When Juju and his supporters sing about killing farmers, I am sure the image they have in their minds is a man like Eugene Terre’Blanche. The so-called “boer” — stuck in his verkrampte politics. A man who defines himself by racial rhetoric and old ideas. When the AWB talk about tooling up for the third Boer war and Steve Hofmeyr writes letters to Juju, these images of the farmer are reinforced. When the newspapers show photos of AWB supporters in their two-tone shirts and short shorts, people see farmers. Even if half these men are mechanics from Benoni or accountants from Centurion, all people see is farmers
The image of the white South African farmer has been stolen by the right-wing and perverted into their mythology. It has been twisted by Juju and his cohorts into the perfect deflection from their own failings. It has been muddied, misused and abused. Well, it is time for good farmers to take it back. To kill this image that so many people have of the farmer. It is time for farmers who don’t prescribe to the Neanderthal politics of ET to say to the fringes: we have had enough. You don’t speak in our name.
The rural communities of South Africa are crying out for a solution to their problems. And the government has quite frankly failed them. From the poorest farm worker to the richest farmer, no one seems to be satisfied with rural reforms. Farm production is down — we are now a net importer of food rather than an exporter. Land reforms are too slow. Farm wages remain chronically low and living conditions of the rural communities have not changed much. And there is the ever-present threat of farm attacks that make slasher films look like Disney flicks.
But as the old cliché goes: in crisis, there is opportunity. And the rural crisis is the perfect opportunity for good farmers to step up to the plate. Not with an R5, a bullet-proof bakkie and a bottle of klippies. But as producers of solutions. Because that’s what farmers do, they grow stuff, they make things happen. They have the land, the cash, the power and the organisation to change their communities. They have the opportunity to be seen to be doing good where for so long there has only been bad. And this doesn’t need to be some paternalistic thing, the great white man coming down from his castle to help the poor natives. Nor does it have to be some hippy shit. All of us sitting round the fire smoking bongs and singing Kumbaya (though that could be nice). But rather it can be as simple as one neighbour helping another neighbour, because at end of the day, it is going to help him. I know the murders are not going to disappear overnight. I know the anger and years of neglect will not be washed away in a day. But I also know that if nothing changes, things are only going to get worse.
If I was to draw a parallel, I think of the end of apartheid when the cricket board and the rugby board needed to change. The cricket board embraced change. While the rugby administrators dragged their heels. Cricket saw opportunity. Rugby saw crisis. And rugby is still paying the price of that call today.
The farmers of our country could go either way. For their sakes, I hope they make a game-changing play. And show the world what the word Boer really means: farmer.
Hey, Dave!! What a great piece of writting…I have nothing to add..
Holla David. We in this country let our leaders fail us. Our leaders across the spectrum.
We, the citizens must stand up, unite and speak for ourselves.
n boer maak n plan
‘n Boer maak ‘n plan? This address something that has been bugging me for a while. Farming is a job, actually more like a vocation. The term has become derogatory in our country meaning white Afrikaans speaking khaki clad land owner of much land and little patience with those not like him. Perhaps the use of the word “boer” should be outlawed, like the k word. The real trouble here though, is about land, not farming and food. I know white ex-farmers from Zim who extended just such a hand of friendship and know-how sharing to newly created farmers, and the hand got brutally chopped off. The farms they lost, with no compensation, now lie bare, unproductive. In the end, all wars are fought about land (map area / space to spread out in), farming has little to do with the argument except to those who do the farming and those who sees the value in food security creators, the rest “know” food comes from the shop and they just want a place they can call their own where they give the orders.
100% – I am a boer – but agrees that all the hate can be originated by the attitude of some boers. There are more whites who thinks like the late Beyers Naude and more blacks that thinks like Madiba. I am sure at least 80% of our nation can think like them – and forget the past. Live in love and help to make our country a place where all of us want to live.
This plan makes absolute 100% sense.
How now to get the word out to the people that can make it happen? Surely what is required is for this plan to be sold to both parties and, whilst being implemented, for their to be seize fire in place.
On the one hand you say: “that’s what farmers do, they grow stuff, they make things happen.” On the other hand you say: “”They have the opportunity to be seen to be doing good…”
Farmers are not in the business of self-promotion and image-building. They just produce food, and most exercise good-neighbourliness whenever appropriate.
Anyone who wants to, knows of the good that farmers do, both by just growing food, and by reaching out to others who have started farming. Farmers have been doing this kind of thing for many years, even in apartheid years when Free State farmers would plow fields for their neighbours in Lesotho.
But it takes a special kind of ANC-inspired blindness to continually focus on the few “rotten apple” farmers (no pun intended), to the exclusion of the majority. If you, ANC spokespeople, continually speak in uncontextualised phrases like “there are farmers who [do all sorts of nasty things to their workers]…”; if you encourage songs about killing the boer and pout when the courts forbid you to sing them; then we should not be surprised if farmers become stereotyped by the noisy right, and if they are considered easy prey, robbed and murdered in their thousands by the left.
The responsibility lies with the ANC to defuse the situation and to break the myth of the stereotype. If they don’t, farmers will continue to move elsewhere into Africa.
Lot’s a times we wonder where people like you hide their faces to let the likes of Juju steal the lime light.
A few hundred of you could indded save Mzanzi from itself…
well said, we have white farmers, black farmers and every other colour in between.
Solms-Delta (Pniel/Franschhoek area) seems to be doing interesting things in changing the nature of labour relations for farm workers. Could be a model.
In life there are interests forever given to declaring war and fear mongering at extreme opposites. They do not believe in being wiser today than they were yesterday with raisson deitre set in stone. Malema and AWB need each other for political survival.
At the Trade Fair in Bulawayo both black and white acquaintances spoke of so and so having started viable projects with some new land owners but when some Zanu PF elements saw the co-operation between the races which did not augur well for their caricature of the racist whites they swiftly removed the white man’s “influence”. This is a common story in many places. Malema does not need a “good white” to dilute his stereo type. His assessment of race politics even in the ANC is exclusive hence his reference to Cronin as a “white messiah” meaning inspite of everything Cronin etc have done they are still cousins of the Boer and have “white tendencies”.
Extended hands may be chopped off but all decent people have to keep trying. Remember hands can only be chopped off at the behest of certain interests. We cannot allow the AWB, Malemas to turn their culture of racism and violence into popular culture, there must be a powerful counter movement and message that becomes the pop culture. Perhaps a new political party that is influential in all geographic constituencies and is armed with critical consciousness, culture to do the best towards realizing South Africa’s goals will be able to
The Springbok rugby team has won three tri-nations trophies and two World Cups. The Proteas cricket team has won virtually zilch.
Whatever else it may be, transformation doesn’t produce any results where it matters.
I am from the US so maybe should not be commenting. I started reading about SA because my friend is going to the World Cup and I was a bit worried.
Well here is my 2 cents. This article shows that people can get used to anything! The rape and murder around you is just another consideration but you feel no horror, it no longer turns your insides. I was depressed for days when I first read the stories of farmers murdered.
You may call ET “old fashioned” or “on the fringes” but when someone is hacking your wife to death it really doesn’t matter who you are, you go out and do something about it.
The Boar people need to become savvy at telling their story. If they can stop the lies about ET and get back to the story of a genocide against white south africans people like myself will see what is happening and start putting pressure on SA government. Fight on! it is better then being killed.
Over a thousand years ago an Arabic philosopher said that slaves only want to copy the master in everything – food,culture, clothes.
It is simple – they all think they can be farmers, yet their leaders sit on thousands of hectares of undeveloped land, which they have had control of since the 19th century without farming the land.
The world is waking up to the horror and terror in South Africa. Others like myself are beginning to wonder what we can do . Their have been protests outside the SA Embassy in LA and New York and there will be more. You are not alone!! Don’t think we don’t care – we just didn’t here about it before.
support our farmers so they can keep producing real, healthy good food for us. Lest we become another of those nations where you have to be rich if you want real food “organic” and if not, settle for fake toxic junk. Do not ignore the needs of farmers. Do not criticise a farmer while your mouth is full. I like this plan and I like the ideas put here. As a black South African I can tell you that I associate the word Boer with those hateful khakhi clad men, and not the people, who happen to be of all colours, who put food on our tables. South Africans are positive and they can move in power if they help each other and live in love as neighbours. LEt us really roll out and live the philosophy of Ubuntu. They should teach it at schools… in the police, everywhere then when its all done we can sit down to that bong Dave was talking about… I like the bong, we should keep it.
Perhaps we should stop looking to government for leadership and instead inspire it from within every sector. The mining minister’s presentation to parliament last week made it absolutely clear that government can’t recognise dire distress until it’s too late and she follows Health, Education, Transport, Communications and many more departments that still haven’t got the idea.
Ah for crying out loud. Why don’t we once and for all understand that the boere that the song talks about is not about the farmers and it’s actually about the Opressors. It’s unforntunate that in the olden days people in black communities used to talk about the boeres as the opressors and that is simply because they the boeres were the one’s who were doing the opressing more, by beating up farm workers and yes raping them and stuff.
So the word boere is used in the context of an Opressors. Next thing you know you will be saying the song “Hamba Kahle Umkhonto we sizwe” Should be banned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOXqFQw2hc
@mike hammer: I’m also American but have lived in SA a long time. I get where you’re coming from, but your comments are pretty ill-informed. I’d suggest you read up on the “lies” about ET (Economist did a stellar obituary last week) and on the so-called “white genocide” taking place here. Genocide is a very serious word not to be thrown about without basis in fact. You can find plenty of actual numbers from Agri SA, Stats SA, and HSRC.
As for this article, it’s very well-said: Yes, government needs to do something about the crime on farms, but an awful lot needs to come from the farmers themselves in terms of improving working conditions and a public image makeover.
Is it really feasible for a farmer to make his farm more productive when, sooner rather than later it will be handed over to a crony of the ANC who will run into the ground? The farmer also faces the prospect of not getting any of his investment back! Food and water are the only vital resources and the ANC has already dealt a death blow to water! The death blow to farmers and farming are well on the way. I expect that starving voters will still pitch up at the polling stations and vote ANC again as they do in Zimbabwe where the rigged votes makes it difficult to see what really happened. Common sense says vote for someone else but common sense is not very common any longer.
Farms and land should be used to produce food – not to get votes as no one can eat votes.
A wise South African once told me; “If you have problem in your community, do something about it. Secondly, don’t get involved in ‘toxic waste discussions’ like how good it used to be.”
Politicians cannot be considered leaders (never really could, though there are exceptions), we are the leaders, we need to bring the changes and make them work for our communities.
@Scott
Two points: Just because Mike Hammer (love the reference, by the way) lives elsewhere does not mean his opinion can not be taken seriously. That’s tricky territory you are on and frankly I find they way you cast him aside a little, shall we say, rude.
Secondly, just because you live in SA, does not automatically mean you may be totally informed either.
Foreign comments should be welcomed here as it encourages that all important “mix” in viewpoints or perspectives.
Also, good sir, as is well-known, a world expert on genocide, Dr. Gregory H. Stanton at http://www.genocidewatch.org has already identified the situation and I think we need to give some credit there…
I agree with this article. I actually have, and have had, farming family and the sad fact is that there are many farmers who really do reach out with that helping hand. Some folks with an agenda would seemingly just not prefer to acknowledge it, i.e. crass generalisation is the name of the game for politicians who ignore the voice of reason. Farmers have extremely long and hard working days and cannot be expected to go on media campaigns.
On an idealistic note:
This would be the perfect time for the founding of a new political party that all South Africans can relate to.
@artofkawai “Do not criticise a farmer while your mouth is full.”
I agree with the sentiment of your comment except that part. As portrayed in the movie “2012″, if, in order to save humanity we overlook inhuman behaviour, then what point in saving humanity. I grew up on a farm with a farmer who were guilty of many crimes against fellow man. Farmers, like all others must obey the law, especially humanitarian laws. I know that there are many more innocent farmers than guilty but the truth is there are many wrongs that no-one bothers to address, like employing child labour, for instance. Or, housing workers in degrading circumstances. We should never allow any sector to hold us to ransom. Otherwise, agree with your comment.
Mike Hammer is ignorant just like his brothers in SA. Can you explain the US genocide programme committed by the KKK to wipe Black population. Is America liberal enough that its citizen can start criticising other nation states of wrong doing? Mike stop being pathetic.
Yes Mr. Fhatuwani Rambau America committed many crimes against blacks not to mention American Indians. We were responsible for unnecessary killing of millions of German and Japanese civilians in WWII. Our record is no better then anyone else. But is it any worse? African history contains chapter after sickening chapter of of black-on-black genocide.
Many people, whites and blacks, japanese, would be as justified in holding a grudge against Americans as SA blacks hold a grudge against SA whites. But holding grudges is for weak and self destructive people who look to their own interpretation of the past and not to the future. No one in this world is innocent enough to ruin their own future and those around them by tying to punish people for crimes that in the end we are all guilty of because we did not try to stop them.
Meny black leaders, including President Obama, believe that the greatest harm racism did to the American black people is to give them a sense of victimhood. Young blacks did not educate themselves or strive to improve their life because they could blame their bad luck on racism.
I think I see signs of this mentality in SA blacks. Emphasis on wealth transfer instead of wealth creation is bringing the entire country down.
Look at other emerging countries India, China, Brazil. They also faced a racist colonial past… and then moved forward.
@mike hammer – outsider comments are very valid, if, as you point out, you went through the same problems in your history. Thank you therefore for making the time to take an interest in our country, it is appreciated by those of this with the agenda of building this counttry up into one we can be proud of.
You are right, we are busy repeating the mistakes many others have made in history. But then, there is none so deaf and blind… Revenge is such a waste of energy and trying to tell the vengeful this even more so. I read a wonderful piece a while back where Bill Cosby were talking about the youth, and then already I had the feeling he was talking about our youth.
@ Fhatuwani Rambau
Mike Hammer makes a valid point when he says that the future cannot be built on the atrocities of the past.
It is a fact that most humans look to the easy way out. This is proved by the fact that all countries have to create state welfare systems to pander to the lazy.
Fact is that the more money that is budgeted for hand outs will ensure that more children will be born that will never have a future.
Before you shoot this thought down just ask yourself the question why parents of welfare children allow their children to fall into the same trap. This goes on for generation after generation.
Then of course I would ask that you show me a nation in the world that has not been oppressed at some time or another? Should we all hate each other for ever?
@mark Had I brushed his comments aside you may actually be right in what you say. Read what I wrote again and please quote anywhere where I said “you live elsewhere and your comment can’t be taken seriously, but I live here and THEREFORE know more than you.” What I did say is that I work on the ground in farming communities and have a wealth of experience that tells me A. his assessment of ET as “old fashioned” and just trying to “do something about” his wife being hacked to death ignores a mountain of information about who ET was. And B. Use of the term genocide (the systematic wiping out of a people group) isn’t justified here. I didn’t comment on whether ET deserved to be murdered (no one does), but just said @mike was ill-informed. But perhaps you just think ET lived his life as one taking a stand against genocide?
To say that there’s a white genocide taking place in SA is to fly directly in the face of facts on the ground. I seriously challenge you to debunk the stats I referenced from Agri SA, Stats SA, HSRC.
So yes, his comments, everyone’s comments are welcome here. But I just find it helpful when people base arguments in fact rather than reading a few articles and then making sweeping conclusions about places they’ve never been.
And I agree on the need for a new, broad-based party.
@scott I will look at the number you reference but keep in mind we are talking about brutal murder torture of fellow human beings and not scoring a game of cribbage.
I find it a little embarrassing that a fellow American is trying to minimize the genocide in S- and I wonder why. If I look in my history book I see how England was able to rule India with a handful of administrators simply by fomenting internal war among the ethnic groups. Look at Iraq where Shia and Sunni are busy killing each other while the U.S. and European countries take their oil.
I will would like to ask my fellow countrymen Scott a question. Can you give me some “stats” on where the real wealth of SA is, and how much of it is taxed to provide necessary services.
Reading up on my history of the Boers, it seems like they are relatively poor farmers and for the most part, always have been. When they were lucky enough to find gold on their land it was quickly claimed by the English.
Can someone explain why it is the Boer farmer that is a symbol of injustice in SA.
Hello again, I don’t want to hog this list but found some interesting “stats” that I wanted to share. I spent some time over the weekend researching the SA economy and particularly the agricultural economy.
Here are some interesting facts.
1) SA is a VERY VERY rich country. It’s GDP is around 28 billion which makes it richer then many countries in Europe, Asia or the middle east.
See here for a comparison: http://tinyurl.com/y2pn7u
2) SA has become much richer in the last ten years. It has more then doubled its wealth. I don’t know why this is not more well known? It is an astounding growth rate! See http://tinyurl.com/396plwx
3) Agriculture is VERY VERY small part of the SA economy, about 3.0%. 2.2% of SA GDP is wine (http://tinyurl.com/37jkzbz) so non-wine farming accounts for less then one percent of SA wealth.
This is kind of sad, All this killing over the smallest piece of the smallest slice of the SA wealth!
@ Mike Hammer,
More than sad! It’s a national shame, or rather lets say it is Africa’s shame that people still believe the solution is to kill the answer.
All the current anti white propaganda be sprouted comes from the mouth’s of babes. Unfortunately the young, now and in the future, will never consult the grey heads. The young will never believe them because after all, they believe they arrived on earth with all the answers.
This stupidity then is the real sadness of life.
@mike- First I’ll apologise this is going to be a bit lengthy, but I’ve been accused of not giving you a fair hearing and so want to respond fully. I’m sorry you find me embarrassing, but I find it difficult to have this conversation when you’re talking about several things at once. So I’ll try to focus on just one or two. I can address others later if you want.
First of all, you may be misunderstanding what I’m saying. There’s a world of difference between minimising deaths and being unwilling to call the situation here genocide. Genocide is the systematic wiping out of one group of people by another. There’s nothing systematic about the killings here. So the definition isn’t met, and you still haven’t presented any facts to contradict that. As I said, I work on farms and am quite familiar with the conditions there. What is happening is awful and needs to be stopped, but it’s not genocide.
Second, I’d like to revisit your original comments that prompted me to reply, and I’d like you to address them please. You said “You may call ET ‘old fashioned or ‘on the fringes’ but when someone is hacking your wife to death it really doesn’t matter who you are, you go out and do something about it.” Really? ET was just old fashioned?
Just who was hacking his wife to death when he beat a petrol station attendant within an inch of his life? I seriously want to hear a defense of that one that doesn’t ignore the facts of the man’s life that went well beyond passive racism to beating, maiming and pretty much torturing blacks who, in pretty much every case, were no immediate physical (though perhaps existential) threat to him. I really want to hear your case for his actions as self-defense. Please don’t ignore this point.
Third, you also have not once addressed the conditions in which most people (typically non-white) work on these farms. So, you can say that I’m minimising the plight of one and I can say you’re ignoring the plight of another. Most workers are paid close to slave wages, screamed at and beaten with shocking regularity. This is fact. Your thoughts?
Also, you keep talking about fighting over wealth, and I fear that we’re having two separate discussions. In this discussion that’s in relation to the article, we’re talking about the need for the farmers themselves in this country to remake their image and how they can help reduce both public antipathy towards them and that coming from those who work for them. A discussion on wealth distribution in SA while hugely important isn’t really the topic at hand.
Though I see the rhetorical value of setting up and us-them dichotomy for your narrative.
Essentially, what you seem to be doing is going from point to point (somehow China is in there) and blowing a lot of sort of alarmist smoke without actually addressing the topic at hand. It’s this short of shock and dismay that white people somewhere on the Earth are being hurt, but I don’t detect any of that sympathy for the non-whites here who die every day. You seem to be (and correct me if I’m wrong) describing a scene in which it’s black versus white for control of wealth. Again, that’s just not the discussion here. The crime that takes place on farms is generally not racially motivated. Around 90% is plain old crime, another 8% are wage disputes (reference the working conditions above), and only 2% are racially motivated. Clearly, poverty’s an issue, but it feels like a separate discussion.
So if you want to have this discussion based on what’s going on and the topic of the article, that’s fine. But I don’t think it’s really useful for us to carry on pretending when what you really seem to be doing is making the case that the unruly black masses are torturing the benevolent and innocent white minority.
You tried to make it in a very cursory analysis of “blacks not educating themselves” in America and then pretty much pronouncing that as the mentality of blacks in South Africa. I honestly don’t know which I’m offended by more. Just how are you familiar with the attitudes of blacks in South Africa, and how dare you make the sweeping claim that young blacks in America don’t educate themselves? That’s why I made the statement originally that you appeared to be ill-informed—those statements are either unaware of facts or thinly veiled contempt.
So all this talk of genocide and wealth distribution is really seeming like blowing smoke and ignoring the conversation at hand, that being that white farmers here can do a lot to improve their image and their lot. Yes, the government bears a huge amount of blame for the trouble on farms, but the farmers must realise that they too can do something about it. That’s what democracy is about, people doing for themselves. And your underlying assumption that the government owes that to whites but that blacks here need to stop being envious and pull themselves together is pretty disturbing. So I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m being dismissive any more. I’ve given good thought to what you’re saying and its implications and truly hope it’s the result of not knowing. P.S. Look up how often farm crime occurs on non-white owned farms.
@Scott, over 80% of SA company CEOs are white. 28 billion dollars of SA wealth flows out of SA to white countries every year. If we are seeking justice in SA we need to address the root causes of this inequality.
Is anyone singing” kill the white CEO kill the white CEO”. I don’t think so.
Is anyone talking about the low wages paid by white run corporations in SA. I don’t think so.
One think the american experience shows us is that there are racists that
stand on the corner and shout about it and there are racists that pretend they are your friends. It is the later racist that is most dangerous.
From my readings the Boer people want to be part of Africa and want their culture and language preserved. It is not racist to simply want to have your own culture.
If the SA CEOs are anything like American CEOs they don’t give two cents for culture or language of the lives of SA people. They just want the wealth.
A definition of Genocide by the UN is attached below. Aside from the genocide against the Boer farmers, the attack on foreigners often referred to as “Xenophobia” also fits this description. But in the case of the attack on foreigners , the army was deployed resulting in thousands of suspects being arrested. In the case of the Boers, we have members of the ANC taking sides with the criminals and encouraging genocide.
“Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
A correction, 91% of SA CEOs are white. See: http://tinyurl.com/24gd2nk
Sure, SA race problem is the Boer farmer. The guys who are raping south africa and taking 99.5% of its wealth are all nice chaps who never say anything against the blacks.
Any chance you’d care to address my second and third points? It’s awfully hard to have a discussion when one party won’t really respond.
@scott
The fact that many of the murdered people were – I am not sure this is really true since there are conflicting reports- does not mean there is no genocide. The Nazi party confiscated billions is assets, gold and paintings from the Jews in WWII. Many of these assets are still being recovered as we speak.
Would you then say that there was no genocide in Germany? If we follow your logic this is where it leads us.
Your comments remind me of a Stalinist attempt at starting class warfare between the Have-Nots and the Have-Even-Less. I doubt if the cot Terreblannhe was murdered on was much more elegant then the cots of farm workers. And we know that half of American companies go trawling the world for people that will work for a few cents a day while they rake in billions and live in mansions.
The wealth that will educate, fix hospitals, encourage employment, and save SA never reaches the farm worker or the farmer.
In my opinion, which is very fallible I acknowledge, a few laws on the books
that tax or otherwise regulate the export of SA minerals would raise enough money to provide public services and investment to grow SA’s domesticated economy.
Lets see a modest 15% tax on 35% of a 28 billion dollar economy. That would be 1.5 billion for roads, hospitals, schools, This would encourage foreign investment in the country.
The first line of the comment above should have “fact that murdered people were robbed.”
according to your view of the world:
torture+rape+murder= genocide
but
torture+rape+murder+stealing = robbery.
What is going on in SA is genocide, and the world won’t get it wrong this time around. More protests scheduled in the US.
Those who are willing to fight genocide should educated themselves about is. The video below starting at around 4:10 describes the stages of genocide.
The deniers, well they can deal with the consequences of their inaction.
http://tinyurl.com/24cvwp6
@mike
You clearly came on here to have a monologue and not dialogue of any sort. Comparing what’s happening here to Nazi Germany makes little sense. Defining genocide (by your UN definition) requires intent. I challenge you to prove that intent in what’s happening here in SA.
I think you’ve played your hand and made readily apparent not only your gross misunderstanding of the situation here (noted that you haven’t defended your self-defence theory), but also a very particular mindset. Since you’re not really willing to engage and answer questions, it doesn’t make much sense to continue this. All the best to you.
@Scott
I take it you did not watch the video linked to and listen to the author of the UN genocide laws, Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, analyzing the situation in South Africa and providing you with your “intent”.
Put down your umbrella, Scott. Those who ignore evil acts are as guilty as those who commit it.
@ Scott,
It is clear that you are denying the truth of the what has become a reality for a lot of South Africans.
Is it unfair of me to assume that you are writing as a ANC spin doctor?
Look at the footage that the link provides. Go to the areas where it is happening and experience the fear first hand.
The world has delivered another African country to the profit moguls. True democracy can only work in a country where everyone is equal in all respects and not just “free”.