Posted on 07/13/2021 5:38:46 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
Still a bad system though. When the Afrikaners arrived in Capetown, there were not Blacks. Some Bushmen though (indigenous folks). Then gold was discovered in Johannesburg. All of sudden, they needed cheap labor. So Africans moved in to modern day South Africa. Afrikaners never included them in the political process though. So that's why this country is ****ed up.
The original idea of Apartheid was for blacks and whites to live completely separate, each living in the kind of society that worked for them, and acknowledging that the blacks and whites had very different societies that were incompatible.
The problem was, as they say, “How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they’ve seen Paree?”
And ultimately the blacks were exploited for cheap labor.
Good idea on paper. But it didn't work. The tribal homelands had nothing so they were never going to survive on their own.
What should had happened after the end of Apartheid was to divide South Africa into four countries. Capetown, Johannesburg, Xhosaland, Zululand. It won't be perfect but I think they'll do better than what we are seeing right now.
And ultimately the blacks were exploited for cheap labor.
Ultimately, that's why Apartheid failed. Now they want revenge. Even worse, they are not prepared for self-governance.
Well, at least they did not damage the bookstore!;)
the govt doesn't allow them to take all of their money I know but a little can go a long way when you're facing rape and murder.
And money. Just like trouble making poverty pimps here.
Treat people like $hit, don’t be surprised when you see the backlash.
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In South Africa, Police Violence Isn’t Black and White
The killing of a coloured teenager in Johannesburg exposed the fraught state of race relations in South Africa—and how the racial hierarchies created by apartheid continue to plague the country.
By Eusebius McKaiser, a political analyst and author based in Johannesburg.
South African police officers hold protesters back during the funeral procession for Nathaniel Julies—who was shot by police—in Eldorado Park, near Johannesburg, on Sept. 5.
South African police officers hold protesters back during the funeral procession for Nathaniel Julies—who was shot by police—in Eldorado Park, near Johannesburg, on Sept. 5.
OCTOBER 21, 2020, 7:38 AM
Sometimes an unjust killing reveals all the hidden scars of a nation. An innocent 16-year-old teenager, Nathaniel Julies, was shot dead by police on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 26 near Johannesburg. This violent act was remarkable for many reasons despite South Africa’s familiarity with violence: Nathaniel was merely on his way to buy a biscuit at a nearby shop, and was killed a few meters from his home, for no apparent reason. He was a popular kid who had Down’s syndrome—and everyone in the community loved him. He was often jovial and quick to burst into dance. His killing felt like one gratuitous police assault too many on the entire neighborhood.
The racial dynamics of this case—and of South Africa more generally—tend to confuse most outside observers. While the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States is straightforwardly about Black people pushing back against anti-Black racism, South Africa’s situation is more complicated. The country’s apartheid and colonial histories introduced more fine-grained racial classifications that drew an administrative and sociopolitical wedge between Black people and so-called coloured people (mostly people of mixed heritage).
In Eldorado Park, the brutality of the largely Black police force left Nathaniel’s predominantly coloured community furious. The killing affirmed locals’ deeply held belief that they were marginalized and trampled on during the apartheid era under white supremacist rule, and now face a similar fate during the post-apartheid period under Black leaders. Their anger, in other words, stems in an important respect from the fact that they identify as neither Black nor white.
It was all the more significant because the officer who pulled the trigger was herself a coloured woman. The deepest source of rage in the community is that the police are seen as representatives of the country’s Black-led government and are perceived as institutionally racist against coloured people. Regardless of how individual officers look, the force is simply not trusted by a community that has experienced too much brutality from those meant to enforce law and order.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/21/in-south-africa-police-violence-isnt-black-and-white/
Lots of folks from the countries listed below crossing the US border illegally and being spread into our cities by Biden and his thugs - every day...
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Thanks, scary stuff and it is apparently around the world.
Basically governments are corrupt, maybe people are getting pissed off.
Yep, functioning society done in by the court of public opinion. Not a good way to start another functional society. As was apparent on day one. Had a good friend who departed in the early seventies knowing what was coming.
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