Schwartzerwitz: "Ve are going to kill you because you don't vant to listen."

Saturday, November 22, 2008

"Ve are going to kill you because you don't vant to listen."

"We're going to kill you because you don't want to listen." (From IRINNews..)

"They are coming"... three words to turn your stomach. Zen Ven zey arrive zey break ze vindows.. rape ze woman unt kill de man...

Kwerekwere are not welcome back in the townships..."I know at least 20 people who went to be reintegrated and were raped or killed or attacked," Asad Abdullahi, a Somali leader in Cape Town's Blue Waters Security Site, told IRIN. "I've attended their funerals, and still have their documentation for asylum seeking."

South African Police Service wrote in response to allegations of 10 "xenophobia deaths": "We do not have any record of the existence of xenophobia in the Western Cape for that period. Be advised that several cases of crime however were reported." (Hahaha... or perhaps Bwhahahahahahahaha? Several cases of crime were reported... SAP... )

An SAP officer who had urinated on the tap where the kwerekwere bathe allegedly said that he was in his country and could do whatever he liked,

"If the police, who are supposed to protect you, say things like that, and you're still pressing me to go reintegrate, I ask you, who is going to protect me there?"

Aunesi Omari – who, in her five years in South Africa has seen her brother killed, her daughter raped, and her home taken away from her – seem to have fallen into passive desperation.

"Now they're talking about evicting us from the camp. I don't know which place I'm going to go. I'm looking everywhere for where I'm going to be safe. In South Africa I'm not safe, and in my country I'm not safe. Where can I go with five children? I really don't know what I'm going to do."

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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.