Why do South Africans take all this crime and murder and just suck it up and nobody seems to give a damn?
467320
Because helping South Africa would not benefit the American economy.
407986
If you think the U.S. has the world's worst crime rate, wrong! It's South Africa. The country's black majority, who has bore the brunt of over four decades of apartheid, are committing most of the violent crimes there. If you ever plan to travel to South Africa, stay away from the townships (ghettos). Violence is all abound there.
341990
Crime I think is due to lack of respect for others and lack of personal responsibility.\n\nThe crimes are getting more bizarre because society is sadly becoming almost immune to most crime, and so the criminals who most often seek attention from media and communities, have to up the crimes to attain the same public response that they seek.
859978
Apparently we need the prison places for a much more evil type of person!!...Those old men and women who have never broken the law in their lives but now through the high taxes and low pensions can't afford their ever increasing council taxes......What terrible people they must be!!!  far more a danger to society than a rapist or murderer!! What a wonderful logic this government works on....when will they Wake up and join the real world?!?!?!!!
770412
They are tough on SOME 'crimes' like little old ladies who can't pay their council tax bills etc!!....they try to be tough on others....like taking a retailler to court (Costing over 1/4 million of tax payers money) because he was selling the wrong colour 'jelly babies'!! and of course spending over 5 times that much trying to stop us having free speech in this country!!... So if you look at that side, the answer is a resounding YES!!! However, if you then look at the otherside of the coin...Murderers, rapists, terrorists etc!! they can't do enough to help them, they get cushy cells, AND early release to commit again!! Is that justice??? According to 'Blair and co' yes!!
795198
Because criminals feed on society like maggots on meat.  They ruin a good thing without any redeeming qualities.  Criminals have the ability to turn around like any sinner, but as a group, the cop view is accurate.\nhttp://judgeright.blogspot.com
599878
Africa's problems are of their own making.  Why people continue to think that writing checks and giving aid to the continent is the answer to its woes are wildly misguided.  The removal of corrupt leaders is key to any advancement.  As long as evil leaders reign, the Continent will remain a mess.  Where are those who promote women's rights when it comes to Africa?  Where are those who who understand that its poverty and famine are a man-made condition (by the current leadership)?  It is unfortunate, but African governments need to be overthrown before economic advancement, women's rights, and hunger, etc, can be overcome.  Any aid needs to have strings attached and should be directed and allocated by those provideding it, not corrupt leaders who steal it and disperse it to cronies and care nothing of their own people.  \n\nGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
746485
My response would be it sounds like corruption, which is universal to all governments, there are similar incidents I can think of here in the USA and my own state, I'm not proud of it of course. At some point you have to decide what is the most important to you, if you will do yourself more harm than good by pursuing this. I hate to say give in, but they play by different rules there, you could be subjected to police harassment as a result, and I can honestly say I'm very glad I don't live there. You had better stay in touch with human rights groups like "Amnesty International" just in case bad things do happen. All I can suggest is try and have copies of all evidence hidden in a save place the police can't confiscate them, and watch your back.
1115286
Too True. Why not? the 'West' continue to enjoy the fruits of exploitation whilst turning a blind eye to the exploited. In having it in your face you will at least not claim not to know. Africa frnakly needs to take it's own affairs in hand and kick out the exploiters.
570683
i haven't been following it but just goes to show exactly how corrupt the sa government and courts of law have become.  whites, woman, children have no rights anymore cause it's all about who's in power and how much money he can make without giving a flying f*** about the poor living in shacks and having no running water or jobs, etc. Zuma (and many other politicians) can go around doing what they want because they know there will be no repercussions for their actions
431928
I live in south Africa I've seen people get raped,hit on their heads so bad by their so called b/f that they have died,people all around my house getting hi-jacket people braking car windows that us victims have named smash and grab. as you ride away the road are men peeing its discussing but for some reason i still love south Africa and love living but unfortunate i have to live in fear ...So my answer to your question get chunk to f@ck them up and Hoff to tack his top of and scare them away.
718251
I know what you mean, the reason Blacks never got anything because they never has rights to. When slavery ended in 1865 they were still hated even in king's day which was 40 years ago. In 1955 Emmett Till was lynch to death for Wilsiling at a white woman, how could they demand reparation at that time. Remember that in 1965 blacks were just allowed to vote in Mississippi. Couldn't even vote how could they get Billions in reparations. All those people you mention got things because they had the right to at that time. The Blacks that were slaves are dead true, but the wealth they made for this country is still their, which America is still not entiled to.\n\nYes blacks will get reparations more than you could imagine for Americas crime don't you read the prophecys and scriptures?\n\nMLK Jr\n"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America, "You are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."\n\nAmerica pride will not allow them to admitt any wrong doing, "because those kinda things happen" they blame it on the "Africans" "Blacks" or anyone esle for the crime of their fathers and their country. Just read the questions like this on here most Whites will blame it on everyone but their own people, who committed a 440 year old crime.\n\n"Most whites will protest that they bear neither responsibility nor blame for the conditions Blacks face. Neither they nor their for bearers ever owned slaves nor can they see themselves as having held anyone back or down." Today the younger generations of Whites resent being held morally or financially responsible for the racial sins of their ancestors, even though as whites, they still enjoy the inherited advantages and privileges of slavery."
20631
First of all, I don't think that's a fair assessment.  There are plenty of people who do in fact care very much about Africa and its people. UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, CARE, and just about every AIDS group you can think of is involved over in Africa quite a lot.\n\nIf you mean "Why isn't Africa a higher priority for most of the world's goverments?" then I think you are hitting nearer the mark.  \n\nI'm no expert on Africa, but I think there's a couple of reasons why it doesn't peg a bit higher on the attention-o-meter insofar as the US is concerned.  \n\nHitherto, Africa hasn't had a whole lot to offer us.  Sounds harsh, I know, but it's the truth.  We are forced to deal with the Middle East because they are a big energy source, but if the oil wasn't there we wouldn't be either.  African oil is starting to become a market player now too, so some of our attention may be shifting towards that region.\n\nThe other main reason is the perception that Africa is a continent filled with people who simply cannot get their collective sh*t together.  It's brimming with petty dictatorships, bloody coups, transient goverments, unending civil wars and ethnic violence.  In the international arena there just isn't anyone reliable to deal with on a nation-to-nation level.     Our news stories have left me at least with the view that Africa is a limitless sinkhole into which all the world's largesse could be poured without doing much more than fattening up a corrupt few at the top and financing more armies to fight in the wars and/or commit the heinous genocides we read about all too often.\n\nDo the African people suffer?  Of course they do!  Most of those organizations I listed at the top are all about addressing the suffering on the individual's level.  But until Africa starts to produce more responsible goverments, not too much will ever be done geopolitically to help them.
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oh !john c. America doesn't have any interest there. What products does the eastern part of africa export to the usa? can't think of anything ? and that is why america won't do anything. if we were a country that was focused on humanity then yes we would be over there in a new york minute.It makes me so mad! because there are millions of people dying there! it also has a lot to do with race wheteher we want to admit it or not.Throwing a million dollars to them means nothing if a evil dictator gets it!
946781
Because they have committed horrific crimes. They have demonstrated that they are not fit to live. There will always be issues as to who does & doesn't deserve this ultimate penalty. I think anyone who rapes and murders deserves death. Those who do this to children, I'll volunteer to throw the switch myself.
110717
there is some amount of guilt involved.  Today's rich countries have become so by the rape and plundering of poorer nations.
569278
Being white...I understand your frustration. Being from South-Africa...it is worse here believe me!!!!! BUT, thinks won't change that easily. Yes maybe you were not part of those days were they really suffered...but they did. For you it's in the past. For them it's still stories of family members that were treated brutally. Yes and maybe they always take advantage of this situation...but it is their advantage to take...because what white people did to them was beyond inhuman, and because of our foolishness, we will suffer a loooooong time