Posted on 03/07/2013 3:50:38 PM PST by BenLurkin
Graca Machel, the human rights activist and wife of Nelson Mandela, has warned that South Africa is an “angry nation” teetering on the brink of “something very dangerous” if extreme levels of violence in the country are not addressed.
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Mrs Machel was speaking at the memorial service on Wednesday of Mido Macia, a 27-year-old taxi driver who died in custody after he was tied to the back of a police van and dragged for 500 metres by officers, apparently for arguing over a traffic infringement.
The death of Mr Macia came after other recent examples of police brutality, including the alleged operation by police in Durban of a death squad which executed criminals - and, often, innocent bystanders - with impunity, and the beating death by police of Andries Tatane, an unarmed man taking part in a protest about a lack of basic services in his Free State town.
Yet widespread fear of the police has prompted no let-up in the country’s rampant criminality.
Last month there was national outrage over the gang-rape, mutilation and murder of 17-year-old girl named Anene Booysen.
It was followed by the shock arrest of the nation’s former golden boy, Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He told police he believed she was an intruder;
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William Gumede, author of a new history of the ANC movement entitled Restless Nation, said South Africa was in the midst of a “perfect storm” of economic factors, a historically wounded society and continuing social violence.
“There is a deep-rooted anger which is a legacy of apartheid but there’s also a new resentment towards former comrades who are doing so
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If you are white and still in South Africa, you’re nuts...
Get out while you can.
Graca Machel, the human rights activist and wife of Nelson Mandela, has warned that South Africa is an “angry nation” teetering on the brink of “something very dangerous” if extreme levels of violence in the country are not addressed.
Maybe She could bring back the Mandela “Ring of Fire” to calm things down.
Every place that has revolted and thrown off the British or Dutch rule has gone straight to hell...........
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Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, “There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Replace South Africa with America and you might not be too far off.
Just like Liberia.
Go see vice’s guide to Liberia
America the hellish.
Name one successful country led by Blacks....including ours. The worst cities in the U.S. are led by Blacks. While there are admirable Blacks such as Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Dr. Ben Carson, they are denigrated by other Blacks because they are solid citizens with principles. They aren’t considered “down with the struggle,” the phony excuse of Blacks who haven’t been slaves for 150 years now.
touche....my bad.
I guess I should have been more specific.....but that might have sounded racist.
Gutsy.
True, but gutsy.
Shhh! Don’t mention that. Nobody remembers that we were a former colony, who threw off the yoke of those tyrants.
Isn’t she the one that made people wear burning tire necklaces?
No, I think that was Winnie Mandela.
Well of course there is because we all know that blacks are never responsible for anything they do.
You can argue we’re in the process of going to hell. Just took us a lot longer, and I doubt it has anything to do with our Revolution.
Don’t forget Belgian Congo.
“Both were first world countries that needed gradual political reform. Instead of gradual reform, both were changed overnight and the results of have been disastrous for everyone, including the people who thought they would benefit most from rapid change.”
Stop kidding yourself.
Whether the “reform” (i.e., transition to black rule) was gradual or otherwise, the results would ultimately be the same — as we are seeing now.
The demonization of the whites, the taking of their property, and eventually — genocide, a la Rwanda. It’s coming.
I was in Rhodesia (I refuse to call it Zimbabwe) when Mugabe had only been in power for a couple of years. It was a beautiful productive country which fed a lot of its neighbors from their bounty. Enter Mugabe, Dr. Canaan Banana and the ANC and ZAPU thugs and down the toilet it went. The smart Rhodies could read the handwriting on the wall, sold their farms and goods and went to South Africa, which was then a productive country. Rhodesia redux. The really smart ones lit out for the UK or Oz.
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