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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I remember Rhodesia...and then when it became Zimbabwe. They have royally messed up that country. We should not be funding any of these corrupt failed governments. They had the opportunity to build up their country and make it better, but they totally ruined it. Now they own it.
Gosh, I wonder how that happened? I mean, the whole time her husband was in prison, Winnie was using “necklaces” (gasoline-soaked tyres) to burn political opponents to death, I think her gang of mass-murdering thugs was called a Soccer Team or something — but that wouldn’t have any impact on the eventual form of the regime or anything...
Thanks BenLurkin.
They learned from America, the Blacks have been blaming slavery longer and still getting a free ride on it.
Been there, done that, they have been confiscating White large scale farms and breaking them up into little useless land plots free for blacks for years.
Ummmm, we threw off British rule... started with a Tea Party or something.
see 31 and 45 smart _ss
I mean 29 and 31
South Africa was Africa's bread basket for decades... I'll bet in 15 years they'll be on the UN charity list - we'll all be donating rice...
Sorry - I replied before reading all the thread...
My optician is from South Africa. Last week I spoke with her about the disintegration of law and order in South Africa. Not once did she mention race, not once did she mention apartheid. The only thing she mentioned was the control of South Africa by the communist ANC which she called communist.
The problem is not their color, the problem is they are communists.
Whites and Zulus need to take over and establish order. Together they could bring peace and end the mess that is now South Africa.
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