South Africa is not the beautiful country the world is being shown on the media as the World Cup plays out for soccer. Massive corruption, threats and violence from the ruling party, the ANC, has made South Africa ripe for an explosion of genocide and violence against not only whites, but many blacks who live there. This is from the Zimbabwe Mail and is a pretty reliable source for news. By way of Africancrisis. I am posting Jan's cautionary commentary here and the article from the Zimbabwe Mail.
S.Africa on the brink: Race War & Genocide? Genocidal attacks planned on White Farmers, Foreign Blacks....
By Jan Lamprecht
Africancrisis: Here is a very interesting report from the ZimbabweMail which warned us before Eugene Terreblanche's murder.
I need to check out Adriana's article with the claim of the 12th July attacks that are planned.
I suggest that people put out their feelers. What we have to determine here is whether this is a real attack, or whether the claims of the attack are itself a type of PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE/PANIC creation strategy.
I have started putting out my own feelers.
I have a deep respect for the ZimbabweMail. There is one part of this report which concerns me and makes me wonder whether in fact this is not a PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE strategy rather than an actual attack.
We need to look into this more closely. And I will start putting out my own feelers to assess the situation to see how real it is.
If the ANC truly does engage in a massive attack on the white farmers and then at the same time launches furious attacks aimed at driving foreign blacks out of the country then it might also be an indication, not of the strength of the ANC, but the UTTER DESPERATION in the ANC as they realise they must act now rather than later. It would indicate that time is not on their side.
NB: Do not just focus on the attacks on whites. In 2008 we had a virtual war as the black townships across the country were set on fire and blacks were murdered and driven out of the country. I mentioned back then that I was sure Jacob Zuma was behind this.
NB: It is an old tactic to prepare and plan attacks and to then pretend that they are "spontaneous" and are an expression of deep seated stresses and anger that exploded all by itself. These are really old tricks used by Mugabe and others in prior decades. This is used as cover to hide the Government's deliberate involvement and planning in things.
It might be wise to institute some personal security measures during July just in case. Be extra careful, etc.
Like I say, I'm not fully convinced of this. This could be part of a deeper game. I need to dig some more, and we must pool what we find. Jan]
SOUTH AFRICAN authorities have secretely kickstarted xenophobic attacks on foreigners and they are on course to launch Zimbabwean-style violent farm invasions after the FIFA 2010 World Cup which begins on Friday, this week.
High profile target Zimbabwean rugby super star Tendai Mtawarira will not represent South Africa for the foreseeable future after the government ruled no player who does not have a South African passport can play for the Springboks amid reports that he has been marked target number one by ANC's senior politicians, particulary the party's Youth Wing.
The decision, issued in a letter from the Department of Sport and Recreation's deputy minister, Gert Oosthuizen, to the South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Friday, effectively bars the prop from playing international rugby until he can get a passport.
Zimbabwe-born Mtawarira, who has played 22 Tests for the world champions, was controversially withdrawn from a match against France last November due to his eligibility.
Commonly known as Beast, the 24-year-old is legally a resident and employed in South Africa.
He was selected to play for the Springboks having fulfilled the eligibility criteria of the International Rugby Board.
South African Rugby Union had been assisting him in fulfilling the necessary criteria but sources in the government have indicated that pressure from the ruling party has been intensified in the last two weeks.
A secret committee made up of ANC and government security agents is coordinating the country's post FIFA 2010 World Cup cleansing activities and it is already in full swing, identifying targets, and preparing use of hit squads, highly placed sources in South Africa and Zimbabwe said.
Together with xenophobic attacks, South Africa’s ruling party ANC is planning Zimbabwean style land invasions after the football World Cup.
Zimbabwe's military and Robert Mugabe's War Veterans of the liberation struggle have been ropped-in for crucial frontline back-up for the violent programme.
ANC's Youths who have been undergoing training in Zimbabwe, at the army's Staff College have completed their rigorous training and they will soon be deployed throughout the South African provinces ready to kickstart a State assisted land invasion which will be reported in the State media as spontaneous.
Controversial African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President, Julius Malema, has already visited Zimbabwe for a a briefing by Robert Mugabe and he had a series of meetings with Zanu PF and Zimbabwe government's security agents.
Early this year, South African Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gukule Nkwinti has accused white farmers of scuttling the land reform programme by frustrating government’s willing buyer willing seller policy through inflating prices.
He has warned that South Africa risks sinking into chaos as the patience of new black farmers is running thin.
Foreign migrants and refugees in South Africa have been warned to prepare for a wave of xenophobic attacks as soon as the final whistle of the World Cup blows.
Two years after the start of the 2008 riots that left scores dead across the country, a consortium of leading migration organisations has said it had received reports by foreign nationals that they were being threatened with violence after the tournament.
"These threats are coming from many different people: neighbours, colleagues, taxi drivers, passersby, but also from nurses, social workers and police officers," said Cormsa, whose members include Amnesty International, the South African Red Cross Society, and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation . "Some of those making the threats believe that they have the support of senior political leaders," it said.
Dozens of Zimbabwean women interviewed by the Guardian in Hillbrow, downtown Johannesburg, said they were being intimidated and threatened daily by their landlords and groups of men gathering outside their homes at night.
"They say they will come after the World Cup and they will kill us," said Ethel Musonza, 32, a mother of four. "These people are serious, they are organised, they know where we live. They say they won't do anything during the World Cup because of the foreign tourists but afterwards the police will step aside and some of us will get killed."
In an informal settlement in East Rand, groups of men who claimed they took part in the "war" of 2008 have told foreign migrants and refugees to leave the country before 11 July. "We sat down and talked and said let us leave them until the World Cup is coming to our country," said one, who admitted he broke the law to "protect his country from foreigners" in 2008.
"If we fight now, maybe they will stop 2010 … after that there is no one who can come to us and say don't fight," he added.
Cormsa has urged the government to act against xenophobia to try to defuse the risk of further violence. It has asked authorities to punish officials have used the threat violence to intimidate foreign nationals.
On 12 May 2008, a series of riots started in Alexandra township, north-east Johannesburg, targeting migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. In the weeks that followed, the violence spread to other informal settlements in the Gauteng province, Durban and Cape Town, and then to the rest of the country. Sixty-two people were killed during the clashes, including 21 South Africans.
Original article here for Africancrisis
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Zimbabwe Mail: SOUTH AFRICAN authorities have secretely kickstarted xenophobic attacks on foreigners and they are on course to launch Zimbabwean-style violent farm invasions after the FIFA 2010 World Cup which begins on Friday, this week.
High profile target Zimbabwean rugby super star Tendai Mtawarira will not represent South Africa for the foreseeable future after the government ruled no player who does not have a South African passport can play for the Springboks amid reports that he has been marked target number one by ANC's senior politicians, particulary the party's Youth Wing.
The decision, issued in a letter from the Department of Sport and Recreation's deputy minister, Gert Oosthuizen, to the South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Friday, effectively bars the prop from playing international rugby until he can get a passport.
Zimbabwe-born Mtawarira, who has played 22 Tests for the world champions, was controversially withdrawn from a match against France last November due to his eligibility.
Commonly known as Beast, the 24-year-old is legally a resident and employed in South Africa.
He was selected to play for the Springboks having fulfilled the eligibility criteria of the International Rugby Board.
South African Rugby Union had been assisting him in fulfilling the necessary criteria but sources in the government have indicated that pressure from the ruling party has been intensified in the last two weeks.
A secret committee made up of ANC and government security agents is coordinating the country's post FIFA 2010 World Cup cleansing activities and it is already in full swing, identifying targets, and preparing use of hit squads, highly placed sources in South Africa and Zimbabwe said.
Together with xenophobic attacks, South Africa’s ruling party ANC is planning Zimbabwean style land invasions after the football World Cup.
Zimbabwe's military and Robert Mugabe's War Veterans of the liberation struggle have been ropped-in for crucial frontline back-up for the violent programme.
ANC's Youths who have been undergoing training in Zimbabwe, at the army's Staff College have completed their rigorous training and they will soon be deployed throughout the South African provinces ready to kickstart a State assisted land invasion which will be reported in the State media as spontaneous.
Controversial African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President, Julius Malema, has already visited Zimbabwe for a a briefing by Robert Mugabe and he had a series of meetings with Zanu PF and Zimbabwe government's security agents.
Early this year, South African Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gukule Nkwinti has accused white farmers of scuttling the land reform programme by frustrating government’s willing buyer willing seller policy through inflating prices.
He has warned that South Africa risks sinking into chaos as the patience of new black farmers is running thin.
Foreign migrants and refugees in South Africa have been warned to prepare for a wave of xenophobic attacks as soon as the final whistle of the World Cup blows.
Two years after the start of the 2008 riots that left scores dead across the country, a consortium of leading migration organisations has said it had received reports by foreign nationals that they were being threatened with violence after the tournament.
"These threats are coming from many different people: neighbours, colleagues, taxi drivers, passersby, but also from nurses, social workers and police officers," said Cormsa, whose members include Amnesty International, the South African Red Cross Society, and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation . "Some of those making the threats believe that they have the support of senior political leaders," it said.
Dozens of Zimbabwean women interviewed by the Guardian in Hillbrow, downtown Johannesburg, said they were being intimidated and threatened daily by their landlords and groups of men gathering outside their homes at night.
"They say they will come after the World Cup and they will kill us," said Ethel Musonza, 32, a mother of four. "These people are serious, they are organised, they know where we live. They say they won't do anything during the World Cup because of the foreign tourists but afterwards the police will step aside and some of us will get killed."
In an informal settlement in East Rand, groups of men who claimed they took part in the "war" of 2008 have told foreign migrants and refugees to leave the country before 11 July. "We sat down and talked and said let us leave them until the World Cup is coming to our country," said one, who admitted he broke the law to "protect his country from foreigners" in 2008.
"If we fight now, maybe they will stop 2010 … after that there is no one who can come to us and say don't fight," he added.
Cormsa has urged the government to act against xenophobia to try to defuse the risk of further violence. It has asked authorities to punish officials have used the threat violence to intimidate foreign nationals.
On 12 May 2008, a series of riots started in Alexandra township, north-east Johannesburg, targeting migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. In the weeks that followed, the violence spread to other informal settlements in the Gauteng province, Durban and Cape Town, and then to the rest of the country. Sixty-two people were killed during the clashes, including 21 South Africans.
