Are you aware that the UN have declared Pretoria and Johannesburg "disaster areas"?

Question

This report appears in todays Scotsman:

THE South African cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria were declared a disaster area yesterday in the wake of anti- foreigner violence that has left some 80,000 citizens of the two cities homeless.

The decision enables extraordinary measures to be taken under the country's Disaster Management Act, including permitting the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to manage ten camps for Zimbabweans, Malawians, Mozambicans, Ethiopians,Somalis, Eritreans and Nigerians who have been driven from their homes.

The full story is on this link but what more can the ANC do to trash your name in International eyes? Lose the World Cup? Because that is very much on the cards and the UN are also looking at that situation.

http://news.scotsman.com/world/UN-jets-in-to-help.4135455.jp#2853780

Answer 1

Yes, but what about Tshwane and Egoli? Ha, ha!

Answer 2

What I find most interesting, disturbing and thoroughly relevant in the referenced link is this comment by one Erchie Broon: "very interesting that one has to read the Scotsman to hear of what is happening in South Africa for this content is not being reported by the South African Media."

How horribly true, I live in Pretoria and was unaware of these developments, it merely confirms and supports the fact that the ANC will go to any lenghs possible to manipulate news and conceal the truth from ordinary South Africans, the majority of whom still live in the delusion that South Africa is a thriving democracy not destined to become another African basket case.

I would also remind you that in reality, the entire South Africa is a disaster area as witnessed by any reasonable person prepared to recognise the truth as to what South Africa has become under African majority rule.

Answer 3

Ag Alf, I am more worried that Bush might attack SA after that letter Thabo wrote him.....and now Thabo is denying that he wrote it. All that must happen is some one must tell Bush that Thabo has been hiding Osama....As for the homeless people you should have watched the news here last night, those Somalis are carrying on and shouting and screaming at the South Africans, because the camps are not "nice" I mean please, who is paying for them, me and the rest of the taxpayers. I wish they could all me deported. They are a violent bunch killing each other in the camps for a blanket and if I am not mistaken they also attacked the SAP!

Answer 4

D405! dear KB, Tshwane, Mzansi? They sound more like throat diseases than names to me. You, D405!, won't even have forkin' Internet access, nevermind electricity, when South Africa becomes the basket case that the rest of Africa has already become!

I'm beginning to agree with Alf regarding his statement of a few days ago that Europeans never ever even should have colonised Africa, but should have built a giant wall around the continent and checked in on the natives evry millenium or so to check whether they had made any progress or not, or to see if they'd all killed each other or died from diseases contracted by having s*x with their closest relatives...

Answer 5

I saw this coming, I hope whoever is behind it has a solution because they should have thought about it first

Answer 6

Alf stop exaggerating and scaremongering.....

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Youth mobilise against xenophobia

Johannesburg, South Africa

30 May 2008 04:01

The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and other youth bodies on Friday launched a campaign against xenophobia following the recent attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa.

Briefing the media at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, where a number of foreigners are sheltered, ANCYL president Julius Malema extended his apology and assured them they were welcome in the country.

"Those who took part in this violence do not represent us as South Africans ... they are criminals who wanted to steal from you," he said.

He acknowledged that foreigners left their countries because of economic reasons and should be welcomed, just as South Africans were welcomed when they had gone into exile in various African countries.

"The ANC understands that you played an important role in the liberation of this country."

Malema said the youth bodies would do anything to restore peace, and people should not test their patience. He also called on youths to reclaim their communities and unite against the "senseless" violence.

He added that criminals who inflicted violence on others should be arrested and prosecuted.

Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade national chair Pat Lebenya-Ntanzi said the campaign was a way to voice concerns. She questioned why the violence was only directed towards Africans.

"We've been indoctrinated to hate ourselves and anything that looks like us," she said.

Democratic Alliance (DA) youth leader in Gauteng Khume Ramulitho said people needed to embrace ubuntu (humanity to others) and confront challenges as one.

He said the DA was against "these barbaric actions" and therefore encouraged the government to ensure more opportunities in terms of employment. Ramulitho called on the youth to support and formulate a process of integration.

The youth bodies intended to focus on a solution to xenophobia through dialogue -- especially among residents in communities. They would also petition the speaker of Parliament for a week of debate on the xenophobia.

Who is that?

Meanwhile, ANC president Jacob Zuma visited displaced foreigners at the Cleveland police station in Johannesburg on Friday, more than two weeks after the xenophobic attacks began.

Zuma, surrounded by several security guards, made his way through the foreigners housed at the police station as a result of the recent violence that has killed 56 people.

He was accompanied by ANC national executive committee member Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.

Before visiting the foreigners, he was locked in a meeting at the police station along with Madikizela-Mandela and Fraser-Moleketi.

Leon Lomboco, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, arrived in South Africa only days before the xenophobic attacks began. His 13-year-old daughter and three-month-old baby were sheltering with him and his wife at the police station.

Zuma spoke to Lomboco, telling him to take the baby to the clinic as the baby had a severe rash. Lomboco, however, said afterwards that his wife had used an incorrect soap on the baby.

He said he did not know what Zuma hoped to accomplish by coming to the police station.

"I don't know what he thinks he's doing here. We need the United Nations to come up with a solution," he said.

People gathering around Zuma and his entourage made it difficult for the media to get close to him.

However, some of the foreigners did not know who he was.

Sylvia Sibiya from Zimbabwe shook the hand of the man who could possibly be South Africa's next president, but laughed afterwards, saying she did not know his identity.

"I don't know who is that, who is it?" she asked when approached for comment.

Successful

Operations thus far to curb the xenophobic violence had been successful, chief of the South African National Defence Force Lieutenant General Solly Shoke said on Friday.

Speaking at a media breakfast, Shoke said soldiers had been deployed alongside police in Gauteng and the joint operations had been successful.

He added, however, that the army was ready to make further deployments should it be needed.

"We will do everything possible to support the police in their endeavours to stabilise and normalise the situation as quickly as possible," he said.

The army has been deployed as part of a bigger defence force deployment, ordered by President Thabo Mbeki, to support the police in their operations to bring xenophobic violence under control.

Shoke said the army's deployment had been limited to Gauteng, where it helped police with cordon and search operations.

He said the army had also supplied hundreds of tents that have been used to house displaced foreigners. -- Sapa

Answer 7

What I find interesting is that they proclaim that they are in South Africa only to find work and study and are not criminals, but yet they now complain about fighting and raping amongst themselves. So maybe the South African view about them was correct all the time. They should just be deported back to their dustbowls where they can live off the flies swarming around their heads.