{"id":3775,"date":"2013-01-25T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2013-01-25T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:25:53","slug":"south-african-blacks-exercising-their-right-to-loot-in-sasolburg-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"South Africans exercising their right to loot in Sasolburg (pictures)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following photographs will warm any white liberal’s heart: Liberated South African\u00a0 exercising their right to loot in the town of Sasolburg, south of Johannesburg over the last two days.<\/p>\n

Prior to 1994, such pictures were disseminated all over the world by the BBC and American network television, as being ineffable manifestations of a desire for democracy and “freedom”. The freedom to loot, among other things. Interestingly, looting in South Africa at present takes two forms: either it is done violently as in these pictures, or it is done in a more or less legal way through the so-called democratic process by pillaging national, provincial and municipal finances.<\/p>\n

One could say that the right to loot is one of the New South Africa’s fundamental “human rights”.<\/p>\n

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Apparently a municipal vehicle was used to "crack open" this Standard Bank ATM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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'Affirmative shopping' as theft is euphemistically called in South Africa, takes place openly in a liquor store in Sasolburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More affirmative shopping, a scene outside the liquor store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Burn, baby burn! Heart-warming stuff for the politically correct who will no doubt find multifarious socio-psychological justifications for this kind of behaviour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A piece of conceptual art, freshly burnt out by cooperative "artists" and ready for analysis by liberal pundits and critics. To the right of the art work is a "symbol of oppression", probably built and purchased during the "apartheid era": a police armoured vehicle known as a Casspir.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following photographs will warm any white liberal’s heart: Liberated South African\u00a0 exercising their right to loot in the town of Sasolburg, south of Johannesburg over the last two days. Prior to 1994, such pictures were disseminated all over the world by the BBC and American network television, as being ineffable manifestations of a desire … Continue reading “South Africans exercising their right to loot in Sasolburg (pictures)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2022,2458,111,160,12250],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-looting","tag-pictures","tag-riots","tag-sasolburg","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ATT00339.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}