South Africa
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EFF 'killing' banner causes outrage
News24/Sapa
14 October 2013
Cape Town – Social media buzzed on Monday over a picture of a banner allegedly shown at the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) launch in Marikana.
A picture showing a red banner with the words “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate” was quickly shared on various social networks on Monday.
Another picture shows a banner saying "Honeymoon is over for white people in South Africa".
"I also saw 'we need to kill them like they killed us' banners yesterday," User Qaanitah Hunter said in a Tweet.
"I'm not aware of that banner," EFF's national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi told News24. "It's not official". (read more)
South Africa: Where Corruption, Rape and Murder Are Normal
The unthinkable is now reality. Only in Africa?
Robert Morley, The Trumpet
October 2013
I met a woman from South Africa the other day. What she said shocked me.
“Not long ago, I thought I was going to get raped and murdered by the police.”
What?
She was on her way home to her acreage in a farming community outside Johannesburg when she approached a four-way stop.
“This intersection is known for carjackings,” she said. “No one stops. You just slow down enough to make sure you are not going to hit anyone, and keep going.
“You know what happens to people who get carjacked?” she asked. (read more)
Those who have taken our land must not be arrogant: Malema
Sapa
26 September, 2013
"We know once we take this land forcefully, they will use the economy to fight us," he said in Pretoria.
Malema was speaking outside the Theo van Wijk building at the University of SA (Unisa) after management denied him and his supporters access to the hall.
He told the large crowd which had gathered to listen to him that Africa was rich, while its occupants were poor. He said the Europeans on the continent were richer than the natives. "That has to change. If you take the land, you take everything that comes with it. You take the seed. It won't be the Indian Ocean in Africa, it will be the African ocean," he said.
He told followers to tell those who said they were punishing the wrong people; that a wound did not rot in Sesotho.
He sought to assure white people that genocide would not be committed to get the land back, and said they were brothers who had a right to live in the country. (read more)
Email from South African Citizen, August 27, 2013:
Dear Dr Stanton and Genocide Watch Interns
I see you are posting regular updates on South Africa again. This is then a good time for me to again give you a broad overview of South Africa’s situation. This then will be a fairly long email on various SA-related topics. I'll try to squeeze in as much relevant info without making this an extremely long email. I’ll provide references throughout my writing. If you want to publish this email (edited or unedited), feel free to do so. (read more)
Dr Tom G Palmer's critique of Malema’s Economic Freedom Fightsrs Manifesto
By Dr. Tom G. Palmer - Free Market Foundation
23 August 2013
Cato Institute fellow says Malema's programme would plunge SA into a morass of poverty
"If the Economic Freedom Fighters Manifesto were ever adopted, it would bring famine to South Africa in 10 years" - Dr. Tom G. Palmer Executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and Senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and director of Cato University (read more)
Marikana: The rage will come again
Times Live
13 August 2013
by Graeme Hosken
The Marikana tragedy has shown, say some analysts, that many citizens feel that the only way in which they can voice their dissatisfaction - and be heard by the government - is through violence.
The massacre of 34 Marikana miners - along with the murder of two policemen, two security guards and seven miners - in a wave of unprecedented industrial violence last year brought the deep-seated anger in South Africa to the fore. (read more)
Ten reasons South African farm murders should be prioritised
AfriForum
12 August 2013
by Ernst Roets
AfriForum deputy CEO says the police minister refuses to acknowledge that there is a problem
The murderers of Ernest (77) and Annetjie (76) van Rooyen were each handed two life sentences last week. Oupa Mokoena (47) and Ezekiele Mguni (30) murdered the couple in January of this year on their farm Somerset near Parys in the Free State. Ernest's body was found on the floor of their farm store - he died of loss of blood. Annetjie was found in the freezer, where she had suffocated to death after being stuffed into it alive. In the same week the murderers were sentenced, Hennie Bentley (73) and Gerrit Myburgh (78) were murdered. Bentley died this weekend after his family was attacked on their farm outside Vanderbijlpark last week. Myburgh was murdered on his smallholding outside Heidelberg last Sunday evening. (read more)
Why Malema and the EFF are as dangerous as an armed Guerrilla group
By News24
12 August 2013
Every day the mandate of the newly formed, Economic Freedom Fighters, led by former disgraced ANCYL leader - now Commander-in-Chief - Julius Malema, convinces more of the economically disenfranchised youth, the majority of them young, black South Africans - that the only path to economic equality, in the form as promised by the leaders of the former liberation struggle, and following in the footsteps of other, less liberal African leaders, is to take it by force, first politically, then inevitably - by other means. (read more)
Email from a South African woman named Cathy:
Hi
Thank you for all the work you do on Genocide Watch. As a white South African, I am concerned as are most of my white colleagues, family and friends, that full-scale genocide is possibly imminent. (read more)
Malema like SA's own Hitler - Ramphele
By News 24
7 August 2013
Johannesburg - Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele has described Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema as South Africa's own Hitler or Mussolini.
Beeld reported on Wednesday that Ramphele made the comparison after delivering the second Frederik van Zyl Slabbert memorial lecture at a high school in Polokwane.
Malema is making dangerous promises on land expropriation to desperate people, like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini had done ahead of World War II, she said. (read more)
Survey shows EFF's policies appeal to youth
By Khuthala Nandipha
6 August 2013
At least 38% of South African youth feel the Economic Freedom Fighters’ key policies will will them support, according to a survey.
The survey of 2 339 respondents, between the ages of 18 and 34, conducted by consumer insights company Pondering Panda showed that Malema’s land reform policy and the elimination of borders in Southern Africa are key to EFF's success among young people. (read more)
Julius Malema launches Economic Freedom Fighters group
By BBC News
11 July 2013
South Africa's former African National Congress Youth League leader, Julius Malema, has launched a political group called the Economic Freedom Fighters.
Mr Malema, who was expelled from the governing ANC in 2012, said the EFF wanted the redistribution of farm land and the nationalisation of the mines. (read more)
National assembly approves controversial information bill
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: PRESS RELEASE
26 April 2013
Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by the South African national assembly‟s adoption of the new version of the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) yesterday with 190 votes for, 73 against and one abstention.
An earlier version was already adopted at the end of 2011 (
http://en.rsf.org/south-africa-will-secrecy-law-approved-by-22-11-2011,41436.html) but, in response to demands for changes from the opposition, the National Council of Provinces (the South African parliament‟s upper house) made a number of minor amendments. These concessions still fall far short of what is needed.
Reporters Without Borders urges President Jacob Zuma not to sign the bill into law as it poses a serious threat to transparency, freedom of expression and accountability. (read more)
The Gruesome Reality of Racist South Africa
Frontgate Mag
March 11, 2013
By Arnold Ahlert
For decades, the country of South Africa was the focus of an international rallying cry against the injustices of apartheid. On June 17, 1991, South Africa’s Parliament abolished the legal framework for the practice of racial persecution. In 1994, Nelson Mandela and his Marxist African National Congress (ANC) assumed the reins of power. The international community looked away, satisfied that justice had prevailed. They continue to look away, even as South Africa has degenerated into another racist pit, best described by an Afrikaner farm owner: “It’s politically correct to kill whites these days.” (read more)
Stephane De Sakutin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Anti-Apartheid Leader Forms New Party in South Africa
By Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times
18 February 2013
JOHANNESBURG — Mamphela Ramphele, a respected veteran of the struggle against apartheid, announced on Monday that she had formed a new political party to compete against the governing African National Congress, calling on South Africans to “join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams.”
The party is called Agang, a Sotho word meaning “build.” In recent years, Dr. Ramphele, 65, a medical doctor who became an anti-apartheid activist and a leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, has focused on social activism and business. Until last week, she served as the chairwoman of Gold Fields, a major mining company.
The new party is the latest in a string of challengers to the dominance of the A.N.C. (read more)
Briton Chris Preece latest victim of South Africa's farm murders
The First Post
27 November 2012
Londoner hacked to death and wife left seriously injured in latest attack on white farm owners The murder of a British man, Christopher Preece, on a South African farm at the weekend has reignited a debate about the alleged "genocide” of the country's white farmers. Fifty-four-year-old Preece, a geologist from Southgate, North London, was hacked to death with knives and machetes on his Fleur de Lis farm in Ficksburg Free State, near Bloemfontain, on Saturday night, but the news only emerged yesterday. He had gone outside to look for his dogs, which are said to have been poisoned by his attackers. Waylaid by three armed men, he fled for his home but was followed inside and killed. (read more)
De Klerk lambastes ANC ‘s Marxist-Leninist policies
Fin 24
Nov 01 2012
Johannesburg - South Africa's last apartheid president F W de Klerk has blamed the ANC for the country's spiralling social and economic woes. In a speech to business leaders late on Wednesday, the 76-year-old De Klerk lambasted the
wealth redistribution policies of the ANC. He said they would cause "social engineering in which people's prospects would once again be determined by race, rather than by individual merit and circumstances". De Klerk hit out at what he called the Marxism-Leninism of some members of the ANC alliance, which he blamed for widespread unemployment and the failure to attract investment. South Africa is experiencing one of its worst crises since apartheid, as a wave of violent strikes led by miners demanding huge wage increases has highlighted the country's huge social discrepancies. De Klerk, co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, acknowledged that some of the country's woes were inherited from the apartheid but argued that the party of President Jacob Zuma was failing to deal with them. (read more)
South Africa – Official Hate Speech
Stage 5: Polarization
By Genocide Watch -
12 July 2012
The African National Congress has been South Africa’s governing party since the Presidency of Nelson Mandela 17 years ago, following the end of white minority rule and apartheid. In the years under apartheid, hate speech was used by both supporters and opponents of the apartheid system to stir up their followers. When racial tensions in South Africa ran high, the song “Kill the Farmer, Shoot the Boer” was a revolutionary song of the anti-apartheid movement. However, it is an illustration of the long-term impact that such de-humanizing language can have.
After many years when such songs were no longer sung, in 2010, prominent members of the ANC Youth League, in particular Julius Malema, President of the ANC Youth League, openly sang the “Shoot the Boer” song at ANC Youth League rallies. Not only did revival of the song strike fear into the hearts of Boer farmers, but it has actually been sung during attacks on white farmers. It is an incitement to murder white Afrikaner farmers.
Over 3000 white farmers have been murdered since 1994. The South African police have not made investigation and prosecution of these farm murders a priority, dismissing them as crimes by common criminals. The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons. Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.
A recent outbreak of violent farm invasions has led to casualties among white South Africans. The farm invasions are direct results of calls by Julius Malema and his Deputy, Ronald Lamola for whites to give up their land without compensation, or face violence by angry black youths “flooding their farms.”
In response to Julius Malema, the Freedom Front (FF) cited Section 16.2c of the South African Constitution, which restricts freedom of speech rights by excluding as unprotected speech "advocacy of hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and incitement to cause harm.” The FF contended that Malema’s singing of the “Shoot the Boer” song was hate speech and therefore a human rights violation. Acting Judge of the South Gauteng High Court, Leon Halgryn declared that the song is hate speech, and it is unconstitutional to either utter or sing “dubul’ibhunu” (“shoot the Boer.”) He issued an injunction against Malema, ordering him to no longer sing the song. The phrase is now considered hate speech.
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