Posted on 03/22/2008 11:06:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
SCHOOL children playing a "catch" game in which they mimic rape. A seven-year-old raped and murdered by a family member. An actor killed by would-be hijackers trying to steal his neighbour's bakkie. A man, his wife and their teenage son shot at home by armed robbers. A single woman stripped naked and assaulted by drivers at a taxi rank.
While overall crime is falling in SA, the rising incidence of violent crimes people report anecdotally is backed up by figures.
National figures supplied by the South African Institute of Race Relations, based on police statistics, show that in the 12 years between 1994-95 and 2006-07, rape, indecent assault and robbery with aggravating circumstances increased. In that period murder and attempted murder declined.
"The overall crime rate has come down significantly, 14%, but it is the violence of the crimes committed that makes the public very uncomfortable," says Kerwin Lebone.
The increase in violence that did not exist 15 years ago has many people wondering why SA is so violent. The cabinet has commissioned the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), a research body, to write a report on the very topic. The final report is due in November.
Those who deal with violent crime regularly say it is on the rise. Irma Labuschagne is a Pretoria-based forensic criminologist. She prepares pre- sentencing reports for defence or prosecution legal teams, profiling offenders, explaining why they committed their crime and recommending the most constructive sentence.
A former head of the support group Rape Crisis in Pretoria, she says violence is no longer a subculture of crime in SA, but increasingly becoming a major part of it.
"The violence is reaching the forefront ... I'm now feeling it's becoming a culture of violence. It's so widespread," she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
I was in the Western Cape of South Africa back in ‘04. It is a beautiful part of the world, but increasingly dangerous. I really felt sad for the Afrikaners knowing that eventually their beloved South Africa that they developed into something special is eventually going to be like Rhodesia in 25-30 years. Go now if you can before it is a cesspool like Zim.
I wonder if South Africa’s fate will be America’s over the next eight years?
Thanks again to all the liberals demanding an end to aparteid and majority rule
Of course the MSM won’t run any features on this
Interestingly, I see Obama to be America’s version of MBeki. They are both Marxists. Each has disdain for people of European ancestory.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is not intended to be a racist statement, it is purely fact.
It must be the white man’s fault.
It always is, right?
When I was in South Africa, one of government ministers stated that “South African blacks just want to have sex and drink Castle (beer) all day.” Needless to say, he caught a lot of flak. But just imagine if a White person had said the same thing? They would have been killing Whites all over South Africa.
Apartheid had to end but South Africa was unprepared. Elections defer to tribalism, vote your race. The US is also unprepared; Obama gets a massive race vote as will his opponent.
“They would have been killing Whites all over South Africa.”
I think they’re going to do that anyway.
The white minority government refused to even consider power sharing, which WAS an option at one point. After the Steve Biko murder, that option was off the table. It was at that point that the fit hit the shan, politically.
From then on, it was Black Majority rule or more violence, basically leading to civil war.
There is no question that the refusal of the "verkramptes" in the National Party created this monster. The methods used to suppress Black South Africa, and even White South Africa, to an extent, helped create the debacle that is today's South Africa.
In the past 3 months, 3 people that we knew from way back were killed in Johannesburg ... one for his cellphone, one (an 80 year old lady) because she resisted a purse snatching, and one because he was walking to Temple on a Saturday morning.
There is no question that the current government deserves the vast majority of the blame for the current crime wave, and for their refusal to address it. However, we cannot ignore the culpability of the White Minority government that refused to recognize that the suppression of one race by another, in a so-called civilized society, is doomed to failure.
As people turn away from belief in God they reject moral absolutes.
If there's no God, then "nothing I do is wrong." I am my own God. Of course those in government believe that the government is God and they are his little helpers doing his will. IMHO
If only we can remember that there is a God, but we are not Him, and He also has a Son, Jesus, and we aren't Him either.
He is risen, rejoice!. Have a blessed Easter, fellow Freepers!
LOL, who saw this coming?
Are you allowed to carry weapons?
I concur, and I don't apologize, should any take it to be racist.
yes ... many South Africans are licensed to carry, paryicularly in the “high” crime areas ...
I wish I could say different, but its so...
Black culture degrades stuff.. never improves it..
only if you are a ‘typical white person’
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