Decades After Being Freed From Apartheid, Black South Africans Still Cannot Solidify And Self-rule…(video)

As a child grow­ing up, I was quick­ly sen­si­tized to the crit­i­cal issue of apartheid in South Africa and the racial issues plagu­ing the for­mer colonies across the African continent.
Much of my per­son­al mil­i­tan­cy came from my con­tin­ued inter­est in learn­ing all that I could about the oppres­sion that those peo­ple endured. 
I also made it my busi­ness to inform myself about the racial issues in Jamaica, the west­ern world, and all across the globe where anti-back racism existed.
Growing up in the 70s, I was extreme­ly proud of Jamaican lead­ers’ role in the strug­gle to free South Africa from the bondage of white minor­i­ty rule and the igno­ble prac­tice of white supremacy.
I was blessed to wit­ness the dis­man­tling of white rule in South Africa and the inevitable elec­tions, which saw Nelson Mandela elect­ed President of the new South African State. 
Since the death of Mister Mandela, the long strug­gle and the count­less lives lost to gain free­dom from white oppres­sion have fad­ed from the minds of the new generation.
It appears that the same greed, graft, and cor­rup­tion that caused them to sell their broth­ers and sis­ters into slav­ery remains. The task, the need to build and solid­i­fy a strong Afro-cen­tric nation, appears to be out­side their capabilities.
Consequently, the nation of South Africa may be poised to once again be tak­en over by the white minor­i­ty and ruled for hun­dreds more years as slaves and third-class citizens.
If you are a Gazelle on the Serengetti, you will be eat­en. A Lion, on the oth­er hand, will always rule. The future of Black South Africans is in their own hands. If and when they are once again sub­ject­ed to white minor­i­ty rule, no one should lift a fin­ger to free them from it.
Whites liv­ing in the new South Africa should assim­i­late into being like every oth­er South African, no greater, no less; fail­ing to do so, they should find some­where else to live or face the consequences.
When you are in the major­i­ty and con­trol the reins of gov­ern­ment, you do not beg to stop racism; you crush it like a cock­roach and make sure those who would think of it piss their pants just doing so. (mb)
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WHITE MEN CHOKE BLACK BOYS AT SWIMMING POOL

A dis­turb­ing video clip show­ing a group of white South African men ver­bal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly attack­ing a group of Black boys has cap­tured the atten­tion of the world as well as the country’s pres­i­dent. The video post­ed to social media on Christmas Day depicts a few white adult males alleged­ly try­ing to pre­vent or eject a cou­ple of Black boys out of the Maselspoort Resort and Conference Centre’s pool locat­ed in Bloemfontein, South Africa, accord­ing to Times Live. The nation’s top elect­ed offi­cial reassert­ed the constitution’s aspi­ra­tion, say­ing there is no place for racism with­in the country’s bor­ders, while the pub­lic is blast­ing the men as racists. The video first shows the men telling one of the boys to leave the water. Then the men are seen hit­ting and push­ing the child. Another child jumps in to help and is lat­er grabbed by his neck, while a dif­fer­ent man comes up and pulls the kid’s hair. Some of the onlook­ers attempt­ed to stop the men, but their inter­ven­tion seemed to esca­late the ruckus. At the end of the video, a man is chok­ing one of the boys and then jump­ing into the water with him. Another man jumps in, and before the 31-sec­ond clip is over, he also looks to push him down under the water. One boy’s father described the incident.

“As we were relax­ing the boys came and told us that they are being pre­vent­ed from using the pool by a group of white adult males. They said they were told by the men that the pool is only reserved for peo­ple who are booked here,” he said. “We went there with my sis­ter to check on the kids and indeed when we arrived there, we engaged those white folks and they said ‘no, there was a mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the kids.’” “They didn’t under­stand,” he con­tin­ued. “They thought that they were not res­i­dents at Maselspoort because the swim­ming pool can only be accessed by res­i­dents and the kids told them we are res­i­dents here. I also told them we are res­i­dents here and we have paid just as they have paid.” However, the men assault­ed the boys after the par­ents left, the father said. Roy Jankielsohn, leader of the Democratic Alliance Free State, urged the vic­tims’ par­ents to press crim­i­nal charges against the men fea­tured in the footage. At least one fam­i­ly, The Nakedi Family, has moved for­ward to get jus­tice for the boys, open­ing a com­mon assault case. The father said he was dis­ap­point­ed that the men were not charged with attempt­ed mur­der. “One of the guys tried to drown the boy, that is attempt­ed mur­der and it should have been reg­is­tered as so but police told us they are only open­ing an assault case,” he said. A police spokesper­son stat­ed the men have been ordered to appear in court.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa com­mend­ed the police for push­ing the mat­ter for­ward, cre­at­ing mul­ti­ple dock­ets, and sub­mit­ting to decide how or if the men should be pros­e­cut­ed. The pres­i­dent said Black and white South Africans have to work to erad­i­cate racist thoughts in the coun­try. “Our con­sti­tu­tion means exact­ly what it says when it declares that South Africa — and that means all of South Africa — belongs to all who live in it,” Ramaphosa said. “As Black and white South Africans, we should be unit­ed in con­demn­ing all man­i­fes­ta­tions of racism and attempts to explain or defend such crimes. Racism is not a prob­lem to be fought by Black South Africans only. The pres­i­dent added it was impor­tant for the cit­i­zens to come togeth­er and “defend” South Africa’s “con­tin­u­ing nation­al mis­sion of rid­ding [its] soci­ety of the divi­sions and the hurts of [its] past.” “We must also be unit­ed in rid­ding our soci­ety of the vio­lence we see in the videos of the inci­dent at the Free State resort, whether such vio­lence comes with racism or not,” Ramaphosa said. “It is deplorable that adults deal­ing with teenagers resort to vio­lence with such dis­turb­ing ease, hurt­ing peo­ple phys­i­cal­ly and offend­ing pro­vi­sions in our Bill of Rights around the secu­ri­ty of the per­son, includ­ing the right to dig­ni­ty and being free of violence.”

Ramaphosa said the law calls for let­ting “inves­ti­ga­tions take their course but under the rule of law we can and must also declare that racism has no place in our soci­ety and racists have no place to hide.” While the politi­cians are call­ing for peo­ple to uni­fy and for jus­tice through the sys­tem, peo­ple on social media are express­ing their out­rage. One of the boy’s sister’s video of the scuf­fle has been viewed over 20 mil­lion times. “Trying to stran­gle and drown chil­dren? I don’t care how much they drank. They would nev­er do this to white kids. They are racist. Full stop,” South African Annika Langa tweet­ed. Another Twitter user, Juwanna Othmani, from Brooklyn, New York, said, “The s – t we as Black peo­ple still going through across the world is dis­gust­ing. How TF is there still seg­re­ga­tion in #SouthAfrica in 2023?!!! This is only days ago. A WHITES ONLY POOL??? Are you sh – in me!!! Community, gov­ern­ment and polit­i­cal par­ties such as the Economic Freedom Fighters and the ANC in the Free State also respond­ed, SABC News report­ed. A spokesper­son from the resort, Nick Mitchell, said the estab­lish­ment does not prac­tice or allow any kind of seg­re­ga­tion or racism. Hoping to dis­tance itself from the ugly inci­dent that hap­pened on its premis­es, it referred the details of the inci­dent to the police.“At this moment the police are han­dling the sit­u­a­tion. As men­tioned, there is the police case opened against the par­ties involved,” Mitchell said.