Schwartzerwitz: Minister blithely dismisses reports of Xenophobia

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Minister blithely dismisses reports of Xenophobia

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa today re-iterated that the recent violence in the Western Cape was criminals using the fear over xenophobia to further their dishonest aims.

Mthethwa told a media briefing in Pretoria today that “Xenophobia is not going to happen. I call on people and the media not to be part of peddling this hysteria of a possible outbreak...There is no such systematic thing as xenophobia in the country”.

He said the persistent talk of a looming xenophobic violence epidemic was talk that some hoped would be self-fulfilling.

Police Commissioner Bheki Cele joined in, noting that there had been a single incident just before the world cup where 11 buses carrying Zimbabweans came into the country but escaped media mention. He contrasted this with the reporting of virtually every single movement of foreigners out of the country.

Mthethwa insisted that government was taking the threats of xenophobia seriously but warned the media and the public of the dangers of ill-informed speculation. (Newstime)

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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.