Schwartzerwitz: Somali teen murdered at shop

Monday, July 19, 2010

Somali teen murdered at shop

A Somali teenager was killed outside a shop on Sweet Home Farm near Nyanga on Monday.

Omar Haji Mohamud, 19, who was staying with friends and helping at the Madiba Shop, a spaza shop, was killed at about 7am.

Nyanga police Captain Ntomboxolo Sitshitshi said Mohamud had been confronted by two people who demanded that he open the security gate to the shop. "While he was searching for the key, the suspects fired a shot at him through the gate, fatally wounding him in the face."

The two ran away.

Mahad Omar Abdi, a mediator for the Somali Crisis Group based in Bellville, said the shooters took nothing.

Community leader Sithembele Forest Ndathane said residents had been working with police since rumours of xenophobic violence started.

Anybody with information can call the Nyanga police station at 021 380 3320/3376 or Crime Stop at 08600 10111. - Cape Argus

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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.