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Riots Engulf South Africa's Townships
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-5-2005 | Benjamin Joffee-Walt

Posted on 06/04/2005 9:52:24 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 06/04/2005 9:52:25 PM PDT by blam
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ANC Leader Tainted By Trial (Mbeki's Successor, South Africa)
2 posted on 06/04/2005 9:55:16 PM PDT by blam
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This time, though, the focus of anger is the ruling African National Congress and its failure to push through improvements long promised since the end of white rule.

But... but...
They are FREE!

The idiot liberals worldwide see freedom as the end, not a means, and the fatal error only kills more Africans. Pity. They meant well. A popular almanac calls the transition to "majority rule "one of the most stunning successes of the 20th century".

Some success! But then, it's only been 11 years, so we must be patient. The only thing that's different is that now more Africans die than under the hated "apartheit". But they're "free.

Do a search for "Zimbabwe". This is not an accident or a coincidence.

3 posted on 06/04/2005 10:08:50 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Before)
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"Do a search for "Zimbabwe". This is not an accident or a coincidence."

Isn't Marxism great?

Mugabe's Regime Lays Waste To Buildings In New Terror Tactic

4 posted on 06/04/2005 10:13:21 PM PDT by blam
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To: Publius6961

Mbeki was in Washington this past week asking Bush for more aid.


5 posted on 06/04/2005 10:14:51 PM PDT by blam
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Can't anyone build a log cabin and dig an outhouse? I could do better in a week with an axe and a shovel.


6 posted on 06/04/2005 10:25:56 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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I was thinking the same thing, even if the end result was rudimentary. At least it would be a first step in self-supporting activity. But these fools are bought and sold on Marxism. The fact the unrest has reached Cape Town is telling, the city was suppose to be the last peaceful area in the country.
7 posted on 06/04/2005 11:11:17 PM PDT by neb52
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As part of the protests, residents dumped buckets of excrement in the house of a local councillor, whom they referred to as "Mr Idiot" in their chants.

As sordid as this episode is, I have to admit I can think of a few politicians I wouldn't mind seeing this done to.

8 posted on 06/04/2005 11:20:56 PM PDT by RichInOC (...same s**t, different day.)
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"Can't anyone build a log cabin and dig an outhouse?"

Right, I don't get it. Same as the Palis in the "refugee camps". I mean, if that was your family, are you just going to sit around in some caged hovel, or are you going to get up off your butt and do something about it.

NOBODY in her house has an income? Why?

The roof leaks ALL THE TIME? Why?

I really don't get these people at all. Are they just sitting around waiting for the government to provide them with a decent home? And then what are they going to do, with no job, etc?


9 posted on 06/05/2005 2:19:33 AM PDT by jocon307
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"We are not criminals," Mr Ntete said. "But we have no houses, no toilets, no water, and no other way to attract the attention of government."

Ahhh The wonders of the new Marxist Black Apartheid. Soooo much better now that the eeeevil Whites are out.

Where's the MSM now?

10 posted on 06/05/2005 2:33:27 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Grant no power to government you would not want your worst enemies to wield against you.)
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Sth.Africa and most of the nations in Africa need good management and people on the ground actually being productive. The place is potentially very rich.
11 posted on 06/05/2005 2:34:41 AM PDT by Red Sea Swimmer (Tisha5765Bav)
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12 posted on 06/05/2005 4:56:29 AM PDT by Clive
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There are NO jobs. What are people going to do? And if they do this action who is going to back them? You'd be surprised what goes on. American media is so blissfully pursuing how Britney feels about sex during pregnancy and not the people Mbeki has murdered behind closed doors. I think it's a recipe for disaster what Mbeki is doing.


13 posted on 06/05/2005 6:00:13 AM PDT by cyborg (I am ageless through the power of the Lord God.)
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<< African National Congress's .... failure to push through improvements long promised since the end of [Democratic Government]. >>

Dunno what's their problem.

The felon, Mandela's improvements and those of his fellow-Marxist ANC henchmen are marked, no doubt as the consequence of the approaching Fifteen Billion US Dollars they've looted from Suid-Afrika's Treasury since "white rule" was ended.

The bloody idiots haven't figured it yet but they'd all be better off and have better prospects for the future -- or even any at all -- was the Herstigte Nasionale Party running things rather than the Marxist Mandela's hapless, lying, looting, thieving gang!

BUMPping


14 posted on 06/05/2005 6:23:59 AM PDT by Brian Allen (The mind that alters alters all -- William Blake)
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<< .... these fools are bought and sold on Marxism. >>

Thay are also not American Negros.

The word "savage" did not sneak into the English Language by accident and these township Africans, whose numbers include millions of illegal immigrants, are among the scores of millions of post-Colonial; post-UDI and and post-Suid-Afrikaaner/South African National Government Africans who are in the process of both learning and demonstrating how it arrived!


15 posted on 06/05/2005 6:32:16 AM PDT by Brian Allen (The mind that alters alters all -- William Blake)
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<< Sth.Africa and most of the [States] in Africa need good management and people on the ground actually being productive. The place is potentially very rich. >>

"Potentially?"

Rubbish.

The whole continent is arse-deep in riches and was incredibly productive during its colonial years.

And "white" {"Apartheidt"] South Africa used to be the whole continent's Banker.

Right up until the time it and the rest of Africa "got lucky" and the biggest theft in the history of the world was pulled off in broad daylight.

By the lying, looting, thieving Nelson Marxist Mandela Gang!


17 posted on 06/05/2005 6:38:38 AM PDT by Brian Allen (The mind that alters alters all -- William Blake)
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...we inherited from our past...

A century hence, just like the the black and Latino professional victims in America, there will be South African professional victims claiming this pathetic excuse for their personal failure in life. And liberals will be dumb enough to open their wallets to temporarily shut them up.

It is starkly telling that they are rioting because the government is not socialist enough. Even if tomorrow they were given their old lands back, and given "reparations", they would still be out rioting for more gimmes from government within a couple of years. If I had any friends in South Africa, I'd counsel them to get the hell out of a rapidly developing sh!thole...they're only 10 years behind Zimbabwe (nee Rhodesia), but the results will end up the same.

And I agree with everyone else here that has mentioned the criminal incompetence of the liberals who demanded an end to apartheid but now take no responsibility for the results because it has turned into yet another horrific failure in their long line of failed cause d'celebres. They should be all shipped into these townships to help the very people they share such a close kinship to in ideology.

18 posted on 06/05/2005 10:38:36 AM PDT by tyen
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Drew/King, Big city school districts, Compton Ca, Oakland Ca., Detroit, Baltimore, Washington DC, same problems as South Africa. Forty percent, 40% unemployment, Aids out of control, Economic failure, talk of land redistribution, re Zimbabwe, the taking over of the country, from Apartheid, has been a tremendous success.

Their solution, more money, more money, unfortunately you have to do something positive with the money and from past experience it appears they don't have a clue. The same thing is happening with the School system in the United States.

19 posted on 06/05/2005 10:46:28 AM PDT by BIGZ
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"The same thing is happening with the School system in the United States."

I agree. Get your kids out of the public schools. They're learning the gimme and victim mentality.

20 posted on 06/05/2005 11:41:19 AM PDT by blam
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