Swedish article by journalist Sanna Hill: "South Africa: Whatever Happened to Rights for All minorities? - sanna.hill@alternamedia.se
"Reporters from the New Times traveled to South Africa to investigate whether the "Rainbow Nation" is the success story that the Swedish establishment media sometimes claim it to be. As far as they still remain l interested in the country which was the media's focal point up to 1994, that is...
We met with widespread fear among the white farmers. Most have lost their farms, thousands have been murdered.
March 23, 2016 "The sun is low over the red-colored, dry ground. I'm in South Africa, a land of contrasts with a story out of the ordinary. During the day I met the country's former interior minister for a meeting about the country and its challenges.Zulu Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi confirmed what I have written about for years, namely the intractable situation of the country's white farmers are in. Mr. Buthelezi said he fully understands that the white farmers are frightened in today's South Africa. There is every reason for it.
Since the communist ANC took power in South Africa in 1994, thanks to extensive financial and moral support from the Swedish government, several thousand white farmers victims of farm attacks, according to the organization Genocide Watch. The topic is controversial, especially for us in the Western world. To speak of vulnerable minorities is certainly always appreciated, but not when it comes to a minority originating from the Netherlands and neighboring countries from the beginning. Then the question becomes suddenly very sensitive topic and silenced any down.
I strongly believe in each people's right to live in accordance with their culture and traditions. After traveling around in South Africa for long periods and after reporting from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, you quickly realize how valuable security and peace. Civilized and non-corrupt styrene, people recognized their rights and nations that are not exploited by big business is of paramount importance for a better world.
Since the communist ANC took power in South Africa in 1994, thanks to extensive financial and moral support from the Swedish government, several thousand white farmers victims of farm attacks, according to the organization Genocide Watch. The topic is controversial, especially for us in the Western world. To speak of vulnerable minorities is certainly always appreciated, but not when it comes to a minority originating from the Netherlands and neighboring countries from the beginning. Then the question becomes suddenly very sensitive topic and silenced any down.
I strongly believe in each people's right to live in accordance with their culture and traditions. After traveling around in South Africa for long periods and after reporting from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, you quickly realize how valuable security and peace. Civilized and non-corrupt styrene, people recognized their rights and nations that are not exploited by big business is of paramount importance for a better world.
Many white farmers are worried about the political developments in South Africa. Party Economic Freedom Fighters, who wants to seize farmers' land, is gaining ground. They received the full six per cent in its first election two years ago. I met with their representatives in Cape Town for a couple of days ago, and they were confident that the party will be governing in the not too distant future. Party leader Julius Malema made himself known to an international audience when he as leader of the ANC Youth League sang a song about killing white farmer. Human rights activist Dan Roodt, born in South Africa, says that the situation of the white minority has increased since Nelson Mandela, a restraining factor, died two years ago. Attacks are now more and more brutal. Most white farmers know someone or know of someone who has fallen victim to an attack. The fear has spread in the minor communities.
Black has grown to 90 percent of the population and there is little interest in protecting the white minority's interests. On the contrary, today there are more than racial laws under apartheid. Businesses owned by blacks get preferential access to government contracts, there are laws requiring black ownership in large companies and whites locked out of training on "their" quota is full.
Thousands of white, like this girl from Pretoria, live today in slums.
Five years ago I visited a farmer outside the city of Nylstroom and two years ago I did a follow-up.
When I came to the same area again for a week since I was met by several tragic news. Several attacks have occurred in the neighborhood.
An elderly couple had been murdered in his house which was a bit aloof, the older woman had been raped and burned.
The perpetrators had left empty liquor bottles on the spot and set fire to the house before they set off.
We spoke with a 28-year-old woman who lost her husband in a farm attack that took place outside Nylstroom at the end of last year.
The perpetrators had left empty liquor bottles on the spot and set fire to the house before they set off. We spoke with a 28-year-old woman who lost her husband in a farm attack that took place outside Nylstroom at the end of last year. This was the second husband as the young woman had lost. The perpetrators had broken into the house when the couple slept and stabbed her husband to death with a large screwdriver. The woman fought for his life and escaped that way being raped, but she was also stabbed. The perpetrators held a knife to the couple's infant to force the mother to open the gun cabinet and then murdered her husband when his four-year daughter looked on.
Many white farmers would naturally flee South Africa. However, most are settled in the country for economic reasons, including an elderly lady I spoke with whose daughter had been stabbed to death in just over eight months ago.She had been stabbed with a knife in front of their two children. The older woman now wanted any move to Europe or Australia, but have no economic opportunity to even go to a safer part of South Africa.
In Sweden, we are constantly told that there are no Swedes, that a "privileged white" person can not become a victim of racism. The same attitude has media in the West and the politically correct "elite" in terms of South Africa's white minority. One says that it simply can not exist any racism against whites, that the attacks against whites simply a matter of common robbery, despite the statistics and the farmers themselves suggest the opposite. When I met the press spokesman of the Transvaal Agricultural Union, Henk van de Graaf, he told me that the most dangerous profession in the crime-ridden South Africa are just farmers. More people have been murdered here than in neighboring Zimbabwe, where the regime deliberately hunted out white farmers from the country.
We must dare to talk about the attacks directed against the white minority in South Africa, just as we need to talk about racism against the Swedes without being labeled as "racists". In the upcoming issue of New Times readers will be able to take part of stories and interviews with victims and politicians from South Africa.
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SOURCE:
Johanna Stuijt VanDokkum
http://www.nyatider.nu/vad-hande-med-alla-minoriteters-lika-rattigheter/
"Reporters from the New Times traveled to South Africa to investigate whether the "Rainbow Nation" is the success story that the Swedish establishment media sometimes claim it to be. As far as they still remain l interested in the country which was the media's focal point up to 1994, that is...
We met with widespread fear among the white farmers. Most have lost their farms, thousands have been murdered.
Since the communist ANC took power in South Africa in 1994, thanks to extensive financial and moral support from the Swedish government, several thousand white farmers victims of farm attacks, according to the organization Genocide Watch. The topic is controversial, especially for us in the Western world. To speak of vulnerable minorities is certainly always appreciated, but not when it comes to a minority originating from the Netherlands and neighboring countries from the beginning. Then the question becomes suddenly very sensitive topic and silenced any down.
I strongly believe in each people's right to live in accordance with their culture and traditions. After traveling around in South Africa for long periods and after reporting from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, you quickly realize how valuable security and peace. Civilized and non-corrupt styrene, people recognized their rights and nations that are not exploited by big business is of paramount importance for a better world.
Since the communist ANC took power in South Africa in 1994, thanks to extensive financial and moral support from the Swedish government, several thousand white farmers victims of farm attacks, according to the organization Genocide Watch. The topic is controversial, especially for us in the Western world. To speak of vulnerable minorities is certainly always appreciated, but not when it comes to a minority originating from the Netherlands and neighboring countries from the beginning. Then the question becomes suddenly very sensitive topic and silenced any down.
I strongly believe in each people's right to live in accordance with their culture and traditions. After traveling around in South Africa for long periods and after reporting from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, you quickly realize how valuable security and peace. Civilized and non-corrupt styrene, people recognized their rights and nations that are not exploited by big business is of paramount importance for a better world.
Many white farmers are worried about the political developments in South Africa. Party Economic Freedom Fighters, who wants to seize farmers' land, is gaining ground. They received the full six per cent in its first election two years ago. I met with their representatives in Cape Town for a couple of days ago, and they were confident that the party will be governing in the not too distant future. Party leader Julius Malema made himself known to an international audience when he as leader of the ANC Youth League sang a song about killing white farmer. Human rights activist Dan Roodt, born in South Africa, says that the situation of the white minority has increased since Nelson Mandela, a restraining factor, died two years ago. Attacks are now more and more brutal. Most white farmers know someone or know of someone who has fallen victim to an attack. The fear has spread in the minor communities.
Black has grown to 90 percent of the population and there is little interest in protecting the white minority's interests. On the contrary, today there are more than racial laws under apartheid. Businesses owned by blacks get preferential access to government contracts, there are laws requiring black ownership in large companies and whites locked out of training on "their" quota is full.
Thousands of white, like this girl from Pretoria, live today in slums.
Five years ago I visited a farmer outside the city of Nylstroom and two years ago I did a follow-up.
When I came to the same area again for a week since I was met by several tragic news. Several attacks have occurred in the neighborhood.
An elderly couple had been murdered in his house which was a bit aloof, the older woman had been raped and burned.
The perpetrators had left empty liquor bottles on the spot and set fire to the house before they set off.
We spoke with a 28-year-old woman who lost her husband in a farm attack that took place outside Nylstroom at the end of last year.
The perpetrators had left empty liquor bottles on the spot and set fire to the house before they set off. We spoke with a 28-year-old woman who lost her husband in a farm attack that took place outside Nylstroom at the end of last year. This was the second husband as the young woman had lost. The perpetrators had broken into the house when the couple slept and stabbed her husband to death with a large screwdriver. The woman fought for his life and escaped that way being raped, but she was also stabbed. The perpetrators held a knife to the couple's infant to force the mother to open the gun cabinet and then murdered her husband when his four-year daughter looked on.
Many white farmers would naturally flee South Africa. However, most are settled in the country for economic reasons, including an elderly lady I spoke with whose daughter had been stabbed to death in just over eight months ago.She had been stabbed with a knife in front of their two children. The older woman now wanted any move to Europe or Australia, but have no economic opportunity to even go to a safer part of South Africa.
In Sweden, we are constantly told that there are no Swedes, that a "privileged white" person can not become a victim of racism. The same attitude has media in the West and the politically correct "elite" in terms of South Africa's white minority. One says that it simply can not exist any racism against whites, that the attacks against whites simply a matter of common robbery, despite the statistics and the farmers themselves suggest the opposite. When I met the press spokesman of the Transvaal Agricultural Union, Henk van de Graaf, he told me that the most dangerous profession in the crime-ridden South Africa are just farmers. More people have been murdered here than in neighboring Zimbabwe, where the regime deliberately hunted out white farmers from the country.
We must dare to talk about the attacks directed against the white minority in South Africa, just as we need to talk about racism against the Swedes without being labeled as "racists". In the upcoming issue of New Times readers will be able to take part of stories and interviews with victims and politicians from South Africa.
SOURCE:
Johanna Stuijt VanDokkum
http://www.nyatider.nu/vad-hande-med-alla-minoriteters-lika-rattigheter/
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