Schwartzerwitz: Attacks on foreign shopkeepers continue

Monday, July 26, 2010

Attacks on foreign shopkeepers continue

Four Somali shopkeepers have been injured in an evening of explosive xenophobic violence.

Jealous rival shopkeepers allegedly set fire to a shop belonging to three of the men and shot another after warning them to leave the area.

When Manad Ali Afrah, Abdi Omar Ali and Muse Ali Maxene ignored the threat, they almost ended up paying with their lives.

A petrol bomb was tossed at their Wallacedene shop shortly before 4am on Friday while the men were asleep.

Cops say the three men couldn't find the key to their house and nearly ended up burning to death.
By the time they escaped, their arms and faces had been scorched.

A neighbour says he initially thought the victims were thugs as they raced toward his home.

"I went out and saw two people coming towards me and thought they were skollies (criminals) and then realised it's the victims," he says.

In a separate incident, cops say a fourth Somali man was shot in the shoulder and leg by people who posed as customers when they visited his shop on Thursday evening.

Kraaifontein police spokesperson Captain Gerhard Niemand says police are investigating arson and attempted murder. - Daily Voice

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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.