Michael Tellinger Launches Constitutional Court Action Against

Standard Bank; and

The South African Reserve Bank; and

The Minister of Finance.

After a slight technical hiccup last Friday at the Constitutional Court, regarding the binding of a substantially long legal document, Michael Tellinger made global history on the 23^rd & 24^th April 2012, in Johannesburg when he filed his 1100-page NOTICE OF MOTION against Standard Bank in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, accusing the bank of unlawful and unconstitutional activity. The case number allocated by the Constitutional Court is CCT 28/12.

Tellinger also served the NOTICE OF MOTION on the RESERVE BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA and the MINISTER OF FINANCE, alleging that they are jointly and consciously implicated in the unscrupulous and devious activity that has led to unimaginable financial hardship of the South African people.

There is hardly any South African who has not been harmed in some way by the actions of the banks. For too long have banking giants been unassailable and untouchable by the common man.

It is now official and it can be claimed that never before has such a case been brought against any of these corporations at this level anywhere in the world, where for the first time a layperson has been given direct access to the Constitutional Court regarding the devious activities of the banks.

This case may have started as a matter of principle for Michael Tellinger against STD Bank, but it has escalated to such a degree that every South African and everyone in the world could be affected, because a positive outcome will result in a major public policy shift and the changing of the laws that govern the banks and bringing economic justice to the people.

Tellinger will argue that the lack of control and intervention by the MINISTER OF FINANCE has allowed the banks and the RESERVE BANK to do as they please with impunity and without recourse, and in the process have enslaved millions of honest, hard-working South Africans to a life of misery and debt through the banks’ unconstitutional and unlawful activities.

This historic case will attempt to redress the imbalance that has taken place for centuries by the few that have been called the banking elite. The Constitutional Court is the highest court on constitutional matters, its very foundation being the protector of human rights and its mandate to protect the people.

The Court is mandated to bring legislation in par with the constitutional framework principles and to develop common law principles. The legacy follows Nelson Mandela’s vision, that no matter who or what you represent, equality, justice and the people’s voice shall be harmonised before an independent, unbiased judicial system founded on the principles of rights enshrined in the Constitution.

This case will be a challenge for the Constitutional Court, and Tellinger trusts that it will make its findings properly, considering all the facts to redress the laws and do whatever it needs to do, to redress the hardship of the people caused by financial abuse.

Tellinger appeals to every South African that has been harmed by their bank to join this important action, so that it truly represents millions of honest, hardworking and trusting citizens who have been unable to do so for themselves.

Thousands have been repeatedly frustrated by the invisible protective legal shield around the banks, and the legal system that seems to support the banks.

“Many people carry severe personal grudges against the banks that have done them financial harm, but are powerless to do anything about it.” Said Tellinger

He added that “People are completely oblivious to how they have been conned and deceived by their banks about money and how it is created, but once they find out the terrible truth about how banks really operate and how they use our signature to profiteer on us, and how they make money out of thin air, they will be very angry and realise how important this action against the banks is” he added.

Tellinger urges each and every South African to read as much about this case as possible to inform themselves and to join the petition of signatures that will represent the rest of South Africa in the loudest voice ever presented at the Constitutional Court. Please go to www.thebigcase.co.za and sign the petition page.

Details of the hearing will follow as soon as we have been allocated a date by the court. We will keep everyone informed on the above website .

For more information contact Michael Tellinger at michael@zuluplanet.com

This is a historic moment. Yesterday, a 1000 page lawsuit was successfully served on Standard Bank, the South African Reserve bank and the Minister of Finance. These documents, which were filed at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (case number CCT28/12), expose the money creation and so-called “lending” processes of banks.

The documents are a matter of public record, and you can read everything on www.thebigcase.co.za. You can also comment and discuss the case with others. Some photos, and a press release by Michael Tellinger, may be viewed here.

The board of the New Economic Rights Alliance has resolved to join the case as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”). Our NPO is specifically geared towards transparency in the banking sector and we represent thousands of Members who are unhappy with the way in which the banks have been conducting their business.

Each and every South African should follow this case and learn how the banking system works. The place to start is at www.thebigcase.co.za.

We are proud to be associated with an initiative that could have global consequences.

THE NEW ECONOMIC RIGHTS ALLIANCE

25th April 2012

Please find below our suggestion for fixing South Africa ‘s economy.

Instead of giving billions of rands to the government that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them R1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.

Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new car.

Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university – Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy R100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week…..

And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc

It can’t get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know

Also………..

Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.

• This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.
• They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
• Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
• A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.
• They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
• They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.
• Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.
• Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.
• Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.
• There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
• The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised.
• Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week.  Live in a tiny room and pay R1,000.00+ per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention):

COWS

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in
Rivier-sonder-End almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept??

And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 200,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country.

Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

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LASTLY

Think about this … If you don’t want to forward this for fear of offending someone — YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
It is time for us S.A. to speak up!

www.camphillwestcoast.org.za

                              The Creative Field Conference: March 17^th – 18^th  

Saturday 9 am -5pm:  Welcome to the Creative Field;  Connect and Communicate Intention and

Outcome for the Conference – with live music, Tai Chi, key note presentations, group work.

 Lunch (1-2pm)

• Mmatshilo Motsei dramatic presentation:  ‘Hunger for the Sky’ – A personal journey of
  

            challenge and transformation.

• Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix:  Healing the Memories through narrative work

             What are the energies we hold in the stories we carry with us in our lives?

             Healing the narrative creates a clear space from which we may birth our new story for the future.

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                 Saturday 8pm ‘The Destiny Concert with Jennifer Ferguson and Friends’

                                                         A night of Wonder and Celebration!

                                                               Concert is open to the public.

                                                               Book at Computicket.

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Sunday 9am -5pm:   Address by David Karchere – Initiator of the Creative Field Project and

                                        Open space Creative Conversations – hosted by:

• Lesedi Makhurane – Practical Visionaries living in the world.
• Alex Eppel – Sustainability: Relationship with Living Systems
• Reuben Piet and Nicole Le Roux – Focus on Youth – Vision and Action
• Jane Anetrini – True Identity and Personal Destiny
• Tina Schouw – Artist as Activist
• Mugendi M’Rithaa – Design Technology and Ubuntu – Way of the Future

   Lunch (1-2pm)

• Ritual Ceremony Led by Mmatshilo Motsei: Calling the Global Village into the Creative Field 
• Focus on Youth Action – with Reuben Piet and Nicole Le Roux

Closing Ceremony – Our Stake in the Ground – Answering the Call of Destiny

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     Contact:  Anne-Lise Bure   annelise@novalis.org.za

     Contact:  Howard Goodman   howard@edl.co.za

                               (021) 797 1857

I came to Africa with one purpose: I wanted to see the world outside the perspective of European egocentricity. I could have chosen Asia or South America. I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest.

I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I’ve lived off and on in Mozambique. Time has passed, and I’m no longer young; in fact, I’m approaching old age. But my motive for living this straddled existence, with one foot in African sand and the other in European snow, in the melancholy region of Norrland in Sweden where I grew up, has to do with wanting to see clearly, to understand.

The simplest way to explain what I’ve learned from my life in Africa is through a parable about why human beings have two ears but only one tongue. Why is this? Probably so that we have to listen twice as much as we speak.

In Africa listening is a guiding principle. It’s a principle that’s been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. From my own experience, I’ve noticed how much faster I have to answer a question during a TV interview than I did 10, maybe even 5, years ago. It’s as if we have completely lost the ability to listen. We talk and talk, and we end up frightened by silence, the refuge of those who are at a loss for an answer.

I’m old enough to remember when South American literature emerged in popular consciousness and changed forever our view of the human condition and what it means to be human. Now, I think it’s Africa’s turn.

Everywhere, people on the African continent write and tell stories. Soon, African literature seems likely to burst onto the world scene — much as South American literature did some years ago when Gabriel García Márquez and others led a tumultuous and highly emotional revolt against ingrained truth. Soon an African literary outpouring will offer a new perspective on the human condition. The Mozambican author Mia Couto has, for example, created an African magic realism that mixes written language with the great oral traditions of Africa.

If we are capable of listening, we’re going to discover that many African narratives have completely different structures than we’re used to. I over-simplify, of course. Yet everybody knows that there is truth in what I’m saying: Western literature is normally linear; it proceeds from beginning to end without major digressions in space or time.

That’s not the case in Africa. Here, instead of linear narrative, there is unrestrained and exuberant storytelling that skips back and forth in time and blends together past and present. Someone who may have died long ago can intervene without any fuss in a conversation between two people who are very much alive. Just as an example.

The nomads who still inhabit the Kalahari Desert are said to tell one another stories on their daylong wanderings, during which they search for edible roots and animals to hunt. Often they have more than one story going at the same time. Sometimes they have three or four stories running in parallel. But before they return to the spot where they will spend the night, they manage either to intertwine the stories or split them apart for good, giving each its own ending.

A number of years ago I sat down on a stone bench outside the Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique, where I work as an artistic consultant. It was a hot day, and we were taking a break from rehearsals so we fled outside, hoping that a cool breeze would drift past. The theater’s air-conditioning system had long since stopped functioning. It must have been over 100 degrees inside while we were working.

Two old African men were sitting on that bench, but there was room for me, too. In Africa people share more than just water in a brotherly or sisterly fashion. Even when it comes to shade, people are generous.

I heard the two men talking about a third old man who had recently died. One of them said, “I was visiting him at his home. He started to tell me an amazing story about something that had happened to him when he was young. But it was a long story. Night came, and we decided that I should come back the next day to hear the rest. But when I arrived, he was dead.”

The man fell silent. I decided not to leave that bench until I heard how the other man would respond to what he’d heard. I had an instinctive feeling that it would prove to be important.

Finally he, too, spoke.

“That’s not a good way to die — before you’ve told the end of your story.”

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats — and they in turn can listen to ours.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

So if I am right that we are storytelling creatures, and as long as we permit ourselves to be quiet for a while now and then, the eternal narrative will continue.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Who knows? Maybe someone is out there, willing to listen…