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Africa Subsaharan
Racial violence spreads in S Africa
2008-05-20
A wave of xenophobic attacks escalated in South Africa's seething townships, with mobs beating and murdering foreigners.

The unrest has killed more than 20 people since it began last week and increased political instability at a time South Africa is struggling with dire power shortages, rising inflation and growing disaffection among the poor over President Thabo Mbeki's pro-business policies. Police fired rubber bullets at rioters in communities around Johannesburg and in the central business district, where scores of foreigners live. High levels of poverty, crime and unemployment have fuelled resentment toward foreigners. Since the end of apartheid South Africa has become a magnet for millions of African immigrants escaping poverty and persecution.

Posted by:Fred

#11  #7: ...Have they started going after whites yet? My fiance's cousin is headed to Durban today for a ten week stint with the South African Ministry of Health.

Mike

Crime in Durban is very, very bad.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-05-20 13:42  

#10  The new is frightening and the old comforting, even if the old was crap.

The new.
Pimps are black africans, sex-slaves are white children.

January 2005
Police in South Africa have infiltrated a major child sex syndicate. Girls as young as ten were fed drugs to force them into a life of prostitution.

Priscilla is only 16 but already she's a hardened prostitute. "I don't know if I'll see 21 if it goes on like this," she confides. She's a victim of a nation-wide Nigerian sex syndicate, which rotates girls between brothels in four cities. Her 14 year old sister, Candice, is also being held captive. "Child exploitation attracts a lot of attention -- it becomes more dangerous, it becomes more lucrative," explains one expert. There's even a website where pimps can advertise their girls. Most girls were enslaved after being force-fed drugs but more sinister methods were also used. One mother's three year old son was abducted by her pimps to force her onto the street. Another child was brutally gang raped after she tried to run away.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-05-20 13:15  

#9  Only the whites, wx.
Posted by: Rambler in California   2008-05-20 11:53  

#8  But only America is racist, right ?
Posted by: wxjames   2008-05-20 11:49  

#7  ...Have they started going after whites yet? My fiance's cousin is headed to Durban today for a ten week stint with the South African Ministry of Health.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2008-05-20 11:34  

#6  g(r)omgoru, I think nobody misses it. It is that it has been replaced with something as bad--a commie ideology mixed with tribalism.
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-05-20 08:50  

#5  anonymous5089, no doubt that the hatred between various tribes never dissipates. Zulu are especially keen to flaunt their Zulu Pride. Just pointing it out that most people would automatically misinterpret the label and presume that the poor black Zimbabweans were murderlized by white youths or sumthin.
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-05-20 08:41  

#4  So, think some around there (not Caucasians) miss Apartheid?

Yep. Just like some Germans miss the wall. The new is frightening and the old comforting, even if the old was crap.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-05-20 07:22  

#3  So, think some around there (not Caucasians) miss Apartheid?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-05-20 07:02  

#2  Most savvy africa connoisseurs all agree to say it is a very racist (because it's so Diverse™) continent, up to a degree hardly conceivable for an european or a westerner. They may see themselves as black, but there is the right kind of black, and the wrong one, and there definitively are black races.
Also, when you read "murdering", you should understand "set on fire with a gasoline-soaked tire around the neck", a great south-african tradition designed by the anc to punish the "traitors" and the mild.



OT : Incidentally, here in France, over the years, we've have had quite a bit of incidents of people deliberately being soaked with gasoline and then set on fire, and in ALL cases, those were perpretated by migrants, mostly africans. I'd say, definitively a third world cultral thing... my earliest recollation of this being reading a "news in brief" story about a nurse having broke up with her turkish boyfriend, who then abducted her with some pals, she was then gangraped, set alight in a field, and crawled, naked and mutilated, "red as a lobster", in the courtyard of the farmer (this has really stuck with me), the most famous case being a supermarket guard who was deemed a "racist" by the local Youths (blacks, not arabs), who then came in a mob, beat him, doused him with gas, and set him on fire, leaving him disfigured and badly mutilated (no fingers left). This happened less than three years ago, but there have been similar cases all over the years, from a nurse being set alight on Christmas a few years ago (the arab perp was judged as insane), to honor killings or attempted honor killing of westernized muslim girls, or the successful or attempted assaults during the 2005 ramadan riots.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-05-20 03:29  

#1  An odd headline. Did not know that Zimbabwean or Mosambiquan was a race. All victims were black, so were attackers.
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-05-20 02:04  

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