Posted on 10/29/2006 12:40:49 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
Former Booker winner and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Nadine Gordimer, has been attacked at her home in South Africa.
Gordimer, 83, was assaulted when three men broke into her home in Johannesburg on Thursday, taking cash and jewellery.
The author, who was locked in a store room with her maid while the burglars fled the scene, did not receive any serious injuries.
Police spokesman Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said no arrests had been made.
Despite demands to hand over her jewellery, Gordimer refused to part with her wedding ring from her marriage to art dealer Reinhold Cassirer, who died in 2001.
The author, who is well-known for her anti-apartheid works, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
Several of her novels, which include The Conservationist and July's People, were banned under the apartheid regime.
Her most recent work, Get A Life, was long-listed for the 2006 Booker prize.
I gave 10 years to South Africa to become a Hell hole... I was wrong but I don't give it more than 20 years!
The leftists will continue to insist that the out-of-control violence in SA is a legacy of apartheid (they will make this argument forever because it's the only one they've got), when in fact, apartheid was created as a way of dealing with the incredible violence of tribal Africa. I can't help but feel a sense of Schadensfreude at Ms. Gordimer's misfortune.
Unfortunately the thieves were illiterate and were therefore incapable of reading the victim's nice books.
Welcome to the new South Africa, Nadine. Was it what you wanted?
I thought crime was virtually OVER in neoMarxist states, where everyone is healthy, prosperous, well-fed and sings Kumbayah!
"Welcome to the new South Africa, Nadine. Was it what you wanted?"
Who really knows with people of a certain mindset....but the same question could be asked of Kathy Buckle in Zimbabwe.
New Orleans, right?
LOL..yes..another sterling example of the nanny state gone terribly awry.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Sad that the only choice South Africa faced at the end of Apartheid was socialism and its corrolary, thuggery. Glad the thugs let her keep her wedding ring.
"...the same question could be asked of Kathy Buckle in Zimbabwe."
Could you expand on that? The only place I've ever seen or heard of Cathy Buckle is on these threads, so I'd be curious to know "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey says.
Of course, for quite a while I've thought any white person who remains in Africa is a fool, but I can only suppose many of them were born there, for several generations, so that is a hard situation for them.
Let me just add that any one who attacks an 83 year old woman is a despicable coward.
Zimbabwe news this week Cathy Buckle.com
the article doesn't say who attacked her, they could have been some nice boer boys.
I am taking a chance. Are we to believe that the now free gentlemen of the new South Africa, are involved? For Nadine- an old saying.
Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.
Sad, sad and very sad.
"the article doesn't say who attacked her, they could have been some nice boer boys"
Yes, they could have been boer boys....but NOT nice ones.
What is your point?
I doubt it was "bore boys" the pattern is the same in any society that embraces leftism, criminals and lowlifes once encumbered by laws, now 'freed' to commit crimes at will
s. africa and America slide downward into a liberal nightbare where criminals are granted the right to assault defenseless citizens
S. Africa's new regime is guilty of departing the word of the living God, and America too must learn to live by the Bible that guided the principles of South Africa before Mandela's disastrous "reforms"
The white liberals in South Africa are probably wide awake now with the hangover from the monster they created.
The ANC government is like having the Madison, Wisconsin council run an entire country.
Communists have always believe that criminals are victims and when they took over Russia Solzhenitsyn wrote that Communism considered criminals to be victims of capitalism.
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