South Africa: Two dead as more “xenophobia” arises in the Rainbow Nation
“Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.”
Nelson Mandela (1996)
For our South African readers it must be ho-hum what have we been trying to tell the world—the welcoming “rainbow nation” meme is a lie!
Black South Africans aren’t even happy with their fellow African blacks, like the Somalis. Haven’t we been told for 20 years (more!) that it’s the white people who are evil racists in South Africa? When it’s black hatred for other blacks, it has to have a new label—xenophobia.
Looters lined up in the Rainbow Nation—a picture is worth a thousand words.
What are the odds that this story will ever see the light of day in the western press which has for so long helped keep the Mandela mythology alive.
From GeoTV:
JOHANNESBURG: South African police said Thursday they arrested 68 people after mobs went on a looting spree of grocery stores owned by foreign nationals, including Pakistanis, in Johannesburg´s Soweto township.
The violence erupted after a foreign shopkeeper shot dead a teenager who had tried to rob him on Monday night.
“Young boys wanted to rob a shop and the owner opened fire and killed one of them,” police spokesman Kay Makhubela told AFP. “That made the community angry, and that´s what started all this.”
At least 80 shops, most of them owned by Somalis and Pakistanis, have been looted over the past three days, the police said.
A second person was killed on Wednesday night, and police said they were still investigating the circumstances.
Amid widespread poverty and unemployment, frustration in Johannesburg´s run-down neighbourhoods often boils over into anti-immigrant violence.
In 2008, deadly xenophobic violence broke out around Johannesburg townships, killing 62 people.
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