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Violence spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Reuters ^ | 07/13/2021 | Alexander WinningWendell Roelf

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.

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


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'Grievances.' If only they could end apartheid in South Africa, things would be great.

Not unrelated..

10 bodies found at looted S.African mall following stampede

1 posted on 07/13/2021 5:38:46 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
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To: ScubaDiver

I interact with a South African woman on a infrequent basis. She is a middle-aged white woman. I worry about her.


2 posted on 07/13/2021 5:42:09 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ScubaDiver

“The whole world is festering with unhappy souls...........” We are just waiting for the inevitable spark.


3 posted on 07/13/2021 5:43:08 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: ScubaDiver

BLM takes over South Africa
Apartheid is over
War on Whitey goes mainstream
Country descends into Anarchy and Starvation.


4 posted on 07/13/2021 5:43:29 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: ScubaDiver

Apartheid was there for a reason.


5 posted on 07/13/2021 5:50:34 AM PDT by nonliberal (Caput gerat lupinum)
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as frustrations over poverty and inequality boiled over into the country's worst unrest in years

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.

6 posted on 07/13/2021 5:50:35 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: aynrandfreak

I don’t have electricity, but I gots a 65 inch tv!


7 posted on 07/13/2021 5:53:55 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: ScubaDiver

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.


8 posted on 07/13/2021 5:55:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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Inequality is endemic and can not be cured


9 posted on 07/13/2021 5:55:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: ScubaDiver

It’s not “Grievances”, it’s just a lust for chaos, disorder, and stealing, not unlike what the US went thru last year.


10 posted on 07/13/2021 5:58:32 AM PDT by euram
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But we were all kings and queens before we were conquered and sold by islamists


11 posted on 07/13/2021 5:59:39 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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12 posted on 07/13/2021 6:02:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nonliberal
Apartheid was there for a reason.

The original intent for Apartheid was abandoned for economic exploitation.

13 posted on 07/13/2021 6:03:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nonliberal

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.


14 posted on 07/13/2021 6:24:16 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: euram

“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.


15 posted on 07/13/2021 6:26:32 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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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.


16 posted on 07/13/2021 6:27:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Agreed. Another betrayal of a functioning society by the American and European powers.

Make Rhodesia Great Again.

17 posted on 07/13/2021 6:30:05 AM PDT by nonliberal (Caput gerat lupinum)
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You have to make Rhodesia Rhodesia Again, first.


18 posted on 07/13/2021 6:32:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ScubaDiver

“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!


19 posted on 07/13/2021 6:34:23 AM PDT by ProudVet97 (E)
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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.


20 posted on 07/13/2021 6:37:14 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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