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News: South Africa on cusp of a race-war
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South Africa on cusp of a race-war
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Of course the violence and privations South Africa’s blacks faced under apartheid were just as unforgiveable. Certainly, there would have been more bloodletting after the white government fell in the Nineties were it not for Mandela’s message of reconciliation.
But now, as he nears death, fears are growing that a wave of violence will be unleashed against the white population.
The statistics — and the savagery of the killings — appear to support claims by these residents that white people, and farmers in particular, are being targeted by black criminals.
Little wonder that what unfolded on the Du Plessis homestead has sent tremors of fear through the three-million-strong white community.
Last month alone there were 25 murders of white landowners, and more than 100 attacks, while Afrikaner protest groups claim that more than 4,000 have been killed since Mandela came to power — twice as many as the number of policemen who have died.
It is not just the death toll, but the extreme violence that is often brought to bear, that causes the greatest fear in the white community.
Documented cases of farm killings make for gruesome reading, with children murdered along with their parents, one family suffocated with plastic bags and countless brutal rapes of elderly women and young children. These horrors have prompted Genocide Watch — a respected American organisation which monitors violence around the world — to claim that the murders of ‘Afrikaner farmers and other whites is organised by racist communists determined to drive whites out of South Africa, nationalise farms and mines, and bring on all the horrors of a communist state’.
Indeed, a disturbing number of whites are terrified that Mandela’s passing will lead to an outpouring of violence from black South Africans, no longer contained by the sheer power of the great man’s presence, which endures today even though he stood down as president in 1999.
For its part, the ruling ANC party dismisses claims that such murders are part of any sinister agenda, pointing out that South Africans of all colours suffer violent crime, and that wealthy whites are simply more likely to be targeted.
Perhaps. But white nerves have not been soothed by the disturbing behaviour of Jacob Zuma, the ANC’s leader and the country’s third black president since Mandela. At a centenary gathering of the African National Congress last year, Zuma was filmed singing a so-called ‘struggle song’ called Kill The Boer (the old name for much of the white Afrikaner population).
As fellow senior ANC members clapped along, Zuma sang: ‘We are going to shoot them, they are going to run, Shoot the Boer, shoot them, they are going to run, Shoot the Boer, we are going to hit them, they are going to run, the Cabinet will shoot them, with the machine-gun, the Cabinet will shoot them, with the machine-gun . . .’
Alongside him was a notorious character called Julius ‘Juju’ Malema, a former leader of the ANC youth league, who is now Zuma’s bitter enemy and is reportedly planning to launch a new political party after Mandela’s death. Polls this week showed a huge surge in support among young black South Africans for his policies, which he says will ignore reconciliation, and fight for social justice in an ‘onslaught against [the] white male monopoly’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-breath.html
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There's more but w/ Mandela's passing all too inevitable within the next weeks, it could turn dangerous.
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uh oh 
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I don't know what to think.
Like, i am fully aware of what occurred during Apartheid but this is no reason to target innocent White victims who weren't at fault for their ancestors' actions.
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My black brethrens and sistrens are standing up for themselves, DESTROY IMPERIALISM!!
EDIT: Fine I'll admit I went sort of overboard with this - it's sad to see this happening but let's not forget that this hasn't happened to black people on a bigger scale; it's like all of a sudden the default race is the race that's struggling when they're the ones who control the world.
May the killed rest in piece 
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Sick of some africans being racist to other africans!!!!
STOP IT!!!!
You do NOT be racist to white people nor black people silly africans!!! Then people will say youre racist!!!! I know youre really not, youre just mad over how white ancestors enslaved you, beat you, and did genocide on your people, but this is time to grow and forgive!!!!!
Any african, if you read this, stop it!!!!
Edit: wtf who report this? Stop being dumb! Im trying to share my opinion on subject and youre reporting with no cause!!! I took an africa history class and i know about the past and present hostility!!
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Originally posted by Roc
My black brethrens and sistrens are standing up for themselves, DESTROY IMPERIALISM!!
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Right? People are being killed and raped, but that's all right because they're white 
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Racism against whites? This would be almost interesting if it weren't so saddening.
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Originally posted by MadelineXPepito
Right? People are being killed and raped, but that's all right because they're white |
I'm on my 9th WP so why not go out with a bang and leave knowing I have stood up for people of colour who have been oppressed by the "default" race 
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Originally posted by Roc
I'm on my 9th WP so why not go out with a bang and leave knowing I have stood up for people of colour who have been oppressed by the "default" race
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Nah I didn't report you. But what you're saying is vile and I hope you will use this month to rethink your priorities
Stood up for people of colour by bad mouthing the white race on the Internet. Such a fighter 
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this sort of thing has happened in many african countries!
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Originally posted by iHooker
this sort of thing has happened in many african countries!
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But no one cares about the rest of african countries; now it's a country with money and power so there'll be a lot of coverage.
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Originally posted by MadelineXPepito
Nah I didn't report you. But what you're saying is vile and I hope you will use this month to rethink your priorities
Stood up for people of colour by bad mouthing the white race on the Internet. Such a fighter |
Why don't you use your white privilege to do some good in the world instead of debasing a person of colour's rightful views
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Originally posted by Roc
Why don't you use your white privilege to do some good in the world instead of debasing a person of colour's rightful views |
Why don't you use your first world privilege and stop being a smartass towards a second world citizen 
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The person who wrote this is clearly exaggerating. 
The attacks on white people happens all the time, because millions of black people are unemployed so they are seeking alternative ways to provide for their families 
More exaggeration is that the writer says white people fear with Mandela's passing will be the end of them... really? I doubt Mandela being alive is leverage for white people in SA's existence. The inaccuracy of this reporter is just
And trust me, if the deaths are because of racism, Mandela's expected passing or whatever, it would make national news, and right now I see nothing on my national news channel. The attacks are purely coincidental. 
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The exaggeration in this article 
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Sure, racism might play a part in these murders, but don't you think the real motif is money? The Afrikaners are still the wealthiest group down there, and even wealthy Blacks get attacked a lot. This has happened for years, it's not news.
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Originally posted by JonnyϟLightning
Sick of some africans being racist to other africans!!!!
STOP IT!!!!
You do NOT be racist to white people nor black people silly africans!!! Then people will say youre racist!!!! I know youre really not, youre just mad over how white ancestors enslaved you, beat you, and did genocide on your people, but this is time to grow and forgive!!!!!
Any african, if you read this, stop it!!!!
Edit: wtf who report this? Stop being dumb! Im trying to share my opinion on subject and youre reporting with no cause!!! I took an africa history class and i know about the past and present hostility!!
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I think this was reported because you were generalizing!
I'm african (half african atleast) and i'm not ignorant towards any kind of person
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The exaggeration 
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Some of these replies.
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