tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307737092011-04-22T05:56:13.826+02:00Comments to this blog are now closed. All spam comments are being deleted. All legitimate comments made previously are still available. Thank you for having your say.Addyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06040437692859092060noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30773709.post-1155928084462605182006-08-18T20:49:00.000+02:002006-08-18T21:08:04.636+02:00

Well, welcome back everyone.My email inbox has picked up again, but please rather comment on the site. It makes life easier and it also allows other users to follow what I am saying.I think it is important to address a particular comment so that I can move the discussion in more productive direction. Jen has said that I wanted some of Neil Watson's publicity to rub off on me. What I really wanted

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Hi there again everyone.I'm guessing by now that the fiasco has died down and I will be able to post without receiving loads of hate mail in my inbox. I didn't think I would post here again, but surprisingly, there are still people wanting to know what I think.I read the twenty-four comments that are under my goodbye post, and frankly, how could I not say anything? I'm giving up my 'impartiality'

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The Unbroken Barometer has been running for one week and one day. In this short period of time, it has managed to attract a daily audience of over 200 people, viewing the front page up to 720 times. Since a counter was introduced last week Saturday (exactly a week ago), the blog has received over 2200 page views.Anyone who has been monitoring this blog over the past week will have seen his or her

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MEC Firoz Cachalia says statistics are irrelevant "...because a single crime is too much." Here is something I believe we can all agree upon. How can you fight what you don't know? If the government wants us to fight crime together, they should supply us with the facts. A single crime is too much but what are the figures? The rest of that article, I believe is very positive on the whole. Granted,

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I have had to question whether I can rely on comments from people posting on my site. There are a lot of facts being stated here. I'm no statistician, but I do know when one fact contradicts another, there is something not right.One aspect of our problem is crime statistics. We don't have any, officially. Claims are being made that the official stats from SAPS are incredibly high, but then again,

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Thanks to everyone who is coming back to see what's going on. There are some lively debates happening and I have even been emailed requests to remove news reports, as well as a couple of less savoury emails, asking me to remove the entire blog. I have asked for comments from political parties, and whether or not they get back to me is up to them. I'll include the list of parties I mailed below. I

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I have a simple question. What does posting news stories do to help anybody? I am not deleting any comments at all. Good or bad, so if you want to say something say it.This morning 'Anonymous' decided that it would serve his or her agenda well to try and compete against positive comments by posting news article after news article about crime in South Africa. In fact, there is no point. I have

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I came across this page after the author left a comment on the Unbroken Barometer.Here is an excerpt:"Watson’s move would actually be welcomed if his site contained cautionary advice - for let’s not kid ourselves, South Africa is plagued by high levels of crime. It’s equally true, however, that by taking the normal, sensible precautions one would take anywhere while on holiday, tourists can have

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jp said..."I’d like to see the websites develop into though[t]-provoking, informative, factual sources on South Africa, its crime situation and possible solutions. Unfortunately things seem to be going the other way …" 2:24 PM, July 09, 2006I have been wondering this weekend about possible solutions to the problems this blog is trying to dismantle. It is great that people have opinions and that

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Good morning.I found a comment from anonymous claiming that "Mr Watson's website is about letting victims tell the truth" and that my blog is "suppressing the truth about crime in SA". I think it is important for me to say AGAIN that no comments on my blog are edited at all, whether they support what I believe or not. Mr Watson, however, does not post any comments which do not praise him or agree

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I've been looking through more comments and I have found these which I find interesting.TraceyJay said..."... My story is simple really. Coloured 24 year old female South African. My grandfather was assassinated- political reasons. We were exiled for 6 years. I missed my country so much.... We came back and I was treated no longer as a second class citizen, the political system acknowledged me as

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500 of you have visited this blog and voiced your opinions. Now, I've had an idea. I've put some links down the side of the page. There are options there to donate money (which isn't necessarily the best idea in my opinion) and also options to DO something, countrywide. Some of the charities and foundations ask for volunteers or for money. Do what you can. Maybe give time and money. We all want

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This site has been active for just under 24 hours and I am pleased to say that it has had just under 500 comments so far, 492 to be exact. Today, I am planning to try and give a little more structure to the site, so bear with me if things go a little skew.I have already tried to organise the comments in a 'descending' pattern, but have been rather unsuccessful. Please use the comment section

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Good evening everyone.I'd like to thank everyone again who has made a comment and also those who have offered to help with hosting and maintenance et cetera. I woke up this morning irritated with crimexposouthafrica.co.za and I am now glad to say that I am not the only one.I'd also like to thank Tinus de Jager at SABC news for his email. It is the SABCs viewpoint that "any such coverage would

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Hi again everyoneI was looking through the comments and I found this from another Anonymous."I challenge every person who has posted to this blog to do the following:"Go find a family with no income and find them some form of employment. Even if it is temporary. With over 100 comments, that's 100 families, x4 people per family = 400 less people who have a reason to look to crime."We all here can

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Firstly, I'd like to thank IOL for the exposure so far. I went out after posting the blog this morning and I already have 400 comments.As you can imagine I haven't had time to read all of the comments so far, but I have browsed through and found out that there are a few people who, like me, disagree with the new web site. There are also others who are against what I am doing. I expected

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South Africa is Moving. But in which direction? I'm not here to dictate or to scare you. I'm not here to paint a rosy picture. I'm here to add some perspective to what is happening in my country.I'll start by saying that I am a proud young South African. I've started this Blog because of a website which has recently started in South Africa. It is a 'crime barometer', but it appears to me that the

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