South Africa: The new apartheid [part1]

SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID

The series began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean border to one of Johannesburg's most dangerous quarters to investigate.

Friday 13 October 2006 7.35pm
Sunday 15 October 2006 4.35am (R)

Reporter Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Director Robin Barnwell begin their film on the Zimbabwean border with a group of Zimbabweans as they begin a long journey to Johannesburg. The South African police stop them but let them go in exchange it is claimed, for a bribe, which the people smugglers claim is routine.

The Zimbabweans say they are fleeing a collapsing state, where President Mugabe's policies have driven the economy into crisis and where earning enough to feed their families is impossible. However, the South Africans blame them for a crime wave and accuse them of causing unemployment.

White farmers in the Limpopo border region tell Unreported World that the immigrants are perpetrating brutal farm murders and poaching their game. The team films several farmers taking the law into their own hands by rounding them up, tying them together and handing them over to the police.

It's not just the farmers who believe these migrants are fuelling a crime wave. The team moves on to Johannesburg and films with police in one of the city's most dangerous areas. They accompany officers who routinely use plastic bullets to round up suspected illegal immigrants.

Those they catch are sent to the Lindela detention centre. The team interview a group of Congolese men who accuse the guards of severely beating them. Another inmate laments that South Africans have forgotten the support that their "African brothers" gave them during the days of Apartheid and accuses black South Africans of being the "biggest racists in the world".

The team then travel to the suburb of Diepsloot where the local South African business community has written an extraordinary letter to Somalian shopkeepers asking them to leave. The shopkeepers - who say they're asylum seekers rather than illegal immigrants - fear they will suffer similar violent attacks to those suffered by other immigrant communities.

A group of protestors gathers, demanding that South Africa should be for South Africans only. One woman tells Unreported World that black South Africans fought long and hard to gain their freedom that these benefits are now being stolen by illegal immigrants.

The team are then allowed to film on board a train returning 400 Zimbabwean illegal immigrants back to the border. Some are so desperate to remain, that they throw themselves from the moving train during the night. Almost all say they will be back in the country within a few days. Given the ever-worsening economic environment in Zimbabwe they say they have no other choice.

http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/U/unreportedworld/southafrica.html

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[ChristiaanL14]

That guy who said "black South Africans are the world's number one racists" had balls to say that.

[godschildyes]

@nemesisgr8 Kind words friend....Thanks. Moreover, it's blacks like me that get embarrassed when I see this crap which only builds up the stereotype that blacks are stupid bush brain people. South Africa is run by a bunch of "me agenda" bush men who can't keep only one wife. Sick and embarrassing as kids are running the country. But dare I say that to Jacob Zuma? No I'd get my liver cut out.!!!! Then Zuma will go to church and sing spiritual song as he claims to be a Christian! Smhhhhh

[skaley01]

the poor South Africans are only offended by the immigrants who take ahold of the opportunities they do not

[beamprimary]

the guy who said the black sa are more racist than white old apartheid is right, they should go hunt malemma and the rest of the country rapists and beat hem to death and let the white farmers back so theres jobs and a structure

[dagaalyahaanzz]

The somalis target the base of the pyramid which is under served, and given all connections they got, they were able to serve them at high speed, with right products, at the right time and price, which the inefficient local business couldn't. locals are happy, but local business pay gangs to kill the somalis. I think Zimbabwe would benefit from Somalis if they move there doing business. In Nairobi Kenya they are making better business and paying millions of tax dollars to Kenyan government.

[dagaalyahaanzz]

There is nothing called stealing business, 'The Somalis" got a competitive advantage which is a highly coordinated supply chain. They are in China, India, Dubai, Thailand, Europe, USA, Canada, and Australia, just a phone call and a cargo arrives in short time. It is really big shame to South Africans that they can't compete with Somali emmigrants but instead choose to kill them!! simply because they out perform them. The locals benefited from the Somalis get cheap goods and better service.

[bmw803]

ONE QUESTION!!! Why doesn't the SA border protection beef up security at the border? Do like in California. BUILD A FUKIN WALL 20 feet high. Have infrareds and that will help. Those illegals crossed that fence as if it was nothing there. What kind of "security" fence was that anyway!!

[bmw803]

ONE QUESTION!!! Why doesn't the SA border protection beef up security at the border? Do like in California. BUILD A FUCKING WALL 20 feet high. Have infrareds and that will help. Those illegals crossed that fence as if it was nothing there. What kind of "security" fence was that anyway!!

[SSDecontrol94]

@ChristiaanL14 the band Powerage had balls to play a song called "Smash the AWB" and "Smash Apartheid"

in 1986

[DivinelyMochaDipped]

@ChristiaanL14

haha but that dude has never been in America. -____-

[StSimonMartyr]

And now they found out that the whites treated folks better than the ANC, and "change" left them worse off.

Blacks are still overwhelmingly poor. Black unemployment is higher now.

Food is getting scarce, Electrical grids are failing.

The roads and transport systems are failing. Stuff isn't getting fixed.

Crime is rampant. Africans hate being subject to supposed abuses by whites, but seem to accept actual abuse as a matter of course as long as their abusers are black.