Posted on 12/06/2013 3:43:10 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Ellen Moshweu was just trying to go to church. A police officer shot her in the back on that November day in 1990.
David Mabeka was at home in 1986, sleeping through a newly declared South African government state of emergency, when police burst in to his home and took him away.
A young black man, just trying to get home, was thrown into the back of a police van and taken to jail despite the indignity of presenting a white police officer valid identity papers. The officer crumpled the pass at the man's feet and took him to jail anyway.
Thaabo Moorsi, "severely tortured and detained." Soyisile Douse, "shot dead by policemen."
Families separated. Races relocated.
This was apartheid.
For many too young or too distant to remember, apartheid is little more than a distant historical fact, a system of forced segregation to learn about in history class, to condemn and to move on.
But for South Africans who survived the decades of punishing racial classification, humiliating work rules, forced relocation and arbitrary treatment by authorities, the end of apartheid was the birth of an entirely new world, midwifed in large part by Nelson Mandela.
A history of apartheid
Though white Europeans had long ruled in South Africa, the formal system of apartheid came into existence after World War II.
The country's National Party -- led by the descendants of European settlers known as Afrikaners -- ushered it into existence after sweeping into power on a campaign calling for stricter racial controls amid the heavy inflow of blacks into South African cities.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Why stop with the end of apartheid? From what I’ve read SA is still a very brutal place.
the indignity of presenting a white police officer valid identity papers.
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Like when you’re speeding (or a taillight is out) and a white traffic cop has the cheek to pull you over and ask for your drivers license...
Indignity City...
Hey CNN, this excuses blowing up innocent civilians and necklacing blacks who refuse to join the ANC?
Communist for ya. It is not PC if a sector of the world has the promise land and not the other. It must be one exploiting the other... in the eye of the predatorial projectionist exploitating communist.
The Apartheid Regime was brutal. But comparing statistics with now and then, a lot more people are getting killed nowadays.
“Nelson Mandela’s Trial has been properly conducted. The judge has been scrupulously fair.”
By Humberto Fontova, on December 5, 2013
BIO-MANDELA-COOK
From NPR:
His (Nelson Mandela’s) cell became a private home with a swimming pool, complete with white servants. In this picture Nelson Mandela chats with his former chef Jack Swart outside the house he spent the last years of imprisonment....Upon his release from the hospital Mandela was moved to Victor Verster Prison...where he had a secluded cottage with the pool. When he arrived, he was greeted by Coetsee, the justice minister, bearing a case of wine...”The cottage did in fact give me the illusion of freedom,” Mandela wrote. “I could go to sleep and wake up as I pleased, swim whenever I wanted, eat when I was hungry...It was altogether pleasant, but I never forgot that it was a gilded cage,” Mandela said of his final prison.”
This post’s title comes from Anthony Sampson, one of the dozens of international observers at Nelson Mandela’s trial for terrorism in 1964.
South Africa’s apartheid regime was no model of liberty. But even its most violent enemies enjoyed a bona fide day in court under a judge who was not beholden to a dictator for his job (or his life.) When Nelson Mandela was convicted of “193 counts of terrorism committed between 1961 and 1963, including the preparation, manufacture and use of explosives, including 210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 anti-personnel mines, 1,500 time devices, 144 tons of ammonium nitrate,” his trial had observers from around the free world. “The trial has been properly conducted,” wrote Anthony Sampson, correspondent for the liberal London Observer. “The judge, Mr Justice Quartus de Wet, has been scrupulously fair.” Sampson admitted this though his own sympathies veered strongly towards Mandela. (Indeed, Sampson went on to write Nelson Mandela’s authorized biography.)
In sharp contrast, when Ruby Hart Phillips, the Havana correspondent for the flamingly Castrophile New York Times, attended a mass-trial of accused Castro-regime enemies, she gaped in horror. “The defense attorney made absolutely no defense, instead he apologized to the court for defending the prisoners,” she wrote in February 1959. “The whole procedure was sickening.” The defendants were all murdered by firing squad the following dawn.
In 1961 a Castro regime prosecutor named Idelfonso Canales explained Cuba’s new system to a stupefied “defendant,” named Rivero Caro who was himself a practicing lawyer in pre-Castro Cuba. “Forget your lawyer mentality,” laughed Canales. “What you say doesn’t matter. What proof you provide doesn’t matter, even what the prosecuting attorney says doesn’t mater. The only thing that matters is what the G-2 (military police) says!”
A reminder:
According to Anti-Apartheid activists a grand total of 3,000 political prisoners passed through South Africa’s Robben Island prison in roughly 30 years under the Apartheid regime, (all after trials similar to the one described above by Anthony Sampson.) Usually about a thousand were held. These were out of a South African population of 40 million. Here’s what Mandela’s “jail cell” looked like towards the end of his sentence.
According to the Human Rights group, Freedom House, a grand total of 500,000 political prisoners have passed through Castro’s various prisons and forced labor camps (many after trails like the one described by R.H Phillips above, others with none whatsoever. ) At one time in 1961, some 300,000 Cubans were jailed for political offenses (in torture chambers and forced-labor camps designed by Stalin’s disciples, not like Mandela’s as seen above.) This was out of a Cuban population in 1960 of 6.4 million.
So who did the wold embargo for “injustice?” and “human-rights abuses?”
Mandela’s Castrophilia was simple loyalty to someone who had helped out his terrorist group when it most needed help. Actually, I can’t get too worked up over Mandela’s Castrophilia. Loyalty is (usually) a noble human quality, and he owed Castro big-time.
But how about the Castrophilia of the hundreds of other politicians and world “leaders” (many in the U.S.: George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, etc., etc.)???
There’s something really perverse there.
Yep, his wife was key in the exacting of such cruelty behind the scenes while he plaid good man in the news.
Come to think of it it seems like the way the GOP behaves.
This is another leftist western backed thug who colonize Africa claiming as American blacks they know what is best for African one.
Hypocrites.
No worse than what many tribes did to each other on the continent...Rwanda anyone?
Went from apartheid to communism, with the whites portrayed as the counterrevolutionaries.
Yes Apartheid was rough for blacks. Now the Blacks just murder whites and steal their property.
Same old same old with different people doing the same old.;
My factory had 120 people, 96 were Black, I had 6-7 in administrative training and 22 in trades training to become welders, machinists etc. Then the lefties from UCLA and Academia, and the shut off funds to SA. Had to close the plant so 96 blacks became unemployed and lost their training. Same with an Auto plant where it was 3000.
Been down hill ever since, and the corruption in government is massive. The place is brutal, and will be soon like the Congo. Especially when the gold runs out.
IMO one day soon these same people will threaten our very lives.
The long time president of Magma Copper, worked in South African underground mines for several years before returning to the United States in the 1930s. He had earlier worked in Jerome with white and Mexican American miners. As a result of his disgust at what he had seen at the Palabora Mine in South Africa in this period before the even worse apartheid period, and the miners he had known in Jerome, Magma was the first of the Arizona mining companies to have Mexican American and black supervisors. He was a staunch conservative and big supporter of Barry Goldwater.
“Like when you’re speeding (or a taillight is out) and a white traffic cop has the cheek to pull you over and ask for your drivers license...”
“Indignity City...”
Maybe Apartheid was very much like that.
From the Diary of Ronald Reagan:
Friday December 7, 1984
Bishop Tutu of S. Africa came in. I’m sure he is sincere in his belief that we should turn our back on S.A. & take actions such as sanctions to bring about a change in race relations. He is naïve. We’ve made considerable progress with quiet diplomacy. There are S. Africans who want an end to Apartheid & I think they understand what we are doing. American owned firms in S.A. treat their employees as they would in Am. This has meant a tremendous improvement for thousands & thousands of S.A. Blacks. There have been other improvements but there is still a long way to go. The Bishop seems unaware, even though he himself is Black, that part of the problem is tribal not racial. If apartheid ended now there still would be civil strife between the Black tribes.
“With our Necklaces, we shall liberate this country.” -Mandela
No, more like the guy in New Mexico who was stopped for an alleged traffic violation and was taken into custody for two days and anally raped so the cops could look for the drugs he didn't have in his rectum.
Hey CNN… This is why FOX adopted the motto of "fair and balanced!" (of course they too have been disappointing lately!)
If white South Africans, and particularly the Afrikaners, were so brutal and evil, they could have wiped out the black population of not only South Africa, but every surrounding country as well. They had the military and economic power to do it, and with nuclear weapons, could have taken on any country that tried to stop them, even from the West. South Africa was considered Africa’s superpower.
But genocide was never mentioned or considered. The South African government had a political system that was deeply flawed, but also tried in some ways to provide for all the people. Schools, hospitals, transport and homes were provided virtually free of charge, and tribal land was assigned for self-governance. Execution of the policies were poor, and no doubt there were some atrocities. Most good intentions do not survive collisions with reality.
They also fought a proxy war for the west to stop the Soviet Union from accessing the uranium and other mineral riches in Southern Africa. The ANC became the Soviet proxy.
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