Diplomats son's teaching Britons the South African way of life....

[Syndyre]

'The diplomat' & his two pathetic looser kids fleed the country before the Metropolitan Police could arrest them.

Diplomatic immunity I'm guessing? They could probably only arrest them if the SA govt waived their immunity which seems unlikely.

 

[kilo39]

Diplomatic immunity I'm guessing? They could probably only arrest them if the SA govt waived their immunity which seems unlikely.

Immunity would be for diplomats - not their families or siblings? (Which is why they fled the country?)

 

[bwana]

Immunity would be for diplomats - not their families or siblings? (Which is why they fled the country?)

Diplomatic immunity extends to their family -

The diplomat and his sons enjoyed diplomatic immunity from prosecution in Britain but under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a host country may declare a diplomat "persona non grata" and ask his government to recall him without giving reasons.

Obviously the brats abused the privilege on more than one occasion.

 

[TELESPHORE]

What else do you expect if the kid was raised with his father boasting on the lawless ‘struggle’. So the kid thinks being black and disadvantaged makes him/her above the law. Rude awaking. The kid is not disadvantaged , never was as he was born AFTER apartheid– his father never bothered to whack it into him.

 

[kingrob]

What else do you expect if the kid was raised with his father boasting on the lawless ‘struggle’. So the kid thinks being black and disadvantaged makes him/her above the law. Rude awaking. The kid is not disadvantaged , never was as he was born AFTER apartheid– his father never bothered to whack it into him.

My parents taught me from a young age : THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING and if you want anything to happen, you make it happen.

However, most black people in this country feel that the world owes them something. I'm afraid it's gonna take a long time before they realise it's time that THEY start delivering the goods & also not in 'african time'.

 

[neio]

How do we enven know the guy is black, AFAIK his name has not been released cause of his underage sons.

 

[kingrob]

How do we enven know the guy is black, AFAIK his name has not been released cause of his underage sons.

His nickname at the embassy in London was Mugabe.

 

[neio]

His nickname at the embassy in London was Mugabe.

Because of his autocratic management style. His nickname proves nothing.

 

[kingrob]

Because of his autocratic management style. His nickname proves nothing.

Do you really think there are still white people left in South African embassies?

 

[neio]

Yes, look at the staff in Argentina for example.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

SOUTH Africa's National Prosecuting Authority said last night it had decided not to press charges of rape against the 21-year-old son of the British high commissioner, Paul Boateng.

Cape Town police have been investigating for more than a fortnight a complaint made by a 17-year-old Johannesburg woman that she was raped on New Year's Eve by Benjamin Boateng, one of the High Commissioner's five children.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=101612006

 

[ajak]

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=101612006

are you suggesting they are letting him off because he is white,or because there is no evidence.

 

[Syndyre]

Immunity would be for diplomats - not their families or siblings? (Which is why they fled the country?)

It covers their whole family. The diplomat's country can choose to revoke it, which other countries have done in drug smuggling cases etc., otherwise the most that can be done is to kick them out.

 

[Jongi]

Issued by: Department of Foreign Affairs

Attention: News Editors

For immediate release:




10 October 2006




SA STATEMENT ON THE TRANSFER OF A SENIOR DIPLOMAT
FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM




The South African government confirms that, by mutual agreement
between the South African and the British Governments and in
accordance with standard diplomatic practice, it was agreed to
transfer a senior South African diplomat based in London, back to
South Africa.

The transfer was occasioned by certain transgressions allegedly
committed by some members of the family of the affected diplomat
and in the best interests of consolidating the excellent diplomatic
relations between South Africa and the United Kingdom.

It must be stressed, however, that at no stage was the senior
diplomat implicated in any of the alleged transgressions by his
family members.
Accordingly, the said diplomat will upon his return, resume his
duties at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pretoria.

In this regard, the Department of Foreign Affairs is currently
finalising arrangements for the return of the official and his
family to South Africa, as soon as possible.

I don't see how you guys don't see how the diplomat could still be in good standing when it was not him who committed the crime.

 

[kilo39]

oh the shame

shame it makes no difference to this government

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

are you suggesting they are letting him off because he is white,or because there is no evidence.

Boateng doesn't sound like a European name to me. In fact he is black and not white:

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