I'm sorry, but it has BEEN YEARS!!!
That is ONE LAME-ASS EXCUSE for LOOTING!
And who do you think is behind the VIOLENT protests, readers?
It's called PRESSURING a GOVERNMENT you don't like with agent provocateurs!
Please remember that ISRAEL was a GREAT SUPPORTER of the APARTHEID GOVERNMENT (we can see why in Palestine).
"Antigovernment protesters get violent in S. Africa; Pursuing share of nation’s wealth during recession" by Celean Jacobson, Associated Press | October 16, 2009
Rubber bullets fired by police injured protesters yesterday in Diepsloot, South Africa. More than 150 demonstrators have been arrested this week. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)
STANDERTON, South Africa - A decade and a half after the end of apartheid, many South Africans feel that they have not benefited from the economic growth of the past decade, which has made many government and ANC officials rich.
EVERY GOVERNMENT is the SAME!!
Jacob Zuma, a popular figure among the poor who won the presidency thanks to the April vote, promised to speed up delivery of houses, clinics, schools, running water, and electricity as well as create jobs. But he has acknowledged the difficulties amid South Africa’s first recession in nearly two decades....
Zuma, who paid a surprise visit in August to a town that saw earlier protests, has been responsive to concerns and is still held in high regard, but people have grown increasingly suspicious and less enthused about other party representatives, Udesh Pillay, head of the Center for Service Delivery at the Human Sciences Research Council, said.
PEOPLE are the same all over, too!!!
“Without a shadow of a doubt the protests have got worse since the elections,’’ said Udesh Pillay, head of the Center for Service Delivery at the Human Sciences Research Council. “This will escalate, and it will escalate fast.’’
That REALLY MAKES YOU WONDER, cui bono? Is this another Iranian situation?
Municipalities have long been South African’s weakest tier of government. Many local councils are financially unviable, mismanaged, or riddled with corruption.
Things are the same everywhere.
They also carry the greatest loads. Municipal managers are battling to overcome decades of apartheid planning that saw white suburbs well-serviced while black people lived in abysmal conditions on the edges of towns and cities....
And SO MANY STILL DO TODAY -- in South Africa and AROUND the WORLD!!!!
The rioting - with police firing rubber bullets yesterday to disperse rampaging crowds - evokes images of antiapartheid protests. Some believe such tactics must be jettisoned in a developing democracy. More than 150 people have been arrested in protests that have spread from Standerton, about 90 miles southeast of Johannesburg, to at least four other towns in eastern South Africa this week....
A police vehicle was set on fire by protesters near a stadium that will be used for next year’s World Cup in the provincial capital of Nelspruit, police spokeswoman Sibongile Nkosi said....
When I SEE VIOLENCE I SEE AGENT PROVOCATEURS!!!
The protests have made residents too scared to leave their homes for work, and businesses have suffered. Government clinics have been closed for fear of staff being targeted, forcing mothers with sick children or ailing old men to walk miles.
The residents of Sakhile accuse the mayor and her council of corruption and demand they resign. Most residents have water and electricity but point to the neglected sports field, dirt roads, and shacks as signs of how little development there has been.
Ellen Mgaga’s high school final exams start next week, but her school is closed as protests against the government’s failure to improve lives of poor South Africans have intensified.
Lebogang Ganye, 23, one of the many unemployed youths who have been involved in running battles with police in Sakhile, said he voted for the African National Congress in April out of loyalty to the party that ended apartheid. “They promised us jobs, opportunities, a better life,’’ he said. “But according to us it’s a worse life. We have to vandalize things to get them to act.’’
You know, IT DOES SEEM that is WHAT IT TAKES to get RULERS to NOTICE, doesn't it? Otherwise they JUST IGNORE YOU!
And doesn't the AmeriKan MSM seem to be taking it easy on these violent protesters?
Also yesterday, 19 people were injured when police fired rubber bullets at protesters in Diepsloot, a poor settlement north of Johannesburg....
Don't get me wrong, I'm not for that either.
Police state oppression and tyranny is most distasteful wherever it is found.
