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South Africa is an angry nation on the brink, warns Nelson Mandela's wife
TelegraphUK ^ | Thursday 07 March 2013 | By Aislinn Laing, in Johannesburg

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: anc; andriestatane; anenebooysen; apartheid; blackracism; blackracists; durban; midomacia; oscarpistorius; reevasteenkamp; restlessnation; southafrica; williamgumede
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To: Ax

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.


41 posted on 03/07/2013 6:34:47 PM PST by Moorings
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To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

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.


42 posted on 03/07/2013 6:44:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: PGR88
They will easily blame Apartheid for another 50 years.

They learned from America, the Blacks have been blaming slavery longer and still getting a free ride on it.

43 posted on 03/07/2013 6:59:04 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: razorback-bert
as soon as the roll out the Zim land reform all will be fine.

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.

44 posted on 03/07/2013 7:01:04 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Every place that has revolted and thrown off the British or Dutch rule has gone straight to hell...

Ummmm, we threw off British rule... started with a Tea Party or something.

45 posted on 03/07/2013 7:16:51 PM PST by GOPJ (DHS HAS secured: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ...to use on American soil...)
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To: GOPJ

see 31 and 45 smart _ss


46 posted on 03/07/2013 7:20:19 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: GOPJ

I mean 29 and 31


47 posted on 03/07/2013 7:21:08 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Ax
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.

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...

48 posted on 03/07/2013 7:24:51 PM PST by GOPJ (DHS HAS secured: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ...to use on American soil...)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Sorry - I replied before reading all the thread...


49 posted on 03/07/2013 8:39:33 PM PST by GOPJ (DHS HAS secured: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ...to use on American soil...)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Wouldn’t ‘angry nation’ be racist considering the population?

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.

50 posted on 03/07/2013 11:21:16 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: hal ogen
Wasn’t mandala and tutu supposed to make this SA place a “heaven on earth” once they got rid of the “white” people? Can’t these losers (who just happened to be black, I guess) do anything right?

The problem is not their color, the problem is they are communists.

51 posted on 03/07/2013 11:23:37 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: razorback-bert

Whites and Zulus need to take over and establish order. Together they could bring peace and end the mess that is now South Africa.


52 posted on 03/07/2013 11:52:22 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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