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Africa Subsaharan

Bishop William Slattery: Whites to blame for race issues in Pretoria, SA

2016-09-04

[Times Live] So said Catholic Bishop William Slattery at a meeting of religious leaders in Pretoria yesterday.

He said white people "escaped" institutions once they were opened to all races.

He used as an example four Catholic schools in the Pretoria city centre that had only white pupils in the 1960s but now had hardly a single white pupil.

"They have all withdrawn from the schools. So white people have a problem," he said.

Slattery said the fact that the country was grappling with racial tension more than two decades into democracy was a huge frustration for people yearning for a nonracial society.

White people were impoverishing themselves in the process by not being sensitive to other people's cultures, he said.

Slattery said the answer was patience, saying that more than a century after the Anglo-Boer War English and Afrikaners found it difficult to mix and socialise.

"It takes a long time. It is a question of trust," he said, adding that white people needed to learn to trust their brothers and sisters.

Malusi Mpumlwana, a Bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, shared the same sentiments, saying all churches in Pretoria had gone black because whites "have escaped".

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 anon1 is right. Wikipedia has a good article in the spread of the Bantu -- with maps -- as currently believed to be true, starting around 2,000 BC here.

Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-04 21:15

#6 it may surprise you to know but blacks are as newcomers to South Africa as whites are

Yes, and many are worthless, buggering Nigerians.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-04 20:38

#5 it may surprise you to know but blacks are as newcomers to South Africa as whites are

they are not the "native" people there at all.

The indigenous people of South Africa are the San who were pushed out by invading whites from the south and blacks from the north until they retreated north into the Kalahari. Now they are known as the Bushmen of the Kalahari.

They are not black, they are brown. They are totally unlike the black migrants who are an aggressive tribe that came originally from the great lakes region before spreading across the continent.

The whites are now in retreat and will be as invisible one day as the bushmen of the kalahari

Posted by: anon1 2016-09-04 20:36

#4 "How dare they not cheerfully cooperate in their own destruction?!"

Posted by: charger 2016-09-04 12:29

#3 was grappling with racial tension more than two decades into democracy was a huge frustration for people yearning for a nonracial society.

Now that's funny right there.

Has he noticed how successful the US has been with attaining a nonracial society in 50 years, not to mention the 150 since the Civil War?

Would you want to have your car fixed, no less be operated on, by a guy that was forced to do it against his will all in the name of social engineering?

True integration will take a looooooong time because the real issue isn't race, it's culture.

Posted by: AlanC 2016-09-04 09:37

#2 Daar gaan die buurt. (There goes the neighborhood)

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-04 05:14

#1 all churches in Pretoria had gone black because whites "have escaped"

IMO, only the smart ones.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-04 04:56

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