Schwartzerwitz: March 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010

ANC slams members

THE ANC in Gauteng has lashed out at its members and members of the SA National Civics Organisation for stirring up so-called service delivery protests.

ANC provincial secretary David Makhura said the provincial executive committee has visited various areas hit by service delivery protests and found “almost all service delivery protests are driven by a competition over resources”.

“Protests in Gauteng, including the latest in Mamelodi, are taking place in areas where there is a lot of development under way.”

ANC members and members of Sanco contesting to be appointed as community liaison officers during community development projects are fueling community unrests in some parts of the province, Makhura said.

- Sowetan

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Chilling warning to Nyanga foreigners

A threatening pamphlet has been distributed in Samora Machel in Nyanga, warning foreigners that they will "face the wrath of the community" if they fail to leave the area before Human Rights Day on Sunday.

Nyanga police are investigating the origin of the letter.

The letter was signed "Youth Leaders of Samora".

Police spokeswoman Captain Ntombixolo Sitshitshi said the station saw a copy on Wednesday.

"We are going to verify this information and investigate where it originates from. We will be engaging community leaders and the community policing forums to deal with the matter."

She said police would keep a close eye on the area.

Martin Makasi, the acting secretary of the Nyanga community policing forum, said: "Somewhere in the dark corners of the community these people are gathering and sending out these notes, but we will make sure that nobody is chased out of the area."

Makasi appealed to those who wrote the note to come forward, so that their issues could be addressed.

Braam Hanekom, the chairman of People Against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty, said Zimbabweans living in the area informed them about the flyer and the organisation informed police.

- Cape Argus

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.