BuaNews (Tshwane)
20 May 2008
Government is to deploy specialised units to those areas in Johannesburg where attacks on foreign nationals have erupted, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Tuesday.
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Ya I agrre with you.Myself I can never live in south Africa again. I have a friend who lived there,she was stopped in the street by a man claiming to be a police.He asked her an identity, after 30 seconds 4 mans came after her following her with knives and broken bottles.Only God know what they wanted to do.Luckilly she ran praying that they dont catch her.And the supposed police man didnt do nothing he just looked even aggreing.im sure he was not even a police man. I know a man who went to south africa for medical treatment.He used to suffer from liver prblems.oNE DAY HE WENT TO THE TOWN TO BUY SOME VEGETABLES. A GANG OF YOUNG MANS CAME AND HIT HIM with a wood on the rightside of his face so violently.today this man lost his right eye.amounting to the sad situation of his health. My friends uncle was arrested by force into a car of strangers(criminals)they took him and he never came back. I personnally know an angolan man who disappeared on his way to work,he never came back. The south african government must do something.
It is really sad to experience another mass murder in the world. It's my hope that the world will one day wake up and solve problems by a means other than violence.
I have been to South Africa some five years back. johanesburg is the one place on earth that i have been afraid for my life, for every second of the one week i stayed there.
I wondered what the police are doing. It is a crime state and nothing seems to be done. My wonder of what the police are doing however didn't last long since i came to realise in a bad awakening that the police apparatus is itself amass with corruption. I have a case to throw this allegation. At the airport terminal me and my 3 other friends traveling with me were approached by a guy at the airport for a bribe which we declined.
However the guy came with a sceurity guy and forced us in tomthrowing some money, even demanding tha tit be in USD.
The question that always comes to me is Why are theey not controlling the situation in Johanesburg? Why would a party, ANC, that had fought an aparthied state amid various challanges failed to cleasnse the city from crime? This questions always lingers in my mind.
I think the Ethiopian case could be a good example. During the Derg regime there were mobs everywhere, raping women, terrorizing the adult, fighting in groups ...this situation was controled after the current government set up a police force called the Federal Police? And now ethiopian live in peace with regards to saftey in the streets, homes and business areas.Can't the South African government share something from its Ethiopian counterparts?