Posted on 07/13/2021 5:38:46 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
JOHANNESBURG, July 13 (Reuters) - Protesters clashed with police in several areas of South Africa and looters ransacked shopping malls on Tuesday as frustrations over poverty and inequality boiled over into the country's worst unrest in years.
Security officials said the government was working to ensure the violence and looting did not spread further, but they stopped short of declaring a state of emergency.
"No amount of unhappiness or personal circumstances from our people gives the right to anyone to loot, vandalise and do as they please and break the law," Police Minister Bheki Cele told a news conference.
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Not unrelated..
I interact with a South African woman on a infrequent basis. She is a middle-aged white woman. I worry about her.
“The whole world is festering with unhappy souls...........” We are just waiting for the inevitable spark.
BLM takes over South Africa
Apartheid is over
War on Whitey goes mainstream
Country descends into Anarchy and Starvation.
Apartheid was there for a reason.
Reuters is using the riots to push their poverty/inequality socialist agenda, when we know the rioters were mostly Zuma henchmen angry at his arrest.
I don’t have electricity, but I gots a 65 inch tv!
They’ll just kill all the Whites, take their money and property, and complain that they are poor. Stupid nations will feel sorry for them and send them money.
Inequality is endemic and can not be cured
It’s not “Grievances”, it’s just a lust for chaos, disorder, and stealing, not unlike what the US went thru last year.
But we were all kings and queens before we were conquered and sold by islamists
The original intent for Apartheid was abandoned for economic exploitation.
Security officials said the government was working to ensure the violence and looting did not spread further, but they stopped short of declaring a state of emergency.
Apartheid was there for a reason.
...and ended fifty years too soon.
“It’s not “Grievances”, it’s just a lust for chaos, disorder, and stealing, not unlike what the US went thru last year.”
I am in touch with a relative there. She says it is not grievances, but just an excuse - just like Portland, Minneapolis and Chicago.
Problem was blacks outnumbered whites in SA by 4 to 1. Hard to sustain in that situation.
The longer Apartheid lasted, the worse things were going to be once Apartheid ended. That’s just the facts.
Make Rhodesia Great Again.
You have to make Rhodesia Rhodesia Again, first.
“looters ransacked shopping malls on Tuesday as frustrations over poverty and inequality boiled over into the country’s worst unrest in years.”
The American “fruit” doesn’t fall far from the tree!
What’s fascinating about South Africa is the VAST majority of ‘blacks’ (as we would refer to them as Americans) that live in South Africa are of Bantu ancestry. They’re not part of the indigenous, aboriginal Khoisan people that lived in South Africa and other parts of the Kalahari desert since the beginning of humanity, essentially. Bantu - who look noticeably different than Khoisan - have really only been in South Africa for as long as the Dutch settlers have lived in South Africa.
I believe the South African government, dominated by Bantu people, still refuses to officially recognize the aboriginal status of the Khoisan people. In a way that no one in the west really wants to acknowledge, a form of apartheid still exists in South Africa today; oppression of the Khoisan in their NATIVE land. I believe this is what they call one of those inconvenient truths.
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