Xenophobic attack!!!

Xenophobic attack!!!
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Sorry peeps,had to change the pic.This is a unit at where I work.Its full of foreigners as they deal with international accounts.I wonder how are they feeling after what has happened to their brothers and sisters around SA.

This is my previous story of the pic I had before, "This brought tears to my ears.Many might not forgive for not using my pic but I had to wanted us to debate about this.

I feel this are not Xenophobic attacks but people satisfying their hunger of killing.I feel some people are looking for excuses to kill one another.If it is about foreigners,why our venda and tsonga people being killed?Why people who are dark in skin colour killed?Why chinese who have been in our country never hurt after all this years??Is this really Xenophobic attacks or a race issue??

Im really sad about this.This is not a good way to start my day for real.Someone at work just told me to relax a bit while such things are happening in my country??"

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08h44 Monday
19, May
2008
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  1. Stefanie Jason

    yeah its bad cause its really not about xenophobia if south africans are getting killed!

    Carte Blanche might not be the best source! but it appears as tho if u dont speak zulu then u getting it!

    as a black south african, i'm actually scared

  2. KeKe

    I did not want to mention the Zulu factor but the majority of people who commit such acts are Zulus.I stand to be corrected...

  3. lebogang nkoane

    If you are not going to use your own pics --- get permission from the source and credit the source.

    Please do so, before end of today --- I don't want ICASA/AVUSA/OPA knocking down the server.

    http://75.co.za/info

  4. æ

    that whole "my country" mentality just fans the fire; along with Yfm's insipid youth culture.

    the irony is: now people are forced to emigrate, rather than having a choice in the matter

    *maybe I too should pack and go home

  5. KeKe

    Im sorry Lebo,I'll replace it with my own pic,just thought we should debate this issue...

    daniel

    Love this picture but agree with Lebogang, full copyright info needs to be added, as a professional, i'd also like it if someone used my image but respected the copyright.

    As for the situation, it honestly makes me sick that some animals can use the excuse of the person being a foreigner, so that they deserve to die.

    really annoying that people like this are still allowed to walk the streets.

  7. noidSyStems

    Wouldn't go as far as saying is the Zulus who are doing it ...

    South Africans are spoiled illiterate, ignorant, arrogant ... bratts ... War it is ... Sad!

  8. seilatsatsi

    this is a sad pic and situation. during the weekend i was in a taxi with a woman who lives in hilbrow and she was saying she is fleeing from there for the safety of her kids because now all the foreigners are coming down from the flats to fight and it don look good.

    daniel

    noidSystems, interesting comment and i totally agree that on the whole, there seems to be a massive amount of ignorance breeding.

    Just because you are South African, doesn't mean you have the right to treat others like a lower being, we used to call this Apartheid.

    One comment made by KeKe has me intrigued, has there been any proof that the sole group had been Zulu?

  10. Stefanie Jason

    its become a Cult!
    reminds of history class- when learning how the Nazis first rose to 'power'!

  11. lebogang nkoane

    haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

    Nina SimeOne you know/read 'The Wave' --- we had to study that in class too, english --- i even bought the book 10 years after std. 7 and read it again --- fantastic book (well, considering I don't read).

    *sings: we'got something in common (forgot artist(s)).

  12. Stefanie Jason

    ^ ^ ^bobby brown and whitney!
    yeah i read 'the wave'- i sorted deleted that info from the previous post cause i thought i'd be the only one!
    LOL

    i thought the book was 'not so great' but i enjoyed reading it nonetheless!

  13. lebogang nkoane

    maybe not great --- but true.

    I remember at the 75th celebration --- somebody asked somebody else: if they are on 75? and that person replied: no; an the askee said: where have been in the last 12 months?

    it felt a bit like what the book was trying to narrate --- although, out of context with what is being discussed here.

    my 2cents on the current State of affairs --- I'll let the dust settle and then pen my complete thoughts --- being an militant-irrational-nationalist-communist-socialist-liberal rouge agent is always better for me to 'digest' then 'respond'.

  14. lebogang nkoane

    *drama aside.

    KeKe i've sent you mail regarding this 'image' --- I will assume you got it --- if nothing happens by 2pm --- I will assume you 'are not in agreement' with the email --- and thus,,,

    err, I hate doing this, but the longer this image 'runs' on this server --- almost any caching server is keeping a snapshot of this 'page' --- and that is not good --- a violation of copyright is easily tracked and prosecuted via 'cache'.

    and I think, 75 is survived by authenticity, originality of photography --- [yes, the dialogue/conversation is also very good ;-)] --- but this 'image' is about a few hours away from eroding that very same inherent value.

    So, either you do something, or I'll have to do something --- that is always the last resort --- but, time is not our side.

    *tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, boom! (fresh prince and dj jazzy jeff).

  15. lebogang nkoane

    *much appreciated, KeKe.

    1ove

  16. KeKe

    It doesnt seem to change...

  17. æ

    a lack of education

    some thought the fight was against education, whilst it was against the language of 'instruction'.

    "freedom now, education later... much much later"

  18. æ

    and you changed the title too...

  19. lebogang nkoane

    Keke --- it is changed --- that 'caching' thing I was talking about is on every browser (so you don't load the entire page everytime you revisit the same website/page) ---

    so, to 'refresh' proper --- on windows press: shift+click-refresh (or you shift+f5).

  20. heartwarmer

    I had tears in my eyes a minute ago, just going through those pictures up on the times website. You know there's one with a man burning, somebody set somebody alight...

    Its as if something snapped and people just lost it.

    I think the problem with the world (it may be a little simplistic) is that there are far too many people who seek to control it. People that strive to be different, or better, or more powerful - by any means necessary.

    I say it is simplistic because it is perhaps easy for me to condemn this kind of behavior because I am priviledged and don't have to worry about food, or housing or clothes, or education or health cover or, or, or...How else are people meant to get what they want?

    I learnt something precious the other day, some other simplistic thing. TO WAIT! Waiting, I found, is the most unbelievably empowering concept I've ever come across. IF we just learnt to wait. To just wait - and by doing so, we almost don't feel like anything is owed to us. We kind of just get on with our business and if by some luck I happen to get that job, then hooray. A little simplistic, I say once again because well - its easy for me to say - I'm priviledged.

    If the alternative to waiting is this - the madness that's been unleased here. Surely its better to just wait. And if you die waiting. So be it. The idea is that, nothing is really owed to you, because nothing really every belongs to you, you can't claim anything on earth - to do so would be like coming into somebody else's house and demanding a cool drink and when they say no - fighting them for it.
    If we were only grateful for whatever little we have.

  21. æ

    sit and wait in zim or moz while you have skills that will definitely improve your life if you applied them in neighbouring SA??

    sit and wait for someone thrifty from the continent to get a job in SA before you decide that the job's better suited for you and that they've taken YOUR job??

    sit and wait for the government to deliver while you rot; uneducated and impoverished??

    Sankomota put it best: "...you're gon' wait forever."

  22. æ

    People should better themselves, teach others and learn from others and stop looking for scapegoats.

  23. yizzi25

    This is really the time when you know that things are falling apart !! IMMEDIATE action must be taken i.m.m.e.d.i.a.t.e.l.y!!
    im saying this because , this morning i was going through a (cape town based) news paper, and sadly, on the front page, there was a pic of a man burning with a lady police trying to help out, ---- but then , what supprised me, was the other F*Ck'd- up police men behing her, and burning man where laughing !!! :(i felt like crying when i saw that, that image is still going through my mind ,,, just don't know what to do to get it away. * very , very , very sad!

    daniel

    This whole situation reminds me of Burma....

    It's weird, I came home thinking that small-minded acts of violence had finally been done away with, but it seems I've returned back to a country where some people are still living in the 15th century.

    To those attackers, you and the fathers of Apartheid are so alike, unintelligent thugs who deserve nothing and will never amount to anything.

  25. KeKe

    Hey d.You never replied to my email that I sent you on your site,can you please do...

    daniel

    Hmmm I never got anyone's from the site, arse, damn mexicans

    drop me a direct mail daniel AT hmmm dot CO dot zA

  27. Bareng Rakuba

    (I wonder how are they feeling after what has happened to their brothers and sisters around SA).

    @ Keke......... what do u mean?

    I would suggest that u put urself in their shoes for some seconds and just imagine if it was one of ur brother/sister lying in a cold shelf somewhere in a government mutuary.

    I am a black South African but after hearing dose news about other brothers/sisters a tear almost rolled down my chic.

    * I thought my brother is ur brother, ur brother, my brother.

  28. Bareng Rakuba

    :-(

  29. NguJaz

    LOLs @ ICASA/AVUSA/OPA knocking the site down
    Don't know about the Zulu argument. One Zulu man was killed as he was thought to be a foreign national. Beat to death.

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