Passing thought. When riots and looting happen very few of the participants are ever charged. Simple solution would be to load the water cannons that the police use with a permanent dye. this could be a wonderful hideous fluorescent green. They would glow brightly for the police to round them up and send them to a jail in the kalahari.
Hello Micky,
Your words are understably strong in condemning the myopic views of those assailants who may represent a tiny minority of SAns yet cannot be prosecuted by the authorities...leaving one to think that the govt and/or traditional leaders are tacitly in support of the ethnic cleansing going on in SA suburbs. However, having read some threads here, I feel that majority of the people on this forum are White SAns. This could be linked to them (Whites) being the economic powerhouse in that country (Blacks still claim they were not allowed to go to school up until as recent as the end of apartheid).
I'm still trying to see websites in which to relate to majority Black SAns...as they seem to carry so much bitterness and "system-induced" laziness. They may be honest enough to tell what their real grieviances are.
I thank everyone for the content in the responses received on this thread. The maturity is commendable.
Seeing that majority of the responses here blame the "lazy, illiterate yet expectant" Blacks for unwillingness to start small and hence the violence, I wish to ask the ff questions.
1. How do you view the ownership of the SA economy? Paraphrased; what is your assessment of the distribution of wealth in South Africa?
2. Can the above economic scenario breed resentment, frustration, crime and xenophobic violence?
Is that a fact or your opinion?
Are you looking for a color?
What economic scenario do you see?
LAW 40 - Despise the Free Lunch
The world over, there are rich people(minority) and poor people(majority). Sometimes the poor masses like locust rubbing knees in the feild can swarm into a riot, sometimes it it the rich minority rubbing the poors knees to bring them to swarm, as part of some game, to satisfy some ones play for power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon
Just my humble opinion as gathered from my understanding of the comments.
No, except it is absolutely necessary. Here in Nigeria, our wealth is skewed towards less than 1% of the people.
Was supposed to come from 1 above, which you did not answer...so, I see none!
Thanks. I am a fan of Robert Greene. It's the same everywhere...just that the SA experience seems to be wrongly channelled.
Regards.
The original ANC manifesto/freedom charter is really a socialist dream, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Charter
The reality is that the ANC is trying to cut a preexisting economic pie into more and more slices instead of growing the pie.
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