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| Life Under Apartheid |
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This shows life under apartheid in pictures.
Many in the western world fail to realise
that white people stood up and protested
against apartheid in South Africa. You will
see some of these protests which took place
at the University of Cape Town.
There is a minority of South Africans who
would like to portray the past as a time of
peace, stability and abundance. That is far
from reality. Free speech was not permitted,
protesting was not allowed. Afrikaners were
given priority treatment over other ethnic
groups. With the rural afrikaners looking
down at english speakers as inferior. People
were forced to do military service--abuse
took place in the military training camps.
Some people who did not fit in society were
sent to psychiatric hospitals given electric
shock therapies (Truth & Reconcilliation
Commission discovered gay people were forced
to have shock treatment or sex changes).
Black people were secretly sterilised against
their knowledge. Opposition in the country
was put down at any cost, religious minsters
were sent letter bombs, people were murdered,
Ruth First, a Jewish communist, was murdered
by the police. The police murdered white and
black people who opposed them. Let us not
forget to mention all of the murders of black
activists. Many times the country was on the
brink of civil war, with State of Emergencies
being imposed on the country. Hardly a land
of utopia.
The list is almost endless. We should never
forget the past, otherwise we are destined to
repeat it. The video will stay to give
testimony of the past, because there is so
much denial that exists even today of the
past.
Even God's own ministers were not safe in
South Africa in a country that claimed to be
Christian. I believe God looked down on South
Africa with much sadness, and chose to
finally put an end of the suffering that took
place.
Warning there are some shocking pictures.
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Durée : 280 s |
| South Africa: The new apartheid [part1] |
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SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID
The series began in South Africa where a huge
rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and
other African states is behind an increase in
racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen
Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean
border to one of Johannesburg's most
dangerous quarters to investigate.
Friday 13 October 2006 7.35pm
Sunday 15 October 2006 4.35am (R)
Reporter Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Director
Robin Barnwell begin their film on the
Zimbabwean border with a group of Zimbabweans
as they begin a long journey to Johannesburg.
The South African police stop them but let
them go in exchange it is claimed, for a
bribe, which the people smugglers claim is
routine.
The Zimbabweans say they are fleeing a
collapsing state, where President Mugabe's
policies have driven the economy into crisis
and where earning enough to feed their
families is impossible. However, the South
Africans blame them for a crime wave and
accuse them of causing unemployment.
White farmers in the Limpopo border region
tell Unreported World that the immigrants are
perpetrating brutal farm murders and poaching
their game. The team films several farmers
taking the law into their own hands by
rounding them up, tying them together and
handing them over to the police.
It's not just the farmers who believe these
migrants are fuelling a crime wave. The team
moves on to Johannesburg and films with
police in one of the city's most dangerous
areas. They accompany officers who routinely
use plastic bullets to round up suspected
illegal immigrants.
Those they catch are sent to the Lindela
detention centre. The team interview a group
of Congolese men who accuse the guards of
severely beating them. Another inmate laments
that South Africans have forgotten the
support that their "African brothers" gave
them during the days of Apartheid and accuses
black South Africans of being the "biggest
racists in the world".
The team then travel to the suburb of
Diepsloot where the local South African
business community has written an
extraordinary letter to Somalian shopkeepers
asking them to leave. The shopkeepers - who
say they're asylum seekers rather than
illegal immigrants - fear they will suffer
similar violent attacks to those suffered by
other immigrant communities.
A group of protestors gathers, demanding that
South Africa should be for South Africans
only. One woman tells Unreported World that
black South Africans fought long and hard to
gain their freedom that these benefits are
now being stolen by illegal immigrants.
The team are then allowed to film on board a
train returning 400 Zimbabwean illegal
immigrants back to the border. Some are so
desperate to remain, that they throw
themselves from the moving train during the
night. Almost all say they will be back in
the country within a few days. Given the
ever-worsening economic environment in
Zimbabwe they say they have no other choice.
http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/U/unr
eportedworld/southafrica.html
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Durée : 481 s |
| Was Apartheid South Africa Better? |
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If you want to subscribe to my new channel
dedicated to politics here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PoliticalKhaya
About Apartheid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid
Links: Number of millionaires:
http://www.nriinternet.com/Did_you_Know/India
/index.htm
Apartheid debt:
http://www.aidc.org.za/?q=book/view/200&PHPSE
SSID=1f0fd303e55d13cc4495b638c625699c
Rank by PPP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countrie
s_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
Rank by GDP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_Domestic_P
roduct
Growth:
http://www.southafrica.info/doing_business/bu
sinesstoday/economy_update/639807.htm
Houses, electricity, water
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/countries/africa/south
africa.asp
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Durée : 584 s |
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