Article: Soweto looting not xenophobic: MEC

This week's violence and looting against foreign shop owners in Soweto was not xenophobic, Gauteng's community safety MEC said on Thursday.

Two people have been shot dead since violence broke out between locals and foreigners in Snake Park on Monday.
 
So what is it this time round...Racist maybe? Just reinvent a new name to justify these actions. How about SAvagery (South African savagery) ????
 
Randomly looting shops and killing people. The fact that the shops happen to be owned by foreigners is entirely accidental and comes down to bad luck.
 
Crowley said:
Randomly looting shops and killing people. The fact that the shops happen to be owned by foreigners is entirely accidental and comes down to bad luck.
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Now you sound just like some individual on MyBB usually "justifying" farm killings with the same notions.

I am sure you forgot to add the usual /Sarcasm. :D
 
Crowley said:
Randomly looting shops and killing people. The fact that the shops happen to be owned by foreigners is entirely accidental and comes down to bad luck.
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I hope you are joking?
 
Seriously said:
Now you sound just like some individual on MyBB usually "justifying" farm killings with the same notions.

I am sure you forgot to add the usual /Sarcasm. :D
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Fixed it.
 
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Xenophobia had always been thriving in SA, since donkey's years. It is that the severity per location is picking up again, media sauce.

I need to quote this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia_in_South_Africa

Xenophobia in South Africa after 1994[edit]
Despite a lack of directly comparable data, xenophobia in South Africa is perceived to have significantly increased after the installation of a democratic government in 1994.[1] According to a 2004 study published by the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP):

"The ANC government – in its attempts to overcome the divides of the past and build new forms of social cohesion... embarked on an aggressive and inclusive nation-building project. One unanticipated by-product of this project has been a growth in intolerance towards outsiders... Violence against foreign citizens and African refugees has become increasingly common and communities are divided by hostility and suspicion."[5]

The study was based on a citizen survey across member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and found South Africans expressing the harshest anti-foreigner sentiment, with 21% of South Africans in favour of a complete ban on entry by foreigners and 64% in favour of strict limitations on the numbers allowed. By contrast, the next-highest proportion of respondents in favour of a total ban on foreigners were in neighbouring Namibia and Botswana, at 10%.
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The ANC started to deny xenophobia in the 2000's, and increasingly deny when Zuma entered presidency, to quote:

May 2008 riots[edit]
Spread of violence[edit]
On 12 May 2008 a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra (in the north-eastern part of Johannesburg) when locals attacked migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing two people and injuring 40 others.[1][18] Some attackers were reported to have been singing Jacob Zuma's campaign song Umshini Wami (Zulu: "Bring Me My Machine Gun").[19]

In the following weeks the violence spread, first to other settlements in the Gauteng Province, then to the coastal cities of Durban[20] and Cape Town.[1]

Attacks were also reported in parts of the Southern Cape,[21] Mpumalanga,[22] the North West and Free State.[23]
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Attention to xenophobia had to be redirected, also noticing the harsh concentration on racism today. All to protect the presidency in my opinion, votes.
 
rpm said:
This week's violence and looting against foreign shop owners in Soweto was not xenophobic, Gauteng's community safety MEC said on Thursday.

Two people have been shot dead since violence broke out between locals and foreigners in Snake Park on Monday.
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How convenient.

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Started as a xenophobic attack which has now escalated into criminal acts.
 
I'm sure these attacks on foreign shops are instigated by local shop owners to drive out competition.
 
rpm said:
This week's violence and looting against foreign shop owners in Soweto was not xenophobic, Gauteng's community safety MEC said on Thursday.

Two people have been shot dead since violence broke out between locals and foreigners in Snake Park on Monday.
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And yet ANY incident involving a black and a white person is automatically racially motivated?
 
rpm said:
This week's violence and looting against foreign shop owners in Soweto was not xenophobic, Gauteng's community safety MEC said on Thursday.

Two people have been shot dead since violence broke out between locals and foreigners in Snake Park on Monday.
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Of course it's xenophobic. We all know it's xenophobic. The question is should the government have allowed so many illegal immigrants to so easily "set up shop here" so to speak. Where I live in Jhb every single traffic light has a (clearly not South African ) person begging there. What value are those people adding to our society ?

The shop owners at least make an honest living, but not all of these illegal immigrants make their living as honestly, if you catch my drift. In such a context of course there are bound to be ill feelings to foreigners.

The saddest thing about our poor is that they seem to be waiting for money and houses to be given to them. We need to have a national dialogue about how the only way we are going to advance is through a culture of work and education. Terror Lekota seems to be the only one talking about this. Even the Da panders to the socialist song book.
 
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OrbitalDawn said:
Really?
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Well not the spark but the ongoing destruction (which is actually country wide) looks suspiciously like jealous local business men. I know an area where 6 shops were simply torched overnight, nothing taken and no prior looting or anything. If you listen to callers into talk radio you will notice there's a hint of more than just opportunistic looting here. Sure the looters are taking an opportunity to help themselves but someone(s) is/are working behind the scenes.
 
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