This is actually disgusting: Fanning the flames of hate

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From a distance, it looked like a pile of bedding that had been set alight. Then a head peered through the top of the fiery mattress.

Incredibly, arms flailed weakly from the inferno. Not a scream. Not a whisper. Not a word.

"He's still alive!"

Within reach lay two pieces of bloodied concrete.

'They're killing the Shangaans. It's happening now'
Along the main road into Reiger Park in Ekurhuleni, smouldering debris from the weekend war in the township forced even police Nyalas to ride along the pavement.

Police had withdrawn to the top end of the main entrance, while a taunting mob 100m away waved knobkerries and a tattered umbrella.

Three people had already been killed by the marauding mob.

The police had tried to negotiate with a few residents, many of whom had slurred speech and reeked of alcohol.

As cops sporadically fired at crowds throwing rubble, some people evacuated the area.

'Get the fire extinguisher! The fire extinguisher!'
Fifteen minutes later, a woman, desperation etched on her face, shouted at the police: "They've got three Shangaans there. They're killing them." Other residents spread the news. "They're killing the Shangaans. It's happening now."

As police and journalists got to the scene, the smell from the human pyre stung their nostrils.

Then they saw the burning man, his hands reaching out. Police and journalists stared incredulously.

"Get the fire extinguisher! The fire extinguisher!" the cops shouted to those inside the armoured vehicle.

An officer braved the flames, pulling at the burning orange-and-white blanket wrapped around the man's torso.

The blanket came away to show pieces of wood with blackened nails lying over the man's lower body.

Still, the silent man reached out - the movements even slower.

Beyond the smoke and flames crackling away, not a sound - not a soul stirred at the usually busy intersection.

The flaming man rocked slowly from side to side.

In moments which seemed like an eternity, a burly police officer emerged from the Nyala.

The fire extinguisher enveloped the area in a cloud of white smoke.

Less than 10 metres away lay another bloodied and battered body.

"He's still alive! Call for the ambulance!" came the call.

The man in green cargo pants and workmen's boots lolled his bloodied head from side to side. The blood ran dry in the unforgiving dust of the township. At his side lay two bloodstained pieces of cement.

It is not known whether the two men survived.

Metres from the gory scenes, neighbours hung over wire fences, whispering softly to each other.

One plump woman in a knitted cap and overall couldn't contain her laughter as she pointed to the barbarous scene and related the events to locals.
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I hope this woman dies the most agonizing death possible. We live in a counry overrun by complete savages.
 
Complete savages is right. How can people treat other people like this? I hope this violence doesn't spill over to the whole country.
 
The fact that someone can laugh at another person burning alive disgusts me - it must be the worse way to die.
 
There are torture devices that make that seem like a walk in the park. Probably designed for woman like this.
 
In one of those pics... I can't find it now... there were three policeman, a woman on the left trying to pull the blanket off the burning victim, a black policeman in the middle and a white policeman on the right... it looks like the black policeman is grinning at the man who is burning. Might just be the way the photo was taken... but just looks that way to me.
 
That is so sick, yes the black cop in the middle definately thinks its quite funny, This country is not the land of oppurtunity our forefathers came to, it is a part of africa and its inevitable that it will become like the rest of africa.
 
They are creating their own version of "apartheid", it's just called Xenophobia, preach to the choir.
 
I was deployed in Kathlehong and Thokoza in 1994 (SADF). Where were you then when all of this was happening DAILY? This is NOTHING new and im afraid you havent scraped the surface of what goes in when $h1t starts going wrong. The people who killed, shot, hacked, burnt and maimed are still around. They just needed a diferent reason.
 
Nice article, it reminds me of the books we had to read in school, but seeing as though this is not fiction it gives you a real sick feeling in your stomach. Very sad that South africa has come to this.
 
K@izer§øze™ said:
I was deployed in Kathlehong and Thokoza in 1994 (SADF). Where were you then when all of this was happening DAILY? This is NOTHING new and im afraid you havent scraped the surface of what goes in when $h1t starts going wrong. The people who killed, shot, hacked, burnt and maimed are still around. They just needed a diferent reason.
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So you are saying that the previous "reason" was probably also just a smoke screen? ;)
 
Well I am waiting for it to spread to the Eastern Cape. Got my camera charged and my bullet proof in the boot. Now its just a waiting game.
 
K@izer§øze™ said:
I was deployed in Kathlehong and Thokoza in 1994 (SADF). Where were you then when all of this was happening DAILY? This is NOTHING new and im afraid you havent scraped the surface of what goes in when $h1t starts going wrong. The people who killed, shot, hacked, burnt and maimed are still around. They just needed a diferent reason.
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Jip, same ****, different year.
I was also in SADF in this same area in early 90's.... some people are just inbred barbaric hooligans, I saw then too some people have absolutely zero probs about killing, or whatching another person being killed in a gruesome way.
And many of the sheep just follow the crowd.
And unfortunately these are the people who want to rule the country :sick:
 
Terry Pratchett's equation to calculate the IQ of a mob:
Take the lowest IQ of any member of the mob and divide it by the number of people the mob is comprised of.
 
diesel said:
That is so sick, yes the black cop in the middle definately thinks its quite funny, This country is not the land of oppurtunity our forefathers came to, it is a part of africa and its inevitable that it will become like the rest of africa.
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This is not the same pic I saw earlier... but you can still see him grinning in the background of this pic... the guy in the middle...

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/asylumsa42.18217.html

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pix/xenophobicattacks.jpg
 
No I really doubt the officer is smiling. His teeth might be showing but this could be due to him talking to another officer or for various other reasons. I dont think its fair to knit-pick through certain photos and turn the focus of this onto the police officers who are putting their lives on the line every day to defend the victims ofthese attacks!
 
You have to love this country and the people that make it what it is...
The whole violence in JNB is sickening and retarded, those mobs have a collective morality thats lower than an ant.. those people who laughed should be burnt along with the innocents.
 
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