LINDIWE SISULU'S LIP SERVICE TO PRO-WOMEN ACTIVISM

Lieutenant Colonel Goodman Manyanya Phiri
in full verbal swing against "Mandelasque-Xhosa"
Tribalism in South Africa's Security Services
where people linked to Mandela by regional birth
are promoted with that as the only criterion
with the rest of South Africans treated as second-class citizens.

Phiri is particularly incensed with the fact that Mandela
through autobiographical 'Long Walk to Freedom'
alongside false colonial history about South Africa,claims
["Mpondo, Tembu and many other
historically non-Xhosa,
(albeit Xhosa-speaking Africansof the Eastern Cape)
are by both Mandela's account and by virtue of being forced by the previous settler-colonialism to speak somebody else's languange,
'THEREFORE willy-nilly ethnically Xhosa or Zulu
even from the blatantly false 16th century
just because those were the languages rammed down the throats
of other non-Zulu and non-Xhosa Africans
like Mandela's Tembu and Phiri's Swazis from the Year 1910"]

Phiri believes that this acceptance by Mandela of the ethnic engineering done by European colonialists in South Africa is the source of both the current
ongoing tribalisms and ongoing remnants of white racisms in government,
(and particularly in the Security Services like the SANDF),
in the ruling ANC and even in other political parties

Even current shabby or total non-delivery of services
(along-side some R5 billion-per-year corruption in South Africa)
is fathered by this self-same Mandelasque tribalism
BECAUSE
incompetents are appointed to high positions in government
for no reason whatsoever except "ethnic proximity to The President".

Your Excellency Zuma

1.      I understand with a lot of sadness (after an even more forlorn googling) the line drawn by society between crime and “innocent” immorality is so insignificant one could demolish the Berlin Wall between the two and no one would care a hoot.  Despite that societal laziness to think and preventatively rule on the harmful immorality that has now even been normalized in the South African National Defence Force by Ms Lindiwe Sisulu,  I can still with all respect hazard the statement that she pays only lip service to government (and indeed global) call for activism against abuse of women (and children) kicking off this Thursday the 25th November 2010.

2.      Maybe it is lip service because the selling (to Raymond Atlholang Lentsoe and by mutual Nelson-Mandela-Themba-Matanzima cousin Winnie Ntombizodwa Bobelo-Zini) of sex was done by two consenting adults, meaning it was just an issue of mere prostitution rather than abuse of rank by a male superior officer.

                                                                                           

3.      But my questions, Mr President, are:

a.      Would mutual Nelson-Mandela-Themba-Matanzima cousin Ms Ntombizodwa Bobelo-Zini have slept with Mr Raymond Lentsoe if  Lentsoe did not hold the key to her meteoric rise from a mere major to a brigadier general of the South African National Defence Force?

b.      As a mother and a father to children, isn’t this immoral act by the twosome (Zini and Lentsoe, respectively) a surefire guarantee that their own children will grow up to be delinquents perpetrating violence or perpetrated violence against since their parents clearly do not understand the value of honesty save maybe by associating themselves with the blood-links she reportedly shares with uTat’ uMadiba (a reverent way of referring to Nelson Mandela in the Xhosa language of Lindiwe Sisulu and Mandela himself)?

c.       What army in the world tolerates what Lindiwe Sisulu tolerates in terms of allowing senior officers to engage in public sex...public in the sense that this took place in a military unit where both Zini and Lentsoe knew very well us military intelligence officers would 24-hours be aware of it... with the aim of advancing each other so corruptly?  And worse, Mr President, what cabinet minister sinks so low as to even go to the extent of pursuing a whistleblower (Phiri) for 10 solid years with vexatious charges that 4 out of every 5 judges both military and civilian have for several occasions said will not stand any test of procedural-fairness review?

d.      Is Lindiwe Sisulu even aware that what Zini and Lentsoe did is actually not only corrupt and illegal because Lentsoe gave undue marks to Zini, but the very act of illicit sex between officers of the South African National Defence is on its own illegal?  Or is Lindiwe Sisulu sticking to her guns that if one of the criminals is a relative of Mandela’s, a relative of her own (Walter Sisulu) father’s friend, or is even born in the same province as the two male politicians, then [stuff the law and stuff the constitution of the Republic of South Africa]?

4.      Mr President, as the chief guardian of our constitution, I am appealing to you to come to my rescue and the rescue of your own nation.  Due to Lindiwe Sisulu’s style of management, sexual harassment of female soldiers is rife in your army, and the very people whom Lindiwe Sisulu has entrusted to safeguard the dignity of female officers and women’s bodies under their military uniform, are day and night with impunity accused of harassment with a Lindiwe Sisulu who simply ignores these complains for reasons either that these guys are her own father’s fellow-Eastern-Cape-born people or are whites of British stock like her own paternal grandfather.

a.      What kind of Orwellian animal farm is Africa descending to with such a character at the helm of any country’s most crucial (Defence) department, Comrade President Zuma?

b.      Or what does Lindiwe Sisulu need, Mr President, before she can charge a general and dismiss him for sexual harassment of women soldiers?

c.       Does Lindiwe Sisulu need a suicide note of a spouse in uniform who could no longer take the humiliation of his wife philandering with a general hailing from the Eastern Cape? LINDIWE SISULU HAS GOT THAT ALREADY BUT NO SENIOR WAS PUNISHED!

d.      Does Lindiwe Sisulu need soldiers shooting their seniors over these and other matters before she acts? I’M SURE LINDIWE SISULU HAS GOT THAT ALREADY BUT NO SENIOR WAS PUNISHED!

e.      Does Lindiwe Sisulu need sworn statements from female victims of sexual harassment? O SHE GOT SO MANY OF THEM, BUT NOT ONLY HAS NOT ONE SEX PEST OF A GENERAL BEEN CHARGED, BUT THE RESULT IS THAT WOMEN SOLDIERS ARE NO MORE KEEN TO SAY, COLONEL PHIRI, HERE IS MY DEPOSITION ABOUT GENERAL SO-AND-SO COERCING ME TO HAVE SEX WITH HIM. THEY FEAR BECAUSE LINDIWE SISULU NOT ONLY PROMOTES THOSE GENERALS, BUT SHE GIVES THEM RESPONSIBILITY OVER THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE VERY SAME WOMEN (TOGETHER WITH THEIR WITNESSES) WHO COMPLAINED AGAINST THEM!

5.      Mr President Zuma, in honour of the first day of the 16 days of Activism against the abuse of women and children, I am, for a start, blogging on a sworn statement by a female staff sergeant who complained that current-day, Eastern-Cape-born Major General Enock Muiseng Mashoala victimized her left and right because she refused to sleep with him.

a.    I, No 94067501 PE Rank Staff Sergeant Mabel Mbatha (married) …hereby report…[HARASSMENT, MISUSE OF RANK AND VICTIMISATION BY BRIGADIER GENERAL ENOCK MUISENG MASHOALA] which, in my view, started years ago. I clearly recall that…Brigadier General [Mashoala] was proposing an extra-marital affair with me which I turned down many times. I even promised … [to] tell his wife …. After that he … [stopped]… talking to me…refusing to salute back when [-ever] I saluted him.  I just took it easy: not knowing that it will jeopardize my career path.

b.    Because of the incidents I am relating in the paragraphs below, I have formed the opinion that my rejection of the general’s sexual proposals was what changed his attitude for the worse towards me: he has now elected to become an obstruction in my career path.

c.    He said that there is a list of people “who are ill-disciplined, having outstanding cases who will not get their ranks” and I (Mbatha) am included in that list. According to him “everything was being sent back to the departmental heads” because, presumably, “of ill-disciplined and …  [those] people [facing charges] like me”.  (Let me say that this is the same theme of false accusations against me that the Brigadier General was to [maintain] when he and Lt Col [Clinton Edmond] Sandman brought me to their audience on 23 October 2003).  [And] for the record, since my integration (as a Staff Sergeant) into the SANDF 1994 to the moment I was talking to Brigadier General Mashoala I had never been charged for any offence: not to the best of my recollection. Nor had the Brigadier General nor any other officer ever called me for negative Office Orders for bad behaviour or poor discipline: not to my recollection. And I tried to bring this fact to the attention of the brigadier general but he said that anyway he was not going to argue with me.

d.    Shocked, I realized…for the first time that my supposed poor discipline is [perhaps] the general’s sour grapes for the failed love advances.  Then I was gripped [by] a great shock and fear for the officer because something in me says generals cannot sink that low for sex.

e.    The spectre of the harassing Brigadier General Mashoala suddenly re-emerged:  Our paths crossed (next to the car basement) as I was wearing the rank of a Major. I saluted him.  He did not salute back.  A few more steps away, he turned round looking at me as if puzzled.  Ten minutes later I was on my way back to my office when someone told me Lieutenant Colonel [Clinton Edmond] Sandman wanted to see me.  The lieutenant colonel said he had got an instruction from Brigadier General Mashoala that I must take out that rank of a Major “because the process is not yet approved”.  I said to Lieutenant Colonel Sandman where is the document that says the process is not yet approved.  He said he [Mashoala] did not give him any document; it was just [a] verbal instruction telephonically.

f.     ….[At some stage]…Brigadier General Mashoala …[called]…me names like “stupid”, “[ignoramus]” and “just an idiot”.

g.    I said: General, you are insulting me when Lieutenant Colonel [Clinton Edmond] Sandman had only been asking a simple question (Am I now a Staff Sergeant or a Major?).  Lt Col Sandman did not want to know how stupid, idiotic and ignorant I was.

h.    I have developed a great fear for Brigadier General Mashoala.  I am a married woman and a mother to several children who look up to me.  Compared to the Brigadier General’s rank, I, as the Staff Sergeant he forces me to forever be, am one of the lowest ranks of the national defence force.  Among all the members who applied for a review of ranks, why on earth has this powerful man otherwise elected to destroy me and (and in this particular way) me alone?

6.    Enock Muiseng Mashoala was a brigadier general by then, but has since been promoted as alluded to above, Mr President and Commander in Chief.

7.    A brief look at his history from the Web as well as from former-MK members shows you Mashoala/Steve/Sebata alias Luvuyo Mzana is a former guerrilla whose past is nonetheless marred by averments of suspicions of counter-revolutionary involvement.  Soldiers of MK will tell you frightening stories about the character; but none of them is prepared to repeat those under oath; and so these are not repeated on this blog either, although my President Zuma should not have a problem hearing those stories from most veterans of the struggle who knew Mashoala from exile.

8.      Readers of my blog will also recognize Enock Muiseng Mashoala as the man who swept under the carpet the riotous sex-for-promotion-2001-scandal involving Mandela/Matanzima cousin Winnie Ntombizodwa Bobelo-Zini as mentioned above. He was then Army Inspector General.  Mashoala’s office even went to the extent of liaising underhand with one Colonel Eddie Drost to falsely charge Phiri all in a concerted effort to preserve unethical domination of the Department of Defence by soldiers from the province where Lindiwe Sisulu’s father (Walter Ulyate Sisulu) and his friend and fellow-tribesman Nelson Mandela come from.

a.      By the way and in anticipation to the concluding lines of this blog, Eddie Drost’s denarius from Mandelocrats under Mbeki was a crucial post as a project manager for what Lieutenant General Solly Shoke’s leadership christened “Vision 2020”.   In the same vein, I also wonder how a man can have vision for futuristic Year 2020 for South African soldiery when he apparently has no clue how age-old mere office orders must be conducted and simply elects to assault subordinates whenever reminded to salute back on his orders.  I guess that is what you get if you an Afrikaner under the leadership of the likes of Lindiwe Sisulu:  protect her tribe from prosecution and you have promotion, but dare stand for what is right as a Boer and you are either fired on flimsy charges or arbitrarily told “you are too white to be promoted since our government is busy Africanizing (a euphemism for filling up all the senior posts and ranks of the SANDF with black characters who either speak Nelson Mandela’s native language, or were born in the Eastern Cape like he, or are his relatives from the extended family of the Thembu Royal House whence Nelson Mandela descends.”

b.      I reserve the second leg of this post for a transcript of the military court used to victimize me for speaking out, Mr President and Commander in Chief.  There you get it from a horse’s mouth, Eddie Drost’s fellow state-witness against Phiri inadvertently supporting what I’ve in vain reported to a Thembu-tribalized police force in Pretoria that Eddie Drost did in fact assault me on his orders of the 7th March 2001.

9.      Mr President, your office (as well as the office of Lindiwe Sisulu via the Commission) have in video already received sworn statements over the sex-for-promotion Mandela/Matanzima-cousin-Zini was involved in an act for which henchman Eddie Drost falsely charged Phiri for blowing the whistle.

10.  So what is Lindiwe Sisulu waiting for in the place of charging Lentsoe (or/and Zini)?   Is she preserving Lentsoe because for some reason he has wormed his way up in power to be a functionary of sorts to the very Commission that Your Excellency called for in order to alleviate the burden of soldiers?

11.  Is Lindiwe Sisulu waiting for the secondary victimization of the other witnesses who in my grievance letter to the office of Your Excellency and the office of Sisulu corroborated the sex-for-promotion Mandela/Matanzima’s cousin was involved in?

12.  What are the prospects of our beloved government winning the war on gender violence when upright South Africans are by the likes of Lindiwe Sisulu exposed to victimization when daring in vain to depose on sexually-related corruption in the Army for the attention of their own president and commander in chief?

13.  But back to Mr Enock Muiseng Mashoala against whom Mbatha complained to no avail about his alleged sexual harassment, now Mashoala, one star higher in rank ostensibly for covering up the corruption of Mandela/Matanzima-mutual-cousin-Bobelo, is still making life difficult for junior soldiery: not only was Mbatha apparently falsely charged as a victimization for speaking out against Mashoala’s alleged sexual harassment, but her witness, one Corporal Kasreels Romano Lottering of the Khoisan ethnic group is still being allegedly victimized by Mashoala for having supported Mbatha’s complaints.  A telephone conversation with Lottering this evening indicates that a Lottering representative, one of the few right-thinking Xhosa-speakers called Mr Thembelani T. Xundu, is, at least by Lottering’s expressed fears , being arbitrarily removed by Major General Enock Muiseng Mashoala and replaced by a “reactionary Xhosa-speaker or some other fellow in order to get even with Lottering for having supported the sexually-harassed woman of Swazi/Zulu stock”.

14.  Mr President, Msholozi, Nxamalala! You and you alone are our only hope out of this mess.  And if our hopes come true, you will go down the history of South Africa as the State President that saved the nation from civil war because no nation will be abused by one ethnic group or two as is currently happening in the Department of Defence (and probably other departments too since the days of Mandela) without taking arms at some stage AND I SAY GOD FORBID THIS OPTION!

COURT TRANSCRIPT ON HOW WHITE EDDIE DROST ASSAULTED A BLACK SUBORDINATE ON OFFICE ORDERS RATHER THAN RETURN HIS SALUTE AS DICTATED TO BY COLOUR-BLIND MILITARY DRILLS

26 February 2004

(Please note: from this part of the transcripts, a whole page has been deliberately excised by Lindiwe Sisulu’s Ms Karen Boshoff.  It is the part which naturally shows how Mr Eddie Drost, in a clearly racial motive that defied military rules, refused to salute back a black lieutenant colonel (Phiri) and rather elected to the latter out of the former’s office without returning the compliments as per orders and drill of office bearings as Eddie Drost had commanded the encounter to be such. Lindiwe Sisulu’s duplicity is clearest in that example where official documents of her Department are hidden away when they show the criminality of her pawns but are bandied around where they show a shortcoming from the part of Phiri.  Blogger is planning to get the High Court demand from Sisulu the fuller transcripts inclusive of the missing page, all as soon as Sisulu refunds Phiri the R300 000 outstanding for the High Court encounters thus far.  As a further note, where Raymond Lentsoe states:  “Oh, he demanded to be saluted back” it is exactly where a resumption of proffered transcripts occurs.  Prior to that statement, a whole page of transcripts was removed by Sisulu’s human gremlins so that a non-Thembu, non-Ethnic British Phiri must be falsely found guilty!)

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  get clarity from you, the permission that you cave was for before 15:00 and that you reminded Colonel Phiri scout the 15:00 feedback session?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE: That's correct.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  ...7 March 2001, what can you tell the court about that day [in relation to Colonel Phiri]?

MICHAEL ALBERTUS VENTER, SENIOR MILITARY JUDGE:     Sorry, can you just repeat your question?

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF: -           The following day, being 7 March 2001

MICHAEL ALBERTUS VENTER, SENIOR MILITARY JUDGE:     Yes?

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  ... what can Colonel Lentsoe tell the court about that day involving Colonel Phiri.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  On that day we, as I indicated we ... I was instructed to bring Colonel Phiri on the 6th which didn't work, or never materialised because of his absentia, and earlier on it's when he was-still present it could have worked out, but he went to mend his mess dress and the colonel, "colonel" being .Colonel Eddie Drost was still busy with his communication period at the senior command and staff. So I extended my time to try and make sure that I arrange a new alternative timing with Colonel Eddie Drost which obviously ended up with Colonel Eddie Drost saying to me "any time you can find Phiri, you can come to my office", that was the 7th. For ... the 7th was meant for a dress rehearsal and we continued, if I'm not mistaken we started around 11:45 ... (unclear) ... and so on, Colonel Phiri was still not available. Earlier on, or the previous day I phoned his cell phone, I got his cell number from somebody, I phoned his cell phone but couldn't establish his whereabouts because each time it went over to voicemail and I left a message that, "please, please, please, Manyanya, if you can happen to come this way, make sure that we meet for the appointment with Colonel Eddie Drost."

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  So, on the 7th we went to ... at around past 12:00 or to 13:00 then Phiri arrived ... Colonel Phiri arrived, he came to me and reported that unfortunately he couldn't make it and so on, and I understood. Then I said "please don't go anywhere, I'm just going to confirm with. Colonel Eddie Drost, fetch the documents and then I will link up with you" and we ... (unclear) ... Then I went to Colonel Eddie Drost's office, I informed him Phiri is around he has reported and I would -like to handle off this case. Then or to which he consented. I went back myself and Colonel Phiri went to Colonel Eddie Drost's office. Colonel Phiri waited outside, I went in and that in the office orders fine and went back with the understanding that the colonel will be settled and down. or seated down, then I went in to bring in Colonel Phiri. Colonel Phiri came in and Colonel Eddie Drost asked him of the document that he was supposed to have submitted, and about his whereabouts the previous day, and where was he and so -on.  Then ..Colonel Phiri indicated to Colonel Eddie Drost that he will not align himself to answer any questions up until the colonel can allow him to meet or to call his lawyers in when he makes such submission. And then the  two now Colonel Phiri . and Colonel Eddie Drost didn't get to a consensus of how to deal with this thing, and Colonel Eddie Drost at some stage said to Colonel Phiri he's excused from his office.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:     Okay. I just want to stop you there, when Colonel Phiri  came into the office, who was in the office?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  At that time it was only Colonel Eddie Drost, the second session was to be myself and the third person was to be Colonel Phiri, because I  went to hand in the file and went to call, as is the procedure, to call in Phiri.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay. Now how are orders conducted when people  appear before Colonel Eddie Drost at that time, on the course?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  The normal procedure is whoever is bringing the aggrieved person, or the accused, or whatever we can call it, the other person on orders I will, in my case I will .. I have to arrange with the person who's going to conduct the orders, being now the senior person, in this case Colonel Eddie Drost, arrange a timing with him, get the facts what is it that he wants me to bring with, additional evidence, being it a progress report or whatever, depending on the merits of the case why is this person there, then once that date and time comes I will make sure that I'm ready with the documentation, whatever is necessary at the senior person in charge, confirm with him, leave the documents with him then call in the person I've brought in on orders. We salute and he will say okay, either take a chair or right, stand at ease. I will close the door behind me and there to facilitate... to listen to what is being decided and thereafter once ... whatever the decision has been recorded. I will then take the file to ensure that that decision is executed or implemented or whatever the decision. And once the guy brought on order has saluted...then I will take the file and follow him, that's how it's being conducted.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay. Now the day in question. how did Colonel Phiri enter the office of Colonel Eddie Drost?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Very closely to what I have just described.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  The only difference was Colonel Drost was standing as you are standing and as we entered Colonel Eddie Drost started asking about the documents.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  And Colonel Phiri decided not to comply unless his to answer any questions except if you talk to my lawyer."

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay. And what happened then?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Yeah, it was verbal tug of war.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Then at some ...

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  I know ...

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  At some stage Colonel Eddie Drost tried to move around his table ...

MICHAEL ALBERTUS VENTER, SENIOR MILITARY JUDGE:     Could I ...

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  ... towards Phiri wherein I jumped between the two of them, and he excused then Colonel Phiri

MICHAEL ALBERTUS VENTER, SENIOR MILITARY JUDGE:     Could I ask you to return to your seat that we just have a clear recording of your evidence? Please describe what you did, at some stage?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  At some stages Colonel Eddie Drost was moving from behind his desk ...

MICHAEL ALBERTUS VENTER, SENIOR MILITARY JUDGE:     Yes?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  ... and that is the desk, here's Phiri and I'm here, behind Phiri. So Colonel Eddie Drost is trying to go or what intending ... I'm not quite sure what was in his mind but he was moving from behind the desk towards the two of us. In my opinion, or in my observation as he was trembling and the two of  them voices were rising, I thought no, somebody is going to hit somebody and I jumped in-between them to stop Colonel Eddie Drost from whatever intention he had, nr.tn silence. Colonel Phiri from whatever argument he had in mind.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Now, in your assessment of the situation, why was it that Colonel Eddie Drost got up and behaved as he did? What sparked this?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  In my thinking it might be that Colonel Phiri didn't honour their agreement of the document the previous time. In    opinion it can be that  co... he was of the opinion maybe that Colonel Phiri is wasting his time because of failing to honour the appointment for the office orders to he handled off. I can't really pinpoint what exactly  was in his mind.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh..

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  So can I not say why didn't Colonel Phiri answer the question of the documents simply by saying maybe "I gaveit to Raymond" or "it was handed in" or something else.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Mm.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  I can't really determine, or accurately say why was he ... saying he wants the lawyers and why was Eddie Drost saying ... or agitated, I can't really

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Yeah, that is my next question, because I understand from your evidence that you say that Colonel Phiri did at some stage prior to these  orders, give you a document which you then gave to one Cathy. Now, are these the self-same documents that are referred to now in their argument?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  In my understanding, and if my memory can help me,  that was the document explaining the whereabouts of Colonel Phiri during the day of the feedback, if I ... I never opened the envelope.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  I took it as sealed as it ... as I received it directly to Colonel Eddie Drost.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  But now, in my understanding the document in ... that I'm currently referring to, is the document explaining his whereabouts for the 6th

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF: Okay. So at that stage when you come between  Colonel Eddie Drost and Colonel Phiri, what happens then?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  As I've explained Colonel Eddie Drost ... or the two of them were arguing, their voices were rising, Colonel Eddie Drost was trembling and he was moving from behind his desk towards us, I'm not quite. sure whether I say towards Phiri or myself, and now, being the facilitator o: the supposed to have been office orders I stepped in-between to say to Colonel Drost "let's handle this off" or to say to Phiri "no, Manyanya, relax, let's finish this thing because now I'm handling en unresolved case of Kleynhans and now it's another unresolved case of Colonel Eddie Drost.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  And

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  And .

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  ... what happened now?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  No, my course administration will never be finished.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Because of this outstanding issue

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:, The only role of my being involved in the . two's argument, or the three's argument is simply because I was appointed the course leader.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Oh, he demanded to be saluted back.

MICHAEL ALBERTUS VENTER, SENIOR MILITARY JUDGE:     Okay.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Or requested, "can't you salute me back?"-

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  What was the tone of voice that he was using at that stage?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  What was the?

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  What was the tone of voice that he was using at that stage?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  The tone of the voice?

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Yes, the ...

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  It was that of an angry man. Both were ... I ... I'm not quite sure how to describe ...

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  No, that is ...

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  ... that situation.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  That is fine, we understand that ...

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Yeah,

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  ... if you say it's that of an angry man. And volume-wise, what sort of volume was he using?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  It was high.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  It was a high volume?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  Yebo.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay. Okay, what did Colonel Eddie Drost do when he got this request, or instruction to salute him, what did Colonel Drost do?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  As far as I can remember he kept on saying "you are excused."

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Uhuh.

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  And I stood there, not knowing, exactly the same situation as in the case ... in the Kleynhans case not knowing whether to take the bite or to follow Phiri, or to request Eddie Drost to write something          or what.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  I know this is long ago, and you know were taking you  back to 2001, but was there any compliance with Colonel Phiri's request, order?

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  I will be lying if I can say yes, or no'.

PROSECUTION COUNSEL Ms PAKENDORF:  Okay, you cannot ...

STATE-WITNESS RAYMOND ATLHOLANG LENTSOE:  I'm not quite clearly-sure what transpired.

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"Siziwe" a.k.a "Sighs", the self-professed
Nelson Mandela Cousin
who achieved generalcy and other ranking
through adultery/prostitution
with at least one Raymond Lentsoe in Year 2000.
Goodman Manyanya Phiri, according to Mr Jacob Zuma,
must for 11 years now therefore continue to suffer
for blowing the whistle against this relative to a Mandela
that Zuma calls "The Father of The Nation South Africa".
Her official name is
Winnie Ntombizodwa Zini-Bobelo