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Another Udemy course completed. Although the certificate says 26.5 hours, it took me over 100 hours over a four month period due to doing the exercises and other reading and keeping my life going. Watch this space for some interesting projects coming up. And I was lucky to get some real world billable Javascript work this month, which is live, working, and very pleasing. Thanks to Andrew J Mead and Rob Percival and their colleagues for another amazing CodeStars Udemy course.

The course included learning MongoDB, Mongoose, Mocha, SuperTest, Heroku. And reinforced my github knowledge.

10x programming

I found this Q&A on Quora very interesting:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-10x-software-developers-understand-that-other-programmers-dont

"So the more experienced the more people learn that:

* Keep the code extremely modular

* Write the code that requires least documentation

* Strictly follow the Single Responsibility principle

* peer code reviews with constructive feedback are critical for everyone to evolve to be a better software engineer.

* what used to take 8 hours a day will now likely take 2–3 hours a day

* it is important to complete work and leave the place quickly

* communication is way more important at times than implementation

* designing takes longer time than implementation

* learning a new language is not going to take a lot of time

* sometimes you write bad code to keep the business running"

Integrated Resource Plan 2018

Dear fellow South Africans

re the IRP2018

Nothing has changed since my submissions in 2010. South Africa remains massively short of domestic electricity, water and food.

From an electricity point of view, we still have 40 GW like 20 years ago, but we should have 160 GW. Worldwide growth in electricity, even with Energy Efficiency is 3.6% per annum. That means electricity use should have doubled from 40 GW to 80 in that time, but the population has doubled, so we should be at at least 160 GW.

By our government allowing massive privately funded electricity and water and food growth, in cities, their and our fiscus and tax growth will be accordingly far faster than now. But our government sees constraint and "enclosure" as their means to an end, and so they strangle the economy. Do you feel out of breath? Now you know why!

And see the energy cliff in the 2020's in Slide 15 at https://www.slideshare.net/nazimtiger/power-station-workshop . And you will see the disaster that South Africa is facing.

From a water point of view, in many parts of the country we are making do with 50 litres per person per day, but we should have at least 250 litres per person per day, (including the allowance for industry), to really grow the economy. And we are getting poorer and poorer from a food production and food quality point of view all the time.

Here are my comments from last time. I really don't see the point of commenting again. Government uses my time and resources, free of charge. I don't get thanked, even though I am a very active citizen.

http://saaea.blogspot.com/2010/11/integrated-resource-plan-irp-2010.html

http://www.energy.gov.za/IRP/irp%20files/ORBITAL_RENEWABLE_ENERGY.pdf

And my comments on the NDP also help to inform where we are at.

http://mypowerstation-sa.blogspot.com/2013/09/south-africas-national-development-plan.html

All this research funded my my company.

Regards
David Lipschitz
BSc BSc (Honours) MBA M.Inst.D.
Organising Data, Programming and Bringing Healing

Growing the South African Economy

African governments should allow deregulation and decentralisation of their water and electricity grids. This will create huge private investment and will grow our water and electricity resources very quickly and at no cost to the government. In fact, due to this private infrastructure investment, governments will more easily be able to carry out their social agendas.

Note that until 1923, there were a number of private electricity grids and suppliers in South Africa. These become a single monopoly in 1923 when the Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom) was formed. So we have the capability and the technology.

We also don't need outside help in the form of handouts and donations. We need technical resources and we need social help, to get our leaders to understand that by relinquishing some control, their economies will grow very quickly and for example in South Africa, a 7% increase in VAT from 14% to 15% might yield R36 billion at a huge cost to the economy, but if the economy was allowed to grow, government would get R133 billion additional revenue from a 10% growth.

Back by Popular Demand

In 2016, I removed, by making all old articles "drafts" my old BLOG posts. But now and then either I or others want to look at those old posts, and so today I Published about 300 "old" posts.

Why I do "badly" and why you should hire me!

This video shows exactly why I did badly at school, and sometimes why I do "badly" now. I didn't and I don't give the answers my teachers, and even perhaps my clients, want to hear.

I realised at 35 that the reason that I did badly at poetry was because when the teacher said "what do YOU think of this poem", I told the teacher what I thought. At 35 I realised that the teacher meant "what do I think of this poem". If my teacher has said "what do I think of this poem", I would have got 100%. I mean, imagine having Shakespeare in your class. He would have "failed".

Luckily my parents told me to focus only on school work in Matric and so my grades went from E's to B's for Maths and Science and I got into University. And then my mind was blown by Dr Smart in first year Maths. He showed us a complex formula for Pythagorus. I found an easier answer in the World Book Encyclopedia. I took it to Dr Smart (his real name) the next day, and he said "Use it". I said "really". He said "I don't care how you prove what I teach as long as it works. You don't need to do it my way. In fact, if you invent a new way, I will be delighted and then maybe we can get a Nobel prize". I think he left out the last part, but I got the message.

And then when I did my MBA I did well because I invented a new way of working. I read the book my teacher recommended, and then I discovered that if I read a book by a different author and they had a different way of working, then in an exam, I could answer: "teacher said; the other person said; but I think ..." and I could get 100%. If I just said "teacher said, but I think", I would have got a lower mark.

You have to do analysis and synthesis.

I knew this at school.

Many people ask if I do "Agile". I say that I've been doing it since I started programming in 1979. I've always done my best to firstly NOT write the program (has someone done it already), and then to find the fastest way to give my client something they like and then build on it.

"The performance of the whole is not the sum of the parts, but the sum of their interactions", and hence why we cannot optimise parts of a business. Many parts of businesses are "loss makers" and the creative people in these parts of the business are made to think that they are failures and that they are inferior to those who make commissions in sales, or who work in "profit centres". And this is why our organisations fail. It is not just the "creative" department, which is creative. We are all creative. And we must be ourselves.

"Imagine if the system was destroyed last night. What would you do if you could do whatever you want?"

Study the whole.

I love the video. It is so much a CV and worthwhile getting today. Thank you to my friend Dean for pointing it out to me.

Who is David Lipschitz?

Who I am:

I am a guide.

I help people to see what their mission is in life. Not with Psychology, although I like Assagioli's Psychosynthesis approach, and I use the Buddhist "feeling" approach and Carolyn Myss's intuitive healing approach to support what I do. And I have developed my own way of seeing people's energy signatures and helping them on their path. From an IT perspective, I use Jackson's Structured Programming and Agile Methodologies. And I specialise in Delphi and Oracle (and other RDMBS's) software development and integration projects.

I have programmed in Pascal since 1983 and Delphi since 1995 and Oracle since 1991. So I've programmed in Delphi and Oracle most of my life. And I've discovered that I am an Oracle at Delphi, with a deep insight into people and their energy systems.

I have programmed for 40 years and I look forward to the next 40 years and the IOT (Internet of Things) and the possibility of getting to what I call "Level 2" and meeting our galactic neighbours. I am a computer programmer and I also help people see their inherent, latent, "program".

I am an internal and external energy expert. I make money by software development, by energy consulting in water and electricity, and by guiding (a combination of coaching, mentoring, teaching, and being someone's support).

I support my abilities by being a Reiki Master, Tai Chi Instructor, African Djembe Drummer, Shaliach Tzibbur (prayer leader in my Jewish Congregation), Buddhist, Bodhisattva, Kabbalist, Alchemist, and through my involvement in community activities and human rights activities.

I am a multipotentiality in an exponential world.

I aim is to help people achieve the latent greatness that is within them.

I can work in a one off situation, which can last an hour to a week, or as the spare capacity in an organisation, or on a retainer.

I look forward to hearing from you and to helping with with your tactical strategy, your next step within your overall strategic development.

Water Scarcity or Abundance?

Without water we cannot survive. And in a modern world, we also cannot survive without electricity. Electricity and Water are both abundant on our planet, as well as food and other "scarce resources". I want to show this to people and how they can overcome scarcity and attain abundance.

Is the Western Cape's Water Crisis over?

The DA says that "Day Zero" has been pushed to 2019 (https://www.thesouthafrican.com/day-zero-pushed-back-cape-town/) and citizens think that the drought is over, and people believe them and stop buying water tanks, and water consumption has gone UP? And we are distracted by buildings and highways and De Lille's court case, and land invasions, but the drought remains.

IS THE DROUGHT OVER? Or are we so out of touch with reality that we will believe anything our politicians tell us?

Is there more water? NO.

It is raining? NO.

The dams are fuller? NO.

Desalination plants have come online? NO.

We are getting all the water we need from the aquifer? NO.

We can use more than 50 litres a day of water? NO.

Farmers are being given their proper allowances of water, so that we don't run out of food? NO.

Water prices have decreased? NO.

Level 6b restrictions have gone back to level 6a? NO.

The government has declared an "all clear"? NO.

The DA says everything is ok and we won't run out of water in 2018. YES.

So everything is now ok?

I am lost. Please can someone explain what is going on?

Rights and Responsibilities: written by me: 18 April 2004

Every person has a right to life, a right to freedom of association, a right to freedom of religion, a right to liberty, a right to travel, a right to protection by the state, a right to equality, a right to an education, a right to freedom of speech.

However, along with these rights come certain responsibilities:

• A right to life implies the duty or responsibility to protect that right; the responsibility not to endanger the lives of others (without their consent); the responsibility not to murder; the responsibility not to violate others’ space, is not to commit adultery and not to steal;

• A right to freedom of association implies the duty not to interfere with another’s organisation, unless it is physically interfering with you or endangering your way of life;

• A right to freedom of speech implies the responsibility not to incite hate, not to cheat another person, not to lie and not to gossip;

• A right to liberty implies that some people might be in different positions to our positions, may have a better way of life, or may have a different way of life. We must not be greedy for this way of life, but rather honour it and if our inclination is such, strive for a similar way of life through honest and hard work, conscientious application of our selves, aiming for 100% in everything we do; and thus enjoying the fruits of our labours, whether these be monetary or spiritually;

• A right to freedom of religion implies the duty to respect and admire other peoples’ religions and their choices in life;

• A right to an education implies the responsibility to study and attend school;

* A right to hospital care implies the responsibility to be as healthy as possible;

* A right to drive a car implies the responsibility to behave on the roads.

Love,
David.

Save Cape Town

www.youcaring.com/savecapetown

St. George's Mall - Part 2

Walking up St George's Mall

Walking up St George's Mall

38 km / hour

We have clouds? How do we make it rain?

What is Greenpeace About? Sipi tells us.

What is Greenpeace About? Sipi tells us.

Is "Day Zero" real?

People are wondering if "Day Zero" is real or if it is a fabrication by our politicians to raise prices by 500% in two years.

Here is my answer:

Water needs to have a real value. And people need to realise that Water is an essential fact of life. If we want to be alive next week, we need good quality, healthy, living (oxygenated), water.

Day Zero has only been pushed out if it rains (on time). It is still very much a reality.

Hundreds of thousands of people are installing rainwater tanks.

Almost everyone is using a grey water system, ie recycling shower water for their toilets and washing-up water for their gardens.

Some people are installing systems to make ground water clean either only for garden and swimming pool use or even making the ground water potable.

Some people have installed systems to make their swimming pool water drinkable. This makes their swimming pools into reservoirs. And it is much healthier too. Oxygenated water is much more healthy than chlorinated water. These reservoirs don't have any chlorine in them.

Free-riders in a community are normally 60% of the community. e.g. in Milnerton, only about 40% of people are members of the Milnerton Crime Watch. We pay for two cars that run 24 hours per day and now we have a cyclist as well. The other 60% effectively get this service free of charge. The same goes for the police service. 3 million taxpayers pay for this service. The rest of the country get this "for free".

And water is no different.

But just as we got to the point of having no electricity load shedding, so we will get to the point of having no water load shedding.

Of-course, 10x price increases in electricity over five years and 500x increases in water costs over two years, has meant that government has said to everyone "look for alternatives and try not to use our services". I'm guessing that government isn't stupid. At some point their huge price increases will mean that we won't need their services, as is normal in all service providers. At this point, government becomes irrelevant. e.g. we don't need their electricity, we don't need their water, we don't need their food, we don't need their education, we don't need their transport services; the list goes on.

One way government can start bring us back into their fold is to reduce water and other government induced pricing.

Another way is for government to provide the water and electricity and services that a well run city needs. For example, a well run city in California allows its citizens 400 litres per person per day. Before the drought Capetonians were using 150 litres per person per day, and wondering why there is so much unemployment, etc.

And the minimum quantity of water required in a city with waterborne sewerage is 87 litres per person per day. Asking us to us 50 litres per person per day is a crime!

We didn't design our city systems. Planners and architects and politicians did. We live in these cities and try to do our best with what we have. At some point the City of Cape Town needed to say "we will get to 87 litres of water per person per day within two years, ... and then we will need to ensure that our water augmentation schemes are in place."

Water is an abundant resource on our finite planet. Some with energy. With food, etc.

It is just that we have been brainwashed (socialised) into believing that water and electricity and food and internet time is scarce, whereas in fact it is almost infinite.

And we have also been brainwashed into believing that we need cars and computers and other appliances and computer games and holidays etc, whereas in order to be alive next week, we need a good healthy environment (air), a safe place to sleep and stay (security), a good water source, and a good food source.

Being alive next week should be our highest priority. Everything else should be subservient to this goal.

How do projects get to be days, weeks, or months behind schedule

YouCaring Fund Raiser for Saving Cape Town from its Water Crisis and taking it into an Age of Abundance

To my dear friends

So I'm starting my fundraiser using YouCaring.

My team and I need funds for two reasons:-

1) To continue our Research and Development (R&D) looking for inexpensive ways to clean groundwater for communities.

2) To support our Constitutional Court Action, ordering the South African government to do its job and carry out its responsibilities as a result of the rights in the South African Constitution and the government's mandate in terms of the Water Act of 1998, which nationalised water resources and made it government's responsibility to provide water, nationally.

The Western Cape and possibly much wider afield, faces an Existential Threat, if we get to Day Zero and run out of water (from the dams). An Existential (existence) Threat occurs when four million people suddenly find themselves without water, and start a civil war as they fight each other for water resources.

There are many alternatives. We cannot allow the Tavern of the Seas to run out of water.

I believe that this is a test, and if we get through it we will be at the Age of Abundance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Web 3.0 and the IOT, Internet of Things.

Your money will be used wisely.

I am a Trust Generator, a Buddhist, a Bodhisattva, a Kabbalist, and an Alchemist. I will not steal your money. I will ensure that it is used properly and that there is no possibility of Corruption, of your money, or of my mind.

I look forward to sharing energies with you as we move forward to solve this problem and enter what I call Level 2, the Age of Abundance.

Yours faithfully,
David.

TCO - Total Cost of Ownership

BlockChain and BitCoin Currencies

The drought in our minds

20180109 Sulphur etc evaporating in the early morning sun

20180109 Oxygenating the water

20180109 First Tour using Selfie Stick and Lapel Mike - Water System

David Lipschitz Mandamuses the South African Water and Sanitation Minister

David Lipschitz, a Deregistered "Voter" and a Citizen of South Africa, who understands his Rights and Responsibilities under "The World's Best Constitution" has used his Constitutional Right to Command The South African Government to follow the 1996 Constitution and the Water Act of 1998.

Submitted to the Secretary of the Magistrates at the Cape Town Magistrates Court on 30th January 2018. And then Submitted to the Minister of Water and Sanitation on 8th February 2018 and she replied that she has received it on 9th February 2018.

Here is my Mandamus: ... 

Preemptory Mandamus submitted by David Harold : LIPSCHITZ

ID Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

“a people” and Citizen of xx Mimosa Street, Milnerton, 7441, Cape Town, South Africa

And a Citizen of the Republic of South Africa

Respondent

The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Honourable Nomvula Mokonyane

Department of Water and Sanitation

120 Plein Street, 15^th Floor, Room 1518, Cape Town

Private Bag X313, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Phone: 021 464 1500

on 8^th February 2018

To Registrar of the Constitutional Court of the

Republic of South Africa

demanding that the Constitutional Court commands the

Water and Sanitation Minister to Perform her Duties

Under the Constitution and under the Water Act of 1998

Note that David Harold : LIPSCHITZ deregistered as a voter on 4^th July 2016, and in terms of the Constitution of South Africa, he can now represent himself in Parliament.

Table of Contents:

Page 1: Applicant and Respondents

Page 2: Header Page

Page 3: Table of Contents

Page 4: Chapter 1: Interpretation and Fundamental Principles

Page 8: Chapter 2: Introduction to The Preemptory Mandamus

Page 17: Chapter 3: The Preemptory Mandamus

Page 18: Chapter 4: Project Timetable of David Harold : LIPSCHITZ, to avoid Day Zero, now and in the future

Chapter 1: Interpretation and Fundamental Principles

This chapter sets out the fundamental and guiding principles and nomenclature (jargon (word meanings)) of this Mandamus:

-        The State: “is a nation or territory considered as an organised political community, under one government”[1]. Therefore, when it comes to something like water, different political parties cannot fight with (and blame) each other and must work for the common good.

-        Destitute: a person who cannot look after them self, and who does not pay tax, and who might be receiving a grant, or living on the street

-        Poor: a person who does not pay tax, but who is not destitute. Many people live on farms and small holdings, for example in the Eastern Cape. They are off the grids, and they provide for their own needs. They are not destitute. They have water and food, and perhaps they don’t have electricity or internet access. They should immediately be given electricity and internet access as then those of their colleagues in the Western Cape who are in this area because of access to services, can immediately leave and return home.

-        Rich: any tax payer, or anyone who has the injustice of having to install their own electricity or water or food provision infrastructure, because The State cannot provide it.

-        Contributor: We use the word Contributor instead of Employee or User

-        Citizen: someone who has rights and responsibilities and who accepts the South African Constitution as the Supreme Law of the land. A rich person can contribute by paying tax, by paying for infrastructure, by employing people, by building businesses and factories and mines. A poor person can contribute by learning consciously, obeying the rules of the road, keeping healthy, and by doing their work to the best of their ability.

-        Grid: A “grid” transports something. Examples of grids include: the water pipeline grid; the electricity transmission and distribution grid; the road transport grid; the rail transport grid; their “airways” grid, where aircraft fly in controlled airspace; the telephone grid; etc.

-        SOE: State Owned Enterprise. This can be a monopoly or part of an oligopoly. An SOE is 100% owned by the Government, and the Government represents the Citizens of South Africa. If an SOE is failing for whatever reason, then it is the Government, as “freely elected representatives” of the people, which is failing. And therefore, the Government has failed. Failures include Electricity Infrastructure, Eskom, Medupi and Kusile, Water Infrastructure, Mail and Internet Infrastructure at the Post Office and Telkom, Rail Infrastructure at PRASA, Road Infrastructure and the need to Tolls on Roads, something that The People have said that they do not want, Air Transport Infrastructure, SAA, etc. When these failures are viewed as a whole, one can see that the State had failed and therefore the phrase “Failed State” can be used. But all is not lost, as Dr Gregg Mills points out in his book “Why Africa is Poor and What we can do about it”

-        Performance Failure: the failure of someone to perform their function or duty

-        Government: we use this word to include Parliament, any part of “Government”, and any elected representative. We do not separate political parties. If one party has National Power and another party has Provincial or Municipality or City or Township (Suburb) Power, then we expect, as a people, and as citizens with rights and responsibilities, for our Government to expedite their mandate and provide the services that they are obliged to provide, without them blaming each other for performance failure.

-        Retail Wheeling: allowing a supplier and a customer to use a grid that is owned by the people and is which is usually held inside an SOE

-        Sanitation (as in Water and Sanitation Minister) implies that when one has cleaned up, one will become Sane.

Chapter 2: The Preemptory Mandamus

The time for carrying out “normal due process” is over. Planning committees cannot do anything anymore. Action must be taken and it must be taken forthwith.

This Active Citizen has tried for over 20 years to communicate with The State about the state of water, electricity, housing, and other problems in the Democratic State of South Africa, and he has failed. With approximately two months until 4 million people run out of water provided by the Western Cape’s Dams, the time has come for this Active Citizen to exercise his rights as a Citizen to declare a Preemptory Mandamus commanding the Constitutional Court to command the Minister of Water and Sanitation to Perform her Responsibility as a Minister, under Oath to God, to Perform her Duty and Function, and if she cannot provide the Water that the Western Cape needs by Friday 9^th February 2018, then this Citizen will exercise his rights under the Constitution to defend his country and its people.

The South African government, known as The State, which is the agent of and which represents the will of “a people” has a fiduciary responsibility to carry out its mandate, as given to it by a people, to provide adequate water to its citizens.

Section 27 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996, gives its Citizens the right to “sufficient food and water” and “the State must take reasonable legislative and other measures to achieve the progressive realization of this right”.

How can a State that runs out of water have provided for water? And a famine will follow a state of running out of water, so how will the State have achieved its mandate of providing “sufficient food”? Has Section 184 been implemented? Has the State’s Oversight Committee, called the SAHRC, the South African Human Rights Commission, been given the reports concerning water and the realization of the Right given to the South African Citizen in Section 27?

And the Constitution says that the Republic has a responsibility to “improve the life of all citizens and free the potential of each person”. Section 1 defines “Republic” as a people, “one, sovereign, democratic, and a State.”

“In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a ‘pure democracy,’ the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority.”[2]

This Republic has failed in its duty to provide water as an inalienable right and so Cape Town’s four million inhabitants face the Existential Threat of running out of water by early April 2018, approximately two months away.

Section 1 has Human Dignity as its primary objective. How can the Republic achieve Human Dignity if it runs out of water?

Section 3 gives Citizens equal rights, privileges and benefits; and subjects citizens to duties and responsibilities. The “rich” are fulfilling their mandate, but are not receiving the same rights as the poor in terms of this Section. The poor are better off than the rich were 100 years ago. 100 years ago, very few people had a hand-held device that they could use to talk to anywhere in the world free of charge; very few people had access to the entire word’s library; very few people had access to running water; very few people had access to water borne sewerage; very few people had access to electricity. And yet, in 2018, the so-called poor have all these things, plus subsidized transport, free education and health services, and so much more, and yet this government still wants to steal more from the rich to give it to the poor. This state of Blame and Entitlement has lead to all kinds of health risks, and it is a cancer in our society.

But the State has Failed in its Fiduciary Duty to help its Citizens achieve these rights. Many people are still without electricity. Many people and companies with electricity would like substantially more electricity. Many people are without water. Water violence is already taking place in the Western Cape with scuffles over water, water being stolen, water containers being stolen. And this is all happening before the taps are switched off. Imagine 4 million Capetonians without water. Cape Town would quickly descend into Civil War. And with the state of terrorism in the world, this Civil War will attract radical elements from far and wide, the potential for all out Hot War, which could escalate into a Global War cannot be ruled out.

Section 7 of the Constitution says that “The state must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights.” The state has failed in this mandate.

The government, in the National Water Act Number 36 of 1998 took a shared responsibility for water provision before this act away from The People Together With The State and put it 100% in the hands of The State and in, Chapter 1, Section 3, the Act says that the State is a Trustee of the Nation’s Water Resources, and that the water must be Managed in a Sustainable Manner and Developed for the benefit of All Persons. Why has the State been allowed to let Water Infrastructure in many parts of South Africa deteriorate to the point that it is in now?

The reason that The State took control of the Republic’s water is because of “discriminatory laws and practices of the past which prevented equal access to water”. 20 years later, the Republic is running out of water and The City of Cape Town is globally thought to be the first modern City to run out of water. The City of Cape Town’s current prediction is the Day Zero (DZ), the Day we run out of dam water, is April 12^th 2018. Note that within two months, the City changed the date from 20^th May 2018 (set on 1^st December 2017) to 21^st April 2018 (set in early January 2018) and currently it sits on 12^th April 2018 (set on 22^nd January 2018). For the City to so dramatically get this date wrong, and to have to change it twice in a two-month period, shows that this City has lost its edge and that it must now activate people like Dr Anthony Turton and the many Active Citizens in South Africa to come and “Save” Cape Town and the Western Cape.

The Premier of the Western Cape must be instructed to forthwith institute a State of Emergency. This State of Emergency does not need to be national. A State of Emergency will immediately activate numerous countries which have tactical response teams which will immediately be deployed to the Western Cape to help with Water Provision, Defense Provision, Guarding Water Sources, Helping the Aged and Infirm, and generally to provide a support service to our Premier or if she is unable to exercise her Oath of office, then this Active Citizen who now has to perform his Civic Duty to defend his Mother Earth and Country.

And our Constitutional allowance of 6 kl of free water per household per month has been removed from us. Poor people still get this allowance, but “rich” people (taxpayers), do not get this allowance. But poor people don’t get this allowance because they are poor. They get it because the Constitution mandates it. And therefore the Constitution mandates it for all citizens, “rich” and poor.

Furthermore, when our dams including Theewaterskloof, and the Berg River dam were built, the farmers and the downstream peoples were given inalienable rights to the water they were receiving before the dam was built, and hence why the sluices must remain open. The farmers and other water users in the Berg River Dam area are already fighting government because they are receiving less water than was mandated to them when the Berg River Dam was built.

Furthermore, there are people and government agencies that wish to cut off the water flowing to the farms. Farmers pruned their trees for the growing season, then let them flower in preparation for fruiting, but after flowering the farmers deliberately cut off the flowers and repruned their trees. The farmers know about droughts. They are prepared for them, and as part of their preparation, they know that if they keep their trees bare, and with minimal water (as now), then the trees will survive and give fruit when the waters return. If the farmers are greedy and let the trees bear fruit in a drought, the trees will die. If the government closes the sluices of the dams that provide the water for these trees, then the trees will die. If the trees die, then Western Cape Agriculture will experience a catastrophe and disaster of unimaginable intensity with potentially decades without fruit whilst trees are replanted from scratch, allowed to grow and then bear fruit. During this time, most workers working on these farms will lose their jobs. And it is likely that most farmers will “lose everything (especially financially)” and many will commit suicide, as has happened in droughts and famines in other parts of the world and at other times in history.

We, a people, hereby affirm our rights under the Constitution to represent ourselves in Parliament, without needing to appoint “elected representatives”. On 4^th July 2016, David Harold : LIPSCHITZ, deregistered as a voter, as he lacks confidence in his “freely elected representatives”, and he will henceforth represent himself in Parliament, which is his Constitutional right as a people; and as an Active Citizen where “Active Citizen” is defined in the National Development Plan of 2010.

Chapter 3: Action

In light of Chapters 1 and 2 of this document, I, a people David Harold : LIPSCHITZ hereby Preemptory Mandamus and Command the Constitutional Court and the SAHRC of South Africa to immediately allow either Premier Helen Zille, OR a people David Harold : LIPSCHITZ to activate a localized Active Citizen Led State of Emergency to allow for the immediate implementation of the Project Goals as described in Chapter 4. A people David Harold : LIPSCHITZ hereby give the defendant until 9^th February 2018 to acknowledge receipt of this Mandamus and to provide for the water rights as per the Constitution and Water Act of 1998 and failing such receipt and / or water being made available, Premier Helen Zille OR a people David Harold : LIPSCHITZ will assume the rights that are due to the Citizens of Cape Town and the Western Cape in terms of this Mandamus and the South African Constitution.

Chapter 4: Project Timetable of David Harold : LIPSCHITZ, to avoid Day Zero, now and in the future:

1)   Declare a State of Emergency in the Western Cape

2)   Ask for International Assistance; put a Visa Office at Cape Town international airport so that Visas can be applied for from Internationals Arriving at the airport and so that Visas and entry can be expedited.

3)   Ask GrahamTek to immediately implement the 300,000 litre a day plant that they built in 2005, and which is currently being used at a Demonstration Plant at their factory. GrahamTek offered this plant to the City of Cape Town free of charge, a Donation of R2 million. The City’s financial team, led by Ian Neilsen, who is now in charge of fixing the Water Crisis have sat on this proposal for 13 years, and it still has not been activated.

4)   Ask GrahamTek to immediately commence work on the 100 million litre a day plant to supply Lower Steenbras dam with desalinated water. This water will then be wheeled across the water grid.

5)   Immediately commence an Auction Process where buyers can request as much water as they want.

6)   Immediately commence with a smart water and electricity meter roll out, that allows for Net Metering and Time of Use Tariffs, and which the City can control in terms of allowances that people have paid for, in terms of the auction. “Rich” people will be given priority. They will need to buy these meters and approved installers will need to install them. Any spare capacity will be used to resource “Poor” people.

7)   We do not believe that the 200 water collection points will work (we can explain why). So, we will ask GrahamTek and all international Desalination suppliers to supply 40 foot containers to be placed at least every one kilometer around the populated coastlines of the Cape Peninsula along the False Bay and Atlantic Seaboards, which must be under armed guard, and which will supply desalinated water to whoever needs it. 25 litres per person per day will be free, but each person will be allowed to collect 50 litres per day. The second 25 litres will be priced at R225. There will be no VAT on water sales.

8)   Activate the Camissa Project. All Spring Water that is coming off Table Mountain aquifers must be utilitised. An oil rig must be utilized to drill into the Camissa / Table Mountain aquifer as this will be the fastest way to get into and to tap this huge source of underground water under the land and sea at Cape Town, known as The Tavern of The Seas.

9)   EIA’s will be expedited. Tenders will not be used, as “The Minister” makes the decision. Rather committees of 15 people from government and the private sector will be instituted to review projects, fast-track these projects and approve payments at the agreed times and as per the agreed performance measures.

10)                  Ask Caltex to provide 100 Petrol Tankers, to be converted into Water Tankers, to be able to take water to old age homes, the infirm, nursery schools, and anyone who cannot provide themselves with water

11)                  Re-instate the 6kL of free water that our Constitution Mandates

12)                  VAT and Tax: give private people who are building water and electricity infrastructure an opportunity to invest before tax and before VAT, just as companies are allowed to do. We will also backdate any refunds to the start of this crisis, in 2016.

13)                  We will ask the US to send a carrier strike force[3]. This will help protect the people and provide a Spy Satellite network that will be able to track people stealing water.

14)                  We will ask Israel to send its Civil Defense Teams that protect people from Civil War.

15)                  We will immediately make it illegal for people to steal water from each other. However, people will be allowed to share water and electricity. If they are sharing electricity, then the appropriate “grounding or earthing rules” must be followed between the houses and properties.

16)                  We will immediately allow Retail Wheeling across the Western Cape’s electricity and water grids.

#WaterCrisis

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[1] A Google definition

[2] https://www.diffen.com/difference/Democracy_vs_Republic

[3] See notes at https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-invite-an-US-carrier-strike-group-to-come-to-Cape-Town-Cape-Town-is-in-existential-danger-of-entering-civil-war-in-39-days-on-7th-March-2018-A-carrier-s-presence-can-prevent-this?share=95e9eb5a&srid=hTkxW