Schwartzerwitz: Schwartzers get out hand at immigration centre

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Schwartzers get out hand at immigration centre

Chaos erupted at the Nyanga Immigration Centre yesterday.....

Home Affairs spokesperson Siobhan McCarthy said it was unclear what sparked the incident, "but some clients waiting outside had thrown stones at security officers and at clients on the site"... (it was them....)

Several queuing men and women said they were beaten and pepper-sprayed by police.

"There were too many of them who wanted to be helped, so they pushed and shoved," said police spokesperson Jannie Wentzel from Bishop Lavis. According to an inspector at the scene, no pepper spray was used, Wentzel said. (Ehe - eet wasn't us!)

An emotional asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo said: "They hit people. They hit people with sticks and they are not allowed to do that." Since arriving three months ago, he had visited Home Affairs once a week. (this kwerekwere is a bit late to the party!)

McCarthy said the crowding was not related to appeals by displaced foreigners staying in the safety camps. (It has something to do with the fact that the camps have been / are being closed)

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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.