Schwartzerwitz: Schwartzers facing Eviction from ze Camps

Friday, November 7, 2008

Schwartzers facing Eviction from ze Camps

Refugees and asylum seekers who remain at Blue Waters and Youngsfield face legal action if zey do not voluntarily leave the camps, said city spokesperson Pieter Cronje. (IOL)

Those at Youngsfield had until midnight on Tuesday night to apply for reintegration assistance. If they now refuse to leave, the SA National Defence Force - vich owns the land - may apply for an eviction order.

Cronje said the same applied to Blue Waters, but the deadline is Vriday at midnight. If people did not leave voluntarily "zen the city will take legal action to remove (them) from the site".

"There is no information, no pamphlets and no time agenda for repatriation". Ben Ilunga

At Youngsfield, Ali Mohammed and Siad Ndikumana from Burundi said they had not heard of this information and were still waiting to be repatriated.

"We can't understand this story. What is this formula between repatriation and reintegration?" said Mohammed.

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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.