S Africa returns to Aparthied..?

[Che Guava]

...but with the roles reversed...

S Africa arrest 'like apartheid'

South Africa's opposition leader has condemned her arrest on Sunday as being reminiscent of apartheid.

Cape Town mayor Helen Zille was detained after leading a protest against drug dealing in the city. Police said the march was illegal.

She said her arrest was political, while one of her party officials asked why the police had detained Ms Zille and not the drug dealers.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) leader said she planned to sue the police.

"The last time I witnessed people treated in this way was during anti-apartheid protests," she said after her release.

Police say Ms Zille and eight others are due to appear in court on either Monday or Tuesday.

The former anti-apartheid activist was elected DA leader in May, replacing Tony Leon.

Analysts say the DA has struggled to expand its support outside white and mixed-race communities to South Africa's majority black population.

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Helen Zille

I'll try to post more on this as the story develops (or if it really develops past this point...), but the facts thus far seem to be enough for a discussion...

Is this a case of aparthied on the other foot?
Is the DA trying to sensationalize a routine response to an illegal march?
Should 'white activists' be worried in SA?

 

[Phlegmak]

Hey, amadeus was in favor of aparthied! So he should be happy now.

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[Bill3000]

Hey, amadeus was in favor of aparthied! So he should be happy now.

No, he was only in favor of black apartheid.

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[nonconformist]

Brothers, let us not sully a great concept with such vile words as "apartheid". Rather, call it the "Rassenkampf"

 

[Phlegmak]

No, he was only in favor of black apartheid.

That woman's black. If you load the image in Gimp and turn down the brightness. Oh, nevermind. You got me there.

 

[Bill3000]

That woman's black. If you load the image in Gimp and turn down the brightness. Oh, nevermind. You got me there.

If anything, it only justifies his position (That apartheid SA was far superior to its current state) even more...

 

[Phlegmak]

If anything, it only justifies his position (That apartheid SA was far superior to its current state) even more...

Maybe. But a government based on racism is doomed.

 

[puglover]

South African justice is a joke. How does a quest for equality turn so quickly to back to inequality?

 

[Jawz II]

Should 'white activists' be worried in SA?

I would be. Hey if what goes around comes around, then they should be very worried. I dunno how the situation on the ground is now, but in a few years when the majority of the army/police are blacks, then the whites in SA will have real reason to worry.

I hope they don't go that route, but it cant be easy for the black population to just forget all the years of oppression.

 

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[Perfection]

Doesn't work, lips too small.

 

[Winner]

Zimbabweziation of Africa continues...

I wonder what will all those lefties say, after S. Africa cleanse itself from all Whites and collapses into the same kind of misery as Zimbabwe. Who'll they blame then?

 

[ArneHD]

"Slaves make awful masters". The saying is proved right yet again.

 

[Elrohir]

Without more information, it's really hard to say whether this is truly apartheid come again, or nothing more than a political figure bringing up the past to justify present actions. (Like Rudy "I was Mayor during 9/11" Giuliani, for example) It really is too early to say.

Zimbabweziation of Africa continues...

I wonder what will all those lefties say, after S. Africa cleanse itself from all Whites and collapses into the same kind of misery as Zimbabwe. Who'll they blame then?

Probably America and Israel.

 

[Winner]

Probably America and Israel.

The usual suspects

 

[Jawz II]

Amazing!

 

[Bill3000]

I wonder what will all those lefties say, after S. Africa cleanse itself from all Whites and collapses into the same kind of misery as Zimbabwe. Who'll they blame then?

Probably still the whites, for bringing them into their miserable condition to begin with.

 

[JollyRoger]

The U.S. arrests protesters all the time. South Africa is finally moving towards western values.

 

[Jawz II]

As if America and Israel havent attacked enough nations and committed enough acts of aggression in breach of UN mandates, so people will start accusing you of things you didnt do?

Right. Oh and by no means do the africans get to be pissed about things that were done to them, heavens no. Who do they thing they are, whites?

But then again those posts werent about making sense, were they fellows? You must like seeing the stuff you write on the "internets".

 

[amadeus]

Hey, amadeus was in favor of aparthied! So he should be happy now.

The majority of the practices that I supported in South Africa were the ones that kept the mass of Bantus ("people" in many African languages) off the economically prosperous areas unless they had a reason to be there.

If there's a better way to keep the insane crime levels down, I'd like to hear it.

Hillbrow is a perfect example of this; twenty years ago, Hillbrow was one of Johannesburg's most affluent areas. Today, you wouldn't drive around there unless you were in a tank.