Posted on 01/11/2023 12:57:26 AM PST by Cronos
South Africa needs to urgently address xenophobia, femicide and corruption, among other challenges.
The United Nations’ universal periodic review session in Geneva, Switzerland, was an opportunity for the country to update the UN’s Human Rights Council Working Group on progress made since the previous review four years ago.
The leader of the South African delegation, John Jeffery, who also serves as deputy justice minister, and other senior government officials responded to concerns raised during the previous session in 2018.
However, instead of making progress, if anything, xenophobia, corruption and femicide have escalated in the intervening years, despite the government saying it had dedicated R21 billion to addressing gender-based violence (GBV).
It is estimated the country lost R1.5 trillion to corruption between 2014 and 2019.
The Human Rights Council, comprising 47 countries, did commend the progress South Africa had made in addressing issues raised in 2018, which included corruption, xenophobia and GBV, but called for more action in what one European delegate said was the need to “accelerate the activation of the anti-corruption action plan”.
The call came as South Africa grapples with multibillion-rand corruption cases that have highlighted just how entrenched the embezzlement of public funds has become.
Continuing reports of hate crimes and anti-foreigner sentiment remained a worry for council members.
O’Bungler agrees...
When will the UN put Gropin’ Joe on the witness stand?
Nothing about the Boers though.
I wonder how much the US. has lost to political corruption in the last twenty years.. (?)
However,as bad as it is it's a whole lot better than neighbors like Mozambique and Zimbabwe and,as a result,they have a huge problem with "wetbacks" from those countries and others.It's not "xenophobia" for SA to want to defend their borders. And as for corruption...it's Africa. Enough said.
I was getting insider info on South Africa from a website called Censor Bugbear. It was ran by an interesting woman named Adriana Susjunt (im sure spelling is atrocious). She started off as an anti-Apartheid activist, supported Mandela etc. then she had an “Oh Shoot” moment when she saw the monstrosity that replaced the former government. Full of communists and black nationalist racists and nothing but lies of what they promised. So she started a website showing the awful treatment the common Boers were receiving.
Sadly she died a few years ago (of COVID I suspect) and the website is now defunct.
I thought that once the whites were thrown out of power, and the nation was run by blacks, utopia would erupt, like in Haiti.
South Africa has held off the worst because Mandela begged whites to stay; he knew and stated there would be no educated/trained professionals if they left. They were offered concessions which seem to be a point of contention now.
Well the press that the previous regime was an apartheid one
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