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47% of white SA believe apartheid wasn't a crime against humanity
News 24 ^ | Dec 03, 2014

Posted on 12/03/2014 8:09:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

A 2014 South African Reconciliation Barometer released today revealed that Whites are less likely to remember the oppressive nature of apartheid than other citizens.

According to the report, 53 percent of whites who took part in the survey agreed with the statement that apartheid was a crime against humanity.

This was compared to 80 percent of blacks, 77 percent of Indians, and 70 percent of coloured citizens who agreed with the statement.

Whites were half as likely as black South Africans to agree with redressing the injustice of the past.

The barometer looked at 10 years of data collected between 2003 and 2013.

It found that in 2003, 86.5% of South Africans agreed that apartheid was an inhumane crime compared to 76.4% today.

The report stated that remembering the oppressive nature of apartheid encouraged citizens to be aware of its legacy and allow for transformation, rather than reproducing unequal relationships.

The barometer's project leader Kim Wale said that there is a real need to engage white South Africans on what their whiteness meant in relation to the experiences of other races.

(Excerpt) Read more at gbcghana.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apartheid; communism; mandela; southafrica

1 posted on 12/03/2014 8:09:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pamwe Chete .....stay safe !


2 posted on 12/03/2014 8:11:36 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

47% of whites in SA sound like they’ve been a victim of interracial crime.


3 posted on 12/03/2014 8:12:06 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They should have sown and harvested their own crops. Importing blacks to do the work was a mistake.


4 posted on 12/03/2014 8:18:23 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What is with this magic “47%”?

The 47%ers are everywhere!


5 posted on 12/03/2014 8:18:57 PM PST by sagar
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To: MinorityRepublican
>"apartheid was an inhumane crime"

What else is there for inhuman savages? Tea at 3?

Lookit the wonderful state they have made from what they took/stole from the YT's .

Inhuman is a very appropriate adjective.

6 posted on 12/03/2014 9:09:41 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: rawcatslyentist

South Africa- 17 Years after Apartheid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lEV3wz0vY

Is crime in South Africa worse since Apartheid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xteF2DVCCvQ

South Africa’s townships, twenty years after apartheid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKmZcmOWP0s

Will South Africa Ever Recover from Apartheid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtJjdjdDaOs


7 posted on 12/03/2014 10:22:49 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Are 47% of White SA even still alive?


8 posted on 12/03/2014 11:25:16 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why shouldn’t they?

SA existed as an economic powerhouse for 80 years once they’d brought those pesky Boers to heel.

Now the 60-70’s; OH we’re supposed to feel guilty now. The Professional Communist comes on the scene and its all tribal and racial and the people who clawed out an actual business are now the bad guy (whether or not we clothed, educated, fed, or brought their whole culture out of darkness into light does not matter).

Obama lives on this kind of Shite.


9 posted on 12/04/2014 12:21:05 AM PST by bakeneko
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To: Zhang Fei

It is more complicated than that; the Dutch settlers of much of South Africa settled there because the land wasn’t populated. Years later, people migrating down the southwest coast of Africa were entering their lands; the Dutch had to deal with them. It wasn’t slavery.

Not a defense of apartheid; just a clarification.


10 posted on 12/04/2014 2:15:45 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m presuming that in South Africa “coloured” means mixed race?


11 posted on 12/04/2014 4:16:23 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Zhang Fei
They should have sown and harvested their own crops. Importing blacks to do the work was a mistake.

We should have sown and harvested our own cotton.

12 posted on 12/04/2014 4:32:36 AM PST by Salvey
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To: kearnyirish2
It is more complicated than that; the Dutch settlers of much of South Africa settled there because the land wasn’t populated. Years later, people migrating down the southwest coast of Africa were entering their lands; the Dutch had to deal with them. It wasn’t slavery. Not a defense of apartheid; just a clarification.

I know it wasn't slavery. They should have maintained their borders and evicted the migrants. We're encountering a similar situation with migrants from Latin America. A majority helot society will eventually be run by the helots. In ancient Greece, the helots were at least physically indistinguishable from the aristos (thereby making the identification of targets for revenge a little more difficult just from a casual look) and lacked this ideology that the aristos were the root of their problems for the rest of eternity.

13 posted on 12/04/2014 4:49:45 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: ops33

And Indian.


14 posted on 12/04/2014 4:51:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Zhang Fei

The Boers were a mainly agricultural people; protecting their borders was probably impossible.


15 posted on 12/04/2014 6:59:04 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MinorityRepublican
47% of white SA believe apartheid wasn't a crime against humanity

Is that all?

16 posted on 12/04/2014 7:03:45 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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