Schwartzerwitz: All quiet in the Western Cape

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

All quiet in the Western Cape

There were no reported incidents of xenophobic violence in the Western Cape on Monday night, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.

"It's very quiet. There's nothing to report," said Captain Frederick van Wyk.

Police were however continuing their patrols in all areas where there had earlier been problems.

On Sunday night a number of foreign-owned spaza and container shops in Cape Town and surrounding towns were burned and looted.

Some vandalism and attempted looting continued during the day on Monday in Khayelitsha, where police helped Somali shop owners remove their goods.

Spokesperson for provincial disaster management Daniella Ebenezer said on Tuesday that the scores of foreigners who sought refuge at police stations on Sunday night all went home or to friends or relatives on Monday.

"It seems like the situation has really calmed down," she said.

She said there were "isolated incidents" on Monday in Wallacedene, Du Noon and Ocean View, all in Cape Town, and in Grabouw.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa visited the Western Cape on Monday for a briefing on the situation.

His ministry said after the visit that authorities would not tolerate "criminality disguised as xenophobia". - Sapa

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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.