Schwartzerwitz: R100 000 rumour in Soetwater.. was it good for you?

Monday, June 9, 2008

R100 000 rumour in Soetwater.. was it good for you?

The Somali refugee shelter in Soetwater is being closely monitored, following the rumour at the weekend that four people from the shelter ran into the sea and drowned, police said on Monday.

Western Cape spokesperson Superintendent Andre Traut said police received reports at about 10:00 on Sunday that four people had drowned.

"After a search operation in which 35 police officers were deployed, some in a helicopter, and the National Sea Rescue Institute members, the reports proved to be false when nobody was found."

Also taking part in the search were the metro ambulance service, metro rescue workers and members of their disaster management team.

(Does no one know how to conduct a roll call anymore? 35 policemen, a helicopter (at over R5000/hr) the metro ambulance service, metro rescue workers and members of their disaster management team. None of this was really required... All that was needed was one person with a clip board with a koki pen and the names of all those who should be present to establish if anyone were really missing. 50 odd people running around like headless chickens and not one brain to share amongst the lot of them. Shame.)

After about R100 000 in costs and hours spent by staff who were on duty and by volunteers, it was discovered that the false rumour had been spread by Somalis in the camp.

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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.