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Date Posted: Thursday 14-Jan-2010
link to:
http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=68220&
I received this from a good friend. It came with this
title: "Dan Roodt - During times of universal deceit, telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act". This article is said to have been written by
Dan Roodt who is a well-known Afrikaner intellectual.
Folks, as per Dan Roodt's request - please take this article of his and post
it far and wide and send it to your friends by email and ask them to send it
to their friends by email. In South Africa, our media has for YEARS,
suppressed the truth about crime, by constantly REMOVING RACE from all
crimes. Why? Because you'll be utterly shocked at how many crimes in South
Africa are:-
(a) Perpetrated by blacks
(b) Perpetrated against whites by blacks.
Nobody in the Mass Media here or anywhere else wants to mention it. You will
notice all sorts of suppression and evasion of the truth in our media. In
every news article a criminal is "an alleged criminal", etc. Even if he was
busy blowing people away at point blank range he is "an alleged" criminal.
Race is always removed from news articles because it would show that the
vast majority of crime in South Africa is Black
ATTACKING/MURDERING/STEALING
FROM/RAPING/GANG-RAPING whites.
So of course nobody has any real interest in the truth. Please, folks, DO
YOUR BIT to see to it that just because the Mass Media is intimidated by our
government which is forever hiding and covering up things, that some of the
truth gets a little bit further. Do your bit for those who suffered
hideously at the hands of these lawless cretins who blow people's brains out
for as little as R10 (€1) or as
little as a cell/mobile phone. We are so used to the lawlessness of this
country that we don't even think twice about it - and yet, our society is
more violent, during peace time, than most countries are which are AT WAR.
Jan]
By: Dan Roodt
During the time of the National Party reforms /against Apartheid) in the
seventies and eighties, the cliché "adapt or
die" used to do the rounds. Nowadays, given the highest murder rate in
the world, this should be modified slightly to read, "adapt and die".
For the endemic social violence in South Africa is probably incurable.
Optimists think that violent crime can be solved through better policing,
more efficient courts and more secure prisons. Even assuming that such
improvements were possible under conditions of hard-core affirmative action,
it must be admitted that criminal justice treats the symptom and not the
cause of social violence. The Department of Correctional Services, for one,
has lost 496 out of 500 former Deputy Directors since 1994, representing
most of the intellectual capital in the department. Newcomers may learn
their job properly, or they may not, but they have to be flown to overseas
countries to find out how prisons work as most of those previously involved
in managing our prisons are no longer there.
South Africa used to have a problem of political violence. It was not as bad
as elsewhere in Africa, but for some reason elicited hysterical
international condemnation. However, actors in political violence are mostly
driven by some sort of creed or belief system. Whether such a person is a
communist, an anarchist, a neo-Nazi or an ethnic or religious guerilla
fighter, he is usually amenable to persuasion or compromise. Even a group of
Muslim suicide bombers
might declare peace if they were given a territory in which to set up an
Islamic theocracy,
governed only by themselves and not subject to any outside influence.
In the same way, South Africa's so-called liberation movements who were at
one time fanatically convinced of the need for violent and bloody
revolution, laid down arms and bombs upon being told that F.W. de Klerk
would surrender power unconditionally. Solving political violence is often
intractable, but not impossible.
Not so social violence. Endemic crime, the breakdown of the social fabric, a
sense of drift regarding norms of good conduct, point to a far deeper
problem. The freedom fighter or urban terrorist is ultimately rational,
despite a value system that normal society might find idiosyncratic.
But what is "normal society"? It is only the sum-total of behaviours
prevalent in any given society at any given time. The Aztecs, infamously,
practised daily human sacrifice to appease their sun god. It might revolt
many of us today, but to them it was entirely normal. South Africa currently
sacrifices about 87 humans per day to violent crime, or 32 000 per year.
Those are only the ones who actually die. Scores of others are injured,
maimed, traumatised, robbed, raped, burgled and so on.
In any suburb today an entire history of murders, hijackings, and other
violent events can be written, if only the locals were narcissistic enough
to consider their own history worth recording for posterity. On the other
hand, social violence lacks the charm and grandeur of political violence as
it is usually not committed in the interest of some glamorous cause like
national liberation or world revolution but simply to acquire some hapless
person's BMW or rape his wife because she happened to be inside.
However, some time ago a Johannesburg newspaper engaged in chronicling some
local history in the suburbs of Westdene and Lakefield in Benoni. Nearly
every resident had a story to tell, an entire litany of mayhem. Mr. John Gee
miraculously survived a shot through the eye, but now feels traumatised. His
wife says, "One lives in fear in one's own home. One does not sleep. One
prays for protection, yet only more fears come."
But who are the authors of South Africa's social violence? Even asking this
question presents one with a sense of discomfort, because most violent
criminals in South Africa are young black men between the ages of 16 and 36.
As one surgeon who had stitched together at least three child rape victims,
two of whom were infants, said recently, "Probably white men commit such
acts too; it is just that no-one in South Africa has come across such a
case."
Of course, it would be preposterous to say that all young black men are
prone to violence.Judging from our daily experiences in crime-torn South
Africa, however, a sub-section of that population, large enough to cause
more havoc than even a well-equipped guerilla army of a few thousand men,
has taken up practices such as heists, hold-ups, murders, sexual violence
exacted upon women and children, and so on.
Explanations for such deviancy are manifold. The ubiquitous answer of it
being due to Apartheid might have been satisfying if other African societies
never subject to group areas and a homeland system did not display similar
traits. The Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone come to mind. There is a whole
nature/nurture debate around black violence, except that no adherent of the
"nature" side would publicly admit to being one, for fear of being branded a
racist. Even though mainstream American cancer research has conclusively
shown that black men have higher levels of testosterone than their white
counterparts, few would hazard the notion that this might be linked to their
greater propensity for violent crime.
America has a gargantuan prison population of two million, over half of
which consists of African-Americans. This is despite their minority status
in the USA, comprising only 12% of an overall population amounting to 290
million. South Africa could neither afford nor succeed, given the dire state
of our criminal justice system, in jailing a similar number of black male
offenders. Currently, only 10% of murderers in South Africa get arrested and
only 6% are convicted. Any murderer therefore has a 94% chance of getting
away with it.
If by some miracle all serious criminals in the country had to be caught and
imprisoned, the prison population would surely treble or quadruple from the
present 200 000, which is already high by world standards. Not only is such
an improvement inconceivable under current conditions, but it would also be
politically unpopular with the ruling ANC who would be
incarcerating large numbers of young black males who are mostly its own
supporters at the polls. Few whites, if any, commit violent crime and there
are only 3 900 of them in prison, mostly for white-collar offences such as
fraud or insider trading on the stock exchange. All that remains
in the world's most violent society, is precisely to adapt and die.
Twice as many South Africans of all races now
die of murder than of road accidents - even though the road accident rate is
also the highest in the world, surpassing that of Turkey. Crime extends to
trade in driver's licences, so that a large number of drivers use so-called
"bought licences", hardly a contribution to road safety.
There are some people naive enough to think that "something can be done
about crime" in South Africa, mostly opposition politicians who dream about
diverting funds from arms procurement to policing, but this would be futile.
There are already three times as many private security personnel as
state-employed policemen, and even they do not succeed in containing what
has become Africa's only peacetime killing field.
"I killed them because they were white." These famous words were
spoken last year by William Kekana, who participated in one of the most
horrendous incidents in which the entire family of Mr. Clifford Rawstorne
was wiped out, consisting of his fiancée, baby, as well as his own mother.
Even this massacre of an entire family would not have made headlines, were
it not for the fact that one year-old Kayla was executed on her very first
birthday with a shot in
the head. Needless to say, the two adult women were first raped before being
killed. Both William Kekana and his accomplice, Charles Fido Baloyi, fell
into the high-risk group of young black (and Coloured) males who commit
almost all violent crime in the country. South Africa
actually has a Minister of Safety and Security, which to some might seem
like an example of absurd humour. His Excellency Mr. Charles Nqakula, whose
official résumé proudly states that he was once "a waiter and wine steward",
has immortalised himself by euphemistically stating that there was no real
crime problem in South Africa, except that it was "a little on the high
side".
All in all, South Africa has got remarkably used to its new-found status as
the crime capital of the world. The high-rise districts of Hillbrow and
Berea in Johannesburg have been officially designated by Interpol as having
the highest murder rate in the world, that is, 600 people per 100 000
population members per annum. Consider for a moment that such a figure
represents 12 times the rate found in inner-city ghettoes in the United
States, often seen as no-go zones by
many Americans.
One British immigrant to South Africa who has survived three car hijackings,
refuses to emigrate, stating that he is now accustomed to having
Kalashnikovs pointed at him from pointblank range. Everyone knows a relative
or friend who has been killed or at least subjected to some form of violent
crime, and no South African can remotely imagine a society where people do
not live behind razor wire, electrified fences, high walls, burglar bars and
similar decorative props.
Outsiders might find our lifestyle bizarre, but many pundits in South Africa
consider our society to be much more "normal" now than at any time in the
past, which was tarnished by ethnic separation albeit without the present
large-scale violence. At the height of segregation and apartheid under
Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa was almost as peaceful as Switzerland
but she was immoral. Today we are the apotheosis of racial morality and
political correctness, yet as violent as the Congo or Liberia. Surprisingly,
however, our economy continues to function amid the carnage. No economist
has ever studied this as far as I know, but not only is crime our biggest
industry - bigger than gold-mining or manufacturing - it also stimulates
consumption as stolen goods are replaced; it is a boon to the insurance and
security industries and ultimately makes surgeons and undertakers rich. The
government earns billions of rands in Value-Added Tax on stolent goods being
replaced with new ones. So crime pays.
News about killings or shoot-outs no longer elicits the slightest surprise.
It is part of our daily existence, and one assumes the lethal risks
attending to something as simple as going shopping or driving to work. My
wife, for example, has twice been to the local shopping centre where in the
one instance a shoot-out was taking place in the parking area so that she
had to hide between the cars with our 18 month-old son in her arms; in the
second case an armed robbery had just taken place with the robbers casually
strolling by with their guns and their loot. Everyone knows
someone who has been killed, raped or maimed. Just this week, the wife of a
friend and former literary editor of Die Burger, François Smith, was stabbed
to death with a screwdriver in their home in Wellington, near Cape Town. Her
murderer was a 16-year-old
squatter camp resident whose race was omitted by the press but presumably
few, if any, whites reside in his particular squatter camp which is
dedicated to black Africans. Lisbé Smuts-Smith was a well-known
academic and head of the Afrikaans literature department at the University
of Cape Town. Just two weeks ago, another UCT academic, mathematician Brian
Hahn, was attacked by a former student, dr. Maleafisha Steve Tladi (35).
Hahn died in hospital a week later, while Tladi was released on bail of R500
(about $80).
Two years ago Louw Rabie, a brilliant albeit reclusive geologist and brother
of author Jan Rabie, was beaten to death with a fence pole by two Coloured
men to whom he had lent some money a week earlier. Police in the small Cape
town of Montagu readily caught his murderers because they happened to have
drinking money during the week, taken from his home. He was 80 years old,
but in good health. He is reputed to have been one of the most brilliant
geologists and intellectuals this country has ever produced, writing
copiously throughout his life but disdaining publication and public esteem.
Africans with their oral tradition are fond of saying that "when an old
person dies, a library burns down". What strikes me about the relentless
killings of educated whites, is that the criminals are indeed "burning down
the libraries" of this country and physically exterminating the intellectual
class, much like Pol Pot did in Cambodia.
The media are celebrating youth, dance, colour, being black and exuberant -
as opposed to the quiet studiousness of middle-aged and elderly whites, the
bearers of knowledge and understanding. Are these learned whites who are
being killed in exuberant, paradisiacal outbreaks of violence simply the
remnants of a civilisation that is being eradicated in the name of
decolonisation? No government spokesman has ever condemned such killings; so
we may assume that the present regime is completely indifferent to them,
where such killings do not enjoy their tacit support.
Around our local school in the past week there have been two car hijackings,
as well as one murder. It is not really considered to be an exceptionally
violent area. Most of this is not even reported in the press, because there
really is not enough space and ordinary crime is no longer newsworthy. It
needs some further sadistic element to make the front page, such as babies
getting killed or raped, or elderly farmers being tortured to death.
Farming in South Africa is now arguably the most dangerous profession in the
world with more than 1600 farmers murdered since 1994, often in macabre and
dehumanising ways.
To the outside world, white South Africans are congenitally evil. If our
murderers and rapists had been white and their victims black, Europe or the
United States would long ago have sent an expeditionary force to put a stop
to it. At present, news of white suffering in South Africa inspires the
occasional yawn in Western capitals. This is why a recent article in The
Despatch detailing the rape of a dog by three black men, gave me some hope
that a chord will be struck
somewhere in the coolly indifferent breasts of our fellow-Westerners. Even
if the lives of Louw Rabie, Brian Hahn, Lisbé Smuts-Smith, Kayla Rawstorne
and tens of thousands of others are of no value to them, perhaps they will
take pity on the mongrel bitch in Grahamstown that was recently raped by
three black men. Or perhaps two black men, as the third one protested his
innocence upon being dragged out of the shack by screaming, "I came here to
relieve myself. These two were raping the dog when I arrived!" Cruelty to
humans, especially white humans, is today a normal feature of our society,
just like human sacrifice used to be in the culture of the Aztecs. Cruelty
to animals, or non-consensual sex with dogs,
may still evoke some sympathy, not only locally, but also internationally. I
therefore feel sorry for Masganda - the name of the dog concerned - who was
rescued with a bleeding vagina and in need of veterinary attention, but
perhaps this lowly creature of uncertain lineage could become a martyr for
our cause in alerting opinion-makers and political leaders of our plight.
Cycling has
become a popular sport in South Africa. However, its practitioners regularly
get shot at by gangs of black youths in the street, so that many of them
carry guns and knives for self-defence on their bicycles. Members of the
Johannesburg mountain-bike club were outraged a while ago when two cyclists,
Scott and Lloyd Griffith, were charged with murder after an armed battle
with their four black assailants, one of whom succumbed to his wounds.
Most of the time, however, whites are helpless victims of crime. The
government has recently passed a new gun law which makes it difficult, if
not impossible, to own a fire-arm. They have also abolished rural commandos
of military reservists entrusted with crime-prevention in the country,
without any police units replacing them. Occasionally the newspapers carry
stories of crime victims successfully defending themselves against attacks,
offering armed resistance. As a result of the new gun law, this will soon
end and we shall simply be able to hide or flee from our assailants.
Defending oneself against a marauding robber or rapist might be a
manifestation of racism, and is therefore frowned upon as being a kind of
"right-wing"
response.
Being robbed of one's vehicle or household belongings is now considered
quite normal, and often people ascribe escaping with their lives to their
own astuteness, such as being friendly to the robber, helping him load the
effects into a vehicle, not looking him in the face so as not to recognise
him afterwards, et cetera. A friend of mine in Kempton Park kept up a
reasonable conversation with the thieves emptying his house, tied up as he
was with a gun pointed at him.
He survived, although his elderly mother was badly roughed up and had to be
hospitalised. In other instances, of course, people are not so lucky and
they become just another murder statistic. Then they simply adapt and die.
* The first draft of this article was submitted to the British Spectator,
who turned it down about a year ago. I have now updated it with references
to more recent incidents. Probably no mainstream newspaper in South Africa
will publish it, because it refers to the race and gender of violent
criminals, which is taboo here as elsewhere in the Western world. As George
Orwell said, however, "during times of universal deceit, telling the
truth becomes a revolutionary act".
In the interest of drawing attention to the anarchy that exists in South
Africa, the author qualifies his copyright on this article and invites
everyone to post it on his or her website, copy it and mail it to friends
and mailing lists, translate it into other languages and to distribute it
far and wide. The only condition is that no element must be changed or
censored.
THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION FROM THIS FACTUAL REPORT IS THAT BLACK PEOPLE (ALL
PEOPLE) IN SOUTH AFRICA WERE FAR, FAR SAfer UNDER Apartheid, A FACT THAT WAS
FORECAST BY THE THEN GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY BUT THE IGNORANT MASSES IN THE
wEST WOULD NOT LISTEN.
sO WHO ARE THE RACISTS NOW? nOT THE APARTHEID GOVERNMENT, THAT'S
FOR SURE.
Posted By:
Jan
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