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Thursday, November 29, 2012

South Africa heading the way of Zimbabwe? Farm murders highlight apartheid's toxic legacy in South Africa | Reuters

(Reuters) - In a country cursed by one of the world's highest murder rates, being a white farmer makes a violent death an even higher risk.Whether attacks have been motivated by race or robbery, a rising death rate from rural homicides is drawing attention to the lack of change on South Africa's farms nearly two decades after the end of apartheid - and to the tensions burgeoning over enduring racial inequality.
Some of South Africa's predominantly white commercial farmers go as far as to brand the farm killings a genocide. On the other side of the divide, populists are seizing on the discontent among the black majority to demand a forced redistribution of white-owned farms along the lines of neighbouring Zimbabwe.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The eyes of the world were on South Africa two decades ago as the apartheid era came to an end and Western governments helped bring the communist-backed African National Congress to power. Last month, however, when Genocide Watch chief Gregory Stanton declared that white South African farmers were facing a genocidal onslaught and that communist forces were taking over the nation, virtually nobody noticed. Few outside of South Africa paid attention either when, earlier this year, the president of South Africa began publicly singing songs advocating the murder of whites. The silence is so deafening that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t even publicly mention the problems when she was there last week. Instead, she was busy dancing, pledging billions of dollars and praising the ruling government. “I find that quite disturbing, as if Afrikaner lives do not count for the Obama administration,” Dan Roodt of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, PRAAG, told WND.He says the situation is rapidly deteriorating.

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  1. He, but they need to improve alot. Just because they beat south Africa doesn't mean that year good. Other teams like Ghana, Senegal, Egypt etc, are nothing like Zimbabwe, they are way better. Zimbabwe is talented but corruption put good coachs, i don't if you know this, we lost a good coach because he is white, and thats when Zimbabwe collapsed. Now they are trying to get up again, and it's hard. By the way I'm zimbabwean.Thank you so much!!
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