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Biological white but ‘ethnic black’ Rachel Dolezal lied about growing up in South Africa

Everyone sometimes feels the urge to reinvent themselves — to start again afresh in a new place, free from the assumptions others have made about them.

Even so, after Rachel Dolezal moved from their family home in Montana to the city of Spokane in Washington State, her adopted brother was stunned to learn just how thoroughly she had transformed herself.

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter of missionaries was passing herself off as black, and had even befriended an African-American man she was pretending was her father. She begged her brother Ezra not to rock the boat by revealing the truth about her past.

Dolezal as an 'oppressed black woman' — Dolezal as an ‘oppressed black woman’

Rachel told Ezra that, as one of four African-American infants her parents had adopted, he was welcome to visit her, not least because he obviously fitted in with her new persona. Much to his dismay, she wanted him to go along with the lie that he was her brother by blood.

‘She told me not to blow her cover,’ Ezra said yesterday. ‘She told me not to tell anybody about Montana or her family over there. She said she was starting a new life.’

Ezra was both baffled and angered by her imposture, which he considered tantamount to ‘blackface’, the deeply controversial tradition of white entertainers blacking up their faces. And it was, to be brutally frank, little different: she started to darken her skin colour, frizz up her straight hair into dark curls, and affect an African-American accent.

Ezra’s anger turned to fury when he and his family discovered that, not content simply pretending to be black, 37-year-old Miss Dolezal had even invented a whole history of suffering at the hands of white oppression, to help her climb the ladder in the civil rights world.

She told those she encountered in her new incarnation how her white mother and white step-father (in truth, her real father) had punished their mixed-race children with a kind of whip that had once been used on slaves.

Miss Dolezal also complained to the police of being the victim of hate crimes by white racists, who she said had even left a noose in her garage.

All this posturing appeared to do the trick, helping to establish Miss Dolezal as a leading light of the black rights movement in America’s Pacific Northwest. She is the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Spokane, Washington state’s second- biggest city. She also runs the city’s police oversight committee and is an African Studies professor at the local university, where she gives impassioned classes on The Black Woman’s Struggle.

Now, however, after her horribly misrepresented parents decided it was time to reveal the truth about their daughter, her astonishing, decade-long deception has come spectacularly tumbling down. When a TV news crew finally confronted her, and asked if she was African-American, she eventually stammered that she ‘didn’t understand the question’ and ran off to hide in a dress shop.

Officials are now investigating whether she should be prosecuted for lying about her racial background in her application for the police ombudsman’s job. She might yet also face trouble from police, who have dropped investigations into all nine of the alleged race hate crimes she suffered amid allegations she invented them.

This outlandish case could have been dismissed as an example of someone merely seeking to get a leg up in their career by posing as someone they are not. But this is America, with its bitter legacy of slavery and segregation.

Black or mixed-race Americans have for centuries been passing themselves off as white in order to better their lives, but you can probably count on one hand the number of people who have tried to go in the opposite direction. So what are we to think of a talented young white woman who has spent the past decade pretending to be black?

Miss Dolezal is bound to fuel the growing furore when she addresses the media tonight at a meeting of her NAACP group. Deeply embarrassed to have been hoodwinked so easily, the national organisation has nevertheless supported her, praising her record and insisting that one’s racial identity is irrelevant in leading the group.

However, most people don’t believe for a second that she would have risen so far in the civil rights industry if she had been recognised as a white middle-class woman from a conservative family.

Unlike in many areas of life in America, being black is an obvious advantage in the civil rights industry where — to quote one commentator — it is seen as more ‘authentic’.

What’s peculiar about Rachel Dolezal, however, is that she is still insisting, even after her public exposure, that she really is black.

Whether this is a case of serious delusion or a brazen attempt to bluff it out is hard to tell. Although her parents, Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal, say they each have a grandparent who had some Native American blood, neither has any black lineage.

Miss Dolezal claims her parents timed their revelations to discredit her in an upcoming trial concerning sex abuse allegations relating to her brother, Joshua, 39, in which he will appear as a witness. They say they only spoke out after being approached by the media.

Their family background is a mix of German, Czech and Swedish. Nevertheless, Rachel was ‘always interested in ethnicity and diversity’ growing up, says her mother. That accelerated when her parents adopted four black infants in the Nineties.

Ironically, it appears that racism from black people may have spurred her to want to become one of them.
Members of her family believe that the turning point came when she won a scholarship to take a master’s degree in fine art at the largely black Howard University in Washington DC. They recall how she had submitted a portfolio of portraits of African-Americans, and people at the university — especially staff — were resentful when they discovered she wasn’t black as they had assumed.

Her brother Ezra says Miss Dolezal — still with a pale complexion and straight blonde hair — complained to her family of suffering racism.

She developed a ‘dislike for being white, and for white people’ that boiled down to ‘self-hatred’, he believes.

After university, she had a short-lived marriage to an African-American man which produced a son but ended, she claims, because her husband became violent to her and to the child.

In around 2006 or 2007, she started to ‘disguise’ herself as black, says her mother. It started with her hair — she had enjoyed arranging the hair of her adopted black sister, Esther — and Miss Dolezal was soon braiding her own in the same ethnic style, often covering it in an African headwrap.

By 2011, say family members, she was applying make-up to her face to appear ‘darker and darker’. A new look needed a new back story, and hers was elaborate — born in a tepee and brought up in South Africa, she said she had had to hunt with a bow and arrows for food.

None of it, say her family, is remotely true — she hasn’t even set foot in Africa.

It’s easy to scoff now at the many times this firebrand has eloquently spoken out about the difficulties of living as a black woman in a largely white part of the States. Even going to the cinema to watch 12 Years A Slave was an ordeal, she said, as she felt the eyes of her white neighbours turn to watch her reaction.

In 2010, she told the New York Times that she could ‘not imagine showing her face’ at an event held by the Tea Party, the ultra-conservative faction in the Republican Party, because of the preponderance of white faces. ‘It would make me nervous to be there unless I went with a big group,’ she said. Only last December, she wrote a column about the ‘asphyxiation we are experiencing as black people in America’.
Certainly, it would have been pretty much impossible to take some of her radical stances if she had been white.

A video clip, entitled Black Is Beautiful, shot in one of the classes she gives at Eastern Washington University, shows her railing against how black women’s hairstyles have been dictated by ‘white supremacy and racism’.

Talking about one particular style of African-American hair, she tugs at her own tight curls and says: ‘Like this.’

Thanks to her pretence, Miss Dolezal got away with a lot of arguably racist behaviour of her own. She once refused to allow a light-skinned Hispanic student to participate in a class exercise about white oppression because ‘she didn’t look Hispanic’.

Her tweets included one in which she lambasted the Oscar-winning film The Help, which examines the nature of social segregation between black and white, sniffing how it had ‘put $206mil in a white woman’s pocket’.

In another tweet, she praised a video entitled ‘S**t White Girls Say … to Black Girls’, claiming it was ‘true2life’.

It would be easy simply to goggle in astonishment — and many have. Critics of overweening political correctness are having a field day over the lengths one liberal white woman has gone to identify with black oppression. Dolezal may even remind British TV viewers of the ludicrous Ali G, the white rapper persona created by the comic Sacha Baron Cohen, who liked to complain at every perceived slight: ‘Is it because I is black?’

Conservatives have also highlighted what they see as the hypocrisy of liberals who have condemned Miss Dolezal’s claims to be black, yet applauded the recent announcement by former Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner that he is now a woman calling herself Caitlyn.

Why can Jenner — who hasn’t even had gender-altering surgery — say he’s a woman if she can’t say she’s black?

But those on the Left, and many black commentators, say the comparison is unfair. Not only is ‘blacking up’ deeply racially offensive, they say, but there is the whole history of America’s unhappy race relations to take into account.

For years, under the so-called Jim Crow laws which preserved racial segregation in the South — even deep into the 20th century — a ‘one drop of blood’ rule meant that people with even the smallest trace of black ancestry were legally considered black.

For many, this was catastrophic. But according to academics, this has also established a tradition whereby pretty much any American can say they are black and not be challenged.

Indeed, those who have leapt to Rachel Dolezal’s defence say that if she wants to say she is black, why should anyone deny her that? The problem is that one click of the mouse in the internet age provides pictures of her as a young freckle-faced blonde girl, making a mockery of it all.

‘I wonder what race Rachel would become if she got stopped by the police?’ the — genuinely — black woman author Terry McMillan mused waspishly on Twitter. Unfortunately, one suspects, Miss Dolezal would seize on any mistreatment by the police as further proof of her noble struggle as an oppressed black woman. – DailyMail.co.uk (shortened)

Dan Roodt: On two ex-spies’ tirade against ‘the white Afrikaner’

It has been at least a month since I visited that cauldron of leftist platitudes, The Daily Maverick. Talking of platitudes, the other day I discovered HL Mencken’s definition which everyone in this country should memorise as it is singularly apposite in this colonial society that is slowly slouching towards its Zimbabwe:

“Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.”

So this afternoon I decided it was time to boost my ego again by confirming just how stupid our PC brethren – although maybe we don’t belong to the same species at all, so we are hardly brothers – could be.

And sure enough after reading Ranjeni Munusamy’s nebulous threat of the revolution, “transformation” and “radical economic change to come” (kind of Marx and Engels’s historical inevitability for Malema’s woodwork class), lo and behold, the latest anglocentric tirade against us, the much-maligned “white Afrikaner” by Nel Marais and Jo Davies:

White Afrikaner, repent or be damned

“Apartheid” in any of its senses is such a dead horse, especially while your marvellous system is flooding our dams and rivers with e. coli, farmers get tortured, babies get raped – you all know about the psychopathic, sadistic “substructure” of this so-called “democracy”, it’s more of a demonocracy – yet you keep flogging it!

Take note: your propaganda victory of 1976 or 1989 or whenever you felt the surge of testosterone and cried, “Aha, now we’ve got the hated Boers where we want them!”, is fast receding into memory. It’s like the Battle of Majuba for us, a magnificent victory and every year on 27 February a thousand Afrikaners climb the mountain to see where we beat the hell out of Britain’s finest soldiers in 1881, but it does nothing for our plight in the present.

Every dire right-wing prophecy by Eugene Terre’Blanche or Jaap Marais of the HNP – who knew a lot more than FW de Klerk’s whole cabinet put together – has come to pass! South Africa is a few inches – note the “imperial measurements” to gladden your English hearts – away from becoming another Liberia or Sierra Leone. Anarchy on steroids. Gentlemen in drag or in bridal gowns or naked with AK47s who are out to make war against the civilians, the elderly, the children, the weak and, of course, to rape the women. Despite everything that Africa Check and other PC, foreign-funded NGOs may say, South Africa is indeed “the rape capital of the world”.

Blaming the devil or the moon or apartheid will not help you one bit. You have made your bed and now you must lie in it. You wanted to place these people, many of whom couldn’t do a simple interest-rate calculation without a calculator, in charge, their greedy hands on every lever of power. Now they are robbing us blind and turning our once beautiful country into a human and ecological disaster, but guess what: It is your fault, not ours! You crazy left-wing, Marxist, feminist, anti-white, “progressive” mobs and “collectives” – how you love that word and its herd-like warmth – wanted all of this to happen. You placed bombs on our streets and in Wimpy bars in your fanatical thirst for revolution, transformation, radical change… Google “chimpanzee with AK-47” and you might find the YouTube video where a chimpanzee shows that he can also handle an AK-47 and hold it aloft as a victory sign, in the “African way”. Well, actually, I’ll save you the trouble:

That is more or less the content of your revolution and your much-vaunted “struggle” which, without Swedish money and East German intelligence, would never have happened.

This country is broken and like Humpty Dumpty, it will never be put together again. More people have been murdered and raped, more money and more goods stolen or defrauded over the last 20 years, than in the previous three centuries, since the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in his three little ships!

These two ex-spooks writing on The Daily Maverick are just making fools of themselves. They are trying to live up to a stereotype of what they imagine a British leftist would recognise as “the Afrikaner”. The reality, of course, is far more complex and an Afrikaner could be anyone from a farmer in shorts, two-tone shirt and velskoens to a derivatives dealer in New York or a lawyer or the current Miss World, Rolene Strauss. We are a quarrelling, disparate bunch but we share a common, highly standardised language spoken from the Limpopo to Cape Agulhas, not to forget Windhoek, as well as a love of the braai, biltong, melktert, Die Stem and politically incorrect singers such as Steve Hofmeyr and Bok van Blerk. Let’s leave rugby out of it and the sooner they transform the Springbok rugby team into the “All Blacks”, the better. Sport and alcohol have been our downfall and usually the two go together.

Quoting a few poems in a tendential way does not make up for the inability to think, I am afraid. The theory of “white privilege” is just a theory and no-one in this country has even bothered to write a book about it, unlike in the USA where they agonise much more over these things than we do.

The first contradiction you should try to deal with is the fact that, culturally and otherwise, we do not exist in this so-called “New South Africa”, your politically correct “Little England” where everybody tries very hard to emulate some lost British model (see my recent little essay: Raiders of the lost Empire: South Africa’s ‘English’ identity), replete with a stiff upper lip and cucumber sandwiches at the club. We have been completely marginalised, which was part of the grand plan concocted by De Klerk and his British masters, so it follows that:

It does not matter what we believe, what we do or what we talk about, as it is of no consequence to the inner workings of the ANC, what Malema will say next, Robert Mugabe’s next state visit, Eskom’s load-shedding schedule or any of the issues that are really important.
We have absolutely no influence over the fate of South Africa, hurtling towards a desired status as “just another African country” with attendant needs and ills such as food aid, IMF bailouts, peace-keeping and foreign doctors. Neither do our dead ancestors and their past political policies exercise any residual effects on today’s merry mayhem and “progressive” slide into Africanist utopia, which we would call “dystopia” as you couldn’t drink the tap water and you would have to carry a gun to go shopping.

You do not have to worry about “nothing changing”. It will definitely change – for the worse, and soon. We won’t enjoy it, but you will, as you revert to some Cuban or Maoist dream of riding around on antique bicycles past gigantic posters exhorting you to greater equality, as well as a few prison camps dotted around the countryside to hold it all together.

But we’ve also got plans, lots of them. In our future there is some little Luxemburg, a tiny corner of the country with an ocean view, full of banks and high-tech firms, symphony orchestras and opera companies belonging to a kunsteraad and lots more Afrikaans poetry, velskoens and shorts, Die Stem and other stuff you won’t like. But guess what, you will be so busy with your panoply of problems, internecine power struggles, civil wars between locals and xenos, as well as keeping the aid money flowing, that you won’t even notice. And most of these imperial, British leftists and their pseudo-Afrikaans emulators such as Nel Marais and Jo Davies won’t be here anymore, having packed for Perth or Toronto.

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Also read J. Smith: The media try to make us whites feel guilty

Communist education minister rails against ‘old white professors’

South African professors are too old and too white, and the vandalism of colonial-era statues highlighted the need for a frank conversation on race and transformation.

This is according to Higher Education Minister and Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande , who described the continuing uproar over the statues as a “proxy” protest.

The statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, which sparked the protests, is finally on its way out. The decision was taken last night at a meeting of the UCT council that was disrupted by protesters. The statue will be moved temporarily, pending a final decision on its fate.

“The statue struggle is a proxy struggle. It’s time we confront the real issues of national reconciliation, transformation and economic empowerment because that is what lies at the heart of this. This is a deeper issue.”

Nzimande touched on the racial transformation of the academic profession, saying academics were too old and too white.

“We are concerned that our academics are ageing. We estimate that the average age of an academic is 55 years. If we don’t do anything about this, in 10 years’ time we will be in serious trouble. We want the majority [of recipients of the bursaries and posts] to be black and women, so that we are also able to confront this challenge that our professoriate is too white for a country like South Africa,” he said.

His department launched the “Staffing South Africa’s Universities Framework” earlier this year, which was aimed at funding junior academic posts and offering bursaries for students to study master’s and PhD courses, including overseas studies.

Yesterday, UKZN vice-chancellor Albert van Jaarsveld agreed that professorships needed to be transformed.

“I believe we need more African and more so African female academics. We need to ask ourselves as universities what we are doing to lubricate the process of transformation and more active transformation, to make sure it happens,” said Van Jaarsveld.

However, like Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa, Nzimande criticised the vandalism of the statues.

“We can’t destroy our history. Let’s remove them and take them to museums,” Nzimande said.

The call comes as Afrikaner groups yesterday petitioned the king of the Netherlands to step in and save the Jan van Riebeeck statue in Cape Town.

This followed an announcement that the Economic Freedom Fighters party was planning a march where it would call for its removal.

This prompted Action Forum’s Johan Willemse to chain himself to the statue.

“The EFF are hoodlums,” Willemse said.

Provincial co-ordinator for the party Front Nasionaal, Daniel Lotter, said the vandalism of the statues was an attack against the nation, which was brought on by earlier comments by President Jacob Zuma.

“He claimed all SA’s problems started with the arrival of Van Riebeeck,” he said.

Controversial Afrikaans singers Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyr, along with about 100 others, rallied around the Paul Kruger statue in Pretoria yesterday.

Bridges said she was shocked at the inaction of the government in dealing with the illegal defacing of monuments across the country, but the vandalism of Kruger’s statue was the last straw.

Tshwane spokesman Lebogang Matji said: “We will not bow to the EFF nor to Sunette Bridges.” – Times Live

Tanzania: ‘Albinos killed like animals’

In the rural areas of Tanzania, men, women, and children with albinism–a lack of pigment that makes them appear glaringly white–are waging an extensive human rights campaign against communities who routinely attack them for their hair or body parts, used in potions to attract wealth and good luck.

As BBC explains, the tradition of cooking albinos into potions is not a new one in Tanzania, and the parents of albino parents are forced to fear that, at any minute, a band of men may kidnap their children to sell to wealthy sectors of society for use in witchcraft.

It is estimated, the BBC notes, that 30,000 albinos live in Tanzania. Within that population, the number of violent attacks resulting in death in recent years is alarming: more than 70 albinos killed for their skin and hair. Of those, the BBC reports that only ten convictions have occurred, which activists attribute to the fact that well-connected and wealthy people were behind the attacks.

One activist, Mashaka Benedict of the Sengerema Albino Society, tells BBC that educated and wealthy people in rural areas are the greatest threat to albinos. “How can a poor man offer $10,000 [£6,300] for a body part? It’s the businessmen and politicians who are involved,” he alleges, noting the lack of logic in the claim that albinos bring money and good luck. “If that’s the case, why are we not rich?”

In May, one of the few cases of justice regarding albino killings made it to court in Tanzania. Two men were arrested for hacking an albino woman to death and taking her left leg, two fingers, and a nail from one of her thumbs. The men were witch doctors, and that case was the first of its kind since February 2013. Officials responded to the outrage in the albino community by telling the BBC that witch doctors cannot practice without a certificate from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which–of course–prohibits murder for the sake of herbalist tradition.
The most dangerous year for albinos in Tanzania has been 2014.

Following the May killing, August went on record as one of the most violent months for albinos in years. As Vice notes, within weeks of each other, a 15-year-old girl lost half her arm to attackers working in the service of a witch doctor, while a man was killed for defending his albino wife as attackers took away half her left arm. The three men who attacked the teen girl were arrested. A witch doctor was reportedly offering up to $600 for the girl’s arm.

Few outside Tanzania’s albino community have done much to help prevent these attacks. Police tell the BBC they have tried to prevent them and raise awareness against killing albinos, but their public service announcements and government decrees rarely get to the rural interior of the nation. At least one foreign nation, Turkey, has committed money to the fight to protect albinos in Tanzania–both from witchcraft-based attacks and from the heightened health risks a lack of pigment brings them in a hot African nation.

Source: Breitbart.com

Whites and conservatives have no rights in SA

A senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, confirmed in Johannesburg on Monday that farm attacks were motivated by racial hatred.

“There are allegations of race and politics being the motivation but these cannot be substantiated,” Johan Burger claimed initially, but had to concede that farm murders exploded when when former president Thabo Mbeki phased out the commando’s for purely racist reasons.

Burger, who was speaking at an SA Human Rights Commission hearing on safety and security in farming communities, said farmers became vulnerable when former president Thabo Mbeki ditched the idea of safety for white farmers.

While trying to defend the black attackers, Burger actually made a strong case for the white victims.

“There was a feeling that the commandos were an extension of right-wing groups and that blacks were under-represented in them. There was also a perception that the commandos were concerned only about the safety of white people,” he said, confirming that neither whites nor conservative groups have the right to safety.

Burger said farm attacks were always vicious.

But he also claimed that the intention of the assailants was usually simply to steal cash and goods, when black attackers almost never steal anything except cellphones which make it difficult for surviving victims to call for help.

In instances in which attackers used racist language, Burger said, it could be just “tough talk”.

“They are motivated by greed and not politics or race,” he insisted, trying to minimize the clear evidence of racial hatred that mark the attacks.

ANC police commissioner Riah Phiyega declared that “poor adherence to labour laws” and “unsatisfactory labour relations” were a “contributory factor” in farm attacks, while conveniently ignoring ANC leaders who chant “kill a boer” at mass meetings.

The commissioner thus reiterated popular threats by the ANC to confiscate white property justified by a set of baseless claims.

“Some of the workers are not registered and are illegal immigrants and it becomes difficult to track some of the people during police investigations,” she said, also forgetting that the country has an open-border policy thanks to her party’s policies.

Police were no longer classifying crimes taking place on farms separately, in trying to hide the racist scourge that white farmers have to suffer.

Howard Mbana, a Food and Allied Workers’ Union representative, said farmworkers were still subjected to abuse by their bosses.

“There is widespread violation of farmworkers’ rights by farm owners. Workers still suffer from beatings and insults on a regular basis. Farmworkers live in conditions of indignity and slavery; animals live better,” said Mbana.

He could, as per usual, give no examples of the alleged abuse.

Twitter: White, male and Asian

Succumbing to growing public pressure, Twitter released the gender and ethnic breakdown of its work force Wednesday, showing that it looks like most other major technology companies: overwhelming male, white and Asian.

In the U.S., nearly 90% of Twitter’s workers are white or Asian. And more than 90% of technology jobs in the U.S. are held by whites or Asians.

Men make up 70% of all staff but 90% of technology staff, according to figures released by the company’s vice president for diversity and inclusion, Janet Van Huysse.

Twitter pledged to take steps to diversify its staff.

“We want to be more than a good business; we want to be a business that we are proud of,” Huysse said.

Diversity has become a hotly debated issue as some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies have begun revealing the makeup of their work forces.

These companies say they are intent on diversifying their ranks to stay in touch and in tune with their customers around the world.

Over the past two months, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn have reported that their staffs are between 62% and 70% male. Whites and Asians make up between 88% and 91%.

Britain’s Prince Harry meanwhile has spoken of his hatred for Twitter due to its role in the “invasion of his privacy”, according to media report.

Harry was speaking to students at a seperate event promoting a Paralympics-style multi-sports event for British service personnel wounded in Iraq.

The dull prince, fourth in line to the throne, belongs to a class of people who live it up on taxpayers money while promoting racial mixing and “diversity” for the rest of humanity but not themselves.

“I really quite hate Twitter (due to) the invasion of privacy. I think you all know what I’m talking about.”

Harry, who proudly took part in the invasion and destruction of Iraq, was later pictured frolicking naked with hired entertainment at a party in Las Vegas.

Footage of blacks kidnapping white twins goes viral

CCTV footage of two blacks walking out of a pharmacy with white twins in a trolley – when their mother had turned her back on them for just a few seconds – has gone viral.

The attempted kidnapping of the 4-year-old brother and sister took place on Monday afternoon at the Zambezi Junction mall in Pretoria.

Crime-fighting organisation eBlockwatch posted the footage of the blacks walking off with the children on its Facebook page.

Founder Andre Snyman said they have had complaints from the public in the past about people trying to snatch small white children while the adults were shopping.

He had always thought they were hoax, he said.

But, this time the video footage showed this did, in fact, happen.

The twins’ father, Dale Ribbink, posted two CCTV videos on his Facebook page.

They seem to show that four blacks, two men and two women, were working together.

In the first video, a man and woman are seen harassing a mother at the till.

The mother is holding her 2-year-old son on the counter.

They get into an argument and the pair leave the store, only to come back in and grab the trolley with the children in it.

The mother said she fetched her son from school and went to the pharmacy because he was sick.

At the till, she noticed two people standing near her, she said.

“I felt a hand in my pocket and my cellphone and wallet were in there, so I asked the woman what she thought she was doing,” she said.

At first the woman didn’t answer her, but when the mother asked again, the tall black woman started shouting at her in a confrontational manner, asking: “What are you to do?”

The mother pointed to the camera, saying she would report her as a pickpocket.

She said the pair left the store, only to come back a few minutes later.

“I think they wanted to distract me, to get me into an argument so that they could grab my son,” she said.

Ribbink said his wife was looking for nasal spray.

She bent down to fetch the medicine and when she looked up, a black woman had walked out of the shop with their children.

Source: IOL

73% of charter schools in New York are ‘segregated’

Not too many white faces here... — Not too many white faces here…

by Jason L. Riley, The Wall Street Journal

A new report on New York City public charter schools faults them for being too segregated. But what’s more important, the racial composition of a school’s student body or whether children in the school are learning?

According to UCLA’s Civil Rights Project, which produced the study, just 8 percent of New York City charter schools are considered multiracial, versus a New York City average of 14.5 percent. The authors, John Kucsera and Gary Orfield, conclude that some 73 percent of the city’s charters are “apartheid schools” where fewer than 1 percent of students are white. “Charter schools take the metro’s segregation to an extreme,” they write.

Charter critics pretend that something invidious is going on, but the reality is that charter operators consciously locate in slums and ghettoes to offer poor minorities better school choices. The racial makeup reflects the neighborhood, not some racist conspiracy. Moreover, public charter schools in New York City (and elsewhere) typically outperform the surrounding traditional public schools, and some are among the highest-performing schools in the state. This belies the notion that black children must be sitting next to white children in order to learn.

The political left has a longstanding obsession with the racial makeup of schools. The Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision introduced the notion that “separate” was inherently “unequal.” Ever since, and despite the fact that high-quality all-black schools have proliferated, the liberals have placed racial parity above all other concerns. The Obama Justice Department is currently trying to shut down a voucher program in Louisiana by arguing that it will harm desegregation efforts.

In other words, liberal policy makers would relegate disadvantaged black kids to inferior schools for esthetic reasons. Of course, polls over the decades have consistently shown that black parents care most about having access to a quality school in their neighborhood. The racial composition of that school is a secondary concern at best.

Waterkloof 4 – Exploring the trial

by Kevin King

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Most of us are aware of the ongoing saga of the Waterkloof 4 (Tiedt, van Schalkwyk, Becker & Du Preez), four underage white boys convicted of having assaulted and killed a homeless black man. Apart from the Oscar Pistorius murder, the trial has elicited more publicity than any other in recent South African history and has led to endless denunciations of “white racism” and psycho-babble about “Afrikaner brutality”.

I have been lucky enough to read through the witness and accuseds’ testimonies, crime-scene photos and specialist statements and found all of the evidence to be extremely interesting. Unlike the Oscar Pistorius case, where many details were disclosed in the media, journalists never gave much away when reporting on the Waterkloof 4 case. Maybe it was because it appeared to be open and shut, especially judging by the public and the mainstream media who presumed them guilty before proven innocent. Nevertheless, a guilty verdict was handed down to four of the boys. I’ve decided to lay out the facts about this case by sharing my findings, which come directly from court evidence.

The so-called 'Waterkloof 4 from L to R: Gert van Schalkwyk, Christoff Becker Reinach Tiedt and Frikkie du Preez — The so-called ‘Waterkloof 4’, from L to R: Gert van Schalkwyk, Christoff Becker, Reinach Tiedt and Frikkie du Preez

Background

August 2003: three boys who had knowledge of the crime decided to come clean regarding the incidents which took place in December 2001. These three identify the “Waterkloof 4”, aged 15 and 16 at the time of the crime, who are subsequently arrested.
July 2004: they plead not guilty
June 2005: they are found guilty
January 2007: they are sentenced to 12 years imprisonment each
April 2008: they appeal to the High Court
May 2008: their appeal is denied
June 2008: they take their case to the Supreme Court of Appeal
August 2008: their application to the Supreme Court of Appeal is turned down and they start their 12 year sentences
December 2011: two of the four have their sentences converted to correctional supervision after a successful parole hearing
June 2013: the two return to jail after their parole is appealed by Correctional Services
February 2014: the four are released on parole but two are rearrested days later after a video shows them violating prison regulations a day before their release.

The trial

In summary, the State’s case was based mostly on witness testimony that the Waterkloof 4 had assaulted an unknown black man in Constantia Park and later that night brutally assaulted and killed another unknown black man in Moreleta Park. The Waterkloof 4 denied the first assault but admitted to the second assault, with exception that they killed the man or intended to kill him. The only evidence other than witness testimony was the second victim’s body.

Constantia Park assault (alleged first assault according to witness testimony)

The accused vehemently denied this assault took place and thus the State had to prove this event occurred. As mentioned, the only evidence was that of the State’s witnesses as there was no case of assault reported to police and the unknown man was never seen or heard from again.

The Defence accused the witnesses of fabricating the story and this accusation is given some credibility when the State’s witnesses left gaps in their testimony. The judge dismissed these gaps and other anomalies due to “traumatic memory issues on behalf of the witnesses” and accepted their testimony as fact. The defence also brought up the possibility of collusion which the judge dismissed, even though the State’s witnesses had more than a year to collude.

Nevertheless, the Defence had to counter the State’s witnesses’ testimony and did so by looking at phone calls which were used to identify a time line and locations of individuals, with the help of cellular phone towers. Although the calls placed the accused in the vicinity of the second assault (Moreleta Park), they placed significant doubt on whether the Constantia Park assault was possible as it gave the accused (and witnesses which drove with the accused) a maximum of 14 minutes to drive in a fully loaded small Toyota Tazz from Hatfield, look for a shop to buy milk, assault the unknown man in Constantia, wait “5 minutes” for the other accused to meet up with them and then get to Moreleta Park. To make the State’s case worse, the State’s witnesses testified that they were not speeding but the judge corrected this and stated that they were probably speeding, overriding State’s witness testimony and again raising doubts over the credibility of their testimony. The Defence also questioned why the accused had driven through Constantia Park, as this was a longer route to where they were heading.

Although the accuseds’ testimony represented a more reasonable and logical explanation of events as it more reasonably fits the timing of the calls and the logical route to their destination, their testimony was dismissed as lies as it contradicted the testimony of the State’s witnesses. In the end there was no reliable evidence to put the accused at this crime scene other than the State’s witnesses’ testimony which was accepted as reliable.

Near the end of the examination of the Constantia Park assault, the State prosecutor went on to say that the witnesses might have mistaken this event with something that happened on another day:

“Edelagbare, oor hulle getuienis daar op kan hulle verwar het met ‘n ander dag. Dit is hoekom ek nie hard wil betoog oor hierdie klagte nie”

This was ignored by the judge.

Moreleta Park assault

The accused admitted to brutally assaulting an unknown man in Moreleta Park, who they claim was a burglar who had just robbed a residence. This was backed up by the State’s main witness. The Defence however questioned whether the man found in the park was actually the man they assaulted, an outrageous claim, but appears to be supported by the physical evidence (see below). Again the State relied heavily on the State’s witness testimony that the man found in the park was the man the accused assaulted as the man was found in “exactly” the same place the next day after the assault. It must be noted that the main State’s witness, who is not one of the Waterkloof 4, was also involved in the assault but was given immunity for turning State’s witness.

One of the State’s witnesses had disclosed to a teacher that the motive for the attack was purely racial while the accused say that they had gone after a man who had run across the road with a television. They suspected the man of being involved in a burglary. On the day of discovering the victim in the park, a car radio was found next to the victim and this was later found to be stolen as a case of robbery had been reported to the SAPS. The victim was also found with a wallet (money inside), watch, and a ring and was well dressed with new shoes, smart cap and had four tattoos, which appears contrary to the claims that this man was homeless. The State’s witness confession to the teacher prior to the arrests was that the accused never knew of the stolen goods during the attack and only used this as an excuse to do commit their foul deed. Contradicting stories meant that it was up to the State to prove murder.

Besides the State’s witness testimony, the State had very little evidence:

No physical evidence linking the accused to the victim (no DNA, no trace evidence)
No murder weapon (no knives, no hammer)
No time of death (due to “refrigeration”)

By all accounts the assault was described as brutal. Besides the melee of punching and kicking, one of the accused had demonstrated his “Naas Botha” kicks on the victim. A State’s witness testified that this accused had kicked the victim twice in the face with steel tipped shoes, one of which was later found to be dented in. This was confirmed by the aforementioned accused. The entire group had jumped with full weight on the victim like in a “loose rugby scrum”. Another of the accused had hit the victim twice on the crane of the head with a hammer, the first blow bringing the victim to his knees while the second blow floored the victim completely. All of this was admitted by the accused and agrees with State witness testimony. The State’s witness also testified that the accused had made stabbing motions towards the victim (admitted by the accused) but cannot confirm whether the accused had stabbed the victim.

The post mortem indicated that the unknown man had died of severe blood loss cause by one deep cut in his thigh. Besides this cut, the medical experts made the following findings:

There were no bruises or fractures to the skull
There was minor subdural hematoma but no swelling on the brain or any other change to structure of the brain. The fact of whether the hematoma was caused by the assault could not be determined.
Three small scars on the head, two of which had scabbed before the assault, the other one showed no signs of significant bleeding
Face, nose, tongue, throat showed no bruising, discolouration, bleeding, lacerations or scarring
There were no broken teeth
There was no bruising or trauma to the neck
There was no bruising or trauma to the chest and diaphragm
There was no bruising or trauma to the abdomen
Internal organs showed no trauma but some were bleak due to blood loss
No bruises or fracturing on the back
No noticeable bruising, fractures or trauma to the rest of the body

With regards to the cut in the thigh (cause of death), the medical experts made the following conclusions:

The victim had lost between 4 – 5 litres of blood, which meant he would have bled to death over a 24 – 48 hour period as no major arteries were penetrated.
With regards to the object that made the stab wound, the medical specialist found that: “Hierdie gat kon nie veroorsaak gewees het deur ‘n mes, of selfs ‘n dun yesterstaaf nie” or in English, this could not have been made by a knife or even a thin iron rod. The object appeared similar to a spike on a palisade fence which backs up the Defence’s claims that the victim had cut himself on a palisade fence while fleeing from a residence he had burgled.

As you can see this posed serious questions against the State’s argument that the victim found in the park was the man that the accused claim they assaulted. Some of these questions raised by the Defence were:

Physical evidence on the victim shows no correlation to the assault as described by the accused and the witnesses. There is no evidence that suggests a knife or hammer was used in the attack even though a State’s witness had testified that he had seen blood on the hammer after the attack. There was also no evidence that the boys had jumped on the victim or kicked the victim in the face. When the pathologist was asked by the Defence whether it was obvious that the body brought before her was not the body of the man as described in the assault, she answered: “Yes that is correct.” A second pathologist replied with the same answer.
The crime scene inspector found no evidence of blood on the ground near or beneath the victim, or anywhere else in the park for that matter. Where did 4 – 5 litres of blood go? The State contested that the light rain that night may have washed away any evidence of blood or that the victim’s clothing had absorbed all of the blood but this was disputed by the Defence.
The flow of blood on the victim suggests the possibility the body was moved after death and moved to the spot where the body was eventually found.
If the only injury the victim sustained was the cut to the thigh and the victim took between 24 and 48 hours to bleed to death, why did the man remain in the same spot for this lengthy period of time? Why didn’t he seek medical treatment or at least crawl/limp away from the scene?
The victim’s shoes were removed while there had been no mention of this by the accused or State’s witnesses.

In the end however the judge ruled, after quoting a previous case “the State vs. Bernardus 1965”, that the body is full of anomalies and that sometimes death can be caused by the slightest of assaults. Although this judgement contradicts all witness accounts and the physical evidence, this ultimately leads to the guilty verdict for the Waterkloof 4.

Sentencing

The Waterkloof 4 were sentenced to 12 years imprisonment each, five years after the crime was committed (13 years ago). Because of the extreme brutality of the assault, there was much public and media outcry for a harsh sentence. However the law differentiates between adults and minors for sentencing purposes. Taking into account that the perpetrators were juvenile (also first-time offenders), different sentencing laws had to be followed.

Quoting an article by Zita Hansungule, who works at UP’s Centre for Child Law: “In 2009 the Centre for Child Law had challenged the constitutionality of the Criminal Law (Sentencing) Amendment Act which provided that minimum sentences should apply to 16 and 17 year-old offenders.

The High Court found that applying minimum sentences to these offenders was not in line with the Constitution which provides that children have the right not to be detained except as a measure of last resort, and then, if detention is unavoidable, only for the shortest appropriate period of time. The High Court held that in cases pertaining to minors, the courts must consider all available sentencing options, especially non-custodial sentences, before considering detention.

The Constitutional Court was approached to confirm the decision of the High Court. It confirmed the decision and held that the Constitution envisages that detention of young offenders may be possible, but it mitigates the circumstances of detention. It confirmed that for minors, detention is not a first or intermediate resort but a last resort. The Court held that each individual case needs to be examined on an individualised basis so that an appropriate sentence can be found. It stated that ‘legislation cannot take away the right of 16 and 17–year olds to be detained only as a last resort, and for the shortest appropriate period of time, without reasons being provided that specifically relate to this group and explain the need to change the constitutional disposition applying to them’.

These judgements confirmed that children should be treated differently to adults in sentencing, no matter how old they are. Both courts were of the view that children are less physically and psychologically mature than adults, more susceptible to pressure from others and more receptive to rehabilitation than adults.”

Taking this into account the Waterkloof 4 appeared to be sentenced fairly as this is about the maximum that a juvenile will face for a single murder charge.

Parole

As with the case of sentencing, parole is also a thorny issue. In accordance with the law, the Waterkloof 4 were released on parole last week. The law allows for this if the offenders have served 50% of their sentences and have completed internal correctional programmes and have been well-behaved. According to parole documents the four were all but exemplary during their stay. I’ve looked through parole documents and found that they interacted well with other inmates and also took part in social activities. Study courses were also completed during this time. It is thus reasonable to concede that their release on parole is in accordance with the law. Subsequently however, two members of the Waterkloof 4 have been ordered to return to prison after a video showed them “living it up” in their cell a day before release.

Conclusion

It has been more than 10 years of trials, appeals, paroles and controversy, a kind of soap opera that will be remembered by most of us for many decades to come. As I’ve described, there are many questions left unanswered regarding the crimes committed in 2001, those which surfaced during trial. There are also questions we need to ask regarding our criminal justice system. I’d like others’ thoughts on this matter…

Kevin King is a professional DJ and freelance columnist

Hollande is like that ‘retard from the bush’

The visit of the white, neo-colonialist and very unpopular French president to South Africa is marked by vitriol against the already suffering white monority.

On Tuesday, Francois Hollande will visit a plant owned by French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, which manufactures its anti-retroviral and anti-TB drugs in South Africa, obviously hoping to boost his country sagging economy with South African state funds.

He will then head to Soweto, the Johannesburg township which was a hotbed of resistance against white minority rule, where he will visit Mandela’s former home.

Aides said this was a way of paying homage to the 95-year-old statesman, who is too ill to receive official visitors.

On the economic front, aides to Hollande said some agreements on energy and transport were in the final stages of negotiation but were not sure to be signed during the visit.

French companies are notably awaiting a decision on whether South Africa will go ahead with plans to build more nuclear power stations. Critics say that the visit was really to discuss kickbacks to government employees.

French-speaking Congolese immigrants in Johannesburg said Hollande is as bad as Julius Malema who is a “retard from the bush” working for ruthless colonial interests in trying to chase away local whites and destroying economic prospects for all.

France has a history of betraying minorities, their own, in former colonies.

Is a black president the perfect smoke screen for a false flag?

A white Obama and black McCain, not the right recipe

Neo-Conservative warmongers must be feeling rather frustrated by the most recent turn of events regarding Syria.

Will the Neo-cons, AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), the powerful Israeli lobby, the McCain/Graham/Rice hawks lay the whole thing to rest, or will they just wait for a better opportunity to ignite in the already volatile Middle East?

Actually, they might fabricate just such an opportunity, seeing that their current fabrication is being exposed.

They may very well have no other choice. Failing to act “decisively” the US and UK will have lost some sizable measure of global credibility, tantamount to defeat in their estimation, whilst Russia and China are the moderate powers in the eyes of the world.

To have to admit to that would be too costly for Washington.

The hysteria about Iraq’s WMD back in 2003, is proving harder to stir a decade later in Syria.

Unless of course something really big, dramatic, fear-inducing and unprecedented takes place. Perhaps in South Carolina

Yes, South Carolina: Senator Lindsey Graham’s home state. Together with John McCain, Graham has been a key war-monger against Syria in Congress. He sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Interestingly, on Tuesday, 3 September the local CBS Network outlet in his home State reported some odd remarks the senator made on Syria, stressing that “if there is no US response, Iran will not believe America’s resolve to block Iran from developing nuclear weapons…. those nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists could result in a bomb coming to Charleston Harbor.”

That same 3 September, some alarming news was reported by an independent journalist on Storyleak.com, referring to an alleged “high level source inside the military confirming that Dyess Air Force base in Texas was actively moving nuclear warheads to the East Coast of the United States”.

It was apparently South Carolina. Normally, such extreme reports would be dismissed outright, were it not for uneasy precedents like the “Bent Spear” incident of the 29th August 2007 which occurred at Minot and Barksdale Air Force bases in the US, after six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles loaded with W80-1 variable yield nuclear warheads went missing for 36 hours, “by mistake” of course.

Many observers believe that it was in fact a foiled attempt by the Neo-cons to get hold of some nukes for “special use” that was fortunately thwarted when whistleblowers leaked the secret to the press…

A terror attack on the US mainland could provide the “ample proof” that it was perpetrated by those “evil” Iranians in connivance with the Syrians, backed by the Russians (and China), and so the “War on Terror” would then escalate to “DefCom 1 Mode”.

They could then blow Syria to smithereens, erase Iran off the map, deal with the Awakened Bear, and order FEMA to deal with any wayward patriot.

Naturally this would all be carefully staged by the “PsyOps Dept.” generating news flashes, teary-eyed reporting, and “news analysis” on CNN, FoxNews, ABC-CBS-NBC, BBC, NYT, Telegraph, TV5 France.

The concept of False Flag attacks is being increasingly debated and understood throughout the world. When addressed with historical perspective regarding key events over the past century, they shed totally new light on how “behind the curtains” misdeeds may have actually triggered major world events.

See prof Daniele Ganser’s questions that still haunt 9/11.

This increased awareness is fast eroding the effectiveness of False Flags. Today’s warmongers have a small advantage in that a Democrat sits in the White House who obviously does not fit the Neo-con profile: clearly he’s not a WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant). In fact, he’s a “liberal”, he’s black, he doesn’t come from an establishment family, he’s a Nobel Peace Prize laureate… and he’s rooting for war on Syria and Iran.

Why don’t you have black friends?

by Tanner Colby

“So, how many black friends do you have now?”

It’s a question I get asked a lot, ever since I set out five years ago to find out why I, your typical middle-class white person, had no black friends at all.

I do have black friends now, actually. Several. But I rarely offer that information when asked, because to ask white people how many black friends they have is to pose the wrong question.

Recently, a Reuters poll came out showing that 40% of white Americans have zero nonwhite friends, and only 20% of white Americans have five or more nonwhite friends. People seemed shocked that the numbers were so bad.

Personally, I was surprised that they were so good. America remains a deeply segregated and divided country. Even accounting for institutional and socioeconomic barriers, in the places we have the opportunity to integrate—the high school cafeteria, for instance—we largely don’t.

The Reuters survey itself is misleading, lumping all minorities together under the vague heading of “nonwhite.” Depending on what part of the country you live in (e.g, anywhere but Minnesota or Wyoming), it’s not uncommon to have Asian or Hispanic friends.

But the social divide between whites and those groups is more a function of the slow-rolling, generational process of immigrant assimilation. That is a wholly different phenomenon from the social divide between whites and blacks, which is the product of 400 years of slavery and segregation. That’s the social divide we should worry about, and if the poll had focused on that, the numbers would surely have been much worse.

The reason why “How many black friends do you have?” is such a terrible question is because it shows how we typically talk when we talk about race. Even when we try to talk about race in a constructive way, we usually make black people the object of the sentence, rarely the subject.

Black friends are the things to be acquired to prove one is not racist. The way the question is asked accords black people no agency, nor does it reveal anything about the real character of the white person being queried.

What you really want to know is not “How many black friends do I have?” but rather, “Have I become the type of individual that a black person might choose to be friends with?” That’s a real question. Poll a couple thousand white people with that and you might start to get some interesting answers, or at least some confused and befuddled looks.

White people are products of their own whitewashed, sanitized environment. Black people have been systematically excluded from white neighborhoods. Black stories rarely surface in popular culture. The history of race in high school textbooks has been boiled down to a handful of bedtime stories about Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. Try to tap into the average white person’s feelings on race and you won’t necessarily find feelings of hate and antipathy. You just won’t find much of anything, no fully formed or well-considered thoughts about race of any kind. There’s nothing really there. Even white people who want black friends don’t know where to start.

America’s lack of integration wouldn’t be such a big deal except for the fact that relationships and social networks are vital to economic advancement.

Even when programs like school busing and affirmative action give black people access to white spaces, when those people go to climb the social ladder there’s nothing there for them to grab onto, because there’s very little reciprocal effort coming from the other direction. It’s high effort and low reward.

The result is that black people end up with integration fatigue. Many black writers responded to the Reuters poll with essays on why they didn’t want white friends, and didn’t need them. White friends weren’t worth the bother.

This is their prerogative, but ultimately, it’s to society’s disadvantage because white people control the access to, well, just about everything. If you don’t have white friends, you might have a decent job and a comfortable life, but all the doors of opportunity in this country are not open to you. “I may do well in a desegregated society,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “but I can never know what my total capacity is until I live in an integrated society.”

Interracial friendships, social bonds across the color line, are a key factor in putting the sins of America’s past behind us. But it’s not something that’s accomplished by white people knowing lots of black people. It helps if white people know how to be better white people. – CNN.COM

Tanner Colby is the author of Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America.

White man from Pretoria sues police for wrongful arrest, rape by cell full of black detainees

A Pretoria man who claims that fellow detainees in police cells spent a night raping and assaulting him after he was unlawfully arrested, is suing the minister of police for more than R1 million, Beeld reported on Monday.

According to documents handed in at the High Court in Pretoria, the victim was released unconditionally, but later in the same case re-arrested and assaulted in the police cells for a second time, before again being released unconditionally.

According to the victim’s lawyer, Robert van Wyk, his client, who lived in Brooklyn and was expected to testify on Monday, was extremely traumatised and humiliated by the attacks.

He reportedly had to undergo three courses of anti-retroviral drugs to combat HIV.

“Fortunately he was HIV-negative,” Van Wyk said.

The victim had brought two claims against the minister of police, the first of which, for R940,000, was due to the arrest and detention involving the alleged rape, and the second, for R150,000, was for the second arrest and detention.

The plaintiff was arrested on September 16, 2011 at the Rustenburg Mall on charges of human trafficking and taken to the Rustenburg police cells, where he was detained in a cell along with about 20 other men.

He alleged that they stripped him, sexually assaulted him, raped, and severely beat him until 6am the next morning.

He asked police several times the next day to see to his needs and told them that he had been assaulted and raped, but they reportedly did nothing, and refused to allow him to call his family.

Police had denied all the allegations. – Sapa

Do South African whites really ‘have it so good’?

by Dan Roodt

In today’s City Press newspaper, Frans Cronjé of the South African Institute of Race Relations claim that whites live in some kind of paradise.

He cites statistics claiming the following:

“Between 1994 and 2012, the rate of unemployment among white people increased from 3% to 5.7%…

The white unemployment rate was low, even when compared to a host of international benchmarks. In the US, for example, the rate in 2012 was 7.6%, in Britain 7.9% and in Canada 7.2%.”

Apparently praising South African white entrepreneurship, he goes on to say that “while a black university graduate is more likely than a white graduate to find a job within 12 months of graduation (due to strict affirmative-action laws-DR), white graduates are four times more likely to start and operate businesses”.

I would treat these statistics about low white unemployment with a great deal of caution. Many whites are not on the unemployment statistics as they do not claim benefits from the government. Driving around many white areas, you notice their old, decrepit cars, lack of maintenance to their properties and other signs of economic distress.

Go to any five-star hotel now and you will find blacks sitting around in designer clothes. The only whites there are foreign tourists. Most cars costing R1 million (about $100 000) and more that I see every day in Johannesburg are owned by blacks, not whites. Blacks get all the lucrative corporate directorships and make easy money as “tenderpreneurs” to the state and municipalities.

I know of thousands of whites who literally had to leave the country to find jobs, in the Middle and Far East where they do dismal work as part-time English teachers or pack groceries in Australian supermarkets.

Many small businesses started by whites have failed, not least because of the racial laws and regulations imposed by government and the corporate sector. The corporate sector – banks and large companies – are now arguably more anti-white than government. They do not trade with white-owned businesses and generally sue or harass small businesses at the drop of a hat. Many whites have lost their homes which the banks require them to pledge as collateral for a simple overdraft for their small businesses.

More whites now live in so-called “informal housing” than at any time since the Great Depression. Solidarity estimates that up to 800 000 whites – educated, literate and previously taxpayers – now live in squatter camps and other “informal areas” such as this one:

Poor South African whites living in cabins normally used as garden sheds

We are witnessing the greatest social-engineering programme whereby one race is economically subjugated to another that this country and perhaps the world has ever seen.

The very notion that whites could be “liberated” by such an unfair and racist system is so fundamentally cynical that it has an Orwellian ring to it. But that is why the mainstream media no longer has any credibility among middle-class whites.

The South African media are loyal to foreign and corporate interests who see South African whites as an unwanted presence in the country, preventing them from bribing their way into looting most of the remaining assets in South Africa. That is why the SA mass media are constantly attacking whites, accusing them of racism, “apartheid privilege”, and the like. White males even get blamed for the intense crime and lawlessness in the country! Every white person knows that 99% of the violence is committed by other races, yet we are blamed for everything. If all else fails, there is always ever-increasing “the legacy of apartheid” to blame.

What I find amazing is that Frans Cronjé published two contradictory articles today, one in Rapport and this one in City Press. The one in Rapport, written in Afrikaans and therefore intended for a mainly white audience, shows how 500 000 middle-class taxpayers essentially contribute 50% of all personal taxes in South Africa. White readers of that article would be understandably outraged that, while still contributing a large share of the country’s taxes, they are treated as second-class citizens.

English in South Africa is increasingly the language of blacks and the internationalist whites who are hostile to Afrikaners and the white middle class, for reasons explained in the paragraph above, namely that their ownership of land and role in the judiciary and the accounting profession prevents the wholesale looting of our country. Even though looting is already taking place, there is still some semblance of legality left. Clearly, this has to go.

This article in English about whites is therefore intended for a black and foreign audience, to convince them that South African whites “have never had it so good”. Understandably the very real hostility felt for those dastardly Nazis and perpetrators of a “crime against humanity” will only rise upon reading this article. It will undermine any inchoate sympathy whites enjoy with their less brainwashed brethren in the West and Europe.

The most absurd sentence of all is the following: “(Whites) were liberated, first, from the guilt and pariah status that had been attached to their support and enforcement of apartheid.”

On the contrary, South African whites are now more hated and stigmatised than ever! Over the past twenty years the SABC and the mainstream media have played their quasi-communist propaganda about white evil and viciousness over and over in South Africa. Most of the time this propaganda is literally the work of unreconstructed communists who occupy powerful positions in South Africa, being the “white face” of the ANC government, the SABC and other state agencies. The British media, including the BBC, see us whites as free game now that we are utterly without any political power and lack any form of state support. More
unfair and one-sided news stories have been published and broadcast about us since 1994 than ever before, barring perhaps the 1890s when the Uitlander press and the London newspapers were publishing war propaganda about the Boer republics.

As for white guilt, there is a whole industry meant to inculcate it into us, almost from birth. At school our children are exposed to compulsory subjects such as “Life Orientation” containing political propaganda of the worst kind, meant to persuade them that their parents were all war criminals killing thousands, if not millions, of blacks. In reality, of course, only 500 blacks died at the hands of the SA police from 1948 to 1994, fewer than die every year as a result of police brutality under black rule! However, the foreign whites and media do not write about police brutality anymore because it is now committed by blacks and therefore of no interest.

More than 80 000 whites have been murdered since 1994 and up to a million white women have been raped. Four thousand farmers, their wives and children have been killed, many of them spending their last hours under dehumanising torture.

While all this is going on in the ghoulish present, not a week goes by without newspapers and radio programmes calling for whites to “repent about apartheid”, surrender the meagre assets that they still control or simply leave the country as they “have outstayed their welcome”. People are constantly telling me to “go back to Europe” or “get lost”, even though my forebears came here in the early 1700s.

Apart from racial quotas in education that prevent whites from obtaining a tertiary education, especially in medicine and other fields, an aging white population now endures a third-world system of medical care. Prior to 1994, whites had one of the best healthcare systems in the world, with both a private and a well-managed public hospital system.

Corruption and mismanagement have reduced the public system to a shambles while the costs of private healthcare have gone through the roof. Only the corporate elite can now afford private healthcare. Whites are almost banned from studying medicine by the universities so that their parents and grandparents may just die from neglect in the state hospital system.

Despite being well-educated and hard-working, affirmative action and so-called BEE (black-economic empowerment) have reduced most South African whites to poverty. Their mean income per capita is far less than the minimum wage in many European countries.The following table shows annual per capita income growth from 2001 to 2011 for all racial groups in South Africa:

Table-for-census-story — Source: Moneyweb/SA census

If the R365 134 earned by the average SA white is translated into dollar terms at $40 970, this is way below minimum wage levels in most European countries. However, this very modest white income gets taxed at 40% to fund the megalomaniac dreams of this make-believe government whose only interest is in seeking international prestige while it cannot even mend our roads, nor deliver school books on time. In a real sense, white poverty is caused by government, either through its high taxes or its racially interventionist policies.

This is Frans Cronjé’s “white paradise”!