Schwartzerwitz: First Johannesburg and Pretoria... then Cape Town?

Friday, May 30, 2008

First Johannesburg and Pretoria... then Cape Town?

UN jets in to help terrorised South African refugees

The Scotsman - By Fred Bridgland
Published Date: 30 May 2008

THE South African cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria were declared a disaster area yesterday in the wake of anti- foreigner violence that has left some 80,000 citizens of the two cities homeless. The decision enables extraordinary measures to be taken under the country's Disaster Management Act, including permitting the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to manage ten camps for Zimbabweans, Malawians, Mozambicans, Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans and Nigerians who have been driven from their homes.

Both cities are in Gauteng, South Africa's richest province.

Senior UNHCR officials have arrived from Geneva and will begin intervening today. There have been reports of disease, fighting and rape among refugees sheltering in police compounds, churches, community halls and makeshift shelters on waste land, where sanitation has broken down and there are few doctors to treat the sick.

The UNHCR sites will include tents, latrines, medical workers and food, but the government will not allow them to be classified as "refugee camps" – they should be described as "temporary shelters", it said. (Hahahaha like it actually matters what the camps are called. This is the problem of our government - only really worried about how it LOOKS)

Cape Town will be next. The province will apply in due course

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Every Pogrom needs an Armband....

Welcome to Schwartzerwitz. The inevitable consequence of 4 million illegal immigrants arriving in South Africa. More desperate than our local folk they are willing to work longer harder faster for less. The immigrants are more reliable than South African unskilled labour and have outcompeted the local folk. No matter what anyone says it's not FAIR on our locals. Adding 4 million hungry mouths to the country has exacerbated the rocketing food prices felt across the globe. Adding 4 million potential electricity users to the mix has undoubtedly worsened the electricity situation. Having 4 million people send home money to their family drains the economy of money which should stay within the borders. Adding 4 million people and not registering them as taxpayers has cost the country billions. What chance does our government of ridding the country of shacks as per the Millennium Development Goal when 4 million immigrants build/rent shacks. Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe....? Just move to a shack in South Africa. On an individual basis this site condemns violent acts against individuals. However as a collective the illegal immigrants deserve no sympathy and should be deported back from whence they came. These people are economic refugees - "not real refugees" - and they are(generally speaking) in South Africa illegally.

kwerekwere.

The inside cover of my Oxford English dictionary features a word with which I have become all too familiar: the word is kwerekwere.

(It may be more familiar to you with one of its vernacular language–dependant prefixes prepended — the Sotho singular being le– and plural ma–, the Nguni singular being i– and plural ama–). This word is used to refer to black (in the morphological sense) Africans who are not South Africans — South African being defined as Sotho, Nguni, Venda and Tsonga ethnic groups (by that measure the Swazis, Batswana, etc. would be South African?). This word has a very negative sting to it and is often used with contempt. From what I gather it has undertones which speak of how black Africans are believed to be sub–human, too dark and have a pungent smell.