Schwartzerwitz: Zimbabweans' Shacks set alight, cops fire rubber bullets

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Zimbabweans' Shacks set alight, cops fire rubber bullets

Police fired rubber bullets to disperse around 50 people after two shacks belonging to Zimbabwean immigrants were burnt in the North West Province, authorities said on Saturday.

The incident erupted after a Lesotho man stabbed a Zimbabwean in a tavern on Friday night, causing a fight to break out, said police captain Adele Myburgh.

Two shacks in the Bokfontein area were then set alight, she said. Police responded and found a "chaotic" scene involving some 50 people, said Myburgh. Police then fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.

Earlier reports said the incident appeared to be a "xenophobic" attack.

However, authorities were no longer considering it an anti-immigrant attack since they had determined it started after the incident between the Lesotho man and the Zimbabwean, Myburgh said.

A wave of violence that broke out in May saw foreigners being driven out of townships, mainly in Johannesburg, where residents accuse immigrants of taking jobs and blame them for high crime rates.

More than 60 people were killed in those attacks. - News24

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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.