow.%E2%80%9D %0AGo with the flow? Where on earth did I hear something that crazy, I asked myself. The overthinking was not put to rest. %0AI went through it again.. I needed a place to crash for a night. Steven obliged. He%E2%80%99d be off to Germany soon. I already wished %E2%80%98the weekend%E2%80%99 was over. Jethro,happy. I %E2%80%93 eternally grateful. %0AOh, I felt I didn%E2%80%99t have %E2%80%98room in my brain%E2%80%99 to take on another thought. %0ASo, what if he tried to seduce me?? .. I seemed shocked at the thought! %0AWe were not children, I%E2%80%99d been.. %0A%E2%80%9CGo to Sleep!%E2%80%9D I told myself. It was late, I was tired. I was overthinking. %0ALast thought that night was %E2%80%A6But he was rather yummy. Very yumm%E2%80%A6 %0AIt took a few seconds and I was lost to the world, I had fallen into a dreamless sleep.  %0A%0A%0Ato be continued.........\n",
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