South Africa: Blacks attack black migrants as
“xenophobic” violence returns by Ann Corcoran, 9/9/18.
Loren Landau, the Director of the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, agreed that discrimination against foreigners is to blame for the violence.
Don’t you be complacent! If you are reading this in the good ol’ USA and think this doesn’t have anything to do with you, think again! As I told you in my post just yesterday, even during Trump’s Administration we are bringing black Africans (especially Somalis) from South Africa to Yourtown, USA (128 of them since last October) to save them from their fellow blacks running wild in South Africa. (BTW, this movement of the unwanted black Africans from South Africa is being facilitated by refugee contractor Church World Service). South Africa is a stable country (for now!) so their XENOPHOBIA problems are not ours!
It
probably never went away, but several news accounts of recent days suggests the
attacks on immigrants to the “Rainbow Nation” have picked up lately.
South African looters in Soweto last
month. They are destroying the shop of a “foreigner.”
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-08-30-soweto-looting-death-toll-rises-as-violence-spreads-to-daveyton/
We have chronicled (see my archive here) the fact that South Africa’s black citizens
are not welcoming to their fellow black Africans (they didn’t get the Nelson Mandela
message I suppose!) from countries to their north. They especially don’t
like Somalis!
The
international Hard Left (Commies, the Obamas and others) don’t like this bad
news getting out broadly because they have much invested in the myth of South Africa
as a “Rainbow Nation” now that the whites have been driven from power there.
And, part of that Leftist
mythology is that anyone who has been discriminated against in the past
couldn’t possibly discriminate against others, right!
As
you read this remember these are not white people attacking the immigrants,
they are black South Africans! And, since
they don’t want that fact to spread widely, you need to spread it widely!
Here
is Deutsche Welle with
the latest blame game!
South Africa: Xenophobic violence resurfaces
A number of recent violent attacks in South Africa have served as a
reminder that xenophobic violence remains very much a reality in a country still
struggling with attitudes towards migrants. [Obviously, they must use the word “xenophobic” rather than their
preferred word “racist” for such violence since both sides are the same
race!—ed]
Four
people were reportedly killed in the Soweto area of Johannesburg last week by
angry protestors. Mobs looted and destroyed properties belonging to foreign
nationals, many of them Somalis, who were accused of selling fake and expired
food products.
The
attacks come 10 years after a series of xenophobic riots spread across the
country, leaving at least 62 people dead and tens of thousands displaced. “We don’t want these people!”
“What
we heard from] the people on the ground, was ‘we don’t want these people’,” he
Thifulifeli Sinthumule, Director of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in
South Africa], told DW. “Of
course they’re talking about the non-nationals that we would normally call
foreigners. So this tells us that, down on the ground, people are not
welcoming, especially on the South African side.”
The government has been accused of sidelining the issue of xenophobic
violence in South Africa. After
the 2008 riots it joined civil society and international organizations in
committing to prevent future attacks. However, the government insists the latest attacks are
not xenophobic in nature, but a contestation over living resources and
opportunities.
Landau
said that although many concerns in South African society are legitimate — such
as unemployment, poverty and corruption — it has become easy for many locals to
shift the blame for their problems onto migrants, rather than the politicians.
Somali community targeted in attacks Although all foreigners in South Africa
face the risk of violence, the Somali community has been increasingly targeted
for robbery and violence.
Somali
entrepreneurs — many of whom emigrated to South Africa in the 90s — have been
highly successful in the commercial sector, creating employment opportunities
for themselves by offering goods to customers at lower prices than many of
their local competitors.
Although
envious South African business owners have been blamed in part for inciting
tensions with Somali communities, Landau thinks the problem goes much deeper. Oh, geez, here we go! Likening South Africa to
Donald Trump’s America! We are not South Africa! “I think it’s very clear — and South Africa is
not alone in this if you look at the United States, Europe an Brexit — all
around the world people blame outsiders. Read the rest here.
See
more of Landau’s theory yesterday at Quartz here. The Left is trying desperately to figure out how to
make the hatred and violence stop because it is ruining the myth they have
built up about South Africa under black rule.
If
you want to do something, tell
the White House that if they want to bring in South
Africans, make it the prosperous and skilled white farmers!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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