Hundreds! HUNDREDS! In a city of 5.5 million (6.6M in the metro). These are definitely good faith grassroots protesters correctly attributing crime fears to immigration. How else could they get so many people?? Just go ahead and print it in the headline as fact.*
*Edit: It’s kind of worse. If I’m reading the article correctly, the shops were closed in response to the march, not in response to immigrant crime. A+ headline manipulation.
Organized by the anti-immigration group March and March, it also attracted similar organizations, including Operation Dudula and political parties ActionSA and Patriotic Alliance.
For anyone unacquainted with ActionSA and Patriotic alliance:
“We are not xenophobic, we just want the right thing to be done in South Africa, to put the South African first. We do want to live with foreigners in our country, but those foreigners must be legally in the country,” said Themba Mabunda of ActionSA, who participated in the march.
Man. They straight up plagiarized the American right wing
They are xenophobic. They do not give a flying fuck about “The South African” being put first.
Meanwhile, the actual problems in this country are being ignored:
Energy crisis
Housing crisis
Gender based violence
Worker exploitation (Immigrants, ironically, receive the worst of it)
Corporate backed corruption
Increased camera surveillance in the metros
Police brutality (Private security too)
Punitive incarceration over rehabilitation
And that list is off the top of my head.
Happy Workers Day to any other South Africans reading this. Ek gaan heel dag skommel en dagga rook.
My brain skipped over it because I actually never heard of it before.
I don’t know how we went from ending apartheid after decades of struggle, legalising same-sex marriage comparatively early, good labour and union protections (on paper) and decriminalisation of cannabis
to having a fucking fascist political party with 0 seats suddenly having opportunities to cause kak
SAPS should be harassing these fuckers instead of doorcamping flights arriving from Brazil in hopes of seizing an hour’s worth of smuggled cocaine
Edit: It’s kind of worse. If I’m reading the article correctly, the shops were closed in response to the march, not in response to immigrant crime. A+ headline manipulation.
I’ll be honest, that is how I interpreted the headline in the first place. Protests devolving into riots is a thing that happens all around the world.
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Hundreds! HUNDREDS! In a city of 5.5 million (6.6M in the metro). These are definitely good faith grassroots protesters correctly attributing crime fears to immigration. How else could they get so many people?? Just go ahead and print it in the headline as fact.*
*Edit: It’s kind of worse. If I’m reading the article correctly, the shops were closed in response to the march, not in response to immigrant crime. A+ headline manipulation.
For anyone unacquainted with ActionSA and Patriotic alliance:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionSA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_Alliance
Tldr: assholes who can barely scrape votes
Also, wow:
Man. They straight up plagiarized the American right wing
They are xenophobic. They do not give a flying fuck about “The South African” being put first.
Meanwhile, the actual problems in this country are being ignored:
And that list is off the top of my head.
Happy Workers Day to any other South Africans reading this. Ek gaan heel dag skommel en dagga rook.
Also the link to Operation Dudula: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dudula
Thanks
That omission was accidental
My brain skipped over it because I actually never heard of it before.
I don’t know how we went from ending apartheid after decades of struggle, legalising same-sex marriage comparatively early, good labour and union protections (on paper) and decriminalisation of cannabis
to having a fucking fascist political party with 0 seats suddenly having opportunities to cause kak
SAPS should be harassing these fuckers instead of doorcamping flights arriving from Brazil in hopes of seizing an hour’s worth of smuggled cocaine
I’ll be honest, that is how I interpreted the headline in the first place. Protests devolving into riots is a thing that happens all around the world.