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Racism poisoning South Africa's Rainbow Nation
13 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — As new racist cracks appear in the veneer of South Africa's Rainbow Nation, analysts say the country was feeling the effects of papering over its differences instead of tackling them head-on.
Basking in the afterglow of a globally acclaimed transition from whites-only apartheid rule to democracy under black president Nelson Mandela, intolerant pockets continue to fester 14 years into democracy.
This week, simmering tensions were thrust into the spotlight when a video made by four white university students, in which they lead five black workers through a series of degrading mock-initiation activities, was made public.
The youths' work, condemned by parties across the political spectrum, was a protest against forced integration of black and white students in residences at the University of the Free State in what was once an independent Afrikaner republic.
Jody Kollapen, chairman of the Human Rights Commission established by the constitution, said this week Mandela took reconciliation too far -- to the detriment of true transformation.
"We have been living in a dream world ... believing we have overcome the most formidable of our obstacles ," Kollapen told AFP.
"We hadn't dealt with our past. Broader society never participated in a discussion about what the past meant for blacks and what the past meant for whites."
The video shows workers -- four women and a man -- downing beer, dancing and participating in mock rugby practice, after which they are made to kneel and eat meat on which one of the students was filmed urinating.
The home-made film ends with the words: "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration."
Arts and Culture minister Pallo Jordan told public radio the recording was "reprehensible, disgraceful" and had happened "despite the fact that these young people didn't live under apartheid. But they are deeply infected with racism."
In January, a 17-year-old white boy gunned down 10 black people at the Skielik informal settlement in the central North West province -- killing four including two children, in an apparent racist attack.
Last week, white reporters were outraged when they were barred from a gathering of the Black Journalists Forum which was addressed by ruling African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma.
On Wednesday, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) research body said racial tensions appeared to have risen in the past month, threatening to undo years of progress.
Recent events, "probably set us back a significant amount of time", said the institute's deputy head Frans Cronje.
When the ANC unseated the racially oppressive apartheid state in 1994, Mandela and other leaders took hold of the phrase Rainbow Nation, coined by Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu to describe the country's multi-racial unity.
But fears are now being expressed that the racial harmony everyone had hoped would come with time is still far off.
"We always worked on the premise that if the older generation carried baggage from apartheid, then the consolation for the future was that younger children would not carry that same baggage," said Kollapen.
But as most blacks continue to be poor, many cast doubt on their white countrymen's commitment to real change.
And many whites, the majority of whom supported the transition, now felt they were the victims of reverse racism through the government's affirmative action and land redistribution policies.
"There are a very high percentage of whites who feel they are under siege," said Kollapen.
SAIRR president Sipho Seepe said dealing with racism had required more than simply removing the oppressive legislation of the past.
"We never addressed it. What is happening now was going to happen anywhere. It was going to boil over," he said.
"We failed to appreciate that racism is a way of life, ingrained in systems and structures and institutions."
Kollapen said what was lacking in South Africa was a heartfelt apology by whites, such as the one recently offered to Australian Aborigines by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
"For white people to understand the past requires them to apologise sincerely.
"We need an acknowledgement that the past was as bad as it was."
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"For white people to understand the past requires them to apologise sincerely."
I refuse to apologise for Apartheid!!
NEVER!!! South-Africa Boers are the ones that are mass-exterminated, not the other way around!
The blacks owe the Boers an apology!! Leftist commierats!
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They make a fuss about some stupid vid, but are silent about white farmers being butchered in SA. They can take their Human Rights Commission and stick it. ::) Boers must apologise their children not blacks for giving up the powers in 1994 to ANC comunists. >:(
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Racism poisoning South Africa's Rainbow Nation
13 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — As new racist cracks appear in the veneer of South Africa's Rainbow Nation, analysts say the country was feeling the effects of papering over its differences instead of tackling them head-on.
Basking in the afterglow of a globally acclaimed transition from whites-only apartheid rule to democracy under black president Nelson Mandela, intolerant pockets continue to fester 14 years into democracy.
This week, simmering tensions were thrust into the spotlight when a video made by four white university students, in which they lead five black workers through a series of degrading mock-initiation activities, was made public.
The youths' work, condemned by parties across the political spectrum, was a protest against forced integration of black and white students in residences at the University of the Free State in what was once an independent Afrikaner republic.
Jody Kollapen, chairman of the Human Rights Commission established by the constitution, said this week Mandela took reconciliation too far -- to the detriment of true transformation.
"We have been living in a dream world ... believing we have overcome the most formidable of our obstacles ," Kollapen told AFP.
"We hadn't dealt with our past. Broader society never participated in a discussion about what the past meant for blacks and what the past meant for whites."
The video shows workers -- four women and a man -- downing beer, dancing and participating in mock rugby practice, after which they are made to kneel and eat meat on which one of the students was filmed urinating.
The home-made film ends with the words: "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration."
Arts and Culture minister Pallo Jordan told public radio the recording was "reprehensible, disgraceful" and had happened "despite the fact that these young people didn't live under apartheid. But they are deeply infected with racism."
In January, a 17-year-old white boy gunned down 10 black people at the Skielik informal settlement in the central North West province -- killing four including two children, in an apparent racist attack.
Last week, white reporters were outraged when they were barred from a gathering of the Black Journalists Forum which was addressed by ruling African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma.
On Wednesday, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) research body said racial tensions appeared to have risen in the past month, threatening to undo years of progress.
Recent events, "probably set us back a significant amount of time", said the institute's deputy head Frans Cronje.
When the ANC unseated the racially oppressive apartheid state in 1994, Mandela and other leaders took hold of the phrase Rainbow Nation, coined by Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu to describe the country's multi-racial unity.
But fears are now being expressed that the racial harmony everyone had hoped would come with time is still far off.
"We always worked on the premise that if the older generation carried baggage from apartheid, then the consolation for the future was that younger children would not carry that same baggage," said Kollapen.
But as most blacks continue to be poor, many cast doubt on their white countrymen's commitment to real change.
And many whites, the majority of whom supported the transition, now felt they were the victims of reverse racism through the government's affirmative action and land redistribution policies.
"There are a very high percentage of whites who feel they are under siege," said Kollapen.
SAIRR president Sipho Seepe said dealing with racism had required more than simply removing the oppressive legislation of the past.
"We never addressed it. What is happening now was going to happen anywhere. It was going to boil over," he said.
"We failed to appreciate that racism is a way of life, ingrained in systems and structures and institutions."
Kollapen said what was lacking in South Africa was a heartfelt apology by whites, such as the one recently offered to Australian Aborigines by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
"For white people to understand the past requires them to apologise sincerely.
"We need an acknowledgement that the past was as bad as it was."
To hell with the ANC, the blacks, Mandela and those traitorous dutchmen in the De Klerk government who sold out the people of South Africa to communism by bringing a savage bunch of communist terrorist murderers to power. Whites have no need to apologise to any kaffirs, it's the kaffirs who must apologise to whites for wrecking and destroying our once first world country. There is no progress, has been no progress in South Africa since 1994, only the decline of living standards, the influx of any filthy murderer and rapist from darkest Africa into South Africa who can get there, the country is ungovernable. Rape and murder acts in South Africa are the highest in the world. Some white seventeen year old white kid guns down a few blacks and the f***ing world goes beserk, but the fact that the black population of South Africa are willfully committing genocide against the white population seems to mean nothing to the rest of the world.....why?? When a white kills a black, it's racism, when a black kills a white, it's his right as a previously disadvantaged poor black downtrodden by the whites......what a crock of horse [censored]! I'm so sick and tired of these white leftist bastards who carry the black Africans race card and mouth off about South Africa, when in fact 90% of the arseholes have never set foot in that country and really know sweet [censored] all about those black savages. Will the blacks apologise for the 2000 + white farmers they have slaughtered along with their wives and children, will they apologise for destroying the entire infrastructure of South Africa over fourteen years.....the roads, hospitals, water resources, telecommunications, hydro, transport system, airlines, army, navy, airforce, police, judicial system, will the bastards apologise for filling the land with scab like dirty squatter camps, will they apologise for turning vibrant cities like Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and other major cities into filthy murderous ghetto's. Will the bastards apologise for taking South Africa back to the stone age? I eagerly await the chaos of the 2010 world cup, but then again, the whites and apartheid will have to take the blame for any tourists who are raped, hijacked or murdered. The currency is not worth the paper it's printed on, the constitution is a disgrace. Which blacks, including Mandela and his communist pals live up to the worthless piece of crap paper it's written on?.........not one! They hate white people and are killing them systematically and purposely and with glee. These white morons who think they have saved South Africa cannot see the forest for the tree's because their own countries are being slowly over run and brought to their knees by coloured people and blacks, they fail miserably to see that they are blindly bringing about their own demise with their political correctness and blindness. My G o d, now I realise just how many white kaffirs there are in this old world.
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Have you been to http://apartheidapology.blogspot.com/
This guy Karl Gostner is a typical South African liberal idiot! >:(
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Just be comforted by the fact that when peak oil hits and the west is in chaos and NO MORE aid reaches Afgrica, 95% of the kafirs will die.
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You are so right newman! They can't do anything for themselves!
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You are so right newman! They can't do anything for themselves!
Too right 'Im right.
Most white western city dwellers are gonna die when the oil wells run dry. The Africans & arabs will lose 90+% of their entire populations and go back to the state they were in 1400 years ago.
The other upside is the white westerners that DO survive will be rural, conservative, religious types who can elliminate any undesirables that make it through in the cities.
In the fullness of time, a 'new 18th century' white, religious, conservative culture will emerge and grab africa back.
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The sad thought here is that if a disruption of the oil supply were to take place most major countries in the world would be facing major social issues. Civilized people would be trying to make the best of a crisis and try to keep things going as best as possible. The animals on the other hand will be trying to see how they can take advantage of the situation. The sad part of the whole issue is that it doesn't have to be oil it can be any major disruption. This is something that people need to be ready to deal with because it will happen and as you say innocent folks will be hurt and loose their lives over it.
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The sad thought here is that if a disruption of the oil supply were to take place most major countries in the world would be facing major social issues.
That's an understatement. It's going to be post-Katrina New Orleans & the LA riots multiplied 100 fold in EVERY city.
Leaving peak oil out of it, the 100 million on social security in the USA PLUS the economic slow down..............OY VEY!
Your taxes don't actually pay for social security, your taxes just pay the interest on the foreign credit line that pays for social security and all the other big government expenses. No more credit........................it ALL stops! When it does, what do you think the tens of millions of black and third world welfare losers will do with no money and a slowing economy that's laying-off, not hiring?
Then there's the oil thing on top of that! No oil= no energy, no industry, no transport, no oil based fertilisers for food production...................the world is stuffed!
You live in the city? Get out NOW while some affordable rural land is still available and while you can still buy weapons and bulk ammo.
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sigh...the australians once more bugger us over ::)...sigh
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sigh...the australians once more bugger us over ::)...sigh
Shutup or I'll come over there and salt your land. ;)
:::D :::D
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sigh...the australians once more bugger us over ::)...sigh
Shutup or I'll come over there and salt your land. ;)
:::D :::D
YOU CAN COME SALT-UP THE LAND IM SITTING ON RIGHT NOW ANYDAY!!! :::D O0