Flanders
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Feel it. It is here...again.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/3-killed-in-KZN-farm-attack-20100721
What I'd like to know is: now that we're obviously back to business as usual, was crime really down as much as was made out to be or were the serious crimes under-reported by the MSM during the WC to keep up the shiny image for the duration without sending our foreign friends into a foreign frenzy? The reason I bring this up is that the measures taken to curb crime during the WC like increased police presence in selected hotspots would not have affected the chances of a farm attack in the rural areas yet pre-WC we were seeing this happen basically every week, during the WC this type of crime mysteriously vanished and now post-WC, it seems to have returned.
A cover-up wouldn't surprise me at all since anything is possible. However, let's toss the tinfoil hats aside for a moment and consider the possibility that crime really was throttled remarkably during the period. I think that, for the most part, crime was in fact largely squashed but time will tell and the truth will come out if any nasty skeletons are yet to tumble out of the closet (be it violent crime or otherwise).
Ok, so now what? We've been put under the impression that the WC showed the powers that be what they have to do to start sorting out this mess. It should be tackled in full force with at least what we had in our arsenal during the WC period. For us South Africans, right? I mean we have to live here but will this happen? My thoughts are that it won't. Things are already slipping back to where they were. This government doesn't actually care AT ALL about its citizens. Things like looking good in front of the world for a month and stuffing back pockets with money are important but that, in my opinion, is really about where it ends.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/3-killed-in-KZN-farm-attack-20100721
What I'd like to know is: now that we're obviously back to business as usual, was crime really down as much as was made out to be or were the serious crimes under-reported by the MSM during the WC to keep up the shiny image for the duration without sending our foreign friends into a foreign frenzy? The reason I bring this up is that the measures taken to curb crime during the WC like increased police presence in selected hotspots would not have affected the chances of a farm attack in the rural areas yet pre-WC we were seeing this happen basically every week, during the WC this type of crime mysteriously vanished and now post-WC, it seems to have returned.
A cover-up wouldn't surprise me at all since anything is possible. However, let's toss the tinfoil hats aside for a moment and consider the possibility that crime really was throttled remarkably during the period. I think that, for the most part, crime was in fact largely squashed but time will tell and the truth will come out if any nasty skeletons are yet to tumble out of the closet (be it violent crime or otherwise).
Ok, so now what? We've been put under the impression that the WC showed the powers that be what they have to do to start sorting out this mess. It should be tackled in full force with at least what we had in our arsenal during the WC period. For us South Africans, right? I mean we have to live here but will this happen? My thoughts are that it won't. Things are already slipping back to where they were. This government doesn't actually care AT ALL about its citizens. Things like looking good in front of the world for a month and stuffing back pockets with money are important but that, in my opinion, is really about where it ends.